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Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885,. Helen Hunt Jackson letter : Bethlehem, N.H., to Miss Booth, 1870 Sept.3.

Title: Helen Hunt Jackson letter : Bethlehem, N.H., to Miss Booth, 1870 Sept.3.

Manuscript letter requesting that "three copies of the Bazaar which contains the astonishing little story 'Lolly Dinks'" be sent to Hunt. Hunt writes that she considers the work of the author of Lolly Dinks, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, to be comparable to that of Hans Christian [Anderson].

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/747633133 View

Thompson, John Reuben, 1823-1873. Papers of John R. Thompson [manuscript], 1842-1926.

Title: Papers of John R. Thompson [manuscript], 1842-1926.

The papers include: correspondence, Thompson's London Diary (1864), poems, speeches, essays, Civil War news articles, photos, and other papers. Includes correspondence during the years Thompson was owner and editor of the "Southern literary messenger" (1847-60); editor of the "Southern field and fireside" (1860); member of the editorial staff of the London "Index" (1864-67), the original organ of the Confederate States in London; and literary editor of the "New York evening post" (1868-73). There is also correspondence relating to the publication of his book, "Poems of John R. Thompson." Of interest is a newsclipping from an unidentified paper, June 20, 1862, containing Thompson's poem "Ashby."

ArchivalResource: 200(ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647896473 View

University of Virginia. Library. Reference Dept. Reference Department correspondence files, 1906, 1927-1980.

Title: Reference Department correspondence files, 1906, 1927-1980.

The collection contains topical files of reference questions answered by Department librarians and routine departmental correspondence. Major topics include Alderman Library, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, the Southeastern Library Association, and the University of Virginia Medical Center Master plan of 1980. Smaller research topics include Fredson Bowers, Julian Boyd, John Hartwell Cocke, Charles William Dabney, Gothic novels, Donald R. Haynes, H.P. Houghton, Frances Parkinson Keyes, James J. Kilpatrick, Richard Henry Lee, Robert E. Lee, loyalty investigations, Ross Parmenter, Elizabeth Stoddard, Edward L. Stone, the University of Virginia strike and Vietnam Moratorium, women at the University, 1974, and Christopher Wren.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85823358 View

Winter, William, 1836-1917,. Autograph letter signed from William Winter, New York, to Ella Farman Pratt [manuscript], 1877.

Title: Autograph letter signed from William Winter, New York, to Ella Farman Pratt [manuscript], 1877.

Declining the task of writing a memorial of Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 18 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495734469 View

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902. Two men [novel] : autograph manuscript : Cedarcroft, 1864 June 18.

Title: Two men [novel] : autograph manuscript : Cedarcroft, 1864 June 18.

An early draft of her first novel, published in 1865, revised throughout in ink and pencil; signed with initials.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (266 p.) ; (fol.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270875104 View

Hay, John, 1838-1905. Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Stanley" to "Taylor".

Title: Correspondence, 1854-1914, "Stanley" to "Taylor".

Includes letters to Hay and to members of his family.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 6,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615872 View

Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879,. Petition signed by 83 American authors to the Committee on Ways and Means, January 17th, 1866.

Title: Petition signed by 83 American authors to the Committee on Ways and Means, January 17th, 1866.

"That the Revenue laws so far as they relate to the manufacture and importation of books, may be so revised and modified that American publications may be relieved from the heavy burdens now resting upon them and from the disadvantages under which they suffer in competition with imported books". Includes the signatures of Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, Asa Gray, James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Bayard Taylor, William Cullen Bryant, Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Ticknor, et al.

ArchivalResource: [6] p.

https://search.library.brown.edu/catalog/b2498652 View

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902,. Autograph letters initialed from Elizabeth Stoddard to William Winter [manuscript], 19th-20th century.

Title: Autograph letters initialed from Elizabeth Stoddard to William Winter [manuscript], 19th-20th century.

(1) Dated March 30th, addressed "Dear W.W." Wonders what Winter has been doing; mentions acquaintances and her health. (2) Dated Monday and addressed "Dear Willy." Discusses a play she has recently seen. Both letters refer to [Richard Henry?] Stoddard. Both initialed "EDBS."

ArchivalResource: 2 items ; 18 x 12 cm to 21 x 13 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435437690 View

Barstow, Wilson, d. 1869. Wilson Barstow papers, 1861-1869.

Title: Wilson Barstow papers, 1861-1869.

