Has author's presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten and Carl Van Vechten's bookplate. Dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket of The Holliday Bookshop. First binding of silver blue cloth and white endsheets. and The life of Gertrude Stein written by herself as though it were the autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Publisher:
Harcourt, Brace and company
Subject (Geographic):
Paris (France)--Intellectual life
Subject (Name):
Faÿ, Bernard, 1893-1978, Gris, Juan, 1887-1927, Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973, Rose, Francis, Sir, 1909-1979, Stein, Gertrude,--1874-1946--Presentation inscription to C. van Vechten., Toklas, Alice B., and Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from G. Stein.
American literature--20th century, American poetry--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors--United States--20th century, Gay authors, LGBTQ resource, Poets, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets--United States--20th Century
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
Postcard from S.N. Rhoads of the Franklin Bookshop to Wilberforce Eames offering the photographs, attributing them to Tyson, and referring to the Indians as "the Indians in whom the Quakers were so much interested."