Constance Lindsay Skinner papers ca. 1876-1939 1930-1939

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Constance Lindsay Skinner papers ca. 1876-1939 1930-1939

https://archives.nypl.org/mss/2769

Constance Lindsay Skinner (1882-1939) was a Canadian-born author, critic, historian, and playwright. Her writings included poetry, novels, plays, literary and music criticism, historical works, and adventure stories for children. She wrote histories of the American southwest, Canadian northwest and Indian tribes of British Columbia. Collection contains correspondence, writings, photographs, movie stills, drawings, printed matter, and additional personal papers of Skinner and her parents. Correspondence, 1899-1939, is with authors, artists, editors, publishers, theatrical people, explorers, scholars, and journalists. Writings include typescripts of Skinner's short stories, articles, novels, poetry, children's stories, and criticism. Photographs are of family and friends, Indians of North America, and views of British Columbia and remote areas of the Canadian northwest. Also, drawings and illustrations, movie stills, clippings of criticism of her books and stories, and newsclippings relating to World War I. Other papers consist of her personal accounts, literary notebooks, cookbooks, address books, as well as letters and papers, 1876-1891, of her parents, Robert James Skinner and Annie Lindsay Skinner.

13.8 linear feet (18 boxes)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6312801

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933

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Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

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