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    <unittitle>Ella Wheeler Wilcox papers</unittitle>
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      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80008570" source="naf">Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919</persname>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1887/1919" type="inclusive">1887-1919</unitdate>
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<p>Cataloged.</p>  </arrangement>
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    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head> Restrictions on Access</head>
<p>This collection has no restrictions.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Summary</head>
<p>Personal letters from Wilcox to Elsa Barker, 1912-1919, to Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, 1888-1889, to Edward Bok, 1887-1890 and n.d.,and one letter to Richard Henry Stoddard, 1897. Also, a photograph, 1895, and an autograph poem"Solitude.".</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ella Wheeler Wilcox papers; 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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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Source of acquisition--4-293 (57878F). Date of acquisition--1958. Accession number--M-58.</p>  </acqinfo>
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    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>American poet.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <head>Processing Information</head>
<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/89.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <head>Accruals</head>
<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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    <head>Other Finding Aids</head>
<p>Collection inventory is available as <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/48_WIEN-WIT_05.pdf">a PDF file</extref>. Collection can be requested through <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4079475">CLIO</extref>.</p>  </otherfindaid>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004340" source="lcsh">American literature -- 19th century</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004386" source="lcsh">American poetry -- 19th century</subject>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300127104" source="aat">Photographic prints</genreform>
    <genreform authfilenumber="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300026451" source="aat">Poems</genreform>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86005156" source="lcsh">Women poets, American</subject>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89616614" source="naf">Barker, Elsa, 1869-1954</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79108361" source="naf">Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50044509" source="naf">Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930</persname>
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