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    <title>William Orton Tewson papers, 1923-1926 (bulk 1926)</title>
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    <namePart>Tewson, William Orton</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1877-1947</namePart>
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  <abstract>List of contributors and responses from authors, poets, and journalists to Tewson's query, "Do you care what the critics say about you?", posed in the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post (1926 September 4), a weekly magazine that he edited.  Includes a letter (1923 October 13) from Tewson to Mrs. George Donehower relating to Joseph Conrad.  Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, George Agnew Chamberlain, Hamlin Garland. Ben Hecht, Joseph Hergesheimer, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst, Robinson Jeffers, Ring Lardner, Richard Le Gallienne, Sinclair Lewis, Edwin Markham, Edgar Lee Masters, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Robert Nathan, Meredith Nicholson, Eugene O'Neill, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Upton Sinclair, Booth Tarkington, Louis Untermeyer, and Owen Wister.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Editor and literary critic.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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  <note>Letter from Tewson to Mrs. George Donehower forms part of the Alfred Bendiner Memorial Collection (Library of Congress).</note>
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      <namePart>Anderson, Sherwood</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1941</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chamberlain, George Agnew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1966</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Conrad, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1924</namePart>
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      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Mrs</namePart>
      <namePart>Donehower, George</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Garland, Hamlin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hecht, Ben</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1964</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hergesheimer, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1954</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hughes, Rupert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1956</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hurst, Fannie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1968</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jeffers, Robinson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1887-1962</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lardner, Ring</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1933</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Le Gallienne, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1947</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Lewis, Sinclair</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1951</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Markham, Edwin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1940</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Masters, Edgar Lee</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1950</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1956</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nathan, George Jean</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1958</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nathan, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1985</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nicholson, Meredith</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>O'Neill, Eugene</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1953</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robinson, Edwin Arlington</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1935</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sinclair, Upton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1968</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tarkington, Booth</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1946</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Untermeyer, Louis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1977</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Wister, Owen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1938</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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