Eulalie Osgood Grover papers, 1900-1954.

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Eulalie Osgood Grover papers, 1900-1954.

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This is a small collection of papers by the author Eulalie Osgood Grover. This collection consists of two typescript French translations of The Sunbonnet Babies, a printed copy of A Trip to Egypt by Dreamland Babies, advertising material for The Art-Literature Readers, and correspondence. The majority of the correspondence is from the illustrator Bertha Corbett Melcher, with whom Grover collaborated frequently. Much of the correspondence is illustrated by Melcher. The correspondence from Melcher is addressed to Eulalie Osgood Grover, and, her publisher and brother Edwin Osgood Grover. There is also one letter from Jessie Phelps Kahles and a transcript of a passage by Clifton Fadiman on the impact of Eulalie Grover's work. Researchers may find the connection between Bertha Corbett Melcher and Howard Pyle particularly interesting.

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Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library

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Free Library of Philadelphia. Central Children's Dept.

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Grover, Eulalie Osgood, 1873-1958

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Eulalie Osgood Grover was born on June 22, 1873 in Mantorville, Minnesota. She authored the "Sunbonnet Babies" series, starting with The Sunbonnet Babies' Primer, which was published in 1902. The books were based around a 150-word vocabulary and included songs which were used in schools throughout the United States. Her illustrator for the Sunbonnet series, Bertha L. Corbett, later Bertha Melcher, studied in Philadelphia under Howard Pyle. In 1905, Grover wrote a second series, The Overall Boys....

Melcher, Bertha Corbett

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