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Miscellaneous letters, 1825-1894.

Title: Miscellaneous letters, 1825-1894.

Letters by American essayist, poet, and teacher of anatomy Oliver WendellHolmes to various correspondents concerning medicine, education, and his literarywork.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01332/catalog View

Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870. Papers of John Pendleton Kennedy [manuscript], 829-1925.

Title: Papers of John Pendleton Kennedy [manuscript], 829-1925.

Collection contains ca. 40 letters to various recipients; a newsclipping from the Boston Sunday-Globe Magazine containing "Rob of the Bowl" by J.P.K., dated 1925 February 15; 2 engravings of J.P.K. an his house; and a signed photo of J.P.K., seated.

ArchivalResource: 45ca. items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647983858 View

Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone), 1849-1913. Papers of Thomas Allibone Janvier, 1844-1929, bulk 1888- 1902.

Title: Papers of Thomas Allibone Janvier, 1844-1929, bulk 1888- 1902.

The collection contains manuscripts of "The roses of Monsieur Alphonse" and "Gull Island light" by Janvier and of the poem "Quests" by his sister Margaret Janvier Vandegrift. Letters to Richard Watson Gilder and Robert Underwood Johnson concern articles he is writing for "The century," particularly one on Christmas customs in Provence. Letters to Charles Warren Stoddard discuss a new edition of the latter's "South-Sea Idyls." Other letters to friends and publishers mention current work and activities including an invitation to the Aldine Club. In addition there are two letters from Francis H. Janvier to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, a letter from John Jay to Justin Winsor, a letter from Louisa S. Janvier to A. Frederic Gronberg, notes on Robert Browning's admiration of Gerard de Lairesse, and a portrait print.

ArchivalResource: 42 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793292 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

Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857. Correspondence with Robert Montgomery Bird, 1845.

Title: Correspondence with Robert Montgomery Bird, 1845.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63551466 View

Richard Henry Dana Sr. and Jr. Collection, 1852

Title: Richard Henry Dana Sr. and Jr. Collection 1852

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00225.xml View

Cushman, T. H., fl. 1840. T. H. Cushman letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold [manuscript], 1840 Oct 26.

Title: T. H. Cushman letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold [manuscript], 1840 Oct 26.

Cushman discusses his appreciation for "American Melodies" (compiled by George Pope Morris); Bloodgood's manuscript; a possible substitute for Barnard who is too busy with political matters; he himself being incapable of writing a biography; Dean's biography; the misspelling of [Alfred B.] Street's name and the absence of his own name on the list of authors in American Melodies.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/187303550 View

Hall, A. Oakey (Abraham Oakey), 1826-1898. Abraham Oakey Hall letters [manuscript], 1851 and no date.

Title: Abraham Oakey Hall letters [manuscript], 1851 and no date.

In a letter, 1851 September 12, to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Hall sends "An August reverie" for publication consideration and enquires about a Christmas story. In two letters, no year, December 3, Hall offers S.S. McClure a paper reminiscing about editors Bennett, Greeley, Raymond, and Thurlow Weed, submits the paper [not present] and encloses sugestions for pictures.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743100684 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

Hart, John S. (John Seely), 1810-1877. John S. Hart letters to R. W. Griswold [manuscript], 1850 Jun 27 and Dec 3.

Title: John S. Hart letters to R. W. Griswold [manuscript], 1850 Jun 27 and Dec 3.

1850 Jun 27. Hart writes that the publishers desire to know if he will prepare a series of articles of moderate length on "Self-Made Men," with portraits of the men, and how soon he can have the articles ready. He offers Griswold $5 per page. 1850 Dec 3. Hart has sent 2 [irises?] for the Misses Carey, and asks that Griswold to inform him of their safe arrival. He also writes that he will send a copy of his Annual Report soon, in which he might find some facts suited to his magazine, particularly a resume of the history of the Philadelphia school system that has been translated and reprinted in Germany.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/420487219 View

Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1811-1860 and n.d.

Title: Papers of John Esten Cooke [manuscript], 1811-1860 and n.d.

