Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Response from Eric Sevareid, Washington, D.C., to a letter by John Stanger, Melrose Park, Illinois, 1991 March 8 : autograph typescript signed.

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.
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."