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Kane, Gerald John, 1901-1957. Collection of Gerald John Kane - Literary, 1571-1951.

Title: Collection of Gerald John Kane - Literary, 1571-1951.

This collection is what is known as an autograph collection and Kane spent years, not only collecting autographs of famous people on his own, but also acquiring the collections of other autograph seekers. This material spans multiple centuries and formats: from a 15th century manuscript on vellum to a 1951 typewritten letter. The collection includes accounts, letters, photographs, poems, government papers and royal proclamations, signed by, among others, actors and actresses, authors, explorers, kngs, magicians, queens, politicians, scientists, singers, and soldiers. Many of the famous people in this collection are also to be found in other manuscript collections in the Huntington Library. The majority of the material consists of manuscripts, letters and documents written, or signed, by famous people from the 17th-early 20th centuries; some of the material consists of only fragments or signatures, collected for the autograph value only. Among the correspondents are: Lyman Abbott, Zoë Akins, Henry Mills Alden, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell (Duke of Argyll), Charles Babbage, Joanna Baillie, Alice Stone Blackwell, John Bright, Richard Temple Brydges (Duke of Buckingham and Chandos), José Francisco Correia da Serra, Rebecca Harding Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Annie Fields, J.T. Fields, Richard Watson Gilder, W.E. Gladstone, Grace Greenwood, Anna Maria Hall, Samuel Carter Hall, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Irving, Julia Marlowe, Thomas Power O'Connor, Arthur Wellesley Peel (Viscount Peel), Kate Sanborn, Sir Walter Scott, Upton Sinclair, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Queen Victoria, and Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington). The collection also includes a small number of Ecclesiastical and Financial documents, and a larger amount of Legal, Military, and Misc. documents. The documents include accounts, certificates, commissions, Letters Patent, marriage settlements, receipts, special marriage licenses, wills, and warrants. One of the documents is related to Queen Victoria, and others are signed by various kings of France.

ArchivalResource: 1520 pieces.30 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755760425 View

Norton, Andrews, 1786-1853. Letters, 1840 August 14-1851 September 9, Cambridge, to G. Ticknor, Woods Hole and [Cambridge].

Title: Letters, 1840 August 14-1851 September 9, Cambridge, to G. Ticknor, Woods Hole and [Cambridge].

Asks Ticknor for a recommendation of a nurse or a female attendant for Catharine Lecointe who is to return to England. Appreciates Milman's kind words about him (Norton). He will be distributing copies of Miss Baillie's works.

ArchivalResource: 4 items. 15-25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3927853 View

Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to Lady Beaumont, 1827 Feb. 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to Lady Beaumont, 1827 Feb. 21.

A letter of sympathy on the death of Sir George Beaumont.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270622342 View

Grant, Mary, d. 1827. Correspondence, 1810-1834.

Title: Correspondence, 1810-1834.

Correspondence of Mary Grant, daughter of British author Anne MacVicar Grant, begins shortly after the Lowell family stayed with the Grants in Scotland in 1810. Leaving their children with Anne and Mary Grant for boarding and schooling, Francis C. Lowell, Hannah Lowell, and her sister Harriet Jackson travelled in France and England until 1812. Anne and Mary corresponded with the Lowells, reporting on Susan's and John's progress. Later letters of Harriet Jackson and Mary Grant concern mutual friends and social, religious, and literary happenings in Britain and the U.S. Some figures discussed include Joanna Baillie, Thomas H. Gallaudet, Rev. Francis Parkman, and George Ticknor.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18422265 View

Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Autograph letter signed J Baillie to: Mr. Mylne March 22, [s.d.].

Title: Autograph letter signed J Baillie to: Mr. Mylne March 22, [s.d.].

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70813306 View

Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Letter: [1826] Jan. 24, Hampstead [London] to Allan Cunningham / J. Baillie.

