“The Inhumanity of the Animal People” with Unsent Letter to the Editor by Joy Williams

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Williams, Joy. Letter. 1997. “‘The Inhumanity of the Animal People’ With Unsent Letter to the Editor by Joy Williams”. Gretchen Wyler Letter to Joy Williams, 1997, Joy Williams: Honored Guest, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/joy-williams/item/1163

Title: “The Inhumanity of the Animal People” with Unsent Letter to the Editor by Joy Williams
Description: First three pages of Joy Williams essay in Harper's Magazine; Unsent letter to the editor by Joy Williams; Williams kept a thick folder titled “Harper’s Animal Rights Horror” in which she documented the long struggles she had with the magazine editors, as summarized in this unsent letter.
Creator: Williams, Joy
Contributor: Painting by Marshall Arisman
Date: 1997: August
Subject: Williams, Joy, 1944-
Publisher: Harper's Magazine. Volume 295, number 1767
Source: HV4711 .W55 1997 4o; Joy Williams Papers
Box 12 Folder 1
Type: Periodical
Format: Publication, 28 cm; Paper, 8.5x11 in.; JPEG, 400 ppi
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
Identifier: mss158-02-12-01-01-001; mss158-02-12-01-01-002; mss158-02-12-01-01-003
Language: English
Relation: Gretchen Wyler Letter to Joy Williams

Item sets: Joy Williams: Honored Guest

Site pages: Humanity and Other Animals

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