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Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915. Papers of Elbert Hubbard, 1896-1915.

Title: Papers of Elbert Hubbard, 1896-1915.

In correspondence Hubbard discusses his writing, printing, publishing and lecturing, his magazine The Philistine, and the American Academy of Immortals. His Roycrofter stationary has a watermark image of Hubbard in the upper left hand corner. In addition the collection contains a manuscript quotation, an autograph, a brochure from the Roycroft Shop, a photograph of a portrait, and a clipping re the sinking of the Lusitania.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136608 View

Walt Whitman papers, 1854-1892

Title: Walt Whitman papers 1854-1892

This is a synthetic collection covering the years 1854 to 1892 with some material still undated. Strengthsof the collection include nearly 30 poems or poem fragments and Whitman's autograph revision of the "Analysis ofPoems" by Dr. R. Bucke. This essay was written for Bucke's authorized biography (Walt Whitman, 1883) and Whitman'sextensive revisions were incorporated before publication. The correspondence includes two longer runs, one toWilliam O' Connor and the other to his wife Ellen O'Connor. The O'Connors were active in a number of social causes,as well as devoted advocates of Whitman and his writing. William O'Connor, author of The Good Gray Poet (1866), wasone of Whitman's closest friends until an argument in 1873 caused a break in their friendship. Others who figureprominently in the Berg Collection's Whitman materials include John Burroughs (1837-1921), nature writer, literarycritic, and author of Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867); Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford, young friendsof Whitman's; and Richard Maurice Bucke (1837-1902), Whitman's authorized biographer, friend and literary executor.In addition to writing Walt Whitman (1883) and Walt Whitman, Man and Poet (1897), Bucke co-edited with HoraceTraubel and Thomas Harned The Complete Writings (1902).

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http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19100 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01530/catalog View

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910. Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers, 1856-1938 bulk (1870-1938).

Title: Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers, 1856-1938 bulk (1870-1938).

This is a synthetic collection consisting of portraits, pictorial works, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, a diary for 1885, a notebook for 1895, portraits, and pictorial works.

ArchivalResource: 692 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517270 View

Thomas Bird Mosher papers, 1890-1939 (inclusive) 1895-1924 (bulk).

Title: Thomas Bird Mosher papers, 1890-1939 (inclusive) 1895-1924 (bulk).

Correspondence of the American publisher Thomas Bird Mosher.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00352/catalog View

Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers, 1856-1938, 1870-1938

Title: Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers 1856-1938 1870-1938

This is a synthetic collection consisting of portraits, pictorial works, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence from, to, and about the author, a diary for 1885, a notebook for 1895, portraits, and pictorial works.

ArchivalResource: 717 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19174 View

Mary Hyde Eccles papers, 1853-2005, (bulk) 1939-2003.

Title: Mary Hyde Eccles papers, 1853-2005, (bulk) 1939-2003.

Correspondence and other personal papers of Mary Hyde Eccles, a collector and literary scholar whose primary interest was Samuel Johnson.

ArchivalResource: 88 linear feet (84 boxes, 3 pf boxes, and 7 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01787/catalog View

Benjamin, Walter Romeyn, 1854-1943,. American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1780-1933.

Title: American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1780-1933.

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 James O. Halliwell Phillips discuss his collecting. Letters of Paul Hamilton Hayne to Hezekiah Butterworth, Charles Scribner & Sons, D. Lothrop and Co., Josiah Gilbert Holland, Hurd & Houghton, J.R. Osgood and Co., [Ella Farman Pratt?], William H. Rideing, Roberts Brothers, Clinton Scollard, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Charles Warren Stoddard and others discuss his poetry, book reviews,and publishing matters, He refers briefly to the death of Richard Henry Dana, Henry Timrod, Joaquin Miller, Sidney Lanier and his straitened finances. With these are several poems, an engraving and letters of his son William Hamlton Hayne to Walter R. Benjamin, william F. Gable and Clinton Scollard regarding his father, grandfather and Samuel M. Peck. Letters of William E. Henley to Sydney Southgate Pawling chiefly discuss literary and publishing matters, and finances. Letters of Thomas W. Higginson to Clarke & Co., Edmund Clarence Stedman and others discuss publishing matters, speaking arrangements, the election of 1884, and a manual training school for girls Of interest are .his comments on Edgar Allan Poe's Southern temperment, Sarah Helen Whitman, John Henry Ingram. Engelbert Humperdinck writes to Harry T. Finck and Jeannette M. Thurber concerning Thurber's proposal that he lead the national Conservatory of Music. Single letters of interest include Edward Everett Hale to Nathan Hale on a business matter; Anna Maria Fielding Hall to Mary Russell Mitford on her current work and keeping the upper hand over Catholics; Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford on "Our Village"; Joseph Henry to William Barton Rogers requesting copies of some lectures; Laurence Houseman to Kineton Parker thanking him for copies and a useful quotation; Mary Howitt to Kathe Kroeker Freiligrath on the employment of her sister; Cordell Hull on a patronage request; Epa Hunton to General Duncan S. Walker recommending Charles F. Triplett for employment by the National [Democratic?] Committee; and John H. Ingram to Christina Rosetti returning borrowed letters and enclosing others from Oliver Madox Brown. The collection also contains autographs of Joel Chandler Harris, ; a check endorsed in Charlottesville by captured Brigadier James Hamilton and Lt. William Hoey;

ArchivalResource: circa 90 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648013486 View

Thomas Bird Mosher papers, 1890-1939 (inclusive) 1895-1924 (bulk).

Title: Thomas Bird Mosher papers, 1890-1939 (inclusive) 1895-1924 (bulk).

Correspondence of the American publisher Thomas Bird Mosher.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00352/catalog View

Finch, Francis Miles, 1827-1907. The blue and the gray [manuscript].

Title: The blue and the gray [manuscript].

Facsimile [n.d.] of the entire poem The blue and the gray [1 l. engraving 24 cm.]--Letters, 1879 Dec. 24, & 1886, Jan. 13, Finch to William Gable and Alfred S. Roe [2 l. holograph signed] Finch replies to two autograph seekers.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647933971 View

Oberholtzer, Sara Louisa, 1841-1930,. Autograph letters signed from Sara Louisa Oberholtzer, Norristown and Cambria Station, to various recipients [manuscript], 1883-1888.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Sara Louisa Oberholtzer, Norristown and Cambria Station, to various recipients [manuscript], 1883-1888.

Recipients: William F. Gable and B.W. Austin. (1-2) are both brief notes of thanks addressed to Gable in Reading and Altoona, Pa., respectively. In (3), to Austin, Oberholtzer offers thanks to the Trinity Historical Society for extending to her an honorary membership and encloses a signed phototype portrait of herself.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 13 x 8 cm to 21 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435495423 View

Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881. Sidney Lanier letter, 5 December 1879.

Title: Sidney Lanier letter, 5 December 1879.

The collection consists of a letter from Sidney Lanier to William F. Gable concerning the address of a photographer. There is also one sheet of paper with the word "Clover" and Lanier's address.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299086164 View

Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966,. Autograph letters signed from Edward Gordon Craig to various people [manuscript], 1898-ca. 1909.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Edward Gordon Craig to various people [manuscript], 1898-ca. 1909.

ArchivalResource: 3 items : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281781404 View

Papers, 1846-1948 (inclusive), 1918-1939 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1846-1948 (inclusive), 1918-1939 (bulk).

Papers of department store owner and book collector Robert BorthwickAdam, consisting mostly of correspondence with fellow collectors and scholars,photographic portraits, and materials relating to the published catalogs of hismanuscript collection.

ArchivalResource: 22 boxes and 4volumes (22.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01764/catalog View

Livingston, Luther Samuel, 1864-1914. Letter, 1913 May 25, New York, to "Dear Mr. Gable" [n.p.]

Title: Letter, 1913 May 25, New York, to "Dear Mr. Gable" [n.p.]

Concerns his connection [as editor] with [Letters from Algernon Charles Swinburne] and other bibliographical matters.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. on 1 l. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34364696 View

Gable, William F. Letter, 1921, Oct. 16, Wyebrooke, Pa., to Moser.

Title: Letter, 1921, Oct. 16, Wyebrooke, Pa., to Moser.

Asks for Moser's written opinion of Otto A. Rothert's "The story of a poet : Madison Cawein." With this is a material in his collection was used by Rothert.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122492979 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

Letters of condolence and thanks, 1915.

Title: Letters of condolence and thanks, 1915.

Letters to Flora Virginia Milner Livingston expressing condolence on the death of her husband Harvard librarian, Luther S. Livingston.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01085/catalog View