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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00485::Frank Dempster Sherman Collection)//EN" "ViU00485.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Frank Dempster Sherman Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 8527

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #8527-a Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Frank Dempster Sherman Collection 1882-1909 8527 11 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

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Frank Dempster Sherman Collection, Accession 8527, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

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Deposit 1963 Dec 171967 Feb 20

 Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

 Item Listing Manuscripts Poem, " For my Father" 1882 Oct 23 AMsS, 1 p.

[On verso of a 1 p. ALS, 1882 Oct 23, Frank Dempster Shermanto his father; expresses love to his father in a birthday greeting.]

 Poem, beginning "March, and the larch is bending . . ." 1888 Mar 16 AMsS, 1 p. Poem, " The Poet's Joy" 1901 Oct 30 AMsS, 1 p.

[Includes ANS to "Dear Harry"; asks for $15 for the poem; hopes Harry will keep it.]

 Poem, " Psyche" n. d. AMsS, 1 p. Poem, " The First Snowfall" n. d. AMsS, 1 p. Letters Frank Dempster Shermanto Richard Watson Gilder 1891 Jan 26 ALS, 2 p.

[Expresses gratitude for Gilder's interest in the work of Charles Henry Luders, who recently died; speaks of his exquisite poems, " The Dead Nymph, " printed in Scribner's in 1888, and " The Four Winds"; submits a sonnet of his own, along with some of his friend's poems.]

 Frank Dempster Shermanto [William] Bliss Carman 1891 Feb 13 ALS, 2 p.

[Requests copies of the Independentin which poems by [Thomas Bailey] Aldrichwere published, starting 1884; thanks him for sending a copy of lyric which he has put in the Carman envelope.]

 Frank Dempster Shermanto Howes Norris Jr. 1896 Sep 12 ALS, 1 p.

[Includes autographed card on verso, 1884 March 29, with a verse beginning "wishing you all success in your . . ."; regards his and Norris' postage stamp collections.]

 Frank Dempster Shermanto Editor, Genealogical Department, The Transcript 1904 Aug 31 ALS, 1 p.

[Requests a copy of The Transcriptin which an article about his grandfather James Shermanappeared; says a clipping of the article was sent to him by the late F. C. Pierceof Chicago. ]

 Frank Dempster Shermanto David Pell Secor 1907 Apr 6 ALS, 1 p.

[Thanks him for the lock of hair, from the author of " America, " and for the charming sketch; recalls their visit a few days ago and the visit by Clinton Scollard. ]

 Frank Dempster Shermanto Mary Brownson Church 1909 Apr 14 ALS, 1 p.

[Informs her that William Watson's sonnet " To Thomas Bailey Aldrich" is included in Watson's volume " The Hope of the World, " John Lane, 1898; guesses that it appeared in print for the first time in The Academy; says the Watson sonnet is also included in Aldrich's Songs and Sonnets. ]