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Miscellaneous notes, Mary Hartwell Catherwood papers, 1894-1898

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Title Miscellaneous notes, Mary Hartwell Catherwood papers, 1894-1898

Creator Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, 1847-1902

Date 1894-1898

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 Manners, Customs and Dress during the Middle Ages. By Paul Lacroix.
(Curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris.)
The costume of men seemed to be trunk hose, [[pointed?]] shoes, short tunic not open in front with often sleeves only to elbows (when mail covered arms.) Peasants coats looking like close smocks. They wore round hats like flat soft felts.
"Strange as it may seem, it must be acknowledged that, with a few exceptions resulting from the progress of time, it would not be difficult even at the present day to find the exact type maintained in the county districts farthest away from the capital and large towns; at all events they were faithfully represented at the time of the revolution of 1789.
We gather from this poem - that the manse or dwelling of the villian comprised three distinct buildings: the first for the corn, the second for the hay and straw, and the third for the man and his family. In this rustic abode a fire of vine branches and faggots

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Archival Collection Title Mary Hartwell Catherwood papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Catherwood Box 1 Folder 6

BibID 991639188805867

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2609px × 3997px 29.87 MB

Filename 991639188805867_mms_catherwood_box_01_fl_006_001_01.tif

Unique Identifier NL11BGVL

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