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Entries include brief biographical information, a typed letter from Vance during a New York change of residence on personal stationery concerning a house where she had lived in Lincolnville, Maine, and the real boy about whom her story Jeptha and the New People was written -- before Vance moved back to New York City, a lengthy typed biography of Vance on "News About Books and Authors" stationery from the E.P. Dutton Publicity Department describing Vance's progress from the Children's Book Department of the Dutton 5th Avenue bookstore to her change of position as an editor of Children's Books at Dutton, a typed letter from Vance on Christmas Day of 1960 in hopes of attaining facts for a book she would like to write concerning what was perhaps a nonfictional tale Vance had heard about in Rockport, Maine, and typed letters of book presentation from director Helen Ward and Barbette Thompson of the Library and Education Department on E.P. Dutton Company, Inc., Publishers stationery. Date Range: 1960/1961

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Entries include brief biographical information, a typed letter from Vance during a New York change of residence on personal stationery concerning a house where she had lived in Lincolnville, Maine, and the real boy about whom her story Jeptha and the New People was written -- before Vance moved back to New York City, a lengthy typed biography of Vance on "News About Books and Authors" stationery from the E.P. Dutton Publicity Department describing Vance's progress from the Children's Book Department of the Dutton 5th Avenue bookstore to her change of position as an editor of Children's Books at Dutton, a typed letter from Vance on Christmas Day of 1960 in hopes of attaining facts for a book she would like to write concerning what was perhaps a nonfictional tale Vance had heard about in Rockport, Maine, and typed letters of book presentation from director Helen Ward and Barbette Thompson of the Library and Education Department on E.P. Dutton Company, Inc., Publishers stationery.

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