mshm176 Teasdale correspondence, 1909-1930. Finding Aid Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections

South Hadley, MA

Finding aid generated in MARC format from database, then encoded using Perl scripts and XSL stylesheet. 2003-05-20 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mshm176 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Teasdale correspondence, 1909-1930. Finding Aid MS 0022 Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933. Teasdale correspondence 1909-1930. MS 0022 9 items. Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections

South Hadley, MA

Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933; poet. Nine letters, including six to her friend Jean S. Untermeyer and a long letter (July 1909) to John Myers O'Hara, describing primarily her personal life and her career. English. Biographical Note

Sarah Teasdale, an American poet, was born in 1884 in Saint Louis, Missouri to John W. Teasdale and Mary E. Willard. She was tutored at home and then graduated from a local private school in 1903. In 1905 she visited Europe and in 1907 she published her first collection of poems. In 1911, the publication of "Helen of Troy" introduced her to Louis Untermeyer, who, with his wife Jean, was to become a lifelong friend. On December 19, 1914, she married Ernst B. Filsinger. They divorced fifteen years later. Following the divorce, she published numerous volumes of poetry. Sarah Teasdale committed suicide on January 29, 1933 in New York.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Sara Teasdale Correspondence consists of six letters written to Jean Starr Untermeyer, chiefly discussing personal matters, including one from 1914 commenting on Teasdale's difficulty in deciding whether to marry Vachel Lindsay or Ernst Filsinger. A ten-page letter to John Myers O'Hara dated July 1909 praises his recently published book "At Erato's Fane". Other letters concern a request to use one of her poems in a song, and the response to a request that she give a lecture at the University of Chicago.

Organization of the Collection

Arranged chronologically.

Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

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Preferred Citation

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Sarah Teasdale Letters, Mount Holyoke College, Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, Massachusetts

Search Terms Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933 Correspondence. O'Hara, John Myers, 1874-1944. Untermeyer, Jean Starr, 1886-1970. Poets, American - 20th century - Correspondence. Letters