BIB_ID
436375
Accession number
MA 23730.1-14
Display Date
Various places, between 1990 September and 1992 July.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
14 items (14 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
See also MA 23788.1-15, another set of letters from Stanger and his students to prominent individuals.
Provenance
Purchased from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, 2020.
Summary
Collection of 14 letters from Jacques Barzun, Daniel J. Boorstin, Gwendolyn Brooks, McGeorge Bundy, Art Buchwald, Alistair Cooke, Peter Drucker, James Farmer, Lee Iacocca, Gene Kelly, Bill D. Moyers, Charles M. Schulz, and Paul Simon, various places, between 1990 and 1992, responding to an inquiry by an eighth-grade English teacher, John Stanger, about which books had been most influential in their lives. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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