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Black, William, 1841-1898. Romeo & Juliet : a tale of two young fools : manuscript, 1886.

Title: Romeo & Juliet : a tale of two young fools : manuscript, 1886.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (32 leaves) ; 25 x 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49654717 View

McCabe, W. Gordon (William Gordon), 1841-1920. Papers of W. Gordon McCabe [manuscript], 1757-1920.

Title: Papers of W. Gordon McCabe [manuscript], 1757-1920.

The papers consist chiefly of McCabe's correspondence with prominent scholars, U.S. and British literary figures, and Civil War veterans. Topics include the Civil War, the Confederacy, Confederate veterans organizations, World War I, black suffrage, the University of Virginia, and British literature. Of particular interest are accounts of the destruction of Hampton and the seizing of the powder magazine at Norfolk, accounts of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and of Australian troops in Egypt, the retaining of Robert E. Lee's body in Lexington, Swedenborgianism in 1864, and Einstein's theory of relativity in 1920, the Rotunda fire, changes in the University of Virginia's degree program, and a controversy regarding professor William Howard Perkinson. Also of interest are a letter of Robert E. Lee on William Johnson Pegram, a letter of recommendation from Matthew Arnold, three pages of Thackeray's "The Virginians," a sonnet of Egerton Webbe copied and annotated by Leigh Hunt, two pages from John Richard Green's "Short history of the English people," Edmund Clarence Stedman's "The old admiral," and a poem on being seasick written in imitation of Tennyson by John Reuben Thompson. Tennyson items include a letter,1884 Aug 20 from Audrey Tennyson, brief social letters 1884 Nov 26 and 1888 Feb 12 from Lord Tennyson, a copy of "Carmen Saeculare, an Ode in Honor of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria," sent to McCabe, 1887 Aug 19, and a quotation by Tennyson, 1889 Aug 8. The papers also contain COPIES of letters including Edgar Allan Poe to John Collins McCabe critiquing a poem by McCabe; Thomas Jefferson to Francis Walker Gilmer re Gilmer's mission to obtain University of Virginia professors abroad; visits to Tennyson by McCabe, 1884 and 1887; Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie on her father's writing habits and a note to her from Robert Browning; Henry James on a promised volume and his "busy scribbling autumn"; and a letter of Stonewall Jackson to Robert E. Lee re the impending battle of Chancellorsville. There are papers, 1757-1796, of McCabe's ancestor George Taylor chiefly re his iron business in Easton, Pennsylvania including a plat of the site of present day Pittston, Pennsylvania, 1771. In addition there are class rolls from McCabe's University School, "The old Virginia gentleman" by George William Bagby, an autograph book, 1905 - 1908, an address book, 1920, and a replica of the great seal of the Confederacy, 1911.

ArchivalResource: 1,016 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647820111 View

William Black letters, 1872-1875

Title: William Black letters 1872-1875

Five letters and two printed portraits of Scottish novelist and outdoors man William Black. The letters concern his writing, his family, fishing, and dining.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7391 View

A.P. Watt (Firm). A.P. Watt & Son correspondence, 1883-1917.

Title: A.P. Watt & Son correspondence, 1883-1917.

Mostly testimonial letters from satisfied clients of A.P. Watt, praising his services. Many of the letters were published in promotional brochures. Two of these books, COLLECTION OF LETTERS ADDRESSED TO A.P. WATT BY VARIOUS WRITERS (London, 1893) & LETTERS ADDRESSED TO A.P. WATT (London, 1894), are included in the collection. There were other editions published in 1889, 1898, 1899, 1924, 1929, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299029251 View

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902. Autograph letter signed : to William Black, 1879 Feb. 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to William Black, 1879 Feb. 6.

Concerning the writer's lecture engagements.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270505509 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. William Black letter to Mrs. Jeaffreson, circa 1880 Dec. 22.

Title: William Black letter to Mrs. Jeaffreson, circa 1880 Dec. 22.

