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M.C. Richards to Francis Sumner Merritt

M.C. RICHARDS (1916-1999), letter to Francis Sumner Merritt (1913-2000), July 5, 1972, one page. Richards, a renown teacher, writer, poet, and potter, taught English at Black Mountain College from 1945 to 1951 and participated in its summer programs. She also taught at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. In this letter to Merritt, the founding director of Haystack, she introduced the idea of combining the literary and visual arts in a calligraphy course: "Writing as a Handcraft, or Arts of the Scribe." Francis Sumner Merritt papers. Gift of Francis Sumner Merritt, 1980-1994.

M.C. Richards to Francis Sumner Merrit, 1972 July 5. Letter. 42 x 30 cm. Francis Sumner Merritt papers, 1903-1979. Archives of American Art.