Correspondence--Madeline R. McQuown-Kurt Vonnegut

File — Box: 1, Folder: 18

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Scope and Contents

Handwritten draft of a letter from McQuown to Vonnegut requesting permission to use a phrase from Cat's Cradle in the prologue to her Brigham Young book. The phrase illustrates her approach to the Young manuscript: "Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either."

Dates

1803-1976

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