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Jordan family. Memorandum book, 1791-1869.

Title: Memorandum book, 1791-1869.

These papers contain: Questions for examination of engineers (p. 1-34); obituary notice of the Jordan family (p. 38-39); will of Benjamin Jordan (p. 41-48); minutes of meetings of Common Council, city of Norfolk (p. 51-65); and accounts of unidentified jeweler (p. 66-79).

ArchivalResource: 79 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122700849 View

James, Henry, 1843-1916. Papers of Henry James [manuscript], 1876-1915, 1930-1939.

Title: Papers of Henry James [manuscript], 1876-1915, 1930-1939.

The collection contains manuscripts of "Honoré Daumier," "Tourgueneff," and "The saloon" (typed by Forrest Reid.); a translation of Alphonse Daudet's article on Turgenev; chapters VII, VIII, IX of "The Europeans," the last page from "Glasses"; and book reviewsof Elizabeth Stoddard's "Two Men" and Emile Zola's "Nana"; corrections to a page of the printed edition of "Princess Casamassima" and his play "Saloon." The collection also contains proofs and drafts of works on James including "Henry James at Home," by H. Montgomery Hyde; "Lady Barberina and other tales" edited by Herbert Ruhm; "The master" by Ford Madox Ford and "To Henry James," by Max Beerbohm and Edmund Gosse. Subjects discussed at some length include his writing and the art of writing; publication; problems with copyright and book pirating; photographic illustrations; the literary or artistic work of his correspondents and other contemporaries; travels in France and Italy; dislike of the United States and opinions on various European countries; life in London and the country; the theater, including productions of his work; social engagements; health; friends and family. Topics of interest include his relationship with Violet Hunt, the mistress of Ford Madox Ford; his friendship with sculptor Hendrick C. Anderson; the precarious mental health of his sister Alice; opinion of Daudet, and his admiration and criticism of the works of Mrs. Humphrey Ward and the outbreak of World War I. In addition there are very brief mentions of many of the noted literary figures of the day and occasional references to national and world events such as the assassination of Umberto I, the loss of the Titanic, Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, and a 1911 railway strike. The collection also contains some correspondence of James scholars and collectors, 1930-1969, and some correspondence of James family members, particulalry Henry James, Sr., who comments in 1863 that Thucydides records an instance where an enemy's slaves were liberated and suggests Horace Greeley be told, and expounds on his theories of love, marriage, divorce and womanhood. There are also letters of William James, Sr. and William James, Jr., Henry's brother and nephew. The collection also contains numerous photographs and portraits of James, and Lamb House, Rye, England; cartoons of James by Max Beerbohm; and photographs of people and places associated with him.

ArchivalResource: 775 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647914888 View

Elizabeth Garver Jordan papers, 1891-1945

Title: Elizabeth Garver Jordan papers 1891-1945

Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1867-1947) was an author, journalist, editor of and suffragist. The collection consists of correspondence from prominent literary figures and a typescript draft of (1917), a composite novel of American politics by fourteen American authors, edited by Elizabeth Jordan. Harper's Bazar The Sturdy Oak

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Jordan, Elizabeth. Folklore paper, 1964.

Title: Folklore paper, 1964.

Folklore collection, from Orono, Me. (UMO students from Harmony, Dover-Foxcroft, and Indian Island), including Buck Monument legend, ghost stories, tall tales, devil stories, Indian stories, spiritualist stories, and place names.

ArchivalResource: 52 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70950885 View

Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920. Papers of Eleanor H. Porter [manuscript], 1903-1936 (bulk 1905-1920).

Title: Papers of Eleanor H. Porter [manuscript], 1903-1936 (bulk 1905-1920).

The collection contains manuscript and typescript drafts, frequently with pencilled corrections, and/or printed versions of over 30 short stories and the serialized novel "Money, Love and Kate" as well as galley sheets for "Mary Marie." Topics in her correspondence include bookings for the play "Dawn"; royalties; Swedish translation of "Oh, Money! Money!" the dramatization of "Just David"; a controversy over property rights to the name "Pollyanna"; her books "A Minstrel of the Hills," "Money, Love and Kate," "The Nickel," and "The Story of Marco Polo"; copyright to her short stories; and motion picture rights to "Sister Sue." There is also correspondence of John Lyman Porter as executor of her estate. In addition the collection contains legal papers including book contracts and a copy of her will; photographs of Porter and of Fred C. Hodgman; photograph albums of vacation and nature scenes and printed miscellaney.

ArchivalResource: 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647840544 View

Bowers, Claude Gernade, 1879-1958. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1897-1939.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1897-1939.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from the editorial and administrative staffs of the New York World.

ArchivalResource: 42 items (57 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155892807 View

Elizabeth Garver Jordan papers, 1891-1945.

Title: Elizabeth Garver Jordan papers, 1891-1945.

