Conference 1985 - Sarah Orne Jewett: A Writer For Our Time
1. Brochure
2. Colby Library Quarterly March 1986 Special issue: Papers from the Jewett Conference at Westbrook College
3. List of papers / presentations in collection
4. Afzal-Khan, Fawzia. "Values and Vicissitudes of Ideology: The Feminist Genre of Sarah Orne Jewett's Country of Pointed Firs"
5. Ammons, Elizabeth: "The Shape of Violence in Jewett's A White Heron"
6. Anderson, Donald: "Something Like a Quest for Uncertainty on The Country of the Pointed Firs"
7. Blanford, Gayner. "Reclaiming the Golden Age of Women: Steps Towards Identifying a Female Pastoral in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of Pointed Firs"
8. Boucher, Mary. "A Marsh Island: A Sketch in Progress"
9. Coursen, H. R. " Sarah Orne Jewett's The Foreignor and the Craft of Fiction"
10. Crozier, Alice. "Working Together: From Stowe to Jewett to Cather"
11. Crumpacker, Laurie. "'A Gift from the Heart': Loving and Learning in Sarah Orne Jewett's Fiction"
12. Donovan, Josephine. "Nan Prince and the Golden Apples"
13. Folsom, Marcia. "'A Stranger in a Strange Land'; Xenophobia and Maternal Care in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Foreignor'"
14. Frost, Geneva. "All the Chairs in Their Places"
15. Gebhard, Ann Caroline. "Towards an Anatomy of Female Desire in Jewett's Fiction: A Reading of 'The Queen's Twin'"
16. Hendricks, Randy. "Polar Views of Male Experience in The Country of Pointed Firs"
17. Herzog, Anne. "Imaginative Assumptions: Women as Queens"
18. Hoar, Jay. "Maine's Maritime Rustics - A Bygone Folk Type"
19. Hohmann, Marti: "Sarah Orne Jewett to Lillian M. Munger: Twenty-three Letters"
20. Holstein, Michael. "Archetype and Shaman in The Country of Pointed Firs
21. Kelsh, Deborah. "Sarah Orne Jewett: Foundations of a Woman's Reality in Contrast to a Man's"
22. Kish, Dorothy. "The Valiant Women of Jewett's Pointed Firs Country"
23. Kleitz, Katherine. "Probing the Shadows of Death in Deephaven"
24. Lindquist, Vernon. "A Jungian View of A White Heron"
25. Lunde, Dianne. "Structure of a Vision"
26. Mobley, Marilyn. "Rituals of Flight and Return: Ironic Journeys of Sarah Orne Jewett's Female Characters"
27. Nagel, Gwen. "'This Prim Corner of Land Where She Was Queen': Sarah Orne Jewett's New England Gardens"
28. Nettles, Elsa. "A Country Doctor and Its Precusors"
29. Patton, Elizabeth. "Traveling in the 'Land of Betty Leicester'"
30. Portales, Marco. "Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs: The Narrator and William Blackett"
31. Pryse, Marjorie. "The 'Deephaven' of Female Freindship"
32. Puglisi, Katheen. "Sarah Orne Jewett and the Women Realists: The Beginning of the Self Reliant Woman in American Literature"
33. Rand, Sally. "The Restoration of the Sarah Orne Jewett House"
34. Shapiro, Ann. "The Fairy Tale in A Country Doctor"
35. Sherman, Sarah. "Victorians and the Matriarchal Mythology: A Source for Mrs. Todd"
36. Singley, Carol. "Reaching Lonely Heights: Sarah Orne Jewett, Emily Dickinson, and Female Initiation"
37. Stein, Roger. "Sarah Orne Jewett and the Visual Arts: An Explorer"
38. Watanabe, Kazuko. "Witchcraft and Women Local Colorists"
Conference 1992 - May Sarton at 80
1. Call for Papers
2. Brochure
3. Conference Proposal
4. Correspondence/Proposals
5. Daziel Correspondence
6. Planning Committee Agendas/Memos
7. Background Info: Keynoters
8. Book Sales
9. Advertising
10. Maine Telegram Article
11. 1992 High School English Dept. Heads
12. Special Mailings
13. Confirmation Letters/Packet
14. Participant Packet and Materials
15. Conference program
16. Conference Program Final Version
17. Participant packet
18. Conference Participants
19. Participants Summary
20. Poetry Reading Sign-in
21. Participant Evaluations
22. Final Report
23. Final Report/Post Conference Notes
24. Introduction to "A Celebration for May Sarton"
25. Kallet, Marilyn. "Introduction to 'A House of Gathering'"
26. Carter, Catherine. "'Ripping the Tapestry': The Transcendent and the Personal in the Novels of May Sarton"
27. Rogers, Bobby. "Imagining the Unicorn: A Consideration of May Sarton's Poetic Sequence 'Letters from Maine'"
