Edith Willis Linn Forbes papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 2024-039

Staff Only

Content Description

The papers consist of a play script, event programs, correspondence, and published poems.

Dates

Creation: 1880-1923

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the collection.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use in any current or future manifestations must be obtained in writing from the Rochester Public Library Local History and Genealogy Division.

Biographical / Historical

Edith was born in New York City to Dr. Frederick Llewellyn Hovey Willis and Love Maria Whitcomb in February 1865. She was educated in Boston Massachusetts in private institutions until she was 18. In 1886 she married her first husband Dr. Samuel Henry Linn in NYC, and the couple moved to his permanent residence in Rochester N.Y. She would marry again in 1918 to George Mather Forbes, who was a faculty member with the University of Rochester. She was very well known for her poetry, and being the founder of the Rochester Poetry Society which was founded in 1920. Edith would pass away in September 1945 in her families summer home on Seneca Lake.

Extent

3 Files (3 folders )

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

This collection consists of 1 boxes.

Bibliography

“Sep 30, 1945, Page 23 - Democrat and Chronicle at Newspapers.Com.” Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s - Newspapers.com. Accessed August 21, 2024. https://www.newspapers.com/image/135858362/?terms=%22Edith+Willis+Linn+Forbes%22.

“Edith Willis Linn Forbes.” Wikipedia, July 24, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Willis_Linn_Forbes.