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Housman, Sarah. Commonplace book, 1817-1836.

Title: Commonplace book, 1817-1836.

Commonplace book, in various hands, signed "Sarah Housman, 1817". Including contributions by Robert Fletcher Housman (b. 1807), son of Robert Housman (1759-1838), and extracts from "The desultory man," by G.P.R. James.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (150 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54744632 View

Sass, George Herbert, 1845-1908. George Herbert Sass papers, 1859-1933.

Title: George Herbert Sass papers, 1859-1933.

Personal and business correspondence between George Herbert Sass and his family, re family news, Reconstruction, southern culture, and Sass' literary work. Including letters, May-June 1859, Charleston, S.C., to his mother, re traveling North, school life and expenses, servants, and living conditions; letter, June 1866, Savannah, Ga., from John Barnwell Elliott, re book purchases and Savannah social life; letters, 1870-1873, Walterboro, S.C., and Bernham, Texas, from Peter Jehu Malone, re literary matters, legal affairs, and moving to Texas; letter, 10 Feb. 1876, Savannah, Ga., from Edwin Booth, re Sass' criticism of Booth's literary efforts while in Charleston. Letter, 31 Dec. 1881, Copse Hill, Ga., from Paul Hamilton Hayne, recommending Sass' poetry to a publisher; letter, 22 Mar. and 12 Apr. 1903, Eau Claire, Wis., from Charles L. James, re novels of George Payne Rainsford James; letters, 12 Jan. 1905 and 16 Jan. 1905, Princeton, N.J., from Henry Van Dyke, to John Pendleton Kennedy Bryan and G.H. Sass, re literary matters; letter, 28 Feb. 1904, Assouan, Egypt, from Daniel Henry Chamberlain, re reaction to Sass' work by German, English, and American readers. Letter, 11 Nov. 1907, Chillicothe, Oh., from John Bennett, re materials used in his biography; undated letter, Charleston, S.C., to Herbert Ravenel Sass, discussing writing styles, becoming a better writer, and family news; and articles, 11 Nov. 1933, re Reconstruction in Charleston and Cainhoy Riot [16 Oct. 1876] at which 6 men died following a speech in which Martin Delany endorsed Wade Hampton's bid for governor.

ArchivalResource: 60 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43147033 View

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860. Christian Lacy : tale of the Salem witchcraft, [ca. 1850].

Title: Christian Lacy : tale of the Salem witchcraft, [ca. 1850].

Bound holographic manuscript, written in ink, and containing James' edits and signature. This romance story is set in Salem, Mass. in 1691; the main characters are devoted to each other in spite of witchcraft charges against Lacy's mother.

ArchivalResource: 19 p. ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29353551 View

James, George Payne Rainsford, 1799-1860. Autograph letter signed : [New York], to an unidentified correspondent, 1852.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [New York], to an unidentified correspondent, 1852.

Regretting he has no copy of his speech at the Cooper meeting but sending a cutting from the Herald, reporting it.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269532414 View

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859. Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 327 items, 1801-1859

Title: Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 327 items, 1801-1859

The Leigh Hunt manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph draft of his poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me"; a holograph fragment of his preface to Shelley's Masque of Anarchy; and his address book circa the mid-1850s. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1817 and 1826 and discusses his experiences in Italy, including the death of Shelley; family matters; and publishing business. Correspondents include: the Irish poet William Allingham; the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham; the writer and painter William Hazlitt; the writers Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley; and over seventy others.

ArchivalResource: 327 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297235105 View

Brainard, Charles Henry, 1817-1885. Papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Title: Charles Henry Brainard papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Autograph album (1858-1884), a letter book (1855-1883), and a scrapbook of letters and autographs (1795-1857 and undated) of American print dealer, publisher, and historian, Charles Henry Brainard.

ArchivalResource: 4 volumes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01547/catalog View

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860. Letter to [?]. [Kent, Eng.]. 1844 Aug. 20.

Title: Letter to [?]. [Kent, Eng.]. 1844 Aug. 20.

Concerning the publication of the fourth volume of Richard Cour de Lion.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122407288 View

Hughes, Robert W. (Robert William), 1821-1901. Papers, 1818-1900.

Title: Papers, 1818-1900.

Prominent correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Chester A. Arthur, George Bancroft, Benjamin F. Butler, Lewis Cass, Claudius Crozet, J.M.L. Curry, John Moncure Daniel, John Warwick Daniel, J.D.B. DeBow, Benjamin S. Ewell, Ulysses S. Grant, James Barron Hope, G.P.R. James, Joseph E. Johnston, W.H.F. Lee, James Longstreet, John S. Mosby, Bishop Alfred Magill Randolph, and William Fanning Wickham (concerning his father John Wickham and members of the Richmond Bar including John Marshall.).

ArchivalResource: 103 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22845508 View

Bryant, John Cullen,. American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1795-1943.

Title: American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1795-1943.

