Harriet Plimpton collection
Collection Scope and Content
This collection includes typescripts, correspondence, photographs, a 1905-1909 diary, and memorabilia. Also in collection are an 1812 math exercise book once belonging to her great-grandfather Elias Plimpton and a small sculpture of a mother duck and five ducklings made of metal with a slate base.
Dates
- 1812-1978
- Majority of material found within 1940-1970
Creator
- Plimpton, Harriet, 1892-1978 (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 Plimpton was born in New York to Dr. Warren Oscar and Harriet (Stevens) Plimpton in 1892. She was the great-granddaughter of Elias Plimpton, of Litchfield, Maine, who ran hoe and handle factories. Her father was a graduate of Bowdoin College and left to study medicine in New York. Harriet graduated from Vassar College and attended Oxford University. She taught high school English and languages in Philadelphia, in addition to writing, painting and sculpting. Her summers were spent in Litchfield in the house her father was born in, and the area informed her book of poetry, Out of the North. She died in 1978.
Extent
1.5 linear feet (37 folders, 1 sculpture)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is organized as a single series. Arranged by subject.
- American poetry -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Clippings Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Correspondence Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Diaries Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
- Litchfield (Me.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Memorabilia Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Obituaries Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
- Photographs Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Plimpton, Harriet, 1892-1978
- Typescripts Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Title
- Guide to the Harriet Plimpton collection, 1812-1978
- 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
Abplanalp Library
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland Maine 04103 United States
mwwc@une.edu