Papers, 1878-1961.

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Papers, 1878-1961.

Correspondence, writings, notebooks, and newspaper clippings of the poet Richard Hovey. Correspondence with his friends Bliss Carman and T. B. Meteyard, his wife Henriette, members of his family, and his publishers. Material related to his translations of the works of Maurice Maeterlinck; includes some of Maeterlinck's mss. and letters to Hovey. Mss. for many of Hovey's works, including Taliesin (published as: Taliesin : a masque. - Boston : Small, Maynard, c1899), Along the trail (published as : Along the trail : a book of lyrics. - Boston : Small, Maynard, c1898), and Arthurian plays (published as: The holy graal and other fragments by Richard Hovey : being the uncompleted parts of the Arthurian dramas. - New York : Duffield, c1907), and many other works of poetry, drama, and prose. Collection also includes material Mrs. Hovey collected for a biography of Hovey, as well as material collected later for the same purpose. Also includes some of Alvah Hovey's papers.

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Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929

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(William) Bliss Carman (1861-1929) was a Canadian poet and editor. Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he studied at the universities of New Brunswick and Harvard. He is usually grouped with the Confederation Poets, who developed a distinctively Canadian poetic voice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Yet this identification with the Confederation group is somewhat misleading as Carman spent much of his life in New England and many readers assumed that he was American. Carman ed...

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935

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Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) was the leading public intellectual of the women’s movement in the early 20th century. Born into the prestigious Beecher family, she struggled through a lonely childhood and disastrous marriage, which caused a nervous breakdown. Her mental health returned once she separated from her husband; she later gave him custody of their young daughter, and he had a happy second marriage to one of her close friends. She moved to California, and threw herself int...

Meteyard, Thomas Buford, 1865-1928

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American artist and illustrator. From the description of Autograph letters signed with his bug signature (2) : Boston and Scituate, to Laurens Maynard, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270638765 Meteyard was an American Post-Impressionist artist. From the description of Prints, ca. 1896-ca. 1920. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390236 From the guide to the Prints, ca. 1896 - ca. 1920., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard...

Hovey, Harriette Farnham, 1834-1916.

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Hovey, Richard, Mrs., 1849-

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Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949

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Maeterlinck was a Belgian Symbolist poet, playwright, and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. Colles (1855-1926) was a English journalist, literary agent, and founder and managing director of Authors' Syndicate in London, England. From the guide to the Maurice Maeterlinck letters to William Morris Colles, 1921-1929., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Belgian poet, dramatist, and essayist. ...

Edgar, Pelham, 1871-1948

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Hovey, Charles Edward, 1827-1897.

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Educator, lawyer and soldier; established Peoria, Illinois' public school system; first president, State Normal School, Bloomington, Illinois; brigadier general, 33rd Illinois Infantry, during Civil War; later a lawyer in Washington, D.C. From the description of Letter: Bloomington, [Ill.], to [Samuel Willard], 1858 July 12. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 34089749 From the description of Letters: Washington, D.C., to Messrs. Stone and Kimball, Ch...

Hovey family

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Hovey, Richard, 1864-1900

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Hovey was born in Normal, Ill. in 1864, the son of Charles Edward and Harriette Farnham Hovey. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1885. During the years 1891 and 1892 he travelled in England and France. In 1894 he married Mrs. Henriette Kanpp Russell and wrote Men of Dartmouth. In 1899 he accepted a position as lecturer at Columbia University and professor of English at Barnard College. He died in New York City in 1900. From the description of Papers, 1878-1961. (Dartmouth Co...

Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

Hovey, Alvah, 1820-1903

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Baptist clergy, theologian, professor at Newton Theological Institution. From the description of Papers, 1842-1903. (Andover Newton Theological School). WorldCat record id: 13637624 ...