Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Descriptive Summary
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Atcheson L. Hench Autograph Collection
6435,etc
The collection consists of ca. 870 items.
English
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Use Restrictions
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University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Atcheson L. Hench Autograph Collection, Accession #6435,etc, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
The majority of the collection, which consists of accessions MSS 6435,-a, was
given to Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, on December 30,
1960 and November 27, 1961. Hench continued to donate additions to the autograph
collection during his lifetime through MSS 6435-bg and MSS 6435-bi. MSS 6435-bh
was given by bequest through his estate on August 23, 1974.
Funding Note
Biographical/Historical Information
Atcheson Laughlin Hench (1891-1974), Linden Kent Memorial Professor Emeritus
of English at the University of Virginia, was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew
up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attending college at Lafayette College in Easton,
Pennsylvania, in 1912. He received both his Master's (1917) and Doctorate (1921)
degrees from Harvard University, before he began his teaching career as an associate
professor at the University of Virginia in 1922. Hench was to remain at the
University for forty years, becoming a full professor in 1925 and the Linden Kent
Memorial Professor in 1940. Also in 1925, he married Virginia Bedinger Michie (d.
1971), and they had two daughters, Margaret Hench Underwood and Clare Showalter
Hench.
Dr. Hench was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Raven Society, and received the
Algernon Sydney award I 1966. He was well-known for his work as a consultant in
compiling dictionaries, contributing to the Oxford English Dictionary, and served as
a frequent contributor and editor of
American Speech.
He also served as a visiting professor at the New York University and a Fulbright
Lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His interest in local history and
public affairs was reflected in his presence on the Charlottesville School Board and
his contributions to the Magazine of Albemarle County
History. Hench was well-known for his varied and wide interests and
everyone who knew him seems to have their own favorite Hench stories.
Scope and Content
The Atcheson L. Hench Autograph Collection consists of material collected by Hench,
ca. 870 items (12 Hollinger boxes, 5 linear feet), from the mid 9th century to the 20th
century, some for an autograph collection and others for use in his classes at the
University of Virginia with examples of various periods.
The collection includes material reflecting his interest in Old English, Middle
English and Elizabethan script; letters by associates of Edgar Allan Poe; Civil War
letters; papers relating to Virginia history; correspondence of writers, poets,
politicians, and other correspondence, including both American and English literary
and historical material. People with significant amounts of material associated with
their name include George Cary Eggleston, Paul Hamilton Hayne, William Ernest
Henley, William Cabell Rives, and Edmund Clarence Stedman.
Many of the descriptions of items in Box 1 benefited from the expertise and notes of
Consuelo Dutschke who examined these documents in 2007.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in two series: Series I: Medieval and Early European
Manuscripts (Boxes 1-6) and Series II: Collection of Modern Autographs (Boxes 7-12).
Longer runs of correspondence (like Paul Hamilton Hayne) are arranged as usual under
the name of the writer, then alphabetically by name of the recipient, with the
letters to unidentified recipients or simple autographs arranged chronologically
after the identified ones.
Contents List
Series I: Medieval and Early European Manuscripts
[mid 9th to 10th c.] Sacramentale, two
separate Latin fragments on vellum in Carolingian
script,
1:1
Hench # 1.c (6435-a)
c. 1175 Psalter with commentary, written
in a late Carolingian minuscule, three columns to a page with text
in center column, numerous smaller initials in red, vellum, Northern
France,
1:2
1 leaf, Hench # 1.a (6435-a)
12th
century Leaf from Latin Bible, portions of
Deuteronomy XIII-XVI, glossed in pregothic script, with large green,
blue, and red colored initials, identified by English calligrapher,
M.R. Gullick, as a mid-12th century
Cistercian manuscript from Germany, on vellum,
Hench #1.j (6435-a) (oversize)
c. 1220 the Venerable Bede, Fragments
from De Temporibus - De Temporum
Ratione, containing the complete text of chapter XVII,
Gothic script, written in Germany, vellum, double columns, with
36-37 lines to the column, one page with a large initial "D" in
green, blue and red with interlace work and extending into the
margin showing a dragon-like creature, and also on the same page
showing three original holes in the parchment,
1:3
two leaves, Hench #1.e (6435-a)
c. 1250-1300 Breviary fragment,
five leaves, on vellum, Gothic minuscule in two columns with 52
lines to the page, rubricated with initials in red and
blue,
1:4
Hench #1.g (6435-a)
13th
century Fragment of the Decretum Gratiani, portion of Book II, 23, vellum,
rubricated with traces of blue in the initials,
1:5
Hench # 1.d (6435-a)
c. 1300 Three large fragments in Latin
of a theological nature, written in England, vellum, possibly
clipped for use by a book binder, with some red paragraph
marks,
1:6
Hench # 1.i (6435-a)
c. 1350 Fragment of the Life of Saint
Wenceslaus on vellum, written in Bohemia, double columns, rubricated
with some initials touched with red, recto blurred,
1:7
Hench # 1.h (6435-a)
c. 1375-1399The Pricke of Conscience by Richard
Rolle of Hampole,; English cursive book hand; initial pages missing;
undecorated catchwords on unnumbered leaves, decorated catchword at
end of quire; 1st leaves in quire numbered; frame ruled in crayon,
bound in brown Morocco gilt with gilt edges, on vellum (Vault,
Medieval Mss E)
14th
century One leaf from Missal, on vellum, two columns
of 27 lines each, in Latin, written in Gothic script, letters in
brown ink, two capitals in blue and red, two in gold, one gold
ornament down the margin, some red scroll work, England,
1:8
Hench # 8 (6435-a)
14th-15th century Contract,
written in cursive Gothic script, on vellum, in law French,
concerning a hospital and containing many Latin phrases,
England,
1:9
Hench # 2.b (6435-a)
1412 Deed for Property in Hawkhurst,
Kent, England, in Latin, vellum, one leaf,
1:10
Hench # 2.a (6435-a)
[1437] May 30 Fragment of a Document
signed by Humphrey Stafford (1402-1460), 1st Duke of Buckingham,
vellum,
1 page, Hench # 6 (6435-a) (oversize)
1441/42 October 12 Deed or Charter, Cecilia
Sharp to William March[we?] and William Aston, granting a tenement in
the parish of All Hallows Barking, London, next to the Tower of
London, vellum, in Latin, in Gothic script,
1:11
Hench #7 (6435-a)
c.1460-1470 Probably from a Book
of Hours, parts of the suffrages of Barbara and Mary Magdalene,
Oracio, rubricated with illuminated letters in gold with blue and
green ornaments, vellum, England, 1 leaf,
1:12
Hench # 1.b (6435-a)
15th century (2nd half) Two leaves from a
miniature Book of Hours, probably Flemish, written on thin vellum in
liturgical black letter, one page with large illuminated "D" and
floral border with acanthus leaf motif, both with decorated capitals
in gold, blue and red for the opening of the Seven Penitential
Psalms,
1:13
Hench # 1.f.2 (6435-a)
15th
century One leaf from a notated breviary, written on
vellum in liturgical black letter and decorated with alternating red
and blue pen work initials, of French origin, with square musical
notes on red four-line staves,
1:14
Hench # 1.f.1 (6435-a)
15th
century Pseudo-Seneca, De
remediis fortuitorum, preceded by Gasparinus
Pergamensis, De arte punctuandi,
vellum, Italian, in Humanistic script, bound in 18th century blue morocco with gilt, with
the bookplate of Henry Alan and A.N.L. Munby, has one large initial
of animal drawings of a goose and wyvern, ff. 1-6; ff.6v-7v ruled
but blank; item is also on microfilm M-2333,
1:15
Hench # 9 (6435-a)
1502 A French legal document involving
the honorable Guillaume Duhamel and Jehan Lebondau the younger, on
vellum,
1 page (6435-ar) (oversize)
[1510-1550?] Two large folio
sheets, four pages each, removed from a Choir Book, early 16th century, Florence, Italy, Roman script
with some initials and words in red, on vellum,
Hench #1 .k (6435-a) (oversize)
[ante 1536] Commonplace Book of Robert
Sherborne (d. 1536), Bishop of Chichester, 158 pages on paper bound
together with a much later paper wraparound cover, containing
various memoranda, notes on places mentioned in scripture, and
sermon notes, with the autograph signature of Sherborne on the first
page, includes possibly later additions in another hand,
1:16
Hench # 20 (6435-a)
[1543 August 24] Charterhouse Charter,
granting to Sir John Nevyll, Knight, the Mansion House and tenement
situated at the east end of the Churchyard of the Carthusians; a
17th Century copy for Sir Thomas
Pryde and Mr. Thomas Pardey, 34 pages, attached at top by a vellum
cord, on paper,
Hench # 16 (6435-a) (oversize)
1560 Legal document, probably a lawsuit,
2 vellum pages fastened with together with a small cord,
1:17
Hench # 13 (6435-a)
1562 Ecclesiastical Census of England
and Wales compiled by Laurence Nowell (ca. 1515-1571),
antiquarian, on paper; ff. 36; limp vellum binding,
1:18
Hench # 3 (6435-a)
1564 April 11 French [legal document?] on
vellum, purchased from Paul C. Richards in 1970
(6435-ao)
1:19
1568History of the Dukes of Normandy by
William of Jumiege in the hand of Laurence Nowell, marginal notes
and index in the hand of his student, William Lambarde
(1536-1601), in Latin, 80 pages; unidentified armorial
bookplate,
1:20
Hench # 4 (6435-a)
1572De necessariis observantiis scaccarii
dialogus ("Dialogue of the Exchequer") by Richard
Fitzneale (ca. 1130-1198), and English bishop and Treasurer
of England under Henry II and Richard I, in the hand of a
professional scribe, with marginal annotations by William Lambarde,
137 pages, on paper, bound in 19th c.
calf gilt, ruled in red with the arms of the fourth Duke of
Newcastle on upper cover,
1:21
Hench # 10 (6435-a)
1574Liber Niger Domus Edward IV, an
account of the household establishment of Edward IV, in Latin,
written in the hand of antiquarian William Lambarde, on paper, bound
in 17th c. calf re-backed, 293 pages,
with additional pages of an alphabetical index; somewhat damaged
from mold stains and damp (Phillips MS 12414),
2:1
Hench # 11 (6435-a)
1576 June 1 Letter from William Lambarde
to Sir Henry Sidney (copy), 4 pages on paper, dedicating his
Topographical Dictionary [Perambulation of
Kent: Containing the Description, Hystorie and Customs of the
Shyre] to Sidney,
2:2
Hench # 5a.9 (6435-a)
[1585] Hand-written transcriptions on
paper of William Lambarde's letter to the Lord Treasurer containing
reasons why her Majesty should with speed embrace the action of the
defense of the Low Countries, 3 copies of different dates and in
different hands,
2:3
Hench # 5a.9 (6435-a)
1589 October 21 Instructions for the sale of
Her Majesty's lands, in the hand of William Lambarde,
2:4
3 pages on 1 l., on paper, Hench # 5a.3 (6435-a)
ca. 1589 "Instructions for keeping a
court-baron or a court leet" in the hand of William
Lambarde,
2:5
4 pages on 2 l., on paper, Hench # 5a.2 (6435-a)
[1591] Indenture of Thomas Duddeley,
William Lambarde, and Thomas Wigges, in Latin on vellum with
seals,
2:6
Hench # 12.a
1593 January 5 Legal Document, vellum,
concerning Rich Langford of Whitechurch signed by John Glanvyle and
William Grymes,
2:7
Hench # 13 (6435-a)
1593 July 11 Brief Document of Nathaniel
Bacon (1547-1622), Sheriff of Norfolk, in a small Elizabethan
hand, 1 page, on paper,
2:8
Hench # 19 (6435-a)
1596 December 3 Legal document, vellum,
concerning an obligation of the executors of Henry Warren to pay a
sum of fifty pounds to Richard Hale, currently [residing?] at the
home of Humfrey Walcott,
2:9
Hench # 13 (6435-a)
[1596] Indenture of William Lambarde,
Thomas Fortescue, and Thomas Wigges, in Latin, on vellum with seals,
concerning land in Kent, mentions William Cecil and Sir John
Fortescue,
2:10
Hench # 12.b (6435-a)
1597 May 25 Receipt from John Willard of
Grays Inn and William Lambarde of Lincoln's Inn and his wife for the
purchase of the farm called Clerke's lying in Leigh and Tonbridge,
Kent, 1 page, on paper,
2:11
Hench # 53 (6435-d)
1599 Legal document, possibly a property
conveyance from Robert [Welles], on vellum, with the signatures of
Henry Miles, Ed[ward?] Webb, and Hra: Crawley on the
back,
2:12
3 pages on 1 l., on paper, Hench # 14 (6435-a)
16th
century A Brief, listing a series of complaints
against [Richard] Carmarden of London, Surveyor of the Customs to
Queen Elizabeth, and the damage caused by his misbehavior to
shipping, trade, and receipt of customs,
2:13
Hench # 5a.7 (6435-a)
16th
century The humble petition of the gentry, ministry,
and commonalty of Kent to the honorable House of Commons, chiefly in
the hand of William Lambarde,
2:14
Hench # 5a.1 (6435-a)
late 16th
century Legal document on vellum, containing two
distinct items in two different hands, one at least written during
the reign of Elizabeth I, and both concerning the family of Edward
Wharton of [Milton?],
2:15
Hench # 13 (6435-a)
[16th-17th century] Unidentified
Legal document,
1 page, on vellum, Hench # 13 (6435-a) (oversize)
1600 April 5 John Kynd to William Lambarde
concerning the constables of Blackheaths Hundred,
2:16
1 page on paper, Hench # 5.a.4 (6435-a)
[ante 1603] October Indenture during the
reign of Queen Elizabeth I, involving Elizabeth and Thomas [Pryott]
of Stratton, 2 pages on paper, with seal attached with a vellum
"ribbon,"
Hench # 13 (6435-a) (oversize)
1603-1604 Account book, on paper
stitched together without a cover, containing the signature of
Gabriel Greene,
2:17
Hench # 13 (6435-a)
[1607 May 5] Indenture involving John
Yardley, Robert and Elizabeth Yardley, and John Mirholl, signed by
Richard Yardley at the bottom of the 1 page, paper
document,
Hench #14 (6435-a) (oversize)
1609 June 6 Indenture, with decorated
first initial, between James [Field?] of Kent County, James
Andrewes, and William [?], damaged on right side with an attempted
repair, vellum with partial seal on vellum "ribbon"
Hench # 13 (6435-a) (oversize)
1611 October [17th?] Francys Partlett to Sir Nathaniel Bacon
of Stiffkey, Norfolk, writes that he is unable to answer the
complaint of Thomas Holdenby against him on the day appointed by
Bacon because he must appear before the King's Auditor at Thetford
that same day to give account of the rents and revenues collected
from the dissolved monastery of Westerham,
2:18
1 page on paper, Hench # 15 (6435-a)
1614 August [31?] Indenture between Thomas
Parker of Maidstone, Kent County, and Robert [Keyes?], of Kent
County, 1 page on vellum, with decorated first initial, large seal
on vellum "ribbon"
Hench # 14 (6435-a) (oversize)
1615-1616 Legal document
concerning the administration of the Thomas Daw[es?] Estate signed
by Edmundus Woodhall Registrarius, on vellum,
2:19
Hench # 13 (6435-a)
1616 February 12 Speech of Sir John Manson at
the King's Bench Bar,
2:20
3 pages on 1 l. on paper, Hench #5.a.10 (6435-a)
1619 July 31 Indenture between Edward
Thruxton and Joane Thruxton,
2:21
1 page, on paper, Hench # 14 (6435-a)
[ante 1623?] "Sententiae Alphabeticae"
Compilation of Latin, Greek, French and English Proverbs and
Miscellany, contains the signature of [a former owner?] John Seaman
on page 137, paper pages, formerly bound in a brown cover, but
currently with one loose and separated cover and the other cover
missing,
2:22
Hench # 17 (6435-a)
ca. 1623-1629 Notebook containing
chiefly sermon notes but also some medical and logic notes in
Elizabethan script, on paper, bound with 19th century boards with a calf backstrip and corners,
with the name William Bury written on inside cover,
2:23
Hench #21 (6435-a)
1627-1755 Legal documents, bonds,
and indentures of the Warcupp Family, sewn together as a group, on
paper,
3:1
Hench # 18.b (6435-a)
1628 Speech addressed "To my Noble
Friends in the lower house of Parliament," unknown author, on paper,
with the number 52 written on the first page,
3:2
Hench # 22 (6435-a)
ca. 1645-1658 Notebook kept by a
young French Jesuit student, possibly under the authority of Julien
Haineuve (1588-1663), in French, 81 numbered pages bound in a
small book, with green cover,
3:3
Hench # 26 (6435-a)
1648 September 30 Legal document of William
Snall giving Power of Attorney to his friend, Gilbert Hall of
Lynton, Kent to enter into a [rental agreement?] with John Parker
and William Parker for a tenement, garden and orchard in Kent, on
vellum,
3:4
Hench # 14 (6435-a)
1649-1692 "Purchases of
Inheritance and M.[E?] Lambarde's Leases Thereof," on
paper,
3:5
Hench # 5a.5 (6435-a)
1650 December 14 Deed between John Wells and
Solomon and Joseph Sibley of London, on vellum,
3:6
Hench # 14 (6435-a)
1654 December 1 Will of George Warcupp, a
London merchant, in Elizabethan hand,
3:7
2 pages on 1 leaf, on paper, Hench # 18.a (6435-a)
1657 August 14 Indenture made before the
hundred court of [Dover?] before the Mayor Thomas White, involving
Nathaniel Smith, John [?] and his wife, Katherine, and Richard
Barclay, among others whose names are illegible, on
vellum,
3:8
Hench # 13 (6435-a)
1659 September 26 W. Argyll to Sir James
Stewart concerning Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1 page on
paper,
3:9
Hench # 24 (6435-a)
1664 September 26 Indenture with a
calligraphic decoration for the first initial, between Matthew
Grier, Matthew Grier the younger, and William Hale, 1 page, paper
document,
Hench #14 (6435-a) (oversize)
ca. 1664 "A Relation of the Success of
the Love of King Henry IV to the Princess of Conde" by Sir William
Beecher, concerning King Henry IV of France and Charlotte Marguerite
de Montmorency, bound volume, 102 paper pages, many
water-stained,
3:10
Hench # 27 (6435-a)
1666 May 3 Sight Draft signed by Edward
Sherburne, Clerk of the Ordnance, Jonas Moore, Storekeeper
[Richard?] March, and [Francis?] Nicholl, on paper,
3:11
Hench # 25 (6435-a)
1673 Legal document signed by Thomas
Henshaw and mentioning Thomas Lyndfield, on vellum,
3:12
Hench # 13 (6435-a)
1673 June Account of the Estate of John
[Oliver?], administered by [Thomas Oliver], on vellum, signed by the
registrar of the court, and listing payments to John Ingram, John
Kent, Edward Ingram, George Oliver, John Martin, John Young, William
Martin, Robert White, John Bunn, John Manning, Stedman Broaden, John
Gordon, Sarah Ingram, and John Parrott, among others, on
vellum,
Hench # 14 (6435-a) (oversize)
[1673?] Rough Draft of an Indenture
between [Nicholas Johnson?], Sarah [?], and [Edmund Warnoff?], 30
numbered pages with two blank, pages attached at top by a vellum
cord, on paper,
Hench # 29 (6435-a) (oversize)
ca. 1677 Sermons of J. Hickson, on
paper, bound volume with brown covers,
3:13
Hench # 32 (6435-a)
1678 Papers from the Lambarde Family
Archive concerning the Titus Oakes Plot, including examinations,
notes, etc., on paper,
3:14
Hench # 5.b (6435-a)
[1678] Articles of Impeachment against
the Earl of Danby, Thomas Osborne, for high treason and other crimes
(1632-1712),
3:15
on paper, 2 pages on 1 l., Hench # 5a.8 (6435-a)
1684-1686 Bound Commonplace Book
of Kinard De La Bere [d. 1733?], including "Remembrances for
Servants," notes on precious metals, stones, and gems, including
diamonds, tables of various weights and measures for various cities
or countries of Europe, such as London, Dublin, Scotland, Cadiz,
Castille, Seville, Barcelona, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Tunis,
Constantinople, Smyrna, Messina, Aleppo, Antwerp, Rome, Florence,
etc.; with a separate [William?] De La Bere document dated November
1749, both on paper,
3:16
Hench # 30 (6435-a)
[ante 1685?] Statement to "My Lords"
concerning King Charles II want of monies,
3:17
3 pages on 1 l., on paper, Hench # 5a.6 (6435-a)
[1690] Engraving (made in 1803) and
signature of John Lowther, Viscount Lonsdale
(1655-1700)
3:18
Hench # 36 (6435-a)
ca. 1690 Theological extracts in Latin
and English, with a signature George Reynolds about midway through
the volume, bound with 19th century
boards with a calf backstrip and corners,
4:1
on paper, Hench # 28 (6435-a)
1691 January 27 Indenture, Kent County,
between Anne Powell, second daughter of Nathaniel Powell of Wiarton
[Plat?], Boughton Mount Parish, and Thomasin Collins, [Cobtree],
Allington, Kent County, signed by Anne Powell on the bottom of the
page; with the words "sealed and delivered in the presence of Nathan
Powell and Bart Dutton" and signed by Nathan Powell, Bart Dutton,
and Anne Powell, on the verso, vellum,
Hench #14 (oversize)
early 17th
century Legal document signed by James Spurlinge, Sr.
and James Spurlinge, Jr. and Henry [S. Clark?], in Latin on
vellum,
4:2
Hench # 13 (6435-a)
[early 17th
century?] Legal document, on vellum,
4:3
Hench # 13 (6435-a)
17th
century "A True Abstract or Calendar of the
Statutes," in English and Latin, indexed, ca. 290 pages on paper,
with about 159 numbered, apparently a signature [E. Baldwin?] at the
end of the volume, bound in vellum,
4:4
Hench # 33 (6435-a)
17th
century Satirical Poem concerning Louis XIV of France
and Madame de Maintenon,
4:5
2 pages on 1 l., paper, Hench # 23 (6435-a)
[late 17th
century?] Inventories of Lambarde family
manuscripts,
4:6
4 items, paper Hench # 5a.9 (6435-a)
[late 17th
century?] Biographical Notes concerning the life and
career of William Lambarde (1536-1601),
4:7
4 pages on 1 l., on paper, Hench # 5a.9 (6435-a)
ca. 1708 Satire entitled "A dialogue
between Sue and Kate two old women of Rippon about the death of Dr.
Hawley with an account of his will and some other occurrences: and
his legacies at his death,"
4:8
16 pages on paper, Hench # 40 (6435-a)
[post 1714] "Project of a Treaty of
Commerce with Moscovy" between Peter I, Czar of Russia and the King
of Great Britain [George I?], 16 pages on paper, written in
French,
4:9
Hench # 39 (6435-a)
[ante 1720] Manuscript Sermons of Luke
Milbourne (1649-1720), Rector of St. Ethelburga's and
lecturer of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 73 numbered pages on paper
bound in green leather covers,
4:10
Hench # 31 (6435-a)
1722/23 March 8 "His Majestys [King
George] Royal Charter For Incorporating The Governor and Company of
Chelsea Water Works," for the city of Westminster and the County of
Middlesex, with an index at the beginning of the document,
Contemporary Copy, 64 pages, on paper, bound on the side with a
cord
Hench # 37 (6435-a) (oversize)
1727 June 14 Note concerning the overflow
of Earwell Pond, which usually portended an extraordinary event such
as the death of a king or queen, referring to the death of George I,
on paper (6435-a)
5:1
ca. 1739 "Manners A Satire" by Paul
Whitehead (1710-1774), in verse, on paper nine pages sewn
together with thread, published in 1739,
5:2
Hench # 46 (6435-a)
1741 October 25 William Anne Keppel, second
Earl of Albemarle, Governor of Virginia (1737-1754) to an
unidentified correspondent, promising to give orders to his servant
to attend the correspondent's steward at Aldenham, a village in
Watford, Hertfordshire, and to settle his account about the rent for
the house, apologizing for his delay in taking care of the
matter,
5:3
1 page, paper, Hench # 43 (6435-a)
1744 March 1 Commission, to Captain de
Mitry, in the Lorraine Guards, signed by King Louis XV,
vellum,
Hench # 54 (6435-i) (oversize)
ca. 1750 "A Glossary of Old English
Words, Taken out from Shakespeare's, Spencer's, and Milton's Works,"
ca. 200 pages, on paper, bound in calf, with title stamped on
spine,
5:4
Hench # 41 (6435-a)
1765, n.d. Commonplace Book with
Accounts, 44 pages on paper, containing notes on British history,
politics, [Jonathan] Swift, Biblical subjects, and religion, Lord
Robert Manners (1758-1782), officer of the Royal Navy, is
mentioned in the accounts section of the green cardboard bound
volume, Phillipps Ms 20274,
5:5
Hench # 38 (6435-a)
1780 Official copy of a marriage
contract, May 1, 1679, between Claude de la Fond and Rose Francoise
de Mougenot, on vellum with paper covers bound together with a
ribbon,
5:6
Hench # 55 (6435-i)
1790-1791 Letter book of Charles
Buck (1771-1815) a Congregational minister and secretary to
Hoxton Academy, born at Hillsley, near Wotton under Edge,
Gloucestershire, 236 pages on paper, bound with cardboard and
vellum,
5:7
Hench # 44 (6435-a)
ca. 1790 "Political Dialogue Between Mr.