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 John Jules Jusserand to William Henry Irwin and James Brown Scott and others discuss Irwin's voyage, a recent address, and Jusserand's departure for France after many years in the United States "a country he had learned to love and admire in peace and wartime." John Pendleton Kennedy papers include a letter to Captain William Mervine, 1852, granting leave; a letter to Annie J. Statin, 1861, concerning a genealogical inquiry ; a letter to Edward L. Welles, 1853, sending his autograph; a letter signed with other Congressman, recomending Samuel Turner of Boston for a position; a letter, 1860, to an insurance company about a planned house addition; an undated autograph and a 1943 newsclipping about him. Fitzhugh Lee writes to John Cullen Bryant, 1902, about a photograph and to J[ames?] M[cCormick?] Dalzell, 1885, declining to attend a reunion. John Livingston Lowes writes to Atcheson Hench about various Coleridge items for sale, 1027-1929. Single letters of interest include Sir William Jenner declining an invitation; Henry Arthur Jones to Joseph Hodeges Choate on tours of "Blenheim"; and a lengthy letter from Thomas Jordan to P.G.T. Beauregard regarding the possibility of a book on Beauregard's Civil War operations and discussing his action at several battles particularly Shiloh, and Petersburg, and criticizing the actions of Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg, and Cold Harbor, and Braxton Bragg at Chickamauga. Also Joseph Wood Krutch to J. John Munson on his biography of Edgar Allan Poe; Mary Elizabeth Latrobe to Dolley Madison on her life in Pittsburg in 1812; Richard Henry Lee conveying orders of General Ripley, 1815; Benjamin Watkins Leigh to Henry A. Wise about the 1839 Whig National Convention; John Letcher to Henry A. Wise regarding the dismissal of Wise's son from the Virginia Military Institute; David Ross Locke (Petroleum V. Nasby) sending regrets; Marianne Preble Longfellow[Fuller] to Anne Longfellow [Pierce] on a journey to New York with her father William Pitt Preble; and John Lubbock advising P. O'Callagnan on Athenaeum Club election. The collection also contains an autograph of George Payne Rainsford James; a safe passage order for Richard C. Talbott signed by Andrew Johnson, 1865; a schoolboy paper by Stephen J. Joyce on his grandfather James Joyce; a signed receipt from Beverley Dandridge to Frederick Kitt "to purchase sundries for the President's household"; and a speech of John Lane on the publishing and collecting world of his youth.

ArchivalResource: circa 33 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648014476 View

Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872,. Letters from celebrated authors and other eminent men, 1847-1887.

Title: Letters from celebrated authors and other eminent men, 1847-1887.

The volumes contain original letters tipped onto the leaves. The principal writers are: John Blackwood, Isaac Butt, Thomas Carlyle, Wilkie Collins, the Earl of Derby, Charles Dickens, Maria Edgeworth, John Forster, T. C. Grattan, James Hudson, G. P. R. James, Henry James, Henry L. Jephson, Charles Kent, A. W. Kinglake, Edward Lear, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Anne Lever, Samuel Lover, Lord Lytton, Lord Robert Bulwer Lytton, James McGlashan, the Earl of Malmesbury, W. H. Maxwell, Mrs. Oliphant, John L. O'Sullivan, Mortimer O'Sullivan, Edmund Phipps, W. H. Russell, George A. Sala, Peter C. Scarlett, George Smith, Alexander Spencer, William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, John Francis Waller, James Whiteside, William Henry Wills, Lascelles Wraxall, Edmund Yates, and Sir Henry Yule. Also included are a few letters to others, mostly members of Lever's family; notices of his death; and a lock of his hair (vol. 1 fol. 48).

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79458311 View

Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864. Letter : Bath, England, to [George Payne Rainsford] James, [ca. 1842] Dec. 13.

Title: Letter : Bath, England, to [George Payne Rainsford] James, [ca. 1842] Dec. 13.

Autograph letter signed. Landor writes about having received a copy of James's work entitled Jacquerie, friends in Bath, poverty and unemployment in different regions of England, and a bill that would reduce the number of hours children could work in factories.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83303230 View

James, George Payne Rainsford, 1799-1860. Autograph letter signed : Farnham, to an unidentified correspondent, 1848 Nov. 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Farnham, to an unidentified correspondent, 1848 Nov. 6.

Concerning the Duchess of Northumberland's subscription list for the work they plan for Mrs. Burbury's benefit.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269524818 View

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860. Autograph letter signed G.P.R. James to: "Dear Sirs [Ticknor, Field & Co.] June 3, 1857.

Title: Autograph letter signed G.P.R. James to: "Dear Sirs [Ticknor, Field & Co.] June 3, 1857.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70814406 View

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860. George Payne Rainsford James manuscript material : 2 items, 1840-1853

Title: George Payne Rainsford James manuscript material : 2 items, 1840-1853

· To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Jun 1840 : (BLES 3.232) : from 2 Verulam Place, Hastings : begins, "I have just received your letter, and yesterday got the packet and proof to which you allude ..." Mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes. · To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Mar 1853 : (BLES 3.233) : from British Consulate, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. : begins, "You must have been misinformed in regard to my acquaintance with the late Countess of Blessington, which was extremely slight ..."; refers Madden to his "admirable friend" Walter Savage Landor. Mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.

