Commonplace book, 1890-1921.

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Commonplace book, 1890-1921.

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Commonplace book kept first by Mary Ella Briggs (1890-1908) and then by Rosetta Cummings (1908-1921), both sisters in the Shaker community in Enfield, N.H. The volume contains copies of poetry by Celia Thaxter, Helen Hunt Jackson, Susan Coolidge, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox, among others. Some of the poetry may be by Briggs and Cummings and by other Shakers.

1 v. ; 21 cm.

Dartmouth College Library

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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

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Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894

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Briggs, Mary Ella, 1852-1913.

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Coolidge, Susan, 1835-1905

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American author of stories for girls. From the description of Papers of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, 1876-1894. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136346 American author of stories for girls; writing under pen name of Susan Coolidge. From the description of Papers of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey [manuscript], 1876-1894. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647844474 ...