Subject: Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

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Abstract:: Zelda Fitzgerald, American socialite, novelist, painter, and wife of the American novelist and storywriter F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote of their turbulent life and marriage in her novel Save Me the Waltz (1932). This collection consists of psychiatric evaluations, correspondence, and reports concerning Zelda Fitzgerald when she was a patient at Craig House, Beacon, N.Y., under the care of Dr. C. Jonathan Slocum.

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Abstract:: Consists of selected letters by M. F. K. Fisher, a prolific writer of books dealing with food and the culture of cuisine.

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Abstract:: Consists chiefly of correspondence of American author and editor Kathleen Tankersley Young with the New York book designer and printer Lew Ney and his wife, Ruth Widen.

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Abstract:: Consists of letters by Rose Cecil O'Neill, the American children's book author and illustrator, and inventor of the Kewpie doll, to her friends William Curtis and Fannie Gibson.

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Abstract:: Consists of thirty-eight letters written by the Southern author Flannery O'Connor to her friend Ashley Brown.

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Abstract:: Consists of approximately 170 letters received by American Afro-American studies professor Erskine Peters.

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Abstract:: Consists of an open collection of letters and memorabilia of American war correspondent, journalist, and novelist Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), assembled from various sources. Contents include approximately fifty letters (1968-1974) to her adopted son George "Sandy" Gellhorn and fourteen letters (1941-1946) to George Brown, who was Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway's personal trainer, tennis partner, and friend, as well as badges from Gellhorn's time as a war correspondent and a portrait drawing of her.

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