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Edgar Saltus papers, 1884-1926

Title: Edgar Saltus papers 1884-1926

The Edgar Saltus papers contain writings, correspondence, and other materials documenting the life of American author Edgar Saltus. Writings consist chiefly of drafts for shorter works, such as poems, stories, and essays, but include drafts for the novels The Ghost Girl (1922) and The Paliser Case (1919) and other longer works. Correspondence consists of a small number of letters between Saltus and family members, publishers, editors, and other writers, most notably James Huneker and Richard Le Gallienne, and British actor H. B. Irving. Other materials include three scrapbooks containing clippings, with reviews and writings, printed ephemera, photographs, and correspondence relating to Saltus, his family, and third wife, author Marie Florence Giles.

ArchivalResource: 5.17 linear feet (11 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.saltus View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

General Literary Manuscripts collection, 1677-1969

Title: General Literary Manuscripts collection 1677-1969

The General Literary Manuscripts collection is an artificially created collection comprised chiefly of literary works and manuscript fragments of well-known writers and other public figures. The time covered is late 17th century to the first half of the 20th century.

ArchivalResource: 0.42 linear ft.; 1 legal-size document box

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Eliza Howe Evertson Saltus commonplace book, after 1826

Title: Eliza Howe Evertson Saltus commonplace book after 1826

This commonplace book was compiled by Eliza Howe Evertson Saltus in the mid-nineteenth century and passed on to her son Edgar Saltus. The volume contains clippings of poetry, short stories, news, and local events taken from various sources as well as handwritten notes and passages from various works such as Hamlet and the Bible.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (122 p.)

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0097_0065 View

Saltus, Edgar, 1855-1921. The gardens of Aphrodite [manuscript]t, 1920.

Title: The gardens of Aphrodite [manuscript]t, 1920.

A fragment of the typescript containing title page, copyright notice, and pages 70-79 renumbered 4-13 with autograph corrections and instructions to the printer.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647947656 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/catalog View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog View

Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Title: Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Correspondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1986 ADDITION: One letter from James Monroe and two from Theodore Roosevelt. 1987 ADDITION: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and photographs dealing with American and English literature, and American and French history during the era of the Revolutions. Included are letters from Erskine Caldwell, Will Durant, Howard Fast, Rachel Field, Emil Ludwig. Edwin Markham, Christopher Morley, and John Howard Payne; manuscripts of John Drinkwater, Felicia Hemans, Romain Rolland, Louis Untermeyer, and Tennessee Williams; and documents of James Duane, Joseph Hopkinson, and Sir Walter Scott. 1988 ADDITION: Correspondence and documents dealing with American and English history during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are letters from Dubo and Demante de Millot (about the French fleet in Haiti in 1780), U.S. Grant, Victor Hugo, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robespierre, W.H. Seward, and Daniel Waldo; and documents of the Sultan of Borneo and James Madison. There are also photographs taken by Lee David Hamilton of Central Park and of Polaris submarines. 1989 ADDITION: Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents on American history and literature, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. There are letters and some manuscripts to the editor of ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICAL VERSE and LYRA MYSTICA dating from the 1920s and the 1930s; letters and autographs of early 20th century Americans and New York and Connecticut colonial documents signed by Isaac Huntington, Jacob Remer, and Thomas Dongon. Also included are photographs of foreign travels in a Packard motorcar, 1903-1904, and a photographic travelogue (photographs taken by Henry C. Rem) of the first European motorcar tour by Americans in a Packard, 1907-1910. 1990 ADDITION: Documents dealing with finance and land sales in New York from 1789 to 1879. There are land deeds resulting from the dispersal of the assets of John Lamb at the end of the 1790s, mortgage bonds, insurance policies, and papers about the insurance claims of Ebenezer Stevens for shipping seized by France in 1808. There is also a letter in rebus form, written in 1734. 1992 ADDITION: Three letters from Richard Le Gallienne to Margot Holmes, his photograph signed and inscribed to her, and a Berenice Abbott photograph have been added. 1997 ADDITION: Naval commission of Richard Morice as Commander of H.M.S. Tarrier.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (5 boxes, several oversized items)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078402/ View

Saltus, Edgar, 1855-1921. Correspondence with H. L. Mencken, 1916.

Title: Correspondence with H. L. Mencken, 1916.

Favorable response to letter from Mencken soliciting support for Dreiser regarding The "Genius" controversy.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155893749 View

Saltus, Edgar, 1855-1921. Edgar Saltus letter to the American Press Co. [manuscript], no date

Title: Edgar Saltus letter to the American Press Co. [manuscript], no date

Saltus writes that his terms are $50 for 1000 words. It this is acceptable he will send the title, length and date of delivery.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/781300416 View

Saltus, Edgar, 1855-1921. Letter : to Constance Churton, 1910 September 16, [manuscript].

Title: Letter : to Constance Churton, 1910 September 16, [manuscript].

Saltus thanks Constance Churton for her kind words about his books and briefly discusses a charge of plagiarism levelled by a Mr. Hay.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3p. on 1l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647826968 View

Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

Title: Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 boxes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01442/catalog View

Saltus, Edgar, 1855-1921. The imperial orgy : an account of the Tsars from the first to the last : typescript, 1920.

Title: The imperial orgy : an account of the Tsars from the first to the last : typescript, 1920.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (196 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612865344 View

General Literary Manuscripts collection, 1677-1969.

