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Butler, William, 1825-1905. Autobiographies and letters, 1850-1905?

Title: Autobiographies and letters, 1850-1905?

This collection consists of autobiographies and personal letters. Included are four personal histories of varying lengths. Butler described his visions, business matters, family relationships, church assignments, missions served, and recounted many colorful experiences including hunting down and killing the murderer of one of his children. The letters were written by William Butler and his first wife, Emma Harvey, to their Henry Harvey Butler in 1891-2 while Henry was serving on a mission to the Eastern U.S.

ArchivalResource: 19 items (1 linear inch).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122494452 View

Lang, Cecil Y. Cecil Lang papers and autograph collection [manuscript], 1866-1982.

Title: Cecil Lang papers and autograph collection [manuscript], 1866-1982.

The collection contains letters and autographs of Victorian literay figures; personal and professional correspondence; and miscellaneous papers. Letters and autographs of prominent Victorian literary figures collected by Lang, include, particularly, letters of Matthew Arnold, A. H. Clough, William Rossetti on a Swinburne parody, Charles A. Swinburne on his and Byron's portrayal of Marino Faliero,and Thomas Woolner. Letters from John Nichol to Algernon C. Swinburne discuss a feud with Robert Buchanan. There are also letters or autographs of [Noah?] Brooks, William Allen Butler, Charles Calvert (mentioning producing Henry VIII), Dinah M. Craik, David Gray, Jean Ingelow, and Martin F. Tupper. The collection also contains "The posthumous poetry of Matthew Arnold," a talk given at Oxford by Lang on the Arnold papers in the National Archives of Canada. Letters from Harold Bloom to Lang, 1965 -1968, discuss his colleagues at Yale, academic career, writing, and health. Letters from George P. Elliott and Mary Emma Jeffress Eliott convey personal news with references to the English Dept. and Syracuse University including a sexism case against the English Dept.

ArchivalResource: 95 (circa) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191869340 View

Smith, Charles (Charles William), b. 1893. Woodcuts and illustrations [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Woodcuts and illustrations [manuscript], n.d.

The collection contains a linoleum block cut of the University of Virginia rotunda, woodcuts by Smith, mulberry paper and boxwood samples, a Japanese woodcut instruction book, and cutting and engraving tools. The collection also contains a wood engraving of the grey plover by Thomas Bewick used in his "History of British Birds"; a woodcut of "Taking Christ from the Cross" by William Allen Butler used in his "Oberammergau 1890"; and several Chinese woodcuts. In addition there are several illustrations from woodcuts by Bewick, Smith and others.

ArchivalResource: 20 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647882101 View

Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott, 1579-1893.

Title: Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott, 1579-1893.

Library of Amos Bronson Alcott, the American philosopher of the NewEngland Transcendentalist group.

ArchivalResource: 599 v.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01478/catalog View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Letter, 1897 Oct. 4, New York, to Miss A.A. Jones, Boston, Mass.

Title: Letter, 1897 Oct. 4, New York, to Miss A.A. Jones, Boston, Mass.

Complies with a request for his autograph.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf. 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7035655 View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Autograph letter signed : Yonkers, to John Foord of Harper and Brothers, 1890 Dec. 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Yonkers, to John Foord of Harper and Brothers, 1890 Dec. 28.

Concerning the insertion of his name as author of a poem.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270131831 View

Barton, Cora Livingston. Letter, 1869 October 6, Barrytown, N.Y., to George Ticknor.

Title: Letter, 1869 October 6, Barrytown, N.Y., to George Ticknor.

Has placed her husband's library in the hands of William Allen Butler; may have to contact John Russell Smith; she is leaving for Europe.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3475760 View

Vanderpoel, Aaron J., 1825-1887. Papers, 1837-1885.

Title: Papers, 1837-1885.

The incoming correspondence of Vanderpoel, containing letters from friends, clients, and colleagues and dealing with personal and legal matters. Correspondents include Henry M. Alexander, William Allen Butler, John P. and William V.S. Beekman, G.W. Bulkey, Joseph H. Choate, Frederic R. Coudert, Lewis L. Delafield, Jay Gould, William D.F. Maurice, Edward Pierpont, J. Bryce Smith, John Van Alen, John and Thomas Van Buren, and Henry Vanorden. Letters of a personal and business nature from various family members include several from Aaron and John Vanderpoel and Lewis Oakley, his uncles, and from Henry C. Van Schaack, his father-in-law. There are approximately twelve manuscripts of essays and speeches by A.J. Vanderpoel while he attended Kinderhook Academy and New York University, as well as a few by other family members. Various documents including mortgages, deeds, indentures, agreements, and court records relate to Vanderpoel's law practice and to family property.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515164 View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Nothing to wear. Hard times. Camille.

