Album of letters and autographs from New York, New Jersey and Boston literary circles
Overview
Album of autographs and letters by members of New York, New Jersey and Boston writing and publishing circles, mostly women. Collected by Annie Isabel (Willis) McCullough, a journalist and children's writer active 1889-1916. Some of the correspondence relates to Wellesley College, which she entered about 1884. She married William H. McCullough in 1894.
Dates
- Creation: 1867-1909
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
No access restriction
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Extent
1 volume
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
Autograph album: consisting of about 50 autographs (usually cut from letters) of East Coast members of editorial (book, magazine, newspaper) circles, often accompanied by a clipping of a photograph; and about 40 letters, many addressed to Miss Willis (before 1894) or Mrs. McCullough (after 1895); some to editors, authors, or interviewees; those not addressed to Miss Willis appear to have been acquired in the course of her jobs. Most signatures are those of women.
Wellesley College material 1884-1898.
Physical Location
MS E68
Other Finding Aids
For a detailed description: ksrl.sc.mccullough.pdf
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Mrs. Cerf, 1959?
Separated Materials
Two letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes to Annie Isabel (Willis) McCullough have been removed to the Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Collection at MS P147A.
- Title
- Guide to the Annie Isabel (Willis) McCullough Collection
- Subtitle
- Album of letters and autographs from New York, New Jersey and Boston literary circles, 1867-1909
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by alh, 1963; revised by ksc, 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in<language encodinganalog="language">English.</language>
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/8498293563
- Preferred citation
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Annie Isabel (Willis) McCullough Collection, Department of Special Collections, MS E68, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository