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Letter from Gene Kelly, Beverly Hills, California?, to John Stanger, 1991 January 10 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
436371
Accession number
MA 23730.11
Creator
Kelly, Gene, 1912-1996, sender.
Display Date
Beverly Hills, California, 1991 January 10.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 21.6 x 16.2 cm
Notes
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "Gene Kelly."
Addressed to "John Stanger / 727 Gunderson Avenue / Oak Park, IL 60304."
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
Writing that James Stephens' Crock of gold was the book he read in his teens that "opened up a whole world of imagination and enchantment."