BIB_ID
443161
Accession number
MA 23788.1
Creator
Bloom, Allan David, 1930-1992, recipient, sender.
Display Date
Melrose Park, Illinois ; Chicago, Illinois, between 1990 and 1992.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2020.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 29 x 22 cm
Notes
Letter written by John Stanger to Allan Bloom, with Bloom's unsigned reply written between the body of the letter and Stanger's signature.
Original letter addressed to "Dr. Allan Bloom / 1126 E. 59th Street / Chicago, Illinois 60637".
Original letter 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 (MA 23788). Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Original letter addressed to "Dr. Allan Bloom / 1126 E. 59th Street / Chicago, Illinois 60637".
Original letter 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 (MA 23788). Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
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; (in Bloom's hand) naming Plato's Republic and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile.
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