Edmund Lester Pearson letters to Robert and Mary Finster, 1918-1934.

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Edmund Lester Pearson letters to Robert and Mary Finster, 1918-1934.

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The collection consists of four letters, three postcards, and a studio portrait photograph of Pearson sent to his New York Public Library colleague and friend, Robert Roland Finster and his wife Mary, 1918-1934.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 8229115

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Finster, Robert Roland.

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New York Public Library

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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...

Pearson, Edmund Lester, 1880-1937

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Editor and author. Worked for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, New York Evening Post, Life, Scribner's, etc. From the description of Edmund Lester Pearson letters [manuscript], 1928. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 274184207 Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937) was an American librarian and writer best known for his book Studies in Murder (1924) and other essays in the true crime genre. He was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard in 1...