Alice Tisdale Hobart papers, 1916-1967.

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Alice Tisdale Hobart papers, 1916-1967.

The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, galley proofs, source materials, reviews, publicity materials, and books documenting the literary career of Alice Tisdale Hobart. Correspondence is comprised largely of letters between Alice and Earle Hobart and Hobart's publishers. Manuscripts and galleys of her later books are included, as well as manuscripts by Alice Hobart's sister, Mary Nourse, and the screenplay for This Earth is mine, a movie based on The Cup and the sword. Source materials include letters written by Alice Hobart from China in the 1920s. Many of the books in the collection are first editions inscribed by the author to her husband or brother.

19.5 linear ft. (11 containers)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7675365

University of Oregon Libraries

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Hobart, Alice Tisdale, 1882-1967

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Alice Tisdale Hobart was born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York on January 28, 1882. In 1910, Alice went to China to teach at a girls' school in Hangchow, where she met Earle Tisdale Hobart, an executive of the Standard Oil Company of New York. They married in 1914 and spent the early years of their marriage in Manchuria amid the turbulence that followed the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. Alice began writing about her life in China and in 1916 she submitted an account of her encounter with Ma...

Hobart, Earle

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Nourse, Mary A. (Mary Augusta), 1880-1971

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