This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on May 05, 2017. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Maine Women Writers Collection Abplanalp Library University of New England 716 Stevens Avenue Portland, Maine 04103 cmiller10@une.edu URL: http://www.une.edu/mwwc
Table of Contents Summary Information... 3 Biographical/Historical Note... 3 Collection Scope and Content... 3 Arrangement... 4 Administrative Information... 4 Controlled Access Headings... 4 General... 6 Collection Inventory... 6 - Page 2 -
Summary Information Repository: Creator: Title: ID: 0186 Date [inclusive]: 1839-1998 Physical Description: Language of the Material: Preferred Citation Maine Women Writers Collection Maine Women Writers Collection (University of New England Libraries) Book Insert collection.5 linear feet English Book Insert collection, Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England, Portland, Maine Biographical/Historical Note The material in this artificial collection represents items removed from MWWC books during processing. Most items are identified with the publications from which they were removed; however, there are a few items only described by their physical format. Collection Scope and Content There is a large range of material types in this collection including photographs, clippings, correspondence, and greeting cards. Because they have been arranged by the author's last name, followed by the publication title, there should be an opportunity to uncover some interesting trivia or insights. - Page 3-
Arrangement This collection is organized as a single series. Arranged alphabetically by author, if known. Administrative Information Publication Statement Maine Women Writers Collection Abplanalp Library University of New England 716 Stevens Avenue Portland, Maine 04103 cmiller10@une.edu URL: http://www.une.edu/mwwc Access Collection is open for research. Publication Rights For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection. Controlled Access Headings Photographs Clippings - Page 4-
Correspondence Greeting cards Ephemera Maine Women Writers Collection (University of New England Libraries) Anderson, Vane W. Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973 Cook, Julia Anna Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945 Dow, Grace Bassett, Sara Ware, 1872-1968 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935 Kenney, Susan, 1941- Laighton, Oscar, 1839-1939 Levin, Martin McDougall, Jo MacMillan, Miriam Merrill, Elizabeth Powers Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 Moore, Ruth, 1903-1989 Mueller-Shore, Margaret Nichols, Helen Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893 Parsons, Kitty G. G. P. (Gertrude Gould Pickard), 1875- Pulsifer, Susan Nichols Reyher, Rebecca Hourwich, 1897-1987 Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 Sloane, Julia M. Peary, Marie Ahnighito, 1893-1978 Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907 Hall, Edward W. (Edward Winslow), 1840-1910 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1823-1892 Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923 Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas), 1828-1915 Clifford, Mollie Lee Coatsworth, Elizabeth, 1893-1986 Hardy, Lileen Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 Marenholtz-Bülow, Bertha von, 1810-1893 Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894 McConkey, Sue, 1911-2001 Peters, Margot - Page 5-
Sarton, May, 1912-1995 Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 1881-1965 Houghton Library Book Insert collection General Encoded by: Laura Taylor Collection Inventory Title/Description Instances Anderson, Vane W. - Verses - small sketch of woman and child Bassett, Sara W. - The Harbor Road - book jacket, 1919 Carson, Rachel - Sense of Wonder - gift tag Chase, Mary Ellen - The White Gate - envelope, entry form, box top from Post cereals Clifford, Mollie Lee - Polly, the Autobiography of a Parrot - 2 photographs Clifford, Mollie Lee - Polly, the Autobiography of a Parrot (c.2) - clipping Coatsworth, Elizabeth - Maine Memories (c.4) - clipping (review) Cook, Julia - York County Ballads and Verses - note re: Julia Cook Deland, Margaret - Golden Yesterdays - Christmas card Deland, Margaret - If This Be I - open house pamphlet, 1931 August 19 Deland, Margaret - New Friends in Old Chester - clipping re: Deland's birthday Deland, Margaret - The Rising Tide - clippings, letter from Deland, 1921 Dow, Grace - A Week At the Lake - postcard from Siri Beckman to Barbara Freeman, Edward - History of the Norman Conquest of England - engraved portrait - Page 6-