28. Hunley, Hazel. "Homeward to 'Self': May Sarton Planting Her Dreaming Deep, Women Reaping the Blessings"
29. Runnion, Vicki. "Themes of Death and Grief in the Work of May Sarton: A Hospice Perspective"
30. Norris, Keith S. "The Issue of Silence in May Sarton's Poetry"
31. Armitage, Shelley. "The Correspondence of Peggy Pond Church and May Sarton: A Literary Friendship"
32. Cassidy, Mary Le Donne. "'Who Has Imagined the Unicorn Grown Old': The Old People in May Sarton's Novels"
33. Alves, Susan. "A Poetry of Absence: May Sarton's Use of the Sentimental"
34. Evans, Elizabeth. "May Sarton and Eric Swenson: Author and Editor"
35. Davis, Darlene. "Sarton and Vermeer; A Diptych of paper and Canvas"
36. Mandel, Charlotte. "Letters Across the Atlantic: H.D. Bryher, May Sarton, During World War II"
37. Ingersoll, Earl G. "Lisa Alther's 'Kinflicks' and May Sarton's 'A Reconing': Surrendering Connections"
38. Warman, Janet. "May Sarton's Poetry: Seeking the Feminine in the Silent Snow"
39. Robitaille, Stephen. "Writing in the Upward Years: May Sarton, Zen and the Art of Aging"
40. Bair, Barbara. "Fire and Ice: Constructions of Love, Death, and Self in Sarton's As We Are Now"
41. Emmanuel, Catherine B. "'Sailing' to a Different Shore: Sarton's Revising of Yeats"
42. Facknitz, Susan V. "'World Without End': Images of the Maternal in the Poetry of May Sarton"
43. Jackson, Christine A.. "As We Are Now: Masks of Callisto and the American Women Writers' Tradition"
44. Mannocchi, Phyllis F. "'Growing into Solitude': May Sarton's Maine Landscape"
45. Manchino, Lois A. "May Sarton's As We Are Now: 'the intrinsic being'"
46. Dean, Lance. "What to Make of the Gift of Inspiration: The Examples of May Sarton and William Stafford"
47. Straw, Deborah. "The Comfort and Company of Creatures in the Life and Work of May Sarton"
48. Casey, Beth A. "May Sarton and the Muse: Of Lovers, Water, and Leaves"
49. Curry, Renee R. "May Sarton and Elizabeth Bishop in 1971: Women Certain of a Revisionist Age"
50. Purvis, Teresa Marie. "Healing Anger: May Sarton's Personal and Fictional Response to Violence"
51. Kivo, Carol. "May Sarton at 80 for Students at 20"
52. Bradt, David. May Sarton's Poetry and Prose as Part of a 'Vision of Life'"
53. Gilbert, Sandra M. "'That Great Sanity, That Sun, the Feminine Power': May Sarton and the (New) Female Poetic Tradition"
Conference 1996 - Sarah Orne Jewett and Her Contemporaries: The Centennial Conference
1. Call for Papers
2. Brochures
3. Publicity
4. Planning Material
5. Paper Proposals -Session 3
6. Participant Letters
7. Packet Material
8. Conference Participants
9. Conference Program
10. Participant packet
11. Conference Evaluations
12. Evaluation Summary
13. Expenses and Revenues
14. Holm, Elizabeth E. "Lyric Structure in the Country of Pointed Firs"
Conference 1998 - American Women Nature Writers
1. Call for papers
2. Publicity
3. Mailing list work
4. Brochures
5. Planning meetings
6. Planning meeting minutes
7. Book orders
8. Planning - memos and research
9. Planning - memos and research
10. Research / correspondence - Roberta Gray and Ann Zwinger
11-13. Paper proposals
14. Letters to participants and presenters
15. "Seasons of Change: Maine Women Artists and Nature" [art exhibit]
16. Nexus 1(2) Summer 1998
17-18. Conference program and participant list
19. Packet material and handouts
20. Packet labels
21-22. Participant packets
23. Evaluations
24. Expenses
Conference 2000: Women's Private Writing / Writing Women's History
1-2. Mailing list work
3-4. Mailing lists
5-6. Mailing lists - ASLE
7. Flier
8. Call for papers
9. Book orders
10. Tentative budget
11. Planning committee meetings
12. Planning - memos and drafts
13. Website / Schedule
14. Publicity brochures
15-17. Participant packets
18. Session 5a and 6b info
19. Presentation handouts
20. Lancaster, Jane. "Julia and Friends"
21. Stattler, Rick. "Sharing the Diaries of Early Rhode Island Women"
22. Palmini, Cathleen. "Across Unknown Waters to Wisconsin: The Migration of Women Settlers"
23. Caughfield, Adrienne . "'Stranger Friends' for Scribbling Women: Change and Community in the Trans-Mississippi West"
24. Brown, Verla. "Women in Isolation: Women on the American Frontier"
