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Mary Beth Owens collection

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Identifier: 0268
Collection Scope and Content

Includes letter to Dorothy Healy, article and publicity.

Dates: 1988

Mary Ginn Worthley collection

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Identifier: 0409
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes correspondence, articles, essays, a commonplace book and photographs.

Dates: circa 1940-1990

Mary McCarthy collection

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Identifier: 0240
Collection Scope and Content

Includes an invitation and an article published in The New Yorker.

Dates: 1957, 1986

May Sarton papers

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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

Mildred McKinley Abele papers

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Identifier: 0223
Collection Scope and Content The Mildred McKinley Abele Collection spans the dates 1912-1948. This collection includes personal correspondence, examination notes from nursing school, earlier education materials, graduation certificates as well as a diary, bank book and CD of scanned images. The correspondence begins in her first year as a probationary nursing student (1927) at Cary Memorial Hospital in Caribou, Maine. The bulk of McKinley's correspondence are written to her mother and sister in New Brunswick. These...
Dates: 1912-1948

Monica Wood papers

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Identifier: 0410
Collection Scope and Content

In addition to five folders of material in the alphabetical collection, there are 5 boxes of unprocessed papers relating to the drafting and publication of several of Wood's books, as well as numerous diaries from the 1970s. The journals are restricted until after Wood's death.

Dates: 1981-1997

Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union records

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Identifier: 0257
Collection Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence relating to fundraising activities, two copies of the Association's newsletter, the Association's constitution and by-laws, and other related material. The bulk of the letters are addressed to Arabella Carter, Agent of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association for Oxford County, from Abba Isabella Little, Vice Regent of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association for the state of Maine.

Dates: 1858-1859

Myra Smith Earl collection

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Identifier: 0124
Collection Scope and Content

Includes review and publicity materials

Dates: 1993

Nancy Dibner papers

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Identifier: 0110
Collection Scope and Content The Nancy Dibner papers are divided into five series. Series 1 holds her papers concerning the National Organization for Women (NOW). Series 2 holds her papers concerning the formation of the Maine Chapter of NOW. Series 3 contains all the white papers and pamphlets on subjects of interest to NOW in the 1970s, which varied from abortion to zero population growth. Series 4 contains two small personal files, and series 5 is a collection of feminist buttons and political stickers of the early...
Dates: 1966-2007; Majority of material found within 1970-1973

Norma Millay collection

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Identifier: 0247
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes a theater program, articles, correspondence.

Dates: 1926-1986

Patricia Davidson Reef collection

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Identifier: 0310
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, articles, students' writing, photographs and publicity.

Dates: 1984-1989

Patricia Smith Ranzoni collection

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Identifier: 0312
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, publicity, reviews and published poetry.

Dates: 1991-2011

Perdita Huston papers

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Identifier: 0180
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes files documenting Huston's professional life, beginning with her journalism work with Time/Life in Algeria until her final work on the Global Family Project in the late 1990s. Included are research notes, interview transcripts, drafts of her writing projects, correspondence from throughout her career, and material on organizations and conferences she was involved with. Also included are clippings of published articles by and about Huston which she collected....
Dates: 1936-2007

Rachel Lyman Field collection

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Identifier: 0141
Collection Scope and Content

Among the manuscript material in this collection is correspondence from Rachel Field to Elizabeth Coatsworth and Rosamond Lamb and letters from a Cranberry Island legend, Samuel Clark Sanford, to Rosamond Lamb. There are two photo Christmas cards, magazine and newspaper reviews of her books, her obituary, and notes revealing her husband's welfare after her death in 1942.

Dates: 1925-1971

Rebecca Goodale collection

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Identifier: 0154
Collection Scope and Content

Includes a screenprint from Goodale's "Reading" series, event invitations, catalogues, materials related to the "Ant Girls" and other ephemera.

Dates: 1999-2008

Rebecca Hourwich Reyher collection

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Identifier: 0314
Collection Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence (1976-1987), articles, photographs, speeches and Reyher's obituary. The letters are mostly concerned with the donation of the Sinon-Reyher Collection to Westbrook College and the Maine Women Writers Collection. There is documentation of the collection, including photographs of artifacts and information on the first exhibition of the collection in 1977. There is some biographical and suffrage information. The Maine Women Writers Collection also houses a...
Dates: 1960-1987

Rose Marasco papers

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Identifier: 0218
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes exhibit catalogs, photographs, research projects, prints and publicity materials. It contains the Diary series of framed photographs from the Domestic Objects series, as well as the portrait photographs of Margaret J.M. Sweat, "Vinalhaven Women" and "Florence Burrill Jacobs". It also contains research for the Sweat photographs, diaries purchased for research, and photographs for the MWWC's 50th anniversary.

Dates: 1923-1937, 1992-2015

Rosemarie Nervelle papers

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Identifier: 0448
Collection Scope and Content

These papers consist of a copy of the author's press release for and prefatory note to her memoir Swamp Robin, published in 2014 by Goose River Press in Waldoboro, Maine.

Dates: 2014

Ruth Elaine Hawkins collection

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Identifier: 0181
Collection Scope and Content

The collection consists of Hawkins's official US Navy discharge papers and ephemera, Navy literature, a few documents related to Hawkins's speciality while serving, and a photograph (scan reproduction) of her in uniform.

Dates: 1945-1946

Ruth Moore collection

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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

Sandra Featherman papers

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Identifier: 0429
Collection Scope and Content The Sandra Featherman papers consist of published academic papers, correspondence, speeches, news clippings and conference programs documenting her academic career and public service from 1967-2008, as well as a small amount of personal correspondence. The collection is arranged into seven series. Series 1, Biographical Materials, is primarily composed of newspaper clippings containing quotes from Dr. Featherman on the topics of Philadelphia politics, public education, ethnic voting and...
Dates: 1967-2008

Sarah Orne Jewett collection

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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

Smith family papers

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Identifier: 0335
Collection Scope and Content Of the 261 files in the Smith Family papers, the majority are the papers of three Smith women. Series one contains materials pertaining to Marion Howard Smith (the central figure in the collection, 1849-1910). Series two consists of materials related to Marion Stuart Smith and series three is devoted to papers of daughter-in-law Susan Smith, including correspondence, legal and financial documents, playbills and photographs and illustrations. Series four gathers together correspondence,...
Dates: 1878-1935; Majority of material found within 1885-1898

Susan Nichols Pulsifer collection

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Identifier: 0292
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, manuscripts, biographical material and articles.

Dates: 1918-1974

Toby Shafter collection

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Identifier: 0365
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes a 1938 travel diary, photograph, news clippings, notes, correspondence and manuscripts.

Dates: 1938-1967