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Mary Freeman Crabbe diaries, 1890-1895

Title: Mary Freeman Crabbe diaries 1890-1895

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet

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Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918. Letter, 1900 Nov. 14, New York, N.Y., to Harold G. Rugg.

Title: Letter, 1900 Nov. 14, New York, N.Y., to Harold G. Rugg.

Notes that Edmund Campbell died in 1859; furnishes her autograph.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on fold. leaf. 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7035423 View

Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley, 1845-1924. Autographs collected and letters received by Lydia Avery Coonley Ward, 1705, 1785, 1848, 1861-1922 (bulk 1861-1922).

Title: Autographs collected and letters received by Lydia Avery Coonley Ward, 1705, 1785, 1848, 1861-1922 (bulk 1861-1922).

The letters consist primarily of social notes to Mrs. Ward from authors, some artists, and musicians. Some concern her work for the committees on literature for children, and children's day at the Chicago World's Fair. Susan B. Anthony, Hamlin Garland, George F. Root, and Jane Addams are mentioned. Letters, works in progress, philanthropies, and family news are common topics. The collection contains a facsimile of a 1705 September 14 letter from Isaac Newton to Dr. Sloane. Also, a manuscript of "The Tower of Flame" by Richard Watson Gilder is included, as are autographs and letters collected by Mrs. Coonley Ward.

ArchivalResource: 294 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647833840 View

Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893. Papers of Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith [manuscript], 1823-1894.

Title: Papers of Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith [manuscript], 1823-1894.

The papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, notebooks, and journals of Mrs. Smith, her husband, Seba Smith, and of their sons, Appleton Oaksmith, Sidney Oaksmith, Alvin Oaksmith and Edward Oaksmith. The literary papers include Seba Smith's column on Major Jack Downing and Solomon Swope, and reviews of his "New elements of geometry"; drafts and copies of numerous poems, short stories, essays and lectures by Mrs. Smith as well as manuscripts of her plays "Destiny," "Roman tribute," and "Old New York," sermons, 1877, from her pastorate of the Independent Church, Canastota, N.Y.; Edward Oaksmith's translations of Moliere's "Miser"; and manuscripts and clippings of poems and short stories by Seba, the sons and granddaughters. Letters and diaries discuss the publication of the Jack Downing letters and criticism of the geometry; Mrs. Smith's literary career and lecture tours; her efforts to vindicate Appleton from charges of slave trading brought by William H. Seward, Appleton's divorce from his first wife and the drowning of his four daughters in an 1879 North Carolina boating acident; the diplomatic careers of Appleton and Sidney in Nicaragua, Haiti, and Panama; Edward's religious meditations, conversion to Catholicism and Jesuit novitiate in France; Sidney's law practice and death at sea in 1869; and efforts of Mrs. Smith and her daughter-in-law Delfina Oaksmith to run boarding houses. Other topics inclue the "thermolume" cure, New England literary figures, current events, spiritualism, abolition, Mrs. Smith's interviews with Thurlow Weed and Andrew Johnson on behalf of Appleton, her campaign in behalf of a condemned woman, and her controversy with P. T. Barnum over unauthorized use of her name; and descriptions of life in Portland, Maine, New Mexico in 1885, and Lettsburg, Northumberland County, Va., 1884-1892. Of special interest is her eyewitness account of the 1863 New York City draft riot. The collection also contains a youthful diary, 1871-1873, of Elizabeth Oaksmith, photographs, and scrapbooks compiled by Augusta Oaksmith containing clippings re the family and their literary output. Correspondents include: Gales and Seaton, Washington, D.C., Lilly, Wait and Co., Boston, Mass., Benjamin Paul Akers, P. T. Barnum, Edward W. Bok, Elizabeth Bogart, Helen Stuart Campbell, George William Childs, Myron Helley Clark, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Daniel Clement Colesworthy, Auguste Comte, Augustus Whittemore Corliss, Samuel Eliot Coues, Thomas Amory Deblois, Caroline Amelia Smith DeWindt, Julia Deane Freeman, Hamilton Fish, Louis A. Godey, Horace Greeley, Rufus W. Griswold, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Frederic H. Hedge, Salley Helley, Sallie Hollis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Abraham Newkirk Littlejohn, Benson John Lossing, Lucretia Mott, Anna Cora Mowatt, C. A. Munson, David Dixon Porter, Epes Sargent, Mary Schoolcraft, Lydia Howard Sigourney, Frances Springer, Edmund C. Stedman, C. B. Stuart, Charles Swain, S. M. Ware, Sarah Helen Whitman. There are drafts of a letter to Daniel Webster and one to Dom Pedre de Alcantara.

ArchivalResource: 4000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647896546 View

Barrows family papers, 1861-1931.

Title: Barrows family papers, 1861-1931.

Letters and manuscripts of the Barrows family of New York.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00494/catalog View

Ingelow, Jean, 1820-1897. Letter, [1887?] Sept. 1 : to Thomas Niles.

Title: Letter, [1887?] Sept. 1 : to Thomas Niles.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 6 p. on 3 leaves ; 18 x 11 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24881011 View

Davidson, Thomas, 1840-1900. Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948 (inclusive), 1857-1902 (bulk).

