Please! : accompanying materials, correspondence with Mr. Jewett, Gardiner, Nov. 2, 1931, Bessie, Gardiner, Maine, 19 March 1892, and John Burnham, Gardiner, Maine, March 20, 1835. 1892-1937.

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Please! : accompanying materials, correspondence with Mr. Jewett, Gardiner, Nov. 2, 1931, Bessie, Gardiner, Maine, 19 March 1892, and John Burnham, Gardiner, Maine, March 20, 1835. 1892-1937.

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Manuscript poem, unsigned, headed Gardiner, Maine Jan. 24, 1937; envelope with ms. notation "Please! Author's Copy"; ms. booklet with notation on cover "List of copies of Please! given away.", mostly blank; typewritten one page letter by C. H. S. satirizing the grammatical principles of Please! Letter to Rutger Jewett expressing excitement at the arrival of her new book, probably her autobiography, includes an eight line ditty. Letter to "Bessie" thanking her for finding the story of Red Cap which Richards refers to in an unspecified story. Letter to John Burnham thanking him for a birthday greeting for her 85th birthday ; this letter was laid in a copy of her book "Samuel Gridley Howe."

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Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

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Burnham, John A., Jr.

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Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943

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The daughter of Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe, Richards was the author of more than eighty books, most of them for young people. She and her sister, Maude Howe Elliott, wrote Life and Letters of Julia Ward Howe (1910), which received the first Pulitzer Prize for biography. For additional biographical information, see American Women Writers (1981). From the description of Letter, 1904. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008342 ...

Jewett, Rutger B.

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