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Louisa May Alcott papers, 1849-1931.

Title: Louisa May Alcott papers, 1849-1931.

Papers pertaining primarily to the works of American author Louisa May Alcott.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00659/catalog View

Smith, Roswell, 1829-1892. Autograph letter signed : New York, N.Y., to Joseph W. Harper, Jr., 1878 Mar. 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, N.Y., to Joseph W. Harper, Jr., 1878 Mar. 28.

Concerning whether Scribner or Harper should publish Mrs. Oliphant's The Primrose Path.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270663551 View

Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894. William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951 (inclusive), 1814-1912 (bulk).

Title: William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951 (inclusive), 1814-1912 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of professional papers. Material of his brother Josiah includes a geological survey of the Upper Mississippi (1862), and correspondence relating to the first systematic exploration and mapping of the American West. Information relating to Benjamin Silliman and the National Academy of Sciences is also documented. His family correspondence includes several hundred letters with William Dwight Whitney and their father, Josiah.

ArchivalResource: 25.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153614 View

Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Title: Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Correspondence, compositions, and diaries of American novelist William Dean Howells as well as papers of his wife and children.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes, 2 volumes, 2 portfolio boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01480/catalog View

Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903. Letters, 1886 Jan. 9 and [no year] March 19.

Title: Letters, 1886 Jan. 9 and [no year] March 19.

Thank you note to Roswell Smith for the portfolio of wood engraving proofs from Scribner and Company; and a request for a writing sample for Brooks' nephew to Thomas Dunn English.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27731634 View

William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951, 1814-1912

Title: William Dwight Whitney family papers 1778-1951 1814-1912

The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of professional papers. Material of his brother Josiah includes a geological survey of the Upper Mississippi (1862), and correspondence relating to the first systematic exploration and mapping of the American West. Information relating to Benjamin Silliman and the National Academy of Sciences is also documented. His family correspondence includes several hundred letters with William Dwight Whitney and their father, Josiah.

ArchivalResource: 25.5 linear feet (57 boxes, 1 folio)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0555 View

Letters from Wendell Phillips Garrison, 1865-1906.

Title: Letters from Wendell Phillips Garrison, 1865-1906.

Letters to Wendell Phillips Garrison, editor of The Nation.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00960/catalog View

Rogers Memorial Collection: Papers of James R. Osgood and A. V. S. Anthony, 1853-1912.

Title: Rogers Memorial Collection: Papers of James R. Osgood and A. V. S. Anthony, 1853-1912.

Primarily letters sent to the Boston publisher James R. Osgood and his associate A. V. S. Anthony.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01510/catalog View

Smith, Roswell, 1829-1892. Letter to Richard Watson Gilder, 1886 December 16.

Title: Letter to Richard Watson Gilder, 1886 December 16.

The letter celebrates the success of the Century Magazine comparing it to Harpers and the Atlantic among others. Smith speculates on the future of publishing specifically mentioning paper and printing costs, postal costs, illustrations, circulation and advertising.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49223817 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Simpkins" to "Stanley".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Simpkins" to "Stanley".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122529855 View

Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894. William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951 (inclusive), 1814-1912 (bulk).

Title: William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951 (inclusive), 1814-1912 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of professional papers. Material of his brother Josiah includes a geological survey of the Upper Mississippi (1862), and correspondence relating to the first systematic exploration and mapping of the American West. Information relating toBenjamin Silliman and the National Academy of Sciences is also documented. His family correspondence includes several hundred letters with William Dwight Whitney and their father, Josiah.

ArchivalResource: 25.5 linear ft. (57 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122501534 View

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902. Papers of Bret Harte [manuscript] 1859-1901.

Title: Papers of Bret Harte [manuscript] 1859-1901.

