Miscellaneous papers, 1882-1935.

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Miscellaneous papers, 1882-1935.

Contains manuscripts of poems and letters written to friends and fellow writers, including Louis Vernon Ledoux, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Craven Langstroth Betts, John Hays Gardiner, John Drinkwater, Amy Lowell, George W. Latham, Arthur Davison Ficke, and school friend Arthur Raymond Gledhill. Also a first proof and printer's copy of Matthias at the Door.

2 v. (.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7795223

Houghton Library

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Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925

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Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her brother, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, was president of Harvard University. At age 36, Lowell had her first poem published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1912, her first book of poems, A dome of many colored glasses was published. She became associated with the Imagists poets when Ezra Pound, whom she had met on a trip to England, included one of her poems in his anthology, Des imagistes. Lowell wrote critical articles for periodicals in add...

Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935

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Peterborough (Hillsborough Co.), N.H. poet. From the description of Papers, 1928. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36405152 Robinson was an American poet. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1882-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365637 From the description of Letters to Harry de Forest Smith, 1888-1936 (inclusive), 1890-1900 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505878 From the description...

Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943

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The daughter of Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe, Richards was the author of more than eighty books, most of them for young people. She and her sister, Maude Howe Elliott, wrote Life and Letters of Julia Ward Howe (1910), which received the first Pulitzer Prize for biography. For additional biographical information, see American Women Writers (1981). From the description of Letter, 1904. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008342 ...

Betts, Craven Langstroth, 1853-1941

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Betts was an English author. From the description of Letter and an envelope, 1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77860567 ...

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945

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Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945), American poet and collector of Japanese prints. His works include Sonnets of a Portrait Painter(1914), Chats on Japanese Prints (1915), Out of Silence and Other Poems (1924), and Mrs. Morton of Mexico, (1939), a novel. From the description of Arthur Davison Ficke Papers 1865-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702134010 Ficke (Harvard, A.B., 1904) served as Curator of Japanese Prints at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard. From the d...

Gardiner, J. H. (John Hays), 1863-1913

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Gardiner taught English at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Hays Gardiner, ca. 1900-1914 (exclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069356 ...

Ledoux, Louis V. (Louis Vernon), 1880-1948

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Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948) was an American poet and author whose works include George Edward Woodberry: a Study of his Poetry (1917), The Story of Eleusis: a Lyrical Drama (1916), and An Essay on Japanese Prints (1938) . From the guide to the Louis V. Ledoux Letter to Edna Davis Romig (MS 157), 1935, (University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.) Louis V. Ledoux, author and poet, was born in New York City in 1880. He wrote several books of poetry a...

Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937

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Drinkwater, a British playwright and poet, worked for an insurance company. In 1909 he became manager of the Birmingham Repertory Company, and his most successful plays included "Abraham Lincoln," "Mary Stuart," and "Bird in Hand." Drinkwater also published several critical literary biographies. From the description of Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1914-1916. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122612764 John Drinkwater was an English author and actor, proba...