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White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885,. Autograph letter initialed from Richard Grant White, New York, to Messrs. J.R. Osgood & Co [manuscript], 1881 April 9.

Title: Autograph letter initialed from Richard Grant White, New York, to Messrs. J.R. Osgood & Co [manuscript], 1881 April 9.

White thanks them for their readiness to comply with his wishes, but he is bound to give H.M. & Co (presumably Houghton Mifflin & Co.) his book for publication, assuming they agree to his terms.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 20 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/417075701 View

Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892,. Autograph letter signed from J.R. Osgood, Boston, to William Winter [manuscript], 1871 September 2.

Title: Autograph letter signed from J.R. Osgood, Boston, to William Winter [manuscript], 1871 September 2.

Osgood has received Winter's "programme for the Booth book." On letterhead of James R. Osgood & Co., publishers, Boston.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 20 x 14 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428983157 View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to James R. Osgood and Company, 1871 Dec. 18.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to James R. Osgood and Company, 1871 Dec. 18.

Thanking them for payment for a poem.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270590440 View

Howard, Blanche Willis, 1847-1898. Blanche Willis Howard papers [manuscript], 1878-1884, no date.

Title: Blanche Willis Howard papers [manuscript], 1878-1884, no date.

Collection contains the last page of her short story "Marigold-Michel" published in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 79, March 1897, together with handwritten title pages to "Marigold-Michel" and "The open door." A letter to a Miss Jacobsen, 1878 December, sends a requested autograph and notes that her "young girl friends" delight and encourage her and are "truer critics" than professionals. In a letter to James R. Osgood & Co., Howard discusses payment for "Guenn," the illustrations, and her copies. A reference to Mr. Simmons may refer to Edward Simmons on whom the character of Everett Hamor was based. The collection also contains two calling cards with autograph messages to friends; and a clipping, 1877 July 16, "Miss Howard in Germany."

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/722419229 View

Murfree, Mary Noailles, 1850-1922. Mary Noailles Murfree papers, 1877-1928.

Title: Mary Noailles Murfree papers, 1877-1928.

The collection consists of the papers of Mary Noailles Murfree from 1877-1929. The papers include correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, and photographs. The correspondence is mainly between Murfree and publishers concerning publication of her stories and books; there is also correspondence with her sister, Fanny Noailles Dickinson Murfree. The manuscripts include Murfree's book-length short story "Alleghany Winds and Waters," ten short stories, and fragments, and three short stories by her father William Law Murfree. Photographs are of the author and of her father.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122385853 View

Benjamin Holt Ticknor Papers, 1595-1935, (bulk 1850-1920)

Title: Benjamin Holt Ticknor Papers 1595-1935 (bulk 1850-1920)

Editor and publisher. Chiefly correspondence of American and British authors whose works were published by the Boston firms of Ticknor and Company and James R. Osgood and Company, with most of the letters addressed to Ticknor or to his daughter, Caroline Ticknor.

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items; 25 containers plus 1 oversize; 5.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010269 View

Rogers, Henry Munroe, 1839-1937,. 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.

The letters received by A. V. S. Anthony and Mary W. Anthony were written from 1853 to 1912, and include letters from Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Dean Howells, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Woodrow Wilson, Owen Wistar, and others. The letters received by James R. Osgood from 1862 to 1891 are from a variety of prominent 19th-century American and English writers, and include correspondents such as Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Lawrence Barrett, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, and Charles Dudley Warner. This series also contains a small amount of other correspondence, including several letters to Edwin Austin Abbey concerning a dinner in honor of Osgood, and a letter from Walt Whitman to an unidentified recipient. Finally, the collection includes a few short compositions by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Harriet Martineau, Mark Twain, and others.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612849447 View

Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1832-1944.

Records of Houghton Mifflin and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business. Includes cost books, sales books, invoice books, sheet stock books and ledgers;letterbooks, containing copies of outgoing letters, including correspondence of The Atlantic Monthly; scrapbooks; clippings; a few compositions and photographs; and diaries of Horace E. Scudder concerning his work as editor of the Riverside Magazine for Young People.

