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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Correspondence of Edgar Allan Poe [manuscript], 1836-1849.

Title: Correspondence of Edgar Allan Poe [manuscript], 1836-1849.

Correspondents included Evert A. Duyckinck, Eveleth, Lucian Minor and James Russell Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647976461 View

Duyckinck family papers, 1793-1889

Title: Duyckinck family papers 1793-1889

Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1816-1878) and his brother George Long Duyckinck (1823-1863) were biographers, editors of The Literary World between 1848 and 1853, and editors and publishers of the Cyclopedia of American Literature. Collection consists of literary and general correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts of writings, memorabilia, and legal, financial, and business papers, 1830-1878, of E.A. Duyckinck and George L. Duyckinck. Also, correspondence, daybooks, account and receipt books, and journals, 1793-1833, of their father, Evert Duyckinck; papers, 1838-1889, of Margaret Wolfe Panton Duyckinck, wife of E.A. Duyckinck; papers, 1856-1869, of Henry Duyckinck, Evert Duyckinck, Jr., and George Duyckinck (sons of E.A. Duyckinck); papers, 1810-1851, of Sophia Roorbach; and papers of the Wolfe and Panton families. Includes manuscript of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Old Manse (1846) and Washington Irving's The Author's Apology (1848) and Communipaw (1849).

ArchivalResource: 28 linear feet (80 boxes, 59 v.); 2 microfilm reels

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/873 View

American authors collection, 1832-1956.

Title: American authors collection, 1832-1956.

Literary manuscripts and letters of American writers. Autographs, portraits, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122565920 View

Edward Claudius Herrick papers, 1797-1862

Title: Edward Claudius Herrick papers 1797-1862

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and drawings record Herrick's work in astonomy and entomology, particularly his observations on the Aurora Borealis and the Hessian fly. Prominent scientists among his correspondents include Louis Agassiz, James D. Dana, Thaddeus William Harris, Elias Loomis, Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, William C. Redfield, Samuel H. Scudder, Benjamin Silliman, Benjamin Silliman Jr., and William Tully. His career as librarian of Yale College (1843-1858) is reflected in catalogues, invoices, and memoranda relating to book purchases for the library. Between 1847 and 1862 he also supervised the publication of the triennial catalogues for Yale College and memoranda concerning these are also in the papers. His financial and legal files contain both personal records and account books (1835-1844) for the booksellers' firm of Herrick and Noyes, of which he was a partner. Also included are papers relating to New Haven including minutes of committee meetings, reports and correspondence on the Bicentennial (1838).

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet (15 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0691 View

Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919. American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1782-1944.

Title: American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1782-1944.

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. Of interest is correspondence of Hench with Willa Cather and publishers concerning a cheap reprint of "Death comes for the archbishop." Letters of Francis J. Child to Paul Hamlton Hayne discuss Chaucer and Hayne's work. Letters of Lewis Gaylord Clark to Henry Stephens Randall and Hanson A. Risley discuss publication in "The Knickerbocker" and political patronage. Letters of Christopher Pearse Cranch concern publication of his work and social matters and includes manuscripts of three poems. Letters of General James Dearing to General P.G.T. Beauregard and Lt. Colonel Otey, 1864 May - June discuss action during the siege of Petersburg. Letters of Evert Augustus Duyckinck to T. A. Cheney, Rufus Wilmot Griswold and William Henry Whitmore concern literary matters. Over thirty five letters from George Cary Eggleston to Henry Mills Alden, Will Carleton, Richard Watson Gilder, William Dean Howells, Robert U. Johnson, Martha J. Lamb, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Edmund Clarence Stedman, James Carleton Young and others discuss activities of the Dickens Fellowship, readings, the Author's Club, reviews, autograph collecting and other authors including a statement that "[Mark Twain] and I are not on cordial terms...." Individual letters of interest William Lewis Cabell on addresses of Confederate generals; Hundson Cary on his gubernatorial "Education Plank"; Madison J. Cawein on publishing matters; Thomas Clare to Samuel Ireland on Ireland's "Tour of the Thames"; Thomas Clarke to Friedrich A. Riedesel on a prisoner exchange; Wilkie Collins sending thanks; Moncure Daniel Conway to John H. Ingram on his biography of Poe; John Esten Cooke to Lucian Minor on a biographical sketch; George Crabbe to John Robinson, on a land division; David P. Curry on the Battle of Rich Mountain; and John Meck Cuyler to Dr. [Gilman?] Kimball on hospital muster rolls. Also George M. Dallas to James Monroe forwarding a publication for approval; Danske Dandridge introducing Waitman Barbe; Beverley Dandridge regretting he cannot emply foreigners; the 6th Duke of Devonshire to Mary Russell Mitford on requested favors and seeking a copy of her play for his library; Anna Dickinson sending thanks; Jubal Early to Henry Barton Dawson on Robert E. Lee and William Mahone's biography of Lee; and Maria Edgeworth to Thomas Noon Talfourd on copyright. The collection also contains three poems by Madison Cawein; a page from "The legacy of Caine" by Wilkie Collins; autographs of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and Amelia Earhart; a greeting from Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickens;

