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- 1978 - 1996 (Creation)
Extent
16 volumes
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Biographical history
Leggett was a retired president of Grinnell College and former professor of English. He received his B.A. degree from Middlebury College in Vermont and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Ohio State University. Before assuming the presidency at Grinnell, he taught English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, and the University of Washington where he moved into administrative work.
Mr. Leggett was a noted author in the field of English literature and writing; his publications include Handbook for Writers and Theme and Form. After his retirement he delighted family, friends, and colleagues with occasional letters and essays that he had bound and given as gifts.
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Ah, Wilderness were paradise enow! 1985
Around the world in 67 days. 1978
Conversations on retirement: The end is where we start from. 1983 (2 copies)
Family Reunion. 1983
The game is where you find it, or why try to find it at all. 1991 (2 copies)
Grinnell Federal Savings Loan: A history--from 1934 to the present. 1988
Man’s best friend is a bitch. 1982 (2 copies)
Me and Thurber. 1996
Over the ocean and far away, beyond the night, across the day. 1986 (2 copies)
Piscator at books: Some remarks on the literature of angling. 1981
Requiem for a love affair. 1984
Teacher to teacher: Selected papers on teaching, writing, and higher education. 1978
There is trouble running any college. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. 1986
Wedding bells. 1984
Where do doggies come from, Grandpa? 1984 (2 copies; 1 is a presentation copy)
The years before yesterday: early boyhood; a memoir. 1987