Fairdebate & Mr. Meanwell," a political dialogue on the
propriety of petitioning the king to remove the Minister, without
alleging proofs of his misconduct,
5:8
10 pages on paper, Hench # 47 (6435-a)
1794 Bound volume of songs, called
"Catches, Glees of Serious Cast, and Glees," possibly copied from a
printed work, 13 pages on paper with a paper cover,
5:9
Hench # 48 (6435-a)
[early?] 18th
century Copies of Extracts of Letters from Algernon
Sidney to his father, the Earl of Leicester, Robert Sidney,
1659-1660, written while abroad in exile during the
restoration of the monarchy, from Copenhagen, Stockholm, Frankfurt,
and Rome, 52 pages on paper, bound in a volume with "Sidney letters"
stamped on the spine,
5:10
Hench # 42 (6435-a)
early 18th
century Manuscript volume, gold-lettered on spine:
"Recueil historique"; containing brief descriptions of France, the
social and political systems, and a lengthy section, "Abregé
de l'histoire de France"; said to be by Charles Couthier, 504 pages
on paper, in French with indexes in the back and a fold-out
genealogical chart for the Bourbon dynasty, bound in red morocco and
gilt,
6:1
Hench # 56 (6435-i)
[early 18th
century] "Memoirs of Sir John Langham, Baronet," who
dominated the spice trade, gave large sums to charity, and was an
ally of Charles II during the Restoration, on paper, bound with
paper covers
6:2
Hench # 45 (6435-a)
18th
century Extracts from The
Paradoxal Discourses of F.M. Van Helmont concerning the
Macrocosm and Microcosm, 14 pages on paper, in English
and Latin,
6:3
Hench # 35 (6435-a)
Late 18th &
19th cen. Memoir of
John Mason, written by himself in the form of several letters,
mentions his marriage to his wife Anne on page 40, describes his
origin in hardship and poverty and his rise through agricultural
industry, 182 pages on paper,
6:4
Hench # 51 (6435-a)
1811 September-1812 January Journal kept by Sir
Charles Witham (1791-1853), a naval officer, ca. 100 pages on
paper, contains a drawing of a barn and windmill, bound but with
front cover detached; also present is a genealogical letter about
the Witham family addressed to a Mr. William,
6:5
Hench # 49 (6435-a)
ca. 1826 Selection of Entries from Roger
Wilbraham's An Attempt at a Glossary of
Cheshire Words, Bound paper manuscript in blue paper
cover, about ten pages used,
6:6
Hench # 50 (6435-a)
19th
century Handwritten Transcripts of early documents
concerning the Manor of Northolt [also written Northall in the
volume], in the Hundred of Elthorn, Middlesex, 1339-1724,
made by R.J. Whitwell, ca. 110 pages of the volume used, on paper
with a cloth binding,
6:7
Hench # 52 (6435-a)
20th
century Postcards with pictures of highly decorative
initials from a [missal?], Sienna, Italy,
6:8
2 items
Series II: Collection of Modern Autographs
1874 March 22 Charles Francis Adams
(1807-1886), Boston, to W.W. Crannell, Albany, New York,
thanking him for the clippings of editorial comments concerning
himself which Crannell sent to Adams,
6:9
1 page (6435-az)
1887 June 22 Alexander Agassiz
(1835-1910) to "Dear Sir," informing his correspondent that
the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, does
not have the funds to purchase new collections,
6:10
1 page (6435)
1880 February 11 Mark Alexander
(1792-1883), Mecklenburg County, Virginia, to T.J. Burton,
describing his political service,
6:11
1 page (6435)
1791 [March 17?] Christopher Anstey
(1724-1805) to [John?] White, due to Mrs. White's illness, he
writes asking if he can have White's children at his house with
their nursery servant so she can rest,
6:12
1 page (6435-a)
[1873?] January 14 Samuel Chapman Armstrong
(1839-1893) to Dr. [Andrew Preston?] Peabody
(1811-1893), asking Dr. Peabody to write an account of a
sermon by the Reverend Mr. Mars, "a colored preacher" who he heard
on Revere Street, Boston, for the paper The
Southern Workman. He also sends a copies of the paper
and his report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction,
describes the growth in applications for the Hampton Institute, the
push for funds for new buildings, and a new singing campaign in the
United States and England featuring the old slave spirituals to
raise money for new dormitories. He also mentions the devastation of
the Great Boston Fire of 1872,
6:13
4 pages (6435)
1938 January 28 Nancy Astor
(1879-1964) to the Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins,
(1882-1965) explaining that arrangements had been made to
meet the Congressional women and that would prevent her from having
tea with Perkins while in Washington, D.C.,
6:14
1 page (6435-an)
1859 April 25 The Reverend Thomas Atkinson
(1807-1881) to the Reverend John Sinclair, [England?], sends
a letter of introduction for University of Virginia Professor, James
P. Holcombe, who is traveling in Europe for his health,
6:15
1 page (6435-y)
1893 March 5 Henry Bacon, American
architect, (1866-1924) to his cousin, discussing his article
"The Republic's First Statue" and drawing (neither present) about
the work of Jean-Antoine Houdon for publication in his cousin's
magazine,
6:16
4 pages on 2 l. (6435-ah)
1874 September 10 Philip James Bailey
(1816-1902) to the Rev. J[ohn] G[eorge] Wood
(1827-1889), while visiting Jersey Island, Bailey was
reminded of his friend, the Rev. Wood, by meeting an acquaintance of
Wood's named Mr. Blount of Belvedere, and by a letter that he
forwards to Wood for an answer. He also enclosed some of his own
work and some of an ancestor's work as well (not
present),
6:17
4 pages, on 1 l. (6435-a)
[1837] June 30 Joanna Baillie, Scottish
poetess (1762-1851) to Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855), informing her that "since the age of annuals
began (a good many years now) I have always refused to contribute to
them, though many of their most eminent editors requested me to do
so and to make my own terms, because I did not like that species of
literature. This may be prejudice in me, but I am certainly as
averse to it now as I ever was…" She does wish Mitford the
greatest success with her new undertaking and also mentions Lady
[Barbarina Brand] Dacre (1768-1854), her daughter, Arabella
Sullivan (1796-1839), Lady Beecher (formerly Miss O'Neil),
Mr. Harness, and Sir Walter Scott in her letter.
6:18
5 pages, (6435-a)
1878 March 20 George Bancroft
(1800-1891) to Charles Henry Hart (1847-1918), he is
looking forward to reading the life of [Robert] Morris and expresses
his appreciation for the letter from Langdon and the engravings sent
by Hart,
6:19
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
[n.y.] April 30 George Bancroft
(1800-1891) to Aaron Hobart, Boston Reading in its entirety,
"Your favor of the 18th is before me;
and is already attended to in both its particulars."
6:20
1 page, (6435-aq)
1829 January 5 James Barbour
(1775-1842) to Thomas Aspinwall, Consul General of the United
States, repays him for the advance payment he has made to the
account of destitute seaman by encloses a draft on the Bankers of
the United States,
7:1
1 page on 1 l. (6435)
1829 March 28 James Barbour
(1775-1842) to Thomas Aspinwall, Consul General of the United
States, in reply to his request, he encloses a draft on the Bankers
of the United States for two hundred pounds,
7:1
1 page on 1 l. (6435)
1841 January 26 James Barbour
(1775-1842) to Thomas Aspinwall, Consul General of the United
States, asks for his help with a question currently in Federal
court, "what was the southern boundary of the Cherokee Indians on
the Tennessee or Cherokee River and the Mississippi in and before
1779?" Barbour suspects that this information may reside in the
Colonial Office in London or in the reports of the Commissioners or
Agents of Indian Affairs. He tells Aspinwall to send any
authenticated information or maps concerning the matter to William
Kinney, Staunton, Virginia, in the care of Read and Taylor, Maiden
Lane, New York.
7:2
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1827 August James Barbour
(1775-1842) concerning the case of H. D[umas] and his claim
for payment to Barbour as Secretary of War,
7:3
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1827 January 29 James Barbour
(1775-1842) to George Graham, requests to borrow $6,000
dollars from the local branch of the Bank of the United States
because of his heavy crop losses of the year before,
7:4
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1821 July 25 James Barbour
(1775-1842) to "Dear Sir," inquires about his success in
converting the one hundred and fifty dollars of bank notes left with
him in the winter into something valuable and suggests Mr. Barclay
of the Eastern Shore as an advisor if he needs one,
7:5
1 page (6435)
1840 August 6 James Barbour
(1775-1842) to "Gentlemen" [Whigs of Massachusetts], though
much flattered by their invitation to attend a General Convention on
Bunker Hill with the Whigs of Massachusetts in September, Barbour
feels unable to endure the fatigue of such a journey but states
"Massachusetts and Virginia - shoulder to shoulder - achieved the liberties of America;
now that they are again in danger - may we by alike united and
glorious effort maintain
them,"
7:6
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1822-1830 Philip Pendleton
Barbour (1783-1841) - Financial documents, 3 bank drafts
drawn upon the Branch Bank of the United States Bank at Washington
(6435)
7:7
1812 Joel Barlow (1754-1812),
document stating that Barlow was U.S. plenipotentiary to France with
a ink stamp of the American Legation seal affixed (6435)
7:8
1908 February 19 Clara Barton
(1821-1912) to her nephew, Sam, hand-written copy, sending
her regret that he was so ill, 2 pages on 1 l. Note by Hench says
the original was given to his mother for her collection as a
birthday present on January 29, 1942 (6435)
7:9
1861 March 28 Kate Josephine Bateman
(1842-1917), American actress, provides a brief note and
autograph (6435)
7:10
1782 November 3 James Beattie
(1735-1803) Scottish poet and abolitionist, to the Reverend
Dr. James, thanking him for his son's poem, which he favorably
analyzes, and mentioning the literary work of his own
son,
7:11
2 p. on 1 l. (6435-a)
183[?] August 31 Sir Charles Bell
(1774-1842), Scottish physician and anatomist, to Sir John
Richardson (1787-1865), physician and Arctic explorer,
hand-written copy, sharing experiences of his trip through England,
focusing chiefly upon fishing. Note by Hench says the original was
given to his brother, Philip Hench, for his medical autograph
collection as a birthday present on February 18, 1941
(6435-a)
7:12
[1855] October 29 Park Benjamin, Sr.
(1809-1864) to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences,
asking if they can arrange for a speaking date after December
27th since he may not return from
his trip out West until December 20th,
7:13
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1862 April 2 Cyrus Billartin, publisher of
the Newburgh Journal to Colonel
[Charles Henry?] Van Wyck (1824-1895), colonel of the
Fifty-sixth Regiment, New York Volunteers, asking him to send his
weekly letters to his publication instead of the Press, so they will not be published a
week behind his competitor due to the schedule of
publication,
7:14
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1866 August 12 George Henry Boker
(1823-1990) to Paul Hamilton Hayne, apologizes for having
mislaid Hayne's note with his address; asks which of his sonnets is
being used by [S. Adams] Lee in his "Book of the Sonnet" at Robert
Brothers of Boston, because Boker is supposed to write a paragraph
about Hayne and his poetry appearing in the book; expresses
astonishment that [Richard Henry?] Stoddard did not reply to Hayne's
note; and sends him a copy of his own Poems
of the War and notes that one of his poems, "Countess
Laura" was published in the Atlantic
Monthly for August 1865, 4 pages on 1 l., with typed
transcript (6435)
7:15
1841 October 14 Joseph Bosworth
(1789-1876), Anglo-Saxon scholar and lexicographer to
W[illiam] Jerdan (1782-1869), manager of the Literary Gazette, promises to promote
its circulation, forwards some poems by Mr. Mark, Whisperings of Fancy, and encloses an
order for a copy of what was published with his Anglo-Saxon
dictionary,
7:16
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1883 August Poem "Books for the People" by
Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891),
7:17
1 page (6435)
n.d. Poem "To the Hon. Daniel Webster"
by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891),
7:17
4 pages, on 2 l. (6435)
1838 August 31 John Minor Botts
(1802-1869) to William Ogden Niles, Editor of The Register, urges him to re-examine
his books to find the payment he made last May and settle the claims
of non-payment made by Philip Tabb or to question his own brother
who took his payment,
7:18
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1840 September 15 John Minor Botts
(1802-1869) to "My dear Sir," thanks his correspondent for
giving him the news that he picks up during his travels which may
prove advantageous to their cause, has had his first published and
will provide extracts to [John Hampden ?] Pleasants, editor of the
Richmond Whig from his last
correspondence; he plans on go on a speaking campaign to address the
people, saying "Was ever a party so whip't as we shall whip this
truly Federal loco foco party"; and he also has received a letter
from Lewis Williams of North Carolina predicting that [William
Henry] Harrison will get a 15,000 majority of that
state.
7:19
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1926 Autograph of G[amaliel] Bradford in
return address portion of an envelope (6435)
7:20
1789 August 10 John Breckenridge, Albemarle
County, Virginia, to "Sir," offering himself to fill the position of
clerk of the General Assembly recently vacated by J.
Beckley,
7:21
1 page (6435)
1865 April 1 John Bright
(1811-1889) to Thomas Dixon, informs him that he cannot do
anything more towards his object due to the press of letters and
applications sent to him and asks him not to bother [Richard] Cobden
either as he is ill; he also refers to the Civil War, "You will be
glad, as I am, at the prospect of a termination of the great contest
in America,"
7:22
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1869 April 22 John Bright
(1811-1889) to Sir John Jaffray (1818-1901), Scottish
journalist and co-founder of the Birmingham
Daily Post, writes that the successor of General
[Cartwright] has been appointed; a copy of the Report of the
Commission has been sent to Jaffray; and that he believes Jaffray
will approve of the bill of [George Joachim?] Coschen
(1831-1907) when he sees the amendments that he is ready to
propose,
7:23
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1864 August 19 John Bright
(1811-1889) to Dr. J[ohn] P[almer] Litchfield
(1808-1868), Kingston, Cananda West, one of the founding
faculty of The University of Queens College, School of Medicine, and
former superintendent of the Asylum for the Criminally Insane at
Rockwood in Kingston, about possible appointments for
him,
7:24
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1851 March 18 John Bright
(1811-1889) to J. Milne, informs him that the resolution of
Mr. Bailles has been withdrawn but the conduct of those implicated
in the "Ceylon business" [the crushing of the Matale Rebellion
against taxes on the peasant class] was so bad that it would have
been difficult to have argued or voted against his motion; Bright
hesitates to show full support for the government, fearing that "we
should soon lose our own characters, & at the same time fail to
save the Whigs." Apparently, the letter was referring to the
atrocities committed in Ceylon by the British under the
administration of Lord Torrington.
7:25
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-aq)
1869 April 27 John Bright
(1811-1889) to John Reed, sharing that "our government has
cautioned the Governors of the Colonies not to encourage
colonization in the Fiji Islands by holding out hope of British Protection; we cannot
interfere in what the French or the Americans are doing
there."
7:26
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1853 November 5 John Bright
(1811-1889) John Bright to F.L. Scott, forwarding a letter
from [William] Farley, a letter carrier for the Skinner Street
District, to the Post Master General, Lord Charles John Canning
(1812-1862); Farley is seeking an appointment for his son,
Edward Farley,
7:27
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-an)
1873 December 8 John Bright
(1811-1889) to Dr. Henry Thomas (1832-1894), homeopath
of the Llandudno Hydropathic Establishment, encloses a note for Mr.
Fowler thanking him for the picture,
7:28
1 page (6435-a)
1853 June 21 John Bright Autograph on a
Pass to "Admit the Bearer to the Gallery" [of the House of Commons?]
(6435-a)
7:29
1863 May 4 John Bright Autograph on a
Pass to "Admit the Bearer to the Gallery of the House of Commons"
(6435-av)
7:30
1790 January 9 Signature of G. Brooke, Clerk
of Court, Dumfries, Virginia, on a legal document,
7:31
1 page (6435)
1863 November 16 Lt. Colonel William LeRoy
Broun (1827-1902), Confederate States Arsenal, to Major
Thomas M. Bowyer, Dublin Depot, transferring the horse shoe
contracts,
7:32
1 page (6435)
1868 September 12 Max Bruch (1838-1920)
to "Dear Friend," in German, with an English hand-written
transcript, asking if they are going to play his concerto at one of
the concerts in the Cloth-workers Hall and for a recommendation for
a nice boarding house for his sister and himself in
Leipzig,
7:33
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1885 September 17 Max Bruch (1838-1920)
to "Dear Friend," in German,
7:34
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1897 June 2 James Bryce
(1838-1922) to Bishop [Henry Codman] Potter, Bishop of New
York, hopes to visit with him while he is in London for a quiet talk
about various American questions perplexing him,
7:35
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-ba)
[1921?] June 20 James Bryce
(1838-1922) to Mr. Quinn, tries to arrange a time when they
could meet before he sails for America,
7:36
1 page (6435-ba)
n.d. James Bryce (1838-1922)
engraving
7:37
(6435-ba)
1834 May 3 Peter Buchan
(1790-1854) to Messrs. Archibald Fullarton & Co.
Publishers, Glasgow, discusses the publication of their edition of
Burns' works with approval, especially the notes by M. presumably,
William Motherwell (1797-1835), Editor of the Glasgow Courier, and the edition of
Burns by Allan Cunningham, which contained "several gross mistakes,
willful misrepresentations, or ignorant errors, particularly in the
Songs." He offers his services in any manner to benefit their
edition of Burns. Buchan also sends an old prospectus for a work not
published due to a misunderstanding with Henry Constable, even
though his manuscript had been read by Sir Walter Scott and others
with approval, which he offers for publication.
7:38
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1885 Hezekiah Butterworth
(1839-1905), editor of Youth's
Companion to Mr. Ernst, sends him scraps of verse for
The Beacon,
7:39
4 pages on 4 l. (6435)
n.d. Hezekiah Butterworth
(1839-1905), editor of Youth's
Companion to Miss Clara T. Scott, writes "It seems to me
that Mr. [William Dean ?] Howells is the American Balzac, and that
the true purpose of the novel is to so analyze life as make life
better, more noble and happy."
7:40
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1964 June 19 Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr.
(1887-1966) to Atcheson L. Hench (1891-1974),
expresses his deep appreciation of the Appalachian Trail and his
intention to support the bill introduced by Senator Nelson, 1 page,
typescript, with envelope (6435-at)
7:41
1892 December 25 William Lewis Cabell
(1827-1911), Trans-Mississippi Department United Confederate
Veterans, Dallas, Texas, to A.E. Allen, supplies the requested
addresses of various generals,
7:42
1 page (6435)
[n.y.] November 22 Janet [Hamilton?] Carter,
(wife of John Carter, 1739?-1789), Sudley Farm, [Prince William
County?], Virginia, to John Fitzgerald, orders six yards of cloth in
a note (6435)
7:43
1941 January 13 Hunsdon Cary
(1872-1952) to Atcheson Hench (1891-1974), encloses a
printed copy of his "Education Plank" pamphlet as a candidate for
Virginia governor (6435)
7:44
1940 May 16 Willa Cather
(1873-1947) to Atcheson Hench, with other related letters to
publishers concerning a cheap edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop, in 1938 and 1949; Willa
Cather discusses why she will not allow a contract renewal to print
a Modern Library edition of her book for "poor students," 2 pages on
2 l. with envelope, copy, original in Vault- Cather
(6435)
7:45
1896 March 13 Madison J. Cawein
(1865-1914) to his publisher, Messrs. Copeland and Day, sends
his photograph and agrees to hold his additional poetry for a future
volume, allowing Undertones to "go to
press in its present condition, without increasing the number of
pages,"
7:46
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.d. Madison J. Cawein
(1865-1914) Poems, including "The Close of Summer," 2 typed
pages on 2 l.; "The Gray Sisters," 2 typed pages on 2 l.; and
"Wedlock," 1 holograph page; all three signed by Cawein
(6435)
7:47
1894 October 8 Cecile L.S. Chaminade
(1857-1944) to Francesco Berger, thanks Berger for arranging
an engagement with the Philharmonic Society of London, in French, 2
pages on a single note card, with envelope (6435-bf)
7:48
n.d. Professor F[rancis] J[ames] Child
(1825-1896), note to Dr. Gray, urges him to come to "Lyceum
Hale" to hear [Dana, Hale, and ? Presidents],
7:49
1 page (6435)
1871 March 12 Professor F[rancis] J[ames]
Child (1825-1896), distinguished Chaucer scholar, to Paul
Hamilton Hayne, declares that "The Franklin's Tale" by Chaucer is
among his very best and wonderfully told despite its one great flaw,
and then refers to Hayne's version, "You have made the story your
own, much as Chaucer did his original and have retold it with great
sweetness and tenderness. If The New
Eclectic is fairly represented by your contributions,
the South will have reason to be proud of its magazine." 4 pages on
1 l., with typed transcript (6435)
7:50
1871 April 23 Professor F[rancis] J[ames]
Child (1825-1896), to Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886)
apologizes for not answering his letter sooner, and thanks him for
the news of his old friends, Ramsay, George Pettigrew, and Sam Lord;
he also advises him not to limit his work to sonnets, which are
difficult and constraining, but to also write lyrics; and wishes for
"leisure to do what I am most drawn to - to make an edition of
English ballads which shall be of critical value." 4 pages on 1 l.,
with typed transcript (6435)
7:50
1859 July 5 Henry [J?] Chorley to Mr.
Hawthorne, expresses his pleasure at receiving them both, "surely,
though one cannot believe in spirits, must one not in sympathies ?"
7:51
1 page (6435)
1793 October 20 The Reverend Dr. Thomas
Clare to Samuel Ireland (d. 1800), refers to and answers a criticism
of Ireland's book Tour of the Thames
for neglecting to describe when the ice in the river might begin
freezing at the bottom rather the top and supplies a description of
"anchor-frost" given by the millers on the river Avon for his
benefit. Clare also discusses Dowbridge and Lilburn, and the nearby
Roman encampment in great detail, which he believes was the
Tripontium mentioned by Antoninus
7:52
4 pages on 2 l. (6435-a)
1842 April 9 Lewis Gaylord Clark
(1808-1873) to Morton M. Michael, sends him the first number
of Willis' [his twin brother, Willis Gaylord Clark
(1810-1841)] "Literary Remains" and asks for his help in
promoting its sale,
7:53
1 page (6435)
183[6] March 4 Lewis Gaylord Clark
(1808-1873), editor of The
Knickerbocker, to Henry Stephens Randall
(1811-1876) concerning Randall's "Wife's Book" published in
the March [1836] number of The
Knickerbocker,
7:54
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1865 August 2 Lewis Gaylord Clark
(1808-1873) to Hanson A. Risley (1814-1893), a special
Treasury agent close to William H. Seward, asks him to help promote
the application of Alfred H. Phillips for an increase in his salary
as first clerk to the Chief Clerk of the Warehouse Record
Bureau,
7:55
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1782 December 23 Thomas Clarke, Quebec, to
Major General Friedrich Adolf Riedesel (1738-1800), writes
concerning the health of Madame Riedesel, and the exchange of two
good men. Riedesel and his wife had been captured after the Battle
of Saratoga (1777) and imprisoned with the Convention Army at the
Albemarle Barracks in Virginia until 1781 when he was released and
named officer in charge of the Sorel District of Quebec,
7:56
2 p. on 1 l. (6435)
1880 [January] 20 Wilkie Collins
(1824-1889) to Miss [Tiny?], thanks her for her "present" and
"the charming manner in which you have associated your pencil with
Mrs. Payne's kind remembrance of me"
7:57
2 p. on 1 l. (6435-a)
[ca. 1889] Wilkie Collins
(1824-1889) Manuscript Page from The
Legacy of Cain, possibly in the hand of Elizabeth
Harriet Graves Bartley, his goddaughter,
7:58
1 page (6435-a)
1954, 1972 Padraic Colum
(1881-1972) Miscellany concerning his visit to the University
of Virginia in 1954 for the Seventh Peters Rushton Seminar in
Contemporary Prose and Poetry on Modern Irish Literature with
Elizabeth Bowen, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Denis Johnston and Sean
O'Faolain, including copies of the program, a letter to Atcheson
Hench, [April 1, 1954] from Colum, an invitation, two photographs of
the panel, electrostatic copy of a poem "The Hummingbird" by Colum,
and a much later clipping of an obituary for Padraic
Colum,
7:59
12 items (6435-ay)
[1888] November 9 Moncure Daniel Conway
(1832-1907) to "Dear Sir" [John H. Ingram?]
(1842-1916) writes that although he has not yet seen Ingram's
biography and edition of Edgar A. Poe, if he will send him a copy he
will be glad "to give it careful and extended notice in my
correspondence with the American press" and also call the attention
of his friends to it in [England?],
7:60
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1855 February 27 John Esten Cooke
(1830-1886) to L[ucian] Minor (1802-1858) asks for his
help in writing an entry for Richard Dabney for the literary
encyclopedia of American authors edited by Evert A.
Duyckinck,
7:61
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1794 February 29 George Crabbe
(1754-1832), rector of Muston and Allington, to John Robinson
(1727-1802) refers to a division of land to be undertaken by
Mr. Renshaw who he believes will be fair,
7:62
1 page (6435-a)
1890 February 13 Christopher Pearse Cranch
(1813-1892) to A[llen?] H[erbert?] Bent (1867-1926), a
note card asking Bent to omit the title reverend from his name as he
dropped it forty-five years ago,
7:63
1 page (6435)
1879 January 23 Christopher Pearse Cranch
(1813-1892) to H.G. Denny, informs him that he cannot be
present at the Annual Dinner of the Harvard Musical
Association,
7:64
1 page (6435)
1872 February 7 Christopher Pearse Cranch
(1813-1892) to [James] R. Osgood, writes concerning the
publication of his translation of the Aeneid by Osgood and asks for more liberal terms than
those proposed,
7:65
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1891 May 4 Christopher Pearse Cranch
(1813-1892) to S.L. Thorndike, checks on the reasons why Mr.
E. Howard Gay has not yet been voted upon for membership in the S.
Club,
7:66
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1882 January 30 Christopher Pearse Cranch
(1813-1892) to William Hayes Ward, New York Independent (1835-1916), thanks
him for the check for his poem on Garfield but feels that the amount
should have been larger due to the quality and quantity of his
poem,
7:67
2 pages (6435)
1872 May 19 Christopher Pearse Cranch
(1813-1892) to "Dear Sir" [publisher Roberts Brothers,
Boston?] cites Shakespeare and Dryden as his authority for keeping
the spelling of Hecate with the final e in his book [Satan: a
libretto?],
7:68
1 page (6435)
1889 February 9 Christopher Pearse Cranch
(1813-1892) to "Dear Sir," furnishes some biographical
information to explain why he might not be considered a poet of the
Bay State and lists publication information concerning his first
three books of poetry,
7:69
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1891 Christopher Pearse Cranch
(1813-1892) Poem "Old and Young,"
7:70
1 page (6435)
1886, 1889 Christopher Pearse Cranch
(1813-1892) Untitled Poetry, each
7:71
1 page on 1 l. (6435)
1862 August 5 Captain David P. Curry,
Rockbridge Guards, Brownsburg, to Robert Reid Howison, recounts his
recollections of the events surrounding the Battle of Rich Mountain,
Randolph County, [West] Virginia, on July 11, 1861, with Colonel
Pegram surrendering to Major General George B. McClellan in command
of the Union forces,
7:72
7 pages on 2 l. (6435)
[1863] August 11 Dr. John Meck Cuyler
(d.1884), U.S. Medical Dept., Fort Monroe, Virginia, to Dr.
[Gilman?] Kimball (1804 -?), sends instructions concerning the
hospital muster rolls that must be made out every two
months,
7:73
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1817 February 26 George M. Dallas
(1792-1864) to Secretary of State James Monroe
(1758-1831), forwards a publication to Monroe for his
approval, which he also wishes to dedicate to Monroe,
7:74
1 page (6435)
n.d. Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
(1815-1882) Autograph (6435)
7:75
[1889 April 9] Danske Dandridge
(1854-1914) to Mr. Bowen, hopes to send him some of her work
soon, introduces Waitman Barbe (1864-1925) Parkersburg, West
Virginia, sending one of his poems to Bowen,
7:76
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1944 Christmas Serena K. Dandridge
Printed Poem "One World" used as a Christmas greeting, sent to "My
dear Michie cousins" (6435)
7:77
1794 September 11 Beverley Dandridge to John
D. De Lacy, informs DeLacy that he cannot offer employment in the
service to foreigners when there are more citizen applications than
there are jobs to be filled,
7:78
1 page (6435)
1864 May-June Brigadier General James
Dearing Civil War Telegrams, Petersburg, Virginia, to General Pierre
Gustave Toutant Beauregard (1818-1893), and to Lt. Colonel
[John Marshall Warwick] Otey (1839-1883), written during the
Siege of Petersburg, including May 11th "Bakers regiment of cavalry will beat Hicksford
early this evening Ferebees & part of another cavalry tomorrow";
May 31st "Genl I have driven in their
pickets & line of Skirmishes at [Gatlins]. I am endeavoring to
sink two Gun Boats - They have a very small force here"; and reports
to Otey that his pickets are established on Broadway, City Point,
Jordan's Point, & Prince George Road (June 11).
