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Letter from Peter Taylor, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, to Nadine Parker, Memphis, Tennessee, dated February 26, 1942. Contains his reflections on soldiers and the suspension of the Southern Review. "I had to write Red Warren recently about the end of the Southern Review, and I told him that it seemed to me necessary for such a magazine to continue publication (if only for the duration of the war). For if our good literary magazines have to close down when we enter a war, it means that we just barely do have a culture at all. But precious little everybody thinks about such things any more. Maybe it’s right that they don’t, but for a great, civilized nation the situation stinks. In what way is our culture really better than the German or the Japanese?”"
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sc.0273.001_002.001
Date
1942 February 26
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Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994.
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"Letter: Peter Taylor to Nadine Parker, 1942" (2021). Documents. 7.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-petertaylor1/7
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