Letters written by Barstow from Baltimore, Md., Fort Monroe, Va., and New York, N.Y., chiefly to his sister, Elizabeth Stoddard, relating to his activities during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 53 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123540258 View

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908. Papers, 1840-1960.

Title: Papers, 1840-1960.

Personal and professional papers of Stedman, including correspondence, letter books, diaries, poetry manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographs, and genealogical materials for the Stedman and Dodge families. Correspondence and manuscripts of his mother, Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman Kinney (1810-1889), poet and diarist, and of his granddaughter, Laura Stedman Gould (1881-1941), author and editor. Also, editions of Stedman's LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE including printed materials relating to the marketing; and an album of Civil War photographs by Mathew Brady, inscribed by the photographer to Laura H.W. Stedman as well as additional loose photographs by Brady. 1991 addition: Manuscript drafts and notecards for Edward M. Williams' "The Constructive Art", a study of Stedman's literary criticism.

ArchivalResource: 120 linear ft. (ca.76,000 items in 87 boxes which include 88 volumes, & 8 oversize items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122482519 View

Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Title: Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Correspondence, compositions, and diaries of American novelist William Dean Howells as well as papers of his wife and children.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes, 2 volumes, 2 portfolio boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01480/catalog View

Richard H. and Elizabeth B. Stoddard papers, 1822-1902

Title: Richard H. and Elizabeth B. Stoddard papers 1822-1902

Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903) was an American poet, author, editor, and literary critic. He worked as a customs inspector and in the Dept. of Docks in New York City; then as literary reviewer for the New York World from 1871 to 1876; city librarian, 1877; and from 1880 until his death, he was literary editor of the Mail and Express. His wife, Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823-1902), was a poet and author. Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and other papers. Correspondence is with friends of the Stoddards and literary figures in America and Great Britain. Manuscripts are of poems by Richard H. Stoddard and others. Also, agreements with publishers, autobiographical and other notes by Stoddard, and family letters. (Some items are negative photostats.).

ArchivalResource: .6 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2891 View

Marshall, Lenore, 1897-1971. Papers, 1887-1980.

Title: Papers, 1887-1980.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 23.5 linear ft ( 9,150 items in 40 boxes; 1 scrapbook (in place of Box 22); 1 oversize folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515137 View

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. Helen Hunt Jackson Papers. Part 2.

Title: Helen Hunt Jackson Papers. Part 2. 1828-1886.

Contains letters written by Helen Hunt Jackson during her adult life, many to her sister Annie and letters from several eminent Americans; includes examples of early attempts at creative writing.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11353028 View

James, Henry, 1843-1916. Papers of Henry James [manuscript], 1876-1915, 1930-1939.

Title: Papers of Henry James [manuscript], 1876-1915, 1930-1939.

The collection contains manuscripts of "Honoré Daumier," "Tourgueneff," and "The saloon" (typed by Forrest Reid.); a translation of Alphonse Daudet's article on Turgenev; chapters VII, VIII, IX of "The Europeans," the last page from "Glasses"; and book reviewsof Elizabeth Stoddard's "Two Men" and Emile Zola's "Nana"; corrections to a page of the printed edition of "Princess Casamassima" and his play "Saloon." The collection also contains proofs and drafts of works on James including "Henry James at Home," by H. Montgomery Hyde; "Lady Barberina and other tales" edited by Herbert Ruhm; "The master" by Ford Madox Ford and "To Henry James," by Max Beerbohm and Edmund Gosse. Subjects discussed at some length include his writing and the art of writing; publication; problems with copyright and book pirating; photographic illustrations; the literary or artistic work of his correspondents and other contemporaries; travels in France and Italy; dislike of the United States and opinions on various European countries; life in London and the country; the theater, including productions of his work; social engagements; health; friends and family. Topics of interest include his relationship with Violet Hunt, the mistress of Ford Madox Ford; his friendship with sculptor Hendrick C. Anderson; the precarious mental health of his sister Alice; opinion of Daudet, and his admiration and criticism of the works of Mrs. Humphrey Ward and the outbreak of World War I. In addition there are very brief mentions of many of the noted literary figures of the day and occasional references to national and world events such as the assassination of Umberto I, the loss of the Titanic, Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, and a 1911 railway strike. The collection also contains some correspondence of James scholars and collectors, 1930-1969, and some correspondence of James family members, particulalry Henry James, Sr., who comments in 1863 that Thucydides records an instance where an enemy's slaves were liberated and suggests Horace Greeley be told, and expounds on his theories of love, marriage, divorce and womanhood. There are also letters of William James, Sr. and William James, Jr., Henry's brother and nephew. The collection also contains numerous photographs and portraits of James, and Lamb House, Rye, England; cartoons of James by Max Beerbohm; and photographs of people and places associated with him.