ArchivalResource: circa 90 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648013422 View

Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1811-1860 and n.d.

Title: Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1811-1860 and n.d.

Papers of John Esten Cooke including manuscripts, letters, photographs and prints, and miscellaneous items. Correspondents include George W. Childs, J. C. Derby, Evert A. Duyckinck, Thomas Dunn English, R. W. Griswold, Paul Hamilton Hayne, and John Letcher.

ArchivalResource: 49 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647903720 View

Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878. Autograph letters signed (2) : New York, to Fletcher Harper, 1855 Aug. 16 and 1857 Jun. 17.

Title: Autograph letters signed (2) : New York, to Fletcher Harper, 1855 Aug. 16 and 1857 Jun. 17.

On literary and artistic matters.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270742704 View

Albert Duveen art reference files

Title: Albert Duveen art reference files

Files on ca. 150 American artists and art subjects, selected from Duveen's art reference files. Included are photographs of paintings in other collections, auction and exhibition catalogs, miscellaneous publications.

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Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878. Letter, 1869 April 15, 20 Clinton Place, New York, to Archibald Wilson, Esq.

Title: Letter, 1869 April 15, 20 Clinton Place, New York, to Archibald Wilson, Esq.

Asks to be "put down as a subscriber for a copy of your proposed edition of Mr. Wilson's Poems" and gives the bookseller binding instructions, asking for a portrait of the author to be bound in for an additional charge.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 s.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/654356752 View

Drowne, Henry T. (Henry Thayer), 1822-1897. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1870.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1870.

Letter of 20 August 1870 to Evert A. Duyckinck concerning the latter's Cyclopaedia of American Literature.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155885635 View

Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870. Papers of William Gilmore Simms [manuscript], 1839-1870.

Title: Papers of William Gilmore Simms [manuscript], 1839-1870.

The papers contain manuscripts of three poems by Simms : "The day after," "Dusk," and "Stanzas, written to a friend in despondency." Letters to publishers, authors and friends concern his writings and details of their publication, his home "Woodlands" at Midway, S.C., his life, and the works of others, including John Pendleton Kennedy, Peter Force, Charles Warren Stoddard, Elizabeth Ellet, George Munro, John Russell, and John Esten Cooke, and briefly Cornelius Mathews and Evert A. Duyckinck. Several letters introduce authors to publishers. Others are to autograph collectors. Letters discuss Simms' passion for the South and Southern literature as compared to the North and Northern literature. He offers both encouragement and criticism to writers and editors, and as the editor of several Southern periodicals he writes to obtain reviews and articles. Simms writes of his ill health, yellow fever in Charleston, S.C., his need for writing projects to support his family, and his efforts to publicize his books and the books of others including John Esten Cooke's "Wearing of the Gray." An autograph of Simms and three engravings are included.

ArchivalResource: 63 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647883960 View

Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878. Evert A. Duyckinck letter to Andrew P. Peabody, 1854 Feb. 14.

