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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Am 1954

Frances Sharf Fink letters from various correspondents

Overview

Primarily personal letters to the American writer Frances Sharf Fink and her husband, Nathan H. Fink.

Dates

  • Creation: 1924-1963

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.

Extent

.5 linear feet (1 box)

Chiefly contains personal letters to the Finks, especially from musicologist and pianist, Nicolas Slonimsky, and author, critic, and editor, Isaac Goldberg. Also includes some letters to Goldberg concerning his writings which included work on music, Spanish, Portuguese, and Yiddish literature, H.L. Mencken, George Gershwin and others; a notebook and sheet music by Slonimsky; a memorial to Goldberg; and photographs and clippings of Frances Fink, Goldberg, Mencken, and Slonimsky.

Biographical / Historical

Frances Sharf Fink, an author, has written on art and been an editor at the Jewish Advocate. Her husband, Nathan H. Fink, was a dentist in Boston, Mass.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by author.

Physical Location

b

Immediate Source of Acquisition

77M-61. Gift of Mrs. Edgar R. Taylor, Valley Stream, N.Y. 11581; received: 1978 February 7.

Title
Fink, Frances Sharf, recipient. Frances Sharf Fink letters from various correspondents, 1924-1963: Guide.
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou00524

Repository Details

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