Title: General Literary Manuscripts collection, 1677-1969.

The manuscripts in the General Literary Manuscripts collection represent a wide variety of American and English writers, as well as a range of written materials. Some items of note include a signed bank check from James Fenimore Cooper to "Daughters," some hand-written receipts with sealing wax of Sir Robert Howard dated 1677, several manuscripts by Christopher Darlington Morley, and an original 1940s radio script by Damon Runyon called, "That Ever-Loving Wife of Hymie's."

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700954760 View

Saltus, Edgar, 1855-1921. Letters to Arthur Brentano [manuscript] 1919-1920.

Title: Letters to Arthur Brentano [manuscript] 1919-1920.

Saltus writes to Brentano regarding the reprinting of several novels, particularly "Imperial Purple," "Story without a name," and "The imposter."

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647947653 View

Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949. Barrett assorted authors collection, 1814-1947

Title: Barrett assorted authors collection [manuscript] 1814-1947.

The collection contains manuscripts of The broken battalions by Paul Hamilton Hayne, The flower of Liberty by Oliver W. Holmes, and The need of two loaves by Nathaniel Parker Willis, as well as a printed pamphlet What Mr. Jenkins thinks by Heman Lincoln Wayland. Topics discussed in the authors' correspondence include personal finances, efforts to get published, lectures and public appearances, booksellers and selling, book reviews, book and autograph collecting, other writers, current writing, illnesses, regrets and acceptances and editing. There are brief comments on current events including the slave trade, the War of 1812, the Civil War and World War I. Correspondents are: James Truslow Adams, George Ade, Washington Allston, Leonard Bacon, Isaac Bailey, S. Baring-Gould, Albert Barnes, Theodric Romeyn Beck, Lyman Beecher, J.D. Bell, William Rose Benét, Robert Bonner, Henry Chandler Bowen, Louis Bromfield, James Brooks, George Washington Bungay, Thornton W. Burgess, John Burroughs, George Washington Cable, Henry Charles Carey, William Ellery Channing, William Ellery Channing, Francis James Child, George William Childs, Horace Porter, Alexander Robert Chisolm, William Conant Church, Edward Daniel Clarke, Richard Coe, Joseph Green Cogswell, Samuel Stillman Conant, Charles Taber Congdon, Martin Franklin Conway, Moncure Daniel Conway, Joseph Cook, David Goodman Croly, Jane Cunningham Croly, Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, George Ticknor Curtis, George William Curtis. Frederic Dannay, Francis W. Dawson, Joseph Delaplaine, Eugene Lemoine Didier, Mary Abigail Dodge, Ignatius Donnelly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Addis Emmet, Jeremiah Evarts, Edward Everett, T. Farre, Edward S. Farrow, C.C. Felton, John Fiske, Clyde Fitch, Peter Force, Hamlin Garland, Caroline Howard Gilman, Parke Godwin, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Asa Gray, Barry Gray, George Gray, Joel Tyler Headley, Robert Silliman Hillyer, Edward Howard House, Freeman Hurst, Burges Johnson, Thomas Wallace Knox, Melville de Lancey Landon, Fitzhugh Lee, Francis Lieber, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Benson Lossing, Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop, William McFee, Archibald MacLeish, Julia Marlowe, Samuel Merwin, Elias Nason, Scott Nearing, Bill Nye, Edgar Wilson, James Parton, James Kirke Paulding. Jonathan Cogswall Perkins, Bliss Perry, Morris Phillips, Wendell Phillips, Octavius Pickering, George Henry Preble, William Hickling Prescott, Agnes Repplier, Edgar Saltus, Carl Sandburg, Frederick Saunders, John Savage, Montgomery Schuyler, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Ernest Thompson Seton, Elizabeth M. Sewell, Lemuel Shattuck, George William Sheldon, Henry Augustus Shute, L.H. Sigourney, Upton Sinclair, Edward Spencer, Charles Sprague, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ann Sophia Stephens, M. Stillman, Jared Sparks, Richard Henry Stoddard, Wilkins Tannehill, Bayard Taylor, Marion Harland, Maurice Thompson, John Reuben Thompson, Benjamin W. Ticknor, George Ticknor, Theodore Tilton, George Francis Train, John Townsend Trowbridge, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Henry Van Dyke, Jeanette Walworth, Joseph Warren, Heman Lincoln Wayland. Noah Webster, R.A. West, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Marshall Pinckney Wilder, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and James Grant Wilson. Recipients includes William Johnson Bacon, Henry Carey Baird, James Nelson Barker, [Maxwell Struthers?] Burt, Henry Charles Carey, Carey & Hart, Eckstein Case, Salmon Portland Chase, William Pleater Davidge, Eugene Lemoine Didier, Charles Daniel Drake, John Wakefield Francis, Samuel Ward Francis, Nathan Hale, Joseph LeRoy Harrison, Abraham Hart, George Stillman Hillard, Isabella Batchelder James, Ralph Olmstead Keeler, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, F.W. McDonough, R. Shelton Mackenzie, North American Review, Horace Porter, Justus Starr Redfield, Matthew Hale Smith, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Richard Henry Stoddard, Theodore Tilton, Charles Burr Todd, and James Wolcott Wadsworth. The collection also contains portraits of John Esten Cooke, George William Curtis, Jeremiah Evarts, James Kirke Paulding, William H. Prescott, and Bayard Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 144 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647968743 View