A Guide to the Caroline May Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 8026
University of Virginia Library
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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
Caroline May Collection, Accession 8026, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Deposit [1963 Dec 17] 1965 Aug 19
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Anna Peyre Shackleford Dinnies
- Caroline May
- Eliza Townsend
- Harriet Winslow Liszt
- Laura M. Hawley Thurston
- Louisa Simes
- Maria A. Gowen Brooks
- Mary Elizabeth Aikin Brooks
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold
- Sarah Caroline Porter
- Sarah Wentworth Morton
- Sophia Louise Robbins Little
Item Listing
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Caroline May to Rufus Wilmot Griswold1848 May 1ALS, 4 p.
[Accepts Griswold's offer of assistance sent via Dr. Bethum, and asks him for aid in obtaining information about Sarah Caroline Porter , Sarah Wentworth Morton , Sophia Louise Robbins Little , Anna Peyre Shackleford Dinnies , Eliza Townsend , Harriet Winslow Liszt , Louisa Simes , Miss Pratt, Laura M. Hawley Thurston , Maria A. Gowen Brooks , and Mary Elizabeth Aikin Brooks for publication in her book, The American Female Poets . ]
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Caroline May to Rufus Wilmot GriswoldMondayANS, 2 p.
[Asks Griswold to let her have the rhymes he is not going to use, and reminds him of his promise to let her see the proof of her entry before it is published.]