Title: Evert A. Duyckinck letter to Andrew P. Peabody, 1854 Feb. 14.

Duyckinck writes to Peabody, 14 Feb. 1854, submitting an article on the poet Young for publication in the North American, and instructions for handling the business elements of the submission. Integral envelope.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61727751 View

James Russell Lowell papers, 1835-1919.

Title: James Russell Lowell papers, 1835-1919.

Papers of American author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat James Russell Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00365/catalog View

Evert Augustus Duyckinck papers

Title: Evert Augustus Duyckinck papers

Letters and documents of 19th century Americans, outstanding in literature and the arts.

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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Papers, 1840-1896.

Title: Papers, 1840-1896.

Professional and personal correspondence and literary notes of John Esten Cooke and of his brother, Philip Pendleton Cook, poet and storyteller. The John E. Cooke papers include letters from boyhood friends, Civil War letters, business letters from publishers, critical letters from literary friends during the 1870s and 1880s, and notebooks of the war period. Includes manuscript copies of Cooke's "Surry of Eagle's Nest," "A legend of Turkey Buzzard Hollow," and "On the road to despotism." The Philip P. Cooke papers include letters to his father, of interest in themselves as literary productions. Correspondents in the collection include W.H. Appleton, George W. Bagby, Alexander R. Boteler, W.H. Browne, O.B. Burie, M.B.T. Clark, W. De Hass, M. Schele De Vere, H.K. Douglas, E.A. Duyckinck, G.C. Eggleston, William Evelyn, Wade Hampton, J.W. Harper, H.B. Hirst, J.B. Jones, J.P. Kennedy, C.C. Lee, W.H. Lee, B.W. Leigh, A.H. Sands, W.G. Simms, David Strother, and Beverly Tucker.

ArchivalResource: 296 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19490602 View

Papers, 1838-1850.

Title: Papers, 1838-1850.

Papers of American poet Frances Sargent Locke Osgood.

ArchivalResource: 1box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01252/catalog View

Kirkland, Caroline M. (Caroline Matilda), 1801-1864. Papers : of Caroline M. Kirkland, 1840-1934 (bulk 1840-1848) [manuscript].

Title: Papers : of Caroline M. Kirkland, 1840-1934 (bulk 1840-1848) [manuscript].

The papers contain three typescripts by Jane Clark: "The life of Caroline Matilda Kirkland," "Joseph Stansbury," and pages 4-7 of "Joseph Stansbury"; six letters from Kirkland chiefly re articles and stories she submitted, including "The bee tree" for publication in "The Gift"; subjects desired and payment offered by "Graham's Magazine"; a love story she plans to submit; and her work with "The Union Magazine"; and two letters from Jane Clark to Louise Kirkland Sanborn re information on the life of Kirkland, Joseph Stansbury, and other Stansbury ancestors to help Clark in her biographical writing. There are also two copies of an engraving of Kirkland. Kirkland's correspondents include Messrs. Carey and Hart (publishers), Evart A. Duyckinck, Charles S. Francis, and Rufus Wilmot Griswold.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647812208 View

Johnson, Fry and Company. Johnson, Fry and Company engravings, 1862.

Title: Johnson, Fry and Company engravings, 1862.

Portrait engravings and title page taken from NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT AMERICANS ... FROM ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY ALONZO CHAPPEL, volume I, by Evert A. Duyckinck.

ArchivalResource: 51 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261135096 View

Mathews, Cornelius, 1817-1889. Letters to Elizabeth Barrett Browning [manuscript], 1842-1844.

Title: Letters to Elizabeth Barrett Browning [manuscript], 1842-1844.

Subjects covered include: Mathews's writings, including Behemoth and Poems on Man; American poetry; the need for an international copyright law; The American Copyright Club; and Barrett Browning's writing and the American publishing of her work. Also mentioned are Charles Dickens, Evert Augustus Duyckinck, Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, William Ellery Channing, Charles Welford, and Henry G. Langley.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647841752 View

Benson John Lossing Collection

Title: Benson John Lossing Collection

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00295.xml View

Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870. Correspondence Nov. 19, 1844-April 16, 1870 [microform]

Title: Correspondence Nov. 19, 1844-April 16, 1870 [microform] 1844-1870.

