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Mary Fanton Roberts papers, 1880-1956

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Series 6: Literary and Music Correspondence/Subject Files , 1900-1952, undated
0.6 Linear feet
Box 3

This series contains correspondence and other material documenting Mary Fanton Roberts' friendships with authors, poets, critics, publishers, singers, musicians, and colleagues. Found are letters, invitations, calling cards, programs, artwork, photographs, and news clippings. Topics of discussion include social invitations, poems and articles in the Craftsman or Touchstone Magazine, travel accounts, and general news. Correspondence of note is with poets Bliss Carman and Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, journalist Jacob Riis, theater patron Mrs. "Teuila" Salisbury Field, singers Yvette Guilbert and Marguerite Namara, author Kate Douglas Wiggin, author and "Rough Rider" Edwin Emerson, writer and entrepreneur Paris Singer, writers Ernest and Grace Seton, and author and good friend Lloyd Osbourne, stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson. Also found are photographs of authors Theodore Dreiser, Edwin Emerson, and Bliss Carman, handwritten poems by Theodore Goodridge Roberts, and a lithograph portrait of author John Masefield.
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Atherton, Gertrude, 1912, undated
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Bambino, 1909-1921
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Bispham, David, 1909-1912
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Brooks, Van Wyck, 1910
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Burgess, Gelett, 1904, 1920, undated
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1905-1908, undated
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Bynner, Witter, undated
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Carman, Bliss (1 of 2), 1902-1933
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Carman, Bliss (2 of 2), 1902-1933
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Cobb, Irvin S., 1916, 1928, 1944, undated
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Comfort, Will Levington, 1914-1915
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Damrosch, Walter, 1950, undated
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Dawson, Coningsby, 1914
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Desti, Mary, 1925
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Dreiser, Theodore, 1934, 1940, undated
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Eastman, Max & Eliena, 1944-1945
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Ellis, Havelock, 1914
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Emerson, Edwin, 1902-1948, undated
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Field, Mrs. Edward Salisbury (Teuila), 1903-1949
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Gale, Zona, 1921
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Galsworthy, John, 1919
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Garland, Hamlin, 1915-1922, undated
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Guilbert, Yvette, 1916-1919, 1938
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Hoffenstein, Samuel & Edith, 1929-1932, 1947
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Hurst, Fannie, 1926-1937
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Kilmer, Joyce, 1915
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Khayat, Khalil, undated
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Literary Digest, 1922, 1925, 1940, undated
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McClure, S. S., 1915, 1949
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Mannes, Mrs. David (Clara), circa 1935-1949, undated
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Masefield, John, 1912, 1918
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Maxim, Hudson, 1903-1908
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Metropolitan Opera Association, 1916, 1933, 1943
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Namara, Marguerite, 1940-1944, undated
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Pinchot, Gifford, 1908-1916
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Osbourne, Lloyd & Ethel, 1902-1947, undated
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Oskison, Hildegarde Hawthorne, 1906-1929, 1952, undated
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Riggs, Mrs. George C. (Kate Dougles Wiggin), 1912, undated
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Riis, Jacob, 1914
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Roberts, Sir Charles G. D., 1900-1943
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Roberts, Theodore Goodridge, 1926-1939, undated
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Seton, Ernest Thompson & Grace, 1902-1936, undated
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Sinclair, May, 1924, 1946
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Singer, Paris, 1916-1946, undated
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Stevenson, Mrs. Robert Louis, 1903-1951, undated
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Stokowski, Leopold, 1916
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Strong, Austin & Mary, 1918-1952
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Teasdale, Sara, 1914
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Towne, Charles Hanson, 1909-1944, undated
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Vorse, Mary Heaton, 1910
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West, Rebecca, 1923-1927, undated
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Widdemer, Margaret, 1913, 1938
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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1909
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Wilkinson, Marguerite, 1928, undated
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Young, Stark, 1944
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Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1901-1951
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