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Russell, Elizabeth Mary, Countess, 1866-1941. 61 letters and cards to Marie Luise Backe, (1907-1941), Randogne sur Sierre (Switzerland), London (Eng.), Mougins (France)
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Note: Letters and cards addressed to "Teppi" and the majority are written in German.
ER 373-433
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Author unknown! The great literary mystery of the year
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Pages from the Daily Mail (London, England), with an article about the possible identity of the author of the novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden; newspaper, oversize.
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[Butterworth, Elizabeth von Arnim]? [Notes for Elizabeth Russell biography]?, A.MS. (1 p.), ([ca. 1955?])
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Note: In pencil; removed from 1931 Journal typescript, possibly notes made by Elizabeth Butterworth for her biography, Elizabeth of the German Garden.
ER 4
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[Skidmore, John S.] [Reviews of the works of Elizabeth Mary Russell, Countess Russell, 1866- 1941, 1904-1940], MS. (typewritten: 83 p.), ([ca. 1956-1957])
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With autograph corrections and notes; page numbers in pencil added by cataloger. Note: These reviews were collected and typed by Skidmore for Elizabeth Butterworth's biography, Elizabeth of the German Garden; reviews originally enclosed with Skidmore's letters, cataloged separately in Correspondence.
ER 51
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Blind, Mathilde, 1841-1896. "Love's Completeness:" [poem], MS. (typewritten: 1 p.), ([not after 1941])
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A thriller on the breaking of a secret German radio code during World War II. The protagonists are two British cryptographers, a man and a woman, and their work becomes a race to crack the code in time to save a convoy of U.S. ships from being sunk by U-boats. By the author of The Fatherland.
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