A Preliminary Inventory of Her Collection of Peter Matthiessen Letters at the
Harry Ransom Center
Creator:
Burden, Wendy, 1927-
Title:
Wendy Burden Collection of Peter Matthiessen
Letters
Dates:
1944-1948
Extent:
2 boxes (.84 linear feet)
Abstract:
This collection contains over 100 letters
from Matthiessen to Wendy Burden, now named Katharine B. Morgan and also known as
Wendy
Morgan.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-54138
Language:
English
Access:
Open for research. Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Wendy Burden Collection of Peter Matthiessen Letters (Manuscript Collection MS-54138).
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
This collection contains letters written by Peter Matthiessen to Wendy Burden (now
named
Katharine B. Morgan and also known as Wendy Morgan). Morgan, an author, corresponded
with
Matthiessen from 1944 to 1948, which includes his time in the U.S. Navy.
Related Material
Related materials at the Harry Ransom Center include the Peter Matthiessen Papers,
the
Peter Matthiessen Collection, the Don DeLillo Papers, the Norman Mailer Papers, the
Alfred
A. Knopf, Inc. Records, the Sonora Babb Papers, the Benjamin C. Bradlee Papers and
the James
Jones Papers.
