Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942
Variant namesAlice (Maude) Duer Miller served as a Trustee of Barnard from 1922-1942, collaborating with Susan Myers-on " Barnard College; the First Fifty Years" published in 1939. She graduated from Barnard in 1899 and did graduate work in Mathematics at Columbia. Miller was an author, writing short stories, novels, screenplays and poetry. She acted in the film, "Soak the Rich." Miller was member of the Algonquin Roundtable a charter member of Alexander Woollcott's literary colony on Neshobe Island, Lake Bomoseen, Vt. Her narrative poem, "The White Cliffs" praising British resistance in World War II became a best-seller. The film, "White Cliffs of Dover" was adapted from the poem. She was married to Henry Wise Miller, whose biography of her and their life together, "All Our Lives", was published in 1945.
From the description of Alice Duer Miller papers 1899-1942. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 56809906
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| referencedIn | Newborg, Agnes Morgenthau. Papers, 1914-1933. | Smith College, Neilson Library | |
| referencedIn | Duer family. Papers, 1784-1937. | Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries | |
| creatorOf | Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942. Alice Duer Miller papers 1899-1942. | Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Robert E. Sherwood papers, 1917-1968 (inclusive), 1934-1955 (bulk). | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Alexander Woollcott correspondence, ca. 1856-1943 (inclusive), 1920-1943 (bulk). | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Authors' League of America, Inc. Collection, n.d. | University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. | |
| creatorOf | Authors' League of America. Letter from the Authors' League of America to an unknown recipient, n.d. | University of Virginia. Library | |
| referencedIn | Agnes Morgenthau Newborg Papers MS 107., 1914-1933 | Sophia Smith Collection | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Mary Ware Dennett | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942. Correspondence file, n.d., from Boni & Liveright and Horace Liveright, Inc. | University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library | |
| referencedIn | Learned Hand papers | Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 | |
| creatorOf | Authors' League of America. Letter from the Authors' League of America to an unknown recipient [manuscript], n.d. | University of Virginia. Library | |
| referencedIn | Duer family Papers, 1784-1937. | Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library | |
| referencedIn | Dennett, Mary Ware, 1872-1947. Papers: Series III, 1909-1942 (inclusive) [microform]. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Papers, 1897-1930 | Houghton Library | |
| creatorOf | Day, Clarence, 1874-1935. Clarence Day papers, 1796-1993, (bulk dates 1890-1935). | New York Public Library System, NYPL | |
| referencedIn | New York Woman Suffrage collection, 1914-1915. | Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. | |
| referencedIn | Otto Harbach Papers, 1870-1990, 1895-1963 | The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division. | |
| creatorOf | Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942. Letter, 1923 January 23, [New York to] Mrs. [Anne Catherine] Markham, [Staten Island] / Alice Duer Miller. | Wagner College, Horrmann Library | |
| referencedIn | Parsons, Geoffrey, 1879-1956. Papers, ca.1919-1959. | Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Clarence Day papers, 1796-1993, 1890-1953 | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
| creatorOf | Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942. Phonorecords of Mrs. Miles Carey [manuscript] ca. 1940. | University of Virginia. Library | |
| referencedIn | Duer family. Duer family papers, ca. 1890-1955. | Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927 (inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk). | Houghton Library | |
| creatorOf | Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942. [Poems] / Alice Maude Duer. | Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library | |
| referencedIn | Jay family. Jay family papers, 1828-1943. | Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Autograph collection. | Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1889-1957, n.d. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958. Papers, 1935-1958 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Gertrude Foster Brown, 1822-1978 (inclusive), 1910-1949 (bulk) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Whitehouse, Vira Boarman, 1875-1957. Papers, 1889-1957 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | New Yorker records | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
| referencedIn | Women's Project of New Jersey. Records, 1984-2004 | Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives |
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Death 1942-08-22
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