The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 19, number 1, September 1935

              documents turner's autobiographic letter the late frederick jackson turner during the last few years of his life was frequently called upon by those wish ing to descant upon his distinguished career for biographical details which they might use he is known to have written some half dozen long letters to satisfy such requests and most if not all of these now repose in the vaults of the hunt ington library official custodian of the turner papers among them is the original of the letter published herewith whose recipient constance lindsay skinner of new york city kindly furnished us a copy with the authorization to print it in the wisconsin magazine of history we are also under obligation to miss skinner for the interesting account of the circumstances under which the turner letter was se cured her statement constitutes the appropriate introduc tion to the turner letter — editor notes concerning my correspondence with frederick jackson turner constance lindsay skinner my first volume in the chronicles of america series yale university press was pioneers of the old southwest a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground it was pub lished in 1919 while at the convention of the next ameri can historical association after the publication of my volume dr allen johnson editor of the series wrote me that pro fessor turner had spoken favorably of my book adding