Sherman, Frank Dempster, 1901 December
Scope and Content
"Lilacs." Handwritten poem is signed and dated by the author with the note, "Respectfull submitted to the Editor of 'The Youth Companion.'"
Dates
- Creation: 1901 December
Creator
- From the Collection: Acosta, Mercedes de, 1893-1968 (Person)
- From the Collection: Allmond, Marcus Blakey (Person)
- From the Collection: Andros, R. S. S. (Richard Salter Storrs) (Person)
- From the Collection: Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) (Person)
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- From the Collection: Cooper, James Fenimore (Person)
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- From the Collection: Gosse, Edmund (Person)
- From the Collection: Herford, Oliver (Person)
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- From the Collection: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 (Person)
- From the Collection: Lindsay, Vachel (Person)
- From the Collection: Lofting, Hugh (Person)
- From the Collection: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Person)
- From the Collection: Mabie, Hamilton Wright (Person)
- From the Collection: Maeterlinck, Maurice (Person)
- From the Collection: Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 (Person)
- From the Collection: Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 (Person)
- From the Collection: Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 (Person)
- From the Collection: Perkoff, Stuart Z. (Person)
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- From the Collection: Read, Thomas Buchanan (Person)
- From the Collection: Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Runyon, Damon (Person)
- From the Collection: Ruskin, John (Person)
- From the Collection: Saltus, Edgar (Person)
- From the Collection: Sherman, Frank Dempster (Person)
- From the Collection: Stevenson, Robert Louis (Person)
- From the Collection: Vale, Eugene (Person)
- From the Collection: Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 (Person)
- From the Collection: Weismiller, Edward Ronald (Person)
- From the Collection: Wells, Carolyn (Person)
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Biographical note
SHERMAN, FRANK DEMPSTER. Born in Peekskill, New York, May 6, 1860; died September 19, 1916. He took the degree of Ph.B. from Columbia University in 1884, and was Professor of Graphics in Columbia School of Architecture from 1904 until his death. He was the author of "Madrigals and Catches" (1887); "Lyrics for a Lute" (1890); "Little Folk Lyrics" (1892); "Lyrics of Joy" (1904); and "A Southern Flight" (with Clinton Scollard), (1906).
This biographical note is reprinted from The Little Book of American Poets: 1787-1900. Ed. Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1915. http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/sherman_frank_dempster.html
Extent
From the Collection: 0.42 Linear Feet (1 legal-size document box)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
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