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\"Author\" William Lyon Phelps Hand Written Letter Dated 1893:
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Up for sale "Author" William Lyon Phelps Hand Written Letter Dated 1893. 

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William Lyon Phelps (January 2,

1865 New Haven,

Connecticut – August 21, 1943 New Haven,

Connecticut) was an American author, critic and scholar. He taught the first

American university course on the modern novel. He had a radio show, wrote a daily

syndicated newspaper column, lectured frequently, and published numerous books

and articles. Phelps'

father Sylvanus Dryden Phelps was a Baptist minister, and the family had deep

ancestral roots in Massachusetts Bay Colony. William, as a child, was a friend of Frank Hubbard, the

son of Langdon Hubbard, a lumber merchant who founded Huron City,

Michigan. Phelps earned a B.A. and graduated Phi

Beta Kappa from Yale in 1887, writing an honors thesis on the Idealism

of George Berkeley.[2] He earned his Ph.D.in 1891 from Yale and in the same year his A.M. from Harvard. He taught at Harvard for a year, and then returned

to Yale where he was offered a position in the English department. He taught at

Yale until his retirement in 1933. Phelps was engaged to marry

Frank's sister Annabel when Langdon Hubbard died. Annabel inherited the family

estate and William christened it "The House of the Seven Gables,” after

the Nathanial Hawthorne story of the

same name. Her father built the house in 1882 on a bluff overlooking Lake

Huron. The couple was married on the estate on

December 21, 1892 and it became their summer home. Phelps converted the space

in front of the house from a trotting track into a private 18-hole golf course

in 1899. and they lived there part-time from 1893 through 1933, when he

retired, and full-time through 1938. They had no children.

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