LINCOLN PUBLIC
LIBRARY
Bedford Road,
Lincoln, Massachusetts
ARCHIVES/
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Lincoln Authors
Collection
2004.014
Processed by William F. Carroll, CA
June 2004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Series Subseries
Page
Box
Collection Information
3
Historical/Biographical Notes
4
Scope and Content
4
Series Description
4
1
Publications
5
1
2
Sources
6
1
Collection Information
Abstract : Articles and biographical information about Lincoln authors of the 20th century.
Finding Aid : Finding Aid in print form is available in the Repository
Preferred Citation : Archives/Special Collections of the Lincoln Public Library, Lincoln,
Massachusetts.
Provenance : Found in archives.
MARC Access: Collection is catalogued in MARC under the following subject headings (lcsh,
aat, gmgpc, etc.)
Authors, American -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln. lcsh
Authors, American -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln -- Biography. lcsh
Women authors, American -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln. lcsh
Blake, Charles H.
Hill, Dorothy B.
Brooks, Paul, 1909Dean, I. Margaret
Peirce, Robert Henry
Gropius, Ise
DeVoto, Bernard, 1897Kane, Henry Bugbee, 1902-1971.
Floyd, Olive, 1901-1985.
Smith, A. W. (Archibald William), 1897-1962.
Malone, Dumas, 1892Lancaster, Bruce, 1896-1963.
Kindleberger, Charles P. (Charles Poor), 1910Criss, Mildred, 1890Briggs, Susan Lennox
Historical/Biographical Notes
Through the twentieth century Lincoln has had a significant number of authors living within the
town. Lincoln authors have published fiction, non-fiction, full-length books and articles, in a
variety of subjects.
Scope and Content
The collection comprises articles on various subjects written by six Lincoln authors, and
secondary source materials providing biographical information about another ten local authors.
Series Descriptions
Series 1: Publications, ca. 1930-1980s. (9 items)
Series 2: Sources, ca. 1930s-1950s. (50 items)
Lincoln Authors Collection
2004.014
Series 1, Publications
Box # Folder #
Identification #
Description
1
1
2004.014.1.1
They attack wood, living agencies of timber
destruction : 4 p., ill. / Charles H. Blake, in
Technology Review, January 1939.
1
1
2004.014.1.2
Swallow notes : 1 p. / Charles H. Blake, in Bulletin
of Mass. Audubon Society, October 1947.
1
2
2004.014.1.3
Keeping and making old friends and new : 2 p. /
Dorothy B. Hill, in American Home, ca. 1930s.
1
3
2004.014.1.4
Two in a canoe : 3 p. / Paul Brooks, in Atlantic,
July 1942. (2 copies)
1
4
2004.014.1.5
A rolling we will go : ill. / Margaret Dean, in
A.Y.H. Knapsack, Spring 1940, p. 18-23.
1
5
2004.014.1.6
A handbook for skiers : ill., not paginated / Robert
Henry Peirce of Lincoln, n.d.
1
6
2004.014.1.7
Bird panorama in a Lincoln garden : 6 p. / Ise
Gropius, in Bulletin of Mass. Audubon Society,
November 1943, p. 201-206.
1
6
2004.014.1.8
Queer bird behavior : 1 p. / Ise Gropius, in Bulletin
of Mass. Audubon Society, October 1947, p. 235.
1
6
2004.014.1.9
Prepare for hummers : 2 p. / Ise Gropius, in
Bulletin of Mass. Audubon Society, May 1946, p.
129-130.
Lincoln Authors Collection
2004.014
Series 2, Sources
Box # Folder #
Identification #
Description
1
7
2004.014.2.1
Millennial millions, the story of the Mormons : 3 p.,
ill. / Bernard DeVoto, in Saturday Review of
Literature, August 26, 1939.
1
7
2004.014.2.2
Review of We accept with pleasure, by Bernard
DeVoto : clipping / Boston Herald, September 22,
1934.
1
7
2004.014.2.3
Review of Mark Twain in eruption, edited by
Bernard DeVoto / n.d.
