Laura Benét writes this essay, titled "Poets in Embryo," on growing up in a literary household and how it influenced her and her brothers' interests in writing.
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Benet, William Rose
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circa 1905
Location: I-Friends-1982-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1900-1919
February 4, 1916
Writer and poet William Rose Benét writes to Lawton Mackall, asking him to contribute to a one-off literary magazine called The Chimaera.
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
August 15, 1917
William Rose Benét writes two letters to Lawton Mackall: the first promises poems and includes a drawing; the second explains Benét's plans to travel for ten days.
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Engravings and Illustrations, Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1900-1919
February 3, 1932
William Rose Benet writes to an unspecified "Albert" concerning the publication details of a book of poems by an unspecified "Sara." Benet also discusses details of payment.
Location: I-Friends-1979 -2
Subject: Business and Industry, Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1920-1939
circa 1940
William Rose Benet, the contributing editor of The Saturday Review of Literature, asks Mr. Roberts to "send the book."
Location: I-Friends-1974-1
Subject: Literary Pursuits
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
May 6, 1948
Two letters from William Rose Benét to Lawton Mackall: the first asking for details about a play Mackall has written; the second explaining that he has no room to publish a piece by one of Mackall's friends.
Location: I-Friends-1982-3
Subject: Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
August 8, 1949
William Rose Benét writes to his sister, Laura Benét, with a clipping about the family from the Cape Ann Summer Sun.
Location: I-Friends-1982-4
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1940-1959
