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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 2334
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Howard, Sarah Elizabeth, 1846-1925.
Contributor:
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):
West (U.S.)--Poetry.
West (U.S.).
Meeker, N. C. (Nathan Cook), 1817-1879.
Meeker, N. C.
Ute Indians--Wars, 1879.
Ute Indians.
Genre:
Poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Cheeseman, Josephine A. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)
Howard, Sarah Elizabeth, 1846-1924 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 2)
Physical Description:
128 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm
Place of Publication:
Denver : The Reed Pub. Co., 1902.
Notes:
Title vignette.
Mounted col. illus. on front cover.
Poems; includes portraits of the Meeker family and account of their fate.
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Josephine A. Cheeseman, Greeley, Col.
Schimmel Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy 1 has ms. note ("I knew Mrs howard and used to visit her when I went to Greeley wee lived in Evins") in pencil on verso of title leaf; ms. note ("I have been this house many times and knew the Meeker Family") in the same hand in pencil on plate opp. p. 40; ms. note ("the Grealy") in the same hand in pencil on p. 42; some ms. marks in pencil in text.
Schimmel Collection copy 1 has laid in a newspaper clipping from August 1907 with an article reporting the visit of Mrs. H.L. Sherman (i.e. Amelia Worswick Sherman, 1833-1919) and her sister Angeline Worswick (1831-1908) to England. A ms. note at foot reads: "This is Harris Shermans wife."
Schimmel Collection copy 2 signed by the author on p. [3].
OCLC:
1978724

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