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Kogan, Herman, (Chicago Sun-Times), to Rose, Ben Hecht incoming correspondence, n.d., 1964-1978

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Title Kogan, Herman, (Chicago Sun-Times), to Rose, Ben Hecht incoming correspondence, n.d., 1964-1978

Creator Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964

Date n.d., 1964-1978

Place Germany, Germany--Berlin, Illinois--Chicago, Palestine, United States

Language English

Subjects Authors, American, Chicago Daily News, Inc, Dramatists, American, Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi, Screenwriters

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

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription Dear Herman Kogan, It has been now just about
fifteen years since it has been in my mind to write
this message to you about what we have called
our "Shakespeare Research."
When I add that it was in the Preface
to the suppressed and confiscated book "Perfidy"
that Ben also delared "I watched the world
fall sick," this message to you becomes a little
more than the trick borrowed from President Kennedy
and his lovable brother of the less dangous choice.
The beginning of the Research was more modest
by far than all its has come to mean to us. It
was to have been the mere collection of things
not printed before and repeated from sources
so familiar that hardly was the Stratford
"poet-ape" (Ben Jonson) established as butcher,
glover, dustman, poacher, horse-subduer,
actor! than a new provenience had to
be found for the man so grand in his
rise that a new vocabulary had to
be found to match a career so splendid
in its success; its "primacy." (and all
this without mentioning the chief
self-proclaimed "hidden poet" of
the works, Francis Bacon, who was
forced by his fellow nobles to

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Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative.

Archival Collection Title Ben Hecht papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, Society of Collectors

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Hecht Box 59 Folder 1382

BibID 992595638805867

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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