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Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection of American children's literature, 1640-2001

Title: Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection of American children's literature 1640-2001

Collection consists of manuscripts (correspondence and drafts of writings), illustration material (drawings in all media, photographs, book dummies, and printing blocks and plates), and publication proofs by various authors and artists including Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Anderson, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Gelett Burgess, Harrison Cady, Palmer Cox, F. O. C. Darley, W. W. Denslow, Jo Mora, Peter Newell, and Symeon Shimin, as well as work produced for the McLoughlin Brothers publishing house. Also present are penmanship exercise books, samplers, and other school work produced by American children including John Hancock and his brother Ebenezer, letters of advice written to children by prominent figures such as Samuel Clemens, Charles Dodgson, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington, and writings created by and for Native American children.

ArchivalResource: 19.5 linear feet (53 boxes) + 3 broadside folders + 7 art objects

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

Grimaldi, Stacey, 1790-1863. Papers relating to Miscellaneous writings, 1810-1834.

Title: Papers relating to Miscellaneous writings, 1810-1834.

Bound proof of the first of four parts of Grimaldi's writings, dating from 1810 to 1834, edited by Alexander Beaufort Grimaldi. Writings include open letters, with numerous letters addressed to "Mr. Urban" of Gentleman's Magazine, poems, and historical and genealogical accounts of the Grimaldi, Fitzwilliam, and other English families. The proof, rebound in modern cloth, consists of the printed version (London, 1874) interleaved with holograph drafts pasted in. With corrections and notes, presumably in the hand of Alexander Beaufort Grimaldi.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 264 p.) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702180254 View