Title: Letter: [1826] Jan. 24, Hampstead [London] to Allan Cunningham / J. Baillie. [1826]

Acknowledging the present of a collection of songs and ballads. Wishing every success with publication of the collection.

ArchivalResource: [2]p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606130342 View

Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Letter, ca. 1820.

Title: Letter, ca. 1820.

Handwritten and signed letter fragment. The items is not dated. Baillie states she has received a letter from "your sister."

ArchivalResource: 1 photocopy (1 page)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367573271 View

Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Uprouse ye, then, my merry men : [clipping of poem, accompanied by ten parodies].

Title: Uprouse ye, then, my merry men : [clipping of poem, accompanied by ten parodies]. [between 1845 and 1955]

Clippings of Joanna Baillie's poem "Uprouse ye, then, my merry men" and eight parodies. Three of the poems have been collected twice. Clippings are individually mounted on leaves and encapsulated, with ms. notes. Also includes typed copies of two parodies, leaves encapsulated.

ArchivalResource: [14] pieces ([12] clippings, [2] leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214117586 View

Joanna Baillie letters, 1821 and undated

Title: Joanna Baillie letters 1821 and undated

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6863 View

English-language manuscript verse in the Houghton Library: First-line index, ca. 1000-ca. 1820.

Title: English-language manuscript verse in the Houghton Library: First-line index ca. 1000-ca. 1820.

First-line index to English-language verse in manuscripts held in the Houghton Library that date from the Anglo-Saxon period to the eighteenth century.

ArchivalResource:

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01423/catalog View

Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855. Letters, 1802-1844.

Title: Letters, 1802-1844.

Responding to invitations; discussing his writing and travels; mentioning Charles Burney's death; referring someone to Edward Moxon.

ArchivalResource: 30 items, (53 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233117204 View

Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Letters to Andrews Norton, 1827-1850.

Title: Letters to Andrews Norton, 1827-1850.

Includes 39 autograph letters from Baillie to Norton concerning poetry and her works which he wished to publish in America.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.16 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84429823 View

Fales Portrait/Subject Collection, ca. 1800-Present

Title: Fales Portrait/Subject Collection ca. 1800-Present

The Portrait/Subject Collection consists of portraits and photographs of American and British authors, as well as a smaller number depicting actors, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 Linear feet; (6 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/portrait/portrait.html View

Smith, Harry B. (Harry Bache), 1860-1936. Papers, 1773-1935, (bulk 1890-1930).

Title: Papers, 1773-1935, (bulk 1890-1930).

Comprise correspondence, manuscripts, notes, scrapbooks, clippings, receipts, music scores, and a collection of autographs that reflect Smith's theater career and his interest in book and manuscript collecting primarily from 1890 to 1930. Smith collaborated on operas and operettas with Reginald DeKoven, Victor Herbert, Irving Berlin, Ivan Caryl, Jerome Kern, and John Philip Sousa, among others. His correspondence with his collaborators, actors, actresses, and publishers centers around his theater projects and book and manuscript collecting. Smith's own correspondence is interfiled with autograph letters he collected by well-known writers and actors such as Joanna Baillie, Dion Boucicault, George Coleman, Robert William Elliston, David Garrick, Charles John Kean, and Mitchell Kennerley. Writings by Smith include over fifty scenarios, synopses, and musical plays, as well as fictional pieces, articles about collecting books and manuscripts, and notes and drafts for A Sentimental Library (1914), Smith's catalog of his own library. Scrapbooks contain clippings and bibliographic information about a number of authors, including Lord Byron, Dickens, Shakespeare, and Thackeray.

ArchivalResource: 16 boxes (7 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122648359 View

Hemenway, Amy. Collection of autographs, 1791-1873

Title: Amy Hemenway collection of autographs, 1791-1873.

Autograph collection of American collector Amy Hemenway.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00456/catalog View

Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. Autograph letter signed with initials: Ashestiel [near Melrose], to the Marchioness of Abercorn, [1811] Sept. 18.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials: Ashestiel [near Melrose], to the Marchioness of Abercorn, [1811] Sept. 18.

