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The main body of this collection contains letters from Carpenter to Robert W. Herrick (1868-1938), a student of his at Harvard from 1888 to 1890, and later a colleague on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, 1890-1893. At this time Herrick went to teach at the University of Chicago and Carpenter came to Columbia. Much of this correspondence is concerned with helping his friend Herrick break into the professional writers' world. Items of personal interest are also discussed in these letters to a long-time friend. Three early letters, 1886-1888, are written to his mother from Paris and Berlin where he spent the two years of the Rogers Fellowship upon his graduation from Harvard in 1886. More descriptive than personal, they tell his impressions of these countries and news items of the day. In addition there is an 11-page manuscript by Carpenter entitled "My Impressions of France" written ca. 1888. There is also a scrapbook of clippings from newspapers and magazines of writings by Carpenter from 1892 to 1905. Included are book reviews, literary writings and some items relating to Columbia University.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); George Rice Carpenter letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Source of acquisition--Richardson, Margaret. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1979. Accession number--M-79.
Professor of English and Rhetoric, Columbia University, 1893-1909.
Gift of Margaret Richardson, 1979.
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 04/17/89.
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