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Collection Dates: 1908 -- 1970
1 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
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Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
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Posted to Internet: May 2000
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Biographical Note
Bess G. Bissell grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, attended college in Pennsylvania, and continued her studies in Rome and Florence. She established an animal shelter in Dubuque, but during World War I enlisted in the Red Cross and served as a canteen worker in France and Italy. After the war she worked with mill-workers for the YWCA and continued her human activities.
Mrs. Bissell published at least two books of verse, Milltown Days and Nights (Dorrance & Co., 1973, as Roberta Perrigo) and A Log Cabin Log (Vantage, 1973). She also wrote stories, drafts of which compose the larger part of this collection. These papers date from 1908 to 1970and measure one linear foot.
MsL B6232p: Papers relating to The Dubuque Benevolent Humane Society. 1908 --1961. 67 letters. Summary of cases 14 l. These papers are found in Box 2 of Bess G. Bissell in Iowa Authors Collection.
To family members: fourteen letters. December [n.y.] --December 1920. 2 Holograph. 12 typed transcripts of letters. 32p.
Diary of Bess G. Bissell. First Trip to Europe. 11 April 1902 - l4 July 1902. typescript. 47 l. 28cm.
Journals Three Journals: Vol. 1, Journal for 1884; Vol. 2, Journal for 1888; Vol. 3. Journal for 1902. Vol 1: 166 l, 25cm. Vol. 2: l66 l, 25cm. Vol. 3: 45 l,24.7cm.
Letters to her parents. Dated 3 October 1894 -- 8 December [n.y.] Typed transcripts of twenty-five letters. Typescript.
Notebook. Drafts of poems and stories. Holograph 26cm. Loosely inserted are a letter to Margo and 1 l. of a poem titled "Trex From the Beet Fields."
"Buz and Discrimination." Short story, typescript. 5 l. 28cm.
"The Cabin Fire." Poem, carbon copy. 1 l. 27.5cm.
"Christmas Eve." Short story, incomplete typescript; holograph on verso of 1 l. 3 l. 28cm.
"Claire Perigo". Short story, incomplete typescript. 3 l. 28cm.
"Colony Wedding." Short story, typescript. 17 l. 28cm. Including a carbon copy of a letter to Helen Gurley Brown, editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
"The Creek." Short story, typescript. 7 l. 28cm.
"Crime and Language." Article, typescript. 2 l. 27.5cm.
"Cucu Going Up." Short story, typescript. 14 l. 28cm. Including 16 l. of a different version.
"Dona Felisa Manages." Short story, incomplete typescript.1 l. 27.7cm.
"Fair Marian Hurd." A Ballad. 1894. 2 l. 31.5cm.
"Felipe Goes to the Show."Poem, typescript. 2 l. 27.5cm. Possibly related to the author's "Francisco Goes to the Show" published in Milltown Days and Nights p.9. Philadelphia.
"The First Lincoln Closed-in Car in Town." Short story, incomplete typescript. 2 l. 33cm.
"Funeral." Short story, typescript. 3 l. 28cm. Including a typescript copy of "Funeral" with holograph corrections. 4 l.
"Genius in the House." Short story, typescript. 17 l. 28cm. Including a rejection note from the editors of Seventeen.
"Help for Mr. Karbinov!" Short story, typescript, showing a few author's revisions. 30 l. 28cm.
"Isolation." Short story, typescript. 2 l. 28cm.
"Marrying Mariquita." Short story, typescript. 11 l, 28cm.
"Millie's House." Short story, typescript with holograph corrections and additions. 2 l. 28cm. and 6 l. 33.5cm. Including a note for missing pages between pp. 2 and 3.
"Night School in a Milltown." Short story, typescript. 7 l. 28cm. Including a different version of the same story with earlier title "Waza Da Mat?" 8 l. typescript with corrections.
[Plot outlines and character sketches for a novel?]. Typescript and carbon. 49 l. 28cm.
"Purity." Poem, tpescript with corrections. 1 l. 17cm. fragment, lacking lower half of sheet.
"Russo in Gary." Short story, typescript. 1 l. 27.7cm.
Stories [As told by Mrs. Henry Patterson in 1923]. Typescript. 3 l. 28cm.
"Vittorio, Venetian Barcaiuolo." Short story, typescript. 14 l. 28cm.
"Waukesha -- Indians." Short story, incomplete typescript. 2 l. 27.7cm.
"When Old Granny Osgood Died." Short story, typescript. 2 l. 28cm.
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