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Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 1838-1916. Letter and an envelope, 1901.

Title: Letter and an envelope, 1901.

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 12 Nov. 1901, and addressed to Barton O. Aylesworth. Bates responds to Aylesworth's request for biographical information on her. She tells him where he could find what he desires. Also included is the envelope in which the letter was sent.

ArchivalResource: 4 photocopies (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367407807 View

Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 1838-1916,. Autograph letter signed from Charlotte Fiske Bates, New York, to Mrs. Horace Silsby, Seneca Falls [manuscript], 1891 September 17.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Charlotte Fiske Bates, New York, to Mrs. Horace Silsby, Seneca Falls [manuscript], 1891 September 17.

Letter signed Charlotte Rogé. Bates gives Silsby permission to use a poem for a one volume poetic tribute to Shakespeare. She also provides a copy of a sonnet on Shakespeare taken from her Risk and other poems, published in 1879. First line of poem: Adam of poets! Thou must once have felt.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 20 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318648971 View

Sidney, Margaret, 1844-1924. Papers of Margaret Sidney [manuscript], 1888, 1913.

Title: Papers of Margaret Sidney [manuscript], 1888, 1913.

The collection contains a quotation from "Five little peppers and how they grew," and a letter, [1888] Oct. 30, Concord, Mass., to Charlotte Fiske Bates, New York, regretting that Miss Bates cannot be a reader at a benefit for the Beneficent Society of the Conservatory of Music, and wishing her well in her new new home.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Hillard, George Stillman, 1808-1879. George Stillman Hillard letters, 1840-1866.

Title: George Stillman Hillard letters, 1840-1866.

Four autograph letters, signed, from George Stillman Hillard, all dated Boston, 1840-1866, discussing politics, literature, lecturing and professional engagements, and the state of the book trade.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (4 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711612596 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Badeau" to "Best".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Badeau" to "Best".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

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Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910. Letters to M. Bigelow and Charlotte Fiske Bates, n.d.

Title: Letters to M. Bigelow and Charlotte Fiske Bates, n.d.

Letter to Bigelow reports that Col. H sends him word that he cannot be at the Shakes. Club meeting on Feb. 9th and that he (Rolfe) must consent to take the part of Malvolio instead of Orsino, if Bigelow cannot make better arrangements for the former. In the letter to Bates, Rolfe praises a lecture by Miss Bates and thanks her for tickets to it, regretting that he could not stop after the lecture to tell her how much he had enjoyed it. In a postscript he says "The so-called 'lectures' I have been giving at the N.E. Conservatory are not lectures at all, but impromptu talks."

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 1838-1916. Papers of Charlotte Fiske Bates, 1886, n.d.

Title: Papers of Charlotte Fiske Bates, 1886, n.d.

The collection contains an undated fair copy, signed, of the poem "Love and death." In a letter, 1886 February 4, to William Winter, Bates offers her condolences on the death of his young son.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 1838-1916,. Autograph letter signed from Charlotte Fiske Bates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to William Winter, Staten Island [manuscript], 1911 March 19.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Charlotte Fiske Bates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to William Winter, Staten Island [manuscript], 1911 March 19.

Concerns subscribing to Harper's weekly.

ArchivalResource: 4 leaves ; 21 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319861292 View

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.)

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Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908. Letter to Madame Rogé (Charlotte Fiske Bates) [manuscript], 1907 February 22.

Title: Letter to Madame Rogé (Charlotte Fiske Bates) [manuscript], 1907 February 22.

Norton rejects Madame Roge's offer of a poem for the Longfellow centenary commemoration.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2p. on 1l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647805141 View

Papers, 1881-1944

Title: Papers, 1881-1944

Diaries and autobiography of Sarah Knowles Bolton, author and editor.

ArchivalResource: 1+1/2 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00463/catalog View

Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910,. Autograph letter signed from W.J. Rolfe to Miss Bates [manuscript], 1889 February 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed from W.J. Rolfe to Miss Bates [manuscript], 1889 February 23.

Mentions his article on the Sonnets and the magazines Shakespeariana and Poet-Lore.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318648941 View

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. Papers of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [manuscript], 1764-1934 (bulk 1830-1881).

Title: Papers of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [manuscript], 1764-1934 (bulk 1830-1881).

Collection contains portions or fragments of manuscripts, early drafts and fair copies of a variety of prose and verse. Correspondents, chiefly recipients, include George L. Austin, Arlo Bates, Charlottes Fiske Bates, Richard Bentley, D. Bogue, Robert Bonner, Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen, George W. Childs, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Frederic S. Cozzens, Charles Deane, Theodore S. Fay, W. P. Fessenden, J. T. Fields, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Sara Josepha Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, John Keese, Fanny Kemble, Edith Longfellow, Fanny Longfellow, James R. Lowell, H. H. Milman, John Neal, Charles Eliot Norton, J. W. Palmer, Epes Sargent, Minot J. Savage, Horace E. Scudder, Ann S. Stephens, Charles Sumner, W. W. Follett Synge, George G. Ticknor, Osmond Tiffany, [Henry T.?] Tuckerman, Samuel Ward, John F. Weir, and William A. Wheeler. The collection also contains some miscellaneous items including a court order in favor of Stephen Longfellow; and photographs of Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: ca. 290 items.

