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Box 1

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Contains 35 Results:

Letter dated October 20, 1937, 1937

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
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From the Grosvenor Hotel, New York City. Mentions ongoing struggle with "this damn long story," Charles Caldwell Dobie, Genevieve Parkhurst, Hortense Russell, Georgia Long, wishing for a haircut and a hat

Dates: 1937

Letter dated November 20, 1951, 1951

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
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From Danbury, Connecticut. Missing final page(s). Mentions [Arthur] Koestler, William Carlos Williams, Dorothy Thompson, Josef Bard, Hal Lewis, [William] Faulkner,

Dates: 1951

Letter dated December 14, 1951, 1951

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
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From Danbury. Mentions Kopf paintings, Koestler, "[The Revolt of] Mamie [Stover]," weather, new local fire engine

Dates: 1951

Letter dated January 10, 1952, 1952

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
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From Danbury. Missing final page(s). Mentions her mother, "The Argonauts," Koestler, Churchill

Dates: 1952

Letter dated April 4, 1952, 1952

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
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From Danbury. Mentions religion, science, French Revolution, experiences with Isabel Paterson, Ernestine Evans, Bessie Beatty, Katherine Brush, "The Daughter of Time," "The Dark Moment," "Let It Come Down"

Dates: 1952

Letter dated April 27, circa 1951

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
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From Danbury. Mentions John Fischer, [Frances and Richard] Lockridge, Catholics, interplanetary travel

Dates: circa 1951

Undated letter, missing first page(s), circa 1951

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
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Missing first 2 pages. Mentions "Don't Touch Me," Ayn Rand, list of novels she is willing to send Virginia, her refusal to be interviewed for a Profile in the New Yorker, the Wandering Jew

Dates: circa 1951

Typewritten draft fragment, author unknown, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
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Possibly part of a draft of Virginia's sent to Lane for comment, who then returned it.

Dates: undated

News article from the Provo Daily Herald, 1992 October 30

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
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Relates to the claim of William Holtz that Rose Wilder Lane was the ghostwriter of the Little House on the Prairie books.

Dates: 1992 October 30

Document tracing provenance of letters, 2025 March 31

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
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Traces how the letters came to be donated to USU Special Collections and Archives.

Dates: 2025 March 31