Title: Nothing to wear. Hard times. Camille. [185-?]

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 p. ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24337098 View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Butler family papers, 1815-1948 (bulk 1820-1920).

Title: Butler family papers, 1815-1948 (bulk 1820-1920).

Contains the papers of three generations of Butlers: Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795-1858); William Allen Butler (1825-1902); William Allen Butler (1853-1923) and Howard Russell Butler (1856-1934), both members of the Class of 1876; Charles Henry Butler (1859-1940); Mary Russell Marshall Butler (l827-1919); Harriet Allen Butler (1861-1914); and Mary Marshall Butler (1857- ).

ArchivalResource: 15.65 cu. ft. (45 boxes, 2 portfolios)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60358270 View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Letter, 1847, June 23, to Dr. Falkestein, Dresden.

Title: Letter, 1847, June 23, to Dr. Falkestein, Dresden.

Thanks Falkestein for letters of recommendation, and clarifies the identity of a Mr. Gilmore.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122529319 View

Aaron J. Vanderpoel Papers, 1837-1885.

Title: Aaron J. Vanderpoel Papers, 1837-1885.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 items (1 box)

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079433 View

Dickinson Family. Dickinson family library. 1810-1943.

Title: Dickinson family library

Books that were collected by the poet Emily Dickinson and her family.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear feet (591 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00321/catalog View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Harper and Brothers, 1857 Feb. 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Harper and Brothers, 1857 Feb. 14.

Sending an article which he hopes they can publish soon "in the same column and type as his 'Nothing to Wear.'"

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270131636 View

Cantwell, John Simon. Papers, 1804-1907.

Title: Cantwell, John Simon. Papers, 1804-1907.

Papers of Universalist minister John Simon Cantwell, including correspondence and autographs. The papers span 1804-1907.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.21 c.f.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00585/catalog View

In memoriam : William Allen Butler : scrapbook, 1902.

Title: In memoriam : William Allen Butler : scrapbook, 1902.

Scrapbook, compiled by members of the Butler family, containing newspaper clippings, telegrams, manuscript and typewritten letters, etc. regarding the death of William Allen Butler, dated c. 1902.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (135 p.) ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60354863 View

William Allen Butler Collection, 1872, 1879, n. d.

Title: William Allen Butler Collection 1872, 1879, n. d.

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00556.xml 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

Papers, 1842-1967, 1842-1870 (bulk)

Title: Papers, 1842-1967, 1842-1870 (bulk)

Correspondence concerning health, deaths, children, visits, travels, social news, and other family matters, 1842-1942, primarily among the children of Harriet and Benjamin F. Butler, Benjamin Jr., William A., Margaret B. Crosby, Harriet A. Dwight, Lydia A. Booth, Mary H. Lord, and Eliza (Lizzie) O. Kirkbride. A substantial portion consists of the letters between Lydia and Lizzie prior to their marriages, 1858-1870; there are also Civil War letters written by Franklin B. Crosby. Other items include diary of Harriet Allen Butler, 1853; geometry notebook in French kept by Charles Butler while a student at Beaux Arts, Paris, 1890s; memoranda book of significant events in the Butler family, 1855-1906; memorial booklet on Lt. Franklin B. Crosby, 1863; household bills and receipts, 1859-1863; family history by Eliza B. Kirkbride, ca. 1914; and genealogical materials, 1915-1967.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155491542 View

William Allen Butler Collection, 1858-1894

Title: William Allen Butler Collection 1858-1894

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00557.xml View

Cornell University. Senior engineering theses, 1872.

Title: Senior engineering theses, 1872.

