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
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
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
"AA" (otherwise unidentified). Formerly owned by Louis-Jean Gaignat. Formerly owned by Louis de la Baume le Blanc, duc de La Vallière. Formerly owned by Abbé Lecuy. Formerly owned by Henry Pelham, 7th Duke of Newcastle (Clumber Park). Ex libris Maurice Burrus. Purchased from Christie's on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017., Binding: 18th-century full red morocco, gilt. Gilt-tooled six-compartment spine. Spine title in second compartment, in gilt: Alain Charti., Byname: Clumber Park Chartier., Contents: Le quadrilogue invectif (1r-17r) -- Les complaintes des quatre dames (Le livre des quatre dames) (18r-38v) -- Lay de paix (39r-40v) -- Le livre d'esperance (41r-83r) -- Le breviaire des nobles (83r-86v) -- copy the rest from the thing in EC folder) get the format for the note from DCRMMSS and AMREMM, and Modern foliation, in pencil, 1-136.
Subject (Name):
Burrus, Maurice--Bookplate., Caulier, Achille., Chartier, Alain,--active 15th century., Dunois Master,--active 1430-1465., Ferrell, Elizabeth E, Ferrell, James K.--Ownership., Gaignat, Louis Jean,--1697-1768, Granson, Oton de,---1397., Gréban, Simon,---approximately 1473., La Vallière, Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc,--duc de,--1708-1780, Lecuy, Abbé., Newcastle, Henry Pelham,--Duke of,--1811-1864, and Taillevent,--approximately 1315-1395.
Subject (Topic):
French literature--To 1500., French poetry--To 1500., Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Michael Brenner papers relating to the Washington Square Gallery and The Soil
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 2
Image Count:
11
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The papers include undated letters to Brenner from Enriqué Cross regarding Cross's work and containing several of his poems, and letters from Cross dated 1956 Jul 23-1957 Sep 30, describing his life in Mexico and his poor health; letters from Robert J. Coady to Brenner's sister, Miriam Brenner, dated 1916 Dec 30, 1920 Mar 4, and undated, concerning her artwork, Michael Brenner's activities in Paris, and The Soil, a "magazine of art," for which Coady served as art editor and Cross served as literary editor; and partial copies of Volume I, numbers 4 and 5 (1917 April and July) of The Soil which contain reproductions of two of Brenner's drawings. In addition, there is a carte-de-visite (1910) and a snapshot (1920) of Michael Brenner; an undated portrait photograph of R. J. Coady as a young man; and two color snapshots of Enriqué Cross dated 1957.
Description:
Gift of F. T. (Mrs. Michael J.) Brenner. and Lithuanian-born sculptor who immigrated to the United States in 1890, and moved to Paris in the early 1900s. With Robert J. Coady he owned the Washington Square Gallery in New York, and acted as the gallery's European agent.
Subject (Name):
Brenner, Marian, Brenner, Michael, 1888-1976, and Washington Square Gallery
Subject (Topic):
Art galleries, Commercial--New York (State)--New York, Art--Periodicals, and Soil
Manuscript journal of a London wine merchants travels in France, Germany, Switzerland and the Low Countries during the summer and fall of 1835, accompanied as far as Switzerland by a boy, Alfonzo Pipon. The diary documents travel and hotel conditions; soc
Subject (Geographic):
Coblenz (Germany) and Rhine River.
Subject (Topic):
Tourism--Europe, Travelers writings, English., and Travelers.