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9358 | Letter to Jack |
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| Description: Letter from LaRue Spiker re her ideas for a book called Elijah On onion skin paper, very thin Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.023.3 and **1291 | ||
14673 | Southern Illinois University Press correspondence |
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| Description: 3 letters Howard Long , Vernon Sternberg,LaRue Spiker(pdf) and Southern Ill University Press Catalog 1956 (doesn't have a book by LaRue) Correspondence regarding possible publication of historical novel , Elijah, discouraging her that this university press doesn't publish works of fiction Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.023.9, **1297 | ||
9372 | Request for assistance from Jack Cameron |
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| Description: Request for tech assistance editing book on Elijah Joy on Dec 5, 1956 from LaRue Spiker to Jack Cameron of Cameron Associates in New York. Had been rejected by Rinehart Previously archived as 012.FIC.023.10, **1299 | ||
9371 | Correspondence between Cameron and Spiker |
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| Description: Letters Dec 19, 1956, Jan 10, 1957, and Jan 23, 1957 between Cameron and Spiker regarding the Elijah manuscript. She is writing about a real person Elijah Lovejoy, Presbyterian minister in Alton Illinois , killed by a proslavery mob, but fictionalizing it. Spiker is sending the manuscript to Jack Cameron. Previously archived as 012.FIC.023.11, **1299 | |||
9352 | Letters sorry Spiker is resigning |
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| Description: Two letters expressing regret that Spiker is resigning as editor of Bar Harbor Times 1 letter of 2 scanned Previously archived as 012.FIC.042.05, **1330 | ||
9337 | Letter to Joe Lyford from LaRue Spiker |
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| Description: Explains reasons for resignation. Wants to write a novel, stay here. Looking for grants to support her writing. She's done the research on Elijah Lovejoy. Paper wanted to focus mostly on Bar Harbor and not the island. Perhaps wants to start and island weekly. Previously archived as 012.FIC.042.21, **1356 |