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Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921. Papers of Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, 1860-1917.

Title: Papers of Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, 1860-1917.

The collection contains 18 manuscripts of poems and stories by Spofford. Letters from Spofford discuss: William John Bok and his syndicate; "The Boston Globe" and its mutilation of stories; Rose Terry Cooke's description of Thanksgiving; Deer Island; a William Dean Howells dinner; her sister Katherine Montague Prescott Moseley; her niece Katharine Prescott Moseley; Margaret Sangster; Scotland; Richard Smith Spofford, Jr.; her writing particularly "The Author of Charles Auchester," "In Titians's Garden," "An inheritance," publication of "New England Legends" and the need for more information on the burning of the Ursuline Convent in Charleston including a report by John McEvoy; stories submitted to McClure's syndicate; the writing of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; "Over the Border" by William Winter; her writing and its publication; her health, finances and social life; the afterlife; and the weather. There are also five photographs or engravings, four of them the same pose by Napoleon Sarony. Recipients of Spofford's letters include Edward W. Bok, William J. Bok, Abbie Farwell Brown, Hezekiah Butterworth, James T. Fields, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Richard Watson Gilder, F.M. Hopkins, S.S. McClure, Leon Mead, M.S. O'Donnell, James R. Osgood, John S. Phillips, Charles S. Pratt, Ella F. Pratt, William H. Rideing, Napoleon Sarony, Frances C. Sparhawk, Arthur Stedman, Francis H. Underwood, Orville J. Victor and William Winter.

ArchivalResource: 67 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50743613 View

Viscount Richard Everard Webster Alverstone letters, 1902-1907

Title: Viscount Richard Everard Webster Alverstone letters 1902-1907

One letter is addressed to Lord Davey, dated November 19, 1902, and sent from Judges Lodgings, Leicester. The second letter is addressed to W.H. Rideing and dated Royal Courts of Justice, London January 22, 1907.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6630 View

Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection: Correspondence, 1819, 1849-1957, 1962

Title: Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circle Collection:Correspondence, 1819, 1849-1957, 1962

Material described in this finding aidrepresents the main correspondence portion of the Oscar Wilde and his Literary Circlecollection at the Clark Library. The collection includes letters by Wilde, his wife, his mother, Lord Alfred Douglas, More Adey,Christopher Millard, Robert Ross, and Adela Schuster, among many others.

ArchivalResource: 92 boxes,; 8 feet ofbound volumes.

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Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston, 1831-1919. Papers of Amelia Barr [manuscript] 1889-1918.

Title: Papers of Amelia Barr [manuscript] 1889-1918.

The work of angels [essay] [14 l. holograph signed]--Letters, 1889-1918, chiefly to magazine editors about serialization of her work and changes to be made, especially on her novel Friend Olivia [52 items. holograph signed]--Engraving [n.d.] of Mrs. Barr [1 item. 15.3 x 10.1 cm.]. Correspondents include: Henry Augustin Beers, Richard Watson Gilder, Robert Underwood Johnson, Samuel Sidney McClure, William Henry Rideing, Joseph Marshall Stoddart, and Gilson Willets.

ArchivalResource: 54 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647937746 View

Harrison, Francis Burton, 1873-1957. Papers of Francis B. Harrison [manuscript], 1735-1938.

Title: Papers of Francis B. Harrison [manuscript], 1735-1938.

The papers consist chiefly of correspondence, clippings, a diary and other items inherited by Francis B. Harrison from his mother, author Constance Cary Harrison, and his father Burton Harrison, secretary to Jefferson Davis and later a New York attorney. These include a copy of a 1735 letter from Colonel William Byrd to Sir John Randolph requesting Williamsburg news; a copy of a 1763 letter from Colonel Wilson Cary to his daugter Elizabeth Fairfax; letters, 1832-34, from John Harrison to Jesse B. Harrison re New Orleans friends; and letters, 1836-1843, from Archibald Cary to family describing trips to the north, mid-west and deep South, business, and the Panic of 1837. Also letters to Constance Cary Harrison (Mrs. Burton) from admirers seeking assistance in genealogy or family history, and letters, 1897-1910, to her editor William H. Rideing on literary matters and the Spanish-American War; and a letter, 1900, from Fairfax Harrison to Burton Harrison on the funeral of John, Lord Fairfax. There are also clippings of pro-Whig editorials, 1836, in the Louisiana Advertiser by J.B. Harrison, and his diary, 1829-30, of a tour of Germany and Italy; clippings of reviews of "Flower de Hundred," articles about Virginia families by Constance Cary Harrison, and a memoir by her re family connections to Monticello.

ArchivalResource: 111 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647868803 View

Warren, Arthur, 1860-1924. Letters received, 1884-1920.

Title: Letters received, 1884-1920.

