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1 page to Mr and Mrs. ???? Bishop congratulates the recipient on their recent issue of "Living Poetry" ... it takes a lot of courage to start a magazine of verse in such times as these ..." From Wikipedia: "John Peale Bishop (May 21, 1892 – April 4, 1944) was an American poet and man of letters. Bishop was born in Charles Town, West Virginia, He entered Princeton University in 1913, where he became friends with Edmund Wilson and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He graduated from Princeton in 1917 and served with the army for two years in Europe. He was the model for the (truncated) character Thomas Parke D'Invilliers in Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise.Upon return to the United States, he wrote poetry, as well as essays and reviews for Vanity Fair in New York City. His novel Act of Darkness, based on the true story of the rape of a prominent Charles Town social figure by a local Charles Town man, caused a scandal in the town when it was published. He became chief poetry reviewer for The Nation (1940), in 1941-2 he served as publications director in the Office of the director in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and was then invited to be Resident Fellow at the Library of Congress. He died within a few months of his appointment, on April 4, 1944, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. (Inventory #: 50631)