BIB_ID
443181
Accession number
MA 23788.15
Creator
Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017, sender.
Display Date
Key West, Florida, 1990 November 28.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.6 x 12.3 cm
Notes
Typed on personalized letterhead, printed "Richard Wilbur" in blue in upper left corner.
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
Wilbur names Huckleberry Finn and the "Alice" books as the books that had the greatest influence on his life.
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