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Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 1838-1916. Letter : Washington, D.C., to Mrs. Edward Russell Jones, 1902 March 18.

Title: Letter : Washington, D.C., to Mrs. Edward Russell Jones, 1902 March 18.

Holograph signed. Encloses her autograph and some others.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves) ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22864766 View

Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902. Letters received, 1876-1877.

Title: Letters received, 1876-1877.

Letters received in response to a survey regarding the authorship of articles published in the Atlantic monthly. Scudder was preparing an index covering the years 1857-1876, a period when magazine pieces were frequently printed anonymously. The collection represents a gallery of New England authors of the mid-nineteenth century.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (letters tipped-in)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14407311 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

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.)

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Letter [manuscript] : Boston, to Charlotte Fiske Bates, 1873 November 29.

Title: Letter [manuscript] : Boston, to Charlotte Fiske Bates, 1873 November 29.

Howells writes to Charlotte Fiske Bates re her poem, "Dreams," which he plans to publish in "The Atlantic Monthly."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647807654 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

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

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

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Bates, Charlotte Fiske, 1838-1916,. Autograph letter signed from Charlotte Fiske Bates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to William Winter, Staten Island [manuscript], 1912 October 31.

Title: Autograph letter signed from Charlotte Fiske Bates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to William Winter, Staten Island [manuscript], 1912 October 31.

Bates thanks Winter for sending her a copy of his poem, delivered on his 75th birthday.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 21 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319861831 View

Bolton, Sarah Knowles, 1841-1916. Papers, 1881-1944 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1881-1944 (inclusive).

Diaries and autobiography including selections from her autobiography and journal that were edited by her son, Charles Bolton (1867-1950). Diary topics include travel, education of women, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the WCTU.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006922 View

Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop Collection, 1888-1913

Title: Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop Collection 1888-1913

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00309.xml View

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. The Longfellow birthday-book, 1881.

Title: The Longfellow birthday-book, 1881.

ArchivalResource: iv, 398 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82211047 View

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Papers of William Dean Howells [manuscript], 1866-1919.

Title: Papers of William Dean Howells [manuscript], 1866-1919.

The papers of William Dean Howells,1866-1919, include reviews, stories, and poems, letters, and portraits. Manuscripts include poems "The thorn," "The pilot's story," Thanksgiving," "John Brown," "To Francis Wilson," "Presentiments," and an untitled sonnet to Dorothy Dudley; short stories "At third hand," and "Captain Dunlevy's last trip"; reviews of work by Brand Whitlock, J.M. LeMoine, essays on Rudyard Kipling, John Fiske, and American and English literature; quotation, and page proofs of "A retrospect of Lowell." Topics in the correspondence include editorial work for Harpers, Century, and Atlantic Monthly, advice on writing, translation and publication, his own writing including divorce as a theme, proofreading, lecture tours particularly a westen one in 1899, and his family. He also mentions rumors concerning the visit of the Russian fleet during the Civil War, the Boston fire of 1872, the panic of 1873, the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the Century Club, Italian travel, 1883, the Authors Club, an accusation of anti-Catholicism, World War I, socialism, stage productions of his work, Iowa College (Grinnell), and the Pratt Institute. Significant correspondents include Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, James B. Pond, Arthur George Sedgwick, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Additional correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, Charlotte Fiske Bates, Sylvester Baxter, Alexander Black, Francis E. Bliss, H.C. Bunner, Madison Cawein, Julius Chambers, Frank Gaylor Cook, George William Curtis, Charles Anderson Dana, Mary Mapes Dodge, Annie Fields, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Jeanette L. Gilder, Edmund Gosse, Harper & Brothers, Lee F. Hartman, Nina R. Herzog, Aurelia Howells, Thomas A. Janvier, Elizabeth Jordan, Frederick T. Leigh, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, S.S. McClure, and Henry Loomis Nelson. Also Charles Eliot Norton, John B. O'Reilly, James R. Osgood, Grant Overton, William Morton Payne, Harry Thurston Peck, John J. Piatt, Cuyler Reynolds, William H. Rideing, Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs, John Codman Ropes, M. E. W. Sherwood, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Swinton, Celia Thaxter, Benjamin H. Ticknor, Ross Turner, George E. Waring, John F. Weir, Brand Whitlock, Gilson Willets, and James Grant Wilson. People mentioned include Jane Addams, Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Baily Aldrich, Irving Bachellor, Charles W. Balestier, Lawrence Barrett, Ole Bull, Francis Marion Crawford, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick A. Duneka, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gugleilmo Ferrero, John Galsworthy, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Ripley Hitchcock, Henry James, Robert Underwood Johnson, James Russell Lowell, Brander Matthews, George H. Mifflin, Henry Codman Potter, H. W. Preston, Horace E. Scudder, Richard Henry Stoddard, Turgenev, Mark Twain, Lester Wallack, and John F. Weir. Portraits include 6 pencil sketches of Howells enhanced with black and white ink and marked with printer's measurements for publication in an unidentified book or magazine article together with another portrait clipped from a magazine.

ArchivalResource: 342 items.

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