Babette Deutsch, 1895-1982. American author 

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Papers, 1921-1969. 

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Babette Deutsch was an author of poetry, fiction, criticism, and juvenile fiction as well as a prolific translator of Russian and German poetry. A native of New York City, Deutsch spent most of her life there. She attended Barnard College and taught at the New School for Social Research in the 1930's and at Columbia University for nearly 30 years beginning in 1944. Deutsch's published collections of poetry and translations number 22. 

This signed letter to Ann Ridgeway (December 27, 1965) contains an enclosed photographed letter of Robinson Jeffers to Deutsch that is dated June 17, 1925.

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Deutsch, Babette, 1895-1982. American author 

Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962. American author
 

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