ArchivalResource: 123 volumes (55 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612205133 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

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Autograph letter signed : London, to Messrs. James Osgood & Co., [n.d.].

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Messrs. James Osgood & Co., [n.d.].

About the publication of a volume of his poems.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270623142 View

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949.

Title: Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949.

The Whitman collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Walt Whitman. There is personal and business correspondence from Whitman to family, friends, editors, and publishers, including Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, Julius Chambers, Moncure Conway, Nathan Hale, James R. Osgood and Company, George Routledge & Sons, William Sloane Kennedy, William Michael Rossetti, John Swinton, and Louisa Whitman. There are letters to Whitman from Civil War soldiers and from a number of writers, including Samuel Clemens, John Camden Hotten, William Douglas O'Connor, Allen Thorndike Rice, and Algernon Swinburne. There is also a small group of third-party correspondence to Whitman scholar George Rice Carpenter. Whitman's writings are well represented in the Rabinowitz and Van Sinderen gifts. The Writings subseries in the Van Sinderen gift includes subdivisions for autobiographical writings, diaries, lectures and speeches, notes and notebooks, outlines and proposals, poetry and the writing of others. The writings are present chiefly in galley proofs, many corrected and signed, and holograph manuscripts. Photographs and artistic representations of Whitman include work by well-known nineteenth century photographers, studios, and artists. There are photographs by Thomas Eakins, William Kurtz, Major & Knapp Engraving, and Brady National Photographic Art Gallery. Works of art include a bust of Whitman by Samuel Murray, a woodcut by Bertrand Zadig, and engravings by Samuel Hollyer, William James Linton, and Stephen Alonzo Schoff. Also of note are papers relating to George Whitman and New York Civil War regiments.

ArchivalResource: 11.65 linear ft. (17 boxes) + 1 broadside folder + 1 framed painting + 5 objects.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702172830 View

Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904. Autograph letter signed : Worcester, to James R. Osgood & Co., 1872 Aug. 31.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Worcester, to James R. Osgood & Co., 1872 Aug. 31.

Saying he cannoyt comply with their request.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (16mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270474507 View

Winter, William, 1836-1917. Papers, 1859-1915.

Title: Papers, 1859-1915.

This collection contains correspondence and documents, 1859-1915. Included are letters, largely congratulatory, from friends and colleagues in journalism and literature, concerning Winter's poems and reviews. Among the correspondents are Isaac Hill Bromley (1833-1898) and John Rose Greene Hassard (1836-1888). There are also contracts between Winter and his publishers, James R. Osgood and Company, 1880. Included are letters, 1898, written by John Russell Young (1840-1899), former managing editor of the Tribune, containing reminiscences, as well as a booklet of New York Sun newsclippings compiled by Winter in 1869. They refer to a bitter public feud which had erupted between Young and fellow Tribune journalist, Charles Anderson Dana (1819-1897).

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (30 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207181791 View

Oliver Wendell Holmes contracts with Ticknor and Fields, 1858-1900 (inclusive), 1859-1871 (bulk).

Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes contracts with Ticknor and Fields, 1858-1900 (inclusive), 1859-1871 (bulk).

Book contracts between the American humorist and poet Oliver WendellHolmes and Ticknor and Fields, Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00104/catalog View

Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911. Papers of George Cary Eggleston, 1874-1906.

Title: Papers of George Cary Eggleston, 1874-1906.

