Cornelia Lynde Meigs papers 1961.

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Cornelia Lynde Meigs papers 1961.

Collection includes typescripts for Mystery at the Red House (1961) and the short story "Fugitives" published in St. Nicholas magazine.

.30 cu. ft.

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Meigs, Cornelia, 1884-1973

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Cornelia Meigs was born at Rock Island, Illinois, in 1884. She received a public school education before going to Bryn Mawr College, where she received her A.B. degree in 1908. She taught English in Davenport, Iowa, at St. Katherine's School until 1913. She taught in the English Department at Bryn Mawr from 1932 to 1950. Meigs published her first book for children, The Kingdom of the Winding Road, in 1915. She wrote over thirty books for children. She sometimes wrote under the pseudonym of Adair...