Harriet Payson Flagg correspondence
Collection Scope and Content
The 32 letters in the collection span the years 1809-1821. The first are from friends and addressed to Harriet Payson, her maiden name. After 1812, she is addressed as Mrs. Harriet Flagg. There is one letter that she wrote to Marian McLain in 1811; the rest of the correspondence is to her from P.E. Theobold, Mary M. Parker, Catherine Patton, Martha Hubbard, A. Chaland, Caroline Moore, Mary Sewell, E. Sewell, Daniel French, Nathaniel Coffin, Lucy Sedge, and Henry Flagg (brother-in-law?). The contents range from early letters with gossip about marriages to letters concerning money and deaths among family and friends.
Dates
- 1809-1821
Creator
- Flagg, Harriet Payson (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection.
Biographical/Historical Note
Harriet Payson was born in Wiscasset, Maine in the late 1700s. She married Edmund Flagg in 1813, and gave birth to two children, Edmund (1815) and Harriet (unknown).
Extent
12 folders
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is organized as a single series.
- Correspondence Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Flagg, Harriet Payson
- Wiscasset (Me.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Harriet Payson Flagg correspondence, 1809-1821
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sue Walker
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Women Writers Collection Repository
Abplanalp Library
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland Maine 04103 United States
mwwc@une.edu