A Guide to the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 6970
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Collection, Accession 6970, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1962 October 29
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick
- George Palmer Putnam
- J. Kirk
Item Listing
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick to George Palmer Putnam1852 Jul 7ALS , 3 p.
[Needs to know how long to make the article requested by Putnam "at any rate you will not wish it extended beyond what strictly belongs to the homestead" and apologizes for requesting the copy of the article on Berkshire . ]
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick to George Palmer Putnam1852 Aug 3ALS , 2 p.
[Sends the previously mentioned article (see July 7, 1852), mentions the difficulty in avoiding egotism on "a subject that opens the fountain of family love" and fears that in trying to avoid egotism she has delivered a formal, if not dull, piece.]
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick to George Palmer Putnam1852 Sep 12ALS , 2 p.
[Wonders which friend wrote the flattering article about her which has her family's approval and her gratitude.]
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick to George Palmer Putnamn.y. Jul 11ALS , 3 p.
[Replies to a note from Putnam that she has been working on the sketch, hopes to forward a sketch her friend has just finished in a day or two, asks him to have the Berkshire article copied for her and thanks him for sending some books.]
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C.M. Kirkland (pseudonym for Catharine Maria Sedgwick ) to George Palmer Putnamn.y. Aug 21ALS , 1 p.
[Sends seven pages on the Berkshire house in response to his letter received yesterday, asking him to edit them if necessary, regards the article as badly written and cautions him to have it carefully read.]