Lavinia A. Small papers
Scope and Content
The Lavinia Small Papers contains a wide variety of materials that Lavinia Small both collected and created, including poems, stories, newspaper articles, photographs, letters, postcards, and documents about child development and psychology. Lavinia was an avid writer; fragments, drafts and copies of her works can be found throughout the collection. Of particular interest are the letters that Lavinia exchanged with Queen Marie, which provide information regarding the Queen’s time in the United States as well as the political climate of the 1930s, as well as information about Romania and the royal family.
[Previously titled The Queen Marie/Lavinia Small Collection.]
Dates
- 1920 - 1950
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes. The collection is open to the public.
Copyright Information
Limited duplication is allowed for research purposes. The Lavinia A. Small papers are the physical property of the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Biography
Lavinia A. Small was a writer, poet, and child psychologist, who served as the American secretary to Queen Marie of Romania during the queen’s travels through the United States in the 1920s. A prolific writer, Lavinia Small’s collection includes many of her manuscripts, notes, stories, and letters to Queen Marie, with whom she stayed in close contact until the queen’s death in 1938.
Extent
5 linear feet (7 Boxes)
Abstract
Papers of Lavinia A. Small who served as American secretary to Queen Marie of Romania in the 1920s.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in a box level inventory.
Provenance
This collection was donated to Special Collections in 1980.
General
Contact Information
- Special Collections
- University Libraries
- 184 UCB
- University of Colorado
- Boulder, CO 80309-0184
- Phone: 303-492-6144
- Fax: 303-492-1881
- Email: spc@colorado.edu
- URL: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/specialcollections/index.htm
Processing Information
Processed by Elizabeth Novosel
May 2005
- Title
- Guide to the Lavinia A. Small Papers (MS 257)
- Status
- Approved
- Date
- © 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in eng
Repository Details
Part of the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, Rare and Distinctive Collections Repository
