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Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. Papers of John Burroughs [manuscript], 1856-1943.

Title: Papers of John Burroughs [manuscript], 1856-1943.

There are 71 manuscripts or portions by Burroughs including "Breath of Life," "A Critical Glance into Darwin," "Emerson and his Journals," "Gospel of Nature," "Hazards of the Past," "Hepatica," "A Hunt for the Nightingale," "The Last Harvest," "Leaf and Tendril," "The Long Road," "The New Materialism," "Noon of Science," and "Pepacton." Also "The Phantoms Behind Us," "President Roosevelt as a Nature Lover and Observer," "The Return," "Riverby," "Science and Literature," "Time and Change," "Under the Apple Trees," "Waiting," and "Ways of Nature." There are also three manuscripts about Burroughs by others. The correspondence of Burroughs discusses his daily life; sitting for artists; health; writing; travels; visitors; marriage and family; car; homes; philosophy of writing, life and economics; feelings about Germany and World War I; auto camping trips with Thomas A. Edison, Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford; and his death. Other topics discussed include nature; the weather; England; the Harriman Expedition to Alaska; locusts; travel in North America in 1870; Scotland; and "nature fakers" particularly Henry H. Cross, William J. Long, Ernest Thompson Seton, Abbott H. Thayer and Henry W. Warren. People discussed include Clara Barrus, Henri Bergson, Julian Burroughs, Ursula North Burroughs, Hamlin Garland, William Dean Howells, Ernest Ingersoll, John Jay Knox, Edgar Lee Masters, John Muir, Cartaino Sciarrino Pietro, Archibald Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Orlando Rouland, Eugene A. Rowland, Alfred H. Sellers, Henry D. Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Woodrow Wilson, and William Winter. Of special interest are a 1909 friendship calendar with autograph entries by several contemporary authors; 53 birthday greetings to Burroughs on his 70th birthday; an autograph agreement to take a camping trip signed by Burroughs, Clara Burrus, the Thomas A. Edisons, the Henry Fords, and the Harvey S. Firestones; and a lock of Burroughs' hair. There are also biographical sketches of Burroughs; photographs of oil paintings by Orlando Rouland; sketches by Rouland, E.M. Allen and Myron Beecher Benton; photographs of Burroughs; printed articles by and about him; brochures; postcards; and a John Burroughs Nature Calendar.

ArchivalResource: 504 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647849933 View

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Letter, 1902 April 2, Tuskegee, Alabama, to William Sloane Kennedy, Madison, Wisc.

Title: Letter, 1902 April 2, Tuskegee, Alabama, to William Sloane Kennedy, Madison, Wisc.

Thanking Kennedy for his words of praise for Up From Slavery, and advising him that "'the grape-vine telegraph' was a term usually used during the slave period to designate the transmission of news from one slave to another surreptitiously."

ArchivalResource: 1 p., in folder ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184904381 View

William James correspondence, 1856-1910.

Title: William James correspondence, 1856-1910.

Correspondence and a few compositions of American philosopher and psychologist William James.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00130/catalog View

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 21 December 1881

Title: Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 21 December 1881

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http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/duk.00761.html View

Sir William Rothenstein correspondence and other papers, 1887-1957.

Title: Sir William Rothenstein correspondence and other papers, 1887-1957.

Letters to English painter Sir William Rothenstein concerning both his professional and personal life as well as compositions by other authors.

ArchivalResource: 66 boxes and 2 volumes (33 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00491/catalog View

Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949

Title: Walt Whitman collection 1842-1949

The Whitman collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Walt Whitman. There is personal and business correspondence from Whitman to family, friends, editors, and publishers, including Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, Julius Chambers, Moncure Conway, Nathan Hale, James R. Osgood and Company, George Routledge & Sons, William Sloane Kennedy, William Michael Rossetti, John Swinton, and Louisa Whitman. There are letters to Whitman from Civil War soldiers and from a number of writers, including Samuel Clemens, John Camden Hotten, William Douglas O'Connor, Allen Thorndike Rice, and Algernon Swinburne. There is also a small group of third-party correspondence to Whitman scholar George Rice Carpenter. Whitman's writings are well represented in the Rabinowitz and Van Sinderen gifts. The Writings subseries in the Van Sinderen gift includes subdivisions for autobiographical writings, diaries, lectures and speeches, notes and notebooks, outlines and proposals, poetry and the writing of others. The writings are present chiefly in galley proofs, many corrected and signed, and holograph manuscripts. Photographs and artistic representations of Whitman include work by well-known nineteenth century photographers, studios, and artists. There are photographs by Thomas Eakins, William Kurtz, Major & Knapp Engraving, and Brady National Photographic Art Gallery. Works of art include a bust of Whitman by Samuel Murray, a woodcut by Bertrand Zadig, and engravings by Samuel Hollyer, William James Linton, and Stephen Alonzo Schoff. Also of note are papers relating to George Whitman and New York Civil War regiments.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 17 (incl. 4 oversize boxes); Other Storage Formats: 1 broadside, 7 art storage objects; Linear Feet: 11.65

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

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949.

Title: Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949.

The Whitman collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Walt Whitman. There is personal and business correspondence from Whitman to family, friends, editors, and publishers, including Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, Julius Chambers, Moncure Conway, Nathan Hale, James R. Osgood and Company, George Routledge & Sons, William Sloane Kennedy, William Michael Rossetti, John Swinton, and Louisa Whitman. There are letters to Whitman from Civil War soldiers and from a number of writers, including Samuel Clemens, John Camden Hotten, William Douglas O'Connor, Allen Thorndike Rice, and Algernon Swinburne. There is also a small group of third-party correspondence to Whitman scholar George Rice Carpenter. Whitman's writings are well represented in the Rabinowitz and Van Sinderen gifts. The Writings subseries in the Van Sinderen gift includes subdivisions for autobiographical writings, diaries, lectures and speeches, notes and notebooks, outlines and proposals, poetry and the writing of others. The writings are present chiefly in galley proofs, many corrected and signed, and holograph manuscripts. Photographs and artistic representations of Whitman include work by well-known nineteenth century photographers, studios, and artists. There are photographs by Thomas Eakins, William Kurtz, Major & Knapp Engraving, and Brady National Photographic Art Gallery. Works of art include a bust of Whitman by Samuel Murray, a woodcut by Bertrand Zadig, and engravings by Samuel Hollyer, William James Linton, and Stephen Alonzo Schoff. Also of note are papers relating to George Whitman and New York Civil War regiments.

ArchivalResource: 11.65 linear ft. (17 boxes) + 1 broadside folder + 1 framed painting + 5 objects.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702172830 View

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. Letter, 1908 June 24, West Park, N.Y., to William Sloane Kennedy.

Title: Letter, 1908 June 24, West Park, N.Y., to William Sloane Kennedy.

Commenting on Bliss Perry's book on Walt Whitman (1906).

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184907592 View

Kennedy, William Sloane, 1850-1929. The fight of a book for the world : typescript draft, [1926?].

Title: The fight of a book for the world : typescript draft, [1926?].

Manuscript title of work is "Reader's Handbook to Leaves of Grass."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81993554 View

Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924. Letter : Rome City, Indiana, to William Sloane Kennedy, 1916 May 1.

Title: Letter : Rome City, Indiana, to William Sloane Kennedy, 1916 May 1.

Writing to the journalist and editor, Stratton-Porter vigorously defends her nature writing (and as a woman), against critics like Frederic Taber Cooper and sends a copy of At the foot of the rainbow, "the best literary performance I ever accomplished."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/636475086 View

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Papers, 1894-1950.

Title: Papers, 1894-1950.

Letters, postal cards, statements, agreements, drafts, pamphlets, and programs.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17393887 View

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1881

Title: William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1881

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http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/loc.02598.html View

Harned, Thomas Biggs, b. 1851. Letter to William Sloane Kennedy, 1921.

