Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1934.

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Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1934.

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Edith Wharton responds to a letter she received from Morley Roberts, in which he apparently remarked upon a passage in her memoir (A backward glance) regarding a visit to George Meredith (evidently Roberts was present at the time, and in his letter had shared his own memory of the episode); she goes on to discount the supposed antithesis between art and life. On letterhead of Wharton's villa Pavillon Colombe.

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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Wharton was from birth a part of the wealthy New York society she depicted so vividly in her fiction. Through her father, George Frederic Jones, and her mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, she could claim descent from three families whose names were synonymous with wealth and position: the Stevenses, Rhinelanders, and Schermerhorns. Educated at home with tutors and exposed at an early age to the classics in her fath...