Collin, Grace Lathrop

Author; Columnist. Grace Lathrop Collin was born in Elmira, N.Y. on March 22,1874 to Emily Lathrop Ripley and Charles A. Collin, a law professor. Her family resided in Ithaca, N.Y., when she attended Ithaca High School and later graduated from Smith College in 1896. She did graduate study at Harvard University and eventually earned a M.A. in English and Drama from Columbia University. She went on to pursue a career in writing and had a daily drama-women's column in the New York Evening Sun. Her short stories were published in both Harper's and Ainslee's Magazine. In 1903 a collection of her short stories about New England's diminishing partician communities was published entitled Putnum Place. Collins remained active in the Smith College Club of New York and the Association of College Alumnae. She died of illness in November 1913 at age 39.

From the description of Papers 1894-1913. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 46708784

Letter from Grace Collin to Mary Aimee Goodman, written from Ottawa House, Cushing's Island, Maine, 1896

Grace Lathrop Collin was born in Elmira, N.Y. on March 22,1874 to Emily Lathrop Ripley and Charles A. Collin, a law professor. Her family resided in Ithaca, N.Y., when she attended Ithaca High School and later graduated from Smith College in 1896. She did graduate study at Harvard University and eventually earned a M.A. in English and Drama from Columbia University. Collin went on to pursue a career in writing and had a daily drama/women's column in the New York Evening Sun. Her short stories were published in both Harper's and Ainslee's Magazine. In 1903 a collection of her short stories about New England's diminishing patrician communities was published entitled Putnum Place. Collins remained active in the Smith College Club of New York and the Association of College Alumnae. She died of illness in November 1913 at age 39.

From the guide to the Grace Lathrop Collin Papers MS 41., 1894-1913, (Sophia Smith Collection)