He also reports "the enemy are still in my front - in force
reported to be advancing in heavy force on the Broadway Road. I have
but one company there. Some infantry should be sent at once to the
Broadway Road" (June 13); and "the enemy has attacked my outposts in
force; prisoners state there are four Regt of infantry and four of
Cavalry close behind' (June 15),
7:79
5 telegrams (6435)
1831 March 25 6th Duke of Devonshire, William George Spencer
Cavendish, to [Mary Russell Mitford], in spite of his regard for her
work and talent he cannot grant her request and states that he has
made a rule not to reverse the decisions of his predecessor the Duke
of Montrose concerning any play which he prohibited. He also asks if
he can retain the copy of her play and add it to his dramatic
library consisting of nearly 6,000 plays and offers to show her any
of the early dramatic authors.
7:80
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1837 May 18 6th Duke of Devonshire, William George Spencer
Cavendish, to [Mary Russell Mitford], has written of her request
[for a literary pension] in a letter to his friend, Mr. Cowper, Lord
Melbourne's nephew and private secretary, who will plead her cause
before Lord Melbourne, but says "do not let me make you sanguine, I
never yet found a minister who would do anything the more for my
asking."
7:80
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
n.d. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickens New
Years Greeting Card (6435-a)
7:81
1869 January 26 Anna E. Dickinson
(1842-1932) to Charlotte Morrill, thanks her for the gift of
the little book and states that when she sees it or touches it, it
is like touching the face or hand of a friend,
7:82
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1761 January 9 Roger Dixon, Clerk of the
Court, Culpeper County, Legal Notice to Receive a Deposition from
Sarah and Elizabeth Banks of King and Queen County for the Court at
Culpeper County, Virginia,
7:83
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1862 December 26 Evert Augustus Duyckinck
(1816-1878) to T[heseus] A[loleon] Cheney (1830-1878),
regrets that the Cyclopedia of American
Literature has gone out of print and that he only
possesses a single copy of Poets of
the 19th
Century; thanks Cheney for the essay
on Indian antiquities,
7:84
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1844 January 20 Evert Augustus Duyckinck
(1816-1878) to Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1815-1857),
encloses a notice he has written of [Lander?] with extracts. "These
together with all in The Book of Gems will be a fair
specimen." asks Griswold if he has Poets of
the 19th
Century or a similar work, possibly
all for use in Griswold's Poets and Poetry of
America,
7:85
1 page (6435)
1865 December 13 Evert Augustus Duyckinck
(1816-1878) to William Henry Whitmore (1836-1900),
regrets that he is unable to assist him with the American imitations
of [Winthrop Mackworth?] Praed (1802-1839) and not sure if
Morris had written any but N.P. Willis, editor of The Home Journal and son of [George
Pope] Morris's life-long associate should be able to answer the
question. He also recommends Dr. Shelton Mackenzie of Philadelphia
for information about Praed. He also furnishes suggestions for the
proposed book on charades, 3 pages on 2 l. (6435)
7:86
1873 April 21 Evert Augustus Duyckinck
(1816-1878) to "Dear Sir," has seen Mr. Johnson about the
engravings who will exchange the numbers of the Portrait Gallery for
the Cyclopedia of American
Literature, so the correspondent will have all the portraits
as soon as they are published. 1 page (6435)
7:87
1935 February 16 Amelia Earhart
(1898-1937) Autograph on the cover of a program for a
testimonial dinner at the South Shore Country Club, with unrelated
news clippings about Earhart (6435)
7:88
1872 March 11 Jubal A. Early
(1816-1894) to Henry Barton Dawson (1821-1889), sends
a copy of his address delivered on Robert E. Lee's birthday in
Lexington, Virginia, about Lee's military history in the Civil War,
sends him notes about William Mahone's amended biography, and
describes in detail his objections to the book and its offensiveness
to himself. He also asks if Dawson can send him another copy of the
number containing Lee's report of the Gettysburg campaign to replace
the one someone had borrowed and not returned.
7:89
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.d. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)
to "My dear Sir" [Thomas Noon Talfourd] (1795-1854),
apologizes for her tardiness (due to a fall from a ladder ) in
thanking him for his gift, shares her appreciation of his play "The
Athenian Captive" (performed in 1838) and his efforts on behalf of
the literary community to pass a copyright bill in England, mentions
her attempts with her publisher to find out the state of her own
works as to copyright.
7:90
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1885 December 17 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) Note on the Autograph Collection, "The autograph
collection is - as Artemus Ward said of the rain in England - rather
numerous; but as yet I have been able to submit to his exactions
without neglecting my family. Should I become famous at any time I
should be obliged to neglect the family - or the autograph
collection."
7:91
1 page on 1 l. (6435-az)
1888 May 21 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [Henry Mills] Alden (1836-1919), editor
of Harper's Magazine, encloses an
article for the "Editor's Drawer" about old "Parson T." his
stepfather, 1 page (6435)
7:92
1889 March 26 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Ben W. Austin, informs him that he has no
autograph letters from Francis Hall or Hugh Hastings, 1 page
(6435)
7:93
1904 January 20 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Will Carleton (1845-1912), proposes to
read "Bernard Poland's Prophecy" and have another item ready should
the program fall short of readers,
7:94
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1907 January 23 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Will Carleton (1845-1912), as Honorary
President of the Manhattan Branch of the Dickens Fellowship, asks
Carleton to help with an "Author's Reading" to raise money to endow
"Tiny Tim Cots" in the Children's Aid Society's Seaside Home for
Deformed and Crippled Children,
7:94
2 pages (6435)
1907 January 26 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Will Carleton (1845-1912), tells him
that he can take what time he needs to read his selection and
encourages him to attend the upcoming Dickens Fellowship celebrating
the 95th birthday of Charles
Dickens,
7:94
1 page (6435)
1907 March 21 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Will Carleton (1845-1912), asks him to
bring along a second piece to pad the program in case [Richard
Watson?] Gilder isn't able to make it back from [Thomas Bailey]
Aldrich's funeral in time to read,
7:94
1 page (6435)
1895 July 4 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to C.W. Dayton, postmaster of New York City,
commends the quick and intelligent work of the postal
service,
7:95
2 pages on 2 l. (6435-g)
1873 October 22 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to William R. Dorlon, complies with his request
for an autograph having just sent the preface to "A Man of Honor" to
the printers (6435)
7:96
1910 May 21 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Miss Fischer, expresses his willingness to
inscribe the books for Mr. Young sent to his old address if she can
arrange for the express company to forward them to him at Lake
George, New York,
7:97
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1886 February 18 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Mr. [Richard Watson?] Gilder, sends letter of
introduction for Professor T.W. Hunt,
7:98
2 pages on 2 l. (6435)
1878 January 21 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to E.H. Hawes & Co., asks for a replacement
copy of the Solitary World containing
the Whitten poems,
7:99
1 page (6435)
1874 May 18 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [William Dean] Howells (1837-1920),
looks forward to seeing the new volume of poetry by [John James?]
Piatt (1835-1917),
7:100
1 page (6435)
1887 November 26 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937),
attempts to get tickets to the Author's Readings for his friend,
Henry Marquand,
7:101
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1891 November 12 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937),
as a member of the governing body of the Author's Club, demands to
know who authorized the use of the Author's Club rooms by the
Copyright League,
7:101
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1880 April 16 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb
(1829-1893), asks her to share her letter about his earlier
reviews of her work and mentions the need of the critic for
encouragement,
7:102
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1883 March 4 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb
(1829-1893), congratulates Lamb on her job as the new editor
of The Magazine of American History,
and asks her if she plans to keep a narrow historical focus for the
magazine or to include the history of American literature as well.
He argues against "the common belief is that the literature of
imagination is only beginning in America, and that it is a feeble
growth still. Now it happens that I have had to give a good deal of
attention to the comparative study of this kind of literature in our
own country and England, and I have no hesitation in saying that our
literature… is rich" … that in Sylvester Judd,
Hawthorne, Paulding, Irving, Simms, Cooper, Poe, etc. we are a full
match for England."
7:102
7 pages on 2 l. (6435)
1875 October 26 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, (1831-1917),
asks for a copy of the recent number of the Springfield Republican containing Sanborn's comments
about Eggleston's latest paper in The
Atlantic as an example of "a candid expression of the
best feeling and thinking in New England,"
7:103
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1901 January 30 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908),
expresses his deep concern over his period of physical illness and
his absence from the Stockton reception and implores him to take
care of himself,
7:104
4 pages on 1 l., with envelope (6435)
1901 December 4 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908),
thanks him for his letter full of "generous words of
affection,"
7:104
2 pages on 1 l., with envelope (6435)
1902 June 3 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918), who
is a collector in Minneapolis, Minnesota; sends the autographed
books and thanks Young for his gift of Hubbard's Old John Burroughs,
7:105
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1903 April 4 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
thanks him for allowing him to read his clippings, hopes to visit
his library in Minneapolis, Minnesota, some day, and asks if he
would like to purchase a copy of Liber
Scriptorum published by the Authors Club in a limited
printing and signed in pen and ink by the author of each article,
story, or poem, for its original price of one hundred
dollars,
7:105
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1903 April 14 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918)
arranges to send a copy of Liber
Scriptorum to Young, but regrets that he cannot propose
him for membership in the Authors Club due to the constitution which
requires members to be "the author of a published book proper to
literature, or of creditable literary work equivalent to such a
book,"
7:105
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1903 April 25 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
sends him the original manuscript for "The Master of Warlock" except
for the title page and dedication which were missing from the
publisher,
7:105
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1904 March 25 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
thanks him for sending him a inscribed copy of a Roycroft book,
returns an inscribed copy of "Running the River," and promises an
autographed photograph of himself,
7:105
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1905 March 4 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to Mrs. James Carleton Young (1856-1918),
invitation card for the Authors Club (6435)
7:105
1905 June 14 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
urges Young to reveal any article or book writing that he has done
to bolster his interest in membership in the Authors Club and is
unable to accept his invitation due to two of his books just going
to the printers and his son remaining in New York to work in the
surgical clinics for the summer. He notes that he came up to Lake
George a month early by himself to finish a boy's story that had
come to a halt in town.
7:105
7 pages on 2 l. (6435)
1906 April 9 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
recommends Henry Holt and Co. to publish the translation of the
Life of Tolstoy because "Holt is
a scholar, an [author?] and a man unusually appreciative of
everything that pertains to scholarship, literature and human
advancement. As a publisher he ranks high, and as a man he is one of
the salt of the earth."
7:105
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1906 April 26 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
says how much he enjoyed reading Mr. [Arthur?] Upson's poem and
speaks of sonnets, "The sonnets have not so strongly appealed to me,
perhaps because I am unduly exigent in the case of sonnets. The
sonnet is the most highly artificial form of literary expression
that human ingenuity has invented. As a consequence its only excuse
for being is such perfection as shall make the artificial seem
natural."
7:105
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1906 May 31 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
regrets that he did not receive Arthur Upson's note before he left
the city for his country home and had no way to communicate with
Upson while he was still in New York,
7:105
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1906 June 25 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
thanks him for the inscribed copy of Arthur Upson's
(1877-1908) book The City: A Poem
Drama,
7:105
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1906 September 26 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
discusses a previous letter of introduction from Young for an
unknown person,
7:105
1 page, (6435)
1906 October 8 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
recommends that Young's friend send his books to either Bangs or
Leavitts for auction and mentions his recent acquisition of A History of the Art of Writing in three
vast folio volumes,
7:105
7 pages on 2 l. (6435) (6435)
1906 November 12 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
informs him that Mr. [William Dean] Howells has not yet settled in
New York and is receiving his mail through Harper &
Brothers,
7:105
2 pages on 2 l. (6435)
1909 May 17 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to [James Carleton] Young (1856-1918),
sends an inscribed copy of Two Gentlemen of
Virginia back to Young and wishes he could help him on
the Mark Twain matter, but "he and I are not on cordial terms, so
that any suggestion from me would add to your difficulty instead of
relieving it." He also agrees with Young's unfavorable opinion of
missionaries.
7:105
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1886 February 23 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) to "My Dear Sir," does not believe that he can
offer him any employment unless he possesses particular talents that
he needs not mentioned in his letter and invites him to call upon
himself some day after two o'clock,
7:106
1 page (6435)
1903 December 14 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) Shamrock Card for dinner given to honor him,
signed by his friends (6435-g)
7:107
1894, 1911 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) Two Autographs (6435)
7:108
1903 May 1 George Cary Eggleston
(1839-1911) Book Dedication to his wife, Elizabeth
(6435)
7:108
1859 November 15 Charles James Faulkner
(1806-1884) to Riggs & Co., encloses a check drawn on the
[Valley Bank?] for three hundred dollars (6435)
8:1
1856 August 15 Charles James Faulkner
(1806-1884), House of Representatives, to Robert Tyler
(1816-1877), plans on putting Mr. McClanahan's letter before
the Democratic Resident Committee at its next meeting and would
agree with his proposition at once, except for the problem of the
"slow process of the accumulation of funds in the
Treasury."
8:2
1 page (6435)
1857 May 18 Charles James Faulkner
(1806-1884) to [Henry Alexander?] Wise (1806-1876),
questions the political motivation behind the recommendations for
appointments of the directors of the Valley Bank,
8:3
1 page (6435)
1860 July 5 Charles James Faulkner
(1806-1884), U.S. Minister to France, to the Consuls and
Consular Agents of the United States in Egypt and Asia Minor, sends
a letter of introduction for the Reverend Cyrus Dickson who will
travel in the Middle East,
8:4
1 page (6435)
1893 April 18 Charles James Faulkner
(1847-1929), Senator from West Virginia, to the
Superintendent of Admission, Worlds Fair, Chicago, Illinois, thanks
for his ticket of admission,
8:5
1 page (6435)
1897 April 7 Charles James Faulkner
(1847-1929), Senator from West Virginia, to the Board of
Managers for the National Homes for Disabled Soldiers, endorses
Thomas Sykes of Huntington, West Virginia, for one of the "Governor"
positions at one of the National Homes for Disabled
Soldiers,
8:6
1 page (6435)
1866 February 1 Philip Ricard Fendall
(1794-1868) to William Cabell Rives (1793-1868), sends
two numbers of The Congressional
Globe containing a debate in the House of
Representatives on a Pennsylvania member's discovery that James
Madison "had claimed for Congress the Constitutional power to
regulate the right of suffrage in the states." 2 pages on 1 l.,
noted as a draft by Fendall (6435-am)
8:7
1887 October 25 John Fiske
(1842-1901) to General James Grant Wilson (1832-1914),
encloses a brief notice of Henry Lee, including a few words about
his two sons, possibly for Appleton's
Cyclopedia of American Biography edited by the two
men,
8:8
1 page (6435-as)
1835 April 11 John Forsyth
(1780-1841), Secretary of State, to S. Hart and others on the
committee, regrets the necessity of declining their invitation to
join the Democratic citizens of Philadelphia in celebrating the
anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson at a public festival on
the thirteenth,
8:9
1 page (6435)
1896 August 23 John Fox, Jr.
(1862-1919) to Mr. [Geronime?], promises to stay with him if
he makes it to Louisville, Kentucky, in September, and refers to
this "silver lunacy" going around the country,
8:10
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-az)
1966 [September 7] Arlene Francis
(1907-2001) to Atcheson Hench (1891-1974), signed
typed note with her autograph,
8:11
1 page (6435-at)
1888 February 15 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
(1852-1930) to Arthur H. Hall, sends her autograph with
pleasure,
8:12
1 page (6435)
[1881] January 17 James Anthony Froude
(1818-1894) to [James Russell] Lowell (1819-1891),
hopes that he can come either on [January] 20th or 21st because Max
Muller intended to return to Oxford on January 22. If Lowell must
come on January 22, Froude says he will "lock Max Muller in his room
and keep him forcibly." He also writes an amusing anecdote about
meeting some Tory Members of Parliament at dinner.
8:13
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1881 February 7 F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall
(1825-1910), founder of the Browning Society, to Robert
Browning (1812-1889), relates a conversation with a
bookseller who was convinced that Browning's books would sell like
wildfire if there was only a cheap edition available. Furnivall
agrees, "I have so long said that the one
great hindrance to your popularity is your insisting -
or allowing others to insist - on keeping your books
dear."
8:14
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1890 February 6 F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall
(1825-1910) to [Robert Barrett Browning] (1849-1912),
discusses the objections Browning, Frederic Leighton, and others
have expressed about the photogravure made by the Browning Society
of Robert Browning; and asks where his grandfather came from in
Dorsetshire, so that he can trace the Browning family.
8:15
5 pages on 3 l. (6435-a)
1864 July 21 F[rederick] J[ames]
Furnivall (1825-1910), second editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, to "My dear
Sir," works on his project without looking at other dictionaries or
any concordance, refers to Blackstone for one
definition,
8:16
1 page (6435-a)
1864 August 4 F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall
(1825-1910) to "My dear Sir," apologizes on finding that "you
wanted this [Samuel?] Pegge for yourself; & I have scratched it
all about for Dictionary cuttings!" Samuel Pegge (1704-1796)
was an antiquary who wrote about English dialects,
8:17
1 page (6435-a)
1864 August 8 F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall
(1825-1910) to "My dear Sir," He writes "I am immensely
obliged to you for your very curious & pretty present of
Addisoniana. It is very interesting to see the researches of a hand
like his, & the world of letters should be grateful to you for
placing them under their sight." He also discusses other work on the
Dictionary,
8:18
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1844 February 26 Thomas Walker Gilmer
(1802-1844), Secretary of the Navy, two days before his death
aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, to
Representative [Joseph] Grinnell (1788-1885), informs
Grinnell that the name of William Henson appeared on the Muster roll
of The Dale as having shipped out on
October 14, 1841, and paid off and discharged on July 26, 1843,
while the ship was at Valparaiso,
8:19
1 page (6435)
1842 July 25 Thomas Walker Gilmer
(1802-1844) to Mr. Williams, promises to take his letter and
his case before President John Tyler,
8:20
1 page (6435)
1841 July 29 Thomas Walker Gilmer
(1802-1844) to "Dear Frank," wants his speech on the Tariff,
which will be sent to Charlottesville, Virginia, as soon as it is
printed, to be seen and read by his constituents as soon as
possible; cautions Frank to consult and deliberate well before
seeking a candidate to take [Walter?] Cole's place; mentions
[William Cabell?] Rives in the Senate; and gives other political
advice,
8:21
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1832 October 27 Thomas Walker Gilmer
(1802-1844) to the Cashier of the United States Bank,
Richmond, Virginia, requests a statement of his account,
8:22
1 page (6435)
ca. 1932 Unpublished hand-written
transcript by Robert Gittings (1911-1992) of Anthony and Cleopatra by Chaucer from
[Legendary Good
Women],
8:23
4 pages on 2 l. (6435-af)
n.d. Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945) to
[Miss? Reed], apologizes that every minute of their last few days
are filled to the brim but thanks her for her
invitation,
8:24
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1919 October 15 Carter Glass
(1858-1946), Secretary of the Treasury, to David Singer,
thanks for his note expressing his appreciation of Glass' speech at
the Credit Section of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association
(6435)
8:25
1857 September 9 Parke Godwin
(1816-1904) to "My dear Sir," plans to send his children to
his school again during the winter despite the expense,
8:26
1 page (6435)
1909 June 21 George Washington Goethals
(1858-1928) - Special Order concerning John H. Keefe
(6435)
8:27
1897 December 15 Maud Gonne
(1866-1953) to Ewan Justice (1875-1922), sends him a
pamphlet (not present) by a very distinguished well-known French
naval officer, Mr.[Emile?] Duboc lieutenant de vaisseau; the
pamphlet caused a sensation in the European press when it was
published a year previous and angrily criticized in the English
press; she says Duboc is "as hostile to England as I am"; she has
marked passages that she deems particularly important and asks if he
can get it reviewed in the Post,
8:28
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-k)
1849 December 10 Josiah Gorgas
(1818-1883) to Joseph Hillman, orders leather for one of the
United States arsenals, 1 page (6435)
8:29
n.d. Rufus Wilmot Griswold Autograph
(6435)
8:30
[1877] July 14 Charles Gounod
(1818-1893) to Monsieur Oriolle, in French, traced copy only,
original sent to Philip Hench, 1 page (6435)
8:31
1917 April 3 Percy Aldridge Grainger
(1882-1961) to "My dear Mrs. Riggs [Kate Douglas Smith] Riggs
[Wiggin?], answers her "sweet and truly kindly letter" she wrote to
him after his New York recital with pride at having pleased such a
sympathetic artist as Riggs,
8:32
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1931 December 18 John W. Haines to [Terence
Ian Fitton] Armstrong (1912-1970), refers to his pseudonym
John Gawsworth, thanks him for the poems, two of which show his
familiarity with his part of the wold, mentions another poet he has
taken up [possibly John Skinner (1721-1807)], and plans to
meet him if at all possible,
8:33
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-bc)
1931 December 20 John W. Haines to [Terence
Ian Fytton] Armstrong (1912-1970), apologizes about
Saturday's plans, none of which worked out due to the illness of his
wife and the extremely foggy conditions,
8:33
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-bc)
1932 November 15 John W. Haines to John
Gawsworth [Terence Ian Fitton Armstrong] (1912-1970), writes
that he and [William Henry?] Davies spent Saturday "on the top of
Dundry beacon 5 miles from Bristol at an old farm house with a young
poet named Brian Waters whom Davies likes,"
8:34
1 page typewritten (6435-bc)
1949 March 14 John W. Haines to John
Gawsworth [Terence Ian Fitton Armstrong] (1912-1970), does
not object to Gawsworth printing a digest of his article on Robert
Frost in "Now and Then" if Jonathan Cape has no objection; catches
up on his life events since he last saw him seventeen years ago;
mentions his attempt "to get my scattered literary papers together
and to put some fragments of memoirs into type: hence my article for
Now and Then. Biographers of
Davies & Frost are always tapping me for information too. I do
not find this easy as I have multitude of letters"; he also mentions
the deaths of some of his friends, including [Lascelles] Abercrombie
(, Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948), and [William Henry] Davies,
"all of whose work I did including getting a printer for his widow.
I was at his cremation, but it was in the midst of a bombing raid,
telephones were all out of order, the Newport [Conference?] people,
among others, couldn't get down and there was only a small
congregation, though the service was beautifully taken by his old
friend whose name is something like Seagrave."
8:35
2 pages, one typewritten and one hand-written on 1 l.
(6435-bc)
1931 December 15 John W. Haines to Wilfred W.
Gibson (1878-1962), gives advice on the best way for his
friend [Terence Ian Fitton Armstrong] to get to the home of [William
Henry?] Davies (1871-1940), who was living at "Shenstone,"
Nailsworth, and mentions meeting poet Cecil Day-Lewis, "he is
distinctly good and original,"
8:36
1 page typewritten (6435-bc)
1901 May 2 Edward Everett Hale
(1822-1909) to Mr. Allen, writes "Do you not think that Mr.
Conte had better be kept here? I dislike to have him go to New
York."
8:37
1 page (6435-ba)
1902 January 13 Edward Everett Hale
(1822-1909) to Mr. Allen, agrees to speak a few minutes in
the evening at their Society if Allen agrees not to release his name
in advance because he doesn't want to be inundated with notes from
people for whom he has refused to give elaborate evening
addresses,
8:37
2 typewritten pages on 1 l. (6435-ba)
1859 April 22 Edward Everett Hale
(1822-1909) to his father, Nathan Hale (1784-1863),
writes that he has sent the plants to the freight station addressed
to his father and lists the types of plants with their cost minus
the shipping,
8:38
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.y. April 9 Edward Everett Hale
(1822-1909) to "Dear Williams," regrets that he cannot come
to his party on April 13th because he
would enjoy meeting Dr. Palmer and thanks him for the "great
pleasure we are receiving from the Virgil" which he received as a
birthday gift.
8:39
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-ba)
n.y. September 17 Edward Everett Hale
(1822-1909) to "Dear Mrs. Williams," "The little book which I
send you had its birth one day at your dinner table. It had been
planned before but I think you were the first person, outside this
house who ever heard of it."
8:39
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-ba)
1871 June 16 Edward Everett Hale
(1822-1909) to "Dear Harrison," thanks him for the back
copies of [Old and New The People's
Magazine], "we know no way in which Hurd & Houghton
should have had any of our back copies." Also asks when his paper on
Methodism for the magazine will arrive.
8:40
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-ba)
n.d. Edward Everett Hale
(1822-1909) print made from an engraving
(6435-ba)
8:41
[1969] February 21 Nancy Hale
(1908-1988) to Atcheson Hench (1891-1974), replies to
his mention of seeing a reference to her short story, "Blue-Muslin
Sepulcher," originally published in The
Ladies Home Journal, concerning the presence of syphilis
in a well-bred family in American
Story (copy included) and discusses the censorship
attitude of the time, 1 typewritten page, with envelope
(6435-p)
8:42
1829 April 28 Anna Maria (Fielding) Hall
(1800-1881), Irish novelist, to Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855), she hopes that "you will find nothing in my
Sketches of Irish Character to
offend your Political feelings - I can love a Catholic as well as a
Protestant, although I think we ought to have kept the upper hand
with them"; has just finished her last tale, "Peter the Prophet" for
her book last night; plans on spending a few day with her friends,
John Carne and his wife, and mentions his Tales of the West (1828),
8:43
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1887 November 13 James Orchard
Halliwell-Phillips (1820-1889) to Charles Lowe, specifies
that he wants popular literature published before 1616, any drawings
or engravings of Shakespeare or Stratford-on-Avon localities in the lot purchased at
Stratford (although not scenes from the plays), or any old deeds or
old manuscript plans of places in Stratford or its neighborhood,
8:44
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1884 November 14 James Orchard
Halliwell-Phillips (1820-1889) English Shakespearean scholar
and collector, to David Nutt, writes that while rarely wanting new
foreign books, he does sometimes find English books of interest for
sale abroad and old London maps. He particularly wants a series of
articles by Dr. L. Ennen on "English Players in
Cologne,"
8:45
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1846 January 18 James Orchard
Halliwell-Phillips (1820-1889) to publisher W[illiam]
Shoberl, he sends a copy of the Letters of
the Kings, believes the rejected ones very dry letters,
but feels Shoberl will find "a large number of very readable"
letters from those sent,
8:46
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1780 [May 17] James I. Hamilton
(d.1803), Brigadier General of the British army, captured at
Saratoga, commanded the 21st Foot (Scots Fusiliers) - Autograph on a
financial document, a check endorsed by him at
Charlottesville,
8:47
1 page (6435)
n.d. Joel Chandler Harris Autograph
(6435)
8:48
1881 August 20 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Mr. [F.H.?] Allen, inquires about his health
and expresses concern over his illness, especially in the severe
heat. Augusta, Georgia, actually experienced three days when the
temperature was above 95 degrees,
8:49
2 pages on 1 l., with typed transcript (6435)
n.d. Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Mr. Bowen, asks if he is still the poet critic
for The Independent and sends him a
copy of his "Savannah Sesqui-Centennial Ode" which has never before
been correctly printed. He wants Bowen to read "the parts concerning
the career and characters of Oglethorpe, a grand
man, not half appreciated by
Historians, who are too often a set of solemn and pretentious owls!"
