Papers of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant [manuscript] 1894-1961.

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Papers of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant [manuscript] 1894-1961.

The bulk of the papers pertain to Miss Sergeant's "Robert Frost, The trial by existance," 1960. There are 6 original poems by Frost, and several letters from Frost & Elinor Miriam White Frost to Miss Sergeant. In addition there are many transcripts & photocopies of letters & poems. Also, Miss Sergeant's notes on her conversations with Frost, drafts of the biography in holograph & typescript form, as well as, galley, page and foundry proofs, together with her research notes, & magazine articles regarding Robert Frost newsclippings, and photographs. Miss Sergeant's correspondence relates to the biography and includes letters from the following people: Catherine Abercrombie, Frederick Benjamin Adams, Lesley Frost Ballantine, Isadora Bennett, Joseph Blumenthal, Nancy Hale, Van Wyck Brooks, Reuben Arthur Brower, Witter Bynner, Eleanor Farjean, Ferris Greenslet, John Holmes, Henry Holt and Co., New York, N.Y., David Thompson Watson McCord, Lincoln MacVeagh, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Mark Van Doren, Lawrence Sidney Thompson and Harriet Fox Whicher. In addition, there are ten letters, 1958-61, with Marianne Moore and twenty letters, 1954-61, from Thornton Wilder [RESTRICTED].

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Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988

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McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-1997

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Whicher, Harriet Fox.

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Abercrombie, Catherine,

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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

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Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 1881-1965

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American writer who graduated from Bryn Mawr College (class of 1903). Among her published writings are Willa Cather: A Memoir and Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence. From the description of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant papers, 1949-1964. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 44712504 Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (1881-1965), author and journalist,wrote for The New Republic and other magazines and published six books,including Fire Under the Andes (1927), Willa Cather: A Mem...