Black writes to Mrs. Jeaffreson (Jefferson?), 22 Dec. circa 1880, sending a copy of his book White Wings (published 1880) for her collection, and wishing her a heartfelt holiday greeting.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62736210 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. White wings : a yachting romance : manuscript, [188-?].

Title: White wings : a yachting romance : manuscript, [188-?].

Autograph manuscript, undated.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (239 leaves) ; 21 x 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49374346 View

Shepard, Charles O., 1840-1928. Charles O. Shepard papers, 1862-1914.

Title: Charles O. Shepard papers, 1862-1914.

Personal letters to Shepard from diplomat Eugene Schuyler, Baltimore Bishop James Gibbons, Light Brigade survivor Sir George Orby Wombwell, poet and author Bret Harte, novelist William Black, and others, [1867]-1914. Includes letters to Frank Severance regarding Shepard's donations to the Buffalo Historical Society. Also, commissions, appointments, passport, and other papers concerning Shepard's Civil War and diplomatic service; his paper "Evening of Life Thoughts; and several newspaper clippings regarding his career in Japan and his gifts to the Buffalo Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: (0.25 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191767454 View

John Endicott Peabody autograph album, 1816-1885.

Title: John Endicott Peabody autograph album, 1816-1885.

Autograph album of 19th century historical and literary figures compiled by John Endicott Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01513/catalog View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Sunrise : [draft of the novel] / by William Black.

Title: Sunrise : [draft of the novel] / by William Black.

ArchivalResource: iv. + 300 (with addition of 25a & 75a) + iii pages, bound.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82136869 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. White Heather : manuscript, 1885.

Title: White Heather : manuscript, 1885.

Autograph manuscript.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (305 leaves) ; 21 x 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49374325 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Three feathers : manuscript, 1875.

Title: Three feathers : manuscript, 1875.

Incomplete autograph manuscript.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 21 x 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49374323 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Macleod of Dare : manuscript, n.d.

Title: Macleod of Dare : manuscript, n.d.

The autograph manuscript, with holograph corrections, of Black's novel MACLEOD OF DARE.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (234 p.) ; 22 x 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84681463 View

Rogers Memorial Collection: Photographs, prints, and drawings, ca. 1600-1936 (bulk: 1861-1936)

Title: Rogers Memorial Collection: Photographs, prints, and drawings, ca. 1600-1936 (inclusive), 1861-1936 (bulk).

Photographs, prints, drawings, and other images collected by Henry Munroe Rogers and Clara Kathleen Rogers.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01908/catalog View

Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge), 1825-1900. Correspondence of R.D. Blackmore, 1858 - 1899

Title: Correspondence of R.D. Blackmore

With members of his family and friends, relating to personal affairs, fruit raising & his novels; with publishers and magazine editors dealing with the publication and illustration of his works; and other letters dealing with copyright laws, treatment of authors by publishers and magazine editors, and the formation of the Incorporated Society of Authors, London. Correspondents include: Henry Mills Alden, Miss Carrie? Alger, James Baker, Saxe Bannister, Mackenzie Bell, Mr. Benson, Mrs. Annie Wood Besant, Sir Walter Besant, V.J. Briscoe, William Black, John Blackmore, William Blackwood, Ford Madox Brown, Charles William Burrows, Hall Caine, Gordon Bluett Campbell, Wallace Hugh Cathcart, Arthur Henry Clark, Frances Cotton Collins "Mrs. Mortimer Collins", Mortimer Collins, Thomas Uttermare Cross, A.W. Croxton, James Davies, Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee, W. Courthorpe Forman, Frau Käthe Freiligrath, James Hamilton Fyfe, Richard Gordon, Christine M. Demain Hammond, Paul Hamilton Hayne, William Earl Hodgson, Robert Hogg, Albert Jenkins Humbert, Margaret Raine Hunt "Mrs. Alfred William Hunt", Alexander Kennedy Isbister, Edwin Jacobs, Harriet Jay, Mrs. Kathleen Kirton, F. Kraashni, Eliza M. Lynch, R. McClure, Mrs. McLane, Donald Macleod, Thomas Robert Macquoid, Edward Marston, Robert Bright Marston, Gordon S. Maxwell, David Meldrum, Guy Saint Morey, Louis Fairfax Muckley, Arthur Joseph Munby, Hugh Murray, Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Sir Richard Owen, Eden Phillpotts, Adalgisa Pinto Leite, Agnes Maguire Pinto Leite "Mrs. Alfred Pinto Leite", "Dolly", Alfred Pinto Leite, Eva Pinto Leite, Manoël Pinto Leite, Miss Isabel Saunders, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Sir Leslie Stephen, Alexander Balfour Symington, William Tayler, James Walter, Henry Snowden Ward, Sir Thomas Herbert Warren, Alexander Pollock Watt, Harrison William Weir.

