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Article: A Luce History, Letter-Perfect
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- The Washington Post
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- April 11, 1994
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"Every man who met Clare Boothe Luce fell instantly in love
with her and wrote her a letter - hundreds of men," says Nan Ernst,
Library of Congress archivist. "It would be easier to list public
figures who did not write her than who did."
Ernst spent 18 months leading a team of 14 in organizing the
late Mrs. Henry Luce's papers: 800 boxes of them, occupying 312 feet
of shelf space. The boxes, except a few restricted for a few years,
are now open to the public gaze in the Library of Congress's
manuscript division.
"Hers is one of the best-documented lives of our time," says
John Haynes, 20th-century political historian in the division. He
said the papers came with a bequest of ...