Twenty-six letters from Curtis Nettels to Van Wyck Brooks, the American author, critic, and translator, 1952-1954, 1958-1963

The letters deal mainly with American writers and American literature, some political issues and also discussion of Mr. Brook's books. Some examples of his well known books are: The Wine of the Puritans, 1909; America's Coming of Age, 1915; The Ordeal of Mark Twain, 1920; The Pilgrimage of Henry James, 1925; The Life of Emerson, 1932; The Flowering of New England, 1936; New England: Indian Summer, 1940; The World of Washington Irving, 1944; The Confident Years, 1952; The Writer in America, 1953; Helen Keller, Sketch for a Portrait, 1956; Days of the Phoenix, 1957