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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First Edition. 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.…