Call Number:

C1186

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Agnes Repplier Letters, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1901-1917 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950

Form:

Letters -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of twenty letters of Agnes Repplier, an American essayist and biographer whose writing career spanned sixty-five years. Most of the letters are addressed to her friend Margaret Farrand (Mrs. WIlson Farrand).

Agnes Repplier was an American essayist and biographer. Her writing career spanned sixty-five years, during which time she developed friendships with many noted writers, artists and scholars. Repplier achieved literary success in 1886 with the publication of her essay "Children, Past and Present" in the Atlantic Monthly. She also published essays in Life magazine, Appleton's Magazine, The New Republic, Harper's, Century Magazine, and The Yale Review. Her published books include Books and Men (1888), A Happy Half Century (1908), Life of Pere Marquette (1929), and Agnes Irwin (1934). Repplier was a founding member of the Cosmopolitan Club in Philadelphia in 1886. She received honorary doctor of letters degrees from several universities including Princeton University, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia.

The collection consists of twenty letters of Agnes Repplier. Eighteen of the letters are addressed to her friend Margaret Farrand (Mrs. Wilson Farrand); one letter is to Charles Wisner, and one letter to Charles Scribner's Sons about a review of a children's book that she wrote. Repplier's letters to Margaret Farrand are of a friendly nature. She writes (12 January 1912) about having gone to see J. M. Synge's play "The Playboy of the Western World" and how it was received with riots in New York and in Philadelphia, and she includes some newspaper clippings about it. Other topics include her travels, mutual friends such as Cornelia Frothingham and her nervous breakdown, and her visit with Mrs. Schuyler Warren, the mistress of a literary salon in New York, at Sea Bright, NJ. In most of her letters Repplier writes about Rockywold Camp on the Squam Lake in New Hampshire where they used to spend their summer vacations. The letters were sent from Philadelphia, where Repplier lived, and also from Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; Italy; France; and Nova Scotia.

Folders are arranged by accession number.