A Guide to the Letter of Ross F. Lockbridge to William Henry Townsend, March 6, 1931
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Accession Number 10806
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Ross F. Lockridge, Letter to William Henry Townsend, 1931 March 6, Accession # 10806, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This letter was purchased by the Library from Halvor Americana on January 4, 1989.
Scope and Content Information
Ross F. Lockridge, Indiana author and historian, writes from Bloomington, Indiana, on March 6, 1931, to express his admiration and gratitude for William H. Townsend's review condemning Edgar Lee Masters' iconoclastic Abraham Lincoln biography Lincoln, The Man . Lockridge describes Masters' book as a fine example of the "debunking tendency of the day." William H. Townsend of Lexington, Kentucky, was a noted Lincoln scholar and collector.
Lockridge also shares with Townsend his distaste for Masters' Spoon River Anthology poem which served as an epitaph on the tomb of Ann Rutledge.