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Letters to the Editor
When publishing entrepreneur Arnold Gingrich started his fashion magazine for men, he decided he needed “masculine” content to draw in readers. He convinced Ernest Hemingway to write for him, and the pair began exchanging letters. Their archived correspondence reveals business dealings and a friendship, though neither would last.
10 Writing Aunt Lulu
During World War II, a farmer’s wife from Lake Orion, Michigan, began corresponding with service men and women. She invited them to call her “Aunt Lulu,” and by the time the war ended, she had more than 1,300 letters. Five scrapbooks at the Bentley preserve Lulu Middleton’s efforts to give soldiers at war a kind word from home.
18 Out of the Shadows
Alice Chipman Dewey was an eager partner in social and educational reform alongside her husband, John Dewey. Of John, much is known. However, even though Alice guided and informed their shared work, many of her contributions have been ignored or lost. Alice’s spotlight as a pioneer and leader is long overdue.
[departments] DIRECTOR’S NOTES
PROFILES
1 A Revolutionary Change
28 A Good American Family 30 Three Generations of
ABRIDGED
2 Select Bentley Bites IN THE STACKS
24 Witnesses to History 26 Voices from the Philippines
Michigan Connections
BENTLEY UNBOUND
31 The Case of the Missing Mastodon 32 Cropsey Up Close
Ernest Hemingway poses with his three sons after catching marlin in the Bahamas in 1935. Read about Hemingway’s correspondence with Esquire editor Arnold Gingrich on page four.