Towle Writers' Conference
- University ArchivesThe Writers' Conference of the University of New Hampshire was initiated in 1938 to promote undergraduate writing. It lasted until 1962. The collection contains letters, pamphlets, brochures, newspaper clippings, and photographs which relate to and document the…
- Special CollectionsA Republican member of the NH State Legislature from Rollinsford, N.H., elected in 1920 via a write-in campaign by newly enfranchised women voters, Jessie Doe was an outspoken advocate for women’s rights. She was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1932, and from 1934 until 1943…
- Special CollectionsPoet, professor of Literature and Modern Poetry at Tufts University for 28 years. Two letters written by Holmes. The first is addressed as an open letter to the Folio 1943 and describes Holmes’ passion for writing and the work of Carroll Towle and the…
- Special CollectionsRobert P. Tristram Coffin (1892-1955) grew up in Brunswick, Maine on a “saltwater farm.” He attended Bowdoin, Princeton, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar before, as well as after, serving two years in World War I. He taught at…
- Special CollectionsDonald Babcock was a philosophy professor at the University of New Hampshire. He joined the history department of New Hampshire College (as it was then known) in 1918 and in 1944 created the UNH Philosophy Department, for which he served as chairman…
