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Cooper Room Exhibition Honors American Novelist James Fenimore Cooper
The article details the Cooper room at Sterling Memorial Library housing Cooper memorabilia from James Fenimore Cooper's descendant, featuring manuscripts from Leather Stocking Tales, diaries, a marble bust, portraits, and letters to Scott, Lafayette, Irving, and Morse. It recounts Cooper's early life from Nutley NJ to Cooperstown, his failed Yale period, early writings, and rise as a premier American novelist whose works like The Spy and The Pioneers shaped 19th century fiction with a global reach.
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Wohn Dickinson Sherman
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James Yennimors Cooper
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