PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00071::Catharine Maria Sedgwick Collection)//EN" "ViU00071.sgm" A Guide to the Catharine Maria Sedgwick CollectionSedgwick, Catharine Maria. 6970Processed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Courtney BoissonnaultFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00071::Catharine Maria Sedgwick Collection)//EN" "ViU00071.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 6970

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #6970 Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Collection 1852 6970 6 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick Collection, Accession 6970, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

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Purchase, 1962 October 29

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Item Listing Letters Catharine Maria Sedgwickto George Palmer Putnam 1852 Jul 7 ALS, 3 p.

[Needs to know how long to make the article requested by Putnam "at any rate you will not wish it extended beyond what strictly belongs to the homestead" and apologizes for requesting the copy of the article on Berkshire. ]

 Catharine Maria Sedgwickto George Palmer Putnam 1852 Aug 3 ALS, 2 p.

[Sends the previously mentioned article (see July 7, 1852), mentions the difficulty in avoiding egotism on "a subject that opens the fountain of family love" and fears that in trying to avoid egotism she has delivered a formal, if not dull, piece.]

 Catharine Maria Sedgwickto George Palmer Putnam 1852 Sep 12 ALS, 2 p.

[Wonders which friend wrote the flattering article about her which has her family's approval and her gratitude.]

 Catharine Maria Sedgwickto George Palmer Putnam n.y. Jul 11 ALS, 3 p.

[Replies to a note from Putnam that she has been working on the sketch, hopes to forward a sketch her friend has just finished in a day or two, asks him to have the Berkshirearticle copied for her and thanks him for sending some books.]

 C.M. Kirkland (pseudonym for Catharine Maria Sedgwick) to George Palmer Putnam n.y. Aug 21 ALS, 1 p.

[Sends seven pages on the Berkshirehouse in response to his letter received yesterday, asking him to edit them if necessary, regards the article as badly written and cautions him to have it carefully read.]

 Photographs and prints "The Sedgwick Mansion, Stockbridge, Massachusetts" by J. Kirk, published by G.P. Putnam & Company, New York n.d. Engraving