Title: Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948 (inclusive), 1857-1902 (bulk).

Correspondence, lectures, articles, printed matter, clippings, and film relating to the career of Davidson who came to the U.S. in 1867 and was associated with the St. Louis and Concord schools of philosophy, the founding of the Fellowship of the New Life, and the establishment of the Breadwinners' College. From 1878 to 1884, he was in Italy studying the writings of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, about whom he published a study in 1882. The major portion of the papers is made up of correspondence, including letters from Henry Adams, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Stuart Mill, and Stephen Samuel Wise. Only a few pages of his diary of 1858 survive. Also with the papers is material from Edward Endelman, a student of Davidson's. Of particular interest is Endelman's correspondence about Davidson with William T. Harris, a Hegelian philosopher who had been a close friend of Davidson's. In addition, two reels of microfilm collected by John Roemischer which contain letters and articles by Davidson in other repositories have been added to the papers.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear ft. (35 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153412 View

Crabbe, Mary Freeman. Mary Freeman Crabbe diaries, 1890-1895.

Title: Mary Freeman Crabbe diaries, 1890-1895.

Diaries kept by Mary Freeman at the age of 15 and 16, 1890-1891, and as a college student at Stanford University, 1894-1895. The earlier volumes were written in Woodland, California, and record her daily life including school, social life, family matters, attending church, and a summer in Nevada (1891). These volumes also include various lists: parties attended, books read, and "miscellaneous" social events. Subjects from the Stanford volumes include dormitory life, her study habits, excursions to Palo Alto, eating and food parties in the dorm, social relations with male students, and lectures attended. Lecturers include David Starr Jordan, Benjamin Harrison, Harriet Hosmer, Helen Campbell, Walter Camp, and Susan B. Anthony. The journals for the summers of 1894 and 1895 were partially written during her stay at a ranch in Nevada.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702345602 View

Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948, 1857-1902

Title: Thomas Davidson papers 1857-1948 1857-1902

Correspondence, lectures, articles, printed matter, clippings, and film relating to the career of Davidson who came to the U.S. in 1867 and was associated with the St. Louis and Concord schools of philosophy, the founding of the Fellowship of the New Life, and the establishment of the Breadwinners' College. From 1878 to 1884, he was in Italy studying the writings of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, about whom he published a study in 1882. The major portion of the papers is made up of correspondence, including letters from Henry Adams, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Stuart Mill, and Stephen Samuel Wise. Only a few pages of his diary of 1858 survive. Also with the papers is material from Edward Endelman, a student of Davidson's. Of particular interest is Endelman's correspondence about Davidson with William T. Harris, a Hegelian philosopher who had been a close friend of Davidson's. In addition, two reels of microfilm collected by John Roemischer which contain letters and articles by Davidson in other repositories have been added to the papers.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (35 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0169 View

Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View

Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection

Title: Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection

Autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the materials were donated by Fred Rosenstock to Brigham Young University, but some were acquired from different sources. Many of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collins, Colorado. Contains autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collings Colorado. The materials are largely letters and autographs produced by prominent American and British authors, editors, politicians, and other important artistic and historical figures in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The items relating to the individual creators are being cataloged separately and will be available on the Brigham Young University cataloging data base. BYU special collections created this artificial collection placing the material in alphabetical order.

ArchivalResource: 40 boxes (20 linear ft.)

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/Vault%20MSS%202 View

Horace Traubel and Anne Montgomerie Traubel Papers, 1824-1979, (bulk 1883-1947)

Title: Horace Traubel and Anne Montgomerie Traubel Papers 1824-1979 (bulk 1883-1947)

Poet, critic, and friends and biographer of Walt Whitman. Correspondence, diaries, including Horace Traubel's diary published as , literary files containing prose, poetry, criticism, and other writings by the Traubels and other writers, including the collected files of the , financial and legal records, scrapbooks, and printed matter. The collection reflects the Traubels' support of the literary and artistic community, the arts and crafts and ethical culture movements, and social and political reform. Also includes the papers of their daughter, Gertrude Traubel. With Walt Whitman in Camden Conservator

ArchivalResource: 75,250 items; 216 containers plus 2 oversize; 87.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003074 View

Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley, 1845-1924. Autographs collected and letters received, A-N by Lydia Avery Coonley Ward, 1705, 1785, 1848, 1861-1922 (bulk 1861-1922).

Title: Autographs collected and letters received, A-N by Lydia Avery Coonley Ward, 1705, 1785, 1848, 1861-1922 (bulk 1861-1922).

The letters consist primarily of social notes to Mrs. Ward from authors, some artists, and musicians. Some concern her work for the committees on literature for children, and children's day at the Chicago World's Fair. Susan B. Anthony, Hamlin Garland, George F. Root, and Jane Addams are mentioned. Letters, works in progress, philanthropies, and family news are common topics. Also, a manuscript of "The Tower of Flame" by Richard Watson Gilder is included, as are autographs and letters collected by Mrs. Coonley Ward.

ArchivalResource: 294 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136046 View