University Park , PA Pennsylvania State University Sheet music by and about women, 1794-1945. Composers include Eliza Cook, Mary Earl, Dorothy Forster, Virginia Gabriel, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Anita Owen, Dorothy R. Parker, Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst, Gertrude Martin Rohrer, Mary Turner Salter, Mary Dana Shindler, Ella Wheeler Wilcox , and Septimus Winner. Forms part of the Clifton Waller Barrett Library. Forms part of the Clifton Waller Barrett Library. The collection contains manuscripts of ten poems and essays, and four quotations.
Correspondence is chiefly professional.
Letters to Edward Bok concern editorial matters, a misunderstanding re copyright, and a forged letter designed to stir up enmity between the two. Letters to James Burton Pond concern her promotion of harpist Mabel Monroe. Other letters concern submissions, serial rights, reprints and the promotion of new talent. Several letters describe life in France in 1918, her speaking engagements for the troops and her admiration for Leon Dennis. Her interest in psychics and in the poetry of Richard Le Gallienne are also mentioned.