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Finding Aid for the Frances Hodgson Burnett Manuscript, undated


MS-2266

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, June 2, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: Frances Hodgson Burnett Manuscript

Date/Date Range :   undated

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection is a handwritten, unsigned manuscript listing and describing the roses in Frances Hodgson Burnett's garden, as well as the envelope in which it was contained.

Call number: MS-2266

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
This collection was purchased by Special Collections in July 2000.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Frances Hodgson Burnett Manuscript, MS-2266. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of a single folder.


Biography / History

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in England, November 24, 1849. In 1865, her family, following her father's death, moved to Knoxville, TN, where she began writing to help support her family. She lived both abroad and in the United States over the next three decades. In addition to short stories, she would also produce a number of novels and plays, (among the most famous, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), The Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1910)-all of which appeared in both forms). She settled in Long Island, New York, in 1909 and died there on October 29, 1924.


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection contains a handwritten list of roses in Burnett's garden and the attached envelope.

Subject Terms

  • Women authors, American -- 20th century.
Contents List
Folder   1     Item   1    
Handwritten description of the varieties of roses in her garden at Plandome Park, undated

Scope Note:

Dean Hole. Silvery carmine, shaded salmon, flower large. Variety of great excellence; useful for any purpose. Etoile de France. Velvety crimson, center vivid cerise red; carried on a long crest stem, beautiful foliage. Useful for cutting.

Grace Darling. Creamy white, tinted & shaded with peach, large & very floriferous. Gruss an Tepliz. Brightest scarlet crimson, very free flowering.

[Tillameg]. Flesh shaded white, suffused into pink blooms, large buds long & pointed; fine for massing & forcing. Lyon Rose. Flowers large & globular; petals elegantly formed, the color is a coral red or salmon pink shaded with chrome yellow in the center. Very fragrant & hardy. A truly magnificent rose, absolutely distinct. Madame Jules Groley. Bright, china rose, flowers large & beautiful formed. Very floriferous. Franceska [Truger]. Coppery yellow shaded with peach, large & full, useful for cutting. Madame Lombard. Bright rose, fine form, free blooms.

Marie van Houlter. Canary yellow, deeper center, border of petals tipped with rose.
Folder   1     Item   2    
Envelope reading "Description of the roses in the Welcome Bed FHB," undated