Nellie Wade Whitcomb collection

Collection

Identifier: 0411

Staff Only

Collection Scope and Content

The collection consists of ten folders, seven of which include notebooks, and one scrapbook of clippings of her published material.

Dates

Creation: 1884-1902

Creator

Whitcomb, Nellie Wade (Person)
Farnham, Hopestill (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

Florence Nellie (Wade) Whitcomb was born circa 1861. She was the daughter of Deacon Eben D. and Mary R. (Dyer) Wade. She was married to S. S. Whitcomb, Esq., of Lawrence, Kansas. She graduated from the Maine Central Institute in 1880, at age nineteen. Many of her poems appeared in the Morning Star, a Freewill Baptist newspaper. Nellie Wade Whitcomb also published under the name Hopestill Farnham.