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Howe family. Howe, Richards, and Robinson family papers, 1869-1961 (MS Am 2127): Guide.


Creator: Howe family.
Title: Howe, Richards, and Robinson family papers,
Dates: 1869-1961.
Abstract: Correspondence and compositions by American author and suffragist Julia Ward Howe, by American author Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, and by American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Extent: 1 box and 2 volumes (.5 linear ft.)
Language: Collection materials are in English.
Identification: MS Am 2127
Location: b

Administrative Information

62M-313 - 62M-328. Gift of Miss Rosalind Richards of Gardner, Maine; received: 1963.

Preferred Citation for Publication:

Howe, Richards, and Robinson Family Papers, 1869-1961 (MS Am 2127). Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Collection was restricted until the restriction was removed by Mrs. Eliot T. Putnam in June 2001.

There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.

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Julia Ward Howe was the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and other works and a women's suffrage and club leader and lecturer; her daughter was author Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, and her granddaughter was Rosalind Richards. Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and acquaintance of the Howe/Richards family.

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Collection documents all three families and Gardiner, Maine. Includes correspondence, compositions, photograph, and notebooks of verse.

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Arranged alphabetically by author.

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