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Call No.: SC 73
Repository: Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Lydia Edmundovna Noble, 1884-1929
Title: Papers of Lydia Edmundovna Noble, 1895-1940
Quantity: 3 file boxes
Abstract: Correspondence, poems, articles, etc., of Lydia Edmundovna Noble, Radcliffe College Class of 1909.

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BIOGRAPHY

Lydia Edmundovna Noble, poet and translator, was born February 22, 1882 and raised in Malden, Massachusetts. Her father, Edmund Noble was a journalist and her mother, Lydia Lyvovna Pimenoff Noble was of Russian origin. LEN attended Malden High School and Radcliffe College (1902-1905, 1907-1909) where she studied English, German, French, Latin, Spanish, Fine Arts and Music. She also knew Russian from her mother. LEN translated poems and articles by the Russian poet Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont and the diary of Constantine Belash, a young Russian officer. Her own articles and translations of articles from French were published in Eastern and Western Review. She also wrote poetry, some of which was translated into Russian by Balmont and into Serbian by Ivan Shaikovich. She gave lectures at schools and churches in the Boston area.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection consists of LEN's correspondence (originals, transcriptions, and copies) with friends and poets including Konstantin Balmont. Also included are drafts of LEN's poems, translations, articles, and other writings, and poems by LEN's sister and mother. Much of the collection consists of copies of materials that were deposited at Houghton Library (49M-263) by LEN's sister Beatrice Noble in May 1950.

CONTAINER LIST

• Box 1: 1-15
• Box 2: 16-28
• Box 3: 29-38

INVENTORY

• 1-8: Correspondence
  • 1-4: Letters from LEN with some transcriptions by her sister Beatrice Noble; also some copies (by BN) of LEN's letters at Houghton Library
    • 1. 1895-1906: "school girl letters" and poems
    • 2. 1911-1925: to friends, mostly copied by BN
    • 3. 1926-1927: includes letters to Konstantin Balmont et al., copied by BN
    • 4. 1928-1929, n.d.: to Priscilla Gough Treat with biographical details and notes about K. Balmont; to Lithuanian poet Liudas Gira and to Constantine Belash.
  • 5. 1907-1929, n.d., includes: English translation of letter from K. Balmont and telegram from Liudas Gira.
  • 6-8: Correspondence about LEN and her poetry
    • 6. 1929-1930
    • 7. 1931-1932: includes ALS from K. Balmont
    • 8. 1933-1940, n.d. includes: 2 ALSs from K. Balmont and copies of letters from KB et al. translated into English by BN

• 9-26: LEN's poetry, including translations, ms. and ts.
  • 9. I
  • 10. II
  • 11. III
  • 12. IV
  • 13. V
  • 14. VI
  • 15. VII
  • 16. VIII includes LEN's translation of poem by K. Balmont
  • 17. IX
  • 18. X
  • 19. XI, war poems, ca. 1917-1920
  • 20-26: LEN's later poetry copied by Beatrice Noble
    • 20. I
    • 21. II
    • 22. III
    • 23. IV
    • 24. V
    • 25. VI
    • 26. VII

• 27-31: LEN's other writings
  • 27. I: includes visit to Russia and description of Sarah Bernhardt
  • 28. II: writings copied by BN
  • 29. III: writings copied by BN
  • 30. Articles and speeches, printed and copied
  • 31. Lecture on Bolshevism

• 32-36: Translations
  • 32. Unfinished Russian fairy tale
  • 33. From Eastern and Western Review, ms. and printed
  • 34. From Eastern and Western Review, ms. and printed
  • 35. Articles by K. Balmont translated by LEN, copied by Beatrice Noble, and printed Russian text
  • 36. Diary of Constantine Belash "a young Russian officer, "translated by LEN and copied by BN

• 37. Articles and poems translated by LEN's mother and sister including article by K. Balmont

• 38. Ivan Shaikovich's translations of LEN's poems into Serbian and TLSs, 1931-1936

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