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Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863. Papers of Clement Clarke Moore [manuscript], 1826-1861.

Title: Papers of Clement Clarke Moore [manuscript], 1826-1861.

The papers contain five letters in which: Moore declines to serve on the Joint Committee of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church on the Psalms in Metre because he does not believe in changing the Psalms; requests admission of a boy, Henry Gillingham, to Nazareth Hall, an academy in Nazareth, Pennsylvania; declines an invitation from his cousin, President Moore of Columbia College; and declines to be a pallbearer at the funeral of Mr. Erben because of poor health. There is also a document: the deed of sale of a lot in New York City which was sold by Moore and his wife to Obadiah Smith in 1826. Correspondents include John Gottlieb Herman, William Alfred Jones, Nathaniel Fish Moore, Mr. Weld, and William White.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

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Dana Family. Papers of the Dana family [manuscript], 1840-1881.

Title: Papers of the Dana family [manuscript], 1840-1881.

The collection contains a manuscript of Richard Henry Dana, Sr.'s poem "The little beach bird," and fragments from "The buccaneer." Correspondence of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., concerns his law practice, political activities, public service, business with publishers, literary friends, social life in Cambridge and Boston, and business and pleasure travel. Correspondence of Richard Henry Dana, Sr., concerns lecture arrangements, writing as a profession and the painter Washington Allston. Topics of interest include Charles Francis Adams' nomination to Congress, the 14th amendment, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, William Thomas Green Morton, the Harvard Board of Overseers, "Middlemarch," a Dickens dinner, "Two Years Before the Mast," "The Seaman's Friend," Edward Everett, Longfellow, Daniel Webster's Seventh of March speech, collegiate boat racing, law and busindss study, grandchildren, family vacations and genealogy.

ArchivalResource: 105 items.

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Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870. William Gilmore Simms letter, 1850.

Title: William Gilmore Simms letter, 1850.

This collection consists of a letter from William Gilmore Simms to William Alfred Jones, 1850. In the letter, Simms states that he has received Jones' paper on Dr. Francis and is preparing a poem to read at the opening of a public cemetery in Charleston, South Carolina. He also gives a criticism of Jones' style and foresees a dissolution of the Union. An envelope addressed to Jones but not in Simms' handwriting is with this letter.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/137281874 View

Onderdonk, Henry, 1804-1886. Papers, 1729-1895

Title: Henry Onderdonk papers 1729-1895

Henry Onderdonk (1804-1886) of Queens County, Long Island, New York, was an educator at Union Hall Academy, and an historian and author of many works based on his research among local records. The Onderdonk papers include manuscript versions of Onderdonk's historical works; notes and transcriptions taken by Onderdonk from private journals, church and local government records, and newspapers; correspondence from historians, genealogists and others often conveying information requested by Onderdonk; and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings covering the 1820s to 1868, with some earlier and later dated material. The bulk of the material concerns the geographic area encompassing present day Queens and Nassau counties, though the other two counties on Long Island, Kings and Suffolk, are also represented. The historical manuscripts, notes and extensive correspondence in the collection tend to center around Onderdonk's research into the American Revolution, Quakers, churches, agriculture/animal husbandry, and genealogies, all with a focus on Long Island. Perhaps the most prominent correspondent is James Fenimore Cooper, whose three letters concern Loyalist Oliver de Lancey. Among the many other correspondents are historians George Bancroft, E. F. Ellet, E. B. O'Callaghan, Jeptha Root Simms, and Jared Sparks. The several scrapbooks in the collection, also with a Long Island focus, concern a number of subjects, principally electoral and partisan politics, agriculture, temperance, announcements and public notices for a wide variety of events, such as school openings, church dedications, auctions, cultural talks, etc., crimes and accidents, court proceedings, Civil War recruitments and drafts, and railroad developments, among other matters.

ArchivalResource: 10.0 Linear feet; in 8 manuscript boxes and 4 flat boxes

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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

Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867. Papers of Fitz-Greene Halleck, 1803-1948 (bulk 1814-1867).

Title: Papers of Fitz-Greene Halleck, 1803-1948 (bulk 1814-1867).

The papers contain the manuscripts of poems "Album verses," "The field of the grounded arms-Saratoga, " "The garrett, " "On the death of Joseph Rodman Drake, " "Pleasures of hope, " "Les Soirées, " "To Ellen, " "To * * * from the Italian, " "View of the United States, " a selection from "Young America, " and four untitled poems including a fragment of one of the "Croaker" poems. Correspondence discusses his reading, poetry, publication matters, family, and includes a business letter written for Jacob Barker in 1824. The collection also contains letters from Nelson F. Adkins authenticating two of the poems, a letter from James Grant Wilson concerning a memorial to Halleck, a family album containing copies of poems by Joseph Rodman Drake and Halleck, and several engravings of Halleck.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793536 View