Helen Hunt Jackson letters and photo, 1871-1880.

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Helen Hunt Jackson letters and photo, 1871-1880.

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The collection consists of 6 items: letter to Messrs. Hurd & Houghton, 18 June 1871, giving her current address and requesting that any books be sent there; a long letter to Robert, 15 April 1875, full of personal news and her progress in writing; letter to Emma Taylor Lamborn, 26 Dec. 1878, expressing sympathy for her brother's death and including a poem, "Bayard Taylor;" to Mrs. E.C. Stedman, 9 Nov. [1880], declining an invitation due to "undergoing a detestable experience of dentistry"; check, 2 Oct. 1877, to A.G. Lincoln for $20.58 from the El Paso County Bank of Colorado. Also, cabinet card portrait, identified on verso as "E.C. Stedman's photo of H.H."

6 items.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

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Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted co...

Lamborn, Emma Taylor

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Emma Taylor Lamborn was the wife of an army officer and the sister of writer Bayard Taylor. She published children's stories, and sketches of people and places she encountered in her travels. From the description of Emma Taylor Lamborn correspondence, 1857-1884. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 56429540 ...

Stedman, E. C., Mrs.,

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Hurd & Houghton

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