Booth Tarkington letters to the Burrages, 1938-1946.

Burrage, Mildred G. (Mildred Giddings), 1890-1983

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Born in Portland, Me., to Henry Sweetser Burrage and his second wife Ernestine (Giddings) Burrage. Raised in Kennebunkport, Me., she attended Miss Wheeler's School in Rhode Island. Mildred Burrage studied art from a young age; traveled in Europe during the early 19 teens but forced to return to the U.S. at the onset of World War I and she turned to her artwork as well as traveling throughout the country. Lived in Virginia City, Nev., and San Francisco in late 1920s and early 1930s. Participated ...

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...

Burrage, Madeleine, 1891-1976

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