Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter by John Stanger and response by Alistair Cooke, Melrose Park, Illinois and New York, 1992 July 29 : autograph manuscript and typescript signed.

BIB_ID
436367
Accession number
MA 23730.7
Display Date
Melrose Park, Illinois ; New York, New York, 1992 July 29.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.8 x 12.5 cm
Notes
Letter written by John Stanger to Alistair Cooke, with his response typed at the bottom of the letter.
Addressed to "Mr Alistair Cooke / 1150 5B Avenue / New York, New York. 10028."
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; (typed by Cooke) listing 13 books.