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Letter from Peter Taylor, stationed with the U.S. Army in the United Kingdom, to Nadine Parker, Memphis, Tennessee, dated September 24, 1945. Notes his love of Paris where he talked with Gertrude Stein, and, as a result, reflects on European and Southern culture: "…I am almost ready to say that it was not the Civil War which prevented the development of a real Southern culture. It was slavery. It is the presence of the negro race which has prevented us from developing our own peasantry or class of small farmers." Also mentions what he has been reading, including St. Augustine and Rousseau.
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sc.0273.001_002.006
Date
1945 September 24
Keywords
Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994.
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"Letter: Peter Taylor to Nadine Parker, 1945" (2021). Documents. 12.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-petertaylor1/12
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