Writings

Object Details

Sponsor: Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Collection Citation: Mary Fanton Roberts papers, 1880-1956. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Scope and Contents note: Writings include a draft of an autobiographical essay written by Mary Fanton Roberts that was intended to become a published memoir. Also found in this series are guest lists and notes concerning events she was hosting as well as typescripts of several poems by Dorothy Gostwick Roberts, who wrote under the name Gostwick Roberts, and was a niece of William Carman Roberts. Items are arranged in chronological order within each folder.

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