Women poets, American

Abstract The Anne Sexton collection was compiled by Sexton’s therapist during the last nine months of her life. The collection offers a glimpse into the mind of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a mind tormented by suicidal thoughts, depression and bipolar disorder. Onionskin carbon copies of her published and unpublished poetry from 1974 reveal both the depths of her despair and the eloquence with which she expressed it – before she finally ended her life on October 4, 1974. Also included in the...

Scope and Contents Bound, typescript copy of Burnign Poems by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, dated 1934. Title page contains author's signature. Volume contains poems such as "Orison," "The Golf Links Lie So Near," "The Incentive," "The Survival of the Fittest," "Vivisection," "Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Tom Mooney, Joe Hill, Richard Ford, Hermann Suhr, And Many, Many, Many More--," "The Auburn Christmas Carol," and...

Scope and Contents

Collection contains typescript draft versions of Berge's 1991 book, Zebras, or, Contour Lines. Also includes proof copies. Some pages have holograph comments and corrections, others are photocopies of typescript draft pages.

Note that items in collection are undated, but Zebras was published in 1991.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.

Scope and Contents

Typescript proof of Dark of the Moon, by Sara Teasdale, published by The MacMillan Company, 1926. Some pages contain holograph notes in pencil regarding formatting.

Scope and Contents Six digital files containing letters written by students in Karin Gottshall's First Year Seminar to Emily Dickinson during the COVID-19 pandemic, and one file containing the text of Gottshall's email to Special Collections. The letters were written by Kate Sadoff, William Reed, Beck Barsanti, Lance Zhang, Emma Johnson, and Joe Hanlon, all of the Class of 2023.5. The assignment prompt reads: "I’d like you each to write a letter addressed to Emily Dickinson. In your letter, see if...

Abstract The papers of Julia C.R. Dorr reveal a poet and novelist who was, in her own time, celebrated along with Julia Ward Howe and Harriet Beecher Stowe in the pantheon of 19th century female literary greats. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that her poetry was “written with an elegance which shows much practice & easy command of lyric metres & expressions; but much more than that, with great tenderness & humanity.” She was also (before Robert Frost definitively assumed the role) unofficial...

Scope and Contents

Holograph signed letter from Hannah Flagg Gould to Benjamin Perley Poore, dated November 22, 1849. In the letter, Gould mentions enclosing an ode, the first to appear in her book of poetry, New Poems (1850). Gould hopes that Poore will choose to use the poem in his newspaper, the Sentinel.

Scope and Contents

Holograph letter written by Adeline Dutton Train Whitney to Charles Addison Richardson, dated May 7, 1886.

Scope and Contents

Holograph signed letter wirtten by Celia Thaxter to "Mr. Stedman," dated April 17, 1889.

Scope and Contents

One holograph letter written by Frances Frost to "My dear Rose," dated "Saturday Night." In the letter, Frost mentions that she is very busy and discusses her current reading material. She includes a poem, "Ode to Death."

Scope and Contents

Holograph signed letter from Lucy Larcom to the editor of the New York Independent, dated August 16, 1888. In the letter, Larcom inquires as to whether a poem ("The Inalienable Gift") has been accepted for publication.

Scope and Contents

Four holograph signed letters written by Edith Matilda Thomas to various recipients including John E. Bowen (September 25, 1883), Henry Chandler Bowen (October 5, 1884 and June 13, 1885), and Joseph Marshall Stoddart (January 15, 1894).

Scope and Contents

One holograph calling card note and one holograph letter written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox to Joseph Marshall Stoddart.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains original typescript and photocopies of some of Gluck's poetry, as well as correspondence between Gluck and the fiction editors of "Mademoiselle Magazine," Madeline Tracy Brigden and Ellen Stoianoff, as Gluck negotiates her first book and emerges as a poet. The collection is arranged into two series: Manuscripts and Correspondence. Collection contains 1 box and 23 folders.

Scope and Contents

Holograph signed poem entitled "Love Shall Save Us All" by Celia Thaxter.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.

Scope and Contents

Two holograph poems written by Lydia Sigourney: "The native place" and "A lover with his miniature, a New Year's gift to the promised bride." Poems were originally addressed to "Mrs. Porter & Prescott, editors of the 'Atlas'".

Scope and Contents

Holograph signed poems by Edith Matilda Thomas entitled "Exorcism" and "Sports of the muse."

Scope and Contents

Two poems by Frances Frost. Includes holograph copy of "Grindstone," signed by the author and dedicated to C.C. Auchinclauss. Dated July 29, 1937.
Also includes undated typescript copy of "Noel" by Frances Frost.

Scope and Contents

Two manuscript signed poems by Dora Read Goodale. Includes "Israel Putnam" and "Retribution."

Scope and Contents

Four pages of typescript poetry on carbon paper, initialed by Sarton and dated June 1947. Poems include "After a Train Journey," Return to Chartres," "Question," "A Mon Seul Desir," "Spring Song," "Definition of Love," "Song," and "Return."

Scope and Contents

Bound typesript copy of Portrait Poems by Sarah N. Cleghorn, dated 1934. Title page signed by author. Volume includes poems such as "Three Great Ladies of Manchester, Vermont," "John Masefield," "Dorothea," "Of William Mann Fincke," "Emilia," "Saint Clare Hears Saint Francis," and "Margarita Singing Ballads."

Scope and Contents

This scrapbook contains a collection of poetry by different authors, cut from various typewritten and handwritten sources and glued onto the page. Identifiable text sources include the New Yorker magazine, and poets include Frances Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Louise Bogan, Ogden Nash, and Dorothy Parker. Also includes clippings of articles on poetry, and a few New Yorker cartoons. The authorship of some of the typewritten and handwritten poetry is unattributed.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.

Scope and Contents

Holograph signed poem, "Sonnet: On parting, at Florence, with my friend, R.D." by Elizabeth Clementine Kinney, dated 1857.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.