Stanton Macdonald-Wright letters to Alan and Fanny Leslie

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Stanton Macdonald-Wright letters to Alan and Fanny Leslie

1968-1976

Letters documenting Macdonald-Wright's travels with his wife Jean to Italy, Japan, Hawaii, and London. He discusses his activities, comments on people and places visited, his love of nature and art, his purchase of "two old Russells" [Morgan Russell] in Ipswitch, England, and buying a home in Hawaii.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8290490

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