Correspondence with Mr. Browne, 1889-1905, Miss Patterson, Miss Steath, Mr. Kaufman, Master Chapman, Arkansas, Feb. 26, 1893, Mr. Johnson, W. 59th Street, Aug. 31, Mr. Ellis D. Robb, Clover Bend, March 9, 1899, Mr. Bobbs of Bobbs-Merrill Co., Mr. Young, Davenport, June 29, 1901, Mr. Moorhead, Cedar

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Correspondence with Mr. Browne, 1889-1905, Miss Patterson, Miss Steath, Mr. Kaufman, Master Chapman, Arkansas, Feb. 26, 1893, Mr. Johnson, W. 59th Street, Aug. 31, Mr. Ellis D. Robb, Clover Bend, March 9, 1899, Mr. Bobbs of Bobbs-Merrill Co., Mr. Young, Davenport, June 29, 1901, Mr. Moorhead, Cedar Bend, Feb. 25, 1895, Mr. Varney, Davenport, Iowa, May 27, 1909, a photograph and an article from The Book Buyer, Apr. 1889, and mounted pictures from a periodical of Thanet and her house. 1889-1909.

Note to Mr. Ellis D. Robb on mourning stationery encloses 2 typewritten pages from A Rented House by Thanet, which was published in Harper's Monthly New Magazine, March 1899, p. 630-549, and a picture from a periodical of Thanet and a nephew. Letter to Mr. Moorhead (mananger or publisher) sending a list of names and addresses of autograph seekers and commenting on autograph requests in general. Note to Mr. Varney replying about her favorite poems, mentioning Henley's "out of the night that covers me" sometimes called "The Captain of my soul."

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Ellis D. Robb was born in Eldora, Iowa. In 1923 he moved to Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Robb worked as a National Bank Examiner, and collected information about famous people as part of collecting autographs. He put the information he collected into scrapbooks. From the description of Scrapbooks, 1920-1943. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 35630995 Ellis Robb was an Iowan bank official who collected autographs. From the description of Ellis Robb collection of I...

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Thanet, Octave, 1850-1934

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American novelist and short story writer. From the description of Letters, 1888-1921. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233100106 Alice French, author of dozens of "local color" short stories, as well as articles, essays and novels, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, on March 18, 1850. Clover Bend, Arkansas provided the inspiration for many of her local color pieces, as well as her 1910 novel, By Inheritance. Her leading works are: Knitters in the Sun (188...

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