Materials relating to Owen Wister's books [manuscript], ca.1896-1950.

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Materials relating to Owen Wister's books [manuscript], ca.1896-1950.

Chiefly correspondence and royalty statements regarding Wister's books, from publications including the Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Evening Post, Macmillan Co., and Harper and Brothers. Also included are 3 manuscripts: an undated English translation of Alfred de Musset's "The May Night by Sarah B. Wister, Owen Wister's mother; a poem titled "To Our Senators," dated 1896 March 24; and undated notes in French in an unknown hand.

150ca. items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7935100

University of Virginia. Library

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