- Creator:
- Female Literary Association (Alfred, N.Y.)
- Published / Created:
- 1846 September 28
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 948
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The first two issues of a monthly literary magazine circulated in manuscript by the Female Literary Association of Alfred, New York. Issues include volume 1, no. 1, dated June 1, 1846 and titled "Flower Gatherer," and volume 1, no. 2, dated September 28, 1846 and titled "A Juvenile Bo[u]quet." Issues contain verse and brief commentary by area residents on historical and contemporary topics, such as relations between European settlers and Native American Indians, fashion, music, and education in local schools. Authors include Adelia M. Grinnell, Martha J. Langworthy, Amanda Potter, and Lydia M. Shaw.
- Description:
- From Vol. 1, No. 1: "Published monthly by the Female Literary Association of Distr. No. One, Alfred, Allegany County, New York."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Alfred (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--19th century and Allegany County (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--19th century
- Subject (Name):
- Grinnell, Adelia M., Langworthy, Martha J., Potter, Amanda, and Shaw, Lydia M.
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature--19th century, American literature--Women authors, Authors, American--19th century, Indians in literature, and Women authors, American
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "A Juvenile Bo[u]quet," Vol. 1, No. 2, autograph manuscript
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- Published / Created:
- 1925 March 18
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 134
- Collection Title:
- Glenway Wescott papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 311 | Folder 3049
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name):
- Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, American --20th century --Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "A Man, A Writer, A Painter, A Drawing", draft, typescript carbon, corrected
- Creator:
- Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 12
- Collection Title:
- James Halliwell-Phillipps letters, 1870-1889.
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 20
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Two bound volumes containing: 164 letters to Halliwell-Phillips' nephew, Ernest Edward Baker; 18 letters to his niece, Mildred Baker; 12 letters to his sister, "Lorry" [Mrs. S. E. Baker?], one letter to Sir Edward Augustus Bond, secretary of the British Museum; one letter to [Mr. Friend]; and one letter to Thomas Morgan. Accompanying these letters are several clippings, a holograph speech dated Dec. 29, 1870; proof sheets of "A Shakespeare Hoax" and "Opinions of the Press" concerning Halliwell-Phillipps' pamphlet "The Stratford Records and the Shakspere Autotypes"; and several other enclosures.
- Description:
- James Halliwell-Phillipps, English author and biographer of Shakespeare. and Loose items have been removed from volumes and placed in folders.
- Subject (Name):
- Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O.--(James Orchard),--1820-1889.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "A Shakespeare Hoax" + "Opinions of the Press" [loose in volume]
- Published / Created:
- 1880-98
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 286
- Collection Title:
- George Gissing collection
- Container / Volume:
- Box 7 | Folder 147
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript diagrams, showing the receipts from individual publications during each year.
- Subject (Name):
- Gissing, George, 1857-1903
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Account of books etc."
- Creator:
- Lascelles, Robert
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1264
- Collection Title:
- John Hall-Stevenson letters and manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 4
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, autograph manuscripts, and one printed broadside song documenting aspects of the social and creative life of the poet John Hall-Stevenson. Contents include manuscripts of verses by John Hall-Stevenson and Robert Lascelles; letters by members of his club and social circle, including a lengthy letter by Jean-Baptiste Tollot discussing Laurence Sterne's character and good nature (1762 April 4) and another describing events in Geneva immediately after the expulsion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1764 January 8); and related correspondence, including a letter of advice from Hall-Stevenson to his grandson John Wharton and several business letters received by Wharton. The printed broadside song, "Trout Hall," is extensively annotated in Hall-Stevenson's hand.
- Description:
- Formerly owned by William Durrant Cooper. Purchased from Paul Grinke on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1972., John Hall-Stevenson (1718-1785), was a poet, a country gentleman, and a close friend of Laurence Sterne, whom he met at Cambridge and who based the character of Eugenius in Tristram Shandy on him. Hall-Stevenson founded a club of "Demoniacks," which met at "Crazy Castle," his country seat, and was loosely modeled on Sir Francis Dashwood's Monks of Medmenham. His published works included Crazy Tales and Fables for Grown Gentlemen, both of which were reprinted several times during his lifetime. He died at home in March, 1785., and The collection also contains a photocopy of W. Durrant Cooper's "Seven Letters Written by Sterne and His Friends;" a copy of the bookseller's catalogue; and a handwritten finding aid for the collection.
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, English--18th century and English literature--18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "An Ode, to General."
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 488
- Collection Title:
- Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The sermons consist of three bound volumes of holograph sermons by Charles Chauncy (volumes 1-3), one of them also carrying sermons by Israel Chauncy. A fourth bound volume (volume 4) contains holograph outlines of sermons delivered between 1690 and 1695 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a variety of ministers, including Nathaniel Gookin, Cotton Mather, William Brattle, John Emerson, Jonathan Mitchel, Jonathan Pierpont, and Samuel Willard. The recorder of these sermons is thought to be Isaac Chauncey, Harvard class of 1693, the only member of the Chauncy family in Cambridge during the years the sermons were recorded. A holograph sermon in sewn paper wrappers is by Israel Chauncy, given on the occasion of the death of Zachary Brinsmade of Stratford in August, 1667 (box 1). The sermons are accompanied by two folio sheets recording the inventory of the library of Nathaniel Chauncy, a holograph list of 160 books in short-title form, possibly created when Israel Chauncy assumed guardianship of his nephew (box 1); and a bound commonplace book kept by Elnathan Chauncy (Harvard Class of 1661), begun in his senior year at Harvard (volume 5).