The papers contain the manuscript of "The Master of Warlock," an autographed passage from "A Rebel's Recollections, " correspondence, and a copy of an engraved portrait. Correspondence includes letters written as editor of various magazines. Of interest is a letter to Louisa May Alcott discussing his plans for "American Homes" magazine and stories he would like her to write for it. Other correspondence discusses publishers and publishing companies; origin, success, and sales of "Dorothy South"; problems with "A captain in the ranks"; his historical articles and books; sayings of famous men; Rossiter Raymond's "Cavalry Song"; friendship and poetry of Edmund Clarence Stedman; his brother Edward Eggleston; a lecture series; publishing advice for John Esten Cooke; social rules in Virginia, American supremacy in 1906; social invitations; his writing plans, health, and family. Correspondents include Alcott, Mary L. Booth, John Nathan Cobb, John Esten Cooke, Ernest Ingersoll, Robert Underwood Johnson, Harriet Mann (Olive Thorne) Miller, David Alexander Monro, J.R. Osgood & Company, James B. Pond, Edmund Clarence Stedman, the Rev. E.F. Strickland, John William Weidemeyer, Carolyn Melissa Winward, and William Wallace Young.

ArchivalResource: 27 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54077108 View

Alden, Timothy, 1736-1828. American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1753-1952.

Title: American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1753-1952.

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 Edmund Clarence Stedman to Louis Palma di Cesnola, Thomas D. English, Harrison Grey Fiske, Paul Hamilton Hayne, James R. Osgood & Co., Karl Knortz, William Henry Rideing, Charles Warren Stoddard and others include routine thanks and introductions and social notes and freqeuntly discuss literary matters. Alexander Hamilton Stephens writes to Paul Hamilton Hayne conveying personal news and critiquing two poems. Alexander H. H. Stuart writes to Lewis Jacob Cist, Henry R. Howland, the Rev. E. F. Strickland and others concerning routine matters and requests. Also shares some memories of Thomas Jefferson. John Reuben Thompson writes to Anna C. Lynch Botta, and Joseph Ripley Chandlerr on routine mattersand a lecture engagement. A sonnet is included. Henry Theodore Tuckerman writes to Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, Francis James Child, James T. Fields, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Lea & Blanchard, Benson John Lossing, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Edwin Percy Whipple, Nathaniel Parker Willis and others on literary, publishing and social matters, particularly his work on George Washington portaits, the inauguration of Houdon's statue of Washington at which Virginia Governor Floyd revealed his ignorance of art, and the completion of the statues at the base of the equestrian statue of Washington by Randolph Rogers. With these are several poems by Tuckerman. Martin Farquhar Tupper accepts an invitation, declines to join an association and sends thanks for a note and speciment paper and warns the sender against disseminating infidel and immoral periodicals. Single items of interest include Homer Saint-Gaudens to Charles Elmer Rice agreeing to do his best; Camille Saint-Saëns declining an invitation; John Singer Sargent thanks Sir George Henschel for an invitation (copy). Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Mary Russell Mitford on the lack of culture in the United States; Walter W. Skeat writes concerning his work on "Piers Plowman" and an unidentified manuscript; a letter from Wiliam Henry Smith to Charles Dickens on a visit to the house "Greenland"; Stephen Spender to Herbert W. K. Fitzroy concerning a stint as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia; Edward Stanly to Henry A. Wise on a challenge to duel; Frank R. Stockton sends Amelie Amélie Troubetzkoy apples from the Piedmont region. Also John Bannister Tabb to John Lane on publishing matters; John Taliaferro asks Tristam Burges to convey the principles of a claims commutation case to Muhlenberg; Littleton Waller Tazewell on a routine financial matter and an autograph request; Dr. James H. Thompson, 12th Maine surgeon reporting on medical cases; George Ticknor to Emma S. Robers enquiring after her father's health; Frances Trollope to mary Russell Mitford praising the "Our village" sketches and commenting on the London stage, the Kembles and Macready; Pierre Troubetzkoy writes concerning a painting of William Gladstone; and Lyon G. Tyler thanks Charles Elmer Rice for an offer of Tyler family information. The collection also contains four sermons on Old Testament texts, 1752-1778, at least one ty the Rev. Timothy Alden, Sr., of the Congregationalist church in Barnstable, Mass.; autographs of Dallas Lore Sharp, Jean Sibelius; a requisiton from J[erome?] J. Shedd, 1863, for lumber, nails and quicklime for the Union hospital at Acquia Creek; and a land grant signed by George W. Smith, 1811.