25. Wilder, Sarah Ann and Kraly, Ellen Percy. "The Originality of Quotation: Women's Common Place Books"
26. Cherpak, Evelyn M. "The Brazilian Diaries of Mary Robinson Hunter, 1835-1848"
27. Harris, Monika Biller. "Telegraph-Style Writing as a Form of Empowerment: A Reading of Sophie Mereau-Brentano's Diary"
28. Clements, Pamela J. "The Death of Papa: A Tale in Texts"
29. Nutter, Kathleen Banks and Yates, Claire. "Ensuring the Legacy: Bringing the History of 20th Century Women's Activism Into the 21st Century Classroom"
30. Nelson, Peter. "Things You CAN Find on the Web: The Digitization of Women's Manuscripts at the Five College Consortium"
31. Martin, Sylvia. "Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin"
32. Perdue, Katherine. "Dear Lamb, I Am At Your Feet: The Letters of Frieda Fraser and Edith Bickerton Williams 1925-1927"
33. Taubenfeld, Eviva F. "'I Hate Writing': Abigail Franks and the Frustrations of Epistolarity"
34. Woods, Paula M. "Lady Anne Clifford: Her Roles as Caregiver"
35. Shawhan, Dorothy. "How Private Lives Reflect and Shape the Public Life: Foremothers of Judge Lucy Somerville Howorth"
36. Glass, Anne B. "Voting Down the Rose: The Life and Times of Florence Brooks Whitehouse"
37. McNeill, Laurie. "Bound into a Chronicle: The War Diary of Natalie Crouter"
38. Balee, Susan. "Flannery O'Conner's Darker Lessons"
39. Eden, Melissa Pope. "Maggie's Greatest Loss: George Eliot's Notebooks and the Problem Ending of The Mill on the Floss"
40. Bryant, Patrick W. "'The Mind Alone': Editorial Implications of Emily Dickinson's Early Correspondence with Thomas Wentworth Higginson"
41. Dever,Maryanne. "Intimate Correspondence: Lovers, Letters and Literary Scholars"
42. Newman, Sally. "Silent Witness? Aileen Palmer and the Problem of Evidence in Lesbian History"
43. Sabine, Maurine. "Dead Letters Tell No Tale: The Uncanny Literary Life of Love Letters in A.S. Byatt's Possession"
44. Dowd, Ann K. "Authored Secrets: Brazilian Loves and Letters of Elizabeth Bishop"
45. Ha, Marie-Paul. "Reading the Personal Narratives of French Colonial Women From Indochina"
46. Selby, Rachel. "Before We Begin - Understanding Ourselves and Our Participants"
47. Dowling, Matthew. "The Story of a Soul: The Private Reflections of a Modern Saint"
48. Anderson, Kathleen and Jones, Susan. "Dumpster Discoveries: Salvaging the Texts of Women's Lives"
49. Csete, Josephine and Arnold, Margaret. "Between the Lines: A Daughter and Granddaughter Respond to the 1917-1972 Journals of Jennie Waterman Arnold"
50. Troy, Michele K. "Protests in the Parlor: Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat and the Women's Club Movement"
Conference 2002 - The Complex Web of Women's Friendships
MWCC Box 2
1. Brochures
2. Planning: Tours and bay cruise
3. Session I proposal
4. Session 2 proposals
5. Session 3 proposals
6. Session 4 proposals
7. Session 5 proposals
8. Session 6 proposals
9. Presenters
10-11. Participant packet
12. "Josephine and Marie Peary: Womanhood, Whiteness, and the Search for the North Pole" by Patricia Erickson
13. "Friends Abroad: Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) in Great Britain and Europe" by Rowene Edlin-White
14. "Getting Into Print" by Barbara Lachman
15. "A Literary Friendship Between Louise Bogan and may Sarton - Help or Hinderance?" by Claire E. Knox
16. Evaluations
ROSE MARASCO
PORTLAND
1. Vinalhaven Woman [framed photograph - displayed in Calvert Reading Room]
2. Florence Burrill Jacobs, 1898-1978 [set of 3 cibachrome photographs- displayed in Calvert Reading Room]
[Folders]:
3. Exhibit catalogs with postcards - 1995; 2002
4. "Local Color: Six Contemporary Photographers" [exhibit catalog] 2001
5. "Ritual and Community: The Maine Grange" [exhibit material] 1992
6. "Domestic Objects: Past and Presence" [exhibition catalog] 2004-2005
ITALIA MARLETTA
KENNEBUNK
1. 1970s newspaper articles
MARGUERITE S. MARSLAND 1912-
1. Biographical information
ABIGAIL G. MARSTON
PARSONSFIELD
1. Broadside: "Lines, composed on the death of Miss Abigail G., daughter of Jacob Martson, Esq., and Mrs. Martha Marston, Parsonsfiel, Me., who departed this life Oct. 1, 1849, aged 20 years." by Mary G. Doe - located in OVS Box 5
