Papers, 1885-1917.

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Papers, 1885-1917.

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This collection contains letters, 1885-1917, written by Mrs. Spofford primarily to her friend Rev. Herbert Edwin Lombard (1863-1940) and his mother Nellie Montimorenci de Callahan Lombard, Mrs. Henry Faulkner (1840-1923). Lombard served as pastor in Newbury and Worcester, Mass., was a bibliographer and collector of book-plates. The letters refer to visits, daily concerns, book-plates sent to Lombard, descriptions of Deer Island, Newburyport, and Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Spofford's opinions of her own and other poets' works, especially John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). Included are several poems by her husband Richard Smith Spofford, Jr., e.g., "Hold, Poets," and her own poem, "Thy Law." The collection also contains a 1936 typescript of the foreword to a book of her verse that was to have been published posthumously.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...

Lombard, Nellie Montimorenci de Callahan, 1840-1923.

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Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921

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American poet and writer of fiction. From the description of Evanescence : Texas, to Mr. Gladwin : poem in autograph, signed, sent with a letter signed (initials), 1881 May 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580777 From the description of High days and holidays : poem in the author's autograph, signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580825 Spofford was born in Calais, Maine; she was educated in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. With encouragement from T...

Lombard, Herbert Edwin, 1863-1940

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Herbert Edwin Lombard (1863-1940), son of Henry Faulkner and Nellie Callahan Lombard, was born in Sutton, Mass., and graduated from the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1896. He was a pastor of several Congregational churches in Massachusetts and was a member of the Masons. In 1913, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society, because of his interested in bibliographical research, bookplate collection, and American literature. He died in Worcester, Mass. From the descri...

Spofford, Richard Smith, -1888

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