John Crowe Ransom Letters.

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John Crowe Ransom Letters.

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Letters written by John Crowe Ransom to various chairmen at the World Publishing Company, between 1927-1956. Also includes a letters to A.A. Knopf, and a letter from Mrs. Alfred A. Knopf from 1927. The letters consist primarily of selections for the Kenyon Review. The bulk of the letters are to the World Publishing Company from 1950-1953.

15 letters ; 30 x 23 cm.

Vanderbilt University Library, Jean and Alexander Heard Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8179120

Vanderbilt University Library, Jean and Alexander Heard Library

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Knopf, Blanche

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Vice-president (1921) and president (1957) of Alfred A. Knopf, inc.; wife of Alfred A. Knopf. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1947-1951. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122542297 American publisher. From the description of Typed letters signed (2) : San Francisco, and New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1941 July 23 and 1956 July 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868133 ...

Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974

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American poet and educator. From the description of Letter to Mrs. F.E. Lund [manuscript], 1968 February 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833566 John Crowe Ransom, noted poet, critic, educator and editor, was born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909, was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, 1910-1913, and joined the faculty of Vanderbilt in 1914, where he taught English until 1937. While at Vanderbil...

World Publishing Company.

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In 1905, Alfred H. Cahen opened the Commercial Bookbinding Company in Cleveland and acquired the World Syndicate Publishing Company in 1928. His company then began publishing Bibles, dictionaries, and children's books and went public with a stock issue in 1929. By 1940, when the name was changed to The World Publishing Company, it had become the largest publisher of Bibles and dictionaries in the United States. Two reprint lines, Tower Books (sold at $.49) and Forum Books (sold at $1.00) were la...