Collection Guide

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Administrative Information

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

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Biographical Note

Susan Merriam was born in Hopkinton, Iowa, on September 9, 1876. She graduated from Lenox College in Hopkinton in 1897. She married Dr. Gearhart in 1901. She was a poet with two books to her name: The Plow on the Hills, published in 1936 and The West is Here, published in 1944. She lived in Springville, Iowa, for sixty years. Mrs. Gearhart died in 1961.

Jacque Roethler, July 2004

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Scope and Contents

This collection consists of typescript and carbon copies with holographic corrections of some of Gearhart's poems from The West is Here and The Plow on the Hills and other poems.

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Acquisition and Processing Information

These papers were given to the University of Iowa Libraries by Mrs. Gearhart in 1947 -- 1948.

Guide posted to Internet: July 2004

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Box Contents List

Poems from The Plow on the Hills

Poems from The West is Here

Other poems

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