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    <title>Book-of-the-Month Club records, 1939-1967</title>
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  <abstract>Editorial and publishers' correspondence and preliminary readers' reports consisting of book reviews and evaluations relating primarily to books that were submitted by publishing houses for consideration by the Book-of-the-Month Club but were not selected for distribution by the club.  Preliminary readers include Graham Bates, Rosemary Benét, William Rose Benét, Basil Davenport, Elizabeth Wynne Easton, Gerald W. Johnson, Amy Loveman, Allan Nevins, and Ralph Thompson.  Correspondents include William Rose Benét, John Mason Brown, Henry Seidel Canby, Basil Davenport, Clifton Fadiman, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Gilbert Highet, Amy Loveman, John P. Marquand, Christopher Morley, and William Allen White.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>The Book-of-the-Month Club, founded in 1926, is a United States mail-order business, customers of which are offered a new book each month.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Bates, Graham</namePart>
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      <namePart>Benét, Rosemary</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1962</namePart>
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      <namePart>Benét, William Rose</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1950</namePart>
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      <namePart>Benét, William Rose</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1950</namePart>
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      <namePart>Brown, John Mason</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1969</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Canby, Henry Seidel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1961</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Davenport, Basil</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1905-1966</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davenport, Basil</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1905-1966</namePart>
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      <namePart>Easton, Elizabeth Wynne</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fadiman, Clifton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-1999</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fisher, Dorothy Canfield</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1958</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Highet, Gilbert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1978</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Gerald W. (Gerald White)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1980</namePart>
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      <namePart>Loveman, Amy</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Marquand, John P. (John Phillips)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1960</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Morley, Christopher</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1957</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Nevins, Allan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1971</namePart>
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      <namePart>Thompson, Ralph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-</namePart>
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      <namePart>White, William Allen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1944</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <topic>American literature</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Reviews</topic>
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