BIB_ID
443180
Accession number
MA 23788.14
Creator
Sevareid, Eric, 1912-1992, sender.
Display Date
Washington, D.C., 1991 March 8.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.5 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Typed on CBS letterhead.
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.
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
Sevareid cannot name an individual book that had "the greatest meaning to me"; instead he recommends "reading history, and all the biographies of great persons that you can manage."
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