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Alice Davis Tibbetts Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Alice Elizabeth Davis Tibbetts met Edgar Lee Masters during the Great Depression in the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea in 1936. She became his secretary, companion, and romantic partner until 1944 when Masters was taken from the hotel to a hospital and then a nursing home. The two never married. Following this relationship, Davis was married unsucessfully to a merchant sailor before marrying Charles Tibbetts. Mrs. Tibbetts died in New York City on September 29, 1988.
The collection consists of selected letters and photographs authors, poets, and friends collected by Alice Davis Tibbetts. Included are a visiting card of Ford Madox Ford; a photograph of Thomas Wolfe; photographs of Dexter, Gertrude, and Marcia Masters; two letters and a card from H. L. Mencken; a photograph of Pearl Violet Metzelthin inscribed to Tibbetts; two photographs of Gerald Sanders; five cards and one letter by Jesse Stuart; four photographs of A. M. Sullivan; a "Thank you" note from Virgil Thomson; and a letter by John Hall Wheelock. The material was laid-in a collection of books presented by Alice Davis Tibbetts to Princeton University Library.
Folders are arranged alphabetically.
Gift of Alice Davis Tibbetts in 1983 (AM2008-7).
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This collection was processed by Dina Britain in July 2007. Finding aid written by Traci Ballou-Broadnax on August 8, 2007. Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager (2015) in 2012.
No appraisal information is available.
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
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The collection is open for research.
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