8:50
1 page, with typed transcript (6435)
1880 August 18 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Mr. Brainerd, encloses a poem "The
Constitution," and asks that it be carefully proof-read "since the
piece is one of these sure to be ruined by any verbal errors in print"
8:51
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1882 June 26 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Mr. Brainerd, thanks him for sending a proof
of his article about his poems now being published by Lothrop &
Co. and congratulates him upon his marriage,
8:51
1 page (6435)
1882 August 14 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Mr. Brainerd, sends along a poem for his
journal and asks for 12-15 copies of "Constitution" to be sent to
him,
8:51
1 page (6435)
1879 February 10 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to [Hezekiah] Butterworth (1839-1905),
informs him that he does not need to pay for the use of "The
Chameleon" because he intended the prose anecdotes as
"free-offerings"; considers him lucky to have secured Whipple as a
contributor, as he is "one of the ablest aesthetic critics in
America; refers to the death of Richard Henry Dana; offers some more
verses for The Youth's Companion, and
asks if he received Timrod's autograph note from Hayne's
wife,
8:52
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1882 March 29 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Messrs. Charles Scribner & Son, sends a
postal card note to say he has received the copy of Tennyson's
poems,
8:53
1 page (6435)
1882 November 2 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "Gentlemen and Friends" his publisher [D.
Lothrop and Company] expresses his appreciation for the fine work
done by them on his book Poems of Paul
Hamilton Hayne and asks that they send immediately the
copies ordered by Major Hill, as agent, since he cannot order more
books until he has delivered those already ordered.
8:54
2 pages on 1 l., with typed transcript (6435)
1886 January 22 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Mrs. Dickinson, thanks her profusely for her
gift of silk handkerchiefs and autographs a photograph for her upon
the back as his ink will not penetrate the surface of the
photograph,
8:55
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1877 January 24 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to A.H. Dooley, "Opera House Bookstore," notifies
him that he did receive the letter and post card but was prevented
in answering by the severe illness of his wife, 2 pages on 1 l. with
envelope, with typed transcript (6435)
8:56
1880 September 2 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Mrs. Harris, promises to mail her the article
about [Joaquin] Miller in a week and compares him unfavorably with
Sidney Lanier, who "is every inch a gentleman, and has far more
subtlety of mind than 20 Millers rolled into one!!! Look at
his superb Marshes of Glynn!" 2 pages
on 1 l., with typed transcript (6435)
8:57
1871 November 27 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Dr. Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881),
asks Holland to please continue to send him Scribner's Magazine [free?] since as Literary Editor of
the Augusta Constitutionalist and a
contributor to many other Southern papers, he has spoken highly of
Holland's magazine and has attempted to extend its circulation in
the South. 2 pages on 1 l., with typed transcript (6435)
8:58
1867 August 2 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Hurd & Houghton, thanks them for regularly
sending "London Society" and "The Monthly for Young People," as well
as their new books; mentions that he now edits the Literary
department of the Southern Opinion,
Richmond where some of their works have already received notice; and
shares his plan to draw special attention to the Hurd and Houghton
firm in an article by himself, 2 pages on 1 l., with typed
transcript (6435)
8:59
1867 August 11 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Hurd & Houghton, writes that he has seen
both of their kind notes and will look for the Charles Dickens books
to arrive for his review,
8:59
1 page, with typed transcript (6435)
1867 August 20 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to [Hurd & Houghton], encloses his notices
about "London Society" and "The Riverside" from his paper The Richmond Southern
Opinion,
8:59
1 page, with typed transcript (6435)
1880 March 11 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Hurd & Houghton, requests a copy of Dealings with the Dead advertised by
their company and also a few months of [Boston Evening Transcript?] in exchange for a letter
about Southern affairs,
8:59
1 page, with typed transcript (6435)
1872 November 7 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "Gentlemen" [J.R. Osgood and Company], asks
for a selection of their recent publications that they would like
noticed in the South, offering to promote their company by
"extensively advertising, in careful reviews the names, subjects,
and literary characteristics of your books as they appear." He
particularly mentions The Pennsylvania
Pilgrim, and Other Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807-1892) and The Life of Abraham
Lincoln by Ward Hill Lamon
(1828-1893),
8:60
2 pages on 1 l., with typed transcript (6435)
1882 April 9 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to William H. Rideing, explains his neglect in
answering his letter due to illness and hopes that Rideing will
receive from [Alexander Hamilton] Stephens "many valuable
reminiscences drawn from his long varied and peculiar experiences"
for The Youth's Companion; and says
of Stephens "Not only is Stephens a statesman (in contradiction from that very clever but
commonplace thing known as the
mere politician) but he is
likewise pre-eminently a gentleman."
8:61
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1867 September 26 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "Gentlemen" [Roberts Brothers, Boston?],
encloses two reviews of recent works, "one a somewhat elaborate
critique of The Book of the Sonnet,
[edited by Leigh Hunt and Samuel Adams Lee] another, of Miss [Jean]
Ingelow's last work"; also asks for a copy of The Life and Death of Jason, A Poem by William Morris
(1834-1896) to review; and calls the review of Miss Jean
Ingelow's A Story of Doom and Other
Poems in The Atlantic
absurd.
8:62
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1884 July 26 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Clinton Scollard (1860-1932), asks for
a manuscript copy of the sonnet that Scollard has written about
Hayne as described by Mr. Butterworth, 1 page with envelope, with
typed transcript (6435)
8:63
1884 August 22 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Clinton Scollard (1860-1932), thanks
him for the copy of his sonnet, of which he says "It is a very true and admirable work of art & whether I deserve
its commendation, or not, there can be no doubt of the poetical merit of your performance."
1 page, with envelope, with typed transcript (6435)
8:63
1868 January Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to the Editor of Southern
Society, suggests that his paper should not only discuss
contemporary questions but that they should also entertain varied
themes, with "legends, facts, histories, biographical sketches, etc.
from the past." Hayne has also sent in a package with a review of
"Opportunity" and two papers for the editorial column. 1 page, with
typed transcript (6435)
8:64
1882 February 10 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to [Alexander Hamilton?] Stephens
(1812-1883), introduces Stephens to William H. Rideing,
attached to the Western Geographical Surveys under Lt. Wheeler in
1875-1876, and currently associated with the firms of Harpers
& Scribner, New York, and "author of several brilliant works of
which A Saddle in the Wild West is
especially noteworthy for its rich humor, picturesque descriptions,
and valuable practical information as to the People & Climate of
New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Eastern California, etc."
8:65
1 page (6435)
1867 October 23 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "My Dear Stoddard," expresses his heartfelt
thanks for Stoddard's beautiful volume of poems and encloses his
review of the book from the Richmond Southern
Opinion mentioning that he is "sick & oppressed by
many troubles."
8:66
1 page (6435)
1877 December 24 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909)
while discussing his own work, Hayne informs Stoddard that the poems
that he likes the most in his book The
Mountain of Lovers are the ones about nature and that
"the chief narrative piece was composed in a very unlucky vein; and
I bitterly regret its publication.
Indeed my Legends & Lyrics
issued by Lippincott in 1972
contain the only two narrative
poems I really value." He goes on to express his concern for his
friend's depression and despondency and writes at length with advice
to take care of his physical health, to avoid or forego the use of
stimulants, and to engage in some engrossing physical work. He also
asks for him to send South Sea Idylls
and not to worry about its condemnation in England, "I recollect
Byron's saying (true for once) that the English are often seized by
periodical fits of a squeamish
morality." Hayne wants to know Stoddard's opinion of his
poem "Unveiled" published in Scribner's about which he says, "Swinburne also wrote me very kindly
and enthusiastically about that
poem."
8:67
6 pages on 2 l. (6435)
1867 April 13 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "My Dear Sir," writes that he has enjoyed his
contributions to both The Californian
and Galaxy Magazine and asks if his
editor pays for contributions because "relying on the pen for
support, since the War utterly ruined me, I can't write for
absolutely nothing: but my charges are reasonable I
think."
8:68
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1867 November 5 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "Dear Sir," having thought his paper one of
the most brilliant of the last few months sent to him for his column
on "Reminiscences and Anecdotes of the War" in The Southern Opinion and asks for some
other contribution from the pen of the writer.
8:69
1 page (6435)
1873 January 10 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "My Dear Madam," informs her that Messrs. E.J.
Hale & Son have just published The Poems
of Henry Timrod,with a sketch of
the poet's life, by Paul H. Hayne, which he has
requested be sent to her. He also asks that she continue to send him
a copy of her Bazaar free since "I
had your "prospectus published and more than that, I shall (as
usual) allude to your weekly & its excellencies from time to
time, & thus do you 'yeoman's service' with the Southern
public." 2 pages on 1 l., with typed transcript (6435)
8:70
1875 March 24 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "My Dear Friend," expresses deep concern over
reports about his health as reported in a Northern paper, 1 page,
with typed transcript (6435)
8:71
1875 April 18 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "Dear Sir," having sent him an autograph in
September 1874, Hayne now writes hoping he will be interested in his
new volume of poetry The Mountain of the
Lovers, with Poems of Nature & Tradition enough to
write a paragraph or two about his book for some prominent
journals,
8:72
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1877 December 5 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "My Dear Madam," accepts her offer of ten
dollars for his lyric, "Motes" and says of her magazine Wide Awake "it is simple justice to say,
that a prettier, neater, more entertaining juvenile periodical, has
never made its appearance in the U.S." Ella Farman Pratt
(1837-1907) was one of the editors of Wide Awake. 2 pages on 1 l., with typed transcript
(6435)
8:73
1879 April 5 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "Dear Sir," sends the last two volumes of his
poems, supposedly for a translation into German by his
correspondent, 1 page, with typed transcript (6435)
8:74
1880 September 1 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "Dear Sir," believes there must be a mistake
about his receipt of American Lyrics
from the publisher since he never ordered the work except as an
exchange for his own poems. He also mentions Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, "while in Boston last season I saw my old friend Mr.
Longfellow, and delivered to him the message you sent through me,
when I was in the W[hite] Mountains, N[ew] H[amphire] - but I did
not meet Mr. Arthur Gilman, altho since then I have heard from him
in reference to some of my verses for his Collection." 1 page, with typed transcript
(6435)
8:75
1883 February 21 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "Dear Sir," sends this note in reply to an
autograph request, 1 page, with typed transcript (6435)
8:76
1883 February 27 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "My Dear Sir," expresses his opinion about the
writer's prize essay on George Eliot, "It is admirably conceived
& [carefully] executed. Not only have you seized in my judgment
upon the salient points of her genius & productions, but these
are represented clearly and forcibly in a style of unusual terseness
and vigor."
8:77
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1883 May 12 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "My Dear Sir," sends his autograph with
pleasure and is thankful that his poems have benefitted his reader
both as influence for good and intellectually,
8:78
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1884 March 8 Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) to "Gentlemen," Boston Office, sends a notice of
Mr. Hazard's recent work and asks that more books be sent to him to
review,
8:79
1 page (6435)
n.d. Paul Hamilton Hayne
(1830-1886) Engraving, engraved for The Eclectic by J.J. Ade, New York (6435)
8:80
1877-1885, n.d. Paul Hamilton
Hayne (1830-1886) Poetry, including a line from "Thunder at
Midnight," "The Ultimate Faith," "Quatrain," and "Ma
Belle"
8:81
5 items (6435)
1894 Jan23 William Hamilton Hayne
(1856-1929) to Walter R. Benjamin (1854- ), autograph dealer,
Hayne arranges to purchase the Pinckney letter concerning the
appointment of his grandfather, Paul Hamilton Hayne, as a
midshipman.
8:82
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1879 August 7 William Hamilton Hayne
(1856-1929) to William F. Gable, in his father's absence, he
sends two brief poems and a couple of signatures from a pile of
manuscripts; he also suggests that Gable can secure a photograph of
his father from Messrs. Pelot and Cole, Augusta, Georgia; they have
made the latest and best photograph of Paul Hamilton Hayne which was
used for the steel portrait in [William Cullen] Bryant's Library of Poetry and Song,
8:83
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1886 December 13 William Hamilton Hayne
(1856-1929) to Clinton Scollard (1860-1932), thanks
him for the poetical tribute to his father; both his mother and
Hayne think highly of the poem "Threnody" and he goes on to praise
his books of poetry Pictures in Song,With Reed and Lyre; he also
expresses his appreciation of their mutual acquaintance, Samuel
Minturn Peck (1854-1914), who did a review of With Reed and Lyre in The Southern Bivouac, 4 pages on 1 l.,
with typed transcript (6435)
8:84
1827 June 6 [Felicia Dorothea (Browne)
Hemans] (1793-1835) to Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) shares her deep appreciation for Our Village and requests an autograph
for a friend of hers, [John Luxmore], the Bishop of St. Asaph,
1815-1830, 3 pages on 1 l., signature has been cut out
(6435-a)
8:85
1895 February 25 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to "My dear Pawling" [Sydney Southgate Pawling]
(?-1922), a business partner in the publishing firm of William
Heinemann, Henley writes that Walter Blaikie visited yesterday
morning and "all manner of thanks for Max Nordau & Pugh. The
letter I've yet to tackle. What I've read of the other is vastly
amusing & - as I think - only untrue because it's overstated.
However, we'll talk of him anon. Meanwhile, I think he should
succeed." Henley also expresses gratitude that Pawling likes the
last number of [The New Review?],
Henley edited The New Review from
1895-1897; asks him to send The
Realm and the North American
Review if he has them; and mentions [J.W.]
Gilmer,
8:86
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1895 October 23 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), writes
that he has not seen either the caricature or report and asks that
they be sent to him; and notes that his wife would like a score of
copies so printed of an unknown article or print,
8:87
1 page (6435-a)
1895 December 24 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), encloses
two more "Wyndhamisms [George Wyndham?]; one about your proposal,
and one about an idea of his own." He also had no luck with Ernest
and Coleridge and mentions other possibilities for The New Review that he has in mind. He
also discusses his desire to publish some unpublished Burns letters
in a volume and the copyright issue. Henley writes in a postscript
"Coleridge writes, by the way: -'A Torquay bookseller - King, Union
Street - had last summer a volume of printed but unpublished Byron
correspondence, price 5/5 pounds. I don't know if it is worth asking
about.' I think it is. What say
you?
8:87
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1896 July 30 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), discusses
his negotiations with a bank for a loan and mentions his Byron
project and the need to talk to W.H. [William Heinemann?] about
it,
8:88
2 page on 1 l. (6435-a)
1897 November 22 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), thanks
his correspondent for the news of the death of an elderly unnamed
common friend,
8:89
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
[ca.1898 March] William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922),
appreciates that Whittier liked his work and mentions the death of
T.E.B. [Thomas Edward Brown], "I've written a quatorzain for our
last N.R. [New Review] on my dear and never to be forgotten T.E.B.
It's not what I meant it to be; but I dare say you'll understand and
forgive."
8:90
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1898 April 5 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), thanks
him for the fifty and writes concerning his brother, Ted [Edward
John Henley], "I hope with all my soul that [Hurd?] will fall into
line. (a) for the Journal's sake & (b) for Ted's. He needs work
& he needs money." He also writes "I understand from Percy H.
that the Journal closed this morning. But I'll write of it next week
without fail. I thought the thing out this afternoon & I find
I've lots of good to say."
8:91
1 page (6435-a)
1900 January 17 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), informs
him that [William?] Nicholson has not written; tries to arrange a
time for Pawling to visit suggesting Sunday and mentions his prior
commitments, including a long day with C.W. [Charles Whibley?] (over
Rabelais), a musician, and Gilbert Parker on Saturday, both sides of
a note card (6435-a)
8:92
[ca. 1900] May William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), blesses
him for his "tater-patch, & your arbor, & your
kidney-beans!" and the lending of the miniature of "an Immortal. I
propose to build a special altar for it, & to burn leaves from
Boxiana ... before it daily, as long as the book holds out." Henley
writes that he is not in the frame of mind to write, with only two
lyrics written in May, and it was good to have Nicholson visit, both
sides of a note card (6435-a)
8:93
1901 February 18 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), wishes he
could see Sydney again, having done all he can do to attract his
sympathy; mentions Billy and his book, asking who is going to edit
it; believes that [William?] Nicholson has done nobly with his
illustrations, and rues his bad luck, "I would that blamed P.M.M. [Pall Mall Magazine?] had not
fallen from me - that's all - I say no more."
8:94
2 pages (6435-a)
1901 August 26 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), rejoices
that his book of verses [Hawthorn and
Lavender with Other Verses ?] is out of his hands at
last and is pleased to dedicate it to one S.S.P. [Sydney Southgate
Pawling] and is busy helping another author with his manuscript, "it
is a curious work. Very interesting; not well-written; very long.
But I think it will do."
8:94
1 page (6435-a)
1901 September 6 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922) offers up
harsh criticism of an unnamed book, possibly by [William
Nicholson],
8:94
1 page (6435-a)
1901 September 17 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), asks
"What price Nicholson? Has he turned up the wood cut? And, if so,
why? And how's he going to satisfy subscribers?" Also, asks if he
knows anyone with a small, convenient flat to let for a month or to
"loan it to an undistinguished man of letters for October." Both
sides of a note card (6435-a)
8:94
1902 November 11 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), gives him
a reference in Martin Chuzzlewit by
Charles Dickens to check and asks him to visit,
8:95
1 page (6435-a)
[ca. 1902] William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), has made
so many corrections and additions to the copy of the Complete Works of Henry Fielding typed
by Miss W. That it would be impossible to send it in its present
form to Croscup & Sterling Co.,
8:96
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1903 January 9 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), has asked
Harper & Bros. to communicate with Mr. W.H. and notes that on
the 22nd they will celebrate their
Silver Wedding Day,
8:97
1 page (6435-a)
1903 January 19 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), asks him
and Mrs. S.S. to turn up for his anniversary
celebration,
8:97
1 page (6435-a)
1903 January 27 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), plans on
keeping the manuscript a little while longer for proofing and asks
for the Dictionary of National
Biography entry for Christopher Graves,
8:97
1 page (6435-a)
1903 February 18 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), promises
to send the manuscript on Tuesday morning after making a clean copy
for him,
8:98
1 page (6435-a)
1903 March 20 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), discusses
his payments for different pieces of work and asks for him to sneak
one of the prints taken of himself by a photographer for Croscup
& Sterling Co.,
8:99
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1903 May 5 William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), fears
they will miss the American copyright in book form, and Harpers
& Bros. have not answered Nate's letter,
8:99
1 page (6435-a)
n.d. William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903) to [Sydney Southgate Pawling] (?-1922), encloses
an item from David [Hannay?], and suggests that Hannay might do a
reprint and editing of Robert Southey's Life
of Nelson; and informs him, I add some scrabble about
the Byron. I don't know if it will do. Let me see a proof, in any
case, with your improvements & suggestions. Any portrait will
do. Send Gilmer down for me. I've [heaps?] in the selection of 1
vol. B.s you sent."
8:100
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1855 August 7 Henn, Williams & Co.,
Bankers, Dealers in Exchange and Lands, Fairfield, Iowa, to Herndon
Frazer, Twyman's Store, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, answers
Frazer's inquiry about lands in Winneshiek County, Iowa, in the
extreme northern part of the state,
8:101
2 pages on 1 l., with envelope (6435)
1856 January 4 Joseph Henry
(1797-1878), Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to
Professor William Barton Rogers (1804-1882), requests copies
of his lectures on the phases of the atmosphere delivered before the
Smithsonian Institution to be published in an appendix,
8:102
1 page (6435)
1884 January 12 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to Miss Churchill, suggests that Mr. William Lee
of Lee & Shepard might be able to answer her questions about the
cost of publishing,
8:103
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1906 August 16 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to Messrs. Clarke & Co., tells them he can
supply them with copies of the "little English printed book about
me, translated from the French sketch by [?] Blanc" from the New
York publisher from whom he purchased twenty copies,
8:104
1 page (6435)
1907 February 4 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to "My dear Cocke," asks if he can give him the
address of "the agent of some organization in New York to aid in the
organization of societies on socialism in colleges,"
8:105
1 page (6435)
1852 October 26 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to A. Crosby, approves of the arrangements he and
Mr. Spaulding have made for him to speak, plans to lecture at
several lyceums next winter in the northern part of Essex County so
hopes to be able to visit Newburyport, Massachusetts, when the
prizes are awarded; mentions the benefit of the Ewing Schools, and
their expansion, especially the ones at Portsmouth, Saco, and Dover,
and mentions a Mr. Cutler in relation to the Ewing
Schools,
8:106
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1884 August 14 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to Mr. Mead, thanks him for the pamphlet about
the Presidential candidate, James G. Blaine, "which I carefully read
but without conviction." Higginson believes a better case could be
make for General [Butler?], "certainly as abler man than Blaine with
more experience & more magnetism." He feels reasonably sure of
Grover Cleveland's election, "You see I had more 'loyalty' than you
credited me with in regard to Cleveland's nomination, and it may be
the same as to his election, of which I feel reasonably
confident."
8:107
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1898 March 4 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to Professor Parker, will come to the breakfast
if he feels in good condition after speaking before the Folk Lore
Association the night before,
8:108
1 page (6435)
1896 May 11 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to Mr. Putnam, sends a photograph of the best
[Higginson?] family tree by Oswald Haldane,
8:109
1 page (6435)
1896 June 28 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to Mr. Putnam, encloses check upon receipt of his
letter,
8:109
1 page (6435)
1880 May 2 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908),
praises his paper on Edgar Allan Poe (possibly published in Scribner's Monthly) but also lists items
that he did not like about his paper, including a discussion of
Poe's temperament as Southern, "I think you rather [overdid?] the
Southern element in Poe - I see no reason to doubt his own statement
as to being born in Boston & the antagonism he felt [?] was that
of an estranged child - his temperament was Southern, as we say, but
not more so than of many fine New Englanders"; and disagrees with
"[L.K.'s?] conceited and tawdry book" about Poe. He also disagrees
with Stedman's opinion of [Sarah Helen Whitman?] and mentions his
correspondence with [John Henry] Ingram,
8:110
3 pages on 1 p. (6435)
1903 August 3 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to "Dear Mr. [Towne?]," writes concerning his
interest in purchasing a manuscript from one of his books and
informs the collector that he had placed the only one in his
possession, his John Greenleaf
Whittier in the hands of a New York collector who has
liberty to sell it. Higginson says it is probably the only
manuscript that will ever be on the market as he "never kept any
other, and write now mainly through my secretary with typewriting
machine."
8:111
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1898 March 1 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to Mrs. Ward, advises her to hold a meeting to
get the opinion of the experts on the idea of a manual training
school for girls and to get a petition signed by women proposing the
city establish one so that the school committee would have to
consider the matter.
8:112
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1900 December 16 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to Mrs. Ward, informs her that he is unable to
come any day this week except for Friday,
8:113
1 page (6435)
1875 December 23 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) Autograph on a Receipt (6435)
9:1
1880 February 20 Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
[Massachusetts] State House (1823-1911) to "Dear Sir,"
expresses his regret that they disagree and warns all thirteen
amendments sent to the Committee on Amendments in the state
legislature cannot be forwarded to the people by the Committee who
must select among them. Higginson was elected as a representative to
the state legislature in 1880 and 1881.
9:2
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1886 February 16 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to "Dear Sir," sends his suggestions of the best
representative poets for certain categories,
9:3
1 page (6435)
1910 January 19 Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) to "My dear niece," thanks her for the copy of
the recollections of Mr. Dominy of an event occurring sixty years
ago when he was only nine, concerning Margaret Fuller Ossoli, and
says, "I cannot at my age re-open the subject, but I have already a
large collection of ms. evidence, each mostly incompatible with each
other, with which I shall file and preserve this."
9:4
2 type-written pages on 2 l. (6435)
1780 November 20 Lt. William Hoey, of the
British Army, Autograph on a check, signed while a prisoner of war
at the Barracks, Charlottesville, Albemarle County,
Virginia,
9:5
1 item (6435)
1918 March 1 Laurence Housman
(1865-1959) to [Kineton?] Parker, thanks him for the "Bird in
Hand" copies and letter and notes that "a very apt and effective
quotation from the Professor's work was used to bring down the
curtain. Quite a good idea, which I shall certainly keep for the
future."
9:6
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
n.d. Mary Howitt (1799-1888) to
Mrs. [Kathe Kroeker] Freiligrath (1845-1904), says Mrs.
Bateman wishes very much to engage her sister and suggests a salary
that she should request,
9:7
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1933 February 28 Cordell Hull
(1871-1955) to Walter Keith, acknowledges his letters of
support for Jake W. Sandschulte applying for Chief of the Field
Division of the office of the Collector of Internal
Revenue,
9:8
1 type-written page (6435)
1913 February 20 Engelbert Humperdinck
(1854-1921) to Harry Theophilus Finck (1854-1926),
writes concerning Mrs. Thurber's visit to Berlin, Germany, postal
card in German (6435-a)
9:9
[1911 February 28] Engelbert Humperdinck
(1854-1921) to Mrs. Jeannette M. Thurber (1850-1946),
thanks her for her proposal to him to come and lead her institute
[National Conservatory of Music] but believes her offer of salary
insufficient inducement, 3 pages on 1 l., in German, with envelope
(6435-a)
9:10
1880 July 29 Eppa Hunton
(1822-1908) to General Duncan S. Walker, recommends Charles
F. Triplett for employment by the National [Democratic?]
Committee,
9:11
1 page (6435)
1897 December 12 [Vincent] d'Indy
(1851-1931) to Gustave Samazeuilh (1877-1967),
promises to send a theater program mentioning a mutual friend,
postal card (6435-bb)
9:12
1925 November 14 Autographed Vincent d'Indy
(1851-1931) Concert Program (6435-bd)
9:13
1883 October 15 John H. Ingram
(1842-1916) to [Christina?] Rossetti (1830-1894),
returns the letters loaned to him by Rossetti and her father for the
sketch of her brother and also encloses the letters from [Oliver
Madox Brown ?(1855-1874)] to W.W. belonging to Mrs.
Robertson. He also asks for Robertson's address so he may send her a
copy of his book, [Oliver Madox
Brown?] (6435-a)
9:14
1856 May 29 George Payne Rainsford James
(1801?-1860) Autograph (6435)
9:15
1900 February 6 John Jameson,
Sheriff-Clerks's Office, Cupar, to Ae[neas James George] Mackay
(1839-1911), Sheriff of Fife and Kinross, and author of the
History of Fife and Kinross
(1896), has "seen the agents and asked them to delay writing out the
Dft. Interlocutor until the 19th"
9:16
1 page (6435-as)
1812 October 28 Contract for Services
between Richard Durrett and Thomas Jefferson, annotations by TJ on
verso; Durrett, a carpenter, agrees to work for Jefferson for one
year and receive in payment £40, 450 pounds of pork and a
peck of corn meal per week, 1 page, copy, original in Vault-Thomas
Jefferson (6435)
9:17
ca. 1894 Black & White Cabinet
Photograph of a Statue of Thomas Jefferson, signed on reverse by the
sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley (6435-l)
9:18
1871 February 13 Sir William Jenner
(1815-1898) to "Dear Sir" writes that he is unable to accept
the invitation to dinner following the [Hunterian?]
oration,"
9:19
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1865 April 24 Andrew Johnson signature on
order for safe passage for Richard C. Talbott, Indianapolis,
Indiana, as purchase agent for the United States government, copy,
original in Vault- Autograph File (6435)
9:20
1905 May 11 Henry Arthur Jones
(1851-1929) to Mr. [Joseph Hodges] Choate (1832-1917),
U.S. Ambassador to London, asks about the facilities granted to the
general public at "Blenheim" where he hopes to take the members of
the Atlantic Union and the Rhodes scholars for an outing into the
country,
9:21
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1868 December 6 Thomas Jordan
(1819-1895) to General P.G.T. Beauregard (1818-1893),
writes that he does have the copies of the telegrams concerning
Beauregard's defense of Petersburg, Virginia, notices that the
writer of Harper's Illustrated Weekly
cites Colonel Fletcher about the matter, hears criticism of "the
alleged failure to push the advantage on Sunday afternoon, at
Shiloh, when the troops you had were utterly raw, when the field of
battle was a dense wood the terrain of which was unknown to you, and when, besides
the command had just devolved upon you." In contrast, he says no one
comments on the failure of Robert E. Lee to destroy Burnsides at
Fredericksburg with veteran forces. His opinion of Lee's generalship
in the Wilderness campaign has altered from poor to masterly up
until Cold Harbor, where Lee turned a deaf ear to the reports of
Beauregard for too long, and had incorrectly placed the troops of
Longstreet and Hill. Jordan wants to write a book about Beauregard's
Civil War operations and asks about employment in New Orleans, tells
him about his uncle's invention of a process for making steel, and
Jordan gives his opinion of his Brazilian plan. Jordan has also
written a rebuke concerning General Bragg in his paper on the Battle
of Chickamauga for Bragg's comments at the close of his report on
Shiloh.
