Manuscripts of Joseph Wood Krutch

AZ 164
File of Handwritten Correspondence

File of Handwritten Correspondence

Collection area: History of Science

Collection dates: 1952-1970

About this collection

Typescripts, some with holograph corrections, of published manuscripts for The Desert Year, 1952, Voice of the Desert : A Naturalist's Interpretation, 1955, The Great Chain of Life, 1957, Grand Canyon: Today and All Its Yesterdays, 1958, The Forgotten Peninsula: A Naturalist in Baja California, 1961, Herbal, 1965, and the introduction for The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch, 1970. Typescripts of unpublished travel diaries, 1965-1967, concern trips to France, Greece, and Baja California. Also present are printers copies for Great Chain of Life, Forgotten Peninsula, and Grand Canyon; and notes and miscellaneous material related to Herbal.

Historical background

Author, educator, and naturalist. Author of social criticism, critical biographies, and later naturalist essays; retired to Tucson in 1952 and completed several works.

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