Correspondence of Martha Foote Crow 1917

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Correspondence of Martha Foote Crow 1917

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Letters from various women's clubs in the U.S. to Martha Foote Crow, the poetry advisor of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, relating to a poetry prize competition and other related matters.

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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General Federation of Women's Clubs. Department of Literature.

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Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924

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Martha Foote Crow, educator and writer, was born in 1854 in Sackets Harbor, New York, the daughter of the Reverend John B. and Mary Pendexter (Stilphen) Foote. She received a Ph.D. in 1885 from Syracuse University. In 1884 she married archaeologist John M. Crow, who died in 1891. Mrs. Crow served on the faculty of Ives Seminary, Waynesburg College, and Wellesley College, becoming principal of Grinnell College in 1884. In 1891 she became assistant professor of English lit...