Autograph manuscript letter, signed, praising Ellen Sturgis Hooper's poetry. Enclosed with the letter are autograph manuscript copies of three recent poems of his own in return: "Forerunners", "The House", and "Loss and Gain". Also includes a manuscri...
Description:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American author.
Subject (Name):
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882., Hooper, Ellen Sturgis, 1812-1848., and Persephone (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American, Poets, American, Transcendentalists (New England), and Women poets, American
Notebook containing verse and notes for lyceum speeches by Atkins, along with receipts and drawings. Topics covered in speeches include Middlefield, Connecticut history and education, the fugitive slave law, and the temperance movement. Accompanied by...
Description:
Thomas Atkins (1797-1882), author.
Subject (Geographic):
United States. and Middlefield (Conn. : Town)
Subject (Name):
Atkins, Thomas, 1797-1822., Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892., and United States.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American, Lyceums, Temperance, and History
The collection includes letters, manuscripts and photographs related to Emily Dickinson. There are original letters from Dickinson to family and friends, holograph manuscripts by Dickinson, galley proofs for work by Charles Roberts Anderson and Millic...
Description:
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), poet.
Subject (Geographic):
Amherst (Mass.)
Subject (Name):
Anderson, Charles Roberts, 1902-1999., Bingham, Millicent Todd, 1880-1968., Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886., and Roche, Thomas P.
Holograph manuscript, corrected, of a memoir by a young African-American, circa 1858. The memoir documents the major events in Reed's life leading up to and including incarcerations in the New York House of Refuge, the first juvenile reformatory in th...
Description:
Austin Reed, born circa 1823 in Rochester, New York, wrote under the pseudonym "Rob. Reed."
Subject (Geographic):
United States., New York (State)., and New York (State)
Subject (Name):
Reed, Austin, 1823?-., Auburn Correctional Facility., and House of Refuge (New York, N.Y.)
Subject (Topic):
African American authors, American literature, Authors, American, Juvenile detention homes, Prisoners' writings, American, and Prisons
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 ...
Description:
Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet.
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Literary Club of Cincinnati., Grafton, E. D., James, Davis L., Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893., Read, Harriet Denison Butler., Read, Thomas Buchanan, 1822-1872., Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888, and Vanloo, Leon.
Sixteen autograph letters, signed, from Helen Hunt Jackson. The letters are written to a group of friends and are addressed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, dated 1868 November 15 to 1869 September 28. Also included is an autograph note, signed, explain...
Description:
Helen Hunt Jackson, American writer and activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. and Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
Autograph manuscript draft fragment of Henry James's 1870 short novel, The Europeans. Includes manuscript corrections. Pages are laid-in to a reused cover from an unidentified book
Description:
Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Massachusetts, and Boston
Subject (Name):
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, Europeans, and Upper class
The collection consists of a set of five bronze portrait plaques issued by the Grolier Club between 1892 and 1911 to commemorate American authors. The authors include: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1892, modeled by Désiré Ringel d'Illzach, 17.2 cm. in diamet...
Description:
The Grolier Club was founded in New York on January 23, 1884, by Robert Hoe and eight other bibliophiles to foster the study, collecting, and appreciation of books and works on paper, and their art, history, production, and commerce.
Subject (Name):
Brenner, Victor D. 1871-1924. (Victor David),, Burroughs, Edith Woodman, 1871-1916., Calverley, Charles, 1833-1914., Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, Flanagan, John F., 1865-1952., Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891, Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, Ringel d'Illzach, Jean Désiré, 1847-1916., and Grolier Club.
Contains correspondence, writings, six diaries, and one notebook. Correspondents (box 1) are Donald Brien, Charles Demuth, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Fania Marinoff, George Middletown, and Carl Van Vechten. Included among the correspondence is a 1954 letter t...