Senior theses on engineering topics by Milford C. Bean, "Comparisons between Manual Labor and Steam Power for Excavation as Shown by the Steam Excavator;" D. W. Bowman, "Caissons;" William Allen Butler, steam; I. E. Clark, "The Construction of Railway Supports;" Dan K. Colburn, "Strains on Trusses;" C. L. Crandall (with A. Rogers), "Drainage of the Cayuga Marshes;" W.B. Dickinson, Dams; Frederick William Frost, "The Theory of Strains in Bridge Trusses;" H. C. Henderson, "Analytical Examination of the 'Truss';" Rufus B. Howland, "Application of Machinery to the Construction of Brick Walls; Charles S. Price, "Narrow Gauge Railways," Ezra C. Robertson, "Topography;" A. Rogers (with C.L. Crandall), "Drainage of the Cayuga Marshes;" C.B. Sill, design for roof of Unitarian Church, Ithaca; M.G. Stolp, steam; Seymour Preston Thomas, with Gram Curtis, "Supply of Water and Water Power to the University;" Sylvester M. Williams, "The General Theory of Suspension Bridges,"

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63938747 View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Papers of William Allen Butler, 1872-1899, n.d.

Title: Papers of William Allen Butler, 1872-1899, n.d.

The collection contains a manuscript quotation from "Nothing to wear"; legal notes on a Senate bill imposing a duty on tonnage; a letter to W.W. Greenough, 1872 October 31, on advice given to Mrs. Barton; and two magazine drawings of Butler.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54097585 View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Nothing to wear, n.d.

Title: Nothing to wear, n.d.

The collection consists of a fair copy of Butler's poem.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50297715 View

Collection of autographed American correspondence, 1832-1969.

Title: Collection of autographed American correspondence, 1832-1969.

Letters from both prominent and ordinary Americans ranging in subject matter from work and intellectual ideas to social engagements and familymatters between 1833 and 1969. The correspondents include; John Quincy Adams, Frederick Coykendall, Lewis Garnett, Elbert Green Hubbard, William P. Bancroft, A. Bellevy, Henry Charlton Beck, Ernest W. Brown, Alexander Buckner, Nicholas Murray Butler, William Allen Butler, J. Wilbur Chapman, Robert P. Coffin, Milton John Cross, Peter S. Duval, John S. Fine, Patrick K. Foley, Francis Barton Gummere, Robert C. Henrickson, John Grier Hibben, Abraham Holmes, Eben Norton Horsford, Ira Rich Kent, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, William McDougall, Charles R. Miller, M. Millard, Dr. Thomas Morton, Robert O'Brien, Thomas Mott Osborne, Josiah Quincy, Calvin Llewellyn Rampton, Bruce Rogers, Harold E. Stassen, Thaddeus, Stevens, W.C. Stiles, George P. Thomson, Harry S. Truman, and H. Hastings Weld.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122588938 View

Barney, Hiram. Papers of Hiram Barney, 1772-1924 (bulk 1836-1894).

Title: Papers of Hiram Barney, 1772-1924 (bulk 1836-1894).

Political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to the debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8300 pieces.41 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499679 View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Note and portrait, 1861.

Title: Note and portrait, 1861.

Handwritten and signed note, dated 22 June 1861, and addressed to "Dear Sir." Butler writes, "In reply to your request for my autograph I submit myself." Also included is a portrait of Butler clipped from a magazine or book.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 pages) ; 25 x 17 cm and smaller + 2 photocopies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84356022 View

Butler Family Papers, 1815-1948, 1820-1920

Title: Butler Family Papers 1815-1948 1820-1920

The Butler Family Papers consists of works, notes, correspondence, journals, photographs, and other materials of Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795-1858), William Allen Butler (1825-1902), Mary Russell Marshall Butler (1827-1919), Charles Henry Butler (1859-1940), Harriet Allen Butler (1861-1914), and other members of the Butler family.

ArchivalResource: 15.65 cubic feet; 45 boxes, 2 portfolios

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/mp48sc78n View

Butler, William Allen. Letters, 1858-1881.

Title: Letters, 1858-1881.

Primarily to James Lawson. Mostly personal concerning dinner invitaitions & books; some business concerning sale of lots on Thompson St.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13549063 View

Century Magazine. Correspondence of the editors of the Century Magazine [manuscript], 1883-1900.

Title: Correspondence of the editors of the Century Magazine [manuscript], 1883-1900.