ArchivalResource: 775 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647914888 View

Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823-1890. George H. Boker letters and papers, 1849-1890.

Title: George H. Boker letters and papers, 1849-1890.

The collection consists of one-hundred thirty-two items, chiefly letters, with some collateral material. Includes numerous letters to R.H. Stoddard, letters to well-wishers and autograph seekers, and letters to Elizabeth Stoddard, James T. Fields, J.W. Hoffman, Horatio Gates Jones, Roberts Brothers Publishers, George Livermore, Charles G. Leland, Fields, Osgood & Co., W.D. Ticknor, E.C. Stedman, and others, including social engagements, his work, some official business, and long personal letters to friends and associates. Also, one offprint poem, The second Louisiana, and three ms. poems, including one dedicated to J. Lorimer Graham; offprint of a speech given in favor of opening branches of the Union League throughout the United States; a newspaper clipping including a retrospective of Boker and his work, with a photo of the author in his later years; a signed, engraved portrait; and two courtroom admittance tickets.

ArchivalResource: 132 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53033036 View

Jacques Barzun Papers, ca.1900-1999.

Title: Jacques Barzun Papers, ca.1900-1999.

The correspondence, researach, and teaching files of Jacques Barzun (1907-2012).

ArchivalResource: 194 linear ft. in 454 boxes; 1 drawer of oversized material; 11 correspondence file boxes (CLOSED); 2 small cartons (CLOSED); and 2 record storage cartons (CLOSED at ReCAP).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079628 View

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902. Elizabeth Stoddard letters and writings, 1851-1911, n.d. (bulk 1851-1855)

Title: Elizabeth Stoddard letters and writings, 1851-1911, n.d. (bulk 1851-1855)

The bulk of the collection contains forty-five letters, 1851- 1855, Stoddard wrote to Margaret Jane Muzzey Sweat, wife of diplomat Lorenzo di Medici Sweat, her most intimate female friend. Recurring themes include her ill health, caustic comments and gossip about other writers, and poor finances. Also, includes letters to Margaret Sweat from Annie F. Wilson and H. Inez Weston. Stoddard writes about literary men and women (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Herman Melville, Fitz James O'Brien, Thomas Buchanan Read, William Gilmore Simms, Bayard Taylor, Alfred Tennyson); her relationship with her husband Richard Henry Stoddard; her Barstow relatives, particularly brother Wilson; and her thoughts and beliefs about womanhood. In letters to Josephine and James Lorimer Graham, Stoddard writes of her son Willy's illness and death two months later; the Civil War; advance notice that Carleton will publish her novel, The Morgesons; comments on the success of The Morgesons; becoming acquainted with Edwin Booth, his drinking, and the death of his wife, Mary. To Mrs. Bunce for her husband, Richard Henry Stoddard, with strong opinions about literature. To Emma Lambourn she writes of the death of Bayard Taylor; to Ernest D. North of Charles Scribners Sons she praises Henry Kingsley's novels. Emma Carleton writes to Mrs. Frederick Gotthold, 1911, about reading Stoddard's works. Also, includes two of Stoddard's poems, "Mary Booth" and the unpublished "The stone face," and an untitled short story with a photograph of Stoddard.

ArchivalResource: 72 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37305566 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

Carleton, Emma, 1889-1935. Emma Carleton letter to Mrs. Frederick Gotthold, 1911 Dec. 3.

Title: Emma Carleton letter to Mrs. Frederick Gotthold, 1911 Dec. 3.

In a letter to Mrs. Gotthold, Cos Cob, Conn., 3 Dec. 1911, from New Albany, Ind., the author praises Elizabeth Stoddard and her local bookstore, and mentions that a critique of Edith Wharton she had published in the New York Sun moved Scribner's to withdraw advertising from the paper. She generally laments what she terms the "indecent" content of modern writers and magazines.

ArchivalResource: 6 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50217918 View

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903. Richard H. and Elizabeth B. Stoddard papers, 1822-1902.

Title: Richard H. and Elizabeth B. Stoddard papers, 1822-1902.

Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and other papers.

ArchivalResource: .6 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652422 View

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902. Papers of Elizabeth Stoddard, 1895.