Correspondence to Evert Augustus Duyckinck. Contains some clippins and a sketch of Mary Virginia Hawes "Marian Harland."

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180257949 View

Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879,. Petition signed by 83 American authors to the Committee on Ways and Means, January 17th, 1866.

Title: Petition signed by 83 American authors to the Committee on Ways and Means, January 17th, 1866.

"That the Revenue laws so far as they relate to the manufacture and importation of books, may be so revised and modified that American publications may be relieved from the heavy burdens now resting upon them and from the disadvantages under which they suffer in competition with imported books". Includes the signatures of Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, Asa Gray, James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Bayard Taylor, William Cullen Bryant, Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Ticknor, et al.

ArchivalResource: [6] p.

https://search.library.brown.edu/catalog/b2498652 View

Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878. Letter, 1866 January 9.

Title: Letter, 1866 January 9.

Letter to William L. Stone regarding some biographical material on Stone's father. Duyckinck states, "The edition of the Cyclopaeded of American Literature to which you allude has just been published... In some further revision of the work there may be opportunity to avail much of the new biographical material respecting your honoured father which you are about to lay before the public." Written at New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 2 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122487986 View

Autograph File, D, 1586-1975.

Title: Autograph File, D, 1586-1975.

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: 9.5 boxes (4.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01427/catalog View

Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878. Papers of Evert A. Duyckinck [manuscript], 1848-1877.

Title: Papers of Evert A. Duyckinck [manuscript], 1848-1877.

Correspondence discusses Duyckinck's literary activities and includes letters to Edwin Percy Whipple and Charles Lanman offering to publish their articles, a response to George P. Putnam's request for an article, recollections of engraver Alexander Anderson, comments on a Boston Public Library exhibition, and a request that the owner of some Coleridge notes permit Henry Reed to use them for a book. Personal correspondence includes a request for real estate taxes and a letter enclosing a memorandum on his brother. An engraving and a photograph are included.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647871636 View

Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891. Papers of Benson John Lossing [manuscript], 1852-1892.

Title: Papers of Benson John Lossing [manuscript], 1852-1892.

The collection contains manuscripts of "Columbus: his place in history," an obituary "John Wakefield Francis," a biography "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," a short quotation about uttering truths, and an article "Lossing's field book of the American Revolution," published as a letter to the editor of "The American Whig Review." Correspondence discusses his writings and sources; a published attack on Elizabeth Oakes Smith; autograph collecting; Justus Starr Redfield's bitter review of his own life, discussion of travel and life in Italy, history of Otrauto and desire to write about it, and dismay at the course of the Civil War; a letter from Washington to Hamilton; a memorial to soldiers of Dutchess County (N.Y.); and the deaths of Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Joseph Green Cogswell, and Sidney Edwards Morse. Also prints sent to Charles Colcock Jones; the publishing schedule of the "American historical record . . ."; Vassar College; inability to subscribe to a book by William Leete Stone; a church convention; the promotion of William? Henry Adriance to lieutenant; the death of his wife; the publication of his books on the War of 1812 and the U.S. centennial; the return of a portrait of General Montgomery; a visit to the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition; a reception for Don Pedro; and family news. There is also a copyright agreement with Mason Brothers; an agreement with Francis Baker and George Edward Perine; and a memo concerning a loan. Correspondents include Charles C. Burr, Lewis J. Cist, Harvey G. Eastman, John W. Francis, Samuel W. Francis, James L. Graham, Charles Colcock Jones, Edwin D. Morgan, Justus Starr Redfield, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, William L. Stone, and John W. Thornton.

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647812117 View

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881. Autograph letter signed : Boston, to "friend Duychinck", 1850 Nov. 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Boston, to "friend Duychinck", 1850 Nov. 25.

