Miner mss., 1915-1982
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Summary Information
Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly
Creator:
Miner, Virginia Scott.
Title:
Miner mss., 1915-1982
Collection No.:
LMC 1869
Extent:
4,436 items
Language:
Materials are in English
Abstract:
Consists of the papers of Mrs. Virginia
(Scott) Miner (Mrs. Dewey Hobson Miner), 1901-1982, poet.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
Mrs. Virginia (Scott) Miner (Mrs. Dewey Hobson Miner), 1901-1982, was a poet. A
native of Indiana, she taught for several years at the Pembroke-Country Day School
in Kansas City. She retired in 1967 and later moved to Warsaw, Indiana. Some of her
writings were published under pseudonyms of Hannah Wilcox and Hoosier Hannah.
Arrangement
Organized into a single series: Files.
Scope and Content Note
Consists of the papers of Mrs. Virginia (Scott) Miner (Mrs. Dewey Hobson Miner),
1901-1982, poet. The materials include correspondence, diaries, poems, notebooks,
and scrapbooks; musical settings by composers Leo Ascher, Mary Mildred Chubb, Eileen
B. Maltby, and Alfred R. Service, and drawings by illustrators Dorothy Bayley,
Harold M. Sichel, and Katherine Richardson Wireman for poems by Mrs. Miner; poems
and prose by many of the students at Pembroke-Country Day School; and a group of
letters and writings by former students Martin Cohen, Geoffrey Alexander Oelsner
(with a few drawings), and Paul Williams. Letters written from a trip to Europe in
1953 form a travel account of the countries of France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany,
Holland, and England.
Printed materials include clippings of poems, many of which were removed from the
scrapbooks, several periodicals in which the poems appeared, book reviews, articles,
and a high school yearbook of 1917 in which Miner's first published poem appeared. A
number of photographs may be found in the biographical folder.
Among the correspondents are:
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Phoebe Lou Adams
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Susan Mary (Jay) Alsop
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American Book Company
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Dave Anstaett
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Leo Ascher
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Calvin W. Atwood
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Ronald Lee Baker
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William Wallace Baker
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Margaret (Abbott) Bartlett
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Dorothy Bayley
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Stephen Vincent Benét
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William Rose Benét
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Rainey Bennett
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John Gilland Brunini
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Henrietta Buckmaster
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Abraham Saul Burack
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Maxwell Struthers Burt
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Witter Bynner
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Charles M. Carey
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Carl Lamson Carmer
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James Earl Carter
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Bennett Alfred Cerf
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Stanton Arthur Coblentz
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Martin Cohen
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Padraic Colum
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Columbia Broadcasting System Inc.
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Tom Collins
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Robert Warren Conover
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Margaret Cousins
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Nelson Antrim Crawford
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Nora B. Cunningham
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Curtis Brown Ltd.
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Emma Lou Diemer
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Ralph James Donahue
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Peggy Dowst
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Katherine Mary (Guilfoyle) Edelman
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Ethel M. Edgeworth
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Willie (Snow) Ethridge
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Ada (Baker) Fairchild
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Virginia Louise Faulkner
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Lillian Turner Findlay
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Eleanor Fish
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Edsel Ford
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Ethel (Romig) Fuller
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Wilbur Geoffrey Gaffney
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Paul William Gallico
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Ginn and Company
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Louis Ginsberg
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Ryah Tumarkin Goodman
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Charles Bruce Gould
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Robin Gregory
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Louis Oscar Griffith
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Frances Dabney Grinstead
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Elisabeth (Bevier) Hamilton
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Leigh Hanes
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Mary (Carr) Hanna
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Victoria Adelaide (Unruh) Harvey
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Henry Joseph Haskell
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Sara Henderson Hay
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Ruth (Cleaves) Hazelton
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Helen (Rowe) Henze
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Jonathan Holden
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Marcia Nichols Holden
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Hazel (Strikeleather) Hopper
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Albert S. Humphrey Jr.