The collection contains letters to editors Richard Watson Gilder, W. W. Ellsworth and Robert Underwood Johnson from contributing authors. Several of the letters are accompanied by pictures of the authors. Correspondents include John Kendrick Bangs, Edward Bellamy, William Allen Butler, Hezekiah Butterworth, George Washington Cable, Andrew Carnegie, Winston Churchill, Samuel Clemens, Richard Harding Davis, William Gillette, Henry James, Joseph Jefferson, Melville de Lancey Landon, Hamilton Mabie, Thoas Nelson Page, Julian Ralph, John Codman Ropes, Ernest Seton-Thompson, Albert Shaw, William M. Sloane, Francis Hopkinson Smith, William Stillman, Frank R. Stockton, Maurice Thompson, George E. Waring, and Henry Watterson.

ArchivalResource: 27 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647988696 View

Levi P. Morton Correspondence, 1860-1912

Title: Levi P. Morton Correspondence 1860-1912

Papers of the Congressman from New York, United States minister to France, Vice-President of the United States, and Republican governor of New York State. Collection contains mostly incoming correspondence from clergymen, educators, financiers, journalists, and politicians. Some letters are addressed to Morton's executive secretary, Ashley W. Cole.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/m/morton_lp.htm View

Two autograph collections, 185?, 1888

Title: Two Autograph Collections, 185?, 1888

The collection contains the bottom portion of two sheets of 1850s stationery, allegedly cut from a petition requesting Fanny Kemble to make a lecture tour. The sheets contain signatures only including Louis Agassiz, Henry W. Bellows, Erastus Brooks, William Cullen Bryant, William Allen Butler, Rufus Choate, Peter Cooper, Edward Everett, C.C. Felton, David Dudley Field, James W. Gerard, Parke Godwin, G.S. Hillard, F.B. Huntington, Henry W. Longfellow, Daniel Lord, James Russell Lowell, J. Lothrop Motley, Benjamin Pence, William H. Prescott, Josiah Quincy, Jared Sparks, and Robert C. Winthrop. There is also a program or menu cover, 1888, from a banquet of the Saturday Night Club honoring American authors. Men signing on the verso include Clark Bell, Moncure Conway, Archibald Gunter, Julian Hawthorne, Richard B. Kimball, Thomas W. Knox, Benson J. Lossing, and R.H. Stoddard.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/archival/items/u3682199 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

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Nothing to wear, post 1857.

Title: Nothing to wear, post 1857.

The collection consists of a fair copy of Butler's poem.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54992877 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

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

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: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Papers of William Allen Butler, 1854-1894.

Title: Papers of William Allen Butler, 1854-1894.

Butler discusses publication plans and his writing; responds to autograph hunters; and discusses legal matters, particularly regarding the "Somers" mutiny case. Daniel E. Sickels, his father Benjamin Franklin Butler, and Charles O'Conor are mentioned. There is also a letter from D. Appleton & Co., discussing financial matters, written on a prospectus for "Two millions." Correspondents include Cephas Brainerd, John M. [Bush?], F.K. Howell, George E. Jardine, Henry Paret, Joseph H. Richards, Howard M. Ticknor.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50248777 View

William Allen Butler letters, 1855-1890

Title: William Allen Butler letters 1855-1890

Nine letters.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/8085 View

Butler, William, 1824-1905. Journal, 1850-1875.

Title: Journal, 1850-1875.

Account of his travel from Canada, meeting with Orson Hyde at Council Bluffs, arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in August of 1850, and experiences there. Includes account of his missionary experiences in Ireland and in England in 1853, experiences with the Lot Smith company during the Utah War, settlement in various locations in Davis and Weber counties, and experiences during the Morrisite War. Includes typescript copy.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86146839 View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Autograph letter signed : New York, to Edward Lauterbach, 186- Apr. 13.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, to Edward Lauterbach, 186- Apr. 13.

Asking him to come see him because he "would like to confer ... about the Frank case."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.), unbound ; 19.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/709583752 View

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Fletcher Harper, 1857 Mar. 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Fletcher Harper, 1857 Mar. 25.

About his contributions to Harper's.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270131635 View

Butler, William A. Letter 1864 August 5.

Title: Letter 1864 August 5.

Transcript of letter written to the editor of the Wyandot Pioneer, Upper Sandusky, Ohio, published Aug 5, 1864, from a soldier serving with Co. G of the 144th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Transcription provided by Dan Masters.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47003250 View