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    <unittitle>Sarah Orne Jewett letters</unittitle>
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      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046454" source="naf">Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909</persname>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1870/1879" type="inclusive">1870-1879</unitdate>
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<p>Cataloged.</p>  </arrangement>
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<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>Letters to Sarah Orne Jewett from William Dean Howells, Ellen Emerson, James R. Osgod, Horace Scudder, and Charles C. Hoyt, as well as those from members of her family and friends. The letters are chiefly personal though a few relate to the publication of some of her works. Also, 43 letters to Louise Droesel.</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Sarah Orne Jewett letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Terms Governing Use and Reproduction</head>
<p>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.</p>  </userestrict>
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<p>Source of acquisition--Bancroft. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--10/23/58. Accession number--M-58-10-23.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 07/--/89.</p>  </processinfo>
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<p>Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.</p>  </accruals>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147456" source="lcsh">Women authors</subject>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80002569" source="naf">Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90024437" rules="dacs" source="naf">Emerson, Ellen Louisa Tucker, 1809 or 1810-1831</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87836808" source="naf">Osgood, James R (James Ripley), 1836-1892</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50006372" source="naf">Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902</persname>
    <persname source="lcsh">Hoyt, Charles C</persname>
    <persname source="lcsh">Droesel, Louise</persname>
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