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Green, Sharpless D., fl. 1922-1927 Letters from Famous People

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09782 Author/Creator: Green, Sharpless D., fl. 1922-1927 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Book Date: 1925 Pagination: 1 v. : xvii, 362 p. : Height: 19 cm, Width: 13.5 cm Order a Copy

One book entitled, "Letters from Famous People" by Sharpless Dobson Green, published in 1925. This book is a collection of letters solicited by Green. He wrote to people eminent in their professional fields for advice he could share with his students at the Senior High School of Trenton, New Jersey. He then published these letters in this book after gaining permission from their authors. Of the 324 letters, some notable names are; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, W.E.B. Dubois, and Harry Houdini.

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963
Green, Sharpless Dobson, fl. 1922-1927
Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945

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