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Lot 187
MARKHAM, KYRA An extensive file of correspondence.
Includes letters from Ananda Coomaraswamy (including a five-page manuscript); Wharton Esherick; Lynd Ward; Carl van Doren; Vihjalmur Stefansson; Edward G. Robinson; Kenneth Roberts; H. L. Mencken; John Taylor Arms; Lionel Barrymore; etc. etc. Also included are two of Markham's plays, some photographs, drawings (perhaps in Markham's hand), and a large mass of other correspondence, many hundreds of sheets in all. Generally good condition, but not in archival order.
Kyra Markham was well-known as an printmaker, artist, playwright and actress. While this appears to be far from a complete archive (there is no material here from the period in which she lived with Theodore Dreiser, for example), there is much here of substantial interest.
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