Letter, J. J. Lankes to Eleanor Anderson, June 15, 1953 (Ms2015-020)
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June 15, 1953
Dear Eleanor: I got a copy of the "Letters" Saturday night at a bookshop in Chapel Hill. It is a lovely memorial of Sherwood. He lives again in it. You know I thought I hadn't seen much of him his loss was very personal to me.
I think the choice of letters to me used by Mumford Jones very good. That fellow Burchfield had an extremely small mind - a hell-fire Baptist mind that prompted me to think that whatever good qualities he got in his painting were accidental. I don't believe he knew himself what they were until pointed out to him. My best, J. J.
Dear Eleanor: I got a copy of the "Letters" Saturday night at a bookshop in Chapel Hill. It is a lovely memorial of Sherwood. He lives again in it. You know I thought I hadn't seen much of him his loss was very personal to me.
I think the choice of letters to me used by Mumford Jones very good. That fellow Burchfield had an extremely small mind - a hell-fire Baptist mind that prompted me to think that whatever good qualities he got in his painting were accidental. I don't believe he knew himself what they were until pointed out to him. My best, J. J.
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Letter, J. J. Lankes to Eleanor Anderson, June 15, 1953 (Ms2015-020)
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Permission to publish material from the Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
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English
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Ms2015_050_AndersonTaylor_B1F7_LankesToAndersonE_1953_0615
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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Welford D. Taylor Collection on Sherwood Anderson, Ms2015-020, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
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Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
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Lankes, J. J. (1884-1960), “Letter, J. J. Lankes to Eleanor Anderson, June 15, 1953 (Ms2015-020),” VT Special Collections and University Archives Online, accessed June 9, 2023, http://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/Ms2015_020_TaylerWD_/Ms2015_050_AndersonTaylor_B1F7_LankesToAndersonE_1953_0615.