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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Papers, 1840-1896.

Title: Papers, 1840-1896.

Professional and personal correspondence and literary notes of John Esten Cooke and of his brother, Philip Pendleton Cook, poet and storyteller. The John E. Cooke papers include letters from boyhood friends, Civil War letters, business letters from publishers, critical letters from literary friends during the 1870s and 1880s, and notebooks of the war period. Includes manuscript copies of Cooke's "Surry of Eagle's Nest," "A legend of Turkey Buzzard Hollow," and "On the road to despotism." The Philip P. Cooke papers include letters to his father, of interest in themselves as literary productions. Correspondents in the collection include W.H. Appleton, George W. Bagby, Alexander R. Boteler, W.H. Browne, O.B. Burie, M.B.T. Clark, W. De Hass, M. Schele De Vere, H.K. Douglas, E.A. Duyckinck, G.C. Eggleston, William Evelyn, Wade Hampton, J.W. Harper, H.B. Hirst, J.B. Jones, J.P. Kennedy, C.C. Lee, W.H. Lee, B.W. Leigh, A.H. Sands, W.G. Simms, David Strother, and Beverly Tucker.

ArchivalResource: 296 items.

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Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881. Autograph letters signed (3) : Boston, to J. W. Harper and Henry M. Alden, 1855 Dec. 12-1878 Feb. 8 and Nov. 9.

Title: Autograph letters signed (3) : Boston, to J. W. Harper and Henry M. Alden, 1855 Dec. 12-1878 Feb. 8 and Nov. 9.

Introducing a contributor, recommending Mr. Whipple's book on Rufus Choate, and promising to do a piece on Tennyson.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (5 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270533223 View

Smithsonian Archives. Spencer F. Baird Papers (Mc 2000.11).

Title: Smithsonian Archives. Spencer F. Baird Papers (Mc 2000.11).

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Saunders, Frederick, 1807-1902. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to J.W. Harper, 1852 Aug. 9.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to J.W. Harper, 1852 Aug. 9.

Asking for a copy of Mr. Curtis's new book "Lotus-Eating."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

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Day, Horace B., 1819-1870. Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to J.W. Harper, 1868 Nov. 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to J.W. Harper, 1868 Nov. 21.

About his book, The Opium Habit.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

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Hay, John, 1838-1905. Papers of John Hay, 1872-1905.

Title: Papers of John Hay, 1872-1905.

The collection contains manuscripts of his poem "Night in Venice" and two others beginning "Forever in thine eyes O Liberty" and "Unto each man comes a day." In his correspondence he discusses Lincoln, his commitment to peace, thurlow Weed, and Mary E. Surratt's guilt; an article he has written on Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth; the Southern Historical Society Papers and their low editorial standards; his book "Bread-winners" for which he allows an Italian translation; the proofs of his book "Abraham Lincoln"; a small printing of his collected poems and his giving up poetry writing; his election to the Kauai Kodak Klub; Alfred Austin's "A tale of true love and other poems"; and Charles Elliott's "The book of American interiors." He also requests an autograph copy of "Stonewall Jackson's way"; declines to purchase photographs of Lincoln; regrets social invitations; thanks Thomas Nast for a cartoon of "The Emperor Roosevelt and the Rough Rider Wilhelm" and criticizes [Sophia M.B.?] Herrick's notes on Lincoln. Two portraits of Hay are included. Correspondents include Henry Mills Alden, Robert Coster, Mr. Cunningham, Richard Watson Gilder, E.S. Goodhue, [J.R.?] Osgood, John Williamson Palmer, Mr. Taylor, [E.H.?] House, and H.D. Traill.

ArchivalResource: 37 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51926579 View

Storss, Richard Salter, 1821-1900. Autograph letter signed : Brooklyn, N.Y., to J.W. Harper, 1878 Apr. 4.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Brooklyn, N.Y., to J.W. Harper, 1878 Apr. 4.

Regretting that he cannot let Harper and Brothers publish his lectures on "The Ottoman and the Muscovite."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270574541 View