ArchivalResource: 370 items.

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/archival/items/u3901923 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Portrait of William Black [manuscript], ca. 1877-1883.

Title: Portrait of William Black [manuscript], ca. 1877-1883.

Oval portrait photograph reproduced by the Woodbury process.

ArchivalResource: 1 photo. : 11 x 9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647828178 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Letter to [?]. London, Eng. [18--] Apr. 25.

Title: Letter to [?]. London, Eng. [18--] Apr. 25.

Complying with her request.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/308228852 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Letter from William Black, with related material.

Title: Letter from William Black, with related material. ca. 1887.

Comprises 1 autograph letter from Black to an unnamed recipient dated 15 November (with a transcript), 1 autographed portrait photograph of him, 3 signatures, 1 of which is a facsimile by a bookseller dated 3 February 1887 advertising some of his novels, and a printed flyer by Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, London for cheap volumes of his novels with a photograph of him inset. The bound volume also contains a typescript biography of Black.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter (2 ff. conjoined), 1 signed port. photograph, 3 signatures, and 1 bookseller's flyer, all held in 1 envelope, manuscript and printed material.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54873598 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Letter to [Walter] Besant. Brighton, Eng. [1885?] June 21.

Title: Letter to [Walter] Besant. Brighton, Eng. [1885?] June 21.

Inviting him to lunch tomorrow with Thomas Hardy.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122464617 View

Black, William, 1841-1898,. Autograph letter signed from William Black, Brighton, to William Winter [manuscript], 1911 October 4 Sunday.

Title: Autograph letter signed from William Black, Brighton, to William Winter [manuscript], 1911 October 4 Sunday.

Black discusses Scotland and Winter's "enforced stay at Iona." He also mentions Winter's Grey days and gold. Postscript specifically mentions the Stratford portion of Grey days and gold, including the location of New Place and the Guild Chapel and the name of Shakespeare's son-in-law, Thomas Quiney. On mourning paper letterhead of Paston House, Paston Place, Brighton.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/610576297 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Ladies club : manuscript, [188-?] / by William Black.

Title: Ladies club : manuscript, [188-?] / by William Black.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (7 leaves) ; 34 x 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49374162 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

Black, William, 1841-1898,. Autograph letter signed from William Black to James [manuscript], [19th century].

Title: Autograph letter signed from William Black to James [manuscript], [19th century].

Writes of Robert Bright Marston and Thomas Morten coming to see him.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230394614 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Stand fast, Craig-Royston! : a novel : manuscript, 1889 / by William Black.

Title: Stand fast, Craig-Royston! : a novel : manuscript, 1889 / by William Black.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (284 leaves) ; 21 x 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81642619 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. William Black letter to James R. Osgood? : Brighton, Eng. : ALS, 1889 Feb. 14.

Title: William Black letter to James R. Osgood? : Brighton, Eng. : ALS, 1889 Feb. 14.

Sending a copy of his Judith Shakespeare.

ArchivalResource: [1] p. ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26284982 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. The handsome Humes : manuscript, 1892.

Title: The handsome Humes : manuscript, 1892.

Autograph manuscript of "The Handsome Humes," dated Brighton, 1892.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (266 leaves) ; 21 x 14 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49654698 View

Mack, Florence,. Autographs.

