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Southwestern Focus Patricia C. Willis Mabel Dodge Luhan, who early in the century knew Gertrude Stein in Europe and hosted a salon for John Reed and Emma Goldman in New York, settled in New Mexico in 1918 and married a Native American from Taos Pueblo, Tony Luhan. Although Mabel is best known for summoning the D. H. Lawrences to Taos, her papers reveal her friendships with others whose archives have come to Yale. In the 1920s she received repeated visits from Neith Boyce Hapgood and her children. Rebecca Salsbury James, then the wife of photographer Paul Strand, joined the household for a time, as did Georgia O'Keeffe before she built her own house in nearby Abiquiu. Arthur Davison Ficke, a perpetrator of the anti-modernist "Spectra" poetry hoax, spent extended periods in New Mexico. Papers of two other New Mexicans of the next generations have also joined the collections. The archive of Paul Horgan, raised in Roswell, includes manuscripts of fiction set in the West as well as his history of the Rio Grande and a biography of Archbishop Lamy of Santa Fe. And most recently, the manuscripts of poetry and fiction by Leslie Marmon Silko, a Native American from Laguna Pueblo, point toward the future.  Comments:Ellen R.
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