Scope and content
Letters from Robert Sage in Paris during the Second World War describing Parisian life in a German-occupied city. Includes Butler's correspondence with P.L. Travers relating to the revision of Mary Poppins, and correspondence with Harriet Taylor Upton, an activist in the women's suffrage movement.
Dates
- 1944-1980.
Creator
- Butler, Francelia, 1913-1998. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Founder and editor-in-chief, Children's Literature (Yale University Press), and author of Skipping Around the World: the Ritual Nature of Folk Rhymes (1989), Reflections on Literature for Children (1984), and other works. Contributor to the Paris Herald in the 1930s before her marraige to Jerome Butler (d. 1949).
Extent
.1 cubic feet. (.1 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
Alternate Form Available
Sage letters are originals; others are photocopies.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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