Letter from Frances Parkinson Keyes to Alice H. Dains
Overview
Letter from writer Frances Parkinson Keyes to Miss Alice H. Dains of Lawrence, Kansas. The letter appears to be in response to a letter of Dains' and concerns the "flounder house" style of building that appears in one of Keyes' novels. 1 sheet, with envelope.
Dates
- Creation: June 29, 1938
Creator
- Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 1885-1970 (Person)
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Biography of Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885-1970)
Frances Parkinson Wheeler was born in Charlottesville, Virginia and grew up in New England. In 1904 she married Henry Wilder Keyes, and they brought up their family of three sons on his estate in New Hampshire. Her husband's involvement in politics brought them to Washington, D.C., and after his death in 1938, Frances Parkinson Keyes eventually settled in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Keyes wrote memoirs and novels, including her first novel Old Gray Homestead (1919), The Story of a Washington Hostess (1937), and Dinner at Antoine's (1948), among many others. Later in her career she also wrote poetry and short stories and experimented in other forms. She also served as a contributing editor to Good Housekeeping magazine from 1923-1935, writing a series called "Letters from a Senator's Wife" for the magazine during the 1920s.
[Information retrieved from Virginia Humanities in partnership with the Library of Virginia. "Frances Parkinson Keyes (1885-1970)," Encyclopedia Virginia, https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Keyes_Frances_Parkinson_1885-1970.]
Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
MS P750
Subject
- Title
- Guide to the Frances Parkinson Keyes Collection
- Subtitle
- Letter from Frances Parkinson Keyes to Alice H. Dains
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by eh, 2016 and mwh, 2020. Finding aid encoded by mwh, 2020.
- Date
- 2020-01
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/9795221908
- Preferred citation
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Letter from Frances Parkinson Keyes to Alice H. Dains, MS P750, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository