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Martha Shepard Lippincott Writings
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A Quaker poet and book reviewer, Martha Sheppard Lippincott wss born March 31, 1867 and died August 10, 1949 in her 83rd year. She was the daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth H. Lippincott, a birthright and lifelong member of Moorestown Monthly Meeting, New Jersey. She graduated from Friends School in Moorestown and then Swarthmore College in 1889. She moved to Philadelphia, Pa., in the first decade of the 20th century and supported herself as a writer of poetry, prose, and book reviews; many of her poems were published in women's, religious, and other publications. Her broad range of themes included war and peace, temperance, injustice, nature, romantic love, and religion.
Quaker poet and book reviewer, Martha Shepard Lippincott (1867-1949) was a birthright and life-long member of Moorestown Monthly Meeting, New Jersey. Her poems reflect her interests, including early twentieth century concerns of war, economic inequality, temperance, and politics as well as general themes of religion, nature, and Quakerism. The collection contains her manuscript poetry arranged chronologically and a small amount of her prose and miscellaneous papers.
Arranged in two series: Series 1: Poetry, 1886-1939. Manuscript volumes are arranged chronologically. Series 2: Other writings and miscellaneous.
Gift of Janet Norton, niece of the author. Acc. 2004.010.
Two formal photographs of Martha Shepard Lippincott at about ages 50 and 65 transferred to PA 100, Individual Portraits.
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- Susanna Morikawa
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Collection Inventory
Lippincott's copies of her poems beginning 1886. Some volumes are consolidations in addition to memo-books of poems, most dated. She generally noted if the poem was published and where.
Labeled #1. Index at front. The poems between June 10, 1886- Oct. 7, 1886, cut from volume. Poem about Johnstown Flood in 1889. Temperance, nature, loneliness, Quaker and religious themes.
Physical Description1 volumesBound volume
Index at front. Love, religious meditations. Some edited and notes that set to music.
Earlier poems copied 1900 into hard cover volume. Longer spencerian verse format in soft-cover memo books.
Physical Description3 volumes
2 bound volumes, verses copied. Dated when written and where published. Sonnets and longer verse.
Physical Description2 volumes
Most noted as published, including The Friend. Poem about Evesham Meeting.
Physical Description2 volumes
4 memo books with verse, most inspirational.
Physical Description4 volumesSoft cover memo books
1 volumesSoft cover memo book
Most short verse. War and illness as well as religious themes and sentimental verse. Local sites, questioning politics, especially war, as well as trying to make a living by verse.
Physical Description4 volumesSoft cover memo books
War and peace, temperance, religion.
Physical Description5 volumesSoft cover memo books
Short Christmas messages as well as poems on property, politics, and religion. Count of poems written each year.
Physical Description4 volumesSmall soft cover memo books
Themes of war, greed, fair support of poetry, evils of tobacco, justice, index of poems, 1927.
Physical Description4 volumes4 memo books
Index at front and back covers. Themes of greed, labor, war, poverty,socialism and religious. Many are short verse.
Physical Description1 volumesBound volume
Final verse numbered 4,480, topic "United Europe." Greed, war, poverty and economic fairness.
Physical Description1 volumesSmall memo book
Volume is only one quarter filled. Themes of time, justice, peace, religion, support of poets.
Physical Description1 volumes
Themes include "Paradise Valley" and "A Quaker Romance."
Physical Description1 volumes
1 volumesPasted in hard-bound Quaker Book of Discipline
Manuscript short stories, listing of book reviews, address books, etc. Miscellaneous clippings include temperance, especially against tobacco use.
Edits and word count.
Physical Description1 volumes
Memo book reports date, publication, and title of book reviewed.
Physical Description1 volumes
Short essays on various subjects
Physical Description1 volumesSmall memo book, partly used
Address, lists of poetry titles, recipes, a few loose clippings of her published poetry
Physical Description4 volumes4 small booklets
Pencil and pen and ink drawings
Physical Description1 volumes
Items removed from acidic and tattered small scrapbook containing clippings about Charles Dickens and miscellaneous topics in the news. Temperance, especially regarding tobacco removed to PG 6 reference file. Also, a handmade souvenir book, San Antonio, TX, made for Lippincott in 1905
Physical Description1 folders
Brief biograph "Our Portrait Gallery" (photocopy). Photograph of Lippincott about age 50, photograph of George W. and Kathryn Bacon. 2 photographs of Lippincott removed to PA 100/Individual Portraits.