Lucy Dickinson Correspondence, 1905/1906

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], W. C. Thomas Papers, Ms1988-013, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Lucy Dickinson Correspondence, Ms1988-014, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Urquhart, Lucy Dickinson, 1881-1975
Abstract:
This collection includes three letters addressed to Lucy Dickinson, a student at Vassar College. Two of the letters are from Edward C. Root of New York, New York; the third, from Louise Bass of Atlanta, Georgia.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Lucy Dickinson Correspondence, Ms1988-014, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of three letters addressed to Lucy Dickinson, a student at Vassar College at the beginning of the 20th century. Two of the letters are from writer Edward Clary Root and relate to an unnamed manuscript written by Root (undoubtedly a draft of his 1906 novel, Hutington, Jr.: a Romance of Today) and critiqued by Dickinson. Root's letters discuss Dickinson's writings, as well as his own. A third letter, from Dickinson's personal friend, Louise Bass of Atlanta, Georgia, focuses on personal matters but also mentions Root's book.

Biographical / historical:

Lucy Dickinson Urquhart was born in 1881 in Marion, Virginia, to Dr. Smelt W. and Sarah Isabel Look Dickinson. She attended Virginia Intermont College, Vassar College, and Columbia University's Teacher College. She worked as an advertising copywriter in Lynchburg, Virginia, and was also heavily involved in the Smyth County Historical Society and the Marion Baptist Church. She married George D. Urquhart, and they had no children. She died in Roanoke on January 27, 1975.

Acquisition information:
The Lucy Dickinson Correspondence was acquired by Special Collections in 1988.
Processing information:

The processing and description of the Lucy Dickinson Correspondence commenced and was completed in November, 2018.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard