Papers of Joseph Wood Krutch, 1920-1971 (bulk 1950-1970).

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Papers of Joseph Wood Krutch, 1920-1971 (bulk 1950-1970).

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Correspondence; travel diaries (1958-1969) relating chiefly to Krutch's field trips to the Baja Peninsula under the sponsorship of the Belvedere Fund; typescripts, notes, and reviews relating to his published books; articles, lectures, and interviews; and other papers reflecting Krutch's career as a professor of English at Columbia University and his scholarship in the fields of conservation, contemporary society, and drama and theater. Includes doctoral dissertation (1964) by Joseph G. Green entitled Joseph Wood Krutch, Critic of the Drama, and master's thesis by Richard Kohler, with a detailed bibliography of Krutch's writings. Correspondents include William Faulkner, Hiram Haydn, Charles Krutch, H.L. Mencken, Karl Menninger, Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill, Wallace E. Pratt, William M. Sloane, Edwin Way Teale, Dorothy Van Doren, and Mark Van Doren.

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