Samuel Minturn Peck poems
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two short handwritten poems by Samuel Minturn Peck titled “Foreboding” and “At the End.”
Dates
- Creation: 1910
Creator
- Peck, Samuel Minturn (Author, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This material is open for research.
Conditions Governing Access
Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish material from the Samuel Minturn Peck Poems must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.
Biographical / Historical
Samuel Minturn Peck was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1854. He attended the University of Alabama and obtained a masters degree in Literature, and he went on to medical school in New York, were he obtained an MD in 1878. However, he never practiced medicine but eventually returned to Tuscaloosa to write and publish short stories, poems, and articles. In 1930, Peck became Alabama’s first Poet Laureate, and he held this position until his death in 1938.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet ( (1 folder))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contains two short handwritten poems by Samuel Minturn Peck titled “Foreboding” and “At the End.”
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was purchased in 1966.
- Title
- Guide to the Samuel Minturn Peck poems, ca. 1910
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586
woodson@rice.edu