Papers of Amélie Rives [manuscript], 1886-1941.

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Papers of Amélie Rives [manuscript], 1886-1941.

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The collection contains five manuscripts : "Great Britain : October, 1940," "Love's Seasons," "To Anne," "Why?" and "The Witness of the Sun." There are five letters from Amélie Rives discussing her health (she has been ill with neuralgia of the brain); "A Flower of the Pavement," published as "According to St. John;" "Once a Week"; and [Julia?] Magruder. There are also two copies of a print of an engraving of Amélie Rives. Correspondents include Peter Fenelon Collier, General [Birkett Davenport?] , a Mr. Devoll, a Mr. Hall, and a Mr. Levy.

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P.F. Collier, Inc.

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Collier, Peter Fenelon, -1909

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Rives, Amélie 1863-1945

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Amélie Rives was born into an aristocratic Virginia family, and exhibited precocious writing talent. As a young writer, she published The Quick or the Dead?, which became a controversial bestseller; modernists derided the naive plot and theme, while traditional romanticists were scandalized by the sensual content. After a short marriage to Virginia lawyer John Armstrong Chanler ended, she met and married exiled Russian painter Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy and led a privileged life in America and E...

Magruder, Julia, 1854-1907

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Fry, Birkett Davenport, 1822-1891,

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