Papers of Willard A. Wattles, 1917-1924.

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Papers of Willard A. Wattles, 1917-1924.

Three letters to Abbie Farwell Brown, 1918, mention the poems, a meeting at the McDowell Colony, his teaching, work on "Lanterns in Gethsemane," expected draft call, life as a private and the death of Robert Westman in France. There are brief references to friends and associates including Hermann Hagedorn, Amy Lowell, Marian MacDowell, Arthur Nevin, Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien, Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, Eloise Robinson, Dorothy Statton, Charles Wharton Stork, and William Allen White. A note to Glen Walton Blodgett, 1924, encloses a verse.

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University of Virginia. 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...

MacDowell, Marian, 1857-1956

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Philanthropist, musician, and cofounder of the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H. Born Marian Griswold Nevins; married composer Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) in 1884. From the description of Marian MacDowell papers, 1876-1969 (bulk 1908-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979848 Biographical Note 1857, Nov. 22 Born, New York, N.Y. ...

O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1890-1941

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Blodgett, Glen Walton

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Westman, Robert S.

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Brown, Abbie Farwell, 1871-1927

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Brown (1871-1927) wrote children's books and lectured about them. From the description of Papers, 1859-1927 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 86145633 ...

Hagedorn, Hermann, 1882-1964

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Hermann Hagedorn was born in New York City in 1882 and educated at Harvard University, the University of Berlin, and Columbia University. From 1909 to 1911 he was an instructor in English at Harvard. Hagedorn was a friend and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt and served as Secretary and Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association from 1919 to 1957. Hagedorn died in Santa Barbara, California in 1964. From the guide to the Hermann Hagedorn papers, 1898-1970, (Beinecke Rare Book and M...

Wattles, Willard Austin, 1888-1950.

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Wattles received his A.B. in 1909 and his A.M. in 1911, both from KU. He joined the faculty of KU in 1914 and left in 1920. From the guide to the Personal Papers of Willard Wattles, 1911-1917, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives) Author and poet, professor of English at Rollins College, on staff at Breadloaf. From the description of Papers of Willard A. Wattles, 1917-1924. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 623832...

Stork, Charles Wharton, 1881-1971

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American poet, educator, editor, translator. From the description of Letter to Will Orton Tewson, [1925]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53807495 Charles Wharton Stork was an American author, a graduate of Haverford and of Harvard, and taught in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Stork produced poems, plays, novels, and translations of Scandinavian verse, and was the editor of Contemporary Verse from 1917-1925. From the gu...

Nevin, Arthur, 1871-1943

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Statton, Dorothy.

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Rittenhouse, Jessie B. (Jessie Belle), 1869-1948

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Poet and editor. From the description of Papers of Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, 1902-1927. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793757 ...

Robinson, Eloise

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White, William Allen, 1868-1944

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American journalist known as the "Sage of Emporia"; owner and editor of the "Emporia Gazette." From the description of Papers of William Allen White, 1890-1940 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837106 Journalist. From the description of Letters, 1889-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122644557 Pulitzer Prize-winning Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor and author. From the description of William Allen White letter...