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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216647 View

Autograph File, T, 1580-1975.

Title: Autograph File, T, 1580-1975.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01443/catalog View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216640 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888. Letters to various recipientsArnold [manuscript] 1859-77.

Title: Letters to various recipientsArnold [manuscript] 1859-77.

Arnold writes to George Lillie Craik selecting a vignette to illustrate his poems and requesting that a volume be sent to Arthur Stanley. He promises Henry B. Allon an article for the British quarterly review and tells Sir George Grove that he has finished a piece on Byron. Arnold invites Mr. Scherer to dinner and thanks him for some essays. He compliments Walter Richard Cassells on Supernatural religion and offers his own thoughts on the Bible. He asks Mr. McGregor to appoint a struggling poet named O'Conor to a school position. He thanks Joseph Severn for letting him see the holograph of Keat's sonnet beginning "Bright star ..." and offers a critique of it.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647943231 View

Craik, George. Autograph letter signed : to J.E. Millais, 1881 Feb. 2.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to J.E. Millais, 1881 Feb. 2.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270528910 View

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Autograph letter signed : London, to W.D. Christie, 1840 Apr. 15?.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to W.D. Christie, 1840 Apr. 15?.

Giving him names of men, including Sir James Clark, [Erasmus Alvey] Darwin, and [George Lillie] Craik, who want "prospectuses and circulars" to distribute.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.7 x 22.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427370342 View

Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798-1866. Autograph letter signed : Brompton, to Thomas Carlyle, Sunday night.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Brompton, to Thomas Carlyle, Sunday night.

Concerning Fife lead-mines, and forwarding some books.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270516350 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

Craik, George L. (George Lillie). Autograph letters signed (5) : London, to Harper & Brothers, 1868 Jan. 21-Dec. 9.

Title: Autograph letters signed (5) : London, to Harper & Brothers, 1868 Jan. 21-Dec. 9.

Concerning details of publishing and illustrating his wife's work A Woman's Kingdom and another unnamed work. Also sending the manuscript of a work by his cousin, Georgiana M. Craik.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (9 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270533422 View

Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883. Papers and correspondence to Horace Howard Furness, Fanny Kemble and C. Mansfield Ingleby, and from John Bruce, W. Chappell, et al., 1831-1883.

Title: Papers and correspondence to Horace Howard Furness, Fanny Kemble and C. Mansfield Ingleby, and from John Bruce, W. Chappell, et al., 1831-1883.

Consists of three folders.

ArchivalResource: 29 items (44 leaves, 2 notebooks, 1 pamphlet, 1 catalogue).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155882926 View

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection of papers, 1851?]-1932, 1864-1897

Title: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection of papers 1851?]-1932 1864-1897

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, and pictorial works.

ArchivalResource: 167 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19160 View

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection of papers, [1851?]-1932 bulk (1864-1897).

Title: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection of papers, [1851?]-1932 bulk (1864-1897).

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by and about the author, and pictorial works.

ArchivalResource: 165 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652048 View

Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910,. Autograph letters and postcards signed from W.J. Rolfe, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, to J. Parker Norris, Philadelphia [manuscript], 1877-1880.

Title: Autograph letters and postcards signed from W.J. Rolfe, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, to J. Parker Norris, Philadelphia [manuscript], 1877-1880.

Rolfe discusses his work editing Shakespeare, The bibliopolist, The literary world, the New Shakespeare Society, Craik's English of Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, F.G. Fleay, Frederick James Furnivall, "the Bullock."

ArchivalResource: 28 items ; 75 x 130 mm to 180 x 120 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428976782 View

Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798-1866. Letters to Leigh Hunt, [unknown-1859].

Title: Letters to Leigh Hunt, [unknown-1859].

9 autograph letters signed. Also includes letters from Mary Craik to Hunt.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52246424 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

Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Autograph letter signed : London, to W.D. Christie, 1840 Apr. 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to W.D. Christie, 1840 Apr. 28.

Telling Christie he forwarded his letter to Craik who will respond directly; giving background information and statistics for the Advocates' Library; noting that [Thomas] Ruddiman and David Hume were librarians at the Advocates' Library; describing differences between the British Library and the Advocates' Library; mentioning that the Spectator came.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 p., with address) ; 23cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427382723 View

Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892. James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2.

Title: James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2.

Osgood writes to Craik, 2 June 1879, on Houghton, Osgood & Co. letterhead. The note serves as a letter of introduction for Edmund C. Stedman, described by Osgood as "one of the foremost among our younger American authors," and he encourages Craik to extend him every courtesy.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. + envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54667691 View

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Thomas Carlyle collection of papers, 1838-1877.

Title: Thomas Carlyle collection of papers, 1838-1877.

Mainly concerning the authenticity of William Squire's collection of Oliver Cromwell documents. Includes letters written by Carlyle and letters from Squire, John Bruce, Edward Fitzgerald, E.G. Squier, J.A. Froude, John Tyndall, John Childs, James Spedding, Alphonse Legros, William Charles Macready, Sara Norton, George L. Craik, Andrew James Symington and others; letter from Carlyle to Robert Browning; transcripts of some of the documents in question; Carlyle's record of his meeting with Squire; and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122355008 View

Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798-1866. Letter: 1857 Oct. 5, Holywood, Belfast, to David Laing / Geo. L. Craik.

Title: Letter: 1857 Oct. 5, Holywood, Belfast, to David Laing / Geo. L. Craik. 1857.

Acknowledging receipt of old plan of St Andrews. Genealogical matters concerning the name Craik and Laing's book on early Scottish metrical psalms.

ArchivalResource: [2] p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40240345 View

Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1837-1905. Catalogue : manuscript, 1880s.

Title: Catalogue : manuscript, 1880s.

Autograph manuscript catalogue of the library of Craik and his wife, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, possibly compiled by their adopted daughter, Dorothy, in the early 1880s.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (332 leaves) ; 29 x 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230197067 View

Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910,. Autograph letters signed from W.J. Rolfe, Cambridge and Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, to various recipients [manuscript], 1885-1906.

Title: Autograph letters signed from W.J. Rolfe, Cambridge and Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, to various recipients [manuscript], 1885-1906.

Recipients include: Mr. Smith, Mr. Ernst, and unidentified recipients. (1) to Ernst, dated October 15, 1885; Rolfe speaks of his preface in Craik's English of Shakespeare. (2) Dated April 11 (no year) to Mr. Ernst; Rolfe speaks of his Satchel guide, the recipient's "Notes on Language" (3) Dated December 4, 1885 to "Sirs"; Rolfe would like to see Mrs. Dall's new book on Shakespeare and will commend it to his students if it is what he expects. Mentions Halliwell-Phillipps' Outlines. (4) Date March 10, 1906 to Mr. Smith; Rolfe inquires about the nature of the "English Club" that he has been invited to lecture at and gives his price, one hundred dollars and traveling expenses.

ArchivalResource: 4 items ; 18 x 12 cm. to 23 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319855268 View

Craik, George L. (George Lillie), 1798-1866,. Autograph letters signed from George Lillie Craik, Belfast, to various people [manuscript], 1857-1860.

Title: Autograph letters signed from George Lillie Craik, Belfast, to various people [manuscript], 1857-1860.

(2) contains his notes on Spedding's work, "Evenings with a reviewer."

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/230406438 View