- Description:
- Charles Chauncy, non-conformist minister originally from England, second Harvard president, and father of Isaac, Ichabod, Barnabas, Nathaniel, Elnathan, and Israel Chauncy., Israel Chauncy was a minister in Bridgeport (then Stratford), Connecticut. When his brother Nathaniel died, Israel agreed to raise his nephew Nathaniel in exchange for the use of books from their father's library which had passed to his brother. Israel Chauncy was one of the founders of Yale College, and his nephew Nathaniel was the first graduate of Yale College., and Purchased from The Owl at the Bridge on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2001.
- Subject (Name):
- Chauncey family, Chauncy, Nathaniel, approximately 1639-1685, and Harvard College (1636-1780)--Students
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "An inventory of the Library of Mr. Nathnl. Chauncy, Min: of Hatfield."
- Creator:
- Gissing, George, 1857-1903
- Published / Created:
- 1872 Jul 22
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 286
- Collection Title:
- George Gissing collection
- Container / Volume:
- Box 6 | Folder 100
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Autograph manuscript notes, signed with initials.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Answer to Goldsmith's Criticism on Hamlet's Soliloquy"
- Creator:
- Gold, Michael, 1893-1967
- Published / Created:
- 1940 Sep 29
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 3
- Collection Title:
- Richard Wright papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 89 | Folder 1098
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name):
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Subject (Topic):
- African American authors--20th century--Archives and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Change the World" [open letter to Richard Wright], printed version, Daily Worker
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2499
- Collection Title:
- John N. E. Brown papers concerning Faith Fenton
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 7
- Abstract:
- 4 undated typescript documents (13 p.), apparently drafts written by John N. E. Brown for an unpublished biography of his wife, Faith Fenton, after her death in 1936: an annotated draft of Chapter One, titled "Memories of Faith Fenton", describes Brown's 1898 journey to the Yukon in the company of William Ogilvie, the Territory's first commissioner, and of Ogilvie's 1897 interview with Fenton for the Toronto Globe; a draft of Chapter Two, describing Fenton's journey with the Yukon Field Force and her arrival in Dawson; a draft relating Brown's first glimpse of Fenton on the streets of Dawson; and an annotated draft tracing Fenton's family history and early youth. Also includes a TLS on Toronto Globe stationary from A. A. McIntosh to Dr. John N. E. Brown, encouraging a proposed biography of Fenton and permitting Brown's use of Fenton's Globe columns. A cabinet card photograph of Faith Fenton accompanies the papers, taken by J. Bruce of Bruce's Photographic Art Studio, Toronto.
- Description:
- Faith Fenton was the pen name of Alice Freeman, a Toronto school teacher who wrote newspaper columns for the Toronto Globe and the Toronto Empire in the 1890s. In 1898, she became the Globe's special correspondent in the Yukon Territory, and accompanied the Yukon Field Force to Dawson to cover the Klondike gold rush. On January 1, 1900, she married Dr. John N. E. Brown, the secretary of the Yukon Territory and physician to the commissioner, William Ogilvie. The couple remained in Dawson for several years, returning to Toronto in 1905. Fenton died on January 10, 1936. and Purchased from Sindell and Company on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 2004.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Dawson (Yukon)--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Brown, John N. E. (Nelson Elliot), Canada. Canadian Army. Yukon Field Force, Fenton, Faith, 1857-1936, Globe and Mail (Firm), McIntosh, A. A, and Ogilvie, William, 1846-1912
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Yukon--Klondike River Valley, Women journalists--Canada, Women pioneers--Yukon--Klondike River Valley, and Women--West (U.S.)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Chapter One" (p. 1-6)
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2499
- Collection Title:
- John N. E. Brown papers concerning Faith Fenton
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 3
- Abstract:
- 4 undated typescript documents (13 p.), apparently drafts written by John N. E. Brown for an unpublished biography of his wife, Faith Fenton, after her death in 1936: an annotated draft of Chapter One, titled "Memories of Faith Fenton", describes Brown's 1898 journey to the Yukon in the company of William Ogilvie, the Territory's first commissioner, and of Ogilvie's 1897 interview with Fenton for the Toronto Globe; a draft of Chapter Two, describing Fenton's journey with the Yukon Field Force and her arrival in Dawson; a draft relating Brown's first glimpse of Fenton on the streets of Dawson; and an annotated draft tracing Fenton's family history and early youth. Also includes a TLS on Toronto Globe stationary from A. A. McIntosh to Dr. John N. E. Brown, encouraging a proposed biography of Fenton and permitting Brown's use of Fenton's Globe columns. A cabinet card photograph of Faith Fenton accompanies the papers, taken by J. Bruce of Bruce's Photographic Art Studio, Toronto.
- Description:
- Faith Fenton was the pen name of Alice Freeman, a Toronto school teacher who wrote newspaper columns for the Toronto Globe and the Toronto Empire in the 1890s. In 1898, she became the Globe's special correspondent in the Yukon Territory, and accompanied the Yukon Field Force to Dawson to cover the Klondike gold rush. On January 1, 1900, she married Dr. John N. E. Brown, the secretary of the Yukon Territory and physician to the commissioner, William Ogilvie. The couple remained in Dawson for several years, returning to Toronto in 1905. Fenton died on January 10, 1936. and Purchased from Sindell and Company on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 2004.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Dawson (Yukon)--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Brown, John N. E. (Nelson Elliot), Canada. Canadian Army. Yukon Field Force, Fenton, Faith, 1857-1936, Globe and Mail (Firm), McIntosh, A. A, and Ogilvie, William, 1846-1912
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Yukon--Klondike River Valley, Women journalists--Canada, Women pioneers--Yukon--Klondike River Valley, and Women--West (U.S.)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Chapter Two" (p. 1-2)