BIB_ID
436372
Accession number
MA 23730.12
Display Date
Melrose Park, Illinois ; New York, New York, between 1990 and 1992.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm
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Letter written by John Stanger to Bill D. Moyers, with his response written at the bottom of the letter.
Addressed to "Mr. Bill D. Moyers / #76 4th Street / Garden City, Long Island / New York, New York. 11530."
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 "Mr. Bill D. Moyers / #76 4th Street / Garden City, Long Island / New York, New York. 11530."
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) asking what book made the greatest difference in his life; (in Moyers' hand) responding that the Bible, especially read aloud, showed him the power of language; suggesting his students read Isaiah or Jeremiah aloud or the Gospels; adding Emerson's Journals and Thoreau's Walden for the discovery of the power of ideas.
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