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Briggs, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1804-1877. Autograph letter signed : New York, to Harper & Brothers, [1859 Aug.].

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, to Harper & Brothers, [1859 Aug.].

Asking permission to copy all or part of Douglas' article for The New York Times.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270133557 View

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Letters to Charles F. Briggs, 1845.

Title: Letters to Charles F. Briggs, 1845.

Letters, January 16 and 22, Feruary 25, March 21, August 8 and 21, discuss Edgar Allan Poe.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647976420 View

William Page and Page Family papers

Title: William Page and Page Family papers

The papers of the painter William Page and the Page family measure 11.06 linear feet and date from 1815 to 1947, with the bulk of papers dating from 1843 to 1892. Papers contain records related to the life and career of William Page, president of the National Academy of Design from 1871 to 1873 and prominent portraitist and art theorist of his day. Also found are records related to his wife's career as a writer and records documenting their personal lives and the lives of their family members. Types of documents found include personal documents and artifacts, correspondence, essays, lectures, diaries, poems, notes and notebooks, financial records, legal records, published works, clippings, catalogs, photographs, and artwork.Correspondence includes the personal and professional correspondence of William and Sophia Page, and their parents, siblings, and children. Significant correspondents include Thomas Hicks, Enoch Wood Perry, William Stark, Theodore Tilton, Lemuel Wilmarth, Wendell Phillips, William Walker Scranton, Francis G. Shaw; James Russell Lowell, Charles Frederick Briggs, George W. Curtis, Charlotte Cushman, Thomas K. Beecher, Mary Olmsted, and Bertha Olmsted. Writings include the essays and lectures of William Page, as written by him and revised by Sophia Page in the late 1870s, as well as Sophia's writings as a columnist in Europe in the 1850s. Notes, notebooks, diaries, and poems are also found. Personal Business Records include business records related to the sale and exhibition of artwork as well as financial and legal documents. A small number of memoranda and documents related to Page's work at the National Academy of Design are also found. Printed Materials include exhibition catalogs, published works by William and Sophia Page, and clippings and articles about Page. Photographs consist mainly of portraits, most of them mounted cabinet photographs or cartes-des-visites, some of which appear to have been used as studies for Page's painted portraits. Among those pictured are William Page, James Russell Lowell, Henry Ward Beecher, Reuben Fenton, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, William R. O'Donovan, and William Lloyd Garrison. Many of the photographic portraits are unidentified. Artwork includes sketches, drawings, prints, and a small number of notes made by Page in the course of painting portraits.

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw98de7b472-afbe-4b16-bbf1-c573fb9dcac6 View

James Russell Lowell miscellaneous correspondence, 1839-1891.

Title: James Russell Lowell miscellaneous correspondence, 1839-1891.

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

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01333/catalog View

William Page and Page Family papers

Title: William Page and Page Family papers

The papers of the painter William Page and the Page family measure 11.06 linear feet and date from 1815 to 1947, with the bulk of papers dating from 1843 to 1892. Papers contain records related to the life and career of William Page, president of the National Academy of Design from 1871 to 1873 and prominent portraitist and art theorist of his day. Also found are records related to his wife's career as a writer and records documenting their personal lives and the lives of their family members. Types of documents found include personal documents and artifacts, correspondence, essays, lectures, diaries, poems, notes and notebooks, financial records, legal records, published works, clippings, catalogs, photographs, and artwork.Correspondence includes the personal and professional correspondence of William and Sophia Page, and their parents, siblings, and children. Significant correspondents include Thomas Hicks, Enoch Wood Perry, William Stark, Theodore Tilton, Lemuel Wilmarth, Wendell Phillips, William Walker Scranton, Francis G. Shaw; James Russell Lowell, Charles Frederick Briggs, George W. Curtis, Charlotte Cushman, Thomas K. Beecher, Mary Olmsted, and Bertha Olmsted. Writings include the essays and lectures of William Page, as written by him and revised by Sophia Page in the late 1870s, as well as Sophia's writings as a columnist in Europe in the 1850s. Notes, notebooks, diaries, and poems are also found. Personal Business Records include business records related to the sale and exhibition of artwork as well as financial and legal documents. A small number of memoranda and documents related to Page's work at the National Academy of Design are also found. Printed Materials include exhibition catalogs, published works by William and Sophia Page, and clippings and articles about Page. Photographs consist mainly of portraits, most of them mounted cabinet photographs or cartes-des-visites, some of which appear to have been used as studies for Page's painted portraits. Among those pictured are William Page, James Russell Lowell, Henry Ward Beecher, Reuben Fenton, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, William R. O'Donovan, and William Lloyd Garrison. Many of the photographic portraits are unidentified. Artwork includes sketches, drawings, prints, and a small number of notes made by Page in the course of painting portraits.

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw98de7b472-afbe-4b16-bbf1-c573fb9dcac6 View

Charles Frederick Briggs letter to Martha W. Jenks of Nantucket, 1845

Title: Charles Frederick Briggs letter to Martha W. Jenks of Nantucket 1845

Contains a mention of Edgar Allen Poe

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7767 View

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. James Russell Lowell collection of papers, 1841-1903 bulk (1841-1893).

