DEAR LADY" : "The Letters of Frederick Jackson Turner and Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper, 1910-1933

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library Press, 1970. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Yellow linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF; price-clipped; sticker removal scar to upper front corner. Anthology of letters exchanged between historian & researcher with the Huntington Library, Frederick Jackson (1861 - 1932) and Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper (1910 -1932). Jackson's papers on "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (printed 1894) inaugurated a new interpretation of the West; "The Significance of Sections in American History" (1932) earned him a posthumous Pultizer Prize. Mrs. Hooper's interest in funding library purchases of Harvard Univ led to their meeting and spawned a lasting friendship. This well edited collection of 300 delightful letters sheds much light on Frederick Jackson as well as the political scene of the period they span. The letters are presented in 7 time periods: 1, New Friendships & a History Commission Are Born: 1910-1912; 2, Politics & the Commission: The Years of Trail & Success: 1912-1915; 3, Historical Collecting at Its Height: 1915-1917; 4, History in Wartime & Peace: 1917-1919; 5, Turner's Last Years at Harvard: 1919-1924; 6, Letters Across the Continent: 1924-1929; and, 7, The Years of Decline: 1929-1932. Fine copy in lesser dust jacket.