Elizabeth Akers Allen poem and letter, ca. 1860 and 1895.

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Elizabeth Akers Allen poem and letter, ca. 1860 and 1895.

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The collection consists of a poem and letter. The manuscript copy of the poem, "A little while," undated (ca. 1860), signed by Elizabeth Akers, is in five stanzas of four lines each, and expresses a yearning for the peace of death. Allen writes to Mr. Shannon, 12 Dec. 1895, thanking him for the gift of a book-length pious poem, and discusses her poem "Witch Hazel" and her love of old hymns.

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Allen, Elizabeth Akers, 1832-1911

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Allen was born Elizabeth Anne Chase on October 9, 1832 in Strong, Maine and grew up in Farmington, Maine, where she attended Farmington Academy (later Maine State Teachers College). In 1851 she married her first husband, Marshall Taylor, but the marriage ended soon in divorce. She served as writer and associate editor for the Portland Transcript beginning in 1855, and in the next year published her first volume of poetry, Forest buds from the woods of Maine, under the pseudonym Florence Percy. S...