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Hope Summerell Chamberlain

1 work in the index name this person, and 3 more are by them.

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Hope Summerell Chamberlain (1871-1960) Collection

Chamberlain, Hope Summerell · 1790

Typescripts of three unpublished autobiographical works written by Mrs. Chamberlain in the 1940s: "What's Done and Past," "Oh Call Back Yesterday," and "Older Years Than Fifty," which describes Salisbury in the 1880s. A…

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