The Shaw Monument poem with photograph of the Shaw Monument [manuscript], 1913 Aug 5.

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The Shaw Monument poem with photograph of the Shaw Monument [manuscript], 1913 Aug 5.

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"The Shaw Monument," a fourteen line manuscript poem with another page containing a magazine picture of the Shaw monument and a printed version of the poem.

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University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7082720

University of Virginia. Library

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Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863

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Shaw was born in Boston to abolitionists Francis George and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw, who were well-known Unitarian philanthropists and intellectuals of Scottish descent. The Shaws had the benefit of a large inheritance left by Shaw's merchant grandfather and namesake Robert Gould Shaw (1775–1853). Shaw had four sisters—Anna, Josephine (Effie), Susanna, and Ellen (Nellie). When Shaw was five years old, the family moved to a large estate in West Roxbury, adjacent to Brook Farm. During his te...

Palfrey, Sarah Hammond, 1823-1914

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Poet and novelist; daughter of noted Unitarian minister of Boston and Cambridge, John Gorham Palfrey. She shared her father's liberal theology and was prominent in the social and philanthropic movements of the day. Much of her work was written under the name of "E. Foxton." Her writings include (verse) Premices, Sir Pavon and St. Pavon, King Arthur in Avalon and other poems, among others and (novels) Agnes Wentworth, Katherine Morne, Herman, Or Young Knighthood. From the description ...