Offprint. Illustrated with woodcuts by Wharton Esherick. The poem was dedicated to the memory of Biddle’s young son, Garrison Chapin Biddle (1923-1930).
Women of Letters: Selections from the Papers of Women Writers at Georgetown University
Howard W. Gunlocke Rare Book and Special Collections Room
January 15, 1998
May 15, 1998
The following exhibition features the papers (correspondence and manuscripts) of women writers at the Special Collections Division of Georgetown University Library. The catalog and exhibits are arranged alphabetically by author name, with a separate display of letters by nineteenth-century women writers. It should be noted that material relating to the writers may be located in more than one collection. In order to minimize download time, the exhibition is divided into three sections and linked below.
Bright Mariner
Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977
New York: Duffield and Green
1933
Lament for the Stolen
Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977
Typed manuscript.
Lament for the Stolen
Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977
Philadelphia: The Centaur Press
1938
Lament for the Stolen
Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977
Music score. Autograph manuscript signed by the composer Harl MacDonald, dated July-August 1938.
Outside of the World
Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977
New York: Duffield and Company
1931
A collection featuring the title poem. With a printed dedication, "To My Godmother Charlotte Mason these fragmentary aspects of our world." Includes autograph manuscripts for Bright Mariner and Maya Sculpture copied by Biddle onto the rear flyleaves.
Plain Chant for America
Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977
New York: Harper and Brothers
1942
Dustjacket for the book.
Plain Chant for America
Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977
Typed manuscript for a published collection of poetry by Biddle featuring the title poem. Includes an essay, "The Quality of Poetry."
Plain Chant for America
Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977
New York: J. Fischer & Bro.
1941
Music score. With autograph inscription on title page by Biddle to Charlotte Mason: "For Godmother this first copy off the press with gratitude for the inspiration of her great American life -- with lasting love from Katherine. Oct. 1941."
Sojourner Truth
Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977
Typed manuscript for a play in two acts. Dated 1944. With autograph annotations by Walter Kerr.
Scrapbook
Brady, Anne M.
Clippings of articles written for the Long Island Catholic (1963-65).
TWA in-flight menu and guest list
Brady, Anne M.
for the Journey of Peace by Pope Paul VI from the Vatican to the United Nations, October 4, 1965.
Photograph of Brady with Pope John Paul II
Brady, Anne M.
following Mass in his private chapel, February 3, 1988.
A Book of Angels
Burnham, Sophy
c.1990
Typed manuscript
A Book of Angels
Burnham, Sophy
New York: Ballantine Books
1990
First edition. Inscribed.
Elizabeth Jennings Papers
Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926-2001
Acquired from Elizabeth Jennings.
Note: The Elizabeth Jennings Papers include letters from other important women writers such as Margaret Drabble, Laurie Lee, Ruth Pitter, Anne Ridler, Enid Starkie, and historian Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgewood.
Autograph manuscripts
Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926-2001
Notebook, January 1978.
Typed letter signed to Julie Kernan
Lavery, Emmet
April 14, 1975
Reference to Kernan’s book on Jacques Maritain.
Autograph letter signed to Julie Kernan
Maritain, Jacques
February 10, 1945
Maritain expresses regret that he must decline an invitation to write the preface to the French edition of a book by Thomas Kernan, Now with the Morning Star, published as Etoile du Matin, translated into French by Simone Maurois (Editions de la Maison Francaise, Inc., 1945; R. Juliard, 1946).
Our Friend Jacques Maritain
Kernan, Julie, 1901-
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
1975
Typed manuscript.
Flicka’s Friend
O'Hara, Mary
Typed manuscript (1978). Originally entitled, "Prodigal Daughter."
My Friend Flicka
Newman, Alfred
Facsimile of music score composed by Alfred Newman for the soundtrack to the 1942 motion picture of My Friend Flicka. Inscription from Newman’s son, Tim (on front flyleaf): "To Mary O’Hara, whose filly gave me such joy. Now I have "Flicka" and the music that Pappy wrote for Flicka and me. Tim Newman. Beverly Hills, Cal., Aug. 6, 1943."
Christmas card to Lisa Sergio
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1930
Inscribed by Millay: "Happy New Year! Edna." Includes inscription possibly by her husband Eugene Jan Boissevain: "Merry Christmas to you [signature illegible]."
2 typed letters signed to Lisa Sergio
Roosevelt, Eleanor
February 2, 1956
April 20, 1960
Art Talks All Languages
Sergio, Lisa, 1905-
May 8, 1948
Typescript for address given at the Western Arts Association Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Women -- the Power We Are Not Using
Sergio, Lisa, 1905-
Typescript of a memoranda dated August 1961.
Photograph
Sergio, Lisa, 1905-
Autograph caption in scrapbook containing the original reads: "Second broadcast from NBC, July 20, 1937, 11 p.m." (see above)
Autograph letter signed from Sitwell to Humphrey Searle
Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964
February 24, 1949
Reference to an upcoming performance of Searle’s composition for Gold Coast Customs, and to lunch at the Sesame Club to discuss the work.
Autograph letter signed from Sitwell to John M. Cohen
Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964
May 26, 1950
Sitwell expresses her pleasure in a proposed broadcast by Cohen about her poetry, and writes: "...I am indeed deeply grateful to you. It is a great moment in the life of a poet, when ones motives are understood with such completeness. This is one of those very rare occasions, and I thank you..." She goes on to propose lunch: "I have long wanted to meet you - ever since reading what you had to say about Arthur Waley’s "Chinese Poems" - it gave me as much pleasure as it gave him, and that is saying a very great deal. There are only a small handful of people, now, who understand poetry. But you go to the very roots and springs from which poetry begins...It would be a great pleasure to me if you could come and lunch with me..."
Autograph manuscript signed
Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964
The Road to Thebes.
Typed letter signed to Barbara Ward
Gandhi, Indira
March 20, 1975
Reference to Ward’s proposal to nominate Mother Teresa for a Nobel Peace Prize.
The Home of Man
Ward, Barbara
1976
Autograph and typed manuscripts.
