American poetry -- 19th century

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This collection includes promotional material for Ashes for flame, and other poems.

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This collection collection consists of correspondence, published material, reviews, clippings and photographs.

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...

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This collection includes correspondence from Barbara Schmidt (a grand-niece) to the Maine Women Writers Collection and a photograph.

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The collection contains a three stanza prayer poem written by Anderson in August 1848.

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This collection includes the 1891 sheet music for Celia Thaxter's Good bye, sweet day, articles and a poem.

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This collection includes correspondence and reviews

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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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This collection consists of a clipping of one of Doe's poems, an elegy composed on the death of Abigail Marston, Parsonsfield, Maine (1849).

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Includes brief biographical information from Mrs. Mary Stiles.

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The collection consists of ten folders, seven of which include notebooks, and one scrapbook of clippings of her published material.

Collection Scope and Content The Nora Archibald Smith papers document Smith's life as an author and school administrator. The collection includes scrapbooks of her writings in publications such as Kindergarten Review, The Outlook, Primary School Popular Educator and New England Magazine. The collection contains correspondence to Kate Douglas Wiggin collected by Smith while writing her biography of Wiggin; correspondence...

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...

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Includes a poem and an essay written by Perry.