9:22
8 pages on 3 l. (6435)
1948 February 11 English Theme Paper by
Stephen J. Joyce concerning his grandfather, James Joyce,
particularly the last year of his life,
9:23
2 typewritten pages on 2 l. (6435-a)
1932 August 12 Elise Jusserand to [Louis]
Wiley (1869-1935), Business Manager of The New York Times, thanks him for his letters,
articles in The New York Times, and
expression of sympathy upon the death of her husband, Jean Jules
Jusserand. She was especially glad that he had published Jusserand's
radio talk, "thanks to you his words have been spread even more,
particularly those urging a generous view of each other's faults and
the maintaining of a firm friendship between France and America
which was the wish nearest his heart."
9:24
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-q)
1912 January 17 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Mr. Butler, thanks him for his letter
promising to take note of the Hotel Astor and writes that "As for
Mr. Wadham's wishes mine own are that he does just as he
pleases."
9:25
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-bg)
1905 June 6 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to S.H. Church, Secretary, declines an invitation
from the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
9:26
1 typewritten page (6435-be)
1916 February 2 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Frederic Adrian Delano (1863-1953),
Federal Reserve Board, thanks him for his donation of five hundred
dollars which he will send to the "Oeuvre des Soldats dans la
Tranchee" which provides soldiers with waterproof boots, folding
stretchers, and other useful items for the soldiers,
9:27
2 typewritten pages on 1 l., with envelope (6435-l)
1916 November 3 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Frederic Adrian Delano (1863-1953),
Metropolitan Club, Washington, D.C., has sent his gift to the
"Patronage National des Blesses" under the presidency of Ernest
Lavisse, hand-written postscript says, "The news continues good; the
success at Verdun has cheered all France." 2 typewritten pages on 1
l., with envelope (6435-l)
9:28
1922 December 7 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Edward A. Filene (1860-1937), American
businessman, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C., appreciates the complete
text of his opinion on the European situation and the question of
reconstruction and guaranties,
9:29
1 typewritten page (6435-ba)
1917 June 21 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to the French Authorities, introduces Mrs.
Theodosia E. Pleadwell and requests safe passage through France for
her,
9:30
1 typewritten page, in French (6435-aa)
1922 January 10 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to the Rev. Paul R. Hickok, Second Presbyterian
Church, Troy, New York, discusses the Washington Disarmament
Conference and the necessity of allowing France to possess equal
land and naval armaments to the rest of the world in case of future
attack, especially since her naval losses in the Great War were so
great. Two typewritten pages and one hand-written page on 1 l.
(6435-h)
9:31
1911 March 14 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Roswell Randall Hoes (1850-1921),
United States Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, furnishes the full name
of Count de Menou,
9:32
1 typewritten page (6435-u)
1916 February 3 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to [William Henry] Irwin (1873-1948), will
send a letter to his government recommending Irwin to them by the
same ship, the Chicago, that he will
sail on, including a few passages from his book and an account of
his address reproduced by the New York
Herald,
9:33
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1890 June 22 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Canon [Augustus?] Jessopp (1823-1914),
thanks him for the information about prehistoric [Gaillard ?], and
continues to seek information about endowed [tenured?] societies
which are scattered all over the country with the more important in
Paris, all with various conditions and requirements for the
recipients. He promises to at least send Jessopp a list of the
prizes, etc. awarded by the principal academies of
Paris.
9:34
12 pages on 3 l. (6435-v)
1897 January 1 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Canon [Augustus?] Jessopp (1823-1914),
thanks him for the book, "such an excellent author - such a good
friend!" and refers to St. William and Piers Plowman as among the
other "worthier, private friends of ours." Jusserand continues to
dedicate as much time as possible to his book, Literary History, currently writing
about the contemporaries of King Hal, forerunners of the
Renaissance.
9:35
6 pages on 2 l. (6435-v)
1910 June 4 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Canon [Augustus?] Jessopp (1823-1914),
plans to visit two admirable sights while north of the channel, the
Canon Jessopp and Norwich Cathedral, and arranges to visit his old
friend,
9:36
6 pages on 2 l. (6435-u)
1923 August 17 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937),
Athenaeum Club, thanks him for the sheet of prose and verse and his
letter to Mr. Lee; believes that "the publishing of such a wise and
powerful document would only do good, especially now that the
[Foreign Secretary George Nathaniel Curzon?] note is, as you may
believe far from having improved matters." Jusserand came by way of
England where he spoke to no great effect, "The nation, if I mistake
not is in better disposition toward us than her leaders. And where
are those leaders heading? I cannot help having great apprehensions.
Our government remains cool and composed."
9:37
4 pages on 1 l., with envelope (6435-h)
1925 March 20 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Mrs. J.M. Browne Johnston, regrets that he is
unable to comply with the kind request of the Ladies of the American
Church but believes that the relationship between the United States
and France is stronger than it appears because "the foundation of
friendship and good will between the two have been laid deep by our
ancestors, and made more solid by the best of their descendents. The
edifice is not threatened with ruin."
9:38
3 pages on 1 l., with envelope (6435-u)
1917 May 14 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Mrs. Daniel Manning, Albany, New York, sends
her a letter for the French Authorities, recommending her nephew who
plans on donating an automobile to the American Ambulance Corps. 1
typewritten page, accompanied by a later clipping containing an
obituary of Jusserand from 1932 (6435-v)
9:39
1921 November 16 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Louise Welles Murray, Director, Tioga Point
Museum, Athens, Pennsylvania, acknowledges the two books sent to him
by her,
9:40
1 typewritten page (6435-ax)
1925 January 10 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Curtis H. Page (1870-1946), The Century
Club, New York City, welcomes his volume of translations, Songs & Sonnets of Pierre de
Ronsard, mentions his inability to attend the Ronsard
celebration at Smith College and belatedly acknowledges receiving
the Moliere in the "sad days of the war."
9:41
2 typewritten pages on 1 l. (6435-al)
1923 February 8 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Mary Elizabeth Patten, thanks her for her note
congratulating him on his 20th
Anniversary as Ambassador to the United States and for her
condolences on the death of his wife's [Elise Jusserand], only
sister,
9:42
2 typewritten pages on 1 l. (6435-o)
1916 February 26 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin
(1854-1935), Physics, Columbia University, writes to
congratulate Pupin on his French Academy of Sciences prize of 1,000
francs for his important scientific work, "I am happy to give you my
congratulations for a decision so well justified by the importance
of your scientific work."
9:43
1 typewritten page, in French (6435-k)
1916 March 2 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin
(1854-1935), Physics, Columbia University, thanks him for his
generous decision to donate the prize voted to him by the French
Academy of Sciences to the Fund established for the widows and
orphans of French scientists and gives him instructions on the
easiest way to accomplish this. Jusserand also writes, "Referring to
what you say of the men of your nationality, I can assure you that
everybody in France, without exception, is following with the
deepest admiration the various phases of the fight made by the Serbs
for independence, which will soon be resumed, none of us has any
doubt, and in circumstances which will rapidly allow, we all hope,
the healing of the cruel wounds they have suffered at the hand of a
relentless enemy."
9:44
2 typewritten pages on 1 l. (6435-k)
1911 June 17 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to "My dear [Putnam], asks for a copy of The Shakespearean Tragedy by A.C.
Bradley and inquires if the second edition of his volume II "for
which I sent corrections in March, chance of appearing
soon?"
9:45
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-v)
1919 October 22 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Miss Ethel Roads, Pottsville, Pennsylvania,
informs her that he cannot find the book which she sent to him but
hopes that the book and letter she wanted are already in the mail
back to her,
9:46
1 typewritten page in French (6435-ag)
1925 January 19 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to [James Brown] Scott (1866-1943), thanks
him sincerely for his friendly telegram and expresses deep regret to
be "leaving a country he had learned to love and admire in peace and
in war time."
9:47
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1926 August 5 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Dr. F.L. Steadwell, Fleet Surgeon, Pearl
Harbor Naval Hospital, Hawaiian Territory, welcomes the book that he
wishes to send to him both for the subject and the
author,
9:48
3 pages on 1 l., with envelope and clipping
(6435-u)
1917 July 30 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to the Rev. Dr. Stimson, South Yarmouth,
Massachusetts, thanks him for and comments on his article in the
Commercial and Financial
Chronicle,
9:49
1 typewritten page, with envelope (6435-ao)
1909 May 12 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to Everett P. Wheeler, New York, sends him a copy
of the yellow book published by the Government of the Republic at
the conclusion of the conference held this year in London, 1
typewritten page, in French, with a typed English translation of the
letter (6435-o)
9:50
[1903 June 19] Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to "My dear Mr. Secretary," thanks him for the
letter about brave [Admiral Francois] de Grasse which he has
forwarded to the Foreign Minister Théophile
Delcassé,
9:51
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-v)
1906 February Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) Quotation and Autograph, the quote is from
Eustache Deschamps, "He doesn't know anything who doesn't go
outdoors." (6435-w)
9:52
1906 June 22 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to "My dear friend Mr. [?], invites him to
dinner,
9:53
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-v)
1924 March 24 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) Autographed Program for Groupe de Philadelphie de
L'Alliance Francaise, printed (6435-o)
9:54
1927 December 18 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to "My dear Sir," with an autograph quote from
Piers Plowman, sends him the
autograph line which he requested, and notes that his contribution
to "The Writing of History" was printed without any proof revision
by himself introducing some serious errors.
9:55
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-q)
1928 August 16 Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) to "My dear colleague and friend," assures his
friend that he has written at once to request he be invited to the
signing of the treaty [The Kellogg-Briand Pact?] in Paris, if
possible, but he does not plan on attending himself,
9:56
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-o)
n.d. Jean Jules Jusserand
(1855-1932) Quotation concerning life (6435-w)
9:57
1900 February 11 Ewan Justice
(1875-1922) to Philip H. Ward, Jr. (1886-1963),
possibly the future notable collector, encloses a letter from Miss
Maude Gonne, "the Irish Joan of Arc, who is now agitating in this
country. Although the signature is in pencil I thought it might
prove of interest to you."
9:58
1 typewritten page, with envelope (6435-k)
1909 November 16 Constantine De Karassen,
Russian diplomat, to Mrs. William Hempstead, [Roma De Vonne Hurt?],
shares his big news of being nominated consul at Memel, close to the
Russian frontier, and receiving two decorations, one Russian "Le
Stanislas" and one Swedish "Etoile Polaire"; and plans on leaving
for Petersburg in ten days, where he will stay for two weeks before
touring Europe. He will take up his post in Memel at the end of
January. 3 pages on 1 l., in French, with envelope
(6435-ab)
9:59
1910 April 20 Constantine De Karassen,
Russian diplomat, to Mrs. William Hempstead, [Roma De Vonne Hurt?],
provides his new address as Imperial Consul of Russia, Memel,
Germany, tells her to visit him during the summer, and that he is
spending some time with his sick brother, 2 pages on 1 l., in French
(6435-ab)
9:60
1852 December 10 John Pendleton Kennedy
(1795-1870), Navy Department, to Captain William Mervine
(1791-1868), grants permission to visit his family in Utica,
New York, until the Independence is
prepared to receive her officers,
9:61
1 page (6435)
1861 February 15 John Pendleton Kennedy
(1795-1870) to Annie [J.] Statin, recommends that she direct
her genealogical inquiry concerning the descendants of Charles
Carroll of "Carrollton" to his grandson, Charles Carroll, Mount
Vernon Place, Baltimore,
9:62
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1853 November 18 John Pendleton Kennedy
(1795-1870) to Edward L. Welles, Ann Arbor, Michigan, takes
pleasure in complying with his request [for an
autograph?],
9:63
1 page (6435)
1841 April 4 John Pendleton Kennedy
(1795-1870) and others from Congress, including Augustus
Rhodes Sollers (1814-1862), James Alfred Pearce
(1804-1862), A[lexander] Randall (1803-1881), William
Merrick (1818-1889), John Leeds Kerr (1780-1844), and
Isaac Dashiell Jones (1806-1893) to Nathaniel F. Williams,
recommends Samuel Turner of Baltimore for a position,
9:64
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
[1860?] December 4 John Pendleton Kennedy
(1795-1870) to "Gentlemen," for insurance purposes, Kennedy
informs them of his plan to add a bay window to one of his drawing
rooms and asks if it will increase the cost of his
insurance,
9:65
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1943, n.y. April 23 John Pendleton Kennedy
(1795-1870) Autograph and News clipping
9:66
1795-1796 Frederick Kitt signed
receipts from B. Dandridge, "to purchase sundries for the
President's household" 1 item (6435)
9:67
1936 January 29 Joseph Wood Krutch
(1893-1970), The Nation, to J.
John Munson, discusses his biography of Edgar Allan Poe in detail
including his motivation in writing it, his use of a biographical
essay approach rather than the normal biographical approach, and the
value of psychoanalysis applied to a biographical and literary study
of Poe, 2 typewritten pages on 2 l. (6435)
9:68
[1832] July 5 Richard Lander
(1804-1834) to John Astley, writes of plans for a voyage on
the Quorra, a British steam ship
owned by the Birkenhead firm of shipbuilders, fitted out in
Liverpool at John Laird's Boiler Yard, and under the orders of R.
Sanders & Co., his brother, MacGregor Laird, used the ship for a
commercial expedition to the River Niger in 1832, 1833, and 1834; 2
pages on 1 l., with an engraving of Richard Lander
(6435-n)
9:69
1834 December 2 John Lander
(1807-1839) to John Astley, reports that his family is doing
well and refers to the engraving of Richard Lander that Charles
Turner, "the eminent mezzotint engraver" will do based on the
portrait by Mr. Brockden, if John Lander can secure fifty
subscriptions for it. Lander also mentions having a miniature sketch
of a statue of Richard Lander to be erected in Truro, Cornwall.
(6435-n)
9:70
1918 July 19 Franklin K. Lane
(1864-1921), Secretary of the Interior, to John Barrett,
Director General Pan American Union, thanks for the birthday note
and his best wishes for future success, 1 typewritten page
(6435-av)
9:71
n.d. John Lane (1854-1925) Speech
concerning his introduction to the publishing and collecting world
as a youth, also mentioning William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, and
the contemporary English novelist Mr. Locke, 3 typewritten pages on
3 l. (6435)
9:72
[1812] December 19 Mary Elizabeth
(Hazlehurst) Latrobe to Dolley Madison, describes her life and that
of her husband, the architect Benjamin Latrobe, at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, where he was building the steamboat Buffalo to ply the Ohio River,
mentioning her residence as "one of the best and largest houses in
the town, quite new," the beauty of the Monongahela River flowing
near her home, the problems with coal dust, the numerous furnaces
and foundries in the city, the low cost of living, and other details
of early Pittsburg, 4 pages on 1 l., electrostatic copy, original in
Dolley Madison Papers (6435)
9:73
1902 June 25 Fitzhugh Lee
(1835-1905) to John Cullen Bryant, writes that he thinks the
picture sent to him to be a very good likeness of an unidentified
person from one of the latest and best photographs, 1 page
(6435)
9:74
1885 August 6 Fitzhugh Lee
(1835-1905) to J[ames] M[cCormick] Dalzell
(1838-1924), writes that he is unable to come to the reunion
at Caldwell because of his political campaign, 1 page
(6435)
9:75
1926 March 23 Lawrence Lee
(1903-1978), editor of Sea
Stories and Sport Stories
to Atcheson Hench, wishes that he spent more time on pure creation
than other things, but "Poetry is simply surging along; and I am
almost weary with the constant buzzing of poems, and the continual
catching of them." He also expresses appreciation for The Virginia Quarterly Review, 2 pages
on 2 l. with envelope (6435-z)
9:76
1927 January 10 Lawrence Lee
(1903-1978), editor of Sea
Stories and Sport Stories
to Atcheson Hench, asks if any of the students in Hench's writing
class have any stories suitable for his magazines and mentions the
recent sale of a story by [William] Bruner, 1 typewritten page
(6435-z)
9:76
1928 June 29 Lawrence Lee
(1903-1978), editor of Sea
Stories and Sport Stories
to Atcheson Hench, informs him that someone has requested the
address of John R. Phillips, pleases him to help any of the
University of Virginia boys interested in a literary career, and
speaks of the success of William Bruner, 1 typewritten page with
envelope (6435-z)
9:76
1928 July 10 Lawrence Lee
(1903-1978), editor of Sea
Stories and Sport Stories
to Atcheson Hench, mentions that [John R.] Phillips has settled in,
appreciates Hench's kind words about "To a Native State" and
suggests "If you see any poetry looking at you from the faces of
your classes, please send that person to the hills and rivers, to
the apple orchards near Greenwood [Albemarle County, Virginia]" 3
pages on 3 l. with envelope (6435-z)
9:76
1930 February 24 Lawrence Lee
(1903-1978), editor of Sea
Stories and Sport Stories
to Atcheson Hench, expresses interest in "action fiction with a
highly romantic color. We want material which opens with a tense
situation and keeps the reader interested by continued developments
throughout the manuscript." 1 typewritten page (6435-z)
9:76
1930 August 12 Lawrence Lee
(1903-1978), editor of Sea
Stories and Sport Stories
to Atcheson Hench, asks for recommendations for a vacancy in his
staff in September, 1 typewritten page (6435-z)
9:76
1930 August 15 Lawrence Lee
(1903-1978), editor of Sea
Stories and Sport Stories
to Atcheson Hench, has heard from Arthur Forester who is
interviewing for his position but will consider Frank O. Judy, 1
typewritten page (6435-z)
9:76
1815 September 2 Richard Henry Lee, Aid-de
Camp, Headquarters 2nd [Military
Department] to Lt. Edwards, commander of Fort Independence, by order
of General [Eleazar Wheelock] Ripley (1782-1839) he is to
order a boat manned to carry Lt. Lee to the point, 1 page
(6435)
9:77
1839 December 30 Benjamin Watkins Leigh
(1781-1849) to Henry A. Wise (1806-1876) wants to know
what Mr. Pickens said about the Harrisburg Convention [1839 Whig
National Convention] being a combination of bank influence and
Wise's answer to him and plans to "publish a commentary, which will
touch his heart and make some impression upon his mind, if his
Calhounism has left any capacity in the one for candid reasoning or
any room in the other for generous feeling."1 page
(6435)
9:78
1851 October 30 John Letcher
(1813-1884) to Henry A. Wise (1806-1876) discusses the
court martial of Wise's son and his dismissal from the [Virginia
Military Institute] due to his conduct where "he had acted rashly
and imprudently but not dishonorably." Letcher also wishes that Wise
would visit western Virginia before the election of state officers
and supersede Hunter in the Senate,
9:79
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1870 May 13 David Ross Locke [pseudonym
Petroleum V. Nasby] (1833-1888) to "My good friend Reid,"
regrets that he is unable to meet with him this evening having
already made an appointment to accompany two Western gentlemen to
Wallock Theater, New York,
9:80
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1829 November 30 Marianne Preble Longfellow
[Fuller], future wife of Stephen Longfellow whom she divorced around
1850, to her future sister-in-law, Anne Longfellow [Pierce], writes
of her misadventures on the way to New York while accompanying her
father, William Pitt Preble (1783-1857) to his post as
minister to the Netherlands, three page typed transcript with
explanatory letter from R.K. Turner, Jr. to Hench, April 4, 1951
(6435)
9:81
n.y. June 29 Pierre Loti [pseudonym of
Louis Marie-Julien Viaud], French sailor and writer
(1850-1923) to "Cher monsieur," apologizes for sending the
proofs late and says "If you can without difficulty send me some of
it-you will make me happy; otherwise, I will wait." In
French,
9:82
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-az)
1927-1929 John Livingston Lowes
(1867-1945), Harvard University, to Atcheson Hench, thanks
him for his note about [Samuel Taylor?] Coleridge's copy of Charles
Tennyson's poems coming on the market October 10, 1927; his note
about an item in the Anderson Galleries catalog, March 30, 1928; the
notice of the Coleridge letters for sale in Heise's catalog, April
23 ,1928; and the Coleridgeana in the Kern sale, January 7, 1929;
four typed one page letters (6435)
9:83
1858 October 12 John Lubbock
(1834-1913), 1st Baron Avebury,
to P.O'Callaghan, advises O'Callaghan on how not to be elected to
the Athenaeum Club,
9:84
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1862 August 25 Miles Daniel McAlester
(1832-1869), Yorktown, Virginia, Lt. of Engineers, to General
Erasmus Darwin Keyes (1810-1895), writes concerning the
number of men and details of arranging work parties for
tomorrow,
9:85
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1877 July 9 W. Gordon McCabe
(1841-1920) to John Esten Cooke (1830-1886), has not
received the book sent to him but would love to do a literary notice
of the novel for the Petersburg Post
when it arrives and hopes that Cooke saw his address "The Defense of
Petersburg" four pages on 1 l. (6435)
9:86
1787 October 31 Henry McKenzie
(1745-1831) to Mr. [Thomas?] Cadell, Bookseller, Strand,
London, asks how his paper The
Lounger was doing as "I see it pillaged liberally in
various magazines, etc. which I reckon a good sign." He also
mentions the poems of Hamilton of Bonjour,
9:87
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1933-1950 Folger McKinsey's
Recollections of Walt Whitman from his column in The Baltimore Sun; also his obituary,
printed news clippings (6435-c)
9:88
1894 August 8 Katharine Sarah Gadsden
Macquoid (1824-1917) to Messrs. Roberts Brothers, has asked
Messrs. Harper to send them a two volume typescript copy of her book
Dolly's Grandfathers, to be
published in England in 1895, for possible publication in America;
and wishes to hear their terms for American right of
issue,
9:89
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1897 October 6 Jules Massanet
(1842-1912) to unidentified male correspondent, possibly a
singer, thanks him for his excellent letter, in French,
electrostatic copy, original in Vault-Autograph File, 1 page
(6435-j)
9:90
n.d. Jules Massanet (1842-1912)
Untitled Music Manuscripts, electrostatic copies, original in
Vault-Autograph File, 3 items (6435-aw)
9:91
1920 April 26 M. Massenet to "Cher
confrere" congratulations on a very picturesque title
[Estrangete'?], in French,
9:92
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-l)
[post 1859] Tuesday Gerald Massey
(1828-1907) to Messrs. Osgood & Co., sends a new
financial proposal for the publisher to issue a new collection in
one volume before the end of April for $250 dollars down for past
sales and the present matter and then "fine" him "ten per cent
interim on the new venture payable annually"
9:93
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
ca. 1858-1859 Gerald Massey
(1828-1907) to "My dear Fields," hopes the sale of his book
will prove remunerative to the firm, asks him to forward any reviews
worth reading, presses him to visit them in the Lake District where
they have a large house not much furnished, and advises him to take
the L & N Western Rail via Carnforth,
9:94
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
[ca. 1873] July 4 Gerald Massey
(1828-1907) to "My dear Fields," tells him he is coming to
lecture in America and asks him to help publicize the lectures in
the Boston papers, sending him "a little autograph letter of
Tennyson's as a bribe" and inquiring about Bayard Taylor, 2 pages on
1 l., possibly a copy in another hand (6435-a)
9:95
1878 May 15 Dabney Herndon Maury
(1822-1900) to Judge Jeremiah Black (1810-1883), Maury
sends a copy of his article "Grant as a Soldier and as a Civilian"
and repeats his request for Black to write for or speak before the
Southern Historical Society,
9:96
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-j)
1873 January 8 Dabney Herndon Maury
(1822-1900) to J.J. Hopkins, Secretary of the Piedmont &
Arlington Life Insurance Company, asks him to send directly to John
L. Ross the same blank notes that were sent to Maury in the case of
Mr. Lampkin, with all necessary instructions and explanations, and
expresses concern over the business situation in New Orleans, 1 page
(6435)
9:97
1890 January 28 Dabney Herndon Maury
(1822-1900) to "Dear Sir," sends his autograph with pleasure,
1 page (6435)
9:98
1859 January 19 Matthew Fontaine Maury
(1806-1873) to James H. Armsby (1809-1875), Secretary
of the Board of Trustees Dudley Observatory, Albany, New York,
accepts his invitation to visit the Dudley Observatory and to meet
its new director, Professor [Ormsby MacKnight] Mitchel, health
permitting,
9:99
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1858 September 13 Matthew Fontaine Maury
(1806-1873) to Messrs. Bond & Son, reports on the success
and failure of various chronometers placed at the Observatory in
Washington during the trial period which had begun about a year ago
and had expired. William Cranch Bond (1789-1859) was the
first director of the Harvard College Observatory and owner of an
instrument supply firm in Boston,
9:100
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1841 October 4 Matthew Fontaine Maury
(1806-1873) to Chief Clerk of the Navy, John D. Simms,
recommending John M. Maury, son of R.B. Maury, for a midshipman
appointment (6435)
9:101
1870 June 23 William Holmes McGuffey
(1800-1873) to C.H. Winston, unable to provide a paper as he
wished due to his busy schedule at the University of Virginia, 1
page (6435)
9:102
[1823?] March 13 William Charles Macready
(1793-1873), actor in the title role of Mitford's play Julian which was produced at Covent
Garden in 1823, to Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855),
discusses his attempts to have her play published and his honor at
being an actor in her play, Julian,
9:103
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1854 January 26 R[ichard] K[idder] Meade
(1803-1862), Petersburg, Virginia, to Colonel Samuel Pickens,
Greensboro, Alabama, discusses the possible sale of his land in
[Alabama?] to Pickens and other business matters,
10:1
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1771 December 31 James Mercer
(1736-1793) to Robert Carter, Williamsburg, Virginia,
discusses business matters, mentioning an agreement uniting the
Grand Company and the Ohio Company with his consent, with typed
transcript,
10:2
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-ai)
1910 Joaquin Miller (1839-1913)
Autograph on a Postcard of his home (6435)
10:3
[ca. 1850] Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) to "My dear friend," [William Cox Bennett
(1820-1895)] writes concerning her friend, Henry Chorley as
an example of "how much danger there is ever to talent in an
exclusive life of literature. My friend Henry Chorley for instance -
just read his play, & you will see how much a really fine genius
has been injured by the habit of day to day writing upon all works
of subjects - how much the talent is frittered away by the weekly
demands of the Atheneum. The play has
much that is excellent - but wants depth, breadth, motive - in fact
the concentrated attention which you give to your charming lyrics
because you bring to them a power unwasted by [?] in literature."
