Sylvia Hortense Bliss papers, 1868-1984.

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Sylvia Hortense Bliss papers, 1868-1984.

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The Bliss Papers, 1868-1984, are a comprehensive collection of the papers of Sylvia Hortense Bliss assembled for the most part by her biographer, Forest K. Davis, prior to Bliss' death. The collection includes not only information about her personal life and copies of almost all of her literary output (often in the original format) but it also reflects her intellectual curiosity on subjects as diverse as botany, philosophy, psychology, and music. The papers include her correspondence, diaries, notebooks, her published and unpublished writing (both poetry and prose), and fragments of her literary work as well as reviews. Information about Bliss' life includes photographs, genealogy, and a memorial scrapbook compiled by Lou Whitney Bliss after Sylvia died. The collection consists in large part of Sylvia Bliss' letters. She wrote to her family during the periods she was away from home studying music and undergoing medical treatment in Boston, and later in her life while on short vacations from the East Calais, Vermont, farm. The most voluminous correspondence is that of Forest K. Davis and Bliss between 1956 and 1962. During this period, Bliss answered Davis' queries about her life and literary work and sent him envelopes stuffed with her papers. Davis' arrangement of the envelopes has been retained: chronological by the date of Bliss' response. The contents of the envelopes are miscellaneous and Davis' notes on each envelope are a convenient inventory of the contents.

5.5 linear ft. (6 boxes)

Vermont Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7410617

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Davis, Forest K., 1918-

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Coates, Walter John, 1880-1941

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Prince, Morton, Dr.

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Backman, Priscilla Davis.

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Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour), 1863-1939

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Monroe received his a.b. (education) from Stanford University, May 1894. From the description of History of education in California : themes presented by the class in American education at Stanford University: holograph and typescript, 1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553627 Will S. Monroe, born in Hunlock, Pennsylvania 22 March 1863, received his A.B. from Stanford in 1894. He was a teacher and principal in public schools in Pennsylvania and California and a professo...

Bassett, Preston C.

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Bliss, Barbara Whitney, 1915-

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Marsh family.

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Putnam, James J., Dr.

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Bliss family.

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Peach, Arthur Wallace, 1886-1956

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Whitney family.

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Orton, Vrest, 1897-1986

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Davis, Evangeline

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Conner, Mary Andrews.

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Bliss, Sylvia Hortense, 1870-1963

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Sylvia Hortense Bliss was the oldest child of Elmina Marsh (d. 1935) of East Calais, Vermont, and Warren Earl Bliss (1840-1930) of East Calais and Woodbury, Vermont, who married January 25, 1866. Sylvia (December 13, 1870-March 14, 1963) and her siblings, Clifford Earl (August 29, 1875-April 9, 1962), and Grace Marsh (1877-1922), were born in Toledo, Ohio. In 1885, the family returned to the East Calais farm where Elmina Marsh Bliss had been born. Bliss' invalid sister, ...

Allen, Mrs. H. C.

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Bliss, Lou Whitney, 1885-1964.

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Parker family.

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