Calla : poem, and photographs / Ina Coolbrith. 1895

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Calla : poem, and photographs / Ina Coolbrith. 1895

Fair copy of the poem "Calla" in blue ink, signed in black ink. Two portraits of Coolbrith, one dated 1895, 16.5 x 11.5 cm, mounted larger and the other undated, unmounted, 12 x 8 cm., as an old woman.

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Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

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Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1842?-1928

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Kenney is a Mormon author and historian. From the guide to the Scott G. Kenney research materials, 1820-1984, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Ina Coolbrith was born as Josephine Donna Smith (niece of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith) in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1841or 1842 (accounts differ). Following her father's death, which roughly coincided with the Mormons' expulsion from Illinois, Josephine's mother took her to St. Louis and married William Pickett. In 1850 the family ...