Papers, 1908-1922 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1908-1922 (inclusive).

One autograph letter from Peabody (1908), thanking Brooks for a gift; Peabody's obituary (1922); and pages from Brooks's day book with ms. notations re: Peabody.

1 folder.

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Brooks, Jennie Frances.

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Brooks was a friend of poet and playwright Josephine Preston Peabody. From the description of Papers, 1908-1922 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007486 ...

Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922

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Peabody was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. After the death of her father in 1882, the family moved to Dorchester, Mass. She attended Latin School in Boston, and was a special student at Radcliffe College, 1894-1896. She published fourteen volumes of poems and verse plays, and lectured on poetry and literature at Wellesley College, 1901-1903. A pacifist and feminist, she joined the Fabian Society in 1909, and wrote a prose play, Portrait of Mrs. W. (Mary Wollstonecraft). She died in Cambridge, Mass. For ...