These papers include two letters to David Starr Jordan, 1920-21; manuscript, typescript and published versions of Hardy?s poems, 1901-24; her unpublished autobiography ?A Pioneer Childhood and Afterwards? (531 p.); and one notebook containing ?papers from the classes of Miss Irene Hardy, Oakland, California, 1888.?

Irene Hardy earned her AB in 1885 at Antioch College (California) and taught English in Oakland High School. She was on the faculty of the English department at Stanford, 1894-1901. Her published work included ELEMENTARY COMPOSITION EXERCISES (1890) and POEMS (1901). She died in 1922.

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