Lucy Dickinson Correspondence, 1905-1906, Ms.1988.014

Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech

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John M. Jackson, Archivist

Abstract

This collection includes three letters addressed to Lucy Dickinson, a student at Vassar College. Two of the letters are from Edward C. Root of New York, New York; the third, from Louise Bass of Atlanta, Georgia.

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], W. C. Thomas Papers, Ms1988-013, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Lucy Dickinson Correspondence, Ms1988-014, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The Lucy Dickinson Correspondence was acquired by Special Collections in 1988.

Processing Information

The processing and description of the Lucy Dickinson Correspondence commenced and was completed in November, 2018.

Biographical Note

Lucy Dickinson Urquhart was born in 1881 in Marion, Virginia, to Dr. Smelt W. and Sarah Isabel Look Dickinson. She attended Virginia Intermont College, Vassar College, and Columbia University's Teacher College. She worked as an advertising copywriter in Lynchburg, Virginia, and was also heavily involved in the Smyth County Historical Society and the Marion Baptist Church. She married George D. Urquhart, and they had no children. She died in Roanoke on January 27, 1975.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of three letters addressed to Lucy Dickinson, a student at Vassar College at the beginning of the 20th century. Two of the letters are from writer Edward Clary Root and relate to an unnamed manuscript written by Root (undoubtedly a draft of his 1906 novel, Hutington, Jr.: a Romance of Today ) and critiqued by Dickinson. Root's letters discuss Dickinson's writings, as well as his own. A third letter, from Dickinson's personal friend, Louise Bass of Atlanta, Georgia, focuses on personal matters but also mentions Root's book.

Related Material

See the Lucy Dickinson Urquhart Papers, Ms1987-046 , also at VT Special Collections and University Archives.

Root, Edward Clary. Huntington, Jr.: a Romance of To-day . New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1906. (inscribed to Lucy Dickinson by the author on first free endpaper) (PZ 3 R678 Hu Large Spec) View on HathiTrust.org

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Lucy Dickinson Correspondence by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).