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By Sarah Osorio
Collection Overview
Title: Margaret Haley Carpenter Papers, 1906-1983![Add to your cart. Add to your cart.](themes/smcarchives/images/addtocart.gif)
ID: 001/01/MSS 0000-209
Primary Creator: Carpenter, Margaret Haley (1917-1985)
Extent: 4.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Arranged roughly by record type.
Date Acquired: 11/30/2006
Subjects: Women authors, American--20th century
Forms of Material: Announcements, Autograph albums, Books, Christmas cards, Clippings (information artifacts), Correspondence, Crowns (headdresses), Financial statements, Lists (document genres), Membership lists, Notes, Programs, Receipts, Scrapbooks, Stickers
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Correspondence, books, poems, and writings by Margaret Haley Carpenter of Norfolk, Virginia along with other materials that appear to have been collected by her, including correspondence belonging to William Stanley Braithwaite and Sara Teasdale. The collection also includes membership lists for various literary organizations and miscellaneous ephemera (itemized) that does not seem related to this collection.
Biographical Note
Margaret Haley Carpenter was born on June 30, 1917 in Louisa County, Virginia. She was a teacher for Norfolk schools from 1938-1958. Carpenter was also a writer, publishing Sara Teasdale: A Biography, A Gift For the Princess of Springtime, and several volumes of poetry. She was a former president for the Virginia Poetry Society. Carpenter died on May 12, 1985 in Norfolk, Virginia and was buried at Bethpage Christian Church Cemetery in Mineral, Virginia.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Access Restrictions:
This collection is open to all researchers.
Use Restrictions:
The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.). Copyright restrictions may apply.
Acquisition Source:
Purchase
Preferred Citation:
Margaret Haley Carpenter Papers, MSS 0000-209, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Processing Information:
Processed June 25, 2020.
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- Box 2
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- Folder 1: Blank Christmas Cards, Snow Solitude, undated
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- Created by Margaret Haley Carpenter.
- Folder 2: Play, Moon Miracle, undated
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- By Margaret Haley Carpenter. Reprint.
- Folder 3: Programs, 1929-1968
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- Folder 4: Receipts, circa 1957-1959
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- Folder 5: Scrapbook, Clippings, circa 1920s
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- Includes clippings on Julia Johnson Davis, Josephine Johnson, Irene Leache Memorial Association, poetry, and art.
- Folder 6: Clippings, Twenty Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1920
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- Folder 7: Clippings, circa 1950s
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- Folder 8: Membership List, American Association of University Women, St. Louis, undated
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- Folder 9: Membership List, The Friday Club of Chicago, 1959-1960
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- Folder 10: Membership List, The Guild of the Chicago Historical Society, 1959 July 1
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- Folder 11: Membership List, Poetry Society, undated
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- Folder 12: Membership List, "Wednesday Club List", undated
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- Folder 13: Lists, Miscellaneous, undated
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- Folder 14: Notes, undated
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- Folder 15: Correspondence of William Stanley Braithwaite, 1909-1935
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- Folder 16: Correspondence to Sara Teasdale, circa 1907-1928
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- Folder 17: Miscellaneous Ephemera, 1906-1944
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- Item 1: Monthly Statement, Mrs. Ida Harrison, Norfolk, Virginia, 1906 July 5
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- In account with The Singer Manufacturing Co.
- Item 2: Correspondence, Private Walton P. Davis to Miss Loree Davis, 1918 July 21
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- From American E. F. France to Edinburg, Indiana.
- Item 3: Correspondence, Private Walton P. Davis to Miss Loree Davis, 1918 August 29
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- From American E. F. France to Edinburg, Indiana.
- Item 4: Correspondence, Unknown to Bruce W. Challer, 1941 July 14
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- Sent from Buffalo, New York to Chicago, Illinois.
- Item 5: Program, Norfolk Symphony Orchestra, 1943-1944
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- Includes autographs.
- Item 6: Correspondence, Albert W. Hawkes to K. F. Treschow, 1944 February 1
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- Item 7: Correspondence, Albert W. Hawkes to K. F. Treschow, 1944 February 2
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