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American poetry -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:

Ruth Mendelsohn papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0251
Scope and Contents

The collection consists largely of poem drafts (handwritten and typed) and notes for poems and other writing projects. It includes copies of, and publicity/correspondence about, her chapbook, Sixteen Pastorals. The collection also includes materials from writing classes, correspondence to/from family and friends, tax paperwork as well as photographs.

Dates: 1969-1995, undated

Sallie O. Griffin collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0157
Collection Scope and Content

Includes unpublished poems.

Dates: 1949

Sarah (Sally) White Jackson collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0197
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes poetry and a thesis.

Dates: 1960-1965

Sidney Baldwin papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0047
Collection Scope and Content

This collection is composed largely of newspaper columns written by Baldwin, mostly for the Peoria star (Illinois), dating from the late 1890s through the 1950s. There is also biographical and genealogical information included, as well as some early family correspondence and several photographs of Baldwin in her later years. Also included in the collection is unpublished poetry, student responses to Ben of Old Monhegan, engraving plates, and a reel tape of a radio interview.

Dates: 1891-1986

Sue McConkey papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0224
Collection Scope and Content

This collection contains biographical material, including family photographs, and transcripts from interviews with McConkey. Other items include published articles about the writer and her work, material associated with the Poetry Fellowship of Maine, and chapbooks containing some of her poems. Also found in the collection is correspondence from McConkey addressed to the Maine Women Writers Collection curators and to Jeffrey Lee, a poet she mentored throughout the 1970s and '80s.

Dates: 1912-2001

Susan Nichols Pulsifer collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0292
Collection Scope and Content

Includes correspondence, manuscripts, biographical material and articles.

Dates: 1918-1974

Sylvia Tryon collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0384
Collection Scope and Content

This collection contains a biographical sketch of her mother, Kate Tryon; correspondence focusing on her mother and the Tryon gift to the college; a manuscript of her play, Christmas at Castlewood; published poetry; descriptions of her mother's paintings and Jefferies quotations to accompany them.

Dates: 1912-1979

Theodosia L. Barrell collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0052
Collection Scope and Content

This collection includes student record books, notes from teaching classes, notes from "Shakespeare Club," poetry, and blank report cards.

Dates: 1904-1918