A&M 3214Lillian Mayfield Wright, Poet, Notebooks, 1921-1938 A&M 3214Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-08-30 07:23:45 -0400.EnglishDescribing Archives: A Content Standard West Virginia and Regional History Center Lillian Mayfield Wright, Poet, Notebooks Wright, Lillian Mayfield A&M 3214 Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key Previous Archival Resource Key /repositories/2/resources/1514 0.2 Linear Feet Summary: 2 in. 1921-1938 Notebooks of Lillian Mayfield Wright, Appalachian writer and poet from Tyler Co., WV. One of the notebooks is a typed manuscript of No Wind Blowing/The Old Stone House. And the other two are a scrapbook of clippings of her published poems and a loose-leaf notebook of typed poems and short stories. Daughter of J. Grant and Florence Carter Mayfield, she was a noted West Virginia writer of the inter-war era who also published under the surname of her first husband as Lillian Mayfield Roberts. She studied at New York University under the famous poet, Joyce Kilmer who later died as an American soldier in World War I. West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/ English Conditions Governing Access

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 Authors -- Letters and papers Roberts, Lillian Mayfield. Wright, Lillian Mayfield