Entries include brief biographical information and correspondence concerning the gift of a volume of Raymond\u27s poetry delivered to the Maine State Library by her daughter

Dunnack, Henry Ernest, 1867-1938

Fuller, Marion Cobb

Reed, Josephine Violette, 1886-

Reed, Mrs. Josephine Violette, 1886-

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Maine State LibraryMaine State DocumentsMaine Writers Correspondence Maine State Library Special CollectionsOctober 2015Josephine Violette Reed CorrespondenceJosephine Violette Reed 1886-Mrs. Josephine Violette Reed 1886-Henry Ernest Dunnack 1867-1938Maine State LibraryMarion Cobb FullerMaine State LibraryFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalmaine.com/maine_writers_correspondenceThis Text is brought to you for free and open access by the Maine State Library Special Collections at Maine State Documents. It has been accepted forinclusion in Maine Writers Correspondence by an authorized administrator of Maine State Documents. For more information, please contactstatedocs@maine.gov.Recommended CitationReed, Josephine Violette 1886-; Reed, Mrs. Josephine Violette 1886-; Dunnack, Henry Ernest 1867-1938; and Fuller, Marion Cobb,"Josephine Violette Reed Correspondence" (2015). Maine Writers Correspondence. 435.http://digitalmaine.com/maine_writers_correspondence/435REED , JOBEPHIBE VIOLETTE 1886— January 7, ly3a Mrs. Josephine vioiette Reed Wilton, Maine Dear Mrs. Reed: I saw a note somewhere that you had puo-lished a volume of poems. We have in the State Liorary a Maine Author Collection of books where we are trying to assemble every book written by anyone born in Maine. We are asking the authors to autograph these books so that it will be an autographed collection. We should be very glad to receive your book. Very truly yours HED/mlh State Librarian March 26, 1932 Mrs. Josephine Violette Reed, Ridge Road, R. D. #1 LisDon, Maine. My dear Mrs. Reedj-I have read with interest your pleasing collection of dialect verse, De Leetle Jesus of St. Basil, and 1 should like to mention it in our Library Bulletin* We like to keep in touch with all Maine writers. Will you please send us a gew biographical notes about yourself for our reference fljLes--something rather more personal than a Who's Who item, please* Very truly yours, MAINE STATE LIBRARY BY MCF «< &e £-/p ^ s> ^  , f was born in (Milltown Maine^June 3 1886, lived there until I was 5years old when my father died, and I was placed in the convent at St. Basil N.B. I was the youngest child there, and much petted by both the Sisters, and the larger girls though it seemed I would die of home­sickness, and as all the girls were french and few of them spoke english, I had little in common with any of them. At the age of 8 years, I was taken from there and went to board with a family at VanBuren where the town of Keegan stands today. It was a peaceful place in the old days, there along the St. John river, a place to dream and my dreams were many for even then I could not speak french very well. In three years I was only sent to school one term. I was very lonely, and lived wholly within my self. My Mother married again when I was eleven to a bachelor who made an ideal father and I was home again for one year in which I attended no sc iool on account of the distance of three miles to the school-house We were then living near st. Andrews N.B. another gorgeous place in which to dream. My father lost quite a sum of money through a younger brother of his, so he sold our home, and I was again placed in a convent at Portland Me. and I was such a big girl and still only in the third grade, that I had no courage to try. They did not seem th have the patience to explain things to me, and my head was to muddled to grasp any thing which had to do with books. Often times after school, I went with other children of the convent to tease the children of theprotestant orphanage at the cornor of Danforth, and State Streets. Little did I dream then that later in life I would go to that same orphanage, and take away with me two little girls, to bring up as my own. But I did just that thing. In 1911 Feb 23 I took one child, and in 1913 took her sister. They are grown women now and there children, call me Nanny as do many other children.- ! love little ones and have often comforted them when th§re Mothers failed to understand them. I know little of books, "but I have been lonely, and suffered enough to understand the human heart.I got through the iSMC&^grade at sixteen I could not do a long divison to save me, nor wright a letter with out adictionary at hand, but I read all I have time to which is not much. Since I wrote my little book of dialect verse, I have written in quite a few english. They come to me through the night, or while i am at work, but if i dont write a few lines of them right away, they go and the same idea never comes again. When I was a little girl, and I would be out picking berries,I would sing virse after virse of song which would come to me but I could never remember them. ,1 live on a farm now, and to earn my daily bread, I bake it and seXl It in Lewi si^on hasLe been baking .home made brera^L for tT/o years. I tiaraWf ' C O P Y  April 9, 1932 Mrs. Josephine Reed, R. P. D. #a Lewiston, Maine. Dear Mrs. Reed;-Thank you for your letter and the very Interesting biographical notes. You are very kind to take the trouble to write us at such length. We make it a point to assemble biographical data about Maine authors and we are glad to have this information about you for our permanent files. I shall mention your collection of verse in the next, the July, issue of our Library Bulletin and if I know of a club which is looking for a reader I shall be glad to mention you and your work. Since you are a native of Maine w© should like to have a copy of your book in the Maine Author Collection which is an exhibition collection of books by Maine writers# These books are autographed and many of them have very interesting inscriptions. If you will send us an autographed copy of your book we shall be glad to add it to the collection. Please make your bill in duplicate to the Maine State Library. The copy of De Leetle Jesus of St. Basil which Mrs. Josephine Reed #2 Is in the general library was, I think, obtained from the publishers. I believe that Mr. Dunnack saw a notice of it somewhere and he wrote you in January, addressing the letter to Wilton. It was returned and then I found you m the Lewiston Directory. Since receiving your letter I have reread your book with added Interest.  ^^ a M'U- F* 6 , .^JL <2-L^y — (2/^ U "^ y^e- *> ^ £-1— ^  /^  /^,>a^ X~ td j^£z  ^f //c-~ f^.  ^J5 * -f / / -^1^ -—  ^&*^ -a~eJL-'C C2^ * < C O P Y  August 18, 1932 Mrs. Josephine V. Reed H.F.D. #2 Lewiston, Maine. Dear Mrs. Reed:-I sent you yesterday a copy of the July issue of the Library Bulletin. I am ^"lad that the books you borrowed from the Library interested you. I am sure that we have others along the same lines which you will enjoy and i shall be very glad indeed to make a selection for you at any time that you wish something to read. Perhaps I forgot to give you one of our advertising leaflets telling how to send for books so I am enclosing one in this letter. I shall be interested in continuing to hear about your work. I hope that your collection of verse will have recognition and success. Thank you for your good wishes. Very truly yours, MAI ME SThTE LIBRARY BY MGP 

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