DORIS RICKER MARSTON
YORK
1-5. Original, revised and final drafts for A Guide to Writing History
6. Articles.
PENELOPE MARTIN
NORTH YARMOUTH / PORTLAND
1. Photocopy of Katherine Schroeder's "Penelope Martin. Young Female of Quality"
2. Photocopy of Elizabeth Baxter's proposal for publication of Penelope Martin papers. Transcription of letters.
3. Bound photocopy of Yvonne Souliere's thesis "Education and Gender: The Misses Martin's School for Young Ladies, Portland, Maine, 1801-1834." University of Southern Maine, 1993.
4. 1820s manuscript which gives history of school; photocopy and transcription of text - located in OVS Box 74
CHERIE MASON
DEER ISLES
1. Reviews
J. DAY MASON 1919-
WESTPORT ISLAND
1. Review, press releases, correspondence with Dorothy Healy
Exhibit materials 1987, 1990
2. Photographs
3. Two poems in calligraphy - located in OVS Box 16
24 x 30 inch oil painting of two poppies in a clear vase on a window sill. Green background
STEPHANIE MATTESON
SEAL HARBOR
1. Article
HEIDI MATTSON
BUCKSPORT
1. Article
JULIA HARRIS MAY
STRONG
1. Article
SOPHIE MAY
See Rebecca Sophia Clarke
ELEANOR MAYO 1920-
BASS HARBOR
1. 1946 review
BOBETTE McCARTHY
AUBURN / HARPSWELL ISLAND
1. Reviews.
MARY MCCARTHY
CASTINE
1. Witherle Memorial Library reception - July 1, 1986 - brochure
2. "Ask ME 60 Questions" The New Yorker March 23, 1957.
