Elsa Barker papers Barker (Elsa) papers 1900-1954 (bulk 1905-1948)

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Elsa Barker papers Barker (Elsa) papers 1900-1954 (bulk 1905-1948)

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The collection consists of approximately 1000 items and includes typescripts, shorthand notes, letters, personal and financial papers, and other material relating to her poetry, detective stories and 'automatic writing' series by The Living Dead Man. The correspondence includes three letters from the dancer, Ted Shawn, and one directed to H.L. Koopman, then director of the Brown University Library.

2.5 linear feet (2 records center boxes and 1 document-size Hollinger documents case)

eng,

John Hay Library, Special Collections

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Barker, Elsa, 1869-1954

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Elsie Barker was born in Leicester, Vermont in 1869 to Albert Galvin Barker and Louise Maria (Taylor) Barker. When she was 13, her father died. The following year, as she related, she put on long skirts and took a teaching job elsewhere in Vermont, but came home on weekends and played with her dolls. At 16, she left teaching and learned telegraphy. At 18, she learned shorthand by taking night courses and became a private secretary first in Boston and then New York City ...