She also writes about a little volume by John Hughes
(1790-1857), friend of Robert Southey and Sir Walter Scott,
called Lays of Past Days published in
1850 and "dedicated to your unworthy servant" and goes on at length
to discuss his work and talents, "In short it is a piece of ill luck
that he happens to be a man of fortune or he would have been a very
eminent artist of some sort or other" 4 pages on 1 l., with typed
transcript (6435-a)
10:4
1851 August 12 Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) to William Cox Bennett (1820-1895), writes
"I think the enclosed [bit] will about complete my three [volumes] -
rather more than less - If not more extracts can be easily added - I
mean that there are two or three other articles which I have fairly
cut off from my original scheme which might be added to this [Recollections of A Literary Life?]." She
also asks to borrow a few books and complains that "Mr. [Henry F.?]
Chorley never kept either the M.S.S. or the proofs of the bits he
cut out to fit into his journal so that what I have to do to make
the matter out is more troublesome than can be thought." Mitford
mentions recovering her copy of Daniel Webster's speeches after a
few years absence and her plans to make it her newest short
interesting article. 4 pages on 1 l., with envelope and typed
transcript (6435-a)
10:4
[ca. 1852?] Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) to William Cox Bennett (1820-1895), thanks
him for his help in coming to an agreement for the title of her
book, possibly her Recollections of a
Literary Life Books, Places and People (first published
in 1852), as "Mr. Hughes says that Bentley is a terrible bully"
although she still liked her title the best; mentions her
[Dorrington?] article, Mr. Kingsley who is "better in books than
conversation," and a distant cousin who was canon of Westminster,
inheriting [Brownhill?] from old Sir John; 4 pages on 1 l. with
typed transcript (6435-a)
10:4
1854 July 4 Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) to William Cox Bennett (1820-1895), asks
if he has seen a very favorable review of Atherton and Other Tales in the New Quarterly and rejoices that Mrs. [Emma?] Bennett is
safe, 2 pages on 1 l., with envelope and typed transcript
(6435-a)
10:4
[post 1846] Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) to William Cox Bennett (1820-1895), writes
about a "charming young poetess" visiting with her, the volume of
her "ballads are chiefly on very graphic and picturesque bits of
history told with both plainness & a spirit that I greatly like
- you may see some of them in Jerrold's
Magazine. She, who is charmed with some of your lyrics,
has taken charge of a copy of Baby
May" and other titles by Bennett to deliver to Lord
Nugent, "It is a great thing to secure a man of his taste &
influence - the great point being to show such people only the best
- never to let them see in a [detached way?] any but the very best;
hopes to bring some of her friend's poems to her majesty's notice,
"though I don't believe the Queen ever reads verses by anybody - I
know that she had never read a line of Wordsworth's when he was
invited to the Palace"; mentions a visit from James Cobbett; and
tells of being notified of honorary membership in the Whittington
Club (instituted under the auspices of Douglas Jerrold in 1846), 4
pages on 1 l. with typed transcript (6435-a)
10:4
[ca. 1850 December] Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) to "My dear friend" [probably William Cox Bennett
(1820-1895)], tells him that she has written to Mrs. Acton
Tindal [Henrietta Euphemia Harrison Tindal (d. 1879)] poet and
novelist "that you will send her your book [Poems] through Chapman and Hall your mutual
publishers." Chapman and Hall published Tindal's Lines and Leaves also in 1850. She also
describes a packet she received from America containing Songs of Labor by John Whittier, and
"Astraea" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (which he read to the Phi Beta
Kappa Society of Yale College in 1850). She also rejoices to hear
what Chapman says [about his work?], "I can't help thinking that the
success will come sooner than I expected - that it will come seems
to me certain." She also has had a letter from Henry Chorley,
"talking as he always does about his hard work & his sorrows
& about putting in articles after [Christmas?]" with the Lady's Companion progressing slowly. 4
pages on 1 l. with typed transcript (6435-a)
10:5
[1852 January] Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) to "My dear friend" [probably William Cox Bennett
(1820-1895)] mentions several acquaintances and writers,
including a letter from a Dublin barrister, Mr. [Digby] Starkey, a
poet and "a first rate man in every way" who quoted another poet,
Mr. Prince (said to be a Lancashire weaver), in his letter creating
her interest in getting his volume of poetry, Mr. Barnes, a
Dorsetshire poet, and dear Mr. Fields whose address she lacks. She
also writes about pregnant Mrs. Warburton, who still clings to the
hope that her husband was saved by a passing boat and whose first
grief was so intense they feared for her life. Eliot Warburton
(1810-1852), an Irish traveler and novelist, was aboard the
steamship RMS Amazon when it sank on
January 4, 1852. She also mentions the trouncing that the Times received from everyone, "above all
when dear old Joseph [Hume?] put the coping stone on the rebuke by
saying that he hoped Louis Napoleon as a man of sense would
recollect that journalism was a trade like any other trade - they do
it merely for base [?] - a cry - like the Protestant bigotry of last
year." 4 pages on 1 l., with typed transcript (6435-a)
10:5
n.d. Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) to Mr. Langford, thanks him for his kindness in
making her acquaintance and hope to entice him to return during the
season of roses and strawberries, 2 pages on 1 l. with typed
transcript (6435-a)
10:6
1854 September 27 Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) to [Frances] Trollope (1780-1863),
rejoices to hear from her old friend, refers to Elizabeth Barrett
Browning who could tell Trollope more of her condition, "a story of
suffering" due to a bad fall from her pony chaise in Swallowfield
Park which injured her spine leaving her unable to move from her
chair without severe pain. Due to the work of her physician, she has
improved some and is astonished at the kindness of her friends and
neighbors in her extremity, 4 pages on 1 l., with envelope fragment
and typed transcript (6435-a)
10:7
1828 [March 1] Mary Russell Mitford
(1787-1855) to Mrs. Watts, promises to do all she can for her
little book, but she is in the midst of getting out a little book of
her own; plans to take care of Mr. Watts souvenir as soon as
possible; and writes "Mr. Kemble says that as far as any manager can
ever answer for the production of a play he intends to bring out
mine after Easter" and mentions Mrs. B. Hofland, a children's
author, 3 pages on 1 l., with engraving of Mitford and typed
transcript (6435-a)
10:8
1920 November 26 Harriet Monroe
(1860-1936) to Ruth Shepard Phelps [Morand]
(1876-1949), thanks her for the "charming old buckles" which
arrived all right, written on a Poetry A
Magazine of Verse postcard (6435-aj)
10:9
n.d. [James Monroe] Manuscript Fragment
concerning the acquisition of Florida, 2 p. on 1 l., copy, original
in Vault- Monroe (6435)
10:10
1825 J[?] 15 James Montgomery
(1771-1854) to "Dear Sir" thanks him for the musical
compositions incorporating his words of verse "set to your
delightful strains" asks that he send them folded flat to Messrs.
Longman & Co., 1 page (6435-a)
10:11
1850 October 25 Nathaniel Fish Moore
(1782-1872) to an unidentified correspondent, recommends
[George Christian] Shaeffer for the Chair of Chemistry at William
and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia,
10:12
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-aj)
1861 September 13 Samuel McDowell Moore
(1796-1875), Lexington, Virginia, to Governor John Letcher
(1813-1884), having recently returned from General Lee's
encampment in the northwest, he warns that the condition of the road
leading to the Milboro Depot by Warm Springs and Huntersville is in
very poor condition with mud one to two foot deep which will make it
almost impossible to transport provisions for the army in wagons and
volunteers to supervise the repair of the road if given enough slave
labor and supplies,
10:13
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1908 August 19 John Singleton Mosby
(1833-1916) to Major [Eben] Swift, sends him "a volume of war
reminiscences which originally were some fugitive sketches I wrote
for The Boston Herald that were
afterward collected & put into book form: the last chapter is an
address I delivered at … Boston," and an article by him on
Gettysburg in Belford's Magazine
(1891) describing briefly his theory of the campaign,
10:14
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1908 August 24 John Singleton Mosby
(1833-1916) to Major [Eben] Swift, speaks of his "closest
call" during the Civil War when he was wounded at Lake's house on
December 21, 1864; and sends a scrapbook containing the piece he
wrote about it, a set of highly valued books, an article "By a
Stratagem," and a copy of a letter he wrote to Judge Keith of the
Virginia Court of Appeals. 1 page, with typed transcript
(6435)
10:14
1909 November 8 John Singleton Mosby
(1833-1916) to Major [Eben] Swift, disagrees with his article
in the Journal about the objective of
[Alfred?] Pleasonton's attacks on Stuart at Brandy Station which he
believed was to break up Stuart's camp and drive him over the
Rapidan, 1 page, with typed transcript (6435)
10:14
1889 March 23 John Singleton Mosby
(1833-1916) to General Marcus Joseph Wright
(1831-1922) answers Wright's question about the accuracy of a
statement in Appleton's Encyclopedia of
Biography about Mosby first published in The New York Herald in July or August of
1876, 1 page (6435)
10:15
[1914 July 20] John Singleton Mosby
(1833-1916) Autograph and small photograph (as an old man) on
a card; other signatures and photographs on the card include:
Fountain Beattie (1841-1923), Lycurgus Hutchison, and George
Turberville; includes related material (6435)
10:16
1865 May 13 John Ware Mosby, uncle of
John Singleton Mosby, to George S. Palmer, informs him that "Jack
has consented for me to send the bearer to Richmond to see what
terms he can be paroled upon and to find out whether they intend any
prosecution against him." He wants Mosby to take care of these
matters and return to practicing Law, but stresses that "It is
necessary for him to have a safe conduct so as he can go in and take
his parole from General Halleck in whose name he wishes it, as there
is so large a reward offered for him from a lesser authority it
might not be observed, his having disbanded his men it shows he has
discontinued hostilities." 1 page (6435)
10:17
1842 May V[ictoria] P. M[osby], [sister
of John Singleton Mosby] to Miss Henrianne Cabell [Early]
(1822-1890), writes that she did not make it to Betty Brown's
wedding, has not had Add [Callaway?] to see her yet although she
invited many from the family to meet her, mentions other socials
engagements and begs her to come and visit with her,
10:18
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1842 February 22 V[ictoria] P. M[osby],
[sister of John Singleton Mosby] to Mrs. Sally M. Ward, mentions Mr.
Friend's wedding, Betty Brown's engagement might be broken off,
Rosalie Pollard is quite the belle in Richmond, Mrs. Henderson is
well received in society in Richmond, Robert Brown is to marry one
of the Miss Callaways, either Elvira or Sarah, her happiness at
having Add and Carrington Callaway as neighbors soon, busy reading
Charles Dickens,
10:19
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1906 May 15 Fridtjof Nansen
(1861-1930) to Mr. Fraser, thanks him for sending the
manuscript for him to see and correct, saying "Your description of
myself made me blush you have to take that on your own
responsibility." 1 page (6435-w)
10:20
1898 February 20 Fridtjof Nansen
(1861-1930) to Major James Burton Pond (1838-1903),
thanks him for his kind letter and discusses his successful lecture
tour in England which surpassed his expectations, 2 pages on 1 l.
with envelope (6435-aj)
10:21
1823 April 23 Robert Nares
(1753-1829) to Thomas Cadell (1773-1836), the Younger,
with Cadell's reply, May 9, 1823, on the same leaf; refers to the
proofs wanted for the completion of Macklin's Bible that he sent to
Cadell about a month ago, wanting renewed advertising of his remarks
on the improved version, and remarking on the current hard times for
clergy; Cadell assures Nares that he has received the proofs, has
placed advertising in several papers, and will attempt to sell the
remaining 508 copies through booksellers by trade sale; 3 pages on 1
l., with an engraving of Nares (6435-a)
10:22
1939 April 30 Allan Nevins
(1890-1971) to H.T. Newcomb, writes that John Reed's
disillusionment with the Russian revolution and communism prior to
his death is well established and thanks Newcomb for bringing Mr.
Rubin's book to his attention, 1 typewritten page
(6435-av)
10:23
1802 March 13 John Nicholas
(1761-1819) to James Rees, approves his arrangements for a
house, but chiefly concerns a "mill scheme" involving the damming of
a lake at Geneva, New York,
10:24
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-aj)
1903 March 7 Yone Noguchi
(1875-1947) to Madison Cawein (1865-1914) writes about
a time when he was staying with Joaquin Miller on his glorious
California hill and after supper a guitar was produced and Noguchi
read from Cawein's book of poetry as they wandered under the stars.
Currently he is wandering in England. Noguchi also expresses his
happiness that Cawein liked his pamphlet and that his own new book
of poems is coming out in ten days.
10:25
3 pages on 2 l. (6435)
1886 July 28 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to Mrs. Bond, arranges for her to make more
copies of letters for him, 1 page (6435)
10:26
1887 December 10 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to Charles H. Brooks, informs him that he knows
nothing of Henry D. Norton,
10:27
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1887 May 21 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to Mrs. Dickinson, sends her his autograph as an
expression of his sympathy and good will,
10:28
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1881 July 20 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to "Dear Miss Emerson" sends a letter of
introduction for Edwin D. Mead, author of a book on the philosophy
of Carlyle, who wishes to meet her father,
10:29
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1887 June 30 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to Dana Estes (1840-1909?), publisher,
thanks him for the return of Fletcher's letter about an
archaeological case in Cotrone, Italy, Calabria region, about which
he states, "The circumstances of the case were not exactly such as
Mr. Fletcher supposes. Whether Baron Berlingieri's and Mr. Clarke's
procedures at Cotrone were contrary to the laws valid in Calabria
is, I believe, to be determined by judicial investigation and
decision." He also wishes him success in finding the results of the
excavations of the Etruscan tombs, 3 pages on 1 l. Norton was the
first president of The Archaeological Institute of America, 1879-90.
(6435)
10:30
1900 November 10 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to Mr. Hart, thanks him for the copy of his paper
on the past twenty years of the life of their college
[Harvard],
10:31
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1866 May 23 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to C[harles] C[reighton] Hazewell
(1814-1883), asks him to write a critical notice of Mr.
Towles's Henry V for the North American Review, 1 page
(6435)
10:32
1864 December 10 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to Oliver Johnson (1809-1889), encloses
payment for a subscription to The Antislavery
Standard for L.A.O. of Martinsville Ohio, who has an
extract of their letter in the current number of the
paper,
10:33
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
187[9?] February 26 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to the Reverend Dr. [Andrew Preston?] Peabody
(1811-1893), furnishes a reference for Miss Allatt as a
French teacher,
10:34
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1907 March 14 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to Mrs. C.B. Perkins, accepts her apologies for
the misadventure with the portfolio and absolves her of blame, 1
page (6435)
10:35
1897 January 11 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to Miss Minna Smith, writes that he is sorry to
hear of her illness and hopes to have a visit from her soon, 1 page
(6435)
10:36
1902 May 20 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to the Honorable Winslow Warren
(1838-1930), thanks him for the copy of his review of
Governor Taft's evidence, saying "What a national blessing a little
financial calamity would be!"
10:37
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1867 August 3 Charles Eliot Norton
(1827-1908) to "My dear Sir," thanks him for his "able and
interesting paper on George III" for The
North American Review and engages him for additional
work, 1 page (6435)
10:38
1803, 1805 John Page (1744-1808),
Governor of Virginia, signature on four land grants to James Gray,
Joseph Nichols, John London, and Pleasant Story, assignee of John
London, all on vellum with seals, oversize (6435)
1902 October 19 Walter Hines Page
(1855-1918) to Hollis [?], writes about the desire of his
son, Ralph W. Page, to be an engineer and asks for his advice on how
his son should prepare for that career,
10:39
6 pages on 2 l. (6435-ax)
1882 April 22 Sir James Paget,
(1814-1899) to "Dear Mr. Hill," chooses the date of June
13th [for his talk?] 1 page
(6435-a)
10:40
1863 January 19 Coventry Kersey Dighton
Patmore (1823-1896) to Louis Dickinson, declines his
invitation to his Saturday evening events because he rarely goes out
since the death of his wife his is occupied entirely with the care
of his children in the evenings and is dull company as well, 2 pages
on 1 l., on mourning stationery (6435-a)
10:41
1904 January 13 Andrew Henry Patterson
(1870-1928), University of Georgia, to [William Lloyd]
Garrison (1838-1909), apologizes for the long delay in
answering his letter; thanks him for the copy of The World's Work; discusses in great
detail and at length his views of the various classes of the "Negro
race" in the South; disagrees with him that a "resident white
Southerner in good standing cannot do work with and among Negroes
without exciting suspicion and losing caste" citing the examples of
William A. Blair and Henry E. Fries at the Slater School with
Professor Atkins, Salem, North Carolina; expresses surprise at his
statement that it was not wrong for slaves to steal from their
masters; addresses Garrison's opinion that Southerners treated aged
ex-slaves kindly only out of a troubled conscience; expresses a
paternalistic attitude "The feeling of the better class of Southern
whites for the Negroes is much the feeling of older persons for
children, and our feeling toward the rising generation of Negroes is
much the same as that of older persons toward [pert?], disagreeable,
spoiled children"; he also tackles the topics of servant's wages,
rape of black or mulatto women, justice in the courtroom, and his
belief that Negroes are "members of a race without a past, with
little hope of a future, - a race dwelling on the very edge of the
evolutionary stream of the world's history."
10:42
10 pages on 5 l. (6435)
1934 March 31 Governor George C. Peery
(1873-1952) to M.E. Gilfond, encloses a letter to Congressman
Sol Bloom at his request (not present), 1 page (6435)
10:43
1804 February 24 Bishop Thomas Percy
(1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, to the Reverend John
Blakeway, apologizes for the delay in answering his letter due to an
eye complaint; writes that they are in a part of Ireland hopefully
not likely to be the first scene of the French Invasion [by
Napoleon] and is within a few miles of three seaports all pointing
to Scotland or England, if he should land as he did in
1798,
10:44
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1903 April 21 Bliss Perry
(1860-1954) to Mrs. Charles E. St. John, declines her
invitation to the luncheon of the Smith College Alumnae due to a
prior engagement, 1 typewritten page (6435-az)
10:45
n.d. Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
to [Edwin Percy] Whipple (1819-1886), returns the Macaulay
item with thanks, resisting temptation, and cites the source for a
quotation that had eluded them earlier,
10:46
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1821 July 26 John Pickering
(1777-1846) to James Savage (1784-1873), sends
fourteen pages of the proposed Preface to Eliot's Grammar and plans
to send ten or twelve pages more on Monday containing "a little
investigation of the dialects spoken in New England" and makes arrangements for the remainder
of the printing work to be done on the new edition, [The Indian Grammar begun ; or, an Essay to bring
the Indian Language into Rules, for the help of such as desire
to learn the same, for the furtherance of the Gospel among
them. By John Eliot, Reprinted, with Notes and
Observations by John Pickering and Duponceau, in : Collections of
the Massachusetts Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. IX. dated
Boston, 1822, 8vo. Contains : Pp. 223 - 242, the Massachusetts
Language : Introductory Observations, by John Pickering ; dated
Salem, July, 1821. Pp. 243-312, reprint of Eliot's Grammar. Pp. (313
- 341) i - xxix, Notes and Observations on Eliot's Grammar.
Addressed to John Pickering, by Petee Duponceau. Pp. (342 - 36D) xxx
- xlviii, Supplementary Observations, by the Editor. Pp. (361-366),
xlix - liv, Index of Indian Words in Eliot's Grammar; including
Select Words from his Translation of the Bible.]
10:47
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1919 September 4 Gifford Pinchot
(1865-1946) to B.L. Young, sends a form letter to thank him
for being a member of the National Conservation Association for ten
years, 1 typewritten page (6435-av)
10:48
1798 May-June Receipts to John McLeod,
John L. Taylor, and Caleb Swan for bateaus to Fort Washington on the
Ohio River, Cincinnati, and repairs and other work, from the United
States [Military?], Pittsburgh, 3 receipts (6435)
10:49
1837 November 27 James Madison Porter
(1793-1862), Secretary of War under President Tyler, to
George Pearson, Secretary of the Diagnothian Literary Society,
Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, Porter expresses his
sense of honor at being made a member of the Society, 1 page
(6435)
10:50
1890 December 20 J.W. Porter,
Charlottesville, Virginia, to W.P. St.John, has written Senators
Plumb, Allison, and Stewart, about his pleas for financial relief,
and discusses their concerns about the appreciated fluctuating
dollar and other economic woes, "American labor will surely revolt
before submitting to European conditions. Farmers are reduced now to
the verge of ruin, and vast numbers are already beggared by the
close competition of India [bonused] by the cheap silver we sell.
They are getting wild under the sense of injustice." He goes on to
add a lengthy postscript about the issue of gold and silver being
drained away to foreign lands.
10:51
3 pages on 2 l. (6435)
1839 June 13 Bryan Waller Proctor
[pseudonym Barry Cornwall] (1787-1874) to Mary Russell
Mitford (1787-1855), promises to send her some poetry for her
annual if he has any raw material to draw from but must first take
care of his legal business, and describes seeing Daniel Webster, "I
have just met (at Mr. Kenyon's) Daniel Webster, the famous American
orator. He has a broad, strongly-marked brow, with a dark, deep-set
eye that looks full of intelligence and vigor. I do not remember
ever to have encountered a man whose looks struck me so much. He is
a little cold in his manner (like most of his countrymen in
general), but it is not offensive. It is rather a grave
self-possession than superciliousness."
10:52
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1867 March 20 Alexander Williams Randall
(1819-1872), Postmaster General under President Johnson,
signature on appointment of Henry Massie as Deputy Postmaster of
Charlottesville, Virginia, 1 page (6435)
10:53
1787 June 18 Beverley Randolph
(1754-1797), Lt. Governor of Virginia, signature on land
grant to William May, Nelson County, Virginia, on vellum, oversize
(6435)
1803 February 23 Mutual Assurance Society
Insurance policy signed by Edmund Randolph for a house in Richmond,
Virginia (6435)
10:54
1819 December 29 [John Randolph of Roanoke]
to Mr. Skinner, requests that the unknown paper be bound from the
beginning and the numbers sent to him during the session of Congress
also; with a cut signature of T[homas] M[ann] Randolph glued to the
letter. Folder contains a note concerning a collector's confusion of
the two Randolphs and the pasting of this signature to the letter, 1
page, copy, original in Vault- John Randolph of Roanoke
(6435)
10:55
[n.y.] January 5 John Randolph to
Stephen Van Rensselear, asks him to dine with him next Tuesday when
he will also enjoy the company of [Harmanus] Bleecker, 1 page, copy,
original in Vault- John Randolph of Roanoke (6435)
10:56
1782 July 21 Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr.
(1741-1793) to Messrs. Cohen Isaacs & Co., Richmond,
Virginia, orders two pair of cotton cards, two of wool cards, two of
their largest sized India mats, two curry combs and six ounces of
alum, 1 page (6435)
10:57
1789 May 15 Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr.
(1741-1793) to "Dear Gentlemen" sends letter of introduction
for his son, Thomas, while in New York, 1 page (6435)
10:58
1791 September 29 Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr.
(1741-1793) to "Dear Sirs" discusses his plans for settling
his total debt with them,
10:59
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1817 October 26 Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.
(1768-1828) to Robert Brent, Paymaster General, U.S. Army,
informs him that he has not received pay, or drawn rations or forage
in kind from the United States since December 1, 1813, and seeks
military compensation, believing his last paymaster to have been
Colonel Fenwick in New York.
10:60
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1820 December 7 Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.
(1768-1828), Governor of Virginia, signature on land grant to
George Kailor, Rockingham County, Virginia, on vellum, oversize
(6435)
1823 December 15 Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr.
(1768-1828) to Henry Remsen (1762-1843), President
[Bank of the Manhattan Company?], shares his good news from the
Virginia Legislature about the University of Virginia which should
open next autumn and John Wickham's agreement to name appraisers for
his estate on the river below and that in Albemarle to include in
the mortgage. He also expresses "the very strong sentiment of
gratitude to you for this most important favor to my numerous and
excellent family of a wife, six daughters and five sons, which I
most sincerely and warmly feel and shall ever cherish in an honest
and constant heart. For myself I am altogether indifferent as to the
good or evil which may be in fate for me."
10:61
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.y. April 21 Charles Reade
(1814-1884) to Dear [Wilkie Collins?], writes that he is too
unsettled at present to make an appointment to see his
correspondent, 1 page (6435)
10:62
1863 January 6 Maurice Regan, 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Heavy
Artillery, at a camp near Fairfax Station, to Doctor Pennock, writes
Pennock that they still receive the Delaware County Republican, have a good general who "studies the comfort of his men," General [Thomas Leiper?] Kane, and have left a beautiful valley near the Potomac River, where they were told they would winter. He also describes their march from camp on the
Leesburg Pike, passing Hillsboro, Wheatland, and Leesburg, where all
the stores and shops were closed up with the people standing on the
street corners with long faces, and continuing on to Fairfax Court
House, where they camped and had prayers the next morning. Next the
troops experienced the discomfort of heavy rain while camping next
to Occoquan Creek and many threw away their wet woolen blankets and
clothing along the way. He also describes "this part of Virginia we
see nothing but sad desolation and destruction, nearly the whole of
Virginia lays in open commons from woods to woods we can seldom see
a fence all burnt by soldiers for whenever they halt for the night
they pitch in to the fences of there is any handy and in a few
minutes whole fields are laid open and before morning many a cord of
rails are burnt."
