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Jaffe-Lankes Family Correspondence
This collection contains two main sets of materials: Correspondence between Louis I. Jaffe and J. J. Lankes from 1930 to 1942 and correspondence between Alice Jaffe (Louis' widow) and J. B. Lankes (J. J.'s son) from 1980 to 1985. In addition, there is a small folder of notes and letter excerpts created by J. B. Lankes in the early 1980s.
Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes
The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost).
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- Anderson, Sherwood (Sherwood Berton), 1876-1941 1
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
- Jaffe, Alice Cohn Rice, 1905-1994 1
- Lankes, J. B. (Julius B.), 1915-2010 1
- Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954 1