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Outgoing correspondence, Mary Hartwell Catherwood correspondence, 1874-1875

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Title Outgoing correspondence, Mary Hartwell Catherwood correspondence, 1874-1875

Creator Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, 1847-1902

Date 1874-1875

Language English

Subjects Novelists, American, Women authors, American

Summary Mainly Catherwood's outgoing correspondence, and manuscript and published works, 1874-1902. Also a few incoming letters, diaries, notebooks, notes for stories, clippings, photographs, and some later miscellaneous material relating to her life and career. Catherwood's letters are mainly written to her aunt, Harriet H. DeVault, to a friend, Eleanor Ruthrauff, and to her husband, James Steele Catherwood. Her incoming correspondence includes two original letters from Sir John George Bourinot and Otis Skinner, and copies of letters from James Whitcomb Riley and Eugene Field. The three notebooks contain jottings, ideas for writing and miscellaneous notes. There is also a small diary kept on an 1891 ocean voyage, some recipes, photographs of Catherwood (ca. 1902) and Otis Skinner (1902), and a copy of a Thomas Nast drawing.

Biographical/Historical Note Writer of romantic historical novels and short stories. Born in Ohio in 1847, Mary Hartwell Catherwood spent most of her life in small Midwestern towns and finally settled in Chicago shortly before her death in 1902. She wrote historical romances, both short stories and novels, most of which were based in the towns of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois or in colonial French Canada.

Extent ca. 150 items (2 boxes)

Format Correspondence, Fiction, Photographs

User-Contributed Transcription Newburgh, NY.
Monday_ Sept [1874?]
Dear Folks,
Please write to me. I have not had any letters yet: either home letters or forwarded letters. I do hope you are all well! How is the baby? Bless his little rosy face! I would love to see him & all of you. I hope you are having a good time. I love you all and think lots about you. Though I am having a splendid time. My [[Tenoroon?]] is lovely. I think she is the handsomest woman I ever saw, & so little and girlish! We took lunch at a restaurant this evening, then went out rowing on the river: - taking the swells of steamers and the ferry boats. No use trying to tell you how heavenly it is! And the pinky light in the mountains, and the red lamps slanting across the water, & boats, ships, schooners,

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Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative.

Archival Collection Title Mary Hartwell Catherwood papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Catherwood Box 1 Folder 1

BibID 991639188805867

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3450px × 4349px 42.96 MB

Filename 991639188805867_mms_catherwood_box_01_fl_001_001_01.tif

Unique Identifier NL11BGON

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