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A. Carman Clark papers

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Identifier: 0054
Collection Scope and Content The A. Carman Clark Papers contain diverse material types: diary/journals covering 30 years; manuscript, draft and printed columns, articles and books; research files composed of clippings, notes, and correspondence; extensive correspondence; information on memberships, awards, teaching and conferences; and memorabilia including photographs, school papers and her typewriter. Audiovisual materials and books have been removed to their respective general collections.
Dates: 1917-2005; Majority of material found within 1960-2003
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Alice Mariett collection

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Identifier: 0214
Dates: 1932-1964
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Ann S. Stephens collection

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Identifier: 0319
Collection Scope and Content The majority of the collection material consists of Stephens' published works in periodicals of her time, including an 1859 open letter to Victor Hugo. Also included are one manuscript poem, a bibliography of her published pieces in The Ladies Companion, 1838-1839, and a piece combining biographical information and literary criticism of Ann Stephens written in 1880.
Dates: 1835-1980
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Anna Barrows papers

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Identifier: 0018
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes several folders of Barrows' notes and drafts of lectures on the subject of demonstration lectures. Also included are some of Barrows' published articles and other ephemeral material on the topic of home economics education. There is correspondence between family members, a number of Barrows' vital records (birth certificate, will, etc.), and material relating to Barrows' interest in gardening, antiques, and rare books. The collection includes over 30 original...
Dates: 1861-1948
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Anna Scott Lougee collection

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Identifier: 0204
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes the manuscript of "Music and Musicians of Maine," 23 holograph pages.
Dates: undated
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Anne Hazlewood-Brady papers

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Identifier: 0158
Collection Scope and Content The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, articles, playbills and personal papers. The first series consists of unpublished poetry, college plays, speeches, notes, and manuscripts of published works. The second series includes correspondence with family, friends, fellow artists, publishers, and political figures, documenting Hazlewood-Brady's involvement in women's activities, personal relationships, and literary pursuits. The third series relates to Hazlewood-Brady's...
Dates: 1958-2001
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Blanche Willis Howard collection

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Identifier: 0161
Collection Scope and Content This collection contains samples of Howard's literary work in manuscript form, biographical information, correspondence, business papers with her publishers, and estate documents. Some items are in German.
Dates: 1847-1906
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Carol Farley Kessler papers, 1949-2015

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Identifier: 0064
Scope and Contents The papers include manuscripts, correspondence, articles, reviews, research papers and background materials, photographs and artifacts. Series I. Biography includes transcripts, statement of purpose, curriculum vitae (C.V.), a record of citations of Kessler’s research, and her first 7th & 8th grade publications. Series II. Research includes drafts and publications of research articles on: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) and her mother of the same name (1815-1852), including a set of...
Dates: 1949-2015
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Christine Teale Howes collection

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Identifier: 0165
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes Howes' resume, some correspondence, one interview with the York County Coast Star, several chapbooks, and early drafts. Also included is the sheet music accompanying her compositions, Changing Perceptions and Epitaph.
Dates: 1979-1995
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Daphne Winslow Merrill papers

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Identifier: 0226
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes manuscripts of Merrill's articles and the book "More Cones From the Pines of Maine," as well as copies of published articles. Also included is literary correspondence with the publishers of Merrill's poetry. A scrapbook contains reader responses and clippings pertaining to "More Cones." There is material on the history and activities of the Maine Writers Research Club, as well as publications of other organizations with which Merrill was affiliated.
Dates: 1954-1992
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Donna M. Loring papers

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Identifier: 0206
Collection Scope and Content The Donna M. Loring papers offer an in-depth perspective into the work of Maine's tribal representatives, and to Donna Loring's experience and work in the legislature, specifically. In addition to documenting her service in the legislature, the papers contain drafts of Loring's autobiographical work In the Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine (2008). There are materials related to the history of Maine's tribes, the Maine Indian Land Claims settlement, and Native arts and...
Dates: 1956-2016, undated; Majority of material found in 1990-2005
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Doris Ricker Marston collection

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Identifier: 0225
Collection Scope and Content Includes manuscript of "A Guide to Writing History" and a photocopy of her article published in The New England Galaxy.
Dates: 1970
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Dorothy Clarke Wilson papers

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Identifier: 0394
Collection Scope and Content This collection consists of two series. Series 1 contains articles about and interviews with Wilson, typescripts of some of the author's writings and one of her poems, her autobiography (74 pages), and copies of her writings published in pamphlets and periodicals. In addition there is a large collection of personal scrapbooks documenting her published works from 1933 to 1949, as well as a scrapbook chronicling a trip to India in 1950. Series 2 consists of a number of decorative objects and...
Dates: 1926-1990s
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Dorothy M. Cram collection

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Identifier: 0058
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes poetry and short story manuscripts as well as clippings of published material by Cram. Also included is material related to Cram's love for collies, the subject of many of her writings. Also in the collection are items from Cram's family, such as a family crest and a number of photographs. There is also correspondence, mostly between Cram and Dorothy Healy.
Dates: 1931-1987
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Edith A. Sawyer collection

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Identifier: 0330
Collection Scope and Content Includes foreword by Harriett Prescott Spofford, envelope, photographs, engraving and article.
Dates: 1852-1956
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Edith Leverett Dalton collection

