By Jessica Sullivan (Simmons University, Intern at the Watkinson Library, Fall 2020). Preserved among the numerous manuscript collections at the Watkinson Library, the Martha Linsley Spencer papers and Edwin Arlington Robinson papers offer a personal look into the lives of two 20th century American poets. Both sets of papers contain correspondence, proofs, and newspaper clippings …

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The Watkinson Library at Trinity College makes available several groups of personal papers and materials, from the Curtis, McLanahan, and Heister families. The Curtis, McLanahan, and Heister collections primarily contain correspondence, newspapers, and photographs, which document the lives of Judge William Edmond Curtis, Judge Holbrook Curtis, William Edmond Curtis Jr., Dr. Holbrook Curtis, and Elizabeth Curtis.