BIB_ID
436369
Accession number
MA 23730.9
Creator
Farmer, James, 1920-1999, sender.
Display Date
Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1992 April 15.
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Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm
Notes
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "James Farmer / 3805 Guinea Station Road / Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401 / 703-898-2917."
Addressed to "Mr. John Stanger for the / Eighth Grade English Class / Melrose Park School / 1715 Lake Street / Melrose Park, IL 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 "Mr. John Stanger for the / Eighth Grade English Class / Melrose Park School / 1715 Lake Street / Melrose Park, IL 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
Responding that the most important lesson he learned as a teenager was from Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil disobedience and quoting from it: "Most of all I must see to it that I do not lend myself to the evil which I condemn."
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