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John TurtonProfessional seller Salsus BooksProfessional sellerIn the retained copy of his December 14th letter, Pond dismissively responds: "I am very interested to learn that your husband employes [sic] many high priced speakers every year. He has never engaged any from us".
Grace Kellogg responds in a second letter, this one with over 90 words dated December 14, 1924 typed on 11 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide creamy white paper. Speaking of her husband, her closing paragraph reveals how rude she considered Pond's response: "He employs only the very best speakers available: and I think it just possible that perhaps your business methods -- though so refreshingly unique - do not strongly attract the 'best', either in speakers or in patronage". Signed in full "Grace Kellogg Griffith". Folded for mailing, there is a tiny piece out from the top left corner with adjacent staining from a paper clip. There is a small brown stain to the bottom edge of the page.
Born in Bangor, Maine, the author and women's suffrage speaker Grace Kellogg Griffith (1885-1987) sold her first poem which was published when she was only 8 years old and had her first novel serialized in "The National Magazine" when she was only 17. She lived and taught English in Istanbul for 3 years where she met her first husband D. Griffith. Back in the U.S. she resided in New Jersey and New York where, involved with the women's suffrage movement, she worked in Margaret Sanger's office. A journalist, she also published several novels: "Arise and Go", "The Beloved Tenant", and "The House of the Silent Drum", among others. Late in life, she returned to her studies at the University of Vermont, following the death of her third husband, where she published her master's thesis "The Two Lives of Edith Wharton". Grace Kellogg was a member of the "Women Strike For Peace" and of the "Committee for Non-Violent Action". Good .
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The American academic administrator Frank Diehl Fackenthal (1883-1968) had a long association with Columbia University. Starting as the University's chief clerk in 1906, he was elevated to the position of secretary in 1910 and subsequently served as the institution's provost from 1937 through 1948. In both of these latter capacities, he was the de facto administrator of the Pulitzer Prize from its inception. Despite Butler's opposition, he served as the University's acting president following Nicholas Murray Butler's retirement in 1945 until Dwight D. Eisenhower took over in 1948. He developed far ranging plans for the University that might have addressed the problems which led to the 1968 Columbia University Protests but were eschewed by his successors. He was successful in establishing the School of General Studies and the graduate level School of International Affairs and the Harriman Institute. After retiring from the University, he served as educational consultant to the Carnegie Corporation and president of Columbia University Press and remained a trustee of numerous institutions.
James B. Pond, the American impresario and lecture agent who headed the J.B. Pond Lyceum Bureau, brought the great Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck to America for a series of lectures. The first lecture took place at Carnegie hall on January 2nd, 1920. Unfortunately Maeterlinck failed to carry out his intention to lecture in English because of his labored "phonetic" English. He declared his intention to continue his lectures in French and have the translation read by another person. As a result, the lecture tour was a failure and lawsuits ensued on both sides. Very good .
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