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Collection Title: Margaret Leighton Papers Collection Number: DG0603 Inclusive Dates: 1962 Volume: .25 cu. ft. (1 box) Provenance : Material was donated by Margaret Leighton in 1966. Copyright: The collection is protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. Code). Reproductions can be made only if they are to be used for "private study, scholarship, or research." It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials, other than that noted above. Margaret Leighton was born on December 20, 1896 in Oberlin, Ohio. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1918 and began writing children’s books after the death of her husband in 1935. In 1958, she was given the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Memorial Children’s Book Award for Comanche of the Seventh (1957). She died in 1987. Something About the Author, vol 27, p. 216. There is a typescript for Bride of Glory (1962), the life story of Libbie Custer, the wife of George Custer. A. Books (1962)
Box/Folder A. Books (1962)
Processed: February 1999 This finding aid is a product of a grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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