White, E. B.          frey50        <br/><br/>
The points of my compass  Letters from the east, the west, the north , the south 
E. B. White 
 - New York  Harper & Row, Publishers  1962 
 - 240 p. 
<br/><br/>Foreword -- Eye of Edna -- Slight sound at evening -- Home-coming -- Bedfellows -- Ring of time -- Coon tree -- Sootfall and fallout -- Shape of the U.N. -- Rock dove -- Report in spring -- Will Strunk -- Good-bye to 48th street -- Report in winter -- Motorcar -- Railroad -- Unity -- Shape of television -- Years of wonder. 
<br/><br/> A collection of eighteen essays, reports and reminiscences (all but one of which have previously appeared in The New Yorker as a "Letter from the East" or some other compass point). Author writes of coons, and how a swallow builds a nest, and the way a Maine fire department attends a fire, and also of fallout, disarmament and the United Nations. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>White, E. B. -- (Elwyn Brooks)   1899-1985  Correspondence 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>814 Whi   14