10:63
8 pages on 2 l. (6435)
1857 May 13 Anna Cora (Ogden) Mowatt
Ritchie (1819-1870) to "Mr. and Mrs. James Thomas Fields
(1816-1881), introduces and recommends her friend and acting
pupil, Miss Avonia Jones (1836-1867, married G.V. Brooke in
1863) who she believes will make a fine actress,
10:64
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1856 December 15 Anna Cora (Ogden) Mowatt
Ritchie (1819-1870) to "My dear Miss Pleasanton," fulfills
her promise of an autograph,
10:65
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.d. Anna Cora (Ogden) Mowatt Ritchie
(1819-1870) to "My own Darling" changes their arrangement to
visit due to changes in her own schedule and mentions the "toil of
posing" possibly for a portrait,
10:66
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
[1859 September 30?] Anna Cora (Ogden) Mowatt
Ritchie (1819-1870) signature at the end of a passage
presumably from a play, either called "Old Maid" or by a character
called "Old Maid" 1 page (6435)
10:67
1865 February 22 Alfred Rives
(1830-1903), Confederate War Department, Engineer Bureau, to
Socrates Maupin (1808-1871), University of Virginia, Chairman
of the Faculty, asks if the University has a good oxy-hydrogen
blowpipe and reflector that the Engineer Bureau might purchase or
borrow, 1 page (6435)
10:68
1892 May 2 Amelie Rives
(1863-1945) to Dr. Bleyer, invites him to lunch on the morrow
and promises to have his souvenir ready,
10:69
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-az)
1893 September 2 Amelie Rives
(1863-1945) to Dr. Bleyer, congratulates him on his good
fortune of late and thanks him for all his kindness,
10:70
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-l)
[1888?] February 1 Amelie Rives
(1863-1945) to W[illiam] T[homas] Moore (1832-1926),
discusses the sporting slang word "gee" and says an example of its
use in literature is "The Right Sort." 1 page (6435)
10:71
1889 February 21 Amelie Rives
(1863-1945) to Mr. Walsh, voices her concerns about errors in
the proofs for her book which must be corrected,
10:72
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1945, n.d. Amelie Rives
(1863-1945) Autograph and Quotation on a Note card, with a
news clipping of her obituary, 1945, 1 page (6435-bh)
10:73
1848 June 10 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Thomas Aspinwall (1786-1876), Consul of
the United States at London, sends a letter of introduction for John
Cowles, 1 page (6435)
10:74
1836 June 18 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to E.L. Burd, offers a letter of introduction to
Governor Cass, who will soon be appointed minister to
Paris,
10:75
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1836 September 14 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Churchill C. Cambreleng (1786-1862),
entrusts a letter to him for Captain Nicolson, believed to be
currently in New York, 1 page (6435)
10:76
1843 April 8 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs, Washington,
encloses a check for Thomas Sewall for forty dollars which he will
thank them to pay upon presentation and he will either place the
same amount with their correspondent in Richmond or meet any draft
that they may give upon him, 1 page (6435)
10:77
1844 September 17 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs, asks them to
remit to his son, F.R. Rives, in London one hundred pounds sterling
by the Boston & Liverpool Steamer,
10:77
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1845 April 23 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs, encloses a draft
on Alfred [F.?] Harris of Richmond for five hundred dollars, 1 page,
with separate franked letter sheet (6435)
10:77
n.d. William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to [Anna Payne] Cutts (1779-1832),
presents his compliments, accepts her invitation to the family
circle that evening, and sends a packet for Mrs. Madison, 1 page
(6435)
10:78
1849 September 26 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Mr. Davis, encloses both his dispatch and the
documents from the office of the Legation [to France] which Mr.
Aspinwall has promised to deliver to Davis, 1 page
(6435)
10:79
1866 February 5 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to [Philip Ricard] Fendall (1794-1868), in
1860 under direction of the Joint Committee of Congress, Fendall
began to edit, revise and index the James Madison correspondence;
Rives thanks Fendall for his incredible amount of work in helping
him prepare and correct his own work on Madison under his
supervision,
10:80
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1866 March 10 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to [Philip Ricard] Fendall (1794-1868),
informs Fendall that his publisher, Little, Brown and Co. of Boston,
should soon forward a copy of his second volume of History of The Life and Times of James
Madison, believing that "its appearance at this time,
when so many questions are of daily occurrence as to the
constitution as conceived by its founders, might be critically
useful." And he asks Fendall if he would write a notice of it for
The National Intelligencer or
some other journal to help its sales,
10:80
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1851 January 8 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Henry Stuart Foote (1804-1880), writes
Foote, head of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Senate,
urging a more adequate support of the central diplomatic missions in
Europe, and enclosing a copy of his letter to the Secretary of State
to that end, and expresses his appreciation for his efforts in
defense of the Union,
10:81
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1847 January 19 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Joseph Grinnell (1788-1885), sees the
need for better leadership for the nation but declines Grinnell's
suggestion of becoming a candidate for a seat in the House of
Representatives,
10:82
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1859 August 29 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Mr. [Henry O.] Houghton (1823-1895),
discusses changes that he wants in the headings of the chapters for
his book [History of The Life and Times of
James Madison], and asks when it will be ready for
publication, 1 page (6435)
10:83
1829 June 10 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Thomas W. Maury (d. 1842), notifies him that
Gilmer will deliver all the papers received from Mr. Nelson for his
signature and asks him to get Mr. Martin to add a memorandum
expressing his concurrence, 1 page (6435)
10:84
1831 December 20 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Lt. Paine, as minister to France, Rives
apologizes for missing his visit last Wednesday evening but plans on
being home tomorrow evening, 1 page (6435)
10:85
1842 August 1 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Miss Anna Payne (1819-1852), niece of
Dolley Madison, daughter of John C. Payne and Clara Wilcox, sends
his autograph on his letter to save her autograph album from further
desecration, 1 page (6435)
10:86
1883 June 4 William Cabell Rives
(1825-1889) to Mrs. William Barton Rogers [Emma Savage
Rogers], thanks her for her corrections, interesting references and
facts and the promise of further assistance, probably for his
"William Barton Rogers, LL. D. An address delivered before the
Society of the alumni of the University of Virginia, on commencement
day" June 27, 1883, especially his relationship to the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology,
10:87
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1883 September 6 William Cabell Rives
(1825-1889) to Mrs. William Barton Rogers [Emma Savage
Rogers], promises to send her six more copies of his address about
her husband, asks about the correct spelling of several names and
appreciates her corrections of error,
10:87
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1827 April 28 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to John Rutherfoord (1792-1866), agrees
with his opinion of the John Quincy Adams administration, "the
mischievous character of the present administration of our national
affairs, & of the necessity of recovering them from the
unskillful and corrupt hands, which at present, control them." He
also believes that only Andrew Jackson has enough popularity with
the people to challenge the influence of Adams and Henry Clay and be
elected president, probably only for a single term. Rives agrees
with Thomas Jefferson's sentiment that a president should only serve
for a single term due to the immense power given the presidency by
the Constitution. He sends him a copy of his "reply to the
gentleman, who spoiled both me and my proposition on the subject of
the appropriation for surveys" in the National Intelligencer.
10:88
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1858 November 4 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Theodore Sedgwick (1811-1859),
expresses his warmest thanks for his gifts of The Life of Governor Livingston and the number of
The Democratic Review containing
the biographical sketch of Mortimer Livingston which has greatly
enjoyed, 1 page (6435)
10:89
1842 December 22 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to John Canfield Spencer (1788-1855),
Secretary of War, agrees to Spencer's proposal to rent the house
recently occupied by Rives on the President's Square, 1 page
(6435)
10:90
1845 January 18 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868), University of Virginia Board of Visitors, to
Judge Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), agrees to allow
Tucker a protracted absence from the University if it is necessary,
1 page (6435)
10:91
1842 December 20 William Cabell Rives
(1793-1868) to Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844),
Secretary of the Navy, recommends the appointment of [V.?] C.
Saunders of Virginia to the Marine Corps, 1 page (6435)
10:92
1964 June 18 A. Willis Robertson to
Atcheson Hench (1891-1974), agrees to support legislation to
improve the security of the Appalachian Trail, and expresses delight
that Hench, at 72 years of age, still enjoys hiking through the
Shenandoah National Park on the Appalachian Trail, 1 typewritten
page, with envelope (6435-at)
10:93
1865 April 17 John M. Robinson, Military
Superintendant of Railroads, North Carolina, to Colonel W.G. Brent,
implores him to get the President and Superintendent of the North
Carolina Railroad to remove all the extra trains between Greensboro
and Jamestown to the company's shops where there is abundant track
room in order to clear the tracks, with a penciled note on the back
from P.G.T. Beauregard supporting this request, 1 page
(6435)
10:94
1851 October 27 William Barton Rogers
(1804-1882), University of Virginia, to "My dear [Judge
Luther Stearns?] Cushing (1803-1856)," thanks him for the
information about his pamphlet case, reveals that the number of
University matriculates has increased to 370 and may go over 400,
with his own lecture room being too crowded, hopes that his book
will be finished in two or three weeks, and expresses relief that
neither political party favors secession.
10:95
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.y. July 27 William Barton Rogers
(1804-1882) to Dr. Augustus Addison Gould (1805-1866),
plans on attending the Dublin meeting of the British Association and
asks if he wishes to send a few copies of his account of Bailey's
labors or any other scientific connections by him,
10:96
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1874 August [14?] William Barton Rogers
(1804-1882) to Professor Washington Caruthers Kerr
(1827-1885), thanks him for the geological map of North
Carolina which he sent and is especially pleased with his choice of
color tints; he also expresses his regret at missing their trip down
the river and the chance of a geological talk with him.
10:97
3 pages, on 1 l. (6435)
1879 January 11 William Barton Rogers
(1804-1882) to [Clarence King (1842-1901)?], agrees to
write a testimonial to send to the President for him, concerning the
directorship of the United States Geological Survey. He became the
first director from 1879-1881. 3 pages on 1 l., draft copy
only, accompanied by another different penciled draft along the same
lines,
10:98
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1876 February 2 William Barton Rogers
(1804-1882) to "My dear Miss Lowell," remembers making her
acquaintance as a "young student whose kind patience used to inspire
me in my "Lowell Lectures" and extends his sympathy and
congratulations in the new phase of life on which she is
entering.
10:99
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1838 April 3 William Barton Rogers
(1804-1882), University of Virginia, to Professor Henry D.
Rogers (1808-1866), expects to hear from him concerning the
affairs of Mr. Davis and wants Robert to send him some good
filtering paper by mail. 1 page (6435)
10:100
1875 August 10 William Barton Rogers
(1804-1882) to Professor [Sir Henry Enfield] Roscoe
(1833-1915), sends a letter of introduction for Henry M.
Howe, son of Dr. Samuel G. Howe of Boston, 1 page (6435)
10:101
1876 William Barton Rogers
(1804-1882) to Thomas G. Wales, describes the average
composition of kaolin, the Chinese name for porcelain earth, and how
it is produced in nature,
10:102
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1862 February 7 Alfred Roman
(1824-1892), Camp Benjamin, to Roy Mason Hooe, reports that,
in obedience to special instructions issued by Brigadier General
[Daniel] Ruggles, he closed the ambrotype establishment near the
railway station and an eating establishment near a grocery store,
visited and examined the New Orleans Barracks, and interviewed
Captain W. Mabry of the 16th Regiment
Louisiana Volunteers and Captain Brice of the Ordnance Department
concerning the number of men present and able to guard the powder
stores, powder mill, hospital (currently dilapidated and the
rendezvous for vagabonds), and ammunition at the barracks and
concludes that the number is woefully inadequate for safety or
security.
11:1
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1862 June 3 Thomas H. Rosser, Memphis,
telegram to General [Daniel?] Ruggles, Grenada [County],
Mississippi, telegraphs that General [John B.?] V[illepigue?]
(1830-1862) is still at Fort Pillow with a small force of
cavalry but no force here [Memphis?] because the troops passed down
the river to Vicksburg. The latest news from Junction was that no
enemy had crossed the Hatchie [River] up to twelve last evening. He
also does not believe he will be able to hold fifty men in arms
where he is, as the Home Battalion intends to remain here and will
not help to fight or defend. 1 page (6435)
11:2
1890 January 27 Thomas L. Rosser
(1836-1910) to John Chester Buttre (1821-1893), has
received the picture and the plate [for the engraving] but has not
paid anything to Mr. Shylock because he did no actual work except
introducing him to Buttre, 1 page (6435)
11:3
1888 July 31 Thomas L. Rosser
(1836-1910) to William Crane, New York, plans to send a list
of farms with prices after a careful examination and appraisement of
each farm to arrive at a fair price "to induce good people to come
and live amongst us." 1 page (6435)
11:4
1886 May 17 William Michael Rossetti
(1829-1919), London, to P.F. Alexander, Oxford, writes
concerning Alexander's Shelley subscription on a British postal card
(6435-a)
11:5
1861 June 5 Colonel Daniel Ruggles
(1810-1897), Invoice of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores,
Fredericksburg, Virginia, handed over to Captain W.L. Burton for
transportation to Captain E.P. Tayloe, King George Court House, 1
page (6435)
11:6
1966 March 3 Dean Rusk (1909-1994),
Secretary of State, to Atcheson Hench, thanks him for his telegram
of support following his appearance before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, 1 typewritten page, with envelope
(6435-at)
11:7
1863 July 8 Colonel Henry Rust, Jr.,
13th Maine Regiment, U.S.
Volunteers, to the 2nd Auditor of the
United States Treasury, transmits the "Quarterly Return of Deceased
Soldiers" (not present) for the quarter for his regiment, 1 page
(6435)
11:8
1912 April 26 Homer Saint-Gaudens
(1880-1958) to Charles Elmer Rice (1869?-?), Mount Union
College, Alliance, Ohio, agrees to do his best and has sent Rice's
letter home to remind him to take up [the speaking engagement?] upon
his return,
11:9
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1918 July 20 Charles Camille Saint-Saens
(1835-1921) to Monsieur [Deiranthon?], Clermont-Ferrand
writes concerning the terrible events at Clermont - [Reube?], 1
page, copy, original in Vault- Autograph File (6435-av)
11:10
1898 June 9 Charles Camille Saint-Saens
(1835-1921) to Mrs. Fulford, regrets that he cannot accept
her invitation, 2 pages on 1 l., copy, original in Vault- Autograph
File (6435-a)
11:11
n.y. August 6 John Singer Sargent
(1856-1925) to [Sir George Henschel], (1850-1934)
thanks him for his invitation, mentions Sir Arthur and Lady
Crosfield who are staying at Aviemore, Scotland, in case he should
wish to meet them while they are there, and sends his greetings to
Lady Henschel and his daughter, Georgina, 4 pages on 2 l., traced
copy of the original given by Hench to his brother, Philip Hench for
his collection (6435)
11:12
1834 April 6 C[atharine] M[aria] Sedgwick
(1789-1867) and her niece Kate Sedgwick with a postscript,
New York, to Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855), voices her
concern at news of her serious illness; appreciates the gift of a
bust of Mitford presented to them by one of her friends, Mr.
Westmacott; regrets the lack of culture in the United States, "We
are a nation of workers, and have not leisure or fortune for an
extended cultivation & patronage of the fine arts. We have no
society or association for artists."; mentions Leslie and his
decision to return to England, her acquaintance with [Washington?]
Irving, the English difficulty with American servants, American
artists, Alston and Cole, and seeing Fanny Kemble in New
York,
11:13
4 pages on 1 l., (6435-a)
1753-1778 Sermon Manuscripts, at
least one by the Rev. Timothy Alden, Sr. (1736-1828), of the
Congregationalist Church, Yarmouth, Barnstable County,
Massachusetts, installed in December 1769 and continuing until his
death in 1828; he also served the Second Congregational Society
originating in 1794, when the West Yarmouth, or "South Sea" portion
of the old parish, insisted upon having preaching there a part of
the time. Alden was born in Bridgewater, married to Sarah Weld of
Attleboro (d. 1796), and was a descendent of John Alden of Mayflower fame. One sermon has the
initials, "K.J." on the sermon and was preached at Mr. Hitchcock's,
a third sermon has no identification but was also preached at Mr.
Hitchcock's, as well as Mr. [Barnes?]. There are four sermons total,
48 pages, chiefly with New Testament texts (6435)
11:14
[1925 January 26] Dallas Lore Sharp
(1870-1929) Autograph in the return address portion of a
large envelope addressed to Professor James Southall Wilson,
University of Virginia (6435)
11:15
1863 June 8 Lt. J.J. Shedd Requisition
Form for lumber, nails, and quick lime for the hospital, Acquia
Creek, approved by Lt. Colonel Ambrose Thompson (6435)
11:16
1956 September 6 Christopher Short
(1913-1978) to "Dear Friends" [Mr. & Mrs. Atcheson
Hench], announces the birth of Marguerite Grace, sister of Camilla
Jane, in London, hopes that Jane and his book on English
architecture will be published in the Spring, and found his Chaucer
course [under Hench] helpful with his work on Gothic architecture, 1
typewritten page, with envelope, Ambrose Short calling card, and
publication notice from Chapman & Hall, London, for Christopher
Short's book, Dark Lantern, on March
8, 1962 (6435-ac)
11:17
1965 October 12 Christopher Short
(1913-1978) to Atcheson Hench, discusses his character,
Friedrich Georg, in The Black Room,
describes his work with his brother Ambrose in bringing over
American college freshmen for literary tours of Great Britain, and
catches up Hench on family news and information about his other
books, 1 typewritten page, written on the back of a publicity sheet
concerning The Black Room
(6435-ad)
11:18
1965-1966 Christopher Short
(1913-1978) to Atcheson Hench, with related materials,
concerning Boston University's attempt to secure his literary
papers, with a penciled note to Hench saying that he would like the
University of Virginia to have them but his agent would not let him
give them to anyone (November 17, 1965); Christmas card (December
1965); publicity sheet for The Black
Room (ca. 1965); inquiry about the possibility of
teaching at the University of Virginia, if only for a year,
enclosing a blurb about the Short family from Reader's Digest (May 10, 1966); a reply from Fredson
Bowers to Hench's inquiry, stating that George Garrett fulfills that
role for the University but suggesting he write George Mason College
(June 1, 1966); a reply from Robert C. Krug of George Mason
expressing interest in Short (August 17, 1966); and an electrostatic
copy of Hench's letter to Short summarizing his efforts on Short's
behalf and describing northern Virginia's amazing growth since World
War II (August 24, 1966), 7 items (6435-ae)
11:19
1926 Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Autograph, with a line of music from "Finlandia" copy, original in
Vault- Autograph File (6435-a)
11:20
1867 October 15 Walter William Skeat
(1835-1912), English philologist, to "Dear Sir," sends him an
extra copy of [Pierce the Ploughman's]
Crede (1867), appreciates his correspondent's notes on a
text that Skeat is working with, refers a comparison with the
Bodleian Manuscript Laud 581 in his work, and notes that his
glossary for Piers Plowman cannot be
published for two years,
11:21
8 pages on 2 l. (6435-a)
1811 May 17 Lt. Governor George William
Smith (1762-1811) signature on a land grant to John Preston,
Francis Preston, and John Brown, survivors of William Preston,
vellum, oversize (6435)
1879 September 3 William Henry Smith
(1825-1891) to Charles Dickens (1812-1870), has
extracted an account of "Greenlands" from The
History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough by
Thomas Langley (1797) for Dickens, saying "The house has been almost
entirely rebuilt since that date and the fortifications have
entirely disappeared but the beauty of the situation remains." He is
willing to allow any representative or friend of Dickens to walk
through the house but only if his privacy is maintained and no
personal references to his life at home are published, as he has
already declined Mr. Yates offer "to describe Mr. Smith at
home."
11:22
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1952 November 16 Stephen Spender
(1909-1995), English poet, to Herbert W[illiam] K[eith]
Fitzroy (1903-?), feels honored by his invitation to come to the
University of Virginia, but regrets that he cannot accept it because
of a previous commitment to give some lectures in Brazil; and
relates his plans for the next year, lecturing as the Elliston
Lecturer at the University of Cincinnati (February 1-June 1, 1953),
School of Writing, Summer Course at the University of Indiana (June
20-July 30, 1953) and going to India in October 1953 for the British
Council for a few weeks (typescript copy, 1 page). Fitzroy's
responds with an invitation to visit him in Richmond during his time
in the United States in 1953 to work out a possible time that he
might spend a term at one or more of Virginia's educational
institutions, December 18, 1952, also a typescript copy, 1 page,
forwarded with a note from his secretary, Mary M. Bell, to Atcheson
Hench, December 18, 1952. Also present is a news clipping about
Spender's stint as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia
during the spring semester 1962 (6435-a)
11:23
1839 November 6 Edward Stanly
(1810-1872) to Henry A. Wise (1806-1876), writes
concerning his being challenged to duel in Norfolk on Saturday the
9th against an opponent who is "in
the hands of enemies" and the arrangements that have been made so
far and feels "that I can perform my part tolerably well for a
beginner."
11:24
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1878 November 25 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to Mary Louise Booth (1831-1889), editor
of Harper's Bazaar, asks if she will
consider the work of Evelyn [Tomlinson?] for her magazine, both
sides of a note card (6435)
11:25
1893 January 22 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to General Louis Palma di Cesnola
(1832-1904), director of the Metropolitan Museum, card of
introduction for Miss Mary E. Bart, Vice-Chairman of the
Archaeological Committee of the World's Fair Auxiliary, both sides
of a note card (6435)
11:26
1890 June 28 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to Dr. Thomas Dunn English (1819-1902),
informs him that he is represented in the Library of American Literature with his poem, "Ballad
of the Colors" (Mistress Ellen M. Hutchinson's choice), and agrees
with him about the contents of their volumes but "we are not
representing American literature as it should be, but as it has been."
11:27
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1891 January 6 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to Harrison Grey Fiske (1861-1942), thanks
him for the cards, both sides of a note card (6435)
11:28
1881 April 24 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to Mrs. [Mary Middleton Michel] Hayne, thanks her
for the copy of her husband's book [The Poems
of Frank O. Ticknor] on the life and work of Ticknor,
who Stedman likens to the Hartford poet, [Henry Howard? ] Brownell.
4 pages on 1 l., with typed transcript (6435)
11:29
1875 November 14 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886), has
not forgotten his kind and cheering words about his successive
essays [in Scribner's Monthly] and
plans to mail a copy of the resultant work, [Victorian Poets] to him if he promises to feel no
obligation to review it for the newspapers. He is also pleased at
the response to Hayne's latest work. 3 pages on 1 l., with typed
transcript (6435)
11:30
1878 October 2 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886),
regrets that Dudley Buck has returned Hayne's poem "Lyrical Idyll"
refusing to write an air for it. Buck also offers the excuse of his
efforts on a new work "Scenes from the Golden Legend of Longfellow"
for solos, chorus, and orchestra, at least until May.
11:31
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1873 December 23 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to [James R.] Osgood and Company, discusses his
difficulties in getting the correct number of copies of his books,
Cameos Selected from the Works of Walter
Savage Landor by E.C. Stedman and T.B. Aldrich; with an
introduction and The Poetical Works of Edmund
Clarence Stedman,
11:32
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1879 April 13 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to Karl Knortz (1841-1918), writes "we
really have a dearth of young poets - except such as you will find
in the versed ed. Of Griswold's
"Poets of America" & Female Poets of America" - brought down by
Stoddard to a recent date - and such as you will learn of through
their contributions to the leading
magazines." Both sides of a note card (6435)
11:33
1894 January 18 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to Mrs. Putnam, declines her invitation, as he is
avoiding going out due to his health, both sides of a note card
(6435)
11:34
1888 December 5 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to [William Henry] Rideing (1853-1919),
promises to send him an impression of the engraving Harpers published in Lathrop's article
on New York literary life and "this one if far handsomer than any Stedman ever was -
romantically flattering, & calculated to make Mrs. Rideing
pronounce me a humbug if I ever have the luck to call upon you."
Both sides of a note card (6435)
11:35
1895 October 20 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to [William Henry] Rideing (1853-1919),
apologizes for his delay in responding to his card, having only last
night completed his labors on two works over a period of two
years.
11:35
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.d. Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to [William Henry] Rideing (1853-1919),
writes that the exhibition of Brown's paintings has officially
closed but after telephoning the Century Club, the steward says he
will let Rideing see the paintings if he arrives early on Monday
morning,
11:35
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
187[8] March 13 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909),
helps arrange a meeting between Stoddard and Messers. Smith and
Holland for work on four or five South Sea sketches in his best
manner as good as The Prodigal in
Tahiti of not less than six pages each, and tells him to
"please offer H. his choice of subjects, western or European, try to please him in your interview,
2 pages on a memorandum form. (6435)
11:36
1897 December 10 Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908) to Mr. Tapley, declines his invitation due to his
health which allows him to attend only day affairs,
11:37
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1780 November 11 Archibald Steel Receipt from
John Gibson, [merchant?] at Fort Pitt, 15,000 pounds Pennsylvania
currency in Congress money for one pre-emption right for 1,000 acres
of land, lying in the county of Youghiogheny, Pennsylvania, 1 page
(6435-n)
11:38
1873 February 22 Alexander Hamilton Stephens
(1812-1883) to Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886), wishes
he had seen him on his recent visit to Augusta as he had many
matters to talk over with him, 4 pages on 1 l., with handwritten
transcript (6435)
11:39
1881 October 22 Alexander Hamilton Stephens
(1812-1883) to Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886), thinks
his poem to President Arthur excellent in tone and language; does
not give much attention to spiritualism or animal magnetism, since
he cannot understand it; plans to asks the editor of The Democrat to republish his poem on
Garfield; and reports favorably on his recent health. 3 pages on 1
l., perhaps in a different hand than previous letter
(6435)
11:39
1912 May 8 Henry L. Stimson
(1867-1950) to the Reverend Paul R. Hickok, Washington, D.C.,
thanks him for his kind words about the memorial exercises for Major
Butt, 1 typewritten page (6435-av)
11:40
1885 December 17 Frank R. Stockton
(1834-1902) to Mrs. Dodge, [secretary to Amelie (Rives)
Troubetzkoy, (1863-1945)], sends by express samples of apples
from the Piedmont region, including yellow "Albemarle Pippins," red
"Winesaps," and "Lady Apples."
11:41
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1844 June 22 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to Robert B. Bagby, recommends that he settle his
claim on John W. Brockenbrough (who denies responsibility entirely)
through arbitration, suggests some names for the arbitrator and
offers his services for either arbitration or a lawsuit,
11:42
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1852 January 29 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to Lewis Jacob Cist (1818-1885), agrees to
comply with his unnamed request, 1 page (6435)
11:43
1868 August 12 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to Henry R. Howland, confirms the dates of his
own political service, 1 page (6435)
11:44
1873 September 3 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to John Neafie, furnishes the dates of his
political service, 1 page (6435)
11:45
1869 May 20 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to M.D. Phillips, lists ex-Governors of Virginia
still living and their place of residence,
11:46
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1852 February 19 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to John B. Pollock, agrees to comply with his
request, 1 page (6435)
11:47
1886 November 25 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to Charles E. Rice, has finally received his note
and enclosures and hastens to comply with his request, 1 page
(6435)
11:48
1886 March 13 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to the Reverend Dr. E.F. Strickland, lists many
of the men that he knew from the political sphere of over fifty
years ago and shares his memories of Thomas Jefferson staying with
his father for a few days in 1818 and dining with his parents at
Monticello in 1823,
11:49
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1887 March 17 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to Harry P. Waitnight, sends an envelope with the
signature of President Millard Fillmore to satisfy his request for a
letter of Fillmore, none of which seemed appropriate to give away, 1
page on 1 l. (6435)
11:50
1853 October 22 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to Messrs. William M. Morrison & Company,
writes concerning a book order, 1 page (6435)
11:51
1854 August 17 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) to Messrs. William M. Morrison & Company,
writes concerning a book order, 1 page (6435)
11:51
1852 April 28 Alexander H.H. Stuart
(1807-1891) signature on a Department of the Interior form
for an invalid pension for Joseph Clark, an ensign in Captain
Schuyler's Company of the New York Militia, 1 page
(6435)
11:52
1900 April 18 John Bannister Tabb
(1845-1909) to John Lane (1854-1925), hopes Lane has
something to publish for his friend Dr. Thomas R. Price, asks if
there is a chance of him getting Tabb's Child
Verse as well as the other books, as he may have
something along the same line to offer him for England if this war [Second Boer
War?] ever ends, 2 pages on 1 l., with a news clipping concerning
Tabb, August 27, 1946 (6435)
11:53
1832 January 27 John Taliaferro
(1768-1852) to T[ristam] Burges (1770-1853), member of
Congress from Rhode Island, informs him in a very picturesque and
fanciful manner that the weather has prevented him from coming to
see him in person in Washington and asks him to explain the
principles of the case of the claims commutation of Edmond Brooke to
Chairman [Henry Augustus Philip?] Muhlenberg of the Committee in
Congress, that reported on it unfavorably, and to Mr. Foote of the
Senate,
11:54
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1825 July 7 Littleton Waller Tazewell
(1774-1860) to "Dear Sir," asks for the amount of the check
prefixed to be credited to the account of John N. Tazewell, 1 page
(6435)
11:55
1829 January 9 Littleton Waller Tazewell
(1774-1860) to "Dear Sir," apologizes for his delay in
response to his request but promises to provide him with autographs
as soon as he returns home from Congress, 1 page (6435)
11:55
1862 February 1 Dr. James H. Thompson,
Steamship Constitution, Surgeon
12th Regiment, Maine Volunteers,
to Dr. Gilman Kimball, General Hospital Surgeon, "Camp Chase,"
Lowell, Massachusetts, reports on measles and pneumonia cases and
medicinal needs,
11:56
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1870 March 22 John Reuben Thompson
(1823-1873), The Evening Post,
to "My dear Johnson" [Benjamin Johnson Barbour (1821-1894)],
asks if he has received any of the materials listed that he has sent
him, mentions "a row in the office of The
Evening Post and Gaudette and [Augustus] Maverick
(1830-?) have resigned. Gaudette goes to Philadelphia in April. This
breaks up the establishment at 250 State Street." He also notes that
Maverick plans to sail for Europe in May, perhaps visiting him at
Barboursville, Virginia beforehand.
