Correspondence of Walter Prichard Eaton [manuscript] 1901-56.

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Correspondence of Walter Prichard Eaton [manuscript] 1901-56.

Chiefly letters to Eaton. Correspondents include Winthrop Ames, George P. Baker, Alice Brown, Laura Hope Crews, Charles B. Davis, Theodore Dreiser, Maxine Elliott, Minnie Maddern Fiske, James Forbes, Hamlin Garland, Walter Hampden, Archibald Henderson, Frederic C. Howe, Josephine Hull, Robert Edmond Jones, Elizabeth Jordan, Percy MacKaye, Brander Matthews, H.L. Mencken, Samuel Merwyn, George Middleton, Meredith Nicholson, Fred Palmer, William Lyon Phelps, Channing Pollock, Ernest Poole, Rudolph Ruzicka, Ellery Sedgwick, Lee Simonson, Upton Sinclair, Otis Skinner, Austin Strong, Mark Sullivan, and Jesse Lynch Williams.The material is related to the library's Eaton autograph collection.

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