E. Vale Blake papers
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The collection includes short essays on folklore in New England and miscellaneous notes and news clippings on folklore. Also included are also two manuscripts on Royal Families and heraldry and a typescript manuscript titled "Shakespeare Index of Six Thousand Quotation Lines." Euphemia Vale Blake was a Brooklyn author who wrote under the name E. Vale Blake.
Biographical note
Euphemia Vale Blake was born in Hastings, England, in 1824. She immigrated to the United States with her father, Prof. Gilbert Vale, when she was six years old. In 1844, she married Dr. Mayo Gerrish Smith and moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts, where she began her literary career. The couple divorced by 1856, when Blake remarried and relocated to Brooklyn, New York. She continued to write in Brooklyn, where her work was published in various newspapers and magazines under the name E. Vale Blake. She published a history of Tammany Hall in 1901. Blake died in 1904 and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.
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"Death List of a Day. Mrs. Euphenia V. Blake," New York Times, October 23, 1904.
"Euphemia Vale Blake," Find A Grave, accessed March 18, 2015. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39151121.
"Dr Mayo Gerrish Smith," Find A Grave, accessed March 18, 2015. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35151534.
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Open to users without restriction.
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Papers are in the public domain.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); E. Vale Blake papers, 1977.050, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Sydney V. Lowell, date unknown. Formally accessioned in 1977.
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