11:57
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-r)
1860 December 15 John Reuben Thompson
(1823-1873) to Charles Edward Bennett, sends his autograph, 1
page (6435)
11:58
1850 August 11 John Reuben Thompson
(1823-1873) to Miss Anna C. Lynch [Botta] (1815-1891),
sends her a package of the numbers of The
Southern Literary Messenger for 1850 and welcomes any
contribution that she could make to the magazine; page two contains
a "Sonnet to Miss Anna C. Lynch" by Thompson,
11:59
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1855 December 5 John Reuben Thompson
(1823-1873) to Joseph Ripley Chandler (1792-1880),
asks if Chandler can lecture on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, the
18th and 20th, or even on the 13th,
1 page (6435)
11:60
1945 April 6-7 Randall Thompson
(1899-1984) to Boaz Pillar, sends his autograph and a quote
from Thomas Jefferson, 1 page, electrostatic copy of original in
Vault-Autograph File (6435-w)
11:61
1858 September 2 George Ticknor
(1791-1871) to "Mrs. Rogers" [Emma Savage Rogers], inquires
about the health of her father, James Savage (1784-1873) of
Boston, and offers assistance if there is anything they can do for
her,
11:62
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1920 May 5 George Macaulay Trevelyan
(1876-1962) to "Dear Sir," asks him to describe his proposal
and if he thinks he can do it, he will arrange a meeting, 1 page
(6435-av)
11:63
1874 June 12 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928), English historian and politician, to James Beal,
writes "I am glad to hear that the Electoral Reform Association is
moving in favor of a more just and effective representation of the
country" and that he will be too busy for public engagements during
the recess.
11:64
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1880 November 13 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928) to "Dear Brassey," asks if the family of a
certain young man at the Royal Naval Barracks is able to buy his
discharge from service,
11:65
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1893 January 7 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928) to "Dear Mrs. Stewart Brown," regrets that he is
unable to leave London and attend the meeting of the Women's Liberal
Federation before Parliament meets,
11:66
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1881 February 24 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928) to Mr. Heath, writes that according to Lord
Northbrook's chief secretary, the nominations have been made before
he received Heath's first letter,
11:67
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1895 February 13 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928) to Cyril N. Ir[?], considers his desire to join
the Royal Irish Constabulary,
11:68
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1889 February 20 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928) to "Dear [Leveson?-] Gower, expresses great
pleasure at meeting him for breakfast on [March] 2nd,
11:69
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1910 June 22 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928) to R [?] Lucas, answers questions about the Owl
[Club?] dinners and members, and says he has a volume of the Owls
since the beginning of 1866, when he joined them.
11:70
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1892 January 16 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928) to "Dear Mrs. Macgregor," writes that the press
of work prevents him from accepting her invitation,
11:71
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1890 November 8 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928) to "Dear Reid," is pleased to take the chair on
December 2nd for every reason,
includes a note on the back in another hand,
11:72
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1891 February 10 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928) to W[illiam] H[enry] Rideing (1853-1919),
appreciates his offer of sending copies of The North American Review,
11:73
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1908 February 26 Sir George Otto Trevelyan
(1838-1928) to "Dear [Scott?], writes that he is glad what he
wrote met the requirements and discusses several points of Trevelyan
genealogy,
11:74
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-av)
1869 April 2 Nicholas Philip Trist
(1800-1874) to Henry C. Carey (1793-1879), replies
that he is unable to attend Vespers because of continuing
illness,
11:75
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-s)
1832 November 13 Frances Trollope to Mary
Russell Mitford, thanks her for both her book and her letter, and
she has ordered the other four volumes of Our
Village sketches about which she says, "The work is
perfectly unique. I know nothing like it in any language, and it is
among the few to which one can turn again and again and again with
even new pleasure. The 'Farewell' is one of the sweetest bits of
writing that I know." Mrs. Bentley reports that Covent Garden is
beautiful and that the Kembles are doing wonders, with Charles being
rich at last. Macready is out of fashion and should have played in
her play "Rienzi." Trollope especially enjoyed the Bramshill scene,
"I would give a joint of my little finger to visit Bramshill
again."
11:76
4 pages, on 1 l. (6435-a)
[1893?] July 6 Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy
(1864-1936) to Mr. Knowles, writes concerning the painting of
[Prime Minister William] Gladstone's portrait,
11:77
2 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1945 December 4 Lt. General L[ucian] K[ing]
Truscott, Jr. (1895-1965) to Howes Norris, Jr., agrees to
furnish an autograph for his collection, 1 typewritten page
(6435-at)
11:78
1871 February 24 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871), essayist and critic, to Anne Charlotte (Lynch)
Botta (1815-1891), hopes this autograph (not present) of Mr.
Kennedy just received from Baltimore will serve her purpose, 1 page
(6435)
11:79
n.y. March 9 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Anne Charlotte (Lynch) Botta
(1815-1891), sends her a volume delayed in printing since the
first impression was exhausted, 1 page (6435)
11:79
n.y. May 3 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Anne Charlotte (Lynch) Botta
(1815-1891), agrees to meet her early next week and to look
over the sheets of her book concerning American literature, 1 page
(6435)
11:79
n.y. November [23] Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Anne Charlotte (Lynch) Botta
(1815-1891), promises to try to meet her for breakfast
tomorrow, 1 page (6435)
11:79
1863 December 24 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to [Francis James?] Child (1825-1896),
writes that his copy of the Gazette
has arrived, does not think he has anything that would answer for
the L.G., unless any of his addenda
to his books, literary & reviews, would answer, and is not
impressed with the first number of the "Round Table."
11:80
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1860 November 24 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to James Thomas Fields (1817-1881), asks
if it would be agreeable and convenient to publish a volume in the
spring, "this quite in your line & consists of papers which have
proved successful in periodicals & were originally written with
a view to collection." 1 page (6435)
11:81
1861 October 29 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to James Thomas Fields (1817-1881), sends
a poem for The Atlantic and asks for
a proof, 1 page (6435)
11:81
1860 August 24 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Josiah L. Hale, asks his help in locating
information about his grandfather's French claims or any agent
employed by the Washington Insurance Company, 1 page
(6435)
11:82
1864 April 22 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881),
complies with his request, 1 page (6435)
11:83
n.y. October 9 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Oscar T. Keeler, regrets he has no autographs
of [Lentze?], 1 page (6435)
11:84
1839 February 27 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Messrs. Lea & Blanchard, asks them to
answer by return mail the earliest day they will be able to put his
book to press, 1 page (6435)
11:85
1859 March 1 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Benson John Lossing (1813-1891), asks
questions concerning the Peale portrait of Washington at Arlington
House and would appreciate any corrections to his article "Original
Portraits of Washington." Putnam's
Monthly 6 (October 1855): 345-347.
11:86
3 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1859 September 21 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Benson John Lossing (1813-1891), asks
him to direct Joseph Harper to send the autograph copy of the Field Book to the Studio Building,
expresses his surprise and deep disappointment at Mr. Putnam's
decision not to publish his little books on Washington's character
and portraits, and asks Lossing to encourage Putnam to
reconsider,
11:86
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.d. Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Benson John Lossing (1813-1891),
informs him that [Lentze?] has agreed to meet with him at Lossing's
house and asks him to have any of his sketches on the Battle of
Monmouth or the Boston Tea Party on hand,
11:86
1 page (6435)
1870 April 6 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to George E. Patten, lists his most popular poem
descriptions of the seasons and where they were published including
A Sheaf of Verse Bound for the
Fair and Indian
Summer,
11:87
1 page (6435)
1851 December 9 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Anna Cora (Ogden) Mowatt Ritchie
(1819-1870), suspects Virginia Governor [John Buchanan
Floyd's?] ignorance of art based on his speech on the inauguration
of Houdon's statue, and his plan to have Randolph Rogers complete
the statues of Marshall, Nelson, Lewis and the allegorical figures,
on the equestrian statue of George Washington and Monument, Capitol
Grounds, begun by Thomas Crawford, designer of the complex and
sculptor of the figures of Washington, Jefferson, Henry and
Mason,
11:88
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.y. March 30 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908),
expresses his pleasure that he enjoyed his review of his Stedman's
book about Kinney,
11:89
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.y. December 24 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to S. Stevens, regrets that he was out when he
called but will make a list of the right people to apply
to,
11:90
1 page (6435)
1866 August 21 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Edwin Percy Whipple (1819-1886), asks
if he knows how a lecturer proceeds to find engagements, so he can
assist a friend,
11:91
1 page (6435)
1853 May 2 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867),
asks him to reconsider his policy change about not having literature
notices in the Home Journal except
for editorial ones,
11:92
4 pages on 1 l., with typed transcript (6435)
1842 November 2 Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to "My dear Sir," asks for a contribution to the
Boston Miscellany,
11:93
1 page (6435)
n.d. Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) to "My dear Sir," illegible draft,
11:93
1 page (6435)
n.d. Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) Poem "A Reminiscence" (6435)
11:94
1859, n.d. Henry Theodore Tuckerman
(1813-1871) Untitled Poems
11:95
1865 February 24 Martin Farquhar Tupper
(1810-1889) to Mr. Bennock, agrees to come and dine with the
feasting Judges and Sheriffs, calls himself a temperance man in all
things, and promises to send some reprints of colonial
editors,
11:96
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1856 November 11 Martin Farquhar Tupper
(1810-1889) to Henry Cole, declines to join the Association
and to accept the office of Treasurer,
11:97
1 page (6435-a)
n.y. April 23 Martin Farquhar Tupper
(1810-1889) to Miss Mayne, thanks her for her note and
specimen paper, "the name whereof and general appearance are all
that can be wished for." Tupper also warns her against disseminating
infidel and immoral periodicals in order to refute them, "when
The Reasoner has a circulation of
only 160 - you advertize him well, I fear, & why reveal to more
men the sneering Gibbonism of The Lancashire
Beacon?"
11:98
4 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1892 March 27 Lyon G. Tyler
(1853-1935) to Charles Elmer Rice, writes that he would be
happy to receive information about Nathaniel Tyler, a Lt. Colonel,
in the Revolution,
11:99
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1964 November 14 Margaret Hench Underwood
(1929-?) to her parents, Atcheson and Virginia Hench, describes the
Profiles in Courage television
program about Oscar Wilder Underwood, 1 typewritten page, with news
clipping about the show (6435-ap)
11:100
1921 January 20 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Emil P. Albrecht, writes that he does not
favor the proposed daylight savings bill,
11:101
1 typewritten page (6435-n)
1920 January 12 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Frederick L. Allen, although originally
standing for unconditional ratification of the treaty of peace, he
now believes "we should make a compromise and join in the peace of
the world at an early date,"
11:102
1 typewritten page (6435-ak)
1910 February 14 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Court of Customs Appeals, Washington, D.C.,
recommends Thomas H. Clark of Alabama for Clerk of their
court,
11:103
1 typewritten page (6435-ak)
1911 October 29 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Charles A. Edwards, informs him that he does
not intend on presenting himself as a Presidential candidate for
next year,
11:104
1 typewritten page (6435-l)
1911 November 10 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Charles A. Edwards, says that an effort to
organize a publicity bureau on his behalf in Washington would be an
embarrassment,
11:104
1 typewritten page (6435-l)
1911 December 18 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Charles A. Edwards, agrees to assist him in
finding employment,
11:104
1 typewritten page (6435-l)
1909 February 9 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Jules Guthridge, sends his
autograph,
11:105
1 typewritten page (6435-ak)
1925 November 27 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to S. Hollister Jackson, American Granite
Association, regrets he cannot accept his kind
invitation,
11:106
1 typewritten page (6435-ak)
1910 March 8 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to E.D. Lee, promises to support the bill to
allow the telepost company to erect its plant in the District of
Columbia,
11:107
1 typewritten page (6435-ak)
1921 October 21 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Waldo C. Moore, The Peoples Banking Company,
Lewisburg, Ohio, reluctantly complies with his request for a check
for one cent to be used as an exhibit at the convention of the Ohio
Bankers Association,
11:108
1 typewritten page (6435-l)
1923 December 15 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to H.C. Newcomb, thanks him for sending the news
article from The New York Times
concerning the two-thirds rule in the national Democratic
conventions,
11:109
1 typewritten page (6435-av)
1921 November 26 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Richard V. Oulahan, thanks him for the kindly
words written about himself in Oulahan's article in Current History,
11:110
1 typewritten page (6435-ak)
1914 April 13 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Miss Elizabeth Patten, thanks her for her
letter of congratulations upon his victory in the senatorial primary
election in Alabama,
11:111
1 typewritten page (6435-ak)
1922 June 17 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to C.M. Sheridan, declines to send him his
favorite cooking recipe as he has none,
11:112
1 typewritten page (6435-l)
1925 June 3 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to "Dear Claude" [Swanson?], agrees to vote for
Ed Halsey to succeed Mr. Keller,
11:113
1 typewritten page (6435-ak)
1922 June 20 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) to Everett P. Wheeler (1840-1925),
believes the Republican Party is mistaken in attempting to pass the
highest tariff bill they have ever proposed,
11:114
1 typewritten page (6435-t)
1922 Oscar W. Underwood
(1862-1929) Correspondence with Warren G. Harding concerning
a proposed Supreme Court appointment for Underwood,
11:115
2 copies (6435-bg)
n.d. Dr. James Van Allen (1914-?)
Autograph on a cartoon about the Van Allen Belts
(6435-be)
12:1
1861 May 29 Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad Company Receipt (6435-bg)
12:2
1903 July 30 Cosima Wagner
(1837-1930), daughter of Franz Liszt, second wife of the
German composer, Richard Wagner, and director of the Bayreuth
Festival from 1883-1906, to [Dear Esteemed Sir?], thanks her
unknown gentleman correspondent for being of assistance to her son,
Siegfried, who regards him with the highest honor and
respect,
12:3
3 pages on 1 l., in German (6435-az)
1886 August 10 James A. Walker
(1832-1901), Wytheville, Virginia lawyer and former member of
the "Stonewall Brigade" during the Civil War, to W.P. Hopkins, sends
his photograph and furnishes some biographical information,
particularly about his Civil War service,
12:4
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1797 July 6 Elizabeth (Foote) Washington
(d. 1812), wife of Lund Washington (d. 1796), giving power of
attorney to her nephew, William Hayward Foote, witnessed by James A.
Sutton & Cleon Moore,
12:5
1 page (6435-w)
[1890 December] George Washington Estate -
two form letters on the stationery of Mitchell's Rare and Standard
Books, Broadway, New York, documenting the authenticity of two items
(not present) purchased by Mitchell's from a sale of relics formerly
belonging to the estate of George Washington and currently from the
estate of Mrs. Lorenzo Lewis and signed by the administrator of her
estate, H.L. D. Lewis. The sale was held at Messrs. Birch's of
Philadelphia in December 1890. These sale items include a release in
the handwriting of General Washington and a lease between Charles
West and General Washington, in his handwriting. 2 items, signed by
H.L.D. Lewis (6435)
12:6
1872 March 11 Edwin Percy Whipple
(1819-1886) to [Paul Hamilton] Hayne (1830-1886),
writes that he is very happy that Hayne will receive a highly
complimentary notice in the April number of The Atlantic for his latest volume of
poems,
12:7
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1880 March 28 Edwin Percy Whipple
(1819-1886) to "Dear Moore," discusses Sir William Jones
(1746-1794) and the concept of "Sovereign Law" as dominant
over thrones and kings, if used with discretion, mentions several
political examples, including the administration of Chatham [William
Pitt] dispensing with the revenue laws in opening the ports during a
scarcity of corn production as an example in Great Britain; the
current disagreement between William Evert Gladstone and Benjamin
Disraeli over getting England into complications with foreign
states; and the danger of using the concept to put down
insurrections anywhere in Europe following the defeat of
Napoleon,
12:8
4 pages on 1 l. (6435)
1846 July 16 Edwin Percy Whipple
(1819-1886) to Jeremiah [Verne?], furnishes the titles of his
lectures, "Wit and Humor" and "Authors in their Relations to
Life"
12:9
1 page (6435)
1853 June 8 Edwin Percy Whipple
(1819-1886) to "Dear Sir" believes he is to lecture in his
city during the next season at the Lyceum and is willing to talk to
his association if there is no rivalry between the two
groups,
12:10
1 page (6435)
1859 November 8 Edwin Percy Whipple
(1819-1886) to "Dear Sir" sends his travel plans,
12:11
1 page (6435)
1868 November 18 Edwin Percy Whipple
(1819-1886) signature endorsing a check drawn on the National
Bank of Boston from his publisher, Fields, Osgood & Co.,
endorsed check (6435-az)
12:12
1840 July 6 Thomas Willis White
(1788-1843), owner and publisher of the Southern Literary Messenger to Lewis
Jacob Cist (1818-1885), writes that he likes his writing very
much and that he has included lighter material in his magazine as he
has "empty heads as well as wise ones to deal with"
12:13
1 page (6435-a)
[1878] September 11 George John Whyte-Melville
to "My dear Chapman, [Frederic?] Chapman, of Chapman and Hall
publishers, discusses the terms for publication of Roy's Wife a novel published in two
volumes in 1878,
12:14
3 pages on 1 l. (6435-a)
1817 July 9 William Wilkins
(1779-1865), Bank of Pittsburgh, Secretary of War under
Tyler, to G.A. Werth, informs him that his wife and children are
well, will purchase a flat boat and will leave on Monday next, and
asks him to collect the enclosed bills for him,
12:15
1 page (6435)
[post 1846] Cornelia Grinnell Willis,
second wife of Nathaniel Parker Willis, to "General Morris" [George
Pope Morris?], sends a few bits for the Home
Journal as promised, and asks him to forward mail to
Willis in Toronto,
12:16
2 pages on 1 l. (6435)
n.y. October 10 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to Carey & Hart, Publishers, has sent them
the autograph to copy as requested,
12:17
1 page (6435)
n.d. Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to [M.J. Cohen?], regrets that he is unable to
dine with him due to a prior commitment,
12:18
2 pages on 1 l. with typed transcript copy (6435)
n.d. Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to Miss Derby, sends her a memento, a "thin
octavo" to read, of time spent pleasurably in her
company,
12:19
2 pages of penciled [draft] on 1 l. (6435)
n.d. Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to "Dear Mr. Harold," offers one of his brochures
about the men, improvements, etc. of Trenton, New
Jersey,
12:20
1 page (6435)
1847 December 1 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to A. Hart, sends his correspondence with Lindsay
& Blakiston who have refused to settle with him, forcing him to
turn it over to lawyers in Philadelphia to settle the
matter,
12:21
2 pages on 1 l., with typed transcript (6435)
1863 October 8 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to Ira F. Hart, declines his invitation to
lecture due the long journey involved, explaining his willingness to
lecture at Albany and Troy as due to the high price offered for each
lecture ($75.00) and both involving just a single trip,
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1851 January 17 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to Mr. Hirst, apologizes for the delay in his
response, and writes concerning the work of Mrs. Hirst, "I think
Mrs. Hirst a most remarkable inventor of plot, & with a kind of
talent that would do wonders in play-writing. Her language is still too youthfully
over-colored for the present taste of plain narrative. The stories I
send back to you are full of talent & promise & would sell anywhere, but better if trimmed & simplified in
the language only." He also explains the Home
Journal rule of publishing "no original matter which
should put us under any obligation ever of courtesy."
12:23
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1857 March 17 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to Mrs. Holland, promises to make mention of her
excellent plan in The Home
Journal,
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1861 November 19 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to "My dear Ida," expresses his thankfulness that
her father's health is improving, sends copy for the "Prospectus for
1862" for her to read to her father for his approval, and mentions
that Nellie and Imogen are currently in New York,
12:25
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n.d. Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to "Dear Morris" [George Pope Morris?], writes
that he has signed the paper and asks, "What does the "Gentlemen"
mean, put at the beginning of a letter from a friend, & "not
intended for publication?" presumably from one of their
authors,
12:26
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n.d. Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to Mr. Sprague, regrets that due to pressing
business, he feels unable to breakfast with him
tomorrow,
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n.y. September 19 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to "My dear Stoddard," promises to do what he
wishes although his hand is still so swollen "from my horse
throwing" that he is writing with a crippled fist, 1 page formerly
pasted on the flyleaf (now detached) of The
Poems, Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous of Nathaniel Parker
Willis (6435)
12:28
[1828?] February Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867), Boston, to Colonel John B. Van Schaick, Albany,
writes that he would have come to visit him in Albany, except that
the immediate publication of The
Legendary prevented him. The
Legendary was an early attempt to promote American
authors, edited by N.P. Willis and published by Samuel Goodrich,
only for one year.
12:29
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[1828?] April 13 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867), Boston, to Colonel John B. Van Schaick, Albany,
refers to Samuel Goodrich, discusses their romantic interests and
his own awkward correspondence with "Gulnare." He also mentions an
article that he expects from Van Schaick and a "Tale" from Mr.
Bloodgood, presumably for The
Legendary,
12:29
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1829 June 16 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867), Boston, to Colonel John B. Van Schaick, Albany,
plans to go to Nahant with Miss Shaw, the Booths, Coolidges, etc.
this afternoon, writes again about his problem with "Gulnare" who
complained that his letters were "saucy" and disrespectful, and
warns about associating with [Fred] Cobb,
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[1847?] February 3 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to Daniel Webster (1782-1852), invites him
to participate in writing for the political department of his new
magazine beginning publication in March, and has also invited Judge
Story and Mr. Everett, saying "We do not wish to bend ourselves
positively to any party, but the New England interest in politics is
the one nearest our hearts, and we should be pleased if our magazine
could be made an instrument to advocate & sustain
it."
12:30
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n.d. Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to "Dear Madam," verifies a story that she had
heard about a fifty-five year old woman living in England who was
convinced that Willis was the reincarnation of her betrothed killed
in battle in the Peninsula,
12:31
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1855 January 25 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to "My dear Sir," replies that he has not seen
the poem that he refers to in his letter, which possibly was opened
and the poem rejected by the town office,
12:32
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1856 June 3 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to "My old friend," thanks him for his praise and
the item sent to him for the magazine,
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1865 April 3 Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to "Sir," writes during a period of extreme
illness to assure him of his admiration for "The Lady Edith" which
he sent immediately to the printer for "copy"
12:32
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n.d. Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) to "Dear Sir," expresses his nervousness at
sending him his verses, as they were written while he was in college
and he has lately been working on his essays,
12:32
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n.d. Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) engravings and calling card (6435)
12:33
n.d. Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806-1867) autograph on a form letter from the Home Journal office, addressed to Edward
Welles (6435)
12:34
1941 August 18 Wendell L. Willkie
(1892-1944) to Charles A. Plumley (1875-1964), praises
his speech,
12:35
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1815 February 1 William Wirt
(1772-1834) to Robert Taylor (1763-1845),
congratulates him on his success in the appeal against Cole, with
the court reversing the decree of the chancellor,
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1814 September 16 William Wirt
(1772-1834), Camp Warrenigh Church, on the York River, to
[Colonel Commanding?], requests permission to move their encampment
from its present unhealthy position "to the field fronting above
Tyrees, lately occupied by the cavalry, we shall avoid the damp
& sickly ground on which our tents are now pitched, gain a firm
& dry hill side, enjoy better water & equal contiguity to
our training field." He also asks that their prolonges (a rope
having a hook at one end and a toggle at the other, used to draw a
gun carriage), be brought down from Richmond,
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n.d. William Wirt Notes said to be in
his hand,
12:38
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1815 August 7 William Woods, of Albemarle
County, Virginia, Autograph on Memorandum concerning pay due to
several companies of Virginia Militia composing a part of General
Robert Porterfield's Brigade stationed at Camp Holly near Richmond,
Virginia, which is four months in arrears; mentions a letter from
the district paymaster, Major Samuel Turner of Petersburg, dated in
April saying that he did not have sufficient funds to pay the
men.
12:39
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1815 September 15 Noah Worcester
(1758-1837) "Brighton's Apostle of Peace," one of the
founders of American pacifism, to Thomas Arnold, promises to direct
the publishers, Cummings and Hilliard, to forward 300 copies of the
second number of the pacifist journal The
Friend of Peace and encloses a copy of The Signal.
12:40
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1860 May 15 Thomas C. Wright, to "My
dear Kingsley," reports on the results of his inquiry about
histories concerning Trinity House, an association of English
mariners, discovering only one history, Memoir of the Original and Corporation of the Trinity House of
Deptford (1818) by Cotton, and a copy of the "Charter of
Incorporation given by James II" (1685) owned currently by Russell
Smith. Joseph Cotton was appointed Deputy Master of Trinity House in
1803.
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1860 September 18 Charlotte Mary Yonge
(1823-1901) to "Gentlemen," sends the corrected proofs of
"The Mice at Play" describing her ideas of the illustrations but
recommends that the designer consult either Knights Old England or The
Pictorial History of England for the costumes. 2
¼ pages on 1 l., with an undated clipping about Yonge
(6435-a)
12:42
n.y. January 5 Charlotte Mary Yonge
(1823-1901) to "Madam," writes on Monthly Packet stationery, "Your magician is very
amusing, and shall be inserted when there is room - which is I fear
the scarcest commodity in the Monthly
Packet - it is a capital story and I am only puzzled by
the names not being given to the police and so explaining
things."
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n.y. October [24?] Charlotte Mary Yonge
(1823-1901) to her cousin, "My dear Fanny" [F.W.W.], writes
for more sources of information about the prophecies of Mother
Shipton, [Ursula Southeil (c.1488-1561)], besides Chamber's
Book of Days, plans to dine at
Bishopstroke, Hampshire, to meet Sir Richard on Monday, with her
cousins suggestion to ask Uncle Roland about Mother Shipton on the
back of her letter.
12:44
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1829 October 23 Charles Mayne Young
(1777-1856), for a time England's leading tragedian, to Mary
Russell Mitford (1787-1855), who had written an original part
for him in her play Rienzi, urges her
to send him her manuscript [of a new play?] quickly, as "the
knowledge which I have more intimate possession of than any other
person, is the time requisite for me, in a new and important
character, and the apprehension that it may be as the last extended
time was a very long one."
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