A Guide to the Letter to Henry Seidel Canby, 1926
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Accession Number 7470-d
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Letter to Henry Seidel Canby, Accession # 7470, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Processing Information
This item was transferred from the Rare Books Division on 7 July 1993.
Scope and Content Information
This collection contains a letter from Hervey Allen , Poughkeepsie, New York, on letterhead " HERVEY ALLEN /The receipt of fernseed for persons from Porlock" to Henry Seidel Canby (1878-1861), editor of Saturday Review Literature, agreeing to review Amy Lowell's latest book of poetry [ East Wind ?] and accepting the offer of joining the staff of Saturday Review. He mentions two articles in progress, one on DuBose Heyward [for his novel Angel ?] and one "on a book of negro folk- lore" [ Tall Tales of the Kentucky Mountains by Percy MacKaye?] and having a talk with Ellen Glasgow about 'Southern Literature.'
This letter was removed from Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse in the Rare Book Division Barrett PS3501 .L5A5 1933a.