Collection relates to Warren's career as a writer and journalist and includes letters from leading American and British authors and actors. The majority of letters fall around 1894, a period when Warren was the London corrrespondent for the Boston Herald. Organized chronologically, there are letters from: Nora Perry, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Harold Frederic (2 letters, one describing James Whitcomb Riley's alcohol binge), Augustin Daly, Henry Irving (2 letters in the hand of Irving's secretary, Bram Stoker, one referring to a hoped-for visit from Oliver Wendell Holmes), Hallam Tennyson, Theodore Low DeVinne (2 letters, one concerning a book he is printing, describing the binding style and the problems he is having with photo-engraving), Bernard Partridge, Francis Henry Underwood (about his novel Quabbin), Agnes Repplier, George DuMaurier, Hall Caine (2 letters, one regarding proofs of Manxman), Charles Thomas Jacobi (2 letters, with praise for Warren's book on the printer Charles Whittingham), John Corbin (thanking Warren for his appreciation of Miss Taylor in A Bird of Paradise), and Henry Roseman Lang (regarding economic and political conditions worldwide). Undated letters (some to Mrs. Warren) include those from Louise Chandler Moulton, William H. Rideing, Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Agnes Irwin, Patrick Andrew Collins (giving a dinner in London for Augustin Daly), Lucretia P. Hale, and Raphael Merry del Val (to Isaac Henderson).

ArchivalResource: 1 box (36 items) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/176881241 View

Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914. Letter, March 29 [n.y.]

Title: Letter, March 29 [n.y.]

Autographed letter signed, 29 March, no year given, New York City to W.H. Rideing, Esq. informing him that he has not yet written the article on David G. Farragut but will do so. Wonders if he will consider it given the delay.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 4 1/2 x 7 in..

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/728651332 View

Anderson, Mary, 1859-1940,. Autograph letters signed and unsigned from Mary Anderson to various recipients [manuscript], 1879-1922.

Title: Autograph letters signed and unsigned from Mary Anderson to various recipients [manuscript], 1879-1922.

ArchivalResource: 96 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/456682656 View

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. [Carpenter Kipling Collection miscellaneous letters]

Title: [Carpenter Kipling Collection miscellaneous letters] 1882-1955 (bulk 1882-1929).

Rudyard Kipling correspondence includes letters to W.L. Alden, George F. Bearns, Otto Beit, J.B. Booth, Maurice Browne, Charles A. Burkhardt[?], Philip Burne-Jones, William M. Carpenter, Frederick W. Childs, Mr. [Maurice?] Collis, William Caius Crutchley, Dean Frederic William Farrar, Mr. F.H. Fisher, Richard Watson Gilder, Rev. John M.J. Gillespie, Edmund Gosse, Robert Gordon Hardie, William Joshua Harding, Mr. Harmsworth, Mrs. S.A. (Edmonia Taylor) Hill, Miss A.M.M. Hughes, Gloria John Hunt, Robert Underwood Johnson, Miss Le Strange, Robert M. McClure, H.B. Marriott-Watson, Mrs. Maunsell, Christie Murray, Douglas-Murray, Miss Perry, Mrs. John Tavenor Perry, Edith Nesbit, William Henry Rideing, Mrs. Humphrey Ward and Frank I. Whitney. Also includes four letters addressed "Dear Sir" or "Dear Madam" or to otherwise unknown recipients. Includes one letter from Henry James to Mr. Walford from January 21, 1892 regarding the marriage of Rudyard Kipling and Caroline Balestier.

ArchivalResource: 143 items.1 container 27 x 40 x 13 cm. plus 1 oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173137307 View

Frank Richard Stockton Collection, 1875-1900

Title: Frank Richard Stockton Collection 1875-1900

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00506.xml View

Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911. Autograph letter signed Francis Galton to: "Dear Sir" April 28,1889.

Title: Autograph letter signed Francis Galton to: "Dear Sir" April 28,1889.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70815315 View

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891. Letters of U.S., British, and French political & literary figures [manuscript] 1863-1941.

Title: Letters of U.S., British, and French political & literary figures [manuscript] 1863-1941.

George Bancroft writes to Charles Henry Hart, 1878, on the latter's life of Robert Morris. John Bright signs a pass to the House of Commons gallery. Franklin K. Lane sends a brief note of thanks to John Barrett, 1918. Gifford Pinchot sends a form letter of thanks, 1919. Allan Nevins writes to H. T. Newcomb about John Reed's eventual disillusinment with the Russian revolution and communism. Camille Saint Saëns writes concerning the terrible events at Clermont. Henry Louis Stimson sends his thanks to the Rev. Paul R. Hickok. George MaCauley Trevelyan writes to an unidentified correspondent requesting more information on a project. Sir George Otto Trevelyan to William Henry Reiding and others concerning electoral reform, Trevelyan genealogy and routine social and patronage matters. Oscar Wilder Underwood sends thanks for an article on the two-thirds rule in Democratic conventions. Wendell Wilkie praises a speech of Charles A. Plumley. There are also two pages of notes purportedly in the hand of William Wirt. B.L. Young.

ArchivalResource: 22 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647946301 View

Rideing, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1918,. Oliver Wendell Holmes at Beverly Farms [graphic].

Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes at Beverly Farms [graphic]. [ca. 1885]

A photograph of the author and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes seated on a stone bench near his summer home in Beverly Farms, Mass. A portion of his house can be seen behind him.

ArchivalResource: 1 photographic print on gray mount ; image 15 x 20 cm., mount 20 x 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124051582 View