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Djuna Barnes letters to Michael Perkins

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Call Number:
F0255
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
3 item
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0099, F0255, Djuna Barnes letters to Michael Perkins, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1971 july 19-september 18 (inclusive)
Creator:
Barnes, Djuna
Form:
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
American journalist, avant-garde author, and illustrator Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) wrote these three letters to fellow writer and journalist Michael Perkins.

American journalist, avant-garde author, and illustrator Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) is best known for her modernist novel

Nightwood (1936).

American journalist, avant-garde author, and illustrator Djuna Barnes wrote these three letters to fellow writer and journalist Michael Perkins. Each typed letter bears Barnes’s signature. In these letters, Barnes declines to take on more work, thanks Perkins for his article, and promises to send a signed copy of her

Selected Works (1962).

Mailing envelopes bear Barnes's Patchin Place address.

Box 13, F0255: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.

Purchase, 2016.

Processed and encoded by Sarah Iuli, February 2016.

This item forms part of MSS 0099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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Publisher
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Finding Aid Date
2016 February 29
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Collection Inventory

Djuna Barnes letters to Michael Perkins, 1971 July 19-September 18. 3 items.
Box 13 Folder F0255
Scope and Contents

Includes envelopes.

Physical Description

3 items

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