Papers, 1908-1962.

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Papers, 1908-1962.

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Professional correspondence includes letters to Ruth Fitch Mason from Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos, Havelock Ellis, Robert Frost, Ellen Glasgow, Langston Hughes, Sinclair Lewis, Amy Lowell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Paul, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, Edmund Wilson, and other literary figures; and correspondence from her association with the publishing firms of Curtis Brown Ltd. and McKeogh and Boyd, 1937-1944. Family letters, 1908-1962, include her correspondence with Eliot Grant Fitch, her first husband Walter S. Bartlett, her sons Eliot F. and Scott Bartlett, her mother Eliza Eliot Fitch, and her third husband Gregory Mason. Some of her letters to her mother were written while attending Vassar College, 1908-1909; and letters of Elizabeth Grace Boyd Phillipson to Eliot Fitch Bartlett, 1936-1940. Other items include manuscripts of her stories and poetry; manuscripts by her second husband Thomas Boyd; manuscript of DANBURY CURVE (1962) by Ruth Fitch Mason and Gregory Mason; photographs, postcards, and biographical information; and Eliot F. Bartlett's correspondence and notes regarding these papers.

2 cubic ft.

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Mason, Ruth, 1890-1974

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Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

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Wilson, Edmund

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Mason, Gregory, 1889-

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Boyd, Thomas, 1898-1935

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Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941

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Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970

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Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933

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McKeogh & Boyd (New York, N.Y.)

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Curtis Brown Ltd.

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Incorporated the literary agencies of Willis Kingsley Wing and Collins-Knowlton-Wing, Inc., and others, and was closely associated with the English agencies of Curtis Brown Ltd. (London) and A.P. Watt & Son. From the guide to the Curtis Brown, Ltd. Records, 1914-2006., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lady Isabella Augusta (Persse) Gregory was an Irish playwright, director, producer, poet, folklorist, translator and historian, co...

Vassar College.

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Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...

Bartlett, Eliot Fitch.

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Bartlett, Walter A.

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Fitch, Eliot Grant.

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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945

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American novelist. From the description of Letter, 1940 Apr. 25, Richmond, Va., to John W. Garley, Bayonne, N.J. [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647808544 From the description of Letters to James J. Murray [manuscript], 1939-1943. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812081 American author. From the description of Letter [manuscript]: Richmond, Va., to Dr. Kenneth Wood, 1942 December 14. (University of Virginia). W...

Phillipson, Elizabeth Grace Boyd.

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Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

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British essayist, editor physician and psychologist. He studied human sexual behavior and his research for Man and Women (1894) led to his major work, the seven volume, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897-1928). His last writings were the essays on literature and art reprinted in Views and Reviews (1932). From the description of Havelock Ellis papers, 1871-1939 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166017 From the guide to the Havelock Ellis papers, 1871-1939, (M...

Fitch, Eliza Eliot.

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