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Margaret Wise Brown papers (MWB01)

Westerly Public Library

Local History and Special Collections
44 Broad Street
Westerly, RI 02891
Tel: 401-596-2877
E-mail: nwright@westerlylibrary.org

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: The Margaret Wise Brown Collection was donated to the Westerly Public Library by Jessica Gamble Dunham. Mrs. Dunham was the personnel director at the Bank Street School and a close friend of Ms. Brown. In 1946, Jessica and Gilbert Dunham moved to Stonington, Connecticut on the border of Westerly, Rhode Island. Margaret Wise Brown visited her friends in Stonington often and had great affection for the area.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Westerly Public Library staff.
Encoding: Finding aid encoded by Daniel Mejia 2009 September 03
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)