INA M. MCCAUSLAND
SOUTH WINDHAM
1. Correspondence ALS to Dorothy Healy July 17, 1978
SUE MCCONKEY (LILLIAN G.) 1911-2001
ALFRED
1. Correspondence to Grace Dow and Dorothy Healy
2. Articles and reviews
3. Honorary degree
4a-j. Photographs
5. Thomas McConkey booklet on seeding
6. Young Poets 1976,1978
7. Poetry
8. Wake-Brook House brochures
9. Deborah Morton Award; biographical information
10. Student papers on SLM
11. MWWC interview notes 1969
12. Verse in Maine Writers' Conference Chapbooks, 1973-79
13. Letter to MWWC from Jeffrey Lee explaining correspondence from Sue McConkey
14. Correspondence to Jeffrey Lee 1976 (6 items)
15. Correspondence to Jeffrey Lee 1977 (9 items)
16. Correspondence to Jeffrey Lee 1980's (6 items)
17. Poetry Fellowship of Maine: Membership list and information, 1981
18. Highlights - Poetry Fellowship of Maine 1936-1986
19. Death certificate 1/28/01 (copy)
ADA PIERCE MCCORMICK 1874-
BANGOR
sister of painter Waldo Pierce
1. Letter Magazine, 1943-47 - full issues located in Periodicals Collection
2. Articles and booklets
3. Biographical information
JUDITH McGAW
1. Spring 1998 article
HELENE F. MCGORRILL
PORTLAND
former Westbrook Jr. College resident director
1. "Phantomsy at Deer Isle" Maine Life Dec. 1976
ROBIN MCKINLEY
BLUE HILL / BRUNSWICK
1. Articles by and about RM
ROBIN MCKINNON
BANGOR / PORTLAND
1. Reviews, articles.
PRUDENCE HATCH MCMANN 1947-2001
DEXTER / SKOWHEGAN / WATERVILLE
1. Clippings, 2000-2001
ELIZABETH DWIGHT McMASTER
KENNEBUNK
1. Correspondence to Dorothy Healy from EDM n.d.
TLS from Joyce Butler to Dorothy Healy
1-19-1981 explanation about Planned Parenthood book
JONI G.McNUTT
SCARBORO
1. Promotional brochures
ALICE MEAD
CUMBERLAND
1. Articles, reviews.
MAMEVE MEDWED
BANGOR
1. Reviews, articles
DAPHNE WINSLOW MERRILL
AUBURN
1. The Exciter Magazine 1954
2. Publication information - Vantage Press 1966
3. Maine Writers Research Club
4. "Thirteenth B.P.W. Futurama" 1973
5. The Torch of Beta Sigma Phi - Nov. 1961 (2 copies)
6. More Cones in Maine
7. Letters and photographs of Daniel Webster and Wives
8. Falmouth Publishing House
9. "Maine Limerock"
10. More Cones
11. Books from Dorrance
12. Norway Schools [scrapbook 1965]
13-14. Publishing Companies 1963-1975
15. Newspaper feature stories
16. Famous Writers School
17. Cones From the Pines of Maine
18. How We Teach Fiction and Non-fiction Writing 1962
19. Map of "Old" Monhegan
20. The Colored Desperado [1969 article]
21. Reta Shaw [1970 article]
22. "Hannah Judd"
23. Foundations of Establishing Socialistic Industrialisation [2 pamphlets in Chinese]
24. Oakland Park [1970 article]
25. Early Days at Old Orchard Beach [1970 article]
26. History of Rockland High School [1970 articles]
27. Miss Parsons, RN [1971 article]
28. Maine's BPW Club 50th Anniversary [1971 article]
29. Riverton Park [1972 article]
30. Sardines [1972]
31. Ricky and Debbie in Sardineland, 1967
32. Fryberg [1973 article]
33. Remember the Maine [1973 article]
34. Union, Maine [1974]
35. Christmas Customs and Legends [1974 article]
36. "White Wing Days" [1975 article]
37. Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance 1992
38. Articles, 1969-83
39. Downeast articles, 1970-77
BEV BODGE MERRYMAN-WATERMAN
1. Review.
LENA MILES
1. Review.
CORA MILLAY
CAMDEN
1. Article.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY 1892-1950
CAMDEN / ROCKLAND
1. Outlook 11/27/1927 "Fear"
2. Reflections on the Sacco-Vanzetti Tragedy - includes "Fear" reprint
3. "Fear" folio reprint 1927 (2 copies)
4. "The President with a Candidate's Face" n.d. clipping
5. Poetry Oct. 1938 "Eight Poems"
6. Copies of published poems and articles
7. Harper & Brother's advertising folio includes "Fatal Interview" 1931
8. ESVM signatures
9. The Forge : A Midwestern Review presents Edna St. Vincent Millay in a Reading of her own poems. Nov. 27 [1920's]
10. "Song of a Second April" reprint
11. "Thanksgiving 1950" Camden Herald Nov 24 1966
12. Toby Shafter correspondence
13. ALS George W. Perry to Mrs. George Jackson
14. Dust jackets
15. Articles, reviews - 1930's
16. Articles, reviews - 1940's
17. Articles, reviews - 1950's
18. Articles, reviews - 1960's
19. Articles, reviews - 1970's
20. Articles, reviews - 1980's
21. Tamarack: Journal of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society II(1) 1982-83; III(1) 1985-86
22. Articles, reviews, 1990 -
23. Commemorative stamps and envelope, 1981
24. Photos; ephemera
25. "Mayflowers" by Norma Millay, together with "Who Will Go A-Maying?" by E.S.V.M [1969 broadside]
26. Centennial celebration - Camden, 1992
27. Millay celebrations - 1981, 1992
28. Crayon drawing by Noriko Sakamishi - located in OVS Box 16
29. Millay nightgown - located in OVS Box 26
30. "I thought I would write to you..." [November 7, 1900] Letter from Millay to her mother [photocopy]
31. "Am remailing a letter and card from Aunt Clem." [August 21, 1912] Letter from Millay to her mother[photocopy]
32. "We are so glad you like there." [January 4, 1913] Letter from Millay to her mother [photocopy]
33. "I kept my letter open thinking that perhaps the girls would write." [Jan. 6, 1913] Letter from Millay to her mother [photocopy]
34. "There's nothing much to write about today." [Jan. 10, 1913] Letter from Millay to her mother [photocopy]
35. "Letter from Miss Dow just came." [Jan. 11, 1913] letter from Millay to her mother [photocopy]
36. "This is the first chance I've had to write..." [Feb. 5, 1913] Letter from Millay to her mother and family [photocopy]
37. "I have so very much to tell you..." [Feb. 12, 1913] Letter from Millay to her family [photocopy]
38. 1923 Pulitzer Prize letters [Ap. 30, 1928] [photocopies]
39. "I have just seen Margaret Schulyer..." [Feb. 11, 1929] Letter to Millay from Berenice Abott [photocy]
40. Bill from Berenice Abbott [Feb. 6, 1940] [photocopy]
41. "Rennaisance" poem ms [n.d.] [photocopy]
42. "God, let there be no wispered word" poem ms [n.d.] [photocopy]
Published work in periodicals held by MWWC:
1919, Oct. 25. "The Death of Autumn." The Nation
1920, Apr. 3. "No More Oberon." The Nation
1927, July. "Edna St. Vincent Millay" [by John Hyde Preston]. The Virginia Quarterly Review
1941, April. "When It Is Over." Harpers Magazine
1942, Oct. 19. "The Murder of Lidice." Life
1946, May. "Sonnet." The Atlantic
1975, June. "Millay's 'Ungrafted Tree': The Problem of the Artist as Woman." [by Walter S. Minot] The New England Quarterly
See also Shafter file 7 for reactions to Shafter's Millay biography.
