- 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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- 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."
- 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:
- Hall-Stevenson, John, 1718-1785
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1264
- Collection Title:
- John Hall-Stevenson letters and manuscripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 4
- 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 > "Epitaph" Manuscript verses in Latin and English
- Creator:
- Female Literary Association (Alfred, N.Y.)
- Published / Created:
- 1846 June 1
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 948
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- 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 > "Flower Gatherer," Vol. 1, No. 1, autograph manuscript
- Published / Created:
- 1994
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 87
- Collection Title:
- Per Seyersted papers concerning Leslie Marmon Silko
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 8
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The papers consist of materials sent by Leslie Marmon Silko to Per Seyersted, a professor in the American Institute at Oslo University, Norway. Along with letters from Silko to Seyersted from 1974-1995 are drafts of writings by Silko, several photographs, and an offprint of an interview of Silko done by Seyersted.
- Description:
- Leslie Marmon Silko (1948-), native American writer, author of Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead. and Purchased from Per Seyersted on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund, 1995.
- Subject (Name):
- Silko, Leslie, 1948-
- Subject (Topic):
- American fiction--Indian authors, Indian authors--20th century--Archives, Indians in literature, Native American literature, and Novelists, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "How to Hunt Buffalo," photocopy, inscribed to Per and Brita Seyersted
- Published / Created:
- 1941-circa 1950
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
- Container / Volume:
- Box 62 | Folder 1068
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Draft, typescript, corrected, of list of books and manuscripts donated to the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection by CVV and many others
- Subject (Name):
- Petry, Ann, 1908-1997 and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880 - 1964
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters Founded by Carl Van Vechten" [11 of 14 folders]
- Creator:
- Gissing, George, 1857-1903
- Published / Created:
- 1869
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 286
- Collection Title:
- George Gissing collection
- Container / Volume:
- Box 6 | Folder 113
- Image Count:
- 41
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 3 manuscript dramas written in childhood, in a notebook with covers wanting. Laid in is a partial copy of "King Richard I", [Wakefield?], 1871.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "King Richard I"; "The Tragedy of Tancra and Clarinda"; "Ariodante and Ginevra", [Wakefield]
- Published / Created:
- [1920s]
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS FILE 50
- Collection Title:
- Drafts for The I. O. U.
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 69
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Material consists of one autograph manuscript draft, signed and corrected, and one typescript carbon draft of a short story. Typescript draft inscribed in an unidentified hand: "written before 1928". Accompanied by a typescript note by Fitzgerald's agent Harold Ober providing a synopsis of the story.
- Description:
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American author. and Purchased from William Reese Co. (Sotheby's sale, 2012 June 15, lot 99) on the Sinclair Lewis Fund, 2012.
- Subject (Name):
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 and Ober, Harold, 1881-1959
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature--20th century and Authors, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "The I. O. U.," drafts, autograph manuscript signed and typescript carbon
- Creator:
- Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934.
- Published / Created:
- [1910]
- Call Number:
- Osborn Music MS 500
- Image Count:
- 112
- Resource Type:
- Music (Printed & Manuscript)
- Abstract:
- Holograph. and The Cloud Messenger. Ode for Chorus and Orchestra, founded on a Sanscrit poem of Kalidasa. Words and Music by Holst. Op. 30. First performed by Balfour Gardiner in 1913. A piano score has been published; this orchestral score has not been published. See Imogen Holst, Gustav Holst (London, 1938), pp 37, 41, 173.
- Alternative Title:
- Cloud messenger
- Description:
- For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "The cloud messenger"