Letter from Amélie Rives to Henri S. Rorer [manuscript], 1927 April 30.

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Letter from Amélie Rives to Henri S. Rorer [manuscript], 1927 April 30.

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Amélie Rives writes to Henri S. Rorer about the alliance of history and literature, and her belief that there is no "dead" history, and sends a quote from Cicero to Rorer's high school class.

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Rives, Amélie 1863-1945

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Amélie Rives was born into an aristocratic Virginia family, and exhibited precocious writing talent. As a young writer, she published The Quick or the Dead?, which became a controversial bestseller; modernists derided the naive plot and theme, while traditional romanticists were scandalized by the sensual content. After a short marriage to Virginia lawyer John Armstrong Chanler ended, she met and married exiled Russian painter Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy and led a privileged life in America and E...

Rorer, Henri S.,

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