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Langdon, Mary, 1824-1908. Letter, Calis, May 4, 1857, to Mr. Phillips, publisher.

Title: Letter, Calis, May 4, 1857, to Mr. Phillips, publisher. 1857.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20451225 View

Bacon, Delia Salter, 1811-1859. Papers of Delia Salter Bacon [manuscript], 1820-1952 (bulk 1827-1859).

Title: Papers of Delia Salter Bacon [manuscript], 1820-1952 (bulk 1827-1859).

Includes 312 autograph letters signed and initialed and one typed letter signed to and from Delia Bacon and others; 10 miscellaneous items including prospectuses of Delia Bacon, her The author's apology and claim, [1857?], an engraving of Leonard Bacon, a memorandum of an agreement between Delia Bacon and Samuel Coleman, an inventory of school items to be sold at a private sale in 1831 and payments to various people for sums due, and 3 newspaper clippings. Many of the later letters discuss Delia Bacon's research on the authorship of Shakespeare's works in England. Correspondents include: Mrs. Alice Bacon, Benjamin W. Bacon, David Bacon, George Blagden Bacon, Leonard Bacon, Leonard W. Bacon, Lucy Johnson Bacon, Theodore Bacon, George Bancroft, Sarah Cary Becker, Catherine E. Beecher, Francis Bennoch, James Buchanan, Charles Butler, Jane and Thomas Carlyle, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, Rufus Choate, Samuel Colman, J.P. Collier, Messrs. Dix and Edwards, Sir Henry Ellis, R.W. Emerson, Edward Everett, Eliza R. Farrar (Mrs. John Farrar), George Fayrer, C.C. Felton, Celina Flower, G.J. Granville, Mrs. W. Grote, Francis L. Hawks, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, Arthur Helps, Herriman and Brink, George S. Hillard, Marcus Hodges, R.M. Milnes (later Lord Houghton), J.B. Hume, M. Jones, Rose H. Lathrop, [J.?T.?] Lipscomb, George Littlewood, Sampson Low, Son & co., John Lord, E.B. Lytton (later Baron Lytton), James Martineau, Maria Mitchell, John Murray, Anthony Panizzi, J.W. Parker, Elizabeth Peabody, George Peabody, Alice Bacon Peck, Phillips, Sampson & co., George Palmer Putnam (editor of Putnam's magazine), Bernard and David Rice, Mr. and Mrs. George Ripley, Sarah S. Robbins, Benjamin Silliman, Augustus R. Sleet, Harriet B. Stowe, Thomas H. Taylor (editor of the Tribune), Jonathan M. Wainwright, Thomas S. Williams and Julia Bacon Woodruff.

ArchivalResource: 323 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462090158 View

Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908. Louise Chandler Moulton letters, 1854-1896.

Title: Louise Chandler Moulton letters, 1854-1896.

The collection contains letters from Moulton to Mr. Ford, 26 July (no year), thanking him for payment for two stories and remarking that she has more of a "home feeling [in London] than is usual to my life;" to her cousin Horace P. Chandler, 188-; to Dr. Griffis, Monday [13 Feb. n.y.], inviting him to meet Mr. Von Eltz; to Editor, Who's who, 15 August n.y., returning a proof; at sea to Oswald Crawfurd, 7 Nov. (no year), requesting the true story behind the novel, Grace Tolmar; to Phillips, Sampson & Co., 21 February 1854, about publishing her book, This, that, and the other; to My dear friend, Sunday, 27 August [1893], stating that she has never printed anything unkind about anyone, her ill health, and desire to see Hereford and Tewkesbury; to Mr. Bowen, Wednesday, about the Independent rejecting love poems and noting that several people have written to her about "The Rose She Wore in Winter." Also, to Olea Bull, 3 September 1882, thanking her for her note; a four-line poem, "Why?," inscribed to Olea, 8 January 1884; to Ticknor & Company, 2 May 1887, requesting Carpenter's Liber amoris to review; 27 August 1893, about coming to England for her health, travels, and cutting remarks; to Dr. Ward, 25 February n.y., enclosing her tribute to Stevenson [not included] and the enthusiastic reception of her Sonnet sequence in the Independent; to Ben. W. Austin, 5 November n.y., about her election to an honorary membership in the Northwestern Literary and Historical Society; in Paris to Mrs. Darling, 24 Sept. 1896, accepting her invitation to speak in Boston on 20 Jan. if she is well, and notes her travel plans; to Mr. Bridgman, 2 Feb. n.y., questioning why he does not like her poem; to Mr. Braithwaite, 9 May n.y., thanking him for flowers and hoping he'll visit before she sails to Europe in two weeks if she is well enough.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33928989 View

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882,. Autograph letters signed from Ralph Waldo Emerson to various recipients [manuscript], 1845-1874.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Ralph Waldo Emerson to various recipients [manuscript], 1845-1874.

Recipients: [Delia Salter] Bacon, Thomas Carlyle, John [Call] Dalton, [Selina] Flower, Edward Fordham Flower, [Elizabeth Clementine Dodge] Kinney, Phillips, Sampson & Company, and Gulian C[rommelin] Verplanck. Also, the reply of Phillips, Sampson, & Co. to Emerson and a ticket to an Emerson lecture at Amherst, [March 19, 1879].

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299095156 View

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859. Papers of William Hickling Prescott [manuscript], 1836-1858.

Title: Papers of William Hickling Prescott [manuscript], 1836-1858.

The papers are comprised chiefly of letters to Theodore Dwight, Henry Hart Milman, and American and European publishing firms. Subjects discussed include books by Dwight, Milman, George Bancroft and Thomas Babington Macauley, business relations with Richard Bentley, the anti-Catholic uprising in England, 1850, the U.S. presidential campaign of 1852, family matters, and the writing and publication of several of Prescott's books. Other topics include Prescott's trip to England, his British and American friends, and access to manuscript materials in Italian libraries and the archives of the Spanish legation. Fourteen engravings of Prescott are included.

ArchivalResource: 85 items.

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Bacon, Delia Salter, 1811-1859,. Autograph letters signed from Delia Salter Bacon to various recipients [manuscript], 1855.

Title: Autograph letters signed from Delia Salter Bacon to various recipients [manuscript], 1855.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281721028 View

Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908. Letter : to Phillips, Sampson and Company, n.d.

Title: Letter : to Phillips, Sampson and Company, n.d.

In reply to a note from the publishing firm she says her book can be stereotyped and issued, and hopes it will have large advance sales.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34689925 View

Alfred W. Paine (Firm). Trade catalogs of booksellers, 1880-1963.

Title: Trade catalogs of booksellers, 1880-1963.

Trade catalogs, advertising of books, booksellers and other ephemera relating to the selling of books.

ArchivalResource: 56 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508547 View

Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908. Letter [manuscript] : to Phillips, Sampson and Company, n.d.

Title: Letter [manuscript] : to Phillips, Sampson and Company, n.d.

In reply to a note from the publishing firm she says her book can be stereotyped and issued, and hopes it will have large advance sales.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647870325 View

Phillips, Sampson & Company. Subscription book for the Memoir of the life of John Quincy Adams : manuscript, 1858.

Title: Subscription book for the Memoir of the life of John Quincy Adams : manuscript, 1858.

Includes 521 signatures in 115f. (17p. printed text and 85 p. manuscript). Includes signatures of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes, among others. Also with engraving of John Quincy Adams by H. Wright Smith from a painting by A.B. Durand.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612753362 View