Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman letters4078789Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-10-06 20:24:04 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Rare Book and Manuscript Library Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman letters Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 Kendrick, Brent L. 4078789 MS#0457 English /repositories/2/resources/2561 2 boxes 2 boxes (56 Items) 1893-1981 1893-1901 Arrangement

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 Summary

Letters of Freeman, addressed to various personalities at Harper Brothers and the Century Magazine, relating chiefly to the publication in serial and book form of her various novels and short stories. Included are letters to Richard Watson Gilder, Robert Underwood Johnson, Colonel George B. Harvey, and Henry Mills Alden. Also, photocopies of the typescript of Brent L. Kendrick's Ph.D. thesis (University of South Carolina, 1981) THE INFANT SPHINX: COLLECTED LETTERS OF MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN. 2 vols. (Published version in the General Library: PS1713/.A44/1985).

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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

 Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Bancroft. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1956. Accession number--M-56.

 Biographical / Historical

Novelist and short story writer.

 Ownership and Custodial History

Thesis is a gift of Brent L. Kendrick, 1981.

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Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/1989.

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 Century illustrated monthly magazine Literature -- Periodicals Literature publishing Publishers and publishing Contracts Theses Authors, American Novelists Women authors Women novelists Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, 1851-1935 Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928 Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937 Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 Presbrey, Eugene W (Eugene Wiley), 1853-1931 Harper & Brothers Box 1/repositories/2/archival_objects/17683661Box 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/17683672