Papers concerning forged Lafcadio Hearn letters published in Letters to a pagan [manuscript] 1930-1935, 1980-1985.

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Papers concerning forged Lafcadio Hearn letters published in Letters to a pagan [manuscript] 1930-1935, 1980-1985.

The papers contain Chronicle of a greenhorn, 1984, and I make a literary discovery, regarding his discovery of the forgeries; The lost years of Lafcadio Hearn, ca. 1933, written when Powers still believed the letters genuine; the forged letters themselves; correspondence of Powers regarding the letters; articles regarding Hearn and the letters including "Letters to a Pagan" not by Hearn, by Albert Mordell; & reviews of Letters to a Pagan. Correspondents include James Donald Adams, Annetta Halliday Antona, Janice Antona, William Henry Bond, Henry Seidel Canby, John Rensselaer Chamberlain, Theodore Dreiser, Charles Hamilton, Alexander Hay, Paul T. Heffron, Aldous Huxley, Peter Monro Jack, Kazuo Koizumi, Evelyn Light, Amy Loveman, DeWitt B. Lucas, Raymond D. Lucas, Douglas DeVery Martin, Rudolph Matas, Percival Densmore Perkins, Edward Larocque Tinker, R. Emmett Tyrell, jr., and Bennett Weaver.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Lucas, DeWitt B.,

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Weaver, Bennett

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Professor of English at the University of Michigan. From the description of Bennett Weaver papers, 1917-1969. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419799 Bennett Weaver was born in Sussex, Wisconsin on August 11, 1892. He received his A.B. degree from Carroll College, his M.A. from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He taught speech and English, first at Emporia College, then Michigan State College. In 1928, he came to the Un...

Tinker, Edward Larocque, 1881-1968

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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a writer, translator, and teacher who wrote about New Orleans, the United States and is most well known for introducing the culture and literature of Japan to the West. Hearn spent ten years in New Orleans collecting songs for ethnomusicologist Henry Edward Krehbiel. Edward Laroque Tinker was a writer and a philanthropist who was interested in Hearn and wrote Lafcadio Hearn's American days (1924). From the guide to the Papers concerning Lafcadio Hearn, ...

Heffron, Paul

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Chamberlain, John, 1903-1995.

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Book reviewer, editor, and author of THE ROOTS OF CAPITALISM, published in 1959. From the description of John Chamberlain papers, 1954-1959. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 700475180 Journalist, literary critic, author; editor of Fortune magazine, 1936-1941, and associate professor at Columbia University School of Journalism. From the description of Letter to Herbert [Sherman Gorman] [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: ...

Adams, J. Donald (James Donald), 1891-1968

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Hay, Alexander

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Antona, Annetta Halliday, 1866-

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Lucas, Raymond D.,

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Light, Evelyn, 1904-1958,

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Antona, Janice, ca. 1895-

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Tyrell, R. Emmett, jr.,

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Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961

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Writer, editor, critic. From the description of Reminiscences of Henry Seidel Canby and Amy Loveman : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481130 Epithet: editor of 'Saturday Review of Literature' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0001e2 Canby was a critic, editor and Yale University professor (1899-1922). He was one of the founder...

Powers, Robert Bruna.

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Publisher. From the description of Papers concerning forged Lafcadio Hearn letters published in Letters to a pagan [manuscript] 1930-1935, 1980-1985. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647944663 ...

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x000080 Aldous Huxley was a British novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, literary and social critic, and poet. From the description of Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 1915-1973 bulk (1915-1963). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517267 From the guide to the Aldous Huxley collection of papers, 19...

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945

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Theodore Dreiser was an American literary naturalist and author of two of the most significant works of early twentieth-century American fiction, SISTER CARRIE (1900) and AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (1925). From the description of The mercy of God : manuscript, [1900-1945?] / by Theodore Dreiser. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 63051908 Editor and author. From the description of Theodore Dreiser papers, 1910-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009534 ...

Hamilton, Charles,

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Matas, Rudolph, 1860-1957

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Rudolph Matas was a prominent New Orleans, La., surgeon. During his career, he served as director of the NEW ORLEANS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL and Professor of Surgery at Tulane University, a post he held until he became Emeritus Professor in 1927. He also was a surgeon and consultant at Charity Hospital, Touro Infirmary, and the Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Hospital of New Orleans. Matas continued his surgical practice and civic and academic pursuits until the age of 92, five years before his d...

Bond, W. H. (William Henry), 1915-2005

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The Briar Hill Mine was located at Norway, Michigan on the Menominee Iron Range. It was orginally opened by the Briar Hill Coal & Iron Co. of Youngstown, Ohio, but sold in the late 1880s to the Penn Iron Mining Co., which was the Cambria Iron Company's ore mining subsidiary. From the description of Briar Hill Mine shaft blueprint 1911 (Olson Library, Northern Michigan University). WorldCat record id: 756864223 ...

Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904

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Teacher at the government college at Kumato. From the description of Letters, 1893-1894. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122442926 American author noted for his writings on Japan. From the description of Letter, 1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367407866 Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), Victorian romantic writer, was born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn of Irish-Greek parentage. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1869 from Europe and in...

Perkins, Percival Densmore, 1897-1963

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American author. From the description of Papers, 1924-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497420 ...

Loveman, Amy, 1881-1955.

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Mordell, Albert, 1885-

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Jack, Peter Monro,

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Martin, Douglas D. (Douglas DeVeny), 1885-1963

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Author, newspaperman, educator; University of Arizona journalism faculty, 1946-1956. From the description of Correspondence, 1949-1961. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31057343 Author, newspaperman, educator; University of Arizona journalism faculty, 1946 to 1956. From the description of Yuma crossing, ca. 1953. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 31057365 From the description of The Douglas family of Arizona, 1961. (University of A...

Koizumi, Kazuo, 1893-

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