Ruth Ann Hubbell papers, 1905-1986 and undated, bulk 1926-1972

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Summary

Creator:
Hubbell, Ruth Ann
Abstract:
Poet and librarian, of Washington, D.C. Also sister of Jay B. Hubbell, Professor of American Literature, Duke University. The Ruth Ann Hubbell papers span the years from 1905 to 1986, with the bulk dating from 1926 to 1972. The collection consists mainly of correspondence between Ruth Ann Hubbell, her brother Jay Broadus Hubbell, and other members of the Hubbell family, but there are also some materials on the establishment of the Hubbell Center at Duke University, a small group of photographs, and folders of writings by Ruth Ann Hubbell, Jay Broadus Hubbell, Paul Edgar Hubbell, and other individuals. The collection is divided into six series: Clippings, Correspondence, Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography, Miscellany, Pictures, and Writings.
Extent:
1.2 Linear Feet
200 Items
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.00583

Background

Scope and content:

The Ruth Ann Hubbell Papers span the years from 1905 to 1986, with the bulk dating from 1926 to 1972. The collection consists mainly of correspondence between Ruth Ann Hubbell, her brother Jay Broadus Hubbell, and other members of the Hubbell family, but there are also some materials on the establishment of the Hubbell Center at Duke University, and some photographs and writings of Ruth Ann Hubbell, Jay Broadus Hubbell, Paul Edgar Hubbell (their brother), and other individuals. The collection is divided into six series: Clippings, Correspondence, Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography, Miscellany, Photographs, and Writings. These series are described fully below.

Biographical / historical:

Ruth Ann Hubbell was born in Smyth County, Virginia and grew up in western Virginia and North Carolina. She attended high school in Elkin, North Carolina. She received a B.A. from Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1919 and began teaching at the primary level. She returned to graduate study at Columbia University in New York, where she received a Master's in English in 1921. Then she studied psychology for a year at New York University. She taught briefly at Denton, Colorado; Appalchian State Teachers College, Boone, North Carolina; and Intermont, Virginia. She returned to New York and studied Library Science at New York City College, receiving a certificate in 1926. She then accepted a position in the Public Library in Washington, D.C. as Reference Assistant and Assistant Director of Adult Work. She remained there from 1926 to 1932, when she trasferred to the Northeast Branch as Reference Librarian. In 1939, she returned to the Central Library as Readers' Advisor in Literature where she worked for two years before going to the Georgetown Branch as Reference Librarian. At the time of her retirement in 1965, she was Reference Librarian and First Assistant in the Georgetown Branch. After retirement, she traveled extensively and was active in church and club work. She wrote a number of poems that were accepted for publication in numerous magazines. Copies of many of these poems were sent to her brother, Jay Broadus Hubbell, professor of literature at Duke University, and may be found in the biographical materials in the Jay B. Hubbell Papers in the Rubenstein Library at Duke.

Acquisition information:
The Ruth Ann Hubbell Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 1980 and 1986.
Processing information:

Processed by Aaron Thornburg, April 2009

Encoded by Aaron Thornburg, April 2009

Accessions from 1980 and 1986 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.

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[Identification of item], Ruth Ann Hubbell Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University