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The Lincoln County News
December 30, 2020 at
8:49 am
The new book “Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith” is now for sale at Skidompha Public Library in downtown Damariscotta.
E.B. White and Edmund Ware Smith, popular authors who had homes in Maine, maintained a lively correspondence that began in 1956 and ended when Smith died in 1967. Smith and his wife Mary lived in Damariscotta. When she died in 1980, the letters were donated to the library and tucked away in a bank vault, to be rediscovered by library staffers in 2016. Besides the letters, the book includes an introduction by Martha White, E.B. White’s granddaughter, and essays written by these two prolific writers.
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DAMARISCOTTA The book world rarely sees a new book with such an unusual history as “Chickens, Gin, and a Maine Friendship: The Correspondence of E. B. White and Edmund Ware Smith.” New work by a famous, long-deceased writer is big news. But two such writers in the same book? This book comprises correspondence between White and Smith during the 1950s and 1960s, when they both had residences in their beloved Maine.
The letters lay forgotten in a bank vault in Damariscotta for nearly four decades, packed in boxes with other documents belonging to Skidompha Public Library. In 2016, a Skidompha staff member discovered the letters and realized immediately that they should be published.
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