Frances Parkinson Keyes letter to Richard R. Baker [manuscript] 1950 August 28.

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Frances Parkinson Keyes letter to Richard R. Baker [manuscript] 1950 August 28.

Keyes, Newbury, Vermont, writes to Richard R. Baker explaining that she has not responded to his letter earlier because of her involvement in "creative work," and a forthcoming move from her country house to Boston. She asks Baker if she may mention his name in the foreward as one of her collaborators.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Baker, Richard R. (Richard Russell), 1909-

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Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 1885-1970

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Frances Parkinson Wheeler Keyes (1885-1970), born in Virginia, was married to Henry Wilder Keyes (1863-1938); they had three children. Henry W. Keyes became governor of New Hampshire in 1917 and a United States senator in 1919. The family maintained multiple residences. Frances Parkinson Keyes wrote popular romantic novels emphasizing local color, descriptions of life among the upper classes, and generation-spanning sagas. She wrote over fifty books, alternating between books about Louisiana wit...