About 55 autograph manuscripts of works, and some 420 letters written by Harte. Includes manuscripts of At the hacienda, Barker's luck, [an essay on] Bayard Taylor, A blue grass Penelope, Captain Jim's friend, Clarence, Cressy, Dick Boyle's business card, Don Diego of the south, A drift from Redwood Camp, Gabriel Conroy, The goddess of Excelsior, The homecoming of Jim Wilkes, Jeff Brigg's love story, Johnnyboy, The landlord of the Big Flume Hotel. Legend of Cologne, Lord of Fontenelle, A Maecenas of the Pacific Slope, Maruja, Mr. Bilson's housekeeper, The moral and instructive ballad of the good Lord Byron, A Newport romance, A niece of Snapshot Harry's, A night at Hays, On the Dedlow marsh, Peter Schroeder, A pupil of Chesnut Ridge, The reformation of James Reddy, a review of Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "Malbone," a review of Mrs. Hawthorne's "Notes in England and Italy," A romance of the hoardings, The Rose of Tuolumne, Salomy Jane's kiss, See Yup, The sheriff of Siskyou, Snow-bound at Eagle's, Sweet Mary, The twins of Table Mountain, A vision of the fountain, What Miss Edith saw from her window, A yellow dog, The Young America condensed novel (The hoodlum band ; or, Pirate prodigy), 3 reviews, and other works. Recipients of Harte's letters are his wife, Anna Griswold Harte; their son, Francis King Harte; Florence (Mrs. Arthur) Henniker, a novelist; and Rudolph Schneider.

ArchivalResource: 5 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647940411 View

Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906. S.P. Langley papers, 1866-1926.

Title: S.P. Langley papers, 1866-1926.

Scientific and professional correspondence, including letters from Alexander Agassiz, Edward E. Hale, Oliver W. Holmes, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Rudyard Kipling, Robert T. Lincoln, Samuel S. McClure, Herbert Spencer, and Gideon Welles.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34420381 View

Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902. Papers of Edward Eggleston [manuscript], 1867-1900.

Title: Papers of Edward Eggleston [manuscript], 1867-1900.

The collection contains the draft of "Sister Tabea," a leaflet "An open letter to readers of books" advocating international copyright law, and a manuscript preface for an unnamed book. Letters to Richard Watson Gilder and Robert Underwood Johnson of "Century magazine" discuss publication of Eggleston's stories and articles, and particularly his aversion to revisions by editors and illustrations of his work. Letters to S.S. McClure of the McClure [newspaper] syndicate also discuss stories and prices. McClure writes to Methodist Bishop John Heyl Vincent regarding conference matters, Eggleston's pastorate at the non-sectarian Church of Christian Endeavor in Brooklyn, and his writing. In other letters he solicits H.H. Boyesen's autograph for a collection for Frances Cleveland; comments on the squalor of life in London; praises the Century Company's dictionary; discusses copyright matters with Edmund Clarence Stedman; admires the Woman's Association for the Improvement of Public Schools which he would like to aid; and discusses arrangements with Pond and Redpath's lecture bureau. He also praises James S. Robert's "New York in the Revolution"; thanks Franklin Benjamin Sanborn for a good review; comments unfavorably on a comparison to Tolstoy by William Dean Howells, and suggests titles of books on Georgia to Ernest D. North. There are brief mentions of Thomas W. Higginson exhorting Eggleston to do his best; Rossiter Johnson correcting a Civil War piece; James Russell Lowell on the advantage of speaking good English; writing for a Joseph Pennell drawing; and rejecting Howard Pyle's illustrations as unsuitable.

ArchivalResource: 65 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647834039 View

Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916. Papers of John Townsend Trowbridge [manuscript], 1858-1915.

Title: Papers of John Townsend Trowbridge [manuscript], 1858-1915.

Collection includes several quotations and poems by Trowbridge, as well as ca. 67 letters to various recipients. One is to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and several each are to Abbie Farwell Brown, William Henry Rideing, William Hayes Ward, and Samuel Sidney McClure. Other recipients include Charles Follen Adams, Joseph B. Ames, [Will?] Carleton, James Thomas Fields, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Rossiter Johnson, Paul Lemperly, James R. Osgood, James Parton, Ellis D. Robb, Frank West Rollins, [Roswell?] Smith, [Benjamin Holt?] Ticknor, William Adolphus Wheeler. The collection also includes several magazine photos of Trowbridge, most notably a series of pictures showing him at ages 21, 27, 34, 37, 45, 54, and 63.

ArchivalResource: 94 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647984445 View

Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916. Papers of J.T. Trowbridge [manuscript], 1873-1894.

Title: Papers of J.T. Trowbridge [manuscript], 1873-1894.

In letters to Roswell Smith, a Mrs. Carr, and a Miss Ellis, Trowbridge encloses a photograph to use in a book, complains that artists often do not read a story carefully before illustrating it, includes a humorous drawing about his illegible hand, mentions travel plans, and supplies information on some art lectures by Francis Hopkinson Smith.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647824809 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