Dear Lady: The Letters of Frederick Jackson Turner and Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper, 1910-1932

by Ray Allen Billington, Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper

Near Fine Hardcover EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW. Linen boards/NF. DJ/Fine. Collection of correspondence bewteen between historian Frederick Jackson Turner (1861 - 1932) and Mrs. Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper of Boston. The two met while Turner took on teaching at Harvard and Mrs. Hooper was actively engaged in funding the Harvard Harvard Commission on Western History, a memorial to her father, Charles Elliot Perkins, and meant to aid in acquisition of books on the West for the Harvard Library. This collection of some 300 letters (more than of correspondence exchanged) is presented chronologicaly with helpful footnotes, makes for delightful reading and shed light on their interests over 20 years as well as concerns of their time.

490 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1970

About the author

Ray Allen Billington was an American historian focusing his work on the history of the American frontier and the American West, becoming one of the leading defenders of Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" from the 1950s to the 1970s, expanding the field of the history of the American West. He was a co-founder of the Western History Association in 1961.