Sarah Helen Whitman papers (Ms. 79.11)
Brown University Library
Box A, John Hay LibraryBrown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
Fax: 401-863-2093
E-mail: hay@brown.edu
Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION | |
| Acquisition: | In her will, Sarah Helen Whitman left all her papers and the literary rights to those papers to Charlotte Field Daily and Maud Daily Chace. These two sisters must have placed the collection in some kind of order because their notes run throughout the papers. They originally planned to place the entire collection in the Caleb Fiske Harris Collection at Brown University, yet their plan was never carried through. After Charlotte died, her sister asked Anna Garland Spencer to help her sell the collection. At the time, around 1924, a large part of the collection was sold to the University of Virginia. The remaining papers were given to Brown in 1937 by Louise B. Chace, who was the wife of Henry R. Chace, the son of Maud Daily Chace. |
| Processing information: | This finding aid represents the second effort to process the Sarah Helen Whitman papers; it largely involved re-gathering materials which had been dispersed in the initial cataloguing. It is hoped that this latest effort will aid researchers in their use of the collection by providing a description of the papers in its entirety. |
| ABOUT THE FINDING AID | |
| Author: | Finding aid prepared by John Hay Library staff. |
| Encoding: | Finding aid encoded by Daniel Mejia 2008 October 28 |