Title: Letter to William Sloane Kennedy, 1921.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63555628 View

Walt Whitman papers, 1854-1892

Title: Walt Whitman papers 1854-1892

This is a synthetic collection covering the years 1854 to 1892 with some material still undated. Strengthsof the collection include nearly 30 poems or poem fragments and Whitman's autograph revision of the "Analysis ofPoems" by Dr. R. Bucke. This essay was written for Bucke's authorized biography (Walt Whitman, 1883) and Whitman'sextensive revisions were incorporated before publication. The correspondence includes two longer runs, one toWilliam O' Connor and the other to his wife Ellen O'Connor. The O'Connors were active in a number of social causes,as well as devoted advocates of Whitman and his writing. William O'Connor, author of The Good Gray Poet (1866), wasone of Whitman's closest friends until an argument in 1873 caused a break in their friendship. Others who figureprominently in the Berg Collection's Whitman materials include John Burroughs (1837-1921), nature writer, literarycritic, and author of Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867); Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford, young friendsof Whitman's; and Richard Maurice Bucke (1837-1902), Whitman's authorized biographer, friend and literary executor.In addition to writing Walt Whitman (1883) and Walt Whitman, Man and Poet (1897), Bucke co-edited with HoraceTraubel and Thomas Harned The Complete Writings (1902).

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http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19100 View

James, William, 1842-1910. Papers, 1803-1941 (bulk: 1862-1910)

Title: William James papers, 1803-1941 (inclusive) 1862-1910 (bulk).

Papers of American philosopher and psychologist William James.

ArchivalResource: 42 boxes, 37 volumes, 1 scroll box, 1 portfolio box and 5 cartons (57 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00373/catalog View

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 31 May 1883

Title: Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 31 May 1883

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http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/duk.00774.html View

Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden, b. 1857. Letter to William Sloane Kennedy, 1886.

Title: Letter to William Sloane Kennedy, 1886.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63555626 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Gay Wilson Allen Papers, 1801-1988

Title: Gay Wilson Allen Papers, 1801-1988

Gay Wailson Allen (1903-1995) was a university professor, author, and Walt Whitman scholar. Collection consists of correspondence, notebooks, printed material, essays, and other writings, literary manuscripts, scrapbooks, teaching materials, pictures, books, clippings, offprints, periodicals, and sale catalogs. The focus of the collection is Allen's career as an university professor and Walt Whitman scholar. In particular Allen's activities as a professor at New York University and as a lecturer at Nagono, Japan in 1955, are documented. The history of Whitman criticism is an important theme. There is a large amount of research material on Whitman, both of Allen and other literary scholars. These include Evie Allison Allen, Clara Barrus, Charles N. Elliot, Clifton Joseph Furness, Emory Holloway, Peter Mitilineos, Hans Reisiger, and Henry Scholey Saunders. The Correspondence Series contains original correspondence acquired by Allen of Richard Watson Gilder, Alice James, and William James. This series also contains the correspondence of Roger Asselineau, Fredson Bowers, Oscar Cargill, Malcolm Cowley, Charles E. Feinberg, Milton Hindus, Emory Holloway, Sholom Kahn, and Frederik Schyberg. There are no strictly personal papers in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 33 Linear Feet; 5,500 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/allen/ View

Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Title: Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Correspondence of American author and biographer James Parton withfamily members, professional associates, and personal friends as well as financialaccounts, photographs, genealogies, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01317/catalog View

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 26 May [1883]

Title: Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 26 May [1883]

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http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/duk.00773.html View

Kennedy, William Sloane, 1850-1929. Scrapbook related statues of Abraham Lincoln in Europe, 1920-1921.

Title: Scrapbook related statues of Abraham Lincoln in Europe, 1920-1921.

