Glimpse of the Valley of Mexico and Halls of Montezuma
Description:
Holograph draft
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico
Collection Created:
William Watts Hart Davis, attorney, editor, military officer, and historian, was born on July 28, 1820 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He served in the Mexican War and Civil War and as a government official in the Territory of New Mexico (1853-1857)
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
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.
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