BIB_ID
436361
Accession number
MA 23730.1
Creator
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1991 September 10.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 13.2 x 20.4 cm
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery printed "Columbia University / in the City of New York" with "Department of History" crossed out in blue ink.
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives.
Part of a collection of letters from various individuals responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives.
Provenance
Purchased from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, 2020.
Summary
Responding to Stanger's question with William James' Principles of psychology, A.N. Whitehead's Science and the modern world, Montaigne's Essays, and Pascal's Penseés.
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