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Robin Humphrey
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Percy Adams Hutchison
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Ethel (Sonntag) Jacobson
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Claudia Alta (Taylor) Johnson
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Ione Jones
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Kathleen (Paul) Jones
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Mary Alice Jones
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Robert Claude Jones
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Justin Kaplan
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Rudolph Max Kauffmann
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Margaret (Sally) Keach
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Robert Killorem
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Elizabeth (Seelman) Kingsley
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Austin Huntington Kiplinger
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Inez (Barclay) Kirby
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Jerzy Nikodem Kosinski
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Karl Krueger
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Ladies' Home Journal
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Robert Latham
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Irving Leibowitz
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Claire Liddell
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Seymour Gordden Link
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Mary E. Linton
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Isabelle (Bryans) Longfellow
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Amy Loveman
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Eugene Lyons
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Claire B. McAllister
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Elizabeth McFarland
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Virginia French Mackie
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Thorpe Menn
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Roger F. Meyer
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Dewey Hobson Miner
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Margaret Virginia Miner
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Virginia (Scott) Miner
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Katherine (Lyon) Mix
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Robert Lester Mondale
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Christopher Darlington Morley
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William Robert Moses
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Lewis Mumford
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Sophia (Wittenberg) Mumford
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New York Times
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Geoffrey Alexander Oelsner
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Margaret (Nelson) Phelps
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Gene (Stratton) Porter
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Charles Hyde Pratt
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John Sleigh Pudney
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Thomas Granville Pullen
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John Crowe Ransom
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Sir Herbert Edward Read
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Joseph Rosenzweig
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David Riley Russell
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Marcia (Masters) Schmid
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John William Scott
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Alfred R. Service
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William Edwards Sheidley
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Georgia Tucker Smith
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Nicol Smith
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Florence Lydia Snow
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Leonora (von Stosch) Speyer
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Charles La Barge Squier
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William Edgar Stafford
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Sanford V. Sternlicht
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Emily (Whitehurst) Stone
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James L. Stone
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Lucien Stryk
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Robert DeLano Sutherland
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Alan Swallow
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Velma (West) Sykes
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Elta Thomas
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Dorothy (Brown) Thompson
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Grace G. Tully
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Louis Untermeyer
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Gertrude Vogt
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William Volker
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Marjorie (Felkner) Wagner
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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole
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May (Williams) Ward
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The Washington Post
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Edward Augustus Weeks
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Maurine (Miller) Welch
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Raymond Baird White
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Richard Wilbur
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Nancy Margaret Willard
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Bertye (Young) Williams
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Paul Williams
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H. W. Wilson Company
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Lowry Charles Wimberly
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Alice Wong
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Mary Francis Xavier
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Joan Yeagley
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Virginia (Brady) Young
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View All (146 more...)
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT , the IU Libraries'
online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by
searching the catalog using these terms.
Names
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Pembroke-Country Day
School.
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Columbia Broadcasting System,
inc.
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American Book
Company.
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Pembroke-Country Day
School.
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Miner, Virginia Scott
--Correspondence.
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Thompson, Dorothy
Brown.
Topics
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Blind --Printing and writing
systems.
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Children's writings.
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Chinese --United
States.
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Riots --Missouri --Kansas
City.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information:
Gift. 1976, 1977, 1983
Usage Restrictions:
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Item], Miner mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
| Box 1 |
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Series: Files
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Boxes 1-3 have been indexed.
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Biographical
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General
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1918-1974
(6 folders)
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Correspondence
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1915-1981
(23 folders)
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n.d.
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Letters from Europe. 1953, June 10-Aug. 14
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| Box 2 |
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Cohen, Marty
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Letters. 1968
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Niagra (Poems, 1969-1972)
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Poems, prose, & printed
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Oelsner, Geoffrey A.
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Letters. 1967-1976
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Drawings, poems, prose, & printed
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Pembroke Country Day School
(4 folders)
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Scope Note:
Includes student poetry/prose; articles concerning the retirement of
Virginia Scott Miner; Writing Club; First Day Versifiers.
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Williams, Paul
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Letters. 1965-1975
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Poems, prose, & printed
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Travel journal to West Coast. 1956, June 19-July
25
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Printed
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Poems
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Abandoned Cottage-Youth
(8 folders)
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Appearance in whole periodicals
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Miscellaneous
Scope Note:
Includes Author-Journalist, Apr.
1955; Kansas Quarterly, v. 15 no. 2, 2/83; Calamus, no. 12, June 1976; brochures; magazine and
newspaper clippings
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Annual verse market list in Author-Journalist by V.S.
Miner
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Reviews of literature
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Prose writings of V.S. Miner
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| Box 3 |
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Notebooks
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Journals and autograph drafts of poems
(26 volumes)
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Writings
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Poems. 1925-1973
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Jacobson, E.-Wisby, Gloria
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Miscellaneous pieces
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Music
Scope Note:
Sheet music of several V.S. Miner's poems arranged musically by Leo
Ascher, M.M. Chub, and Alfred Service. Titles include The Bored Goblins;
Come Early Spring; Come with Spring; Double Heaven; Irish Legend; Moon
Money; Not So My Heart (photostat copy); Song of the Rushes; Tension;
Wren Song
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| Box 4 |
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Correspondence
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Family. 1979, Sept. 29-1981, Apr.