Title: James Russell Lowell collection of papers, 1841-1903 bulk (1841-1893).

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, a typescript, correspondence by and about the author, and financial documents.

ArchivalResource: 358 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122579968 View

Briggs, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1804-1877,. Autograph letters signed from Charles Frederick Briggs, New York, to Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1875-1877.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Charles Frederick Briggs, New York, to Augustin Daly [manuscript], 1875-1877.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233982950 View

Lewis Gaylord Clark Collection, 1834-1867, n.d.

Title: Lewis Gaylord Clark Collection 1834-1867, n.d.

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00717.xml View

Briggs, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1804-1877. Letter [1868 Dec.? n.p.] to E.C. Stedman [n.p.].

Title: Letter [1868 Dec.? n.p.] to E.C. Stedman [n.p.].

Comments on Stedman's criticism of Lowell [in the New York Evening Post, late in 1868].

ArchivalResource: [3] p. on 1 l. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34363897 View

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Papers of James Russell Lowell [manuscript], 1802-1927 (bulk 1838-1891).

Title: Papers of James Russell Lowell [manuscript], 1802-1927 (bulk 1838-1891).

Collection includes fair copies of manuscripts of several poems and fragments including "Class poem," "A June Idyll" "Ode to Robert Gould Shaw," "Our own," and "Vison of Sir Launfel." Correspondents, chiefly recipients, include Charles F. Briggs, G. W. Childs, W. Hamilton Gibson, J. B. Gilder, Horace Gray, Jr., Rufus W. Griswold, Nathan Hale, Jr., Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Francis Heath, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, E. R. Hoar, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Curtis Lampson, Charles Lowell, Maria Lowell, S. Weir Mitchell, Charles Eliot Norton, [John Williamson?] Palmer, Ernest Rhys, Winthrop Sargent, Minot J. Savage, George Ticknor, John Greenleaf Whittier, The collection also contains a petition signed by 16 clergyman of Boston for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, 1856.

ArchivalResource: ca 105 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647976823 View

Briggs, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1804-1877. Letter to Dix, Edwards and Co. [manuscript], 1855?

Title: Letter to Dix, Edwards and Co. [manuscript], 1855?

Letter to Dix, Edwards and Co. praises the June issue of Putnam's Monthly.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647874747 View

Charles Frederick Briggs Collection, [ca. 1855]

Title: Charles Frederick Briggs Collection [ca. 1855]

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00559.xml View

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908,. Poets of America collection, 1800-1908.

Title: Poets of America collection, 1800-1908.

Chiefly includes poems, letters, and documents of 19th century poets and others mentioned in his Poets of America.

ArchivalResource: 127 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34364204 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

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

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

Briggs, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1804-1877. Charles Frederick Briggs letters : to James Russell Lowell, 1843-1860.

Title: Charles Frederick Briggs letters : to James Russell Lowell, 1843-1860.

Letters on literary, political, cultural, personal, and family matters. Includes substantial discussion especially of the publication of Lowell's poems in Briggs's journal, but also of the slavery question and other political issues of the day. Also discussed are recently published poems and novels, recent paintings, the activities of portrait painter William Page (a friend of Briggs and Lowell), and the character of Edgar Allan Poe, who contributed to the Broadway Journal.

ArchivalResource: 126 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63936812 View

Briggs, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1804-1877. Charles Frederick Briggs letters : to James Russell Lowell, 1843-1860.

Title: Charles Frederick Briggs letters : to James Russell Lowell, 1843-1860.

Letters on literary, political, cultural, personal, and family matters. Includes substantial discussion especially of the publication of Lowell's poems in Briggs's journal, but also of the slavery question and other political issues of the day. Also discussed are recently published poems and novels, recent paintings, the activities of portrait painter William Page (a friend of Briggs and Lowell), and the character of Edgar Allan Poe, who contributed to the Broadway Journal.

ArchivalResource: 126 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63936812 View

Dorr, Julia C. R. (Julia Caroline Ripley), 1825-1913. Papers of Julia C .R. Dorr [manuscript], 1856-1896.

Title: Papers of Julia C .R. Dorr [manuscript], 1856-1896.

The collection contains the manuscripts of "Supplication," "The answer" and four other poems or fragments. Correspondence discusses an attempt to publish a sketch in "Putnam's Monthly," her disappointment that "The Independent" published only a few of her poems, and efforts to build a free library in Rutland, Vt. She also thanks a critic for a favorable review, mentions another by George Ripley, and thanks Lydia Avery Coonley (later Ward) for a copy of her book "Under the pines."

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647871505 View

Briggs, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1804-1877. Autograph letter signed : New York, to Harper & Brothers, [no year] Sept. 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, to Harper & Brothers, [no year] Sept. 20.

Enclosing a manuscript and note directed to Putnam's Monthly, and adding, "as something was expected from Mr. Melville perhaps he may have misdirected it to you."

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270133558 View

James Russell Lowell collection of papers, 1841-1903, 1841-1893

Title: James Russell Lowell collection of papers 1841-1903 1841-1893

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, a typescript, correspondence, and financial documents.

ArchivalResource: 363 items.

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19186 View