A memorial of Alice and Phœbe Cary : with some of their later poems / by Mary Clemmer Ames ; illustrated by two portraits on steel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clemmer, Mary, 1839-1884, author.

Contributor:

Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cary, Alice, 1820-1871.

Cary, Alice.

Cary, Phoebe, 1824-1871.

Cary, Phoebe.

Genre:

Poetry.

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Wendel, Mr. and Mrs. (donor) (RBC copy)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Lewis, Mary Kennedy, 1840-1921 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 351 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

Cambridge : Riverside Press, 1873.

Riverside, Cambridge : Stereotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton and Company.

Other Title:

Alice and Phœbe Cary : with their later poems

Place of Publication:

New York : Published by Hurd and Houghton ..., 1873.

Notes:

Portraits (plates with guard tissues) include facsimile autographs.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy has some manuscript marks in pencil in text.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Mrs. W.C. Lewis Jackson") of Mary Lewis (née Kennedy; 1840-1921), wife of Willard C. Lewis (1833-1892) of Jackson, Michigan, on front free endpaper; dated 19th-century autograph ("Mary K. Lewis. Jackson, Dec 25th / 75") of the same person on blank leaf preceding frontispiece plate.

Schimmel Collection copy has clipping from an unidentified publication with Phoebe Cary's poem "Answered" affixed to page [352]; clipping from an unidentified publication headed "The late Alice Cary" affixed to page [352].

Cited in:

BAL 2850 [under Alice Cary].

BAL 2914 [under Phoebe Cary].

Contains:

Cary, Alice, 1820-1871. Poems. Selections.

Cary, Phoebe, 1824-1871. Poems. Selections.

OCLC:

1125904