Ferril, Thomas Hornsby : Typed letter to Wesley Hartley. Denver, CO., Aug. 2, 1957
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Letters by noted authors, many on the subject of writing. Authors represented include: Louisa May Alcott, James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, Pearl Buck, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Samuel Clemens, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, Zane Grey, Alex Haley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Henry Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Ezra Pound, Rod Serling, G.B. Shaw, John Steinbeck, William M. Thackeray, Kurt Vonnegut, H.G. Wells, E.B. White, and William Wordsworth. Also an additional gathering of letters by famous literary figures.
Dates
- Aug. 2, 1957
Creator
- From the Collection: Rudin, Stephen (Collector, Person)
- From the Collection: Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. (Person)
- From the Collection: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. (Person)
- From the Collection: Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999. (Person)
- From the Collection: Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. (Person)
- From the Collection: Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959. (Person)
- From the Collection: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. (Person)
- From the Collection: Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910. (Person)
- From the Collection: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. (Person)
- From the Collection: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. (Person)
- From the Collection: Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930. (Person)
- From the Collection: Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. (Person)
- From the Collection: Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. (Person)
- From the Collection: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. (Person)
- From the Collection: Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. (Person)
- From the Collection: Grey, Zane, 1872-1939. (Person)
- From the Collection: Haley, Alex. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. (Person)
- From the Collection: Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951. (Person)
- From the Collection: London, Jack, 1876-1916. (Person)
- From the Collection: Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. (Person)
- From the Collection: Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. (Person)
- From the Collection: Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949. (Person)
- From the Collection: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977. (Person)
- From the Collection: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. (Person)
- From the Collection: Serling, Rod, 1924-1975. (Person)
- From the Collection: Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. (Person)
- From the Collection: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. (Person)
- From the Collection: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. (Person)
- From the Collection: Vonnegut, Kurt. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946. (Person)
- From the Collection: White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
3.2 cubic feet. (3.2 cubic feet.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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