MS 61
Correspondence, 1830-1855.
6 items.
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, author and editor, was born in Newport, N.H. in 1788. She married in 1813, and when her husband died suddenly in 1822, she began writing to make a living. Her stories and poems attracted a large audience, and in 1828 she accepted a job as editor of the Ladies Magazine, later called Godey’s Ladies Magazine, “the best known of all American periodicals for women.”
Contains three letters to various correspondents, two holograph manuscripts, one untitled and the other identified as “The Way to become a Christian”, and an engraved image of Sarah Josepha Hale.