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Box 8

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Contains 41 Results:

Du Maurier, Daphne : Typed letter to Mr. Heppner. Menabilly Par Cornwall., Jul. 14, 1967

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 1
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"None of my novels were ever turned down by publishers!" Rudin # B-36

Dates: Jul. 14, 1967

Durrell, Lawrence : Typed letter to Madame Pirkko-Lisa Stahl., Aug. 8, 1977

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 2
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An insight into his literary tastes while commenting on the Nobel Prize for Literature. Rudin # B-37

Dates: Aug. 8, 1977

Ellis, Havelock : Two autographed letters. One to Richard Smith, one to Gerald Jones., Jul. 18, 1932, Mar. 12, 1933

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 3
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Two letters - In the first letter Ellis doesn't think the title of his book "Psychology of Sex" should be altered; in the second letter he joins in a petition on behalf of his late friend. Rudin # B-39

Dates: Jul. 18, 1932; Mar. 12, 1933

Farrell, James T. : Autographed letter to Gilbert D. Gibson. New York., Feb. 26, 1966

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 4
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A long letter about refusing to send a signed photo, about being a writer, and about some of the grievances he feels against the commercial world. Rudin # B-40

Dates: Feb. 26, 1966

Farrell, James T. : Autographed letter to Charles A. Pearce. New York., Feb. 10, 1967

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 5
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A letter to his editor at Harcourt Brace discussing his writing and his lectures. Rudin # B-41

Dates: Feb. 10, 1967

Ferber, Edna : Typed letter to Bernard Sobel. 50 Central Park West, NY, Jan. 25, 1928

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 6
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Ferber writes that the wedding in "Show Boat" is the actual story of people she has met. Rudin # B-42

Dates: Jan. 25, 1928

Ferber, Edna : Two diaries., 1930

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 7
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Lot of two pocket diaries for the year 1930. Rudin # B-43

Dates: 1930

Ferber, Edna : Typed letter to Fannie., Sep. 21, 1949

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 8
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She gives her sister a stern lecture about their elderly and fatally ill mother. Rudin # B-44

Dates: Sep. 21, 1949

Ferril, Thomas Hornsby : Typed letter to Wesley Hartley. Denver, CO., Aug. 2, 1957

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 8A
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: 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....
Dates: Aug. 2, 1957

Fisher, Vardis Alvero : Typed letter to Mr. Warren. Salt Lake City, UT., Jun. 4, 1928

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 9
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Writes of when he started writing, his future, and what it takes to be a writer. Rudin # B-45

Dates: Jun. 4, 1928