Verses / by Elizabeth Vinton Pierce 1888-1917.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierce, Elizabeth Vinton, 1888-1917.

Contributor:

Pierce, Elizabeth Stallo Vinton, 1855-1936, editor.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indiana--Poetry.

Indiana.

Penn Provenance:

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

John Stewart Memorial Library (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

30, [2] p. : 1 ill., port. ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Greenfield, Ind. : Old Swimmin' Hole Press, 1931.

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on p. [32].

Portrait mounted on title-page.

"Made into a printed book by the mother of the author [i.e. Elizabeth Stallo Vinton Pierce] In remembrance"--T.p. verso.

Nine sheets with memorial poems, etc., laid in: 7 sheets (1 with obituary titled "Elizabeth Virginia Pierce (afterwards, at her own request, changed to Elizabeth Vinton Pierce) March 23, 1888-July 17, 1917" and signed "Mother", 1 titled "Excerpt from a birthday letter from her father" and signed "Henry D. Pierce 1848-1929", 1 untitled with 5 quotations about Elizabeth Vinton Pierce signed with various initials, and 4 with individual poems: untitled poem signed "Douglas", poem titled "In memoriam--E.V.P." and signed "W.B.G.", poem titled "The rose still grows beyond the wall" and signed "A.L. Frink", and poem titled "Tendresse" and signed "W.B. G.") and 2 folded sheets (each [2] leaves, 1 with memoir titled "My sister Elizabeth 1888-1917" and signed "Theresa" and 1 with poem titled "A portrait" and signed "Elizabeth Barrett Browning").

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has stamp ("WILSON COLLEGE LIBRARY CHAMBERSBURG, PA") on title leaf and back pastedown; stamp ("THE JOHN STEWART MEMORIAL LIBRARY WILSON COLLEGE CHAMBERSBURG, - PA.") on p. 30.

Schimmel Collection copy has laid in visiting card ("Mrs. Henry Douglas Pierce 1415 North Meridian Street") of Elizabeth Stallo Vinton Pierce.

OCLC:

18582722