Edward Sandford Martin correspondence and compositions, 1865-1939 (inclusive), 1914-1939 (bulk).

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Edward Sandford Martin correspondence and compositions, 1865-1939 (inclusive), 1914-1939 (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612366815

Chiefly correspondence with Charles William Eliot, Edward Mandell House, and Theodore Roosevelt, among others. Letters by Martin are mostly retained carbon copies. Also contains essays, editorials, poems, notes, and drafts of compositions, printed copies of his articles, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. Materials pertain to both his writing career and his interest in spiritualism, as well as the subjects of his editorials and contemporary socio-political issues. Also includes correspondence with psychic mediums, many of whom he apparently supported financially.

13 boxes (6.5 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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