Asking for some old numbers of a magazine with papers by De Quincey.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270516239 View

Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1813-1904.

Title: Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne [manuscript] 1659-1963 (bulk 1839-1864).

The collection contains literary manuscripts, correspondence, business papers, portraits and other items pertaining to Hawthorne. Collection contains the manuscripts of "Chiefly about war matters," "Consular experiences," "A description of a tragedy" by H. Aldrich, "Jonathan Cilley," fragment of "Our old home," fragment of "Septimus Felton, "A sketch or two in Warwick," a fragment of "Times Portraiture," annotated by Elizabeth P. Peabody, an 1815 copybook, an essay for "Homes of American Authors" beginning "I passed by the Old Manse...."and "Cuban Journal" by Sophia Peabody. The collection also contains an electrostatic copy of the original manuscript of "A wonder book for boys and girls." Correspondents include Catharine Ainsworth, George Bancroft, Moncure Daniel Conway, William Cox Bennett, Francis Bennoch, Dr. John Brown, Zachariah Burchmore, Henry Colman, Evert Duyckinck, Lydia Tuttle Fessenden, James T. Fields, Samuel G. Goodrich, Rufus W. Griswold, E. W. Gurney, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, George S. Hillard, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Alexander Ireland, George Payne Rainsford James, George Parsons Lathrop, Henry W. Longfellow, Horace Mann, Horace Mann, Jr., Robert Manning,Herman Melville (copy), James Miller, J. L. O'Sullivan, George P. Putnam, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, C.H. Peirce, Franklin Pierce, Roberts Brothers, Stephen Pleasonton, William Buell Sprague, George Nicholas Sanders, John Sartain, Alexander Strahan, Charles Sumner, L.A. Surette, Howard Ticknor, W. D. Ticknor, Ticknor & Co., William A. Tiffany, Martin Van Buren, C. W. Webber, Sidney Webster, William A. Wheeler, and E. P. Whipple, Topics include his the customhouse in Boston (1839-40), Brook Farm, 1841, customhouse in the District of Salem and Beverly (1847-54), and consul at Liverpool (1853-60). Also health of self and family, pet dog, wife and children, current writing, lecturers for the [Boston?] Lyceum, London social life, Delia Bacon's book on Shakespeare, life in Italy, horse racing in England, and pessimistic outlook on the Civil War. Of interest are in depth letters concering religion and spirituality from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to General E. A. Hitchcock. In addition there are brief mentions of Louis Agassiz, Barry Cornwall, George Curtis, Jefferson Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Grace Greenwood, Jean Ingelow, Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Mary Peabody Mann, Mary Russell Mitford, John Lothrop Motley, and Albert Smith. The collection also contains various Custom House receipts consular affidavits and certification, shipping certificate, and royalty check of Hawthorne. In addition the collection contains miscellaneous legal documents pertaining to the Hawthorne family including a fragment of a legal document, 1659, a survey, 1675, a warrant, 1707, and an account 1800. In addition the collection contains portraits of Hawthorne including two ambrotypes, a carte-de-visite, a cabinet card, and several engravings, together with three pencil drawings by Sophia Hawhtorne and an engraving of the Hawthorne residence. Of interest is "Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tributes by American Authors on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth" containing letters and brief manuscripts solicited by Ralph Waldo Stoddard in 1904. The collection also contains photostatic and typescript copies of Hawthorne items elsewhere. There are several twentieth century letters concerning provenance of some of the letters, and a post 1955 compilation of notes and excerpts pertaining to Una Hawtorne.

ArchivalResource: 215 items.

https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03997.xml View

Duyckinck family papers, 1793-1889.

Title: Duyckinck family papers, 1793-1889.

Collection consists of literary and general correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts of writings, memorabilia, and legal, financial, and business papers, 1830-1878, of E.A. Duyckinck and George L. Duyckinck.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear feet (80 boxes, 59 v.).Selected papers: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122378692 View

Herrick, Edward Claudius, 1811-1862. Edward Claudius Herrick papers, 1797-1862 (inclusive).

