Margherita Arlina Hamm, 1899 - 1900
Scope and Contents
6 letters written to journalist Margherita Arlina Hamm by three different American writers. 3 letters from journalist, historian, and adventure writer Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920), 2 from journalist and children’s writer William Drysdale (1852-1901), and one from author, poet and playwright Edith Sessions Tupper (1855-1927).
Dates
- 1899 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Margherita Arlina Hamm (1867-1907) was a Canadian-born American journalist, one of the earliest female war reporters. Following school she became a reporter for the Boston Herald and by 1890 was a foreign correspondent for several New York newspapers. She traveled throughout Asia, reporting on the Sino-Japanese war in 1894, detailing the attack on the palace at Seoul, and the attempted assassination of Queen Min (Empress Myeongseong) of Korea. Hamm worked as a nurse during the Spanish-American war, after which she moved to Brooklyn NY where she continued to publish in both newspapers and popular magazines, went on a lecture tour about her experiences in east Asia, and was active in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. She wrote several books in the 1890s and early 1900s including Manila and the Philippines (1898), Puerto Rico and the West Indies (1899), Dewey, the Defender (1899), Eminent Actors in Their Homes (1902), and the two-volume Famous Families of New York (1902). She died of pneumonia in 1907.
Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
From the Collection: Danish
From the Collection: Swedish
From the Collection: Spanish
From the Collection: German
From the Collection: Norwegian
From the Collection: Persian
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Russian
From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu