[Letter] 1934 July 17, Peace Dale, R.I. [to] Basil Davenport, Pemaquid Point, Me. / Steve [i.e. Stephen Vincent Benét].

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[Letter] 1934 July 17, Peace Dale, R.I. [to] Basil Davenport, Pemaquid Point, Me. / Steve [i.e. Stephen Vincent Benét].

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Holograph signed. Stephen Vincent Benét wrote to his friend Basil Davenport replying to a letter. He describes his adventures while at the Falls of the M'Burunga? Thomas Benét's letter thanks Basil for a book.

4 p. ; 22 cm. + 1 note (22 cm.) + 1 envelope (9 x 16 cm.)

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Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943

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Stephen Vincent Beńet was born July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into a military family. His father had a wide appreciation for literature, and Beńet's siblings, William Rose and Laura, also becmae writers. Beńet attended Yale University where he published two collections of poetry, Five Men and Pompey (1915), The Drug-Shop (1917). His studies were interrupted by a year of civilian military service; he worked as a cipher-clerk in the same department as James Thurber. He graduated fro...

Benét, Thomas.

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Davenport, Basil, 1905-1966

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Reared in Louisville, Kentucky, Basil Davenport was the eldest of two sons born to Ira William and Emily Andrews (Davison) Davenport. A slim and personable aesthete, he never married. At the Taft School he suffered from homesickness, but won distinction as an editor of the school's literary magazine, debater and thespian. At Yale he continued these pursuits and took up boxing before graduating in 1926. Then he studied classics for two years at Oxford and taught Greek tor a year at R...