ArchivalResource: circa 85 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648014661 View

Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Title: Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Correspondence of American author and biographer James Parton withfamily members, professional associates, and personal friends as well as financialaccounts, photographs, genealogies, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01317/catalog View

Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1866-1968.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1866-1968.

Records of the Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company and its predecessors.

ArchivalResource: 124 volumes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00004/catalog View

Houghton Mifflin Company. Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Records of Houghton Mifflin and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business. Includes a voluminous file of incoming letters, chiefly post-1870, from authors published by the firm; some correspondence with other publishers; a few compositions; and a small file of editorial correspondence of The Atlantic Monthly. Includes 2 drawing illustrations by Frances Lester Warner: At home with variations; and Sunlight sonata, Family life with variations. Also 3 pen and ink drawing illustrations by Warner: Geoffrey went politely to the edge of the roof, and gazed down, from Fire in the sky; and From Diet and the Daily Dozen Exercise, said Endicott, is not at its best without a by-product...

ArchivalResource: 169 boxes (64 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612375900 View

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. Autograph letter signed : Amesbury, to the J.R. Osgood Co., 1872 Nov. 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Amesbury, to the J.R. Osgood Co., 1872 Nov. 28.

Introducing William Dorsey of Philadelphia, who wished to purchase John Woolman's "Journal" at wholesale price.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (16mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270586729 View

Murfree, Mary Noaillies, 1850-1922. Letter, 1882 Sept. 28, St. Louis, Missouri, to James R. Osgood & Co., Boston.

Title: Letter, 1882 Sept. 28, St. Louis, Missouri, to James R. Osgood & Co., Boston.

Submits the manuscript of her book, where the battle was fought.

ArchivalResource: [3] p. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9888895 View

Armsby, James H., 1809-1875,. American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1787-1914.

Title: American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1787-1914.

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. Gerald Massey writes to Osgood & Co. and [James T.?] Fields on book sales, a publishing venture and American lectures. Dabney Herndon Maury sends an autograph and writes to the Piedmont & Arlington Life Insurance Company on a business matter and expressing concern on the business situation in New Orleans. Matthew Fontaine Maury to James H. Armsby, Bond & Son, and John D. Simms accepts an invitation to visit the Dudley Observator and Meet O. M. Mitchell, reports on the trial of varaious chronometers and recommends an appointment. Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to William Cox Bennett, Frances Trollop and others criticize the work of Henry Chorley and John Hughes, discusses her "Recollections of a literary life...."; solicit the patronage of Lord Nugent; recommends Bennett to Mrs. Acton Tindal, describes a packet containing work by John Greenleaf Whittier and Oliver Wendell Holmes; a bad fall suffered by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; a production of her play by [Charles?] Kemble; and mentioning Digby Starkey, the widow of Eliot Warburton, Joseph Hume. Letters of John S. Mosby to Eben Swift and Marcus J. Wright discuss Civil War incidents including his "closest call" and the objective of Pleasonton's attacks on Stuart at Brandy Station together with an autograph and a signed photograph. Also a letter of John Ware Mosby to George S. Palmer arranging a safe conduct pass for Mosby in May of 1865 so he can obtain a parole from General Halleck. Letters of his sister Victoria P. Mosby convey Richmond social news of 1842. Letters of Charles Eliot Norton to Dana Estes, C. C. Hazewell, Oliver Johnson, Andrew P. Peabody, Winslow Warren and others are chiefly brief social and business notes but include a letter about an archaelogical dig in Cotrone, Italy, conducted by Berlingieri and Clarke. Single letters of interest include Miles D. McAlester to Erasmus D. Keyes, 1862 August 25 concerning work parties for fortifications at Yorktown; W. Gordon McCabe to John Esten Cooke on a literary notice for a novel; Henry McKenzie to [Thomas?] Cadell on sales of "The Lounger"; Katharine Sarah Gadsden Macquoid to Roberts Brothers on the publication of "Dolly's grandfathers" in the U. S.; William H. McGuffey declining a request. Also William C. Macready to Mary Russell Mitford on publishing her play and his performance in "Julian"; Richard Kidder Meade to Samuel Pickens on the sale of Alabama land; James Montgomery sending thanks for a musical composition; Samuel McDowell Moore to John Letcher, 1861 September 3, on poor condition of roads which will hinder army transport and volunteering to supervise repair if given supplies and slave labor. Robert Nares to Thomas Cadell the Younger and reply on proofs for the completion of Macklin's Bible, together with engraving of Nares; and Yoné Noguchi to Madison Cawein on an evening with Joaquin Miller. The collection also contains an autograph of Joaquin Miller; a fragment by James Monroe on the acquisition of Florida.

