BIB_ID
443179
Accession number
MA 23788.13
Creator
Safire, William, 1929-2009, sender, recipient.
Display Date
Melrose Park, Illinois ; Washington, D.C., between 1990 and 1992
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 29 x 22 cm
Notes
Letter written by John Stanger to William Safire, with Safire's reply written below Stanger's signature.
Original letter from Stanger addressed to "William Safire / c/o The New York Times / 1627 Eye Street, N.W. / Washington, D.C. 20006".
Original letter from Stanger 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 from Stanger addressed to "William Safire / c/o The New York Times / 1627 Eye Street, N.W. / Washington, D.C. 20006".
Original letter from Stanger 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 him; (in Safire's hand) naming Melville's Moby Dick and the book of Job in the Old Testament of the Bible.
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