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Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883,. Autograph letters signed and initialled from John Payne Collier to various people [manuscript], 1818-1882.

Title: Autograph letters signed and initialled from John Payne Collier to various people [manuscript], 1818-1882.

216 mostly autograph letters signed and initialed; also, newspaper clippings. Letters include references to various literary figures: several refer to E. Alleyn; (173) to Collier's copy of a masque with emendations in Chapman's hand; (26) to information about Churchyard; (32, 156) discuss his editions of Coleridge lectures; (127) to his having Drayton's copy of the Faerie Queene; (153) to [Forman's] diary describing Shakespearean performances; (34) to Greene's Menaphon; some to his work on John Bunyan; (126, 127) to a misplaced Southey manuscript. Shakespearean references include: authorship of Edward III; biographical information; facsimiles of plays; alleged forgeries; his house; his knowledge of law; monuments; portraits, and criticism. Scattered references to attacks on Collier occur in the Ebsworth letters and elsewhere; several concern the Perkins Folio; enclosed in (167) are copies of 16 title pages taken from the "corrected folio of 1632." Letters contain numerous references to his associations with the Camden Society, the Percy Society, and the Shakespeare Society. (216-223) are newspaper clippings, 1859-1860, discussing the authenticity of emendations in the Perkins Folio; with them is Collier's unpublished draft of his reply, March 25, 1860, to Sir Frederic Madden's letter in the Times.

ArchivalResource: 224 items.

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Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878,. Autograph letters signed from William Cullen Bryant to various people [manuscript], 1858-1867.

Title: Autograph letters signed from William Cullen Bryant to various people [manuscript], 1858-1867.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882,. Autograph letters signed from Ralph Waldo Emerson to various recipients [manuscript], 1845-1874.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Ralph Waldo Emerson to various recipients [manuscript], 1845-1874.

Recipients: [Delia Salter] Bacon, Thomas Carlyle, John [Call] Dalton, [Selina] Flower, Edward Fordham Flower, [Elizabeth Clementine Dodge] Kinney, Phillips, Sampson & Company, and Gulian C[rommelin] Verplanck. Also, the reply of Phillips, Sampson, & Co. to Emerson and a ticket to an Emerson lecture at Amherst, [March 19, 1879].

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Emerson, Ellen Tucker,. Autograph letter signed from Ellen T. Emerson, Concord, to [Selina] Flower [manuscript], 1873 September 19.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Ellen T. Emerson, Concord, to [Selina] Flower [manuscript], 1873 September 19.

Thanks Mrs. Flower for the visit by her and her father, Ralph Waldo Emerson, to Stratford-on-Avon and describes their homecoming reception.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Bacon, Delia Salter, 1811-1859. Papers of Delia Salter Bacon [manuscript], 1820-1952 (bulk 1827-1859).

Title: Papers of Delia Salter Bacon [manuscript], 1820-1952 (bulk 1827-1859).

Includes 312 autograph letters signed and initialed and one typed letter signed to and from Delia Bacon and others; 10 miscellaneous items including prospectuses of Delia Bacon, her The author's apology and claim, [1857?], an engraving of Leonard Bacon, a memorandum of an agreement between Delia Bacon and Samuel Coleman, an inventory of school items to be sold at a private sale in 1831 and payments to various people for sums due, and 3 newspaper clippings. Many of the later letters discuss Delia Bacon's research on the authorship of Shakespeare's works in England. Correspondents include: Mrs. Alice Bacon, Benjamin W. Bacon, David Bacon, George Blagden Bacon, Leonard Bacon, Leonard W. Bacon, Lucy Johnson Bacon, Theodore Bacon, George Bancroft, Sarah Cary Becker, Catherine E. Beecher, Francis Bennoch, James Buchanan, Charles Butler, Jane and Thomas Carlyle, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, Rufus Choate, Samuel Colman, J.P. Collier, Messrs. Dix and Edwards, Sir Henry Ellis, R.W. Emerson, Edward Everett, Eliza R. Farrar (Mrs. John Farrar), George Fayrer, C.C. Felton, Celina Flower, G.J. Granville, Mrs. W. Grote, Francis L. Hawks, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, Arthur Helps, Herriman and Brink, George S. Hillard, Marcus Hodges, R.M. Milnes (later Lord Houghton), J.B. Hume, M. Jones, Rose H. Lathrop, [J.?T.?] Lipscomb, George Littlewood, Sampson Low, Son & co., John Lord, E.B. Lytton (later Baron Lytton), James Martineau, Maria Mitchell, John Murray, Anthony Panizzi, J.W. Parker, Elizabeth Peabody, George Peabody, Alice Bacon Peck, Phillips, Sampson & co., George Palmer Putnam (editor of Putnam's magazine), Bernard and David Rice, Mr. and Mrs. George Ripley, Sarah S. Robbins, Benjamin Silliman, Augustus R. Sleet, Harriet B. Stowe, Thomas H. Taylor (editor of the Tribune), Jonathan M. Wainwright, Thomas S. Williams and Julia Bacon Woodruff.

ArchivalResource: 323 items.

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Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876,. Autograph letters signed from Charlotte Cushman to various recipients [manuscript], 1843-1875.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Charlotte Cushman to various recipients [manuscript], 1843-1875.

(8) includes her schedule for autumn, 1860; Henry VIII, her favorite play (see item 21) is also mentioned in (12), (30), and (31); Romeo and Juliet, in (33); Macbeth in (21) and (30). Many concern her platform readings.

ArchivalResource: 40 items.

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Emerson, Sarah Hopper, b. 1835,. Autograph letter signed from Sarah H. Emerson, Concord, to [Selina] Flower [manuscript], 1874 April 16.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Sarah H. Emerson, Concord, to [Selina] Flower [manuscript], 1874 April 16.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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