30
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Cohen, Marty. 1975-1982
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Frank, James. 1979-1982
(4 folders)
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Oelsner, Geoffrey A. 1975-1982
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Phifer, Kenneth. 1978-1982
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Sutherland, Robert Delano. 1977-1982
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Thompson, Dorothy Brown, to. 1974-1981
(6 folders)
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Thompson, Dorothy Brown, from. 1956-1982
(5 folders)
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Vogt, Gertrude. 1975-1979
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Williams, Paul. 1970-1977
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n.d.
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| Box 5 |
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Correspondence
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1920-1982,
May
(20 folders)
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Biographical material
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Biographical clippings and accession information
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Biographical account. 1924-1982
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Clippings and printed. 1921-1982
(2 folders)
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Financial. 1957-1981
(3 folders)
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Photographs. 1905 (copy)-1981
(6 folders)
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| Box 6 |
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Notebooks
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Records of poems, published and unpublished. 1934-1981
(5 folders)
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Writings
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Poems and notes, 1937-1976
(5 folders)
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Reviews of Nefertiti and Trees
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Diaries
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1953; 1971-1980; 1980 (note); 1980, Sept. 13-1981, Nov.
27; 1981
(5 folders)
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Miscellaneous
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P.E.O. materials
Scope Note:
[Includes
P.E.O. Register
July 1978,
Oct. 1978,
Nov. 1978,
Jan. 1979; member directory
1974-1975,
1977-1978;
speeches; poems; notes]
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Small book of pressed flowers from locations in
Europe
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History of the Diversifiers. 1976
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| Box 7 |
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Writings (19 folders)
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Writings
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Miner, V.S.
(16 folders)
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The Slender Screen. Proofs
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Others
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Cohen Martin
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Conwell, Joseph
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Garnett, Richard Gordon
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Goodman, Ryan Tunmarkin
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Jaffe, Dan
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McLeod, Maria Julie
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Mahkuk, Margret
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| Box 9 |
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Sutherland, Robert D. (6 folders)
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Williams, Paul
(4 folders)
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TBA
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Printed
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American Journal. Autograph
document and photostat copies with autograph notes
(4 folders)
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Poems
(2 folders)
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Book reviews
(3 folders)
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Articles
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Bound material.
(3 folders)
Scope Note:
[Includes
The Windless Orchard #38,
Spring-Summer 1981;
New Letters, Winter
1981-1982 (2 copies);
Helicon Nine, no. 5, Fall
1981;
Focus Midwest, vol. 14, no. 86;
New Mexico Quarterly, vol. XXX,
no. 4, Winter
1960-1961;
Indiana Names, vol. III, no. 2,
Fall
1972;
Unity, April 1981,
December 1981;
Bits and Pieces from My Hoard that
Grew
, June 12,
1969;
Cornucopia, vol. 20 no. 2 Summer
1966, vol. 20 no. 3 Winter 1966, vol. 21 no. 4 Winter 1967, vol. 22 no. 3
Fall
1968, vol. 22 no. 2 Summer
1969]
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| Box 10 |
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Printed (3 folders)
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Pembroke-Country Day School
Scope Note:
[Includes student and parent directory/handbooks, 1971/1972,
1978-1982;
Helicon
1964-1968,
1970,
1977-1978,
1980-1981;
yearbook 1960; grade book
1966-1967]
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Humphrey, Robin
Scope Note:
[Includes photographs and literature from the Missouri Repertory
Theatre]
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Travel
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Europe
(2 folders)
Scope Note:
[Includes maps; brochures; magazine articles; postcards]
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Indiana
Scope Note:
[Includes
Indiana History Bulletin
January 1971; newspaper
clippings]
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Miscellaneous
Scope Note:
[Includes maps, brochures, photographs and postcards of Europe, the
West Indies, South America, and the United States]
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Miscellaneous
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Miner notes
(5 folders)
Scope Note:
[Includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles and brochures with
autograph notes]
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Notes by others
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| Oversize 1 |
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Scrapbooks
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Scrapbook. 1939-1961
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| Oversize 2 |
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Scrapbook. 1978-1982
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| Oversize 3 |
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Scrapbooks. 1915-1925
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| Oversize 4 |
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Scrapbooks I-VII
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| Oversize 5 |
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Scrapbooks VIII-XIV
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| Oversize 6 |
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Drawings by illustrators Dorothy Bayley, Harold M. Sichel,
and Katherine Richardson Wireman for poems by Mrs. Miner
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