Collection of materials regarding Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River [manuscript], 1933-ca.1950.

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Collection of materials regarding Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River [manuscript], 1933-ca.1950.

Contains 1 typescript, The Genesis of Spoon River, 24 pages signed by Edgar Lee Masters, with autograph corrections in red ink together with 3 sets of page proofs, 18 pages each, one uncorrected, others with corrections and changes by the author. Also included is a 2 page book review of Spoon River, 12 February 1950 in New York Times by Ellen Coyne Masters, the author's wife.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7934681

University of Virginia. Library

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Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950

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Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, novelist, biographer, and essayist. From the description of Edgar Lee Masters collection of papers, 1919-1949. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164224 From the guide to the Edgar Lee Masters collection of papers, 1919-1949, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Masters was an Illinois poet best known for the Spoon River Anthology. F...