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Fan Mail, Ben Hecht incoming correspondence, n.d.-1944

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Title Fan Mail, Ben Hecht incoming correspondence, n.d.-1944

Date n.d.-1944

Language English

Description Ben Hecht was a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.

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13th day of the month, 1906, and my mother only lived three hours.
She said she wanted me called Ida. (Three letters again, and it was her name).

On June 3, 1929, I was to be married to a boy named Jim, and I had just known him nine months. He was taken to the hospital on the 13th of January, (my birthday) and he died on January 19th, six days later.

Then on June 3rd, 1943, I met Tom. We were both the same age and very much in love. On his last furlough, we had three days together, and he wrote me every day for 60 days. The he was killed.

My mother and these two men were the ones I loved most in my life, (considering how dear my mother would have been to me, of course)
and I have wanted

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Archival Collection Title Ben Hecht papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Hecht Box 65 Folder 1791f

BibID 992595638805867

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