CLRC-1105 Leclaire Alger Collection Sharlene Murphy University of Minnesota Libraries 10/04/2004
University of Minnesota Libraries Minneapolis, MN 55455
EAD 2002 Validated Finding Aid generated with the aid of a custom FileMaker Pro database developed by the staff of the Children's Literature Research Collections, University of Minnesota Libraries. Many thanks to all the staff and volunteers. 10/04/2004 Description is in English Summary Information University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc] Alger, Leclaire Leclaire Alger Collection 1968 CLRC-1105 The Alger Collection includes written production material from one title published in 1968, including a corrected typescript. 3 folders See Detailed Descriptions for Each Title Item for Box Locations English Important Information for Users of the Collections Access and Use:

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Biographical Sketch

Leclaire [Gowans] Alger was born May 20, 1898, just south of Lake Erie in Youngstow, Ohio to Louis Peter Gowans. In 1916, she married her first husband, Amos Hoffman who died two years later in 1918. A decade later, Alger graduated from the Carnegie Library School, a name that would grow quite intimate through her thirty-seven years of service with several branches of the Carnegie Library. Ms. Leclaire remarried several years after the death of her first husband and devoted much of her time to writing remakes of old Scottish folk tales. She is the author of over twenty novels, including a library under the pseudonym Sorche Nic Leodhas. Leclaire Alger is praised by critics now and then for her ability to adopt and adapt Scottish folklore into the English language with great style. She died in 1969.

Biographical source: Something About the Author, Volume 15, 1979.

 Scope and Content

The Alger Collection includes written production material from one title published in 1968, including a corrected typescript.

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Alger, Leclaire Accession Information:

No accession information available.

Gift of: Alger, Leclaire

Arrangement

Sea-Spell and Moor-Magic: Tales of the Western Isles, 1968

Collection Contents Sea-Spell and Moor-Magic: Tales of the Western Isles 1968

Bock, Vera

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968

 MF 23 typescript, corrected 135 p.