Josephine Peabody Marks letter, ca. 1911 Feb. 14.

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Josephine Peabody Marks letter, ca. 1911 Feb. 14.

In a letter headed, May I be your valentine, dated 14 Feb. [ca. 1911], Josephine Peabody Marks writes to an unnamed friend [Robert V. Bauer], asking why she hadn't seen him at the New York premiere of her play, The Piper, and hoping to meet when she and her husband travel to New York.

3 p.

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Bauer, Robert V.

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Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922

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Peabody was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. After the death of her father in 1882, the family moved to Dorchester, Mass. She attended Latin School in Boston, and was a special student at Radcliffe College, 1894-1896. She published fourteen volumes of poems and verse plays, and lectured on poetry and literature at Wellesley College, 1901-1903. A pacifist and feminist, she joined the Fabian Society in 1909, and wrote a prose play, Portrait of Mrs. W. (Mary Wollstonecraft). She died in Cambridge, Mass. For ...