Papers of John Esten Cooke including manuscripts, letters, photographs and prints, and miscellaneous items. Correspondents include George W. Childs, J. C. Derby, Evert A. Duyckinck, Thomas Dunn English, R. W. Griswold, Paul Hamilton Hayne, and John Letcher.

ArchivalResource: 49 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647903720 View

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Manuscript notes for Pinkadia [manuscript] : Review for Godey's Dec. 1845, of Poetical works of Elizabeth Oakes Smith ; Letter to Poe from Charles Dickens, 1846 ; Letters concerning him between Rufus W. Griswold, James K. Paulding, John R. Thompson, Sarah Helen Whitman, Julian Hawthorne, Robert Underwood Johnson, Richard Henry Savage, 1843-1896, 1836-1896.

Title: Manuscript notes for Pinkadia [manuscript] : Review for Godey's Dec. 1845, of Poetical works of Elizabeth Oakes Smith ; Letter to Poe from Charles Dickens, 1846 ; Letters concerning him between Rufus W. Griswold, James K. Paulding, John R. Thompson, Sarah Helen Whitman, Julian Hawthorne, Robert Underwood Johnson, Richard Henry Savage, 1843-1896, 1836-1896.

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967327 View

Horace Greeley Papers, 1812-1928, (bulk 1860-1872)

Title: Horace Greeley Papers 1812-1928 (bulk 1860-1872)

Journalist. Correspondence, autobiography, writings by and about Greeley, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, a notebook, printed matter, and other papers pertaining to his life and career as a journalist.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items; 7 containers; 2.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009284 View

Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 1815-1857. Papers, 1835-1856.

Title: Papers, 1835-1856.

Contains professional correspondence concerning printing and publishing of literary works, some in magazines. Included are letters to George Rex Graham, founder and editor of Graham's Magazine, and letters to Griswold from some of his protégés. Also letters relating to a memorial meeting in honor of James Fenimore Cooper.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122590086 View

Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852. Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, ca. 1851.

Title: Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, ca. 1851.

Includes undated, ca. 1851, letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold apologizing for missing an appointment and mentioning a few acquaintances.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35035734 View

Ingraham, Edward D. (Edward Duncan), 1793-1854. Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, 1849 September 10.

Title: Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, 1849 September 10.

Ingraham provides the title of a book of poetry by a lady whose work he thinks "good as Phyllis Wheatley's if not better." The book in question has since been attributed to an Elizabeth Chase.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62383428 View

Prime, Samuel Irenæus, 1812-1885. Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold [manuscript], 1852 January 6.

Title: Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold [manuscript], 1852 January 6.

Prime requests a biographical sketch of the recently deceased Reverend Professor Moses Stuart similar to one previously supplied for Dr. Archibald Alexander and mentions the payment for such an article.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647814570 View

Boston Public Library. Rufus Griswold Manuscript Collection.

Title: Boston Public Library. Rufus Griswold Manuscript Collection.

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Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection, 1852 Jul 19

Title: Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection 1852 Jul 19

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00746.xml View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880. Papers of Lydia Maria Francis Child [manuscript], 1844-1877.

Title: Papers of Lydia Maria Francis Child [manuscript], 1844-1877.

The collection contains the manuscript of an untitled children's story and portions from five other stories. Letters discuss her enjoyment of music, the opera "I Puritani," and her admiration for Ole Bull; prejudice against blacks and Jews, slavery, wishes that the South would separate from the Union, and an anti-slavery novel she has written; her books "The Progress of Religious Ideas," "Letters from New York," and other writings; and convey news of family and friends including the death of Ellis Gray Loring, dislike of compliments and criticism, and her Rufus Wilmot Griswold autographs. A print of Child is also present. Correspondents include John Sullivan Dwight, Pliny Earle, James Thomas Fields, Anthony Philip Heinrich, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harriet Jacobson, Oliver Johnson, Frances Locke, Lucretia Mott, Samuel Stillman Osgood, Israel Post, and Richard Henry Stoddard.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647805034