BIB_ID
436366
Accession number
MA 23730.6
Display Date
Melrose Park, Illinois ; New York, New York, 1991 March 5.
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Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.8 x 21.6 cm
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Letter written by John Stanger to McGeorge Bundy, with his response written at the bottom of the letter.
Addressed to "Prof. McGeorge Bundy / 19 University Place / New York, New York. 10003."
Addressed from "Melrose Park School / 1715 Lake Street / Melrose Park, Ill. 60160."
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.
Addressed to "Prof. McGeorge Bundy / 19 University Place / New York, New York. 10003."
Addressed from "Melrose Park School / 1715 Lake Street / Melrose Park, Ill. 60160."
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
(In Stanger's hand) requesting what book(s) have had the greatest impact on him; (in Bundy's hand) responding that he would not pick any one book because none stand alone, but if he had to choose one it would be the New Testament; admitting that he turns more to Shakespeare than he does the Bible as he grows older.
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