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Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, financial records, and photographs of Mary Mapes Dodge, as well as an unfinished biography of her by Spencer Mapes--collected by Donald and Robert Mapes Dodge. Manuscripts of Mary Mapes Dodge include 4 pages of Donald and Dorothy, 11 pages of Hans Brinker, and 7 poems. In addition, there are poems by John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles Henry Webb, Celia Thaxter, Emily Huntington Miller, and Dora Read Goodale. Correspondents include Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Booker T. Washington. Included in the correspondence relating to the biography of Mary Mapes Dodge are letters from Faith Baldwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Albert Payson Terhune, and Clement Wood.
Collection History
- Archival Appraisal Information:
No appraisal information is available.
Access & Use
- Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions for Reproduction and Use:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Gelett Burgess; Donald and Robert M. Dodge Collection of Mary Mapes Dodge, C0113, Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
