Letter [manuscript]: New York, N.Y., Benjamin De Casseres to Erskine Caldwell, Mount Vernon, Maine, 1926 August 8.

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Letter [manuscript]: New York, N.Y., Benjamin De Casseres to Erskine Caldwell, Mount Vernon, Maine, 1926 August 8.

De Casseres thanks Caldwell for a letter of appreciation, admires the work of Arthur Symons, notes a publication date for "Litanies of Negation," and discusses the possibility of changing publishers.

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Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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