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Edmund Wilson Letters to Helen Muchnic
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
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A graduate of Princeton (Class of 1916), where he befriended F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson became an important American literary critic, essayist, and journalist. Many consider Wilson the preeminent American literary critic of his day and, perhaps, of the twentieth century.
The collection consists of approximately 197 letters, mostly handwritten, by Wilson to Helen Muchnic. A large portion of the content focuses upon Wilson's longstanding fascination with Russia, its history and literature, as well as on the evolution of Muchnic's career as an author and professor of Russian literature at Smith College. Included are two Wilson manuscripts: "A Little Museum of Russian Language..." (TMs, carbon, 10 pp.) and "Notes on Pushkin" (TMs, carbon, 19 pp.).
The letters are arranged chronologically.
Gift of Rosalind Baker Wilson.
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Container list prepared by Allyse Terrell '14 in 2011.
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- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Inventory
4 letters, 4 telegrams
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10 letters, 2 telegrams
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10 letters, 1 postcard
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2 telegrams 1 postcard, 4 letters
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8 letters, 2 cards, 1 telegrams
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5 letters
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4 letters
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8 letters, 2 postcards galley: Grgol the Deruon in the Overgrown Garden by E. Wilson 1 newspaper clipping
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17 letters, 1 telegram
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20 letters, 3 postcards
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8 letters, 3 postcards
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18 letters, 1 postcard
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4 letters, 1 postcard
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5 letters
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8 letters
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7 letters
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letters, notes
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9 letters
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"A Little Museum of Russian Language Intended for Foreign Readers" 10 pages; "Notes on Rushkin" 19 pages
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