Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
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MS Am 2127
Howe family.
Howe, Richards, and Robinson family papers,
1869-1961.
1 box and 2 volumes (.5 linear ft.)
Collection materials are in English.
Correspondence and compositions by American author and suffragist Julia Ward Howe, by
American author Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, and by American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.
62M-313 - 62M-328. Gift of Miss Rosalind Richards of
Gardner, Maine; received: 1963.
Collection was restricted until the restriction was removed by Mrs. Eliot T. Putnam in June 2001.
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation for Publication:
Howe, Richards, and Robinson Family Papers, 1869-1961 (MS Am 2127). Houghton Library, Harvard
University.
Julia Ward Howe was the author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and other works and a women's
suffrage and club leader and lecturer; her daughter was author Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, and
her granddaughter was Rosalind Richards. Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and
acquaintance of the Howe/Richards family.
Arranged alphabetically by author.
Collection documents all three families and Gardiner, Maine. Includes correspondence,
compositions, photograph, and notebooks of verse.
(1)
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886- 2 A.L.s. to Rosalind Richards:
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Cornwall, 5 Jan 1949. 1s. (2p.)
-
Bridgewater, 15 Sep 1961. 1s. (2p.)
*62M-316
(2)
Howe, Julia (Ward) 1819-1910. 58 letters to Laura Elizabeth (Howe)
Richards;
1864-1909
& [n.d.]
4 folders.
*62M-318
(3)
Howe, Julia (Ward) 1819-1910. A.L.s. to Rosalind Richards;
[Boston] 17 Apr 1910.
1s. (4p.) env.
With typed transcript of letter, same to same, 17 Oct 1909.
*62M-319
(4)
Kidder, Elizabeth (Huidekoper) 4 letters to Laura Elizabeth (Howe)
Richards:
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Boston, 11 Jan 1939. 2s. (2p.)
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Meadville, 16 May 1942. 2s. (7p.)
- Same, 19 Dec 1942.
1s. (2p.)
-
Hill Home, 26 [n.d.] 1s. (4p.)
*62M-315
(5)
Richards, Henry, 1848-
Mr. Edward Robinson and his family, and Maine background...taken down by
R[osalind] R[ichards, with her comments and additions] TS.; [n.p., n.d.]
18f. (18p.)
*62M-325
(6)
Richards, Laura Elizabeth (Howe), 1850-1943. A few more notes on
E[dward] A[rlington] R[obinson]...dictated to R[osalind] R[ichards]
TS.; [n.p., n.d.]
13f. (13p.)
Set down for Herman Hagedorn; with notes on letters, and a letter from
L.E.R. to the Portland Press Herald.
*62M-324
(7)
Richards, Laura Elizabeth (Howe), 1850-1943. 23 letters to Sarah
and Mary Jewett;
1892-1930
& [n.d.]
*62M-317
(8)
Richards, Laura Elizabeth (Howe), 1850-1943. 3 letters to Katharine
Loring:
- [Boston] 9 Feb 1897. 1s. (4p.)
-
Georgetown, 14 Aug 1934.1s. (2p.)
-
Camp Merryweather, 23 Aug 1934. 1s. (2p.)
*62M-314
MS
(9)
Richards, Laura Elizabeth (Howe), 1850-1943. [Notebook of verse] A.MS.s.;
[n.p.] 1880-1886.
76f. (151p.) in 1 v.
Shelved with (10). *62M-321
MS
(10)
Richards, Laura Elizabeth (Howe), 1850-1943. [Notebook of verse] A.MS.s.;
[n.p.] 1886-1889.
60f. (120p.) in 1 v.
Shelved with (9).
*62M-320
MS
(11)
Richards, Laura Elizabeth (Howe), 1850-1943. [Notebook of verse] A.MS.s.;
[n.p.] 1889-1891.
26f. (52p.) in 1 v.
*62M-322
bMS
(12)
Richards, Laura Elizabeth (Howe) 1850-1943. Portrait: photograph at age 19,
ca.1869.
A reproduction from an original.
*62M-327
(13)
Richards, Rosalind, 1874-
John Hays Gardiner. TS.s.; [Gardiner] Jan 1963.
2s. (2p.)
With transcript of memorial notice on Garding from Harvard Alumni Bulletin,
21 May 1913.
2s. (2p.)
*62M-326
(14)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935. 3 A.L.s. to Laura Elizabeth
(Howe) Richards:
-
New York, 5 Jun 1905. 1s. (1p.)
- [Same] 21 Nov 1922.
1s. (1p.) env.
-
Peterboro, 27 Aug 1930. 2s. (2p.) env.
*62M-313
(15)
[Copies of letters from various persons, concerning Edwin Arlington
Robinson]
1 folder.
"The originals of these letters may be in the Houghton Library."
*62M-323
(16)
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin, 1831-1917. Portrait: photograph, with unidentified
grandchild.
*62M-328