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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861-1933) was the sister of former President Theodore Roosevelt. She was a published poet, lecturer, and orator. Mrs. Robinson began writing at an early age, through the encouragement of her friends, in particular Edith Wharton who helped critique her poetry; Mrs. Robinson began to publish her work. In 1911 she published her first poem, "The Call of Brotherhood," in Scribner's Magazine. Her first book of poems entitled The Call of Brotherhood was published in 1912.
This volume was quickly followed by One Woman to Another and Other Poems (1914) dedicated to her daughter Corinne commemorating the loss of Mrs. Robinson's brother and son Special Collections has several other volumes of poetry by Mrs. Robinson: Service and Sacrifice (1919) dedicated to her brother Theodore Roosevelt, The Poems of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1924), and Out of Nymph (1930) dedicated to Charles Scribner. Special Collections also has her biography of her brother entitled My Brother Theodore Roosevelt (1924). Each volume held by Special Collections is signed or inscribed by Mrs. Robinson.
The correspondence between Mrs. Robinson and Mr. Hilles spans a period between 1913 and 1938. The collection includes correspondence, some photographs, and handwritten poems exchanged between Mrs. Robinson and the poet Howard Hilles of Bourbon, Indiana. Mr. Hilles was a published poet whose titles include: Rhymes at Random (1910) and Untravelled Trails (1916).
The poems of Untravelled Trails were discussed in the Hilles-Robinson correspondence before the publication of the book. The correspondence between Mrs. Robinson and Mr. Hilles mainly reflects poet-to-poet correspondence including reviews and critiques of each other's poetry, the exchanging of books, and small personal tidbits from Mrs. Robinson's life.
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