Title: Autographs. ca. 1900.

Collection of 28 autographs of 19th century American and British writers, artists, and politicians.

ArchivalResource: 28 items (2 env.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11845375 View

Black, William, 1841-1898,. Autograph letters signed from William Black, London, to Lilian Adelaide Neilson [manuscript], [1868?].

Title: Autograph letters signed from William Black, London, to Lilian Adelaide Neilson [manuscript], [1868?].

The first letter accompanied the gift of one of his books, which "tells the story of a woman of genius, who played Rosalind." The second thanks her for sending him Dr. Marston's critique.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281648988 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

English literature mss., ca. 1750-ca. 1979

Title: English literature mss., ca. 1750-ca. 1979

Consists of individual items acquiredseparately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety ofsources, relating to English literature. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 195 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA3049 View

Parrish, Morris Longstreth, 1867-1944,. Morris L. Parrish collection of Victorian novelists, 1806-1958 (bulk 1830s-1930s).

Title: Morris L. Parrish collection of Victorian novelists, 1806-1958 (bulk 1830s-1930s).

ArchivalResource: 72.4 linear feet (83 archival boxes, 1 half-size archival box, 17 shelves containing bound volumes, and cased, boxed, and oversize items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122337892 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Letter to James [?]. Brighton, Eng. [1891?] June 3.

Title: Letter to James [?]. Brighton, Eng. [1891?] June 3.

Extending an invitation to lunch on Thursday.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/148541344 View

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912. Letters, [ca. 1894-1896].

Title: Letters, [ca. 1894-1896].

[1] n.y., September 3, London [1 l.].--"I am sorry for Mr. Gosse's sake that I have interfered with his topic"; sends a poem. [2] n.y., November 25, St. Andrews, Scotland, to Miss Shield [2 p.].--Discusses a book he sent her. [3] n.y., December 6, St. Andrews, Scotland [1 l.].--Returns check. [4] n.y., June 29, London, to Mrs. Anne Thackeray Ritchie [3 p.]. A newspaper clipping is included.--Discusses his recent article on Thackeray for a new Encyclopedia. [5] n.y., April 25, London [4 p.]. With typed transcript.--Discusses terms for a German translation of one of Lang's books about ancient Greece. "You had better correct my errors in notes." [6] 1894, December 17, St. Andrews, Scotland, to Sir Sidney Colvin [3 p.].--Discusses the death of Robert Louis Stevenson. "There is nobody left fit to tie his shoe lace, and has not been, since Thackeray died." [7] 1896, July 27, London, to Sir Sidney Colvin [3 p.].--Discusses a book he has written. Refers to James Matthew Barrie, William Black, John Galt, and Sir Walter Scott.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145429952 View

Black, William, 1841-1898. William Black letter : Glasgow : ALS, 1863 Oct. 15.

Title: William Black letter : Glasgow : ALS, 1863 Oct. 15.

Re his story, James Merle.

ArchivalResource: [1] p. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26285012 View

John Lawrence Toole autograph collection, 1750-1903 and undated.

Title: John Lawrence Toole autograph collection, 1750-1903 and undated.

Autograph album and correspondence of English actor and theatrical manager John Lawrence Toole.

ArchivalResource: 3 volumes (.33 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00710/catalog View

Black, William, 1841-1898. Mad cap Violet : manuscript, [1897].

Title: Mad cap Violet : manuscript, [1897].

Autograph manuscript of "Madcap Violet," undated.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (218 leaves) ; 21 x 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49374321 View

A. P. Watt & Son, 1883-1917.

Title: A. P. Watt & Son, 1883-1917.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (240 items in 2 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079831 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

Black, William, 1841-1898. Judith Shakespeare [manuscript] : her love-affairs and other adventures, [ca.1884] / by William Black.

Title: Judith Shakespeare [manuscript] : her love-affairs and other adventures, [ca.1884] / by William Black.

ArchivalResource: 240 leaves ; 20 x 12 cm mounted to 21.5 x 14 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244112030 View