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Ellen Steele Sturges Papers: Finding Aid

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Box 1

mssSturges papers

Folder 1

Steele, Ebenezer, 1808-1901. Untitled autobiographical piece beginning, "I was born in Boston …" [Before 1901].

Physical Description: 1 item (1 p., handwritten).

Folder 2

Sturges, Ellen Steele. An Unexpected Romance [short story signed "Elwhit Steele"]. [Undated].

Physical Description: 1 item (7 pp., typescript).

Folder 3

Sturges, Ellen Steele. Etchings: Divining for Water [short story]. [Undated].

Physical Description: 1 item (4 pp. handwritten).

Folder 4

Sturges, Ellen Steele. Hymns. 1867

Physical Description: 2 items (2 leaves, handwritten, and an envelope).

Folder 5

Sturges, Ellen Steele. Peggy Pemberton: A Tale of Training Day [short story]. [After 1876]

Physical Description: 1 item (6 pp., typescript, and an address card).

Folder 6

Sturges, Ellen Steele. Richard of Whittington, yeleped [sic] Dick. A Tale of Olden Times [manuscript, Chapters I, II, and VIII only]. [Undated]

Physical Description: 3 items (26 pp., handwritten).

Folder 7

Sturges, Ellen Steele. The Little Somnambulist [short story]. [1894].

Physical Description: 1 item (5 pp., typescript).

Folder 8

Sturges, Ellen Steele. The Philanthropist [short story]. Before 1860.

Physical Description: 1 item (2 pp., handwritten).

Folder 9

Sturges, Ellen Steele. The Shady Philosophy and Sunny [essay]. 1859 February 8.

Physical Description: 1 item (7 pp, handwritten).

Folder 10

Sturges, Ellen Steele. What the Mistletoe Hid in a California Cottonwood [short story]. [Undated].

Physical Description: 1 item (4 pp., typescript).

Folder 11

Sturges, Ellen Steele. Wonderful Times in Wonderland [manuscript of Sketch Nos. 1 and 2 by "Aunt Hattie Storytell"]. [Undated].

Physical Description: 2 items (14 pp., handwritten).

Folder 12

-----. Biographical and Genealogical Notes. [Before 1948].

Physical Description: 3 items.

Folder 13

McClure, S.S. 1 rejection letter to Ellen Steele Sturges [with 5 pp. typescript copy of story "The Little Somnabulist" with manuscript edits]. 1894 April 13.

Physical Description: 2 items

Folder 14

Steele, Ebenezer. 1 letter to Rev. J.H. Pitezel. 1852 January 30

Physical Description: 1 item (2 pp., handwritten).

Folder 15

Steele, Phebe. 1 note "About Training Day." 1893 November

Physical Description: 1 item (1 leaf, handwritten).

Folder 16

Miscellaneous Ephemera. 1864-1877.

Physical Description: 3 items (1 damaged).

Consists of Ellen Steele Sturges’s nursing certificate from the Office of Superintendent of Women Nurses, a Montana homestead certificate from 1877 to David Sturges, and a Confederate States bond issued by the Central Business College of Sedalia, Missouri, from 1864.

Folder 17

Newspaper Clippings. 1939-1946.

Physical Description: 5 items.

Folder 18

Photographic Material. [Undated].

Physical Description: 8 items.

Consists of a studio portrait photograph of David Brainerd Sturges; a photograph of the exteriors of a church and buildings with a handwritten caption "Log hut above x is building where Mr. & Mrs. Sturges taught in Virginia City" by O.C. Bundy of Virginia City, Montana; two photographic postcards of the Sturges house in San Bernardino; and 4 commercial images of Glacier National Park, Montana, published by Kiser Photo.

Folder 19

Poems. 1857 and undated.

Physical Description: 3 items (6 leaves, handwritten).

Consists of handwritten copies of poems including one set transcribed by Ellen Steele Sturges to David Sturges, dated 1857.

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