NORMA MILLAY
CAMDEN
1. 1926 Not Herbert theater program
2. Mayflowers 3 copies one 1969 two 1979 reprints
3. Articles and one ALS
4. Memorial letter and invitation 1986
CASEY GEDDES MILLER 1919-
GEORGETOWN
1. TLS to Dorothy Healy 9-12-1987
Article, interview
EUGENIA MAUDE MITCHELL
GARDINER
1. Composition book used as commonplace book and copybook.
Contains 1892 and 1895 essays ( probably from Bradford Academy). Also contains copies of 1895-96 letters from Bradford Academy 1895 classmates.
MILLICENT S. MONKS
CAPE ELIZABETH
1. Correspondence
ALS to Dorothy Healy 12-8-1986
ALS to Greta 11-21-1986
JUDITH W. MONROE
HALLOWELL RAM ISLAND
1 folder. Promotional materials.
ANNE CARROLL MOORE 1871-1961
LIMERICK
Published work in periodicals held by MWWC:
1922, June. "Children's Books Past and Present" The Bookman
1922, Oct. "Who is Writing for Children?" The Bookman
1923, March. "Illustrating Books for Children" The Bookman
1936, Jan-Feb. "Ruth Sawyer, Story Teller" Horn Book
ELIZABETH J. MOORE
POWNAL
1. Correspondence with MWWC, 1992.
2. Biographical information.
3. Reviews.
4. "Venus de Milo"
Published work in periodicals held by MWWC:
"The Lady With the Alligator Purse." [pseud. Alice Rushfield] Crescent Review Spring 1985
"The El Cielo Vacio Hotel." Naked Man 1987
"Venus de Milo." The Bridge Winter 1991-1992
"A Writer's Characters." The Writer Nov 1992
MAUDE MOORE 1850-1922
ELLA MAUDE SMITH
Brief family information.
RUTH MOORE 1903 - 1989
BASS HARBOR / GOTT'S ISLAND
Series 1: Manuscripts
MRL Box 1
1. "In Winter" c. 1972. Words: Ruth Moore [sheet music]
2. "Lost Atlantis" [undated poem, draft]
3. Published articles/reviews by RM, 1945-64
4-8. Dandelion Wine, Part I [m.s. unpublished]
9-14. Speak to the Winds [typescript]
15. Speak to the Winds [corrections]
16. Walk Down Main Street [typescript - fragments]
17. Walk Down Main Street [editorial comments]
18. Second Growth - Part I [typescript]
19. Second Growth - Part 2 [typescript w/ revisions]
20-21. Second Growth - Part 3 [typescript w/ revisions]
22. Second Growth - Part 4 [typescript]
23-24. Second Growth - Part 5 [typescript]
25. Second Growth - Part 6; Epilogue [typescript]
26-32. The Sea Flower [draft w/ revisions]
33-36. Cat's Cradle [The Sea Flower - final draft w/ copyediting]
37. The Sea Flower [front matter]
38-55. Gold and Silver Hooks [typescript w/ revisions]
56-59 Gold and Silver Hooks [m.s. w/ proofreader's marks]
MRL Box 2
60-63. Gold and Silver Hooks [m.s. w/ proofreader's marks]
64-70. Lizzie and Carolyn [late draft]
71-76. Lizzie and Carolyn [m.s. marked for printer]
77-86. Lizzie and Carolyn [dead material]
87-92. The Dinosaur Bite [original m.s.]
93-99. The Dinosaur Bite [typescript with revisions]
100-105. The Dinosaur Bite [m.s. marked for printer]
106-116. Sarah Walked Over the Mountain [dead material]
MRL Box 3
117-126. Sarah Walked Over the Mountain [dead material]
127-133. Sarah Walked Over the Mountain [draft with editor's notes and correspondence]
134-141. Sarah Walked Over the Mountain [m.s. marked for printer]
142. Ballads published in Cold as a Dog and The Wind Northeast
143. Cold as a Dog copyright certificate
144-147. Time's Web [original m.s.]
148-151. Time's Web [first drafts, etc.]
152-154. Tired Apple Tree [m.s. with marks]
155-157. Tired Apple Tree [m.s.]
158-161. Tired Apple Tree [m.s.]
