Overview
Includes correspondence, compositions, and drafts of novels written by American author and newspaper editor E. W. Howe.
Dates
- 1872-1969
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
52.5 linear feet (55 boxes)Correspondence (chiefly 1925-1937), manuscripts of writings, business papers, clippings, photographs, and printed material. Compositions include early and late drafts of The Story of a Country Town with many revisions, early drafts and printer's copy of his autobiography Plain People, and early drafts of The Mystery of the Locks and of A Moonlight Boy. There are also 14 part-books for the play version of Story of a Country Town. There are also letters of sympathy on Howe's death sent to his niece Adelaide Howe, together with other correspondence of Adelaide Howe.
Biographical / Historical
Howe was an American newspaper editor and author, best known for his grim portrayal of small town life, The Story of a Country Town.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- I. Letters to Edgar Watson Howe
- II. Letters from Edgar Watson Howe
- III. Letters to Adelaide Howe
- IV. Other letters
- V. Compositions
- VI. Other papers
- VII. Business papers
- VIII. Miscellaneous
Physical Location
b, pf
Immediate Source of Acquisition
69M-134. Purchased with the Amy Lowell Fund; received: 1970 March 19.
- Title
- Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937. Edgar Watson Howe papers, 1872-1969: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01036
Repository Details
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