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Scope and Contents of the Collection
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| Creator: | Widdemer, Mabel Cleland. |
| Title: | Mabel Cleland Widdemer Papers |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1921-1963 |
| Quantity: | 1.5 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | American poet and children's author. Collection contains correspondence, printed material, clippings, subject files. Note that the entire collection consists of photocopies (no original items). |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Biographical History
Mabel Cleland Widdemer (1893-1964) was an American poet and children's author. She wrote several books for the "Childhood of Famous Americans" series published by Bobbs-Merrill, including biographies of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Washington Irving, James Monroe and DeWitt Clinton. Margaret Widdemer (1884-1978) was Mabel's sister-in-law; she was also an author and won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Mabel Cleland Widdemer Papers includes correspondence, memorabilia, and writings. Note that the entire collection consists of photocopies (no original items).
Correspondence includes friends, relatives, publishers, fellow authors, and letters from readers.
Memorabilia contains clippings, letters, and transcripts of radio shows where Widdemer's work was discussed.
Writings contains articles, a few items of poetry, and assorted other items.
Restrictions
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Subject Headings
Persons
Subjects
Genres and Forms
Occupations
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Mabel Cleland Widdemer Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mabel Cleland Widdemer, 1962.
Finding Aid Information
Created by: MRC
Date: 31 Oct 2010
Revision history: 28 Sep 2018 - processed (MS)
Inventory
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | American Boy 1924 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | American Girl 1925-1935, 1946, 1948, 1950-1954, undated - includes a folder of reader responses (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | American Library in Paris 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The American Magazine 1932 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | American Telephone & Telegraph 1946-1947, 1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Arcadia House 1928-1929, 1938, 1940 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Atlantic Publications 1928 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Authors' Guild of the Authors' League of America 1923, 1962 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Briggs, Olga Hampel 1949-1950, 1954, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Child Life 1924-1928, 1938, 1943 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Classmate 1926-1927, 1930, 1941-1943 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Cleland, Mabel undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Collier's 1926, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Detroit Public Library 1953-1954, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Doubleday & Company 1948, 1952, 1959, 1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Eugene Field Society 1940 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Everygirl's 1926-1928 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Farrar & Rinehart 1931-1934, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fleming H. Revell Company 1947 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Graves, Ralph H. 1939-1941 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Greene, Nelson 1949-1951, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Harcourt, Brace and Company 1924-1928, 1935, 1938, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Harold Ober Associates 1953-1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Holland Society of New York 1949 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Household Magazine 1928 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | International Mark Twain Society 1946, 1950 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | J. B. Lippincott 1922, 1951-1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Life 1921-1924 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Lyric 1953 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Music Corporation of America 1939 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | New Fiction Publishing Corporation 1921-1923 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | New York Association for the Blind 1933, 1936, 1948, 1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The New Yorker 1928 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Pen and Brush 1948, 1951, 1954 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Portal 1924-1938, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Rand McNally & Company 1953-1954 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Reynolds, Noyes 1950-1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Roosevelt Memorial Association 1950-1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | St. Nicholas 1932-1938, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Saturday Evening Post 1923, 1927-1928, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Saturday Review of Literature 1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Stowe, Lyman Beecher 1949 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Tupper, Sam Jr. 1958, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1946 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Weaver, Stella 1949, 1952, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Westminster Press 1944-1945, 1952 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Who's Who 1941, 1961 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Widdemer, Margaret 1918-1919, 1951-1954, 1957-1963, undated - letters to and from Mabel's sister-in-law | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Women's National Book Association 1932-1933 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Miscellaneous, A-Z (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Miscellaneous fan letters | ||||||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Clippings 1923-1960, undated (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "A Letter from an Author" - letter by Widdemer to a sixth grade book club | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Material relating to Margaret Widdemer (Mabel's sister-in-law) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Notes for my talk and for publicity purposes in connection with reading to the children at the Albany celebration" June 21st, 1954 | ||||||||||
| Radio show transcripts | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Book Column, with Olga Briggs, WPTR Albany 1949-1950 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | The Book Mark, with Olga Briggs, WABY Albany 1949-1950, 1958 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | A-U (3 folders) | ||||||||||