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The collection is mainly letters from May Sarton to Maggie Lewis. It also includes several poems and poem broadsides Sarton sent to Lewis, as well as polaroids of Sarton and her house, and the program from Sarton's funeral service.

Collection Scope and Content The Maine Association of Women in the Fine and Performing Arts (MAWFPA) records contain the papers and visual materials of this female-driven, artist-run organization active in the state from 1977 through 1983. The MAWFPA records are arranged into four series documenting the activities of the organization with majority focusing on Spectra 1 and Spectra 2, the two all-female multi-disciplinary arts celebrations produced by the organization in 1979 and 1982. The bulk of the material in this...

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Consists of promotional booklets and photographs from various Maine girls' camps.

Collection Scope and Content The Maine Media Women Records consist of the papers generated by officers of the organization in the course of carrying out their functions. It also contains membership directories, newsletters published by MMW, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The vast majority of the materials are paper-based, although there are a few computer disks, two VHS tapes, a plaque, and a ribbon and pin decoration. The records are arranged in seven series, following an organizational framework that MMW...

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The collection consists of a typescript titled Grand State of Maine, assembled by the Maine Retired Teachers Association.

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This artificial collection includes reference materials, articles, book reviews, and obituaries relating to a variety of people and organizations.

Collection Scope and Content The Manuscript Volumes collection is an artificial collection made up of diaries, albums, scrapbooks, ledgers, day books, copy and commonplace books written by various unpublished Maine women writers. The Manuscript Volumes collection includes writings by Kate Flora and Alice Douglass, Mrs. F.E. Grinuell, Eleanor Hamlen, Nancy Smith, F.M. Whittemore, Emma Whittemore, Abbie Buzzell, Grace Hoyt, Mrs. Bennett, Effie May Gray, Grace Merrill, Agnes Glover, Anne Maria Bracket, Eugenia Maude...

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This collection contains one handwritten poetry manuscript that includes notes about publication dates and periodicals in which the poems were published.

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Collection includes an obituary, poems, sermon from Oliver Ellsworth, photographs, a beaded bag, and an invitation to Constitutional Centennial Celebration.

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Includes correspondence, promotional materials and reviews.

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This collection includes photographs, playbills, correspondence, ephemera from travels, school papers, and a published play (in Vassar Review).

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Includes articles and dust jacket.

Collection Scope and Content This collection contains manuscript material created by the author, including personal and travel diaries from numerous international trips, essays and unpublished writings, prose and verse papers, correspondence, and translations of classical works. There are also personal and themed scrapbooks, commonplace books, a recipe book, a drawing and a watercolor done by the author, photographs and a photographic album of the author and of the author's home. Included in the collection are the...

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Includes poems and note to Dorothy Healy.

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Includes correspondence with Dorothy Healy and a biographical note.

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This collection consists of a single memorial booklet for her husband Neal, who died in 1976. The booklet contains two of her poems: "Autumn" and "This Road."

Collection Scope and Content The Margaret Talbot Jackson papers are dominated by over 650 letters. The majority of these letters are between Margaret and her mother (Edith T. Jackson of Sorrento Maine), her aunt Marion, who was Dean of Women at the University of Chicago, and her fiance, L. Earl Rowe who spent many years at the Rhode Island School of Design. There are also letters from a family member in California, her financial advisors, and friends she met during her museum career at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum and the...

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This collection consists of a typescript and an article.

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This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, media and memorabilia related to, as well as work published by, the poet, novelist and memoirist May Sarton. Collected by her friend, Margaret "Maggie" Vaughan over two decades, much of the material is inscribed to Vaughan by Sarton and a good number of the documents came as enclosures in the 30+ books donated to the MWWC by Margaret Vaughan's children.

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This collection includes a 1941 letter signed by Deland, a fascinating hand made gift book, photographs and slides of Graywood, published work in periodicals, and a matted and framed ink drawing of Deland's Kennebunkport living room, 1950.

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Includes articles, publicity and newspaper columns.

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Includes poetry.

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The collection include articles, a program invitation to a play adapted from her work (in French), and a brochure about "Petite Plaisance", her home in Bar Harbor

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Includes booklet of "Our American Heritage" signed by Rowe.

Collection Scope and Content This collection consists of a wide variety of material documenting Marie Peary Stafford's life. There is a large amount of manuscript material including typescripts of her many publications, both books and stories submitted to magazines. The collection holds the published copies, the publishers’ contracts, reviews of her writings, and Marie’s notes for her stories. Also included are drafts of her lectures and speeches, extensive memos about various responsibilities she accepted as the...

Collection Scope and Content The Marie Donahue papers offer a unique portrait of a literary life anchored in South Berwick, Maine, much of it centering around Sarah Orne Jewett. There is correspondence between Donahue and numerous literary figures including Gladys Hasty Carroll, Dorothy Healy, and Douglas Alvord, as well as Senators Margaret Chase Smith and George Mitchell. The collection also includes letters between Donahue and her editors at various magazines, as well as letters from her former students. There is a...

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Includes correspondence and autobiographical pamphlets.

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Collection includes letter, clippings and a poem dedicated to Stocking.

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Includes a letter and an obituary.