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Mary G. Doe collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0442

Collection Scope and Content

This collection consists of a clipping of one of Doe's poems, an elegy composed on the death of Abigail Marston, Parsonsfield, Maine (1849).

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1849

Creator

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

Poet Mary G. Doe, daughter of Jeremiah Doe and Sarah Garland Doe, lived from 1801 to 1870. One "crime broadside" for which she was known is entitled "Soliloquy, of Prof. John W. Webster, after the murder of Dr. Geo. Parkman up to the time of his execution." She is buried at the Marston Doe Graveyard in Parsonsfield.

Extent

1 folder

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

This collection is organized as a single series.

Title
Guide to the Mary G. Doe collection, circa 1849
Status
Completed
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

Contact:
Abplanalp Library
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland Maine 04103 United States