Papers: 1896-1920.

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Papers: 1896-1920.

Includes manuscript poem, Fishing with a worm, and a chapter of, The American spirit in literature. Letters discuss a job offer from President Garfield of Williams College, notes he is working on his biography of Higginson, and a dispute over a reprint with Houghton Mifflin. He also writes regarding Henry Cabot Lodge that: "unless Lodge 'hits the trail' under Billy Sunday's guidance and makes public acknowledgement of his sins of partisanship, I am through voting for him." In addition there are routine letters of thanks, condolence, and congratulations and an endorsed check. Correspondents include: Leon B. Bacon, Abbie Farwell Brown, Henry Cuyler Bunner, [William Cooper?] Hunneman, Robert Underwood Johnson, George Arthur Plimpton, and Byron J.

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Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

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Rees, Byron J. (Byron Johnson), 1877-1920

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Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954

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Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936

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George A. Plimpton (1855-1936) was a member of the first Board of Trustees of Barnard College. He served as Treasurer from 1893 until his death. Plimpton was the primary fundraiser for Barnard. He was born at Walpole, Mass. After graduating Amherst College, he moved to New York where he worked as a salesman for Ginn and Heath, textbook publishers. In 1914 he became head of the firm. His interest in education and textbooks led him to establish a collection of textbooks dating from the middle ages...

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