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[Identification of item], in the Erskine Caldwell Letters, #4149-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1978; 1984

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• American periodicals.
• Authors, American--20th century.
• Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971.
• Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987--Marriage.
• Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987.
• Cushman, Helen Caldwell.
• Divorced people--United States--History--20th century.
• Family--United States--Social life and customs.
• Johns, Richard, 1904-1970.
• Pagany.

Letters, 1929-1931, from Erskine Caldwell (1903- ), to Richard Johns (1904-1970), editor of "Pagany," about material submitted by Caldwell to the magazine, the craft of writing, other material in "Pagany," other magazines and writers, and Caldwell's own work and publishing plans. There are a few family letters, 1943, to Margaret Bourke-White, from whom Caldwell had just been divorced; clippings about Caldwell; a typescript of a chapter from a biography of Caldwell dealing with his marriage to Helen Caldwell Cushman; and other items.