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Dunnack, Henry Ernest, 1867-1938

Fuller, Marion Cobb

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Orr, Clifford B., 1899-

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Clifford B. Orr Correspondence

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Maine State LibraryMaine State DocumentsMaine Writers Correspondence Maine State Library Special CollectionsOctober 2015Clifford B. Orr CorrespondenceClifford B. Orr 1899-Henry Ernest Dunnack 1867-1938Maine State LibraryMarion Cobb FullerMaine State LibraryMaine State LibraryFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalmaine.com/maine_writers_correspondenceThis Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Maine State Library Special Collections at Maine State Documents. It has been accepted forinclusion in Maine Writers Correspondence by an authorized administrator of Maine State Documents. For more information, please contactstatedocs@maine.gov.Recommended CitationOrr, Clifford B. 1899-; Dunnack, Henry Ernest 1867-1938; Fuller, Marion Cobb; and Maine State Library, "Clifford B. OrrCorrespondence" (2015). Maine Writers Correspondence. 413.http://digitalmaine.com/maine_writers_correspondence/413ORR, Clifford. Born at Portland, November 11, 1899. FIFTY TWO WEST -FIFTY SECOND STREET New York March 24, 1930 Mr#Henry E# Dunnack Maine State Library Augus ta Maine Dear Mr# Dunnack, I shall he pleased to send you a copy of "The Dartmouth Murders" within the next few days. May I present it to the Library without hill? It will he impossible, however, for me to send 9,ny clippings, and I am sure that the files will not care for a picture of an apartment house as proof of my birthplace, so tha.t will be omitted also# But as for a.u t o b i o g r ap hi c al material: I was born at 108 Spruce Street, Portland, Maine, on November 11, 1899 (therefore fore­casting the armisticej# My father is George Clifford Orr who himself was a writer, chiefly for magazines, although he has done little in the literary line in the past twenty years. My grandfather was Captain Edgar A.Orr, sea-captain of the old type, most of whose ships were built at Bath. (I am seasick at the sight of a canoe). Educated in the Portland schools and at the Port­land High School where I was active in literary and dramatic work and was editor of the school "Racquet." I was a member of the class of 1922 at Dartmouth College and went my full four years a.lthough I do not hold a Dartmouth degree. There I was head of drmatics, editor of the literary monthly "The Bema," and author of several plays and musical comedies# Directly on leaving college I went to the Boston Evening Transcript as special feature writer, becoming there in the next three years, assis­tant to the literary editor, columnist, and FIFTY TWO WEST FIFTY SECOND STREET editorial writer# I left in September, 1925, and "became publicity manager of Robert M.McBride and Company, Publishers, of Hew York, I was rotten at the job and left after six months to start free­lance writing, contributing to various magazines and newspapers, A year later, I joined the staff of the Do ubleday,Doran Book Shops in Hew York, and for some months was manager of their bookshop in Wall Street, Since November, 192,8, I have held no regular job and have been entirely a free-lance, "The Dartmouth Murders" is my first novel. It was written, for the most part, at Oguncuit Beach, Moody, Maine, during the summer of 1928, was serialized in Co.!lege Humor, and was published in October, 1929, Although I have not been a permanent resident of Maine for many years, my parents and sister still live in Portland at 108 Emery Street* Cordially yours, COPY May 14 1930 Mr. ullfford Orr, 52 West Fifty Second Street, New York City. Dear Mr. Orr;-I have been waiting with a fair degree of patience for the copy of the Dartmouth Murders which you promised for the Maine Author collection, and today I discovered that it had, by mistake, been sent to another part of the library. Wherefore I am full of apologies on behalf of the Maine state Library. You must think us very negligent and unappreciative. Thank you very much for sending us the book. Everyone who has read it has enjoyed it and the general opinion seems to be that it is one of the most interesting mystery stories of the year. Thank you also for youir interesting letter, an absolutely perfect example of the sort of letter we want our Maine authors to write. After you have taken the trouble to write at such length it seems very Oliver Twistish to ask for your autograph on the book but that is what we want and so we are sending the book back to you for your autograph, with the hope tffiat you don't feel as I do about wrapping packages I I enclose a label and postage for the book's return. Thank you very much for your gift to the Maine Author Collection and for the interest that you have shown in it. July 8, 1930 Mr. Clifford b. Orr, 52 West 52nd Street few York City. Dear Mr. Orrj-We have again received from you "The Dartmouth Murders* Thank you for taking the trouble to autograph it for us. We are glad that you thought to mention in your inscription that your book was written in Maine* We anticipate having other books by you to add to our Maine Author collection. Very truly yours, MAINE STATE LIBRARY By MCP 

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