Writings and Notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Emmet family
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content: Emmet family papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Folders (Box 7)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1870s-1981
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.emmefami, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Series is scanned in entirety with the exception of Out of Town, of which only the cover and title page have been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Writings and notes include two illustrated notebooks, one belonging to Jane Erin Emmet de Glehn, with contains accounting information and sketches. Notes include an address by Elsie Burr Sherwood on Rosina Emmet Sherwood, given at the Woman's Club of El Paso in 1926, and notes relating to Rosina Emmet's 1887 visit to Buckingham Palace, where she met Queen Victoria. Also found is a manuscript handwritten by Rosamond Sherwood entitled "Jane Emmet," with the notation "a short history sent to Barbara Tebitt in 1981 by request."

Manuscripts include a mock newspaper, "The Mallow Weekly," containing accounts of family activities, as well as an account of a stage coach trip to Mexico by R. T Emmet, possibly fictional, and an account of a nest of robins written by Rosina Emmet Sherwood. The series also includes a book, Out of Town, written and illustrated by Rosina Emmet Sherwood.

Poems include "Invitation to the Canary Bird," accompanied by a small watercolor, to Jeanette Emmet, and poems by other members of the Emmet family including William Jenkins Emmet, Julia Colt Pierson Emmet, Arthur M. Sherwood, and possibly Rosina Emmet Sherwood; and handwritten poems by others including "To Marie Kobbe," and "Autumn Daybreak" by Edna St. Vincent Millay written in Millay's handwriting, with the notation "given to Rosamond Sherwood one evening at Owen Johnson's house in Stockbridge."