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Exhibit Contents
Introduction
Ready to Combat the World
Ablaze with Adventure and Verve
Life as a Lucy Stoner
It Must Be Human
An Audience with an Emperor
The Legacy She Left Behind

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Copyright Notice & Image Use Statement

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Jane Grant, probably in the 1940s. Jane Grant Photograph Collection,
PH141.
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Memorandum from Ik Shuman to The New Yorker publishers, promoting
Grant's idea to publish a pony edition of The New Yorker for servicemen
and women overseas, June 23, 1943. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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Letter from William C. Burt of the U.S. Marines, concerning the distribution
of the little New Yorker to servicemen and women overseas, August
26, 1944. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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Letter from Jane Grant to Raoul Fleischmann concerning the production
of the little New Yorker for servicemen and women overseas during
World War II, August 5, 1943. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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Memorandum from Grant to Raoul Fleischmann concerning Grant's ideas to
increase subscriptions to The New Yorker on college campuses, June
28, 1950. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41. |
Letter from Raoul Fleischmann to Jane Grant concerning Grant's ideas to
increase subscriptions of The New Yorker by commercial airlines,
April 26, 1950. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41. |
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Postcard from Janet Flanner to Jane Grant, concerning Flanner's introduction
to Grant's memoir, Ross, The New Yorker, and Me. "Dear J: Did you
receive my note about honor of writing preface for your Ross book? I wonder
if would be informed enough? I arrive in New York Tuesday June 20. Will
phone you at once and we will talk--devotedly Janet." June 16, 1967. Jane
Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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Postcard from Janet Flanner to Jane Grant, concerning Flanner's introduction
to Grant's memoir, Ross, The New Yorker, and Me. "Dear J: Did you
receive my note about honor of writing preface for your Ross book? I wonder
if would be informed enough? I arrive in New York Tuesday June 20. Will
phone you at once and we will talk--devotedly Janet." June 16, 1967. Jane
Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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The little New Yorker dummy, 1943. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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The Armed Services edition of The New Yorker, March 24, 1945. Jane
Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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The Armed Services edition of The New Yorker, February, 1944. Jane
Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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The Armed Services edition of The New Yorker, September 29, 1945.
Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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William Harris (far left) and Jane Grant (far right) in their country
home in Litchfield, Connecticut, n.d. Jane Grant Photograph Collection,
PH141.
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Jane Grant in the 1960s. Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.
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Jane Grant gardening at the White Flower Farm, n.d. Jane Grant Photograph
Collection, PH141.
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The buildings at the White Flower Farm in Litchfield, Connecticut, n.d.
Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.
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Jane Grant at the White Flower Farm in Litchfield, Connecticut, ca. 1950s.
Jane Grant Photograph Collection, PH141.
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Letter from Katharine White, a longtime editor at The New Yorker, to
Jane Grant concerning Grant's memoir, Ross, The New Yorker, and Me,June
17, 1967. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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Letter from E.B. White, who wrote for The New Yorker during its
early years and beyond, concerning Grant's memoir Ross, The New Yorker,
and Me,April 6, 1967. Jane Grant Papers, Coll. 41.
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The current White Flower Farm catalog, Spring 1999. Courtesy of the
White Flower Farm.
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Series of photographs of William Harris and Jane Grant at their home in
Litchfield, Connecticut, ca. 1960s. Jane Grant Photograph Collection,
PH141.
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Series of photographs of William Harris and Jane Grant at their home in
Litchfield, Connecticut, ca. 1960s. Jane Grant Photograph Collection,
PH141.
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Series of photographs of William Harris and Jane Grant at their home in
Litchfield, Connecticut, ca. 1960s. Jane Grant Photograph Collection,
PH141.
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William Harris at the White Flower Farm, ca. 1950s. Jane Grant Photograph
Collection, PH141.
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William Harris at the White Flower Farm, ca. 1950s. Jane Grant Photograph
Collection, PH141.
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The rhododendron "Jane Grant." Photograph courtesy of White Flower
Farm.
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The rhododendron "Jane Grant." Photograph courtesy of White Flower
Farm.
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Grant, Jane. Ross, The New Yorker, and Me. New York: Reynal, 1968.
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Pettingill, Amos. The White Flower Farm Garden Book. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton Academic Press, 1995. Amos Pettingill is the pseudonym
of William Harris.
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