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literary scholar in search of woman poet's manuscripts
Dear ARCHIVES subscribers:
I don't know if you appreciate getting this kind of request from a
frustrated researcher, but here goes.
I've posted this query to VICTORIA (the Victorianists listserv at Indiana
U) but I thought I'd try cross-listing it with archival experts.
I'm searching for the papers of a Victorian poet named Augusta Webster,
uncanonized and infrequently printed until recently, and I've just about
come to a dead end.
Does anyone know where (if anywhere) Augusta Webster's papers are collected?
> I have looked in every resource I can think of, including . . .
>
>--Index of English Literary Manuscripts
>--Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters
>--British Archives
>--Florence Boos' DLB entry
>--various encyclopedias of women writers (Blain et. al, the Schlueters,
and
>others)
>--the HMC website
>--Webpages and online catalogues of many research institutions (all those
>listed on the VICTORIA research web and more)
>--(this one told me I was getting desperate) the webpage for Poole,
Dorset,
>where AW was born.
>
>--I've even searched VICTORIA's archives (the question has been asked
before
>but I couldn't find an answer)
>
>. . . and the grand total I've located is five letters (three in the BL).
>
>Any answers, including suggestions for other finding aids I've
overlooked,
>will be appreciated.
>
>Bob Fletcher
>West Chester Univ., PA, USA
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