20 ALS and 2 statements of account and 1 receipt. 13 of the letters and the other three items are between Sage, his publishers Carey & Hart,and their successor Henry C. Baird & Co., and largely concern the dispute over his copyright fees. Three letters from his mother Jerusha Sage, to Rufus just after he moved from Middletown, Connecticut to Marietta, Ohio, contain news of local events. There are two letters from Rufus to his mother dated early 1836, one describing his trip to New York on his way to Ohio, and another describing Marietta. Two undated letters from his mother recount Middletown news, and one other letter is from his cousin Martha P. Sage, dated June 23, 1837.
Description:
Gift of Thomas W. Streeter, 1962. and Rufus B. Sage wrote "Scenes in the Rocky Mountains," published by Carey & Hart in 1846, based on his experiences of traveling in the West. Martha P. Sage, Rufus' cousin, was a schoolteacher in northeast Pennsylvania.
Subject (Geographic):
Marietta (Ohio) and Middletown (Conn.)
Subject (Name):
Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912, Carey & Hart, Sage, Jerusha Butler, Sage, Martha P., and Sage, Rufus B., 1817-1893
Mary Elizabeth Phillips papers relating to James Fenimore Cooper
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 5
Image Count:
27
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Papers consist of a draft, typescript, corrected, and other materials relating to Phillips's work on James Fenimore Cooper. Other materials include a bibliography of works relating to Cooper held by Rudolf Drescher, a memorandum of agreement between Phillips and the publisher John Lane Company, correspondence, page proofs, and printed ephemera. Correspondence includes letters from John Lane Company, Dodd, Mead & Company, The University Press, and other publishers.
Description:
Gift of Mary M. Bean, 2010., James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), American novelist., and Mary Elizabeth Phillips (1957-1945), biographer.
Subject (Name):
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 and John Lane Company
Subject (Topic):
American literature--19th century, Authors and publishers--United States, Authors, American--19th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Publishers and publishing--United States
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.
Accompanied by typed transcripts of the letters, by an eleven-page typescript by W. H. Goetzmann and Jerry E. Patterson dated June 17, 1959, written as an introduction to the Upton letters which they had edited for publication, and a letter with enclosures from Eleanor S. Upton to Zara Powers dated January 3, 1956, regarding Upton genealogies. and Twenty-five ALS (three of which are manuscript copies) written by Barna N. Upton to his father Nehemiah, his brother Elias, his sister Susan, and other family members and friends, dating from July 7, 1842 to August 7, 1847. With the exception of his first letter, which was written to his family while he was working as a farmhand in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, Upton's letters document his experiences as a soldier in Company E of the 3rd Regiment U.S. Infantry before and during the Mexican War. The letters describe his enlistment in the army and camp life on Governors Island, New York, early in 1845; his voyage from New York to New Orleans that spring; camp life at Fort Jesup, Louisiana, Corpus Christi, Texas, Matamoros, Camargo, Veracruz, and Jalapa, Mexico; and battles in which he fought including Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, and Cerro Gordo. His last letter was written from Puebla as he prepared to march to Mexico City.
Description:
Upton was born on July 26, 1820, the eldest son of Nehemiah Newhall Upton, a farmer and clothier of Charlemont, Massachusetts. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1845, fought in the Mexican War, and died in Mexico City on October 15, 1847 of wounds he received at a battle outside the city.
Subject (Geographic):
Ciudad Camargo (Tamaulipas, Mexico)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
United States. Army Military life History 19th century
Recueil des histoires de Troie. English and Recueil des histoires de Troye
Description:
[A]3r text begins: and zeland and thus whan alle thyse thynges cam .., A translation of: Recueil des histoires de Troye., Approx. [350] leaves missing., Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford., Bookplates: Charles J. Rosenbloom; A. Edward Newton; John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn. Tipped in is an A.L.S. from Seymour de Ricci to A.E. Newton concerning this work., Imprint from STC and Needham; see also Lotte Hellinga, "Caxton in focus", p. 38-9, 48., In three books., Signatures: [A-O¹⁰ P⁸; A-I¹⁰ K-L⁶; A-K¹⁰]., The first book printed in English and the first book printed by Caxton on his own account., The first leaf is blank., The last leaf contains 14 lines of Latin verse beginning: Pergama flere volo. fata danais data solo ..., and Title from ¹[A]2r, which is printed in red.
Subject (Geographic):
Troy (Extinct city)--Romances--Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Bedford, Francis,--1799-1883--Binding., Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492, printer, Mansion, Colard, active 15th century, printer, Newton, A. Edward--(Alfred Edward),--1864-1940--Bookplate., Pruyn, John VanSchaick Lansing,--1811-1877--Bookplate., Ricci, Seymour de,--1881-1942--Autograph., and Rosenbloom, Charles J.--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library and Incunabula in Yale Library--Single leaves
Anne Forster Berkeley letters to William Samuel Johnson
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Approximately 12 letters from Anne Forster Berkeley to William Samuel Johnson, 1770-1771 and undated, concerning their mutual interest in mystical Christian doctrine and spirituality. Letters include and are accompanied by excerpts, copies and translations by Berkeley and others, chiefly in Berkeley's hand, of the writings of François Fénelon, Madame Guyon, and Nathaniel Hooke on subjects such as imputed righteousness, the use of adversity, inward Christianity, and aridity and coldness in prayer. Accompanied also by two letters from Berkeley's son George Berkeley to Samuel Johnson, father of William Samuel Johnson, 1755-1756; one letter from George Berkeley to William Samuel Johnson, 1780; and two copies of a printed leaflet containing predestinarian texts.
Description:
Anne Forster married Church of Ireland clergyman George Berkeley in 1728. The couple spent the early years of their marriage in Middletown, Rhode Island before returning to Ireland, where Berkeley was appointed Bishop of Cloyne in 1734. Four of their children survived to adulthood: Henry, George, William, and Julia. Anne Berkeley died at Langley, Kent, on 27 May 1786., Source unknown., and William Samuel Johnson (Yale 1744) was the son of clergyman Samuel Johnson of Stratford, Connecticut, a friend and follower of George Berkeley and president of Kings College from 1754-1763. William Samuel Johnson renewed his family's friendship with the Berkeley family while in London on legal buisness in 1767-1771. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1788 and in 1791 became president of Columbia University (formerly King's College). He retired in 1800 to live in Stratford until his death in 1819.