The volume contains three letters to the editor of the Boston herald all of which appeared in Dec. of 1920. The first, written by T.H. Bartlett and dated Dec. 20, describes the recent efforts to erect a statue of Lincoln in Christiania, Norway, and makes the claim that it is the first statue of Lincoln erected on foreign soil. The other two letters, written by John A. Gould and Thomas T. Watt and dated Dec. 22 and 28 respectively, dispute this last claim, and describe a statue of Lincoln that was erected in Edinburgh, Scotland during the latter half of the 19th century. Also included is a carbon copy of a letter, addressed to Kennedy, dated Jan. 5, 1921, and signed by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh that offers details of the Lincoln statue in Edinburgh. Pasted to the first leaf is an ms. letter of transmittal, signed by Kennedy, dated Belmont, Mass., Aug. 2, 1921, and addressed to Charles K. Bolton, librarian of the Boston Athenaeum.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (3 leaves) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63145736 View

Letters to William James from various correspondents and photograph album, 1865-1929.

Title: Letters to William James from various correspondents and photograph album, 1865-1929.

Letters to American philosopher and psychologist William James and some to his wife, Alice Howe Gibbens James. Also includes a James family photograph album.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00109/catalog View

Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, ca. 1814-1882.

Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson letters from various correspondents, ca. 1814-1882.

Letters from colleagues and friends to American Transcendentalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (12 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00123/catalog View

Letters from various correspondents, 1869-1942.

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1869-1942.

Letters to Atlantic Monthly editor Bliss Perry from various correspondents concerning editorial matters.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01283/catalog View

J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge papers, 1855-1939.

Title: J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge papers, 1855-1939.

Correspondence, photographs, and manuscripts of American writer John Townsend Trowbridge

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00379/catalog View

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. Letter to William Sloane Kennedy, [1888].

Title: Letter to William Sloane Kennedy, [1888].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63555615 View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Thomas Biggs Harned collection of Walt Whitman papers, 1842-1937, (bulk 1855-1892)

Title: Thomas Biggs Harned collection of Walt Whitman papers 1842-1937 (bulk 1855-1892)

Lawyer. Correspondence, manuscripts of poetry and prose, notes and notebooks, proofs and offprints, printed material, and other papers received by Harned as one of Walt Whitman's three literary executors. The collection contains material relating to many aspects of Whitman's career, especially the publication of and subsequent controversy surrounding "Leaves of Grass" and his commitment to the ideals embodied in the life and death of Abraham Lincoln.

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items plus 2 oversize; 8 containers; 4 linear feet; 7 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms002007 View

Kennedy, William Sloane, 1850-1929. Letters, 1926, West Yarmouth, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Title: Letters, 1926, West Yarmouth, to Perry Walton, Boston.

Letters primarily concern his book, The fight of a book for the world; a companion volume to Leaves of grass, published in 1926. Letter of 1926 June 22, expresses condolences on the death of Walton's wife, Emily, mentions the recent death of Luther Burbank, Kennedy's long-time friend Thomas A. Watson, and the fact that the deluxe limited edition of his book is selling out; a second sheet gives a hand-drawn map and directions to his house in West Yarmouth, and mentions the local writer Joshua Freeman Crowell and his wife, "liberals (our style)." Another letter, accompanying a copy of the book, says that H.L. Mencken has offered "high praise" for it and will publish a review in the Mercury. A postcard relates that a Capt. Hendricks of Chatham is the prototype of one of Joseph Lincoln's characters. With a printed prospectus (5 p.) for the book, and a sample of Whitman's handwriting (an envelope addressed to Kennedy, 1889 Dec. 27).

ArchivalResource: 3 items (6 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184906845 View

Correspondence. 1884-1890., July 20, 1890

Title: Correspondence. 1884-1890. July 20, 1890

Correspondence sent to and received by Walt Whitman.

ArchivalResource: 3 items

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/8327645103 View

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 28 November 1882

Title: Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 28 November 1882

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http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/tei/duk.00771.html View

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908. Letter, [ca. 1890] April 8, to William Sloane Kennedy.

Title: Letter, [ca. 1890] April 8, to William Sloane Kennedy.

Sending along a copy of his article on Longfellow's Divine Comedy from the North American Review, and looks forward to receiving a copy of Kennedy's forthcoming volume of poems.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184904903 View

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 24 May 1882

Title: Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 24 May 1882