Collections consists of correspondence of Jordan with prominent literary figures and typescript draft of The Sturdy Oak (1917), a composite novel of American politics by fourteen American authors, edited by Elizabeth Jordan.

ArchivalResource: 1.4 linear feet (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517413 View

Jordan, Elizabeth. Poems on Several Occasions by Aquila Rose; edited with an introduction and notes.

Title: Poems on Several Occasions by Aquila Rose; edited with an introduction and notes. 1930.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56156383 View

Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951. Gelett Burgess letter : TLS : Boston, to Mr. Vallentine, 1900 April 5.

Title: Gelett Burgess letter : TLS : Boston, to Mr. Vallentine, 1900 April 5.

Complaint about editing, particularly in reference to [George] Oliver Onions' work, "Compleat Bachelor," as it appeared in Harper's Bazaar. Also inquires about the present status of a story submitted by Mrs. Lloyd Osbourne, and whether or not "Miss Jordan" is in fact now editor of the Bazaar.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214949281 View

Jordan, Elizabeth Garver, 1867-1947. Correspondence with May Sinclair, 1905.

Title: Correspondence with May Sinclair, 1905.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63555491 View

Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Title: Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Correspondence, compositions, and diaries of American novelist William Dean Howells as well as papers of his wife and children.

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

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01480/catalog View

Jordan, Elizabeth Garver, 1867-1947. Autograph letters signed (3) : New York, to F.A. Duneka, 1908 Dec. 23 and [n.d.].

Title: Autograph letters signed (3) : New York, to F.A. Duneka, 1908 Dec. 23 and [n.d.].

Concerning her work.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (4 p.) ; (16mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270492048 View

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Papers of William Dean Howells [manuscript], 1866-1919.

Title: Papers of William Dean Howells [manuscript], 1866-1919.

The papers of William Dean Howells,1866-1919, include reviews, stories, and poems, letters, and portraits. Manuscripts include poems "The thorn," "The pilot's story," Thanksgiving," "John Brown," "To Francis Wilson," "Presentiments," and an untitled sonnet to Dorothy Dudley; short stories "At third hand," and "Captain Dunlevy's last trip"; reviews of work by Brand Whitlock, J.M. LeMoine, essays on Rudyard Kipling, John Fiske, and American and English literature; quotation, and page proofs of "A retrospect of Lowell." Topics in the correspondence include editorial work for Harpers, Century, and Atlantic Monthly, advice on writing, translation and publication, his own writing including divorce as a theme, proofreading, lecture tours particularly a westen one in 1899, and his family. He also mentions rumors concerning the visit of the Russian fleet during the Civil War, the Boston fire of 1872, the panic of 1873, the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the Century Club, Italian travel, 1883, the Authors Club, an accusation of anti-Catholicism, World War I, socialism, stage productions of his work, Iowa College (Grinnell), and the Pratt Institute. Significant correspondents include Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, James B. Pond, Arthur George Sedgwick, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Additional correspondents include Alvey A. Adee, Charlotte Fiske Bates, Sylvester Baxter, Alexander Black, Francis E. Bliss, H.C. Bunner, Madison Cawein, Julius Chambers, Frank Gaylor Cook, George William Curtis, Charles Anderson Dana, Mary Mapes Dodge, Annie Fields, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Wendell Phillips Garrison, Jeanette L. Gilder, Edmund Gosse, Harper & Brothers, Lee F. Hartman, Nina R. Herzog, Aurelia Howells, Thomas A. Janvier, Elizabeth Jordan, Frederick T. Leigh, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, S.S. McClure, and Henry Loomis Nelson. Also Charles Eliot Norton, John B. O'Reilly, James R. Osgood, Grant Overton, William Morton Payne, Harry Thurston Peck, John J. Piatt, Cuyler Reynolds, William H. Rideing, Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs, John Codman Ropes, M. E. W. Sherwood, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Edmund Clarence Stedman, John Swinton, Celia Thaxter, Benjamin H. Ticknor, Ross Turner, George E. Waring, John F. Weir, Brand Whitlock, Gilson Willets, and James Grant Wilson. People mentioned include Jane Addams, Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Baily Aldrich, Irving Bachellor, Charles W. Balestier, Lawrence Barrett, Ole Bull, Francis Marion Crawford, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick A. Duneka, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gugleilmo Ferrero, John Galsworthy, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Ripley Hitchcock, Henry James, Robert Underwood Johnson, James Russell Lowell, Brander Matthews, George H. Mifflin, Henry Codman Potter, H. W. Preston, Horace E. Scudder, Richard Henry Stoddard, Turgenev, Mark Twain, Lester Wallack, and John F. Weir. Portraits include 6 pencil sketches of Howells enhanced with black and white ink and marked with printer's measurements for publication in an unidentified book or magazine article together with another portrait clipped from a magazine.

ArchivalResource: 342 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647877599 View