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Identifier: 0092
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes handwritten manuscripts for two prose stories, "Country Life" and "The Blue Dress." The first page of "Country Life" is signed Sarah Hamilton.
Dates: circa 1897
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Eleanor Mayo manuscript

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Identifier: 0433
Collection Scope and Content This collection contains one unpublished manuscript by Mayo, entitled The Pleasure Dome.
Dates: undated
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Eleanor Noyes Johnson papers

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Identifier: 0424
Collection Scope and Content This collection contains hand-written drafts and typescripts of Johnson's young adult novel, King Alfred II, as well as Armitage Hall. Also included is literary correspondence from 1957-1962, some publicity material, book reviews, and published short articles and stories.
Dates: 1932-1993
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Elizabeth Akers Allen papers

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Identifier: 0007
Collection Scope and Content This collection is composed primarily of letters from Elizabeth Akers Allen to her friend Gilbert Tracy, written between 1902-1911. The bulk of the letters were written in 1902, and discuss her work, finances, and other personal matters. Also included are several letters to Tracy from Akers Allen's daughters, Grace Cook and Florence Percy McIntyre. Some literary correspondence between Akers Allen and several publishers is included, as well as a manuscript copy of Sea Birds, under her pseudonym...
Dates: 1866-1911
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Elizabeth Foster collection

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Identifier: 0129
Collection Scope and Content This collection consists predominantly of typescripts of the author's published and unpublished novels, novelettes, short stories, and pages from works. It is possible Foster intended to expand upon them at a later time. A few of the works exist in various editions and some typescripts include synopses and a listing of the publications to which the pieces were submitted. There is information that indicates some of Foster's agents submitted their copies of her works to this collection. The...
Dates: 1942-1994
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth papers

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Identifier: 0060
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes manuscripts, diaries and notebooks, personal and professional correspondence and memorabilia, appointment books, scrapbooks, and other papers from Coatsworth's life. It is possible that Coatsworth used the scrapbooks she constructed of clipped images from magazines and other sources as inspiration for her own work. The scrapbooks also contain personal mementos from her family such as a short poem from her husband, Henry Beston, signed the Chimney Farm Farmer, a child’s...
Dates: 1854-1986
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Elizabeth Lester Poole collection

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Identifier: 0286
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes Poole's CV; correspondence; published photography and writings; published photos and articles; and materials related to her work at Stanley Museum, including posters, brochures, slides, Stanley family interviews, and clippings. MWWC holds copies of a book about Chansonetta Stanley Emmons signed by members of the Stanley family, Lizzy Poole, and author Marius B. Peladeau, and the periodical Fish Rapper Digest (later called Radical Journey).
Dates: 1947-2006
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Elizabeth Oakes Smith collection

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Identifier: 0331
Collection Scope and Content The collection contains original copies of Smith's first stories "The Western Captive," "The Christian Sisters," and "Gems and Reptiles," published in 1842 and poems published in an 1852 edition of Graham's Magazine. Biographical information is available in photocopied newspaper articles and a web site printout. Also in the collection are two photographic reprints of Smith, one as a young woman and also in her later years. Among the material is a piece of correspondence dated 1866, to a Maine...
Dates: 1842-2007
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Ellen Hamlin Butler collection

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Identifier: 0024
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes a scrapbook.
Dates: 1911
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Ethel Godfrey Loud collection

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Identifier: 0208
Collection Scope and Content This collection contains travel diaries, photographs, letters; Smith College (class of 1901) memorabilia, as well as a memorial album for her husband.
Dates: 1880-1959; Majority of material found in 1886-1953
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Frances Peabody papers

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Identifier: 0276
Collection Scope and Content Series 1 consists of the files set up by Peabody as she worked her way through the process of writing and publishing Tate House: Crown of the Maine Mast Trade. The files document the steps necessary to see a project through, ie., multiple drafts, publicizing, printers, funding, and reviews by peers. Peabody's original file titles and order were retained as much as possible. Series 2 contains multiple black and white images in publication layout telling the story of the merger between Sweetser...
Dates: 1920-1997; Majority of material found in 1930-1940
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Georgiana Souther Barrows papers

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Identifier: 0029
Collection Scope and Content This collection includes correspondence from Georgiana to her husband and her mother-in-law, and from her husband when he was in the Maine Senate. There are several verse manuscripts, one of which ("Dirge") is signed by Georgiana Barrows. Also included are 2 sheets of music (one unsigned manuscript, one published piece of music by Edward Howe, Jr.) There are also several photographs, including one of Georgiana, her husband and children, taken circa 1890.
Dates: 1856-1904; Majority of material found within 1856-1890
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

H. H. Price papers

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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

Helen Rogers Smith collection

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Identifier: 0338
Collection Scope and Content Includes correspondence, holograph and typed poetry.
Dates: 1977-1978
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

Ina Ladd Brown collection

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Identifier: 0030
Collection Scope and Content This collection consists of typescripts of Brown's poetry (some unpublished) and plays, as well as essays on the subject of writing. A small amount of correspondence and ephemera related to her writing is included. There are also clippings, student papers about Brown, and one folder of photographs from throughout Brown's life. Audiocassette recordings of Brown's poetry, read by her cousin Wayne McKusick, are also included in the collection.
Dates: 1957-1984
Found in: Maine Women Writers Collection

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