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Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912,. Autograph letters signed and initialled from Horace Howard Furness, Wallingford and Philadelphia, to various recipients [manuscript], 1863-1912.

Title: Autograph letters signed and initialled from Horace Howard Furness, Wallingford and Philadelphia, to various recipients [manuscript], 1863-1912.

Most of the letters discuss his work on the Variorum Edition of Shakespeare's plays. (9) to Clarke expresses his belief in the dramatic superiority of the first quarto of Hamlet, as shown by [Eduard and Otto] Devrient's alteration of their acting copy. (13) to Conway discusses the theory of Anne Hathaway's second marriage to Richard James. (25) to Edwards praises Horne's interpretation of Shylock. (39) to Fleay reveals that he has lost faith in Halliwell as a scholar. (48) requests Harper & Bros. to convey thanks to Mary Silsby for her gift and encloses the letter from Harper & Bros. to her, April 4, 1892. (55) is accompanied by a photograph of Furness and his great grandson. (67) mentions Thackeray. (122, 144) state that he is grieved by Norris' attack on Furnivall. (233) to Dr. Platt discusses their interpretations of Shakespeare's characters and is accompanied by Platt's letter to Furness commenting on Furness' paper in the Harvard Graduate's Magazine, September 1908. (241) to Symons praises Walter Landor's poetry. (243) to Thorton, discusses Theobald's belief that certain of Sir Toby's lines in Twelfth Night were written to ridicule Edward Coke. (258) refers to Edwin Booth. (272) discusses Emerson. Several refer to Collier (especially 82, 114, 159-60, 193, 198-199); (32, 39 and 77) reveal his belief in Collier's honesty. Some mention Walt Whitman (e.g. 19-22, 45, 272 and 274). Some letters undated.

ArchivalResource: 276 items.

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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Papers of Walt Whitman, 1860-1941.

Title: Papers of Walt Whitman, 1860-1941.

The collection contains manuscripts of poems in "Leaves of Grass," and studies for the poems; various drafts and revisions of unfinshed poems; notes and ideas for essays, lectures and unfinshed poems; complete unpublished poems; and biographical notes. The collection also contains a diary of cases seen in Washington, D.C. army hospitals during the Civil War; and criticism of his poetry in an unpublished article "Is Walt Whitman's Poetry Poetical?" for the "Nation" to be revised by John Burroughs and appear over his signature. Correspondents include H.M. Alden, Sylvester Baxter, John Burroughs, Peter Doyle, Charles W. Eldridge, James T. Fields, Anne Gilchrist, Herbert Gilchrist, Dr. Karl Knortz, James Russell Lowell, Ernest Rhys, T.W. Rolleston, and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman.

ArchivalResource: 72 items.

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Dante Society of America additional correspondence, 1883-1898.

Title: Dante Society of America additional correspondence, 1883-1898.

Contains correspondence of the officers of the Dante Society of America, based at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.25 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00698/catalog View

Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908. Correspondence with Mr. Arlo Bates, Mr. White, John Lane, Mr. Gilder, Mr. Wingate , Vivian Burnett, Mr. [Thomas?] Niles of Roberts Brothers Pub. Co., Mr. Champlin, Mrs. Bush, Mrs. Nixon, Mr. Smith, Mr. Locker-Lampson, Miss Clarke, Mrs. Otto B. Cole, and others : and holograph poems ; and 29 inscriptions from books formerly owned by Moulton and one newspaper clipping; letters to Mrs. Moulton from F.W.H. Myers and Basil Wilberforce.

Title: Correspondence with Mr. Arlo Bates, Mr. White, John Lane, Mr. Gilder, Mr. Wingate , Vivian Burnett, Mr. [Thomas?] Niles of Roberts Brothers Pub. Co., Mr. Champlin, Mrs. Bush, Mrs. Nixon, Mr. Smith, Mr. Locker-Lampson, Miss Clarke, Mrs. Otto B. Cole, and others : and holograph poems ; and 29 inscriptions from books formerly owned by Moulton and one newspaper clipping; letters to Mrs. Moulton from F.W.H. Myers and Basil Wilberforce. 1880-1907.

Includes: 31 letters to Arlo Bates, 20 letters to John Lane, 4 letters to Mr. Niles, and letters to various other correspondents. Several holograph poems are included. Few letters dated; other dates inferred by subject matter.

ArchivalResource: 103 items : portrait

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Knortz, Karl, 1841-1918. Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea. n.d.

Title: Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea. n.d.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63556136 View

Karl Knortz papers, 1870-1912

Title: Karl Knortz papers 1870-1912

German-American author, literary critic and folklorist. Collection includes letters, post cards, etc., from the literary correspondence of Karl Knortz with American, German and German-American authors, some written in response to inquiries by Knortz for his History of American Literature (1891); many contain autobiographical sketches.

ArchivalResource: ca. 750 items and card file (2 boxes)

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Wyman, W. H. (William Henry),. Autograph letter signed from William Henry Wyman, Cincinnati, to [Karl] Knortz [manuscript], 1884 July 11(?).

Title: Autograph letter signed from William Henry Wyman, Cincinnati, to [Karl] Knortz [manuscript], 1884 July 11(?).

