Signe Toksvig papers, 1912-1960.

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Signe Toksvig papers, 1912-1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072409

Collection includes Toksvig's scrapbook from her student years at Cornell University; and her husband, Francis Hackett's correspondence with Hendrik Willem van Loon (Cornell University Class of 1905). Also, a 438-page manuscript autobiography by Signe Kirstine Toksvig entitled "Free Lances," ca.1976, and a taped interview with her by Sarah Elbert, taped in Aarhus, Denmark in 1978.

.4 cubic ft., 2 cassette tapes.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944

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Hendrik Willem van Loon was born in Rotterdam, Holland on January 14, 1882. He attended Cornell University, graduating in 1905. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch and began working for the Associated Press in New York City, Washington, D.C., Moscow, and Warsaw. His son Henry Bowditch van Loon was born on June 22, 1907, and Gerard Willem van Loon on January 16, 1911. Hendrik van Loon received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1911, and in 1913 his book THE FALL OF THE DUTCH REPU...

Toksvig, Signe, 1891-1983

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Epithet: journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0002a8 Signe Kirstine Toksvig was born February 14, 1891 in Denmark. She received her B.A. at Cornell University in 1916, and from then until 1920 she was assistant editor with the New Republic. Her books include HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, EVE'S DOCTOR, PORT OF REFUGE, and LIFEBOAT, and she was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow for the writing of a biograph...

Hackett, Francis, 1883-1962

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Irish-born author and editor in the U.S. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wicklow [Ireland], to Stark Young, 1935 Feb. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870941 ...

Cornell University

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