1
7
2004.014.2.4
Review of We accept with pleasure : clipping / S.l.,
s.n., n.d.
1
7
2004.014.2.5
Biographical notes relating to Bernard DeVoto and
synopsis of We accept with pleasure : dust jacket /
n.d.
1
7
2004.014.2.6
Biographical notes relating to Bernard DeVoto and
synopsis of Forays and rebuttals : dust jacket / n.d.
1
7
2004.014.2.7
Review of Forays and rebuttals : clipping / George
F. Whicher, S.l., s.n., n.d.
1
7
2004.014.2.8
Fossil remnants of the frontier : 11 p. / Bernard
DeVoto, in Harpers Monthly Magazine, n.d.
1
7
2004.014.2.9
Review of Forward the nation, by Donald Culross
Peattie / Bernard DeVoto, in Atlantic, n.d.
1
7
2004.014.2.10
Review of The year of decision, by Bernard DeVoto
/ Paul I Wellman, in Saturday Review, April 3,
1943.
1
7
2004.014.2.11
Biographical information relating to Bernard
DeVoto / in Wilson Bulletin, n.d.
6
Series 2, continued
1
7
2004.014.2.12
Review of Minority report, by Bernard DeVoto /
John Temple Graves, S.l., s.n., n.d.
1
7
2004.014.2.13-.14
Biographical notes relating to Bernard DeVoto /
unidentified dust covers, n.d.
(2 items)
1
7
2004.014.2.15-.22
Biographical information and other information
about author Bernard DeVoto : clippings / n.d.
(8 items)
1
8
2004.014.2.23
Information about Henry Bugbee Kane, Lincoln
author / Gale Literary Database Document, 4 p.
1
8
2004.014.2.24
Two reviews of Cache Lake country, illustrated by
Henry B. Kane / S.l., s.n., n.d.
1
8
2004.014.2.25
Review of Our flowering world, by Rutherford Platt
/ Henry Bugbee Kane, n.d.
1
8
2004.014.2.26
Thoreau's Walden, a photographic register,
synopsis / Henry Bugbee Kane, n.d.
1
8
2004.014.2.27
Review of Thoreau's Walden / S.l, s.n., n.d.
1
8
2004.014.2.28
Dust jacket of Thoreau's Walden, with biographical
information about Kane / n.d.
1
8
2004.014.2.29
Advertisement for Henry B. Kane nature
photographs / in Bulletin of Mass. Audubon
Society, October 1947.
1
8
2004.014.2.30-.35
Dust jackets from six of the Wild World Tales, by
Henry B. Kane / n.d.
(6 items)
1
9
2004.014.2.36-.39
Four reviews of Doctora in Mexico, by Olive Floyd
: clippings / 1944.
(4 items)
7
Series 2, continued
1
9
2004.014.2.40
Biographical information about Olive Floyd :
clipping / Boston Sunday Post, April 2, 1944.
1
9
2004.014.2.41
Dust jacket from Doctora in Mexico, with synopsis
/ ca. 1944.
1
10
2004.014.2.42
Biographical information about Archibald William
Smith, Lincoln author : dust jacket clipping / n.d.
1
10
2004.014.2.43
Information relating to the works of Dumas Malone
: dust jacket clipping / n.d.
1
10
2004.014.2.44
Information about Harvard University Press, Dumas
malone, director : clipping / January 23, 1937.
1
11
2004.014.2.45-.46
Information about Bruce Lancaster and his writings
: dust jacket and clipping / n.d.
(2 items)
1
12
2004.014.2.47
Biographical information and information about
writings of Dr. Charles P. Kindleberger, economist :
dust jacket clipping / n.d.
1
13
2004.014.2.48
Biographical information about Mildred Criss,
Lincoln author : dust jacket clipping / n.d.
1
14
2004.014.2.49
Information relating to Susan Briggs, Lincoln
resident and nurse in Boston : dust jacket clipping /
n.d.
1
15
2004.014.2.50
Miscellaneous Lincoln authors and writers :
clippings and notes / ca. 1950s.
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