Roosevelt, including one “in favor of the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill.” Paying attention to politics, she sent telegrams to President Franklin D. She also wrote to Georgia O’Keeffe, whom she’d met at one of O’Keeffe’s art exhibitions, and Walt Kuhn, whose painting Mario she and her husband Eugen Boissevain purchased in 1939. Catherine when they first met her Latin professor from Vassar College, Elizabeth Haight the composer Deems Taylor and his wife Mary Kennedy the poet Robinson Jeffers and the horse trainer Bill Brann. She expresses deep appreciation for her friendships in correspondence with the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie Sister Ste. She wrote love letters to Ficke, Hooley, Wilson, and the poet George Dillon, among others. Rittenhouse, Arthur Davison Ficke, Witter Bynner, the editor Arthur Hooley, and the critic Edmund Wilson. Other early correspondents include the poets Jessie B. In the beginning we meet her mother Cora and her sisters Kathleen and Norma. Recipients of her letters include family, friends, lovers, other writers, publishers, and politicians. We learn about the vast range of Millay’s interests-music, gardening, cooking, fashion, visual art, world literature, travel, horse racing, and astronomy, as well as her strong commitment to social justice. Readers of these letters will discover endearing and revelatory insights about this prolific though often underappreciated literary figure, who was a bestselling poet in her day. Vincent Millay’s written correspondence from 1900, when she was eight, until 1950, the last year of her life.

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