ArchivalResource: circa 52 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648014586 View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Howells family. Papers, 1850-1954.

Title: Papers, 1850-1954.

Chiefly correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, journals, and business papers of William Dean Howells; together with smaller collections of correspondence of his wife Elinor Mead Howells, and their children Winifred, Mildred, and John Mead Howells. Includes 15 boxes of letters to William Dean Howells from about 600 correspondents; also contains correspondence from publishers and editors, including Henry Mills Alden of Harper's Monthly, Richard Watson Gilder of Century Magazine, and James R. Osgood. A large group of letters from Lawrence Barrett concerns theatrical productions of Howells's plays. Some correspondence relates to Howells's editorship of The Atlantic Monthly. Also includes significant groups of letters from literary friends and acquaintances, such as Samuel L. Clemens, John Hay, Henry James, James Russell Lowell, and E.C. Stedman. The bulk of the letters by Howells are to family members, especially his wife, his father William Cooper Howells, his sisters Aurelia and Annie, and his brother Joseph. Literary manuscripts are chiefly poems, plays, and essays. Diaries and journals cover Howells's early life in Ohio, his period as consul in Venice, and travels to various places from 1864 to 1918. Business papers include contracts for publications and papers relating to real estate investments. Also contains scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and clippings of articles by and about Howells. A bound volume contains letters and tributes to Howells on his eightieth birthday. Letters to Mildred Howells are chiefly concerned with the preparation and publication of her Life in Letters of W.D. Howells (1928). This series includes drawings, diaries, and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes, 2 v., 2 portfolio boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122412024 View

Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949

Title: Walt Whitman collection 1842-1949

The Whitman collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Walt Whitman. There is personal and business correspondence from Whitman to family, friends, editors, and publishers, including Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, Julius Chambers, Moncure Conway, Nathan Hale, James R. Osgood and Company, George Routledge & Sons, William Sloane Kennedy, William Michael Rossetti, John Swinton, and Louisa Whitman. There are letters to Whitman from Civil War soldiers and from a number of writers, including Samuel Clemens, John Camden Hotten, William Douglas O'Connor, Allen Thorndike Rice, and Algernon Swinburne. There is also a small group of third-party correspondence to Whitman scholar George Rice Carpenter. Whitman's writings are well represented in the Rabinowitz and Van Sinderen gifts. The Writings subseries in the Van Sinderen gift includes subdivisions for autobiographical writings, diaries, lectures and speeches, notes and notebooks, outlines and proposals, poetry and the writing of others. The writings are present chiefly in galley proofs, many corrected and signed, and holograph manuscripts. Photographs and artistic representations of Whitman include work by well-known nineteenth century photographers, studios, and artists. There are photographs by Thomas Eakins, William Kurtz, Major & Knapp Engraving, and Brady National Photographic Art Gallery. Works of art include a bust of Whitman by Samuel Murray, a woodcut by Bertrand Zadig, and engravings by Samuel Hollyer, William James Linton, and Stephen Alonzo Schoff. Also of note are papers relating to George Whitman and New York Civil War regiments.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 17 (incl. 4 oversize boxes); Other Storage Formats: 1 broadside, 7 art storage objects; Linear Feet: 11.65

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.whitman View