Papers of Agnes Repplier [manuscript], 1891-1925.

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Papers of Agnes Repplier [manuscript], 1891-1925.

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The papers contain the autograph manuscripts for "Cakes and ale," "Christmas shopping at Assuan," "Comedy of the custom house," "The point of view," "Words," and two unidentified fragments; and twenty-four letters chiefly regarding politics, particularly the Women's Suffrage movement, League of Nations, English Labor Party, and the United States constitution. Other topics include Repplier's praise of James Montgomery Beck's writing and speaking and his election to the Societe des Gens de Lettres; her own writing assignments including current projects, queries, and refusals to take on new projects; the proofs of "Essay in idleness"; an article about publisher John Murray; her social and speaking engagements, particularly an invitation to the Boston Author's Club. Also mentioned are several of Beck's works including his introduction to "To Verdun from the Somme" by Harry Ernest Brittain, "The constitution of the United States," "The passing of the new freedom," and his Gray's Inn lectures "The great convention" and "The revolt against authority"; "A publisher and his friends" by John Murray; "Life" magazine; "Modern American prose selections"; "The North American Review"; and the "Philadelphia Inquirer". The correspondents include James Montgomery Beck, Mrs. J. W. Brannon, [Alice] Brown, editors of the "Independent," Horace Howard Furness, Houghton and Company, James Duff Law, Thomas Lansing Masson, Byron Johnson Rees, Riverside Press, and Morton G. Thalhimer.

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