Twenty-four pieces of correspondence written by Pound during his hospitalization at St. Elizabeths in Washington, D.C. Letters to Mac Low contain opinions on literature, literary scholarship, and politics. Some typed letters, dating from 1951, include envelopes in the hand of Dorothy Pound. Letters also include drafts, typescript, of two poems by Mac Low, "Venti Creator Spiritus" and "The Queen Anne's Lace," corrected and annotated by Pound. With one typescript carbon letter from Mac Low and one autograph manuscript letter, signed, to Mac Low from Omar Pound.
Description:
Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet., Jackson Mac Low (1922-2004), American poet and composer., and Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2010.
Subject (Name):
Mac Low, Jackson , Pound, Dorothy, Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Political and social views, Pound, Omar S, and Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.)
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, Antisemitism, and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
ALS illustrated with a small diagram concerning Faccio's work on the problem of determining longitude, and "on the theory of the Moon," which he had previously discussed with Isaac Newton.
Description:
Purchased from Emily Driscoll on the Library Associates Fund, 1968. and Swiss mathematician.
Subject (Geographic):
Moon--Orbit
Subject (Name):
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 and Whiston, William, 1667-1752
Seventy letters from William C. Ellis to his wife describe the trip to California by way of Panama and experiences in the gold fields. Accompanied by six other family letters, including five letters by or to Anne Ellis, wife of the Welsh poet, Robert Ellis.
Description:
The six additional family letters were a gift of Hannah C. Ellis in 1961.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Gold discoveries
Subject (Name):
Ellis, Anne, Ellis, Cornelia, Ellis, Robert, 1810-1875, and Ellis, William C.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--California, Gold mines and mining--California, and Voyages to the Pacific coast
Correspondence and property records concerning the Talbot family, primarily Richard Ely Talbot. Correspondence includes circa 80 autograph letters, signed, between Richard Ely Talbot, Anna Louisa Trowbridge Talbot, and their daughters Elizabeth Talbot Anderson and Anna Louisa Talbot Shell while students at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, 1865-1867. Topics include the family's ranch in Georgetown, Texas, the Chisholm trail, an outbreak of yellow fever in New Orleans, the Civil War, and Richard Ely Talbot's involvement with the Republican Party. Includes documentation of Richard Ely Talbot's interactions with the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, including the impressment of ten of Talbot's mules and an interrogation about transactions involving enemy property, 1862-1864. Property records include deeds, land grants, surveys, and titles concerning land in Texas relating to Richard Ely Talbot, Thomas Talbot, John W. Talbot, Joseph W. Talbot, Elias W. Talbot, Peter Kinsey, and Sarah Gilleland Kinsey Tone, 1838-1877. Includes three manuscript and printed maps of the Talbots' properties in Texas. Collection also includes report cards from the Abbot Academy for Anna Louisa Talbot Shell and Elizabeth Talbot Anderson. Genealogical material consists of five issues of the Williamson Country Genealogical Society newsletter containing articles about the Talbots and Andersons.
Description:
Box 1: correspondence between Richard Ely Talbot, Anna Louise Trowbridge, and their daughters, genealogical materials, and report cards. and The Talbot family was an American family of ranchers and politicians in Texas, Michigan, and Massachusetts. Richard Ely Talbot (1816-1884) was a rancher and cowboy in Georgetown, Texas who was involved in the Texas Republican Party and Texas Reconstruction Convention, including serving as a delegate to the Texas Republican Party Convention, 1868-1869. Talbot married Anna Louisa Trowbridge in Louisiana in 1846; they moved to Texas in 1852 and were among the earliest settlers in the area between Georgetown and Circleville. The Talbots had six children, including Elizabeth Talbot Anderson (1847-1900) and Anna Louisa Talbot Shell (1848- ). Richard Ely Talbot's siblings included John W. Talbot (1805-1876), Joseph W. Talbot (1815-1886), Elias W. Talbot (1820-1876), and Thomas Talbot (1818-1885), who was a politician and governor of Massachusetts, 1874-1875 and 1879-1880.
Manuscripts include Dr. Johnson's opinion on Lord Chesterfield's letters, apparently unpublished in this form, and a dream John Hoole had about Dr. Johnson three months after his passing.
Wilson family correspondence related to emigration from Scotland to Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 71
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The collection consists of letters related to the Wilson family, which document their emigration from Great Britain to New Jersey and Kansas, 1873-1941, with the bulk of the material covering years from 1873 to 1879. Agnes Ledgerwood Hately, later Wilson, wrote most of the letters to her fiancée and then husband, James Kinnier Wilson, as well as to her family in Scotland.
Description:
Agnes Ledgerwood Hately Wilson MacIntosh (1845-1931) was a daughter of Thomas Ledgerwood Hately (1816-1867), a composer and precentor of the Free High Church in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Ann Atkinson Brook Hately (1817-1861). She had two older siblings, Mary Ann Atkinson Hately Macfie (born 1840) and composer Walter Hately (1843-1907). Agnes also worked as a teacher of singing in Edinburgh, Scotland, before her marriage. In April 1874, Agnes married Reverend James Kinnier Wilson (1846-1879), a Presbyterian minister originally from County Monaghan, Ireland, who studied at Princeton University (1869), the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest (1871-1873), and at Auburn Theological Seminary (1873-1874). From 1874 to 1878, James served as a minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Cedarville, New Jersey. The Wilsons had two children, Anne Edina Hately Wilson Paul (1876-1959), and neurologist Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878-1937). In June 1878, the Wilson family relocated to WaKeeney, Kansas, where James served the Home Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America until his death in November 1879 from malaria. Agnes and their children returned to Scotland. In 1881, she married Henry MacIntosh (1836-1894), and they had a son, Henry Walter McIntosh (born 1882). and WaKeeney, Kansas, was established in 1879 on land purchased from the Kansas Pacific Railway by the Chicago land development firm of Warren, Keeney, & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Cedarville (N.J.)--Religious life and customs, Cedarville (N.J.)--Social life and customs, Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation (Okla.), Philadelphia (Pa.) Social life and customs, Philadelphia (Pa.)--Religious life and customs, Scotland--Emigration and immigration, WaKeeney (Kan.)--Religious life and customs, and WaKeeney (Kan.)--Social life and customs
Subject (Name):
Auburn Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.), First Presbyterian Church (Cedarville, N.J.), Hately family, Macfie, Mary Ann Atkinson Hately, 1840-, MacIntosh, Agnes Ledgerwood Hately Wilson, 1845-1931, Paul, Anne Edina Hately Wilson, 1876-1959, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Clergy, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Missions Kansas, Wilson family, Wilson, James Kinnier, 1846-1879, and Wilson, S. A. Kinnier (Samuel Alexander Kinnier), 1878-1937
Subject (Topic):
Cheyenne Indians, Clergy--Kansas, Clergy--New Jersey, Home missions--Kansas, and Malaria--Kansas--WaKeeney
Ethan Allen Hitchcock collection on Indian removal
Container / Volume:
Box 3 | Folder 14
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic):
Florida, Southern States, and United States--History--1815-1861
Subject (Name):
Hitchcock, Ethan Allen,--1798-1870, Jesup, Thomas Sidney,--1788-1860, United States.--Army--Military life, and United States.--Office of Indian Affairs
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians, Choctaw Indians, Creek Indians, Creek War, 1836, Generals--United States, Indian agents, Indian Removal, 1813-1903, Indians of North America--Florida, Indians of North America--Government relations, Indians of North America--Treaties, Indians of North America--Wars--1815-1875, and Soldiers--United States