Title: Papers of Elizabeth Stoddard, 1895.

The collection contains one poem "Achilles in Orcus," and three letters to unknown correspondents. The first expresses her husband's pleasure with a review; the second describes her astonishment that someone had purchased one of her books; and the last declares that she and her husband oppose having their portrait made.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34689882 View

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903. Papers, 1852-1900.

Title: Papers, 1852-1900.

The collection consists of eighty-four letters written by Richard Henry Stoddard, mostly dating from the 1880s and 1890s, many of which were addressed to either Susan Hayes Ward (1838-1924) or to her brother, William Hayes Ward (1835-1916), editor of The Independent, a weekly religious newspaper. Others to whom he sent letters include Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908), Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1809-1881) of The Philadelphia Press, Lippincott's Magazine editors William Shepherd Walsh and Henry Stoddart, and J. M. Stoddart of Stoddart's Review. The contents of these letters range from his offering of original poems and articles (and what he believed would be fair payment, should they be published) to literary criticism of work both unpublished and published. The collection also contains eleven of Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard's letters, probably written in the 1890s, most of which deal with "sketches" she would be happy to write and their attendant fees, should they be published. The collection also contains an autographed menu of the Author's Club dinner honoring Richard Henry Stoddard, 1897, one unpublished poem, "An Invocation Before the Shrine," and one memorial honoring Col. Edward D. Baker, 1861.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (97 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207173322 View

James Russell Lowell papers, 1835-1919.

Title: James Russell Lowell papers, 1835-1919.

Papers of American author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat James Russell Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00365/catalog View

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902. Papers of Elizabeth Stoddard, 1895 December 11.

Title: Papers of Elizabeth Stoddard, 1895 December 11.

The collection contains one poem "Achilles in Orcus," and three letters to unknown correspondents. The first expresses her husband's pleasure with a review; the second describes her astonishment that someone had purchased one of her books; and the last declares that she and her husband oppose having their portrait made.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31685636 View

Century Company. Century Company records, 1870-1924.

Title: Century Company records, 1870-1924.

Records consist of correspondence, manuscripts, vouchers, proofs of articles and other materials concerning the publications of the Century Company.

ArchivalResource: 147 linear feet (151 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652312 View

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902. Letter : to [Henry Chandler] Bowen, [1889?] Sept. 27.

Title: Letter : to [Henry Chandler] Bowen, [1889?] Sept. 27.

Discusses her letter to the Independent, which was reprinted in the Republican and caused much comment. Asks if he would be interested in regular contributions to his paper from her.

ArchivalResource: 1 item. 2 p. on 1 leaf. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122530496 View

Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902. Stories.

Title: Stories. 1860-1891.

ArchivalResource: [190] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123766424 View

Edmund Clarence Stedman Papers, 1840-1960.

Title: Edmund Clarence Stedman Papers, 1840-1960.

ArchivalResource: 120 linear ft. (ca.76,000 items in 87 boxes which include 88 volumes, & 8 oversize items).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079362 View

Additional papers, ca. 1870-1922.

Title: Additional papers, ca. 1870-1922.

Papers of American poet and feminist Josephine Preston Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (12 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00982/catalog View

Holland Collection of Literary Letters (MS 168), 1850-1880, 1872-1878

Title: Holland Collection of Literary Letters (MS 168) 1850-1880 1872-1878

Letters written to Josiah Gilbert Holland (and a few to his staff) - written during the term of his editorship of Scribner's Monthly, of which he was co-founder, from 1870-1881, unless noted otherwise on the comment sheets.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (1 linear foot)

http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=couspcms168.xml View

Meredith, William 1919-. A harvest (for Elizabeth Drew). Typescript (carbon) of poem, signed [n.d.].

Title: A harvest (for Elizabeth Drew). Typescript (carbon) of poem, signed [n.d.].

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122414711 View

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908. Papers, 1860-1905.

Title: Papers, 1860-1905.

Originals and photocopies of correspondence regarding personal and literary matters, especially the publication of Stedman's poetry and the literary abilities of many of his contemporaries. Correspondents include W. L. Dennett, Virginia Wales Johnson, James Brander Matthews, John James Platt, Margaret (Junkin) Preston, Edward Payson Roe, William Sharp, Elizabeth Drew (Barstow) Stoddard, and John Russell Young. Originals of photocopies are in the Widener Memorial Collection at Harvard University.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20400206 View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog 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