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American poetry -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:

Madeline Wesson collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0408
Collection Scope and Content

This collection consists of a birthday greeting.

Dates: 1933

Maggie Lewis collection of May Sarton memorabilia

 Collection
Identifier: 0207
Collection Scope and Content

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.

Dates: 1983-1995, undated

Marcella M. H. Hines collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0178
Collection Scope and Content

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

Dates: 1839-1874

Margaret Burnham collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0038
Collection Scope and Content

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

Dates: 1808-1995

Margaret Ellen Clifford collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0070
Collection Scope and Content

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

Dates: 1928-1934

Margaret Mueller-Shore collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0250
Collection Scope and Content

Includes poems and note to Dorothy Healy.

Dates: 1975

Margaret Stevens Allen collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0012
Collection Scope and Content

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."

Dates: 1976

Marguerite Weymouth Emerson collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0125
Collection Scope and Content

Includes poetry.

Dates: undated

Marion Kingston Stocking collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0351
Collection Scope and Content

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

Dates: 1995, 1999, undated

Marjorie Johnson collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0193
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence and obituary.

Dates: 1975, 1981

Marjory Bates Pratt collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0288
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, self-published manuscripts which include her personal musings on life, and two haiku booklets.

Dates: 1965-1992

Martha Clark collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0071
Collection Scope and Content

Includes published poem possibly by Martha Clark.

Dates: undated

Mary Elizabeth Neal Copeland collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0073
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes a scrapbook of published poetry clippings, photocopies of her 1938 and 1947 travel journals and a brief biographical sketch.

Dates: 1925-1985

Mary R. Palmer collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0289
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence with Dorothy Healy, broadsides and reviews.

Dates: 1984-1998

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

Mildred E. Danforth collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0103
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes correspondence, an article and copies of book covers.

Dates: 1970-2007

Minnie Bowden collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0040
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes biographical information, published poetry, manuscripts and recordings of poetry readings.

Dates: 1978-1993

Miriam Dyak collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0106
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes reviews and published poems, as well as correspondence with Blackberry Books publisher Gary Lawless, a poetry manuscript, cassette tapes, and a photo.

Dates: 1975-1988, undated

Monica Wood papers

 Collection
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

Myrtle Doane collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0102
Collection Scope and Content This collection consists largely of clippings of Doane's newspaper columns and poetry from the Advertiser-Democrat and other local papers. Also included are her self-published poetry booklets, material relating to her 1970 campaign in support of school prayer, and research material regarding Dr. Adrian Scolten, a 1948 Maine Senatorial candidate. There is also mixed correspondence to Doane from 1964-77, and a small amount of biographical material, including several photographs and a...
Dates: 1925-1981

Nora Archibald Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0356
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...
Dates: 1878-2009; Majority of material found within 1889-1924

Norma Millay collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0247
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes a theater program, articles, correspondence.

Dates: 1926-1986

Patricia D'Angelo collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0111
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, biographical information and published and unpublished poetry.

Dates: 1991-1997

Patricia (Pat) White collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0413
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes correspondence with MWWC.

Dates: 1982

Patricia Smith Ranzoni collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0312
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, publicity, reviews and published poetry.

Dates: 1991-2011

Peggy Lance Lee collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0213
Collection Scope and Content

Includes publicity.

Dates: 1991

Perdita Huston papers

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

Rae N. Simmonds collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0360
Collection Scope and Content

This collection contains promotional materials, scripts, sheet music, a thesis, and poetry.

Dates: 1979-1998

Ramona Barth papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0046
Collection Scope and Content The items in this collection range from unpublished manuscripts, to stamp collections, to large posters. There is a small collection of VHS and cassettes, as well as transparencies with which Barth made t-shirts (including one of her own face). Overall, the collection is made up of eight distinct series. The topics are varied, but because of Barth's passion for feminism, women's liberation is a common theme that threads throughout the entire collection. As early as her college essays, Barth...
Dates: 1880-2002; Majority of material found within 1930-1990