Letters of Joyce Kilmer [manuscript] 1908-18.

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Letters of Joyce Kilmer [manuscript] 1908-18.

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Kilmer writes to Edwin August Björkman about Gleams; to Eleanor Downing about her poems; to Dorothy Furman about autographing a book; to Mrs. G.D. Gilchrist about her lectures, her election to the Poetry Society of America, Francis Thompson and Carl Sandburg; to Alice Ives about her poems; to James B. Kenyon; and to Curtis Hidden Page about the best short poem in English. Other letters are from Aline Murray Kilmer to Mrs. Gilchrist; from Edwin Bell Davis to Page; and from Sister Mary Winefred of the Dolours to Elsa Barker all about Kilmer. Poems about Kilmer are: Superstition, William Redmond, Rouge bouquet, Aline's birthday, and The Hudson tunnels [5 items. holograph & typescript signed]--Cards, 1916-18, announcing the birth of Michael Barry Kilmer and a mass for Kilmer [2 items. printed].

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Furman, Dorothy

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