Sarah Orne Jewett letters, 1877 June 15 - circa 1881-1890.

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Sarah Orne Jewett letters 1877 June 15-circa 1890s

Collection #RL.11414 | 0.1 Linear Feet (2 items)

ABSTRACT
The Sarah Orne Jewett letters consist of two pieces of correspondence written by the author to an editor, Mr. Sawyer, and to Lucy Coffin. Sarah Orne Jewett was a well-known 19th century author whose fiction is set in her native rural Maine. In the first letter, Jewett declines to send Mr. Sawyer anything to print in the first issue of his magazine, as she has been ill and busy, and doesn't want to write something in a hurry, although she wishes him well with his new publication. The second is a condolence letter to Lucy Coffin of Newbury, Massachusetts on the loss of her father. The Coffins were a prominent Massachusetts family.

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