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Sources consulted for the biography of:Frances Farmer (1909–1993)
Primary Sources
- Farmer's personal and professional papers including autobiography in Farmer to Charles A. Osborne, February 1, 1938 (with birth date and birthplace), Biographical Data Form for Outstanding Americans 1776–1976 Bicentennial Edition (23 May 1975), résumé (1989 or later), newspaper clippings, photographs, speeches, and will in Frances Farmer Papers, Arthur J. Morris Law Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
- Farmer's publications include "The Revival of the University of Virginia Law Library in Wartime," Law Library Journal 38 (1945): 30–37.
Secondary Sources
- Marsha Trimble, "Answering the Challenge: Frances Farmer, Law Librarian," UVA Lawyer 19 (spring 1995): 43–50 (portraits)
- W. Hamilton Bryson, ed., Virginia Law Books: Essays and Bibliographies (2000), 413, 416, 423.
- Retirement tributes by Hardy Cross Dillard and Bernard Peyton Chamberlain in Virginia Law Review 63 (1977): 349–354.
Obituaries
- Charlottesville Daily Progress, September 15, 1993
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 15, 1993
- Virginia: The University of Virginia Alumni News 82 (Jan./Feb. 1994): 33
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