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Scope and Content Note
The collection consists mainly of correspondence and scrapbooks. The correspondence includes many letters from other authors; correspondents include:
- Anderson, Rasmus B.
- Sept. 7, 1882; Jan. 30, 1886; Apr. 26, 1886; Jul. 15, 1886
- Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
- Feb. 1, 1886; Mar. 8, 1886
- Corson, Hiram
- May 7, 1883; May 19, 1883
- Gale, Zona
- May 16 [circa 1903]
- Gregory, Charles Noble
- May 31, 1882; June 29, 1888; Oct. 9, [1888]
- Griswold, Hattie Tyng
- Dec. 31, 1879; Apr. 27, 1884 Apr., [1888?]; [circa 1888]; Nov. 11, 1891; Nov. 22, 1904
- Hoxie, Vinnie Ream
- Dec. 3, 1886; Dec. 17, 1886; Jan. 8, 1887; Feb. 15, 1887
- Moore, Aubertine Woodward
- Jan. 20, 1886
- Rexford, Eben E.
- Aug. 14, 1879; Aug. 24, 1879 [fragment]
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
- Apr. 28, 1884; June 5, 1885; Nov. 9, 1904; Apr. 27, 1909; and a fragment, undated
- Wilson, Robert Burns
- Nov. 23, 1886; [1880s?]
One folder of letters (1887, April 6-August 30), addressed to H. H. Giles in his capacity as President of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of Charities and Corrections in 1887, contains letters from contemporaries interested in public welfare and reform, including:
- Barton, Clara
- July 10, 1887
- Hale, Edward Everett
- May 23, June 10, Aug. 20, 1887
- Hayes, Rutherford B.
- June 13, June 24, June 29, 1887
Another folder contains original signed poems by Ella Giles Ruddy, Sarah D. Hobart, Minnie Stebbins Savage, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Robert Burns Wilson, and others.
There are four scrapbooks. The first contains newspaper clippings related to the activities of Mrs. Ruddy's father. The second and third include articles written by Mrs. Ruddy before her marriage; many of these are about Wisconsin and other American writers with whom she was personally acquainted, and others are local color articles about the South and other parts of the country which she visited. The fourth scrapbook contains clippings from newspapers of poems by many Wisconsin writers, including Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ella Giles Ruddy, Eben E. Rexford, Charles Noble Gregory, Hattie Tyng Griswold, Frank and Hilda Siller, Fanny Driscoll White, Sarah Hobart, and Carlotta Perry.
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