Limericks collection, ca. 1650-1971.

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Limericks collection, ca. 1650-1971.

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The collection consists of eleven folders containing limericks by Frances Feeling Broderip (eleven limericks with pen-and-ink sketches), Rolfe Humphries (Limericks of Bradford County, Penna. and vicinity, 1968; forty limericks), E.C. Stedman (limerick on back of a check, 1896), R.H. Stoddard ("The Belle of Baltimore" limerick,and two letters to Richard Watson Gilder, 1880); from Howard Mott, and John S. Van E. Kohn; nursery rhymes (fifty-one limericks, 1861); 17th and 18th century manuscript limericks; a bibliography of limericks, annotated by Phil Shelley; and miscellaneous limericks, some bawdy.

.24 cubic ft.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Broderip, Frances Freeling, 1830-1878

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Author of children's books. From the description of Papers, 1848-1877. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 24561203 ...

Shelley, Philip Allison, 1907-....

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Philip Allison Shelley was born in York, Pennsylvania, on 7 August 1907. He earned degrees from Penn State (1929) and Harvard (M.A., comparative literature, 1930; Ph.D., Germanic philology, 1938). With the aid of an Ottendorfer Memorial Fellowship, he studied at the German universities in Berlin and Goettingen in 1933 and 1934. Philip Allison Shelley became a member of the Penn State faculty in 1939 and headed the German Department from 1942 to 1962. He was named professor of comparative literat...

Mott, Howard S.

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Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903

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American poet. From the description of Manuscript letter : Mattapoisett, to Lafcadio Hearn, 1885 Feb. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 635599094 Army officer. From the description of Abraham Lincoln : poem, 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 748677748 Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903), author, poet, editor, and literary critic, was born in Hingham, Mass., one of three children of sea captain Reuben Stoddard (1800-1827) and Sophia Gurney Stoddard (18...

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908

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American poet, critic, and journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to F.B. Sanborn, 1881 Jul. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575155 Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) was poet, critic, editor, and stockbroker in New York City. He published his first volume in 1860, entitled Poems Lyrical and Idyllic, followed by a succession of works and anthologies. Stedman was also a member and officer of many national and local literary associations....

Humphries, Rolfe.

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Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969) was an American poet, translator, teacher, critic, and editor. According to Richard Gillman, author of Poets, Poetics, and Politics: America's Literary Community Viewed from the Letters of Rolfe Humphries, 1910–1969, Humphries was "the total poet. . . . If ever there were poets who did in fact breathe their art, he was one of them." From the guide to the Rolfe Humphries Papers, 1962-1963, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)...