Oscar Odd McIntyre to Edwin Carty Ranck with envelope, Signed Typed Letter with envelope, 1894

Containers:

Box 18, Folder 11

Extent:

1 letters

Scope and content:

McIntyre has received his letter and heard of Ranck's success with interest. He will have the publisher send him an autographed book soon, but it went into a third printing after being sold out. May be writing about "White Light Nights" published in 1924. McIntyre has just returned from Europe and plans to go back briefly in three weeks.

Biographical / historical:

Oscar Odd McIntyre (1884-1938), born in Plattsburg, Missouri, was a New York newspaper columnist in the 1920s and 1930s, well-known for his daily column "New York Day by Day."

Edwin Carty Ranck (1879-1957), born in Lexington, Kentucky, was a journalist and poet who wrote for the "New York Times" at one point.

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