Correspondence with Miss Hill, Milton [Mass.] and 4 lines from her poem "Daffodils" in Heart of the year, March 29, 1887, Mrs. M.V. Terhune [i.e. Marion Harland], Milton, Dec. 27, 1879, Mr. Gilder, Milton, May 15 1886, Mrs. Bush, Milton, Nov. 14, 1878, and "My dear Josephine" ; reproduction of a por

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Correspondence with Miss Hill, Milton [Mass.] and 4 lines from her poem "Daffodils" in Heart of the year, March 29, 1887, Mrs. M.V. Terhune [i.e. Marion Harland], Milton, Dec. 27, 1879, Mr. Gilder, Milton, May 15 1886, Mrs. Bush, Milton, Nov. 14, 1878, and "My dear Josephine" ; reproduction of a portrait, and manuscripts (ca. 900 p.) for the novels The Other Girls and The Gayworthys; poem "Their angels" [1864?]-1894.

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Note to Miss Hill includes a signed leaf with 4 lines from "Daffodils". Letter to Terhune thanking her for a photograph & copy of her book. Whitney mentions the slowness of her own publication. Letter to Gilder asking him to publish poems of her daughter's in The Century. Note to Bush declining to contribute some writing to her paper. Note to "My dear Josephine" identified in another hand as Josephine Spooner, March 1894. Poem "Their angels" on 3 leaves of orange paper signed Adeline D. T. Whitney, but in another hand. Note in upper right, Scrib for Dec. It appeared in Scribner's Monthly, December 1879.

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Spooner, Josephine.

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Harland, Marion, 1830-1922

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Marion Harland was the pen name of writer Mary Virgina Howes Terhune (Mrs. Edward Payson Terhune). From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1882. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155885874 American author and editor. From the description of Papers of Marion Harland [manuscript], 1889-1894. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817267 Marion Harland, pseudonym for Mary Virginia Terhune, was an important and po...

Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train), 1824-1906

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Whitney was an author and opponent of women's suffrage. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letter, 1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007365 American author, chiefly of books for girls; also published several volumes of verse. From the description of Papers of A.D.T. Whitney [manuscript], 1866-1905. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837187 Poet and writer of b...

Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909

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Gilder authored the book, THE NEW DAY, A POEM IN SONGS AND SONNETS... (New York : Scribner, Armstrong and Company, 1876) in which this is tipped in. It contains the bookplate of Brainerd. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Ira Hutchinson Brainerd, [1876?] Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398276 Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909), American poet and editor, served as editor-in-chief of Scribner's Monthly and its successor The Century Illustrated Monthly...

Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

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