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - Women and Economics - tiny sketch with note Hall, Edward - History of Higher Education in Maine - U.S. Bureau of Education form box 1 Hardy, Lileen - The Diary of a Free Kindergarten - flyer Harte, Bret - On the Frontier - daily calendar pages Houghton Library, Centuries of Books and Manuscripts: Collectors and Friends, Scholars and Librarians Build the Harvard College Library : An Exhibition on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Houghton Library, 1942-1992 - poster, 1992 Jewett, Sarah Orne - Betty Leicester's Christmas - calling card Jewett, Sarah Orne - Country By-Ways - scrap of paper with Jewett's signature Jewett, Sarah Orne - A Country Doctor - envelope, clipping, note Jewett, Sarah Orne - Lady Ferry - clipping (photos) Kenney, Susan - Graves in Academe - brochure, 1986 Laighton, Oscar - Songs and Sonnets From Appledore - postcard Levin, Martin, Ed. - The Phoenix Nest - clipping (review), 1960 McConkey, Sue - Jade Bough, White Shadows (c.4) - notes, clipping (obituary), 1981, 2001, undated McConkey, Sue - Hold Bright the Star (c.3) - commemorative ribbon, notes, 1963-1990 McConkey, Sue - The View from Douglas Hill (c.2) - notes, clipping, 1988, 1990 McDougall, Jo - Women Who Marry Houses - flyer MacMillan, Miriam - Green Seas and White Ice - flyer Marenholtz-Bulow, Bertha von - Reminiscences of Freidrich Froebel - clipping (The Practical Teacher), 1892 March Merrill, Elizabeth - Where Bugles Call - subscription coupon Millay, Edna St. Vincent - Fatal Interview - clipping, book jacket Moore, Ruth - In My Book Of Memories - clipping, typed poem Moore, Ruth - Second Growth - clipping (review), 1962 Mueller-Shore, Margaret - Harvested Fields - note from Mueller- Shore to Dorothy Healy New Testament - handwritten notes Nichols, Helen - Healing Love - review copy card - Page 7-
Parkman, Francis - Count Frontenac and New France Under... - clipping, 1910 Parkman, Francis - The Oregon Trail - clipping re: Parkman's birthday and death, 1893 Parsons, Kitty - Ancestral Timber Ballad Without Music - flyer Peary, Marie - The Snowbaby's Own Story - book jacket Peters, Margot - May Sarton: A Biography - book jacket fragment, reading list Peters, Margot - May Sarton: A Biography (c.4) - TWA "seat occupied" card Pickard, Gertrude - Hove Up By the Tide - typed note Pickard, Samuel Thomas - Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier - handwritten notes Pulsifer, Susan - Creative Writing Through Letters - advertising pamphlet Pulsifer, Susan - Out of the Dust - letter from Pulsifer to Grace Dow Reyher, Becky - The Stork Run A Collection of Baby Cartoons - promotional postcard Sanger, Margaret - Happiness In Marriage - Christmas card Sarton, May - After the Stroke (c.6) - bookmark Sarton, May - Endgame (c.6) - clippings (reviews), 1992 Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley - Shadow Shapes - letter, 1927 Sigourney, L. H. - The Religious Souvenir - ribbon Sloane, Julia - The Smiling Hill-top - envelope, postcard, program, 1910, 1919 Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin - scarlet fever pamphlet Tagore, Rabindranath - The Crescent Moon - clipping, 1914 January 25 Thaxter, Celia - By This Wing: Letters by Celia Thaxter to Bradford Torrey About Birds at the Isles of Shoals, 1888 to 1984 - reproduction of old postcard Thompson, Francis - Selected Poems of Francis Thompson - receipt for 1000 yards medical gauze, 1917 January 31 Wiggin, Kate Douglas - The Girl and the Kingdom (c.2) - flyer Wiggin, Kate Douglas - New Chronicles of Rebecca - Singer sewing machine card with attached ribbon Wiggin, Kate Douglas - The Old Peabody Pew - flyer for performance - Page 8-
Wiggin, Kate Douglas - Penelope's Postscripts - handwritten notes Wiggin, Kate Douglas - Polly Oliver's Problem (c.2) - letter to Wiggin from R. Cochrane, 1894 January 4 Wiggin, Kate Douglas - Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1925) - clipping Wiggin, Kate Douglas - Rebekka vom Sonnenbachhof - promotional bookmark Wiggin, Kate Douglas - Rose O' the River - bookmark, promotional booklet, 1906 January Wiggin, Kate Douglas - The Story Hour - clippings, 1914, undated Wiggin, Kate Douglas - The Writings of Kate Douglas Wiggin - bookplate (Rachel Smith) - Page 9-