Alice Duer Miller Papers, 1779-1949
Collection context
- Creator:
- Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942
- Abstract:
- This collection consists of the personal papers of Barnard College alumna and trustee, Alice Duer Miller. The collection includes bibliographies, professional and family correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, typescripts, screenplays, radio broadcast transcripts, essays related to her literary and theatrical career and notebooks and certificates related to her studies at Barnard and Columbia. It also contains numerous published works including books and essays appeared in magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and Harper's.
- Extent:
- 10.59 Linear Feet (6 document boxes, 4 bankers boxes, 2 oversize clamshell boxes)
- Language:
- English .
- Scope and content:
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This collection includes bibliographies, professional and family correspondence, family scrapbooks and photo albums, clippings, typescripts, screenplays, radio broadcast transcripts, essays related to Alice Duer Miller's literary and theatrical career, in addition to notebooks and certificates related to her studies at Barnard and Columbia. Also included are files, correspondence, and a typescript related to Miller's research on Duer Family history. Of special interest is an autographed photograph of Albert Einstein. For detailed lists of published works included in the collection, please contact the archivist.
- Biographical / historical:
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Alice (Maude) Duer Miller served as a Trustee of Barnard from 1922-1942, collaborating with Susan Myers-on "Barnard College: the First Fifty Years" published in 1939. She graduated from Barnard in 1899 and did graduate work in Mathematics at Columbia. Miller was an author, writing short stories, novels, screenplays and poetry. She acted in the film, "Soak the Rich." Miller was member of the Algonquin Roundtable, and a charter member of Alexander Woollcott's literary colony on Neshobe Island, Lake Bomoseen, VT. Her narrative poem, "The White Cliffs," praising British resistance in World War II, became a best-seller. The film, "White Cliffs of Dover" was adapted from the poem. She was married to Henry Wise Miller, whose biography of her and their life together, All Our Lives, was published in 1945.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection has no restrictions.
- Terms of access:
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Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. The Barnard Archives and Special Collections approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Photocopies or scans may be made for research purposes.
- Preferred citation:
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Alice Duer Miller Papers, 1779-1949; Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.
- Location of this collection:
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Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423Barnard College3009 BroadwayNew York, NY 10027, USA
- Before you visit:
- Please contact archives@barnard.edu with research requests or to schedule a visit; see our website for more information.
- Contact:
- archives@barnard.edu