Additional papers, 1897-1980 (inclusive), 1918-1980 (bulk).

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Additional papers, 1897-1980 (inclusive), 1918-1980 (bulk).

Collection includes correspondence, diaries, college papers, photographs, and account books of Louisa Rodgers Alger. Of note are letters from the poet E.E. Cummings, his sister Elizabeth, and his wife Marion. Also included are papers of Sally Sprague, papers of the Taylor family, and Abby Langdon Alger's recipes and commonplace books.

1.63 linear ft. (1 carton, 1 1/2 file boxes)

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Alger, Louisa.

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Alger, Abby Langdon

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Alger was a translator. From the description of Letter, 1877. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007500 Boston resident, professional translator, and author of In Indian tents, a volume of Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Micmac stories and legends. From the description of Letter : Boston, to J.W. Powell, Washington, D.C., [1885] May 18. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 35987277 ...

Knight, J. K.

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Alger family.

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The Alger Family papers comprise the papers of seven prominent New England and Pennsylvanian families: Alger, Rodgers, Meigs, Taylor, Jackson, Price, and Hubbell. The papers have their base in the family of Louisa Taylor Alger (1866-1962) and Philip Rounseville Alger (1859-1912). From the description of Additional papers, 1897-1980 (inclusive), 1918-1980 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 542825738 ...

Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...

Taylor family.

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Qualey, Elizabeth Cummings, 1901-

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