Letters from Mary Alice Smith Gray to Calvin Oliver Power, 1918-1923.

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Letters from Mary Alice Smith Gray to Calvin Oliver Power, 1918-1923.

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Twenty letters from Mary Alice Smith Gray to Calvin Oliver Power, written between 1918 and 1923. The letters talk about her past, the family news, including the rapidly deteriorating health of John Wesley Gray, and the "dues" she received from Power for the appearances on his show. The letters are undated, scribbled in pencil in a halting and clearly unskilled hand and signed "Mrs. Gray" or "Orphant Annie."

20 letters, in a scrapbook; also with the preface and two picture cards.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Gray, Mary Alice Smith, 1850-1924.

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Mary Alice Smith Gray, the prototype of one James Whitcomb Riley's most famous poem, "Orphant Annie" (1885), on which the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" was loosely based. Mary Alice Smith was born in 1850 in Liberty, Union County, Indiana. She joined the Riley household in the early winter of 1862 and lived until the following August. She then worked as a house servant for five years near Greenfield, Ind. In 1868 she married John Wesley Gray and moved to a house near Philadelphia. In the spr...

Power, Calvin Oliver,

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Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916

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American Poet. From the description of Little Orphant Annie. Last stanza : AMsS, [s.d.]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122540708 James Whitcomb Riley was an American poet, journalist, and lecturer. From the description of James Whitcomb Riley collection of papers, 1878-[1964] bulk (1878-1915). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122363959 From the guide to the James Whitcomb Riley collection of papers, 1878-[1964, 1878-...