BIB_ID
443175
Accession number
MA 23788.9
Creator
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- recipient, sender.
Display Date
Melrose Park, Illinois ; Princeton, New Jersey, 1991 July 27.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 29 x 22 cm
Notes
Stanger's letter is dated "7/27/91"; Oates' reply is undated.
Letter written by John Stanger to Joyce Carol Oates, with Oates' reply written below Stanger's signature.
Original letter addressed to "Prof. Joyce Carol Oates / Dept. of English / Princeton University / Princeton, N.J. 08544".
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.
Letter written by John Stanger to Joyce Carol Oates, with Oates' reply written below Stanger's signature.
Original letter addressed to "Prof. Joyce Carol Oates / Dept. of English / Princeton University / Princeton, N.J. 08544".
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, 2022.
Summary
(In Stanger's hand) requesting what book(s) have had the greatest impact on her; (in Oates' hand) naming Thoreau's Walden as one of them.
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