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.
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.
Reynaldo Hahn letters to René Peter and related papers
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
5
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Circa 200 autograph letters, signed, from Hahn to Peter, 1899-1947 and undated (Boxes 1-2), concerning their friendship, Hahn's music and music of others, and Peter's writings, and referring to Claude Debussy, André Messager, and other musicians and authors. Many letters are written as poems. Also present are single letters from Hahn to Gabriel Monod, 1898, and to Hahn from Georges Feydeau and Jeanne Granier, undated. and Related papers (Box 2), consist of additional poems by Hahn, typescript, 1946 and undated; a Proust questionnaire, printed, completed in holograph by Hahn, 1900 December; a scenario for a film titled Découvertes, by Hahn and Peter, typescript with corrections, undated; and a photograph of Peter, annotated by Hahn, undated.
Description:
Purchased from Les Autographes on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008., René Peter, French author and son-in-law of André Messager., and Reynaldo Hahn, French composer, conductor, and author.
Author's presentation copy to Joris Karl Huysmans.
Publisher:
Perrin et Cie,
Subject (Name):
Huysmans, J.-K.--(Joris-Karl),--1848-1907--Presentation inscription from S. Mallarmé., Mallarmé, Stéphane,--1842-1898--Presentation inscription to J.K. Huysmans., and Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903.
"Lettre de M. Visconti ... à M. de Humboldt, sur quelques monumens des peuples américains" (p. 299-304) dated: Paris, le 12 décembre 1812. and Added t.p.: Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland. 1. ptie. Relation historique. Atlas pittoresque.
Collection of correspondence with Edith Wharton and others, including Hamilton Aidé, Anna Bahlmann, Bernard Berenson, Walter Berry, William Morton Fullerton, Percy Lubbock, and abbé Arthur Mugnier. The collection features approximately 172 pieces of correspondence from Edith Wharton, consisting of autograph letters, notes, and postcards, signed, dating from 1909 to 1931, as well as sixteen pieces of correspondence from Bélugou to Wharton. Selected letters between Wharton and Bélugou were assembled by Claudine Lesage and published as Lettres à l'ami français (Paris: M. Houdiard, [2001]). Accompanied by several black-and-white photographs of Bélugou and others.
Description:
Chiefly in French; some materials in English, Spanish and German., Léon Bélugou (1865-1934), French educator., and Purchased from Priscilla Juvelis Inc. on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Aïdé, Hamilton, 1826-1906, Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, Bélugou, Léon, 1865-1934, Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959, Berry, Walter, 1859-1927 , Fullerton, William Morton, 1865-1952, and Lesage, Cla
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
Folder contains a note from J. H. Raphael to "Admiral Goodall," 1808 September 29, on stationery of "État d'Hayti," the breakaway republic ruled by Henri Christophe.
Subject (Geographic):
France--Colonies--Administration, France--Colonies--America, Haiti--Early works to 1800, Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804, Haiti--Politics and government--1791-1804, Martinique, and West Indies, French