ArchivalResource: 2 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/697320901 View

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860. Letter and autograph of G.P.R. James, 1851-1853.

Title: Letter and autograph of G.P.R. James, 1851-1853.

A letter, 1851 December 3, James thanks an unnamed architect who is proposing to build him a house. After discussing details of vestibule and hall James says "Every one here with whom I have spoken, assures me that the filling up with soft brick will not answer in this place, as from some defect in the manufacture or material, for many miles around, the brick buldings have always proved damp." Therefore he proposes to use hemlock boards which he can "furnishƯ myself at the rate of ten dollars per thousand feet." He is "exceedingly anxious to know what length it would be advisable to cut my pine and hemlock timber, as I have now about a hundred and fifty thousand feet felled."

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63662182 View

James, George Payne Rainsford, 1799-1860. Autograph letter signed : Menasha, Wisconsin, to J. Kennedy Furlong, 1855 Sept. 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Menasha, Wisconsin, to J. Kennedy Furlong, 1855 Sept. 24.

Concerning an applicant for employment.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269530237 View

Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857. Papers, 1835-1856.

Title: Rufus W. Griswold papers, 1835-1856.

Correspondence of American editor and literary critic Rufus W. Griswold.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01234/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

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860. The gipsy : manuscript, [ca. 1835]

Title: The gipsy : manuscript, [ca. 1835]

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (272 leaves) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612767829 View

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860. Letter to Tartt. [s.l.]. 1842 May 6.

Title: Letter to Tartt. [s.l.]. 1842 May 6.

Requesting a time to meet Tartt in town on Monday.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122464627 View

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1799-1860. G. P. R. James collection, 1825-1858.

Title: G. P. R. James collection, 1825-1858.

Consists of correspondence of James.

ArchivalResource: 0.50 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82745457 View

Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 332 items, 1801-1859

Title: Leigh Hunt manuscript material : 332 items 1801-1859

Leigh Hunt, English poet, journalist, and literary critic. The Leigh Hunt manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph draft of his poem, "Jenny Kiss'd Me"; a holograph fragment of his preface to Shelley's Mask of Anarchy; and his address book circa the mid-1850s. The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1817 and 1826 and discusses his experiences in Italy, including the death of Shelley; family matters; and publishing business. Correspondents include: the Irish poet William Allingham; the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham; the writer and painter William Hazlitt; the writers Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley; and over seventy others.

ArchivalResource: 332 items

http://archives.nypl.org/cps/19615 View

James, George Payne Rainsford, 1799-1860. The life and adventures of John Marston Hall / by ... [George Payne Rainsford James].

Title: The life and adventures of John Marston Hall / by ... [George Payne Rainsford James].

ArchivalResource: 3 v in 2 (v, 333,320,321 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230666138 View

James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), 1801?-1860. Letter to Webster Eyre. [Kent, Eng.]. 1844 May 3.

Title: Letter to Webster Eyre. [Kent, Eng.]. 1844 May 3.

Concerning the date of his next trip to London; giving his opinion of a play, Fortune Hunting.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122610275 View

Boyd, Robert K., 1845?-. Robert Knowles Boyd letters : Eau Claire, Wis., to Edith M. Smith, Aurora, Ill., 1925-1927.

Title: Robert Knowles Boyd letters : Eau Claire, Wis., to Edith M. Smith, Aurora, Ill., 1925-1927.

Five letters, Oct. 28, 1925 - Feb. 13, 1927, from Boyd to his cousin, Edith M. Smith, discussing the reception of his pamphlets about the Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier in the 1860's and 1870's.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 linear feet (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34241982 View

James, George Payne Rainsford, 1799-1860. Letter to [?]. Christus Hotel. 1844 May 26.

Title: Letter to [?]. Christus Hotel. 1844 May 26.

Concerning the title of his book and certain corrections.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122371624 View

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)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog 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

Abell, Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe, d. 1871. The Blessington papers : manuscript albums, 1818-1856

Title: The Blessington papers : manuscript albums, 1818-1856

Chiefly comprised of correspondence addressed to the Irish-born writer and literary hostess Lady Blessington, the Blessington Papers were compiled by Richard Robert Madden for the composition of his Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington (1855). Notable correspondents among the several hundred include the English novelist Charles Dickens, the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, and the English poet Walter Savage Landor. Also included are literary manuscripts; over forty are by Lady Blessingtion herself, while others are by submitters to the journals she edited. Much of the correspondence is published, both in Madden's life of Blessington, and in The Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents Fomred by Alfred Morrison (2nd ser., 1882-1893), "The Blessington Papers" (1895).

ArchivalResource: 6 volumes (containing 748 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702167656 View