[Letters, ca. 1940-1980] / May Sarton.

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[Letters, ca. 1940-1980] / May Sarton.

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Letter, n.d., Lewisburg, W. Va. [to] Lamonts [sic]. Sarton's letter is most likely from the fall of 1940 when she was on a speaking tour of the South. Sarton writes to thank Helen D. La Monte for her hospitality. Enclosed with the letter are typescripts (signed) of: The trees, On Hampshire Downs, From Cornwall. These three poems were included in Sarton's book: Encounter in April (1937). The letter and poems are on letterhead: May Sarton, 5 Channing Place, Cambridge, Mass. -- Letter, 1980 Aug. 15, Box 99, York, Maine [to] Mrs. Gottfried (Sallie Simons Gottfried). Sarton replies to a letter of Gottfried's. Sarton notes her radiation treatments and then responds to items in Gottfried's letter, especially noting the issue of friendship among women and that it is not always sexual. Sarton notes that she is not a militant feminist. She recalls knowing Virginia Woolf and recommends her forthcoming book, Recovering, suggesting that the book will "no doubt irritate you." -- Letter, 1980 Aug. 22, W. Falmouth, Ma. [to] Ms. Sarton. In this letter (typescript, carbon) Gottfried responds to Sarton's letter suggesting that Sarton had mis-read her earlier one. Gottfried refers to her own interest in Virginia Woolf, mentions Marion Dodd of Hampshire Bookshop, as well as Smith College professors Esther Dunn, Grace Hazard Conkling, and Mina Curtiss. She speaks of her own mother's intense friendship with another woman. And she comments favorably on Sarton's book Recovering.

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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La Monte, Helen D.,

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Sarton, May, 1912-1995

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By Source, Fair use, Link May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995), poet and novelist, was born Elanore Marie Sarton in Wondelgem, Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, a noted historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, an English portrait painter and designer. Sarton moved with her parents to England, and in 1916 the family immigrated to the United States. All three became naturalized Americans in 1924, by which time Sarton's name had been Americanized to Eleanor May. Sart...

Dodd, Marion E.

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Marion Elza Dodd was born in 1883 in Glen Ridge, NJ, to Charles T. and Rebecca Northall Dodd. Her grandfather, Moses Dodd, was the founder of Dodd, Mead Publishing Co., and many uncles and cousins were also book collectors, editors, and publishers. She received a B.A. from Smith College in 1906 and attended Columbia University Library School from 1908-1909. Dodd then co-founded the Hampshire Bookshop (the predecessor to the Grecourt Bookstore) with Mary Byers (Smith '08) on April 7, 1916. She al...

Curtiss, Mina Kirstein, 1896-1985

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Mina Stein Curtiss was born on October 13, 1896, in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Smith College in 1918, received a M.A. in English from Columbia University in 1920, and returned to Smith, where she was an associate professor until 1934. She was a research assistant for the Mercury Theater from 1935 to 1938, and she worked for the Office of War Information during World War II. She taught at Smith from 1940 to 1941. In 1942, Curtiss wrote and produced a local radio program in Des Moin...

Gottfried, Sallie Simons, d. 1990,

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