Group of letters, photographs, and clippings chiefly related to Read's poem "Sheridan's Ride," and its composition on the morning of James E. Murdoch's recitation at Pike's Opera House in Cincinnati, October 31, 1864. It includes four letters written by Read and one by E. D. Grafton; copies of accounts by Leon Vanloo and Davis L. James, describing how and where Read wrote the poem; a collage by Grafton showing Murdoch reciting the poem; photographs of Read and his wife Hattie by Grafton and others; and clippings regarding the placement of a plaque on the house in which the poem was written.
Description:
Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet.
Subject (Geographic):
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Poetry
Subject (Name):
Grafton, E. D., James, Davis L., Literary Club of Cincinnati, Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893, Read, Harriet Denison Butler, Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872, Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888--Poetry, and Vanloo, Leon
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American --19th century --Archives and Poets, American
The collection contains typescripts of four undated novels by Aleta B. Baker: Captive Amid the Astral: A Romance (355 pages); The Double Bridal (366 pages); The Mysterious Opal Globe: A Mystical Romance (67 pages); and Rathbone, Son of the Sun: A Romance of Reincarnation (287 pages).
Description:
Aleta Blanche Baker, American author, was born in Maine in 1880, and died in Miami, Florida, on January 19, 1943. Baker was the founding director of the Order of the Portal, a Christian occultist group headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1924 she married Leslie Talbot Baker (born 1875), who earned both his AB (1900) and MD (1906) degrees from Harvard University., Box 1 contains manuscripts; Box 2 contains the original boxes that held the manuscripts., and Purchased from Ian Brabner on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--20th century and Occultism--United States
Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of African Americans cover religion in the Colonial era, the anti-slavery movement, and the underground railroad. Essays documenting African American cultural forms cover dance, literature, and theater, and feature several pieces on music, including songs of protest, spirituals, and folk music. Many essays in the collection also document contributions of individual African Americans, including James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Paul Robeson, and William Christopher Handy. Contributing authors include Wesley Curtwright, Ralph Ellison, Lawrence Gellert, Abram Hill, Claude McKay, Henry Lee Moon, Ted Poston, and others.
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008. and The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject (Name):
United States.--Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American artists, African American authors--20th century, African Americans--Social life and customs, Antislavery movements--United States, Authors, American--20th century, Harlem Renaissance, and Underground Railroad
Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors, Russian--20th century--Archives , Nobel Prize winners, Poets, American--20th century, Poets, Russian--20th century, and Translators
Kingerly's letters to his parents and friends describe the 1852 journey from Illinois to California by way of Iowa, Kanesville, the Platte and Sweetwater, Kinney's and Hudspeth's Cut-offs, the Shasta and Nobles Pass route, Sierra Nevadas, and Shasta City. The letters note camping places, the cost of ferriage and food, encounters with Indians, sickness, and deaths. Kingerly traveled with a group from Pine Creek, Ogle County, Illinois. One letter describes storekeeping in Shasta City.
Subject (Geographic):
Shasta (Calif.) and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Overland journeys to the Pacific and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1852
Art--Periodicals, Authors and publishers--United States, Editors--United States, Literature--Periodicals, Little magazines--Archives, and Periodicals--Publishing--United States
Travel diary of a voyage from New York to Alaska via San Francisco, 1868 October 24-1869 April 25. Meigs served as captain's clerk on an expedition to explore the newly-acquired territory on the U.S.S. Saginaw. The diary includes a daily account of the voyage and a list of addresses of shipmates, and recounts the destruction of a Kake (Tlingit) village on Kuiu Island, among other events. Accompanied by a transcript of the diary, a printed version of Hydrographic Notice No. 13, 1869, and two photographs: one of Peveril Meigs, 1869, and one of Richard Worsam Meade (captain of the U.S.S. Saginaw and Meigs's cousin), undated.
Description:
Peveril Meigs (1847-1921), of Richmond, New York, and Santa Barbara, California.
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Description and travel, Alaska--Discovery and exploration, and San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Meade, Richard W.--(Richard Worsam), 1837-1897 and Saginaw (Steamer)
Buddhist sanghas--California, Christian communities--California, Collective settlements--California, Communal living--California, Cooperative societies--California, Socialism--California, and T