Letters to Walter Edwin Peck [manuscript], 1920-1921.

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Letters to Walter Edwin Peck [manuscript], 1920-1921.

Raleigh comments on quarrels between authors and editors, particularly on Thomas Jefferson Hogg's trustworthiness and on Mark Twain; saying he knows little about Harriet Westbrook Shelley; and mentioning American airmen learning to fly at local R.A.F. base.

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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Great Britain. Royal Air Force

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The Far East Flight consisted of four flying-boats under the command of Group-Captain H. M. Cave-Braune-Cave. The Flight left Felixstowe, Plymouth on 14 Oct. 1927. From the description of Records [manuscript]. 1927. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225825718 ...

Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1862

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Peck, Walter Edwin, 1891-1954

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Author; M.A., Columbia, 1918; Ph. D., Oxford, 1922; 1924-1926, taught at Wesleyan University; 1926-1927, head of the English Department of Washington State College; 1927-1929 taught at Hunter College. From the description of Walter Edwin Peck papers, 1830-1930 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166254 Epithet: bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x00026f Author; M....

Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir, 1861-1922

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Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English critic and essayist. In 1885, Raleigh went out to India having been appointed the first Professor of English literature at Aligarh Muslim University. In 1889, he was appointed Professor of modern literature at University College, Liverpool, and he began to write THE ENGLISH NOVEL (his first novel), ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: AN ESSAY and STYLE. He was Clark lecturer in English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1899, and incorporated his lecture...

Shelley, Harriet Westbrook, -1816

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