Concerning Mr. Home's superannuation pension; discussing mutual acquaintances and a visit by the Kembles; mentioning some female authors, noting that "Miss Baillie is the only writing lady with whose manners in society I have been very much delighted;" reporting that Lucien Bonaparte's epic is to be printed in an edition of 10,000 copies and noting that he has declined to translate it; discussing the political situation in Scotland and mentioning that the Regent has request the Chief Baron accept the presidency.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 p., with address) ; 25.3 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/746930148 View

Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.

Title: Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.

Letters and a few manuscripts of prominent literary figures, statesmen, and politicians from the United States and Europe collected by American professor of English Albert Stephens Borgman.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00677/catalog View

Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. A Discontented mind to the night : autograph manuscript of the poem : [n.p., n.d.].

Title: A Discontented mind to the night : autograph manuscript of the poem : [n.p., n.d.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270875195 View

Hall, Louisa J. (Louisa Jane), 1802-1892. Letter, 1839 May 28, Worcester, to Thomas B. Curtis, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1839 May 28, Worcester, to Thomas B. Curtis, Boston.

Thanks him for sending her Ticknor's letter with the kind remarks about her. Mentions Miss Baillie.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3909195 View

Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Mrs. [Sarah] Bartley, "Friday Morning."

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Mrs. [Sarah] Bartley, "Friday Morning."

Telling her, " ... my sister & I were delighted on Wednesday evening with your Lady Macbeth."

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270623219 View

Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851. Joanna Baillie letters, 1821 and undated.

Title: Joanna Baillie letters, 1821 and undated.

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752980920 View

Papers, 1808-1888.

Title: Papers, 1808-1888.

Diaries and correspondence of English historical painter Benjamin Robert Haydon.

ArchivalResource: 35 v. and 2 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00516/catalog View

James Thomas Fields collection of autographs and portraits of distinguished women, 1814-1907.

Title: James Thomas Fields collection of autographs and portraits of distinguished women, 1814-1907.

Letters and portraits collected by the American publisher James Thomas Fields.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01490/catalog View

Vol. III. (ff 345) 1818-1847, and undated.includes:ff. 1, 41, 295, 308-317 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, composer: Correspondence with G. Thomson: 1817-1841. ff. 3-218 passim William Smyth, Professor of Modern History, Cambridge: Correspondence with G. T..., 1818-1847

Title: Vol. III. (ff 345) 1818-1847, and undated.includes:ff. 1, 41, 295, 308-317 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, composer: Correspondence with G. Thomson: 1817-1841. ff. 3-218 passim William Smyth, Professor of Modern History, Cambridge: Correspondence with G. T... 1818-1847

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966. Papers, 1681-1966 (bulk 1900-1960)

Title: Lewis Gannett papers, 1681-1966 (inclusive) 1900-1960 (bulk).

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks, legal and business papers, memorabilia, photos, and other papers, together with Gannett family papers. Includes correspondence of Gannett's grandfather and father, Unitarian clergymen Ezra Stiles Gannett of Boston and William Channing Gannett; 91 letters, 1796-1817, from Gannett's great-grandfather Caleb Gannett to John Mico Gannett, and journals of his grandmother Anna Tilden Gannett.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00670/catalog View

Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835. Autograph letter signed : Bronwylfa, [St. Asaph, Wales], to Joanna Baillie, 1824 Jan. 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Bronwylfa, [St. Asaph, Wales], to Joanna Baillie, 1824 Jan. 12.

Expressing her pleasure at Baillie's kind words for her play "The Vespers of Palermo", discussing plans to produce the play again with the support of Mr. Kemble despite the "unfortunate cirumstances" attending its premier, and refuting charges that the work was a translation of Casimir Delavigne's "Vêpres Siciliennes".

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 23.1 x 18.8 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779347194 View