Title: Edward Claudius Herrick papers, 1797-1862 (inclusive).

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and drawings record Herrick's work in astonomy and entomology, particularly his observations on the Aurora Borealis and the Hessian fly. Prominent scientists among his correspondents include Louis Agassiz, James D. Dana, Thaddeus William Harris, Elias Loomis, Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, William C. Redfield, Samuel H. Scudder, Benjamin Silliman, Benjamin Silliman Jr., and William Tully. His career as librarian of Yale College (1843-1858) is reflected in catalogues, invoices, and memoranda relating to book purchases for the library.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (15 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702168765 View

Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878. Papers of Evert A. Duyckinck [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Papers of Evert A. Duyckinck [manuscript], n.d.

In a letter, [1855?] December 2, "Clinton Place," to John W. Francis, Duyckinck sends a copy of Volume I, "The Cyclopedia of American Literature," returns several borrowed items and asks that Napoleon signatures be given to autograph collector Samuel [Francis?]. With the letter is an undated pencil and charcoal drawing of a dog initialled "G. B. M." [possibly George Barr McCutcheon].

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647812306 View

Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878. Autograph letter signed : [New York, N.Y.], to C.W. Webber, 1851 Mar. 15.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [New York, N.Y.], to C.W. Webber, 1851 Mar. 15.

Accepting a manuscript for publication in the Literary World.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270742696 View

Alexander Anderson papers, 1795-1870

Title: Alexander Anderson papers 1795-1870

Wood-engraver and physician of New York City. Correspondence, notebooks, and transcripts from Anderson's journals, 1795-1798; autobiographical sketch, 1848; notes and letters on Anderson's death and funeral; and other papers. Includes letters from his mother, Sara Anderson, 1795; notes on botany and stenography; lists of botanical names; a chronological table of Roman emperors; and memoranda of Anderson's visit to the West Indies, 1799. Some of the notes are in Latin and were collected by Evert A. Duyckinck.

ArchivalResource: .2 linear ft.

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/98 View

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Quotation of James Russell Lowell [manuscript], 1862 June 3.

Title: Quotation of James Russell Lowell [manuscript], 1862 June 3.

Electrostatic copy of a page pasted in a copy of Duyckinck's "Fitz-Greene Halleck" and signed by Lowell.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647809733 View

Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1849-1899.

Title: Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1849-1899.

John Esten Cooke papers containing two commonplace books, a scrap book, and printed and manuscript items. Manuscripts include notes on Chancellorsville as related by Alexander Pendleton; and accounts of the wounding of Stonewall Jackson by Wilbourne and James K. Smith.

ArchivalResource: ca. 44 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647903736 View

William Allen Butler Collection, 1858-1894

Title: William Allen Butler Collection 1858-1894

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00557.xml View

White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885. Papers of Richard Grant White, 1842-1884.

Title: Papers of Richard Grant White, 1842-1884.

The letters contain correspondence with members of the publishing and literary fields. Topics include commentary on Shakespeare, especially proof that John Collier's folio is a fake and advice to a young girl on reading Shakespeare. The correspondence also notes the publication of "Idylls of the king," and discusses his own work and forthcoming articles in magazines on various literary subjects. The correspondence also affords glimpses of family life, particularly regarding his son, Richard Mansfield, an unemployed mechanical engineer in Colorado. In addition the collection contains a print of White and a poem by him "My Heart's Grace."

ArchivalResource: 24 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31685639 View

Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857. Rufus W. Griswold papers, 1785-1897 year (Bulk: 1834-1857)

Title: Rufus W. Griswold papers, 1785-1897 year (Bulk: 1834-1857)

This collection contains the letters of Rufus Griswold (1815-1857), editor of Graham's Magazine and publisher of American literature and poetry in the mid 19th century. The letters document his relationships -- both business and personal -- with his contemporaries. Most notable in the collection is the correspondence between Griswold and Edgar Allan Poe. Also included are manuscripts of poems, articles, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 1267 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767863985 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