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Female Samaritan Association records

 Collection
Identifier: 0142
Collection Scope and Content

The collection consists primarily of meeting and financial records, dating from the 1930s to the present. There are constitutions, brochures, clippings, and some photographs of the founder and members.

Dates: 1828-2007
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Florence Burrill Jacobs papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0191
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes extensive files of Jacobs' manuscripts, both published and unpublished, as well as correspondence from publishers dating from the 1920s through the 1970s. Also in the collection is biographical information, including autobiographical notes, student essays about Jacobs, photographs and school-related notebooks and memorabilia. Material relating to literary organizations and poetry awards is found in folders 121-124. The collection also includes clippings and...
Dates: 1904-1976
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

H. H. Price papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0280
Collection Scope and Content

These papers are organized into two series. Series 1 consists of book manuscript material pertaining to Blackberry Season: A Time to Mourn, A Time to Heal, published in 1993 by LuraMedia. Included are drafts of essays and chapters, correspondence, worksheets, illustrations, revisions, proofs and printer’s mechanicals produced between 1983 and 2009. Series 2 consists of three folders of materials pertaining to other projects, including correspondence, clippings and memorabilia.

Dates: 1983-2009
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Josephine Diebitsch Peary papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0283
Collection Scope and Content The collection consists of a large variety of historical items, including four important scrapbooks compiled by Rear Admiral and Mrs. Peary's daughter, Marie Peary Stafford, which place in chronological order, papers and photographs telling the story of their lives, the majority of the contents focusing on Josephine Peary. As in the scrapbooks, the collection contains letters of correspondence between Josephine and Robert as early as 1884 through 1910, publication and speech manuscripts,...
Dates: 1861-2003
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

May Sarton papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0318
Collection Scope and Content The Sarton papers consists of diverse material types: an extensive photograph collection compiled by Sarton, correspondence, poetry drafts and typescripts, special printings, sound recordings, literary criticisms, published material, and personal memorabilia. Maine Women Writers Collection also holds a large portion of Sarton's personal library, over 2000 volumes, accessible on the University of New England library catalog, in addition to the inserts found in those books, which are housed as...
Dates: 1860-1994; Majority of material found within 1912-1980s
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Ruth Moore collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0252
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes manuscripts of Moore's post-1955 novels and poetry collections, as well as editor's notes, advance copies and galleys of these works. Also included are scrapbooks and loose clippings of reviews and publicity, as well as fan mail and literary correspondence. The collection includes biographical material about Moore and some memorabilia.

Dates: 1917-1995
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Sarah Orne Jewett collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0196
Collection Scope and Content The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, articles, reviews, research papers, memorabilia, photographs, printed material, artifacts, and family business records. The manuscripts include: a poem written by Jewett at age fourteen; notes found in her personal copy of the Norman Conquest; "Indians," her earliest known manuscript; and a complete manuscript copy of the "Night Before Thanksgiving." The correspondence with family, friends and business associates gives a view into Jewett's...
Dates: 1801-1997; Majority of material found within 1881-1906
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

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Blackberry (Publisher) 1
Female Samaritan Association 1
Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1
Jacobs, Florence Burrill 1
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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 1
Lawless, Gary 1
Montagu, Ashley, 1905-1999 1
Moore, Ruth, 1903-1989 1
National Geographic Society (U.S.) 1
National League of American Pen Women 1
Peary, Josephine Diebitsch, 1863-1955 1
Peary, Marie Ahnighito, 1893-1978 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Phippen, Sanford, 1942- 1
Poetry Society of America 1
Price, H. H. (Harriet H.), 1940- 1
Sarton, George, 1884-1956 1
Sarton, May, 1912-1995 1
Thayer, Polly, 1904-2006 1
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