{"id":907,"date":"2015-03-31T20:01:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/?page_id=907"},"modified":"2016-07-06T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T17:46:25","slug":"s-n-pulsifer-donor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/the-people\/highlighted-donors\/s-n-pulsifer-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Nichols Pulsifer (Donor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Farley Nichols Pulsifer (1892-1987) was born in Oyster Bay, Long Island. She married poet-editor Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer in October 1924. After the decline of Harold&#8217;s journal, the Outlook, in the late 1920s, the Pulsifers moved to Maine, buying a saltwater farm near Harpswell and spending their time there and in Brunswick.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1170\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1170\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/RELS-and-Susan-Pulsifer-1964-1024x710.jpg\" alt=\"RELS and Susan Pulsifer 1964\" width=\"401\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/RELS-and-Susan-Pulsifer-1964.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/03\/RELS-and-Susan-Pulsifer-1964-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Strider and Susan Nichols Pulsifer in the Pulsifer Poetry Room in Miller Library ca.1964.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Susan worked in French hospitals during World War One and led a campaign to bring British children to America during World War Two. She wrote and published fiction, poetry and essays under her maiden and married names. Titles include: <em>Water Colors, South of France<\/em> (1921); <em>Fighting French Ballads<\/em> (1943); <em>L&#8217;Esprit de la France<\/em> (1944); <em>Scenes From the Life of Jesus in Woodcut<\/em> (1947); <em>Children Are Poets<\/em> (1963); <em>Witch&#8217;s Breed<\/em> (1967); and, <em>Southern Sketch Book<\/em> (1975). A number of her poems on Free France were translated by Marguerite Clement in <em>Pour Toi, France<\/em> (1949).<\/p>\n<p>After Harold&#8217;s death in 1948, Susan lived in New York City. She died and was buried in Downington, Pennsylvania in August 1987.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>SUSAN NICHOLS PULSIFER AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Susan Pulsifer gave her husband&#8217;s poetry library to Colby in 1948. The Pulsifer Poetry Room in Miller Library was completed in 1963 and dedicated in 1964. She retained a correspondence with President Strider through the 1960s and 1970s, donating additional published and unpublished materials for the Pulsifer Collection, also several associated collections.<\/p>\n<p>Works consulted:<\/p>\n<p><em>Colby Library Quarterly<\/em>. Waterville, ME: Colby College Library. Print and web.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Susan N Pulisfer.&#8221; <em>New York Times<\/em> obituary. 4 September 1987. Web. 31 March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Susan N Pulsifer donor file. Colby College Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>ASSOCIATED COLLECTIONS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer Collection\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/h-t-pulsifer-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer<\/a> &#8211; primary collection<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/t-s-perry-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Sergeant Perry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/l-e-richards-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura E Richards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/e-a-robinson-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edwin Arlington Robinson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Farley Nichols Pulsifer (1892-1987) was born in Oyster Bay, Long Island. She married poet-editor Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer in October 1924. After the decline of Harold&#8217;s journal, the Outlook, in the late 1920s, the Pulsifers moved to Maine, buying a saltwater farm near Harpswell and spending their time there and in Brunswick. 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