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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection includes letters and poems by poet and artist, Mary Warham Forster (1852-1931). Letters contain a description of a trip to Geneva, Switzerland and descriptions of African Americans who worked for her family in South Carolina.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Accruals:
Book of poems was found in the book collection. OCLC #13077404.
Acquisition Source:
Found in Collections.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Folder 1
- Barcode: 31234013928278
- Item 1: Miss Mary W. Forster Trip, n.d.
- Seems to be a typed copy of a letter Mary wrote from Geneva, Switzerland describing the city.
- Item 2: AL [Mary W. Forster] to J.F. Speed, n.d.
- An unsigned letter that appears to be written by Forster in which she talks about a book he loaned her (Aeneas Africanus) and African Americans she knew in her childhood in Columbia, SC.
- Item 3: Poem-Untitled, n.d.
- Manuscript poem signed.
- Item 4: Poem-Untitled, n.d.
- Typed poem by Forster.
- Item 5: Poem-An Appeal, n.d.
- Typed poem by Forster.
- Item 6: Poem-As One Whom His Mother Comforteth, 1904
- Typed poem by Forster.
- Item 7: Poem-The Long Grey Moss, 1907
- Typed poem by Forster.
- Item 8: Poem-The British Trawlers, 1918
- Typed poem by Forster.
- Item 9: Poem-Friend Death, 1922
- Typed poem by Forster.
- Item 10: Poems, 1904-1913
- Hand bound volume of manuscript poems, inscribed to Marion Forster Gilmore and signed by the poet.