Asks for a copy of Knortz's review of his (Wyman's) Bibliography of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Knortz, Karl, 1841-1918. Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, n.d.

Title: Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, n.d.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (4 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226052099 View

Garretson, James Edmund, 1828-1895. Letter, 1881, Oct. 10 : Philadelphia to Mr. Karl Knortz.

Title: Letter, 1881, Oct. 10 : Philadelphia to Mr. Karl Knortz.

ALS. Informs Knortz that copies of the books, "Thinkers and thinking" and "Two thousand years after", have been sent. Congratulates him on presenting William Cullen Bryant. Knortz introduced much North American history and literature to a German-speaking audience.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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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)

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Knortz, Karl, 1841-1918,. Autograph postcard signed from Karl Knortz, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to J. Parker Norris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [manuscript], [19th or 20th century]October 25.

Title: Autograph postcard signed from Karl Knortz, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to J. Parker Norris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [manuscript], [19th or 20th century]October 25.

Query regarding the publication of Herr's Notes on the text of Shakespeare.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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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

Alden, Timothy, 1736-1828. American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1753-1952.

Title: American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1753-1952.

Material collected by Hench, some as an autograph collection and others for use in his classes at the University of Virginia with examples of various periods. Modern autographs collected by Hench include letters by associates of Edgar Allan Poe; Civil War letters; papers relating to Virginia history; correspondence of writers and politicians, particularly from the Victorian era; and other miscellaneous correspondence with literary or histocial interest. Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman to Louis Palma di Cesnola, Thomas D. English, Harrison Grey Fiske, Paul Hamilton Hayne, James R. Osgood & Co., Karl Knortz, William Henry Rideing, Charles Warren Stoddard and others include routine thanks and introductions and social notes and freqeuntly discuss literary matters. Alexander Hamilton Stephens writes to Paul Hamilton Hayne conveying personal news and critiquing two poems. Alexander H. H. Stuart writes to Lewis Jacob Cist, Henry R. Howland, the Rev. E. F. Strickland and others concerning routine matters and requests. Also shares some memories of Thomas Jefferson. John Reuben Thompson writes to Anna C. Lynch Botta, and Joseph Ripley Chandlerr on routine mattersand a lecture engagement. A sonnet is included. Henry Theodore Tuckerman writes to Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, Francis James Child, James T. Fields, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Lea & Blanchard, Benson John Lossing, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Edwin Percy Whipple, Nathaniel Parker Willis and others on literary, publishing and social matters, particularly his work on George Washington portaits, the inauguration of Houdon's statue of Washington at which Virginia Governor Floyd revealed his ignorance of art, and the completion of the statues at the base of the equestrian statue of Washington by Randolph Rogers. With these are several poems by Tuckerman. Martin Farquhar Tupper accepts an invitation, declines to join an association and sends thanks for a note and speciment paper and warns the sender against disseminating infidel and immoral periodicals. Single items of interest include Homer Saint-Gaudens to Charles Elmer Rice agreeing to do his best; Camille Saint-Saëns declining an invitation; John Singer Sargent thanks Sir George Henschel for an invitation (copy). Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Mary Russell Mitford on the lack of culture in the United States; Walter W. Skeat writes concerning his work on "Piers Plowman" and an unidentified manuscript; a letter from Wiliam Henry Smith to Charles Dickens on a visit to the house "Greenland"; Stephen Spender to Herbert W. K. Fitzroy concerning a stint as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia; Edward Stanly to Henry A. Wise on a challenge to duel; Frank R. Stockton sends Amelie Amélie Troubetzkoy apples from the Piedmont region. Also John Bannister Tabb to John Lane on publishing matters; John Taliaferro asks Tristam Burges to convey the principles of a claims commutation case to Muhlenberg; Littleton Waller Tazewell on a routine financial matter and an autograph request; Dr. James H. Thompson, 12th Maine surgeon reporting on medical cases; George Ticknor to Emma S. Robers enquiring after her father's health; Frances Trollope to mary Russell Mitford praising the "Our village" sketches and commenting on the London stage, the Kembles and Macready; Pierre Troubetzkoy writes concerning a painting of William Gladstone; and Lyon G. Tyler thanks Charles Elmer Rice for an offer of Tyler family information. The collection also contains four sermons on Old Testament texts, 1752-1778, at least one ty the Rev. Timothy Alden, Sr., of the Congregationalist church in Barnstable, Mass.; autographs of Dallas Lore Sharp, Jean Sibelius; a requisiton from J[erome?] J. Shedd, 1863, for lumber, nails and quicklime for the Union hospital at Acquia Creek; and a land grant signed by George W. Smith, 1811.

ArchivalResource: circa 85 items.

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Knortz, Karl, 1841-1918,. Autograph postcard signed from Karl Knortz, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to J. Parker Norris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [manuscript], [19th or 20th century] October 15.

Title: Autograph postcard signed from Karl Knortz, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to J. Parker Norris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [manuscript], [19th or 20th century] October 15.

Knortz is thanking Norris for his bibliography of Shakespeare portraits, and a copy of Notes on The tempest published by the Shakespeare Society of Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, ca. 1814-1882.

Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, ca. 1814-1882.

Letters from colleagues and friends to American Transcendentalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (12 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00123/catalog View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIj, 1898-1988

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIj 1898-1988

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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