162. High Clouds tributes collected
163. Copies of RM letters collected by S. Phippen [18 TLS. 1975-1988
164-173. High Clouds Soaring, Storms Driving Low [publisher's photocopies]
MRL Box 4
174-175. High Clouds Soaring, Storms Driving Low [publisher's photocopies]
176-179. High Clouds Soaring, Storms Driving Low [completed manuscript]
MRL Box 6 - galley proofs
180. The Rockwood Tree [Sea Flower] - printer's proof
181. The Sea Flower - printer's proof
182-183. Gold and Silver Hooks - galley proof
184-185. Gold and Silver Hooks - galley proof
186. Lizzie and Caroline - galley proof
187. The Dinosaur Bite - author's galley proof
188. The Dinosaur Bite - reader's set
189. The Dinosaur Bite - page proofs and memos
190. The Dinosaur Bite - galley proof
191. Sarah Walked Over the Mountain - author's galley proof
192. Sarah Walked Over the Mountain - galley proof
Series 2: Reviews, publicity, and correspondence
MRL Box 4
193. The Weir [scrapbook pages, 1943]
194. The Weir - clippings, 1943
195. Spoonhandle [scrapbook] - located in OVS Box 58
196. Spoonhandle [scrapbook inserts]
197. Spoonhandle clippings, 1946-1948
198. William Morrow & Co. correspondence, 1947-1962
199. The Fire Balloon [scrapbook] 1948 - located in OVS Box 58
200. The Fire Balloon [scrapbook inserts]
201. Candlemas Bay [scrapbook] 1951- located in OVS Box 58
202. Candlemas Bay [scrapbook inserts]
203. A Fair Wind Home [scrapbook] 1951
204. A Fair Wind Home advertising poster - located in OVS Box 50
205. Man, Time, and Fossils - review [1953?]
206-207. Speak to the Winds - reviews/press releases, 1956
208. Wings: The Literary Guild Review, Sept; Dec. 1956 [Speak to the Winds featured]
209. Cold as a Dog - reviews, 1959
210. Walk Down Main Street - press releases and reviews, 1960
211. TLS from [Maryann?], 1960
MRL Box 5
212. Second Growth - reviews/publicity, 1962
213. "Deep Water" movie poster, 1963 - located in OVS Box 58
214. Sea Flower - reviews/publicity, 1965
215. Gold and Silver Hooks - reviews/publicity, 1969
216. Lizzie and Caroline - reviews, 1972
217. Correspondence with C.W. Scholl [re: Sea Flower], 1975
218. The Dinosaur Bite - reviews, 1976
219. Sarah Walked Over the Mountain - reviews, 1979
220. Correspondence RM with David Phillips, 1986
221. Letters from E. Trask to Gary Lawless, 1990; 1995
Series 3: Biographical material and memorabilia
222. Tremont Grammar Schools diploma, 1917 - located in OVS Box 50
223. N.Y.S. College for Teachers (B.A.) diploma, 1925 - located in OVS Box 50
224. N.Y.S. College for Teachers - Commencement program, 1925
225. Gott's Island manuscript map, F.L.G. 1941 - located in OVS Box 50
226. Copy of resume - [194?]
227. University of Maine - Commencement program, 1947
228. List of manuscripts, galley proofs, editions sent to Univ. of Texas [1964]
229. TLS to RM from H.M. Houghton [re: Moore genealogy], 1967
230. Unity College - Honorary doctorate, 1976
231. "Ruth Moore - Lively Lady of Modern Maine Literature" by Isabel Currier [typescript]
232. Correspondence from RM to Gary Lawless, 1983-89 [19 TLS]
233. David Philips - notes for 1987 Down Eastarticle
234. "Ruth Moore, Maine Novelist and Poet" by Margaret Andrews [student paper, 1987]
234a. "Loaves and Fishes" by Rev. Marc Stewart, 1989
235-236. "Vision of Small Town America Exemplified Through Ruth Moore's The Weir" by Veronika Mayr [thesis, 1990]
237. "Ruth Moore, A Modern American Writer" by Ellen McMahan [student paper, 1992?]
238. Sandy Phippen/J.C. Pixley correspondence re: RM biography, 1995
238a. Review of High Clouds Soaring, Storms Driving Low: The Letters of Ruth Moore, 1993
239. "Spoonhandle: Education and Knowledge in the Green World" by Jennifer C. Pixley, 1996
240. "Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine" by Jennifer C. Pixley, c. 1997
241. Articles on RM and Maine fiction
242-242a. Ruth Moore revival / re-releases, 1986-93
243. Abbe Museum - clippings, 1994
244-244a. Obituaries / memorials, 1989-93
245. Copy photographs - RM portrait; at typewriter; in Jeep
246. Ruth Moore Weekend - fliers
247. "I Read Ruth Moore" bumper sticker
248. Hermes 3000 typewriter
248a. Chellie Pingree letter to Gary Lawless re: Ruth Moore [n.d.]
Published work in periodicals held by MWWC:
"The Walk Down Main Street" Ladies Home Journal Feb. 1960
"Farmer Takes a Newspaper" Saturday Review of Literature July 3, 1948
"The Ladies from Philadelphia" Harper's Bazaar Aug.1945
LAEL MORGAN
PORTLAND
Copies of articles from:
Alicia Patterson Fund newsletter, 1972
Alaska Journal, 1973-1979
Alaska Magazine Aug. 1974-May 1977
See also articles in these periodicals held by the MWWC:
Alaska Geographic, 1978-82
National Geographic, 1973-83
B.J. MORISON
BAR HARBOR / KITTERY
1. Reviews
MARGARET ELWELL MORRILL
PORTLAND
1. Reviews
MARY S. MORRILL 1864-1900
PORTLAND
1. 15 p. memorial booklet about her Chinese missionary work
Correspondence Hilda C. Fletcher to Librarian 10-30-1985
JANE C. MORRISON
GARDINER
1. Obituary; Advertising copy for The White Heron; Business card
MARY HARROWER MORSE
Published work in periodicals held by MWWC:
"Two Women of Boston." New England Galaxy Winter 1972
HELEN MORTON
COUSIN'S ISLAND / YARMOUTH
1. 1991 Obituary
MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION, 1858-1859
OVS Box 11
1. Constitution & by-laws of Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union
2. Promotional sheet
3. Subscription sheet
4. White calling card printed 'Mrs Washington'
5. White calling card printed ' Mrs. Polk of Tennessee'
6. ALS from C. A. Knight to Mr Pidgin. West Peru 6/13/1858
7. Mount Vernon Record, newsletter. Vol. 1 No. 1. July, 1858
8. Mount Vernon Record, newsletter. Vol. 1 No. 2. August, 1858
9. ALS from A.I. Little to Mrs. Carter. Aug. 17, [1858]
10. ALS from A.I. Little to Mrs. Carter. Aug. 20, [1858]
11. ALS from A.I. Little to Mrs. Carter. Sept. 3, [1858]
12. ALS from A.I. Little to Mrs. Carter. Sept. 18, [1858]
13. ALS from A.I. Little to Mrs. Carter. Sept. 30, [1858]
14. ALS from Eliza A. Dana to Mrs. Carter. Oct. 18, 1858
15. ALS from Mrs. Dana to Mrs Carter. Nov. 1, 1858
16. ALS from A.I. Little to Mrs. Carter (Arabella - agent for Oxford County). Nov.
20, [1858]
19. ALS from O.G. Anolv___z to Mrs. Carter. Dec. 21, 1858
20. ALS from "S.F. Watson, Pub. Mt. V. Re. " (Publisher Mt. Vernon Record),
Dec. 22, 1858
21. Envelope addressed to Arabella Carter - Paris Maine. Postmarked Jan. 10, 1859
22. ALS from Eliza Hamlin to Mrs. Carter. Feb 8, 1859
23. ALS from A.I. Little to Mrs. Carter. Feb. 11, [1859]
24. ALS from Geneva G. Kimball to Mrs. Carter. Feb. 11, 1859
25. ALS from A.I. Little to Mrs. Carter. Feb. 15, [1859]
26. ALS from Eliza Dana to Mrs. Carter. Feb. 19, 1859
27. ALS from C. M. Holland to Mrs. Carter. Feb. 22, 1859
29. ALS from A.I. Little to Mrs. Carter. Feb. 28, [1859]
30. ALS from Mary J. Hastings to Mrs. Carter. March 8, 1859
31. ALS from L.B. Bridgham to Mrs. Carter. March 17, 1859
33. ALS from A.I. Little to Mrs. Carter. June 27, [1859]
34. Letter to Mrs. Carter - unsigned [from A.I. Little?] May 14, [1860]
35. ALS from A. I. Little to Mrs. Carter, undated.
PEG MUELLER
OAKLAND
1. ALS to Dorothy Healy; Photocopies of poems
EMILY MUIR
STONINGTON
1. Interviews, reviews
See Woolson Collection, folder 7
EVELYN E. MULLINS
ACTON
1. Photograph, review.
MARGARET COX MURRAY
BANGOR
1. Article
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN
AUGUSTA BRANCH
ORGANIZED 1934
1959 Lewiston Journal Magazine Section article.
Box 24 Three scrapbooks
1.1936 - 1945 (1936-1938 on cover)
Bylaws 1936, 1939
Certificate
Yearbook 1936, 1937
Clippings, photographs, correspondence
2. 1934-1947 Secretary's reports
3. 1941-1942 Clippings, photographs, correspondence
Cora Roche Howland written on third scrapbook. Note indicates that Clare C. Howell gave the scrapbooks to the collection in 1984.
NATIONAL WOMAN'S PARTY