Item C20 - Typescript copy of letter from Prof. H.S. Commager to Peggy S. Humphrey

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Typescript copy of letter from Prof. H.S. Commager to Peggy S. Humphrey

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  • 25 Mar. 1943 (Creation)

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H's letter arrived after C left Cambridge and was forwarded to Columbia University. C sorry he missed it - he would gladly have talked over some of matters and helped prepare book-lists for study of contemporary USA. C didn't make master-lists for Cambridge University Library - confined his recommendations to Seeley Library since he able to discover what Seeley had but not C.U.L. C had to take what he could get in England or America. Shipping situation such that little chance of sending lots of books to England. C likes idea of volume of selections from representative American historians illustrating "new history" - he talked it over with Nevins who thinks it good idea. C write to Cumberlege of Oxford University Press - if they interested C glad to put it together. H's suggestion of short biographies of leading Americans a good one - Home University Library, controlled by Oxford University Press, will probably include biographies of dozen leading Americans.

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