Collection consists of drafts and printed versions of poems, including the printed collection, Poetic Works, corrected and inscribed, and typescript drafts of To My Lovelily and The Birth of Woman. Accompanied by biographical notes, in an unidentified hand, dating the publication of the printed volume to 1919.
Description:
Corrected and annotated in pencil. and Typescript, corrected.
Subject (Topic):
African American authors --20th century --Archives, American literature --20th century, and American poetry --20th century
Travels in America, performed in 1806, for the purpose of exploring the rivers Alleghany
Image Count:
1
Description:
William Beckford’s copy, with his pencilled notes in each volume.
Subject (Geographic):
Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) --Description and travel, Mississippi River --Description and travel, Mississippi River Valley --Description and travel, Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) --Description and travel, Ohio River --Description and travel, Ohio River Valley --Description and travel, and United States --Description and travel
Travels in America, performed in 1806, for the purpose of exploring the rivers Alleghany
Image Count:
1
Description:
William Beckford’s copy, with his pencilled notes in each volume.
Subject (Geographic):
Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) --Description and travel, Mississippi River --Description and travel, Mississippi River Valley --Description and travel, Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) --Description and travel, Ohio River --Description and travel, Ohio River Valley --Description and travel, and United States --Description and travel
Travels in America, performed in 1806, for the purpose of exploring the rivers Alleghany
Image Count:
2
Description:
William Beckford’s copy, with his pencilled notes in each volume.
Subject (Geographic):
Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.) --Description and travel, Mississippi River --Description and travel, Mississippi River Valley --Description and travel, Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.) --Description and travel, Ohio River --Description and travel, Ohio River Valley --Description and travel, and United States --Description and travel
Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee country, the
Image Count:
2
Description:
William Beckford’s copy, with his pencilled notes in each volume.
Subject (Geographic):
Cherokee Indians,
Choctaw Indians,
Creek Indians,
Indians of North America --Florida,
Indians of North America --Georgia,
Indians of North America --South Carolina,
Indians of North America --Southern States,
Southern States --Description and travel,
Southern States --History --1775-1865, and Indians of North America --North Carolina
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1760-1844--Ms. notes
Collection Created:
Philadelphia, Printed by James and Johnson, 1791, London, Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1792
Notes on a journey in America, from the coast of Virginia to the territory of Illinois. With
Image Count:
3
Description:
Additional notes and clippings inside back cover; scanned and associated with Birkbeck's, Letters from Illinois., Bound with: Birkbeck, Morris. Letters from Illinois. Dublin, 1818., and Notes quote Robert Gourlay and compare land prices in North America and Great Britain.
Additional notes inside front cover; scanned and associated with Birkbeck's, Notes on a journey in America., Bound with: Birkbeck, Morris. Notes on a journey in America. Dublin, 1818., and Notes excerpt a letter from Theobald Wolfe Tone and "W. C. S."
Subject (Geographic):
United States --Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Tone, Theobald Wolfe, 1763-1798--Correspondence
Collection Created:
Philadelphia; Printed for the author. Dublin: Re-printed for Thomas Larkin, 1818