(images left to right: Sarah Orne Jewett, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Thomas Hardy)

     The Edwin Arlington Robinson Collection is a literary collection with emphasis on British and American literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is a diverse collection which features material related to Robinson, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Vernon Lee, and Sarah Orne Jewett.
     The Robinson Memorial Room is named for Maine's most noted poet who won the Pulitzer prize for Literature three times. The Room contains the largest collection of Robinson's published works, as well as books from his library, manuscripts and over 1,000 of his letters.
     Joining Robinson's archive is the Thomas Hardy Collection. Carl J. Weber, a former chair of Colby's department of English, established this collection in the 1930s. Today it is one of the  largest Hardy collections in the United States. It contains editions of all of Hardy's titles, a library of secondary works pertaining to him, and a substantial number of Hardy's manuscripts and letters. Of great interest to Hardy scholars are the letters of Hardy's wives, Florence and Emma.   
     Also preserved here are collections of the works of many other New England writers, including Jacob Abbott, Thomas Aldrich, Mary Ellen Chase, William Dean Howells, Laura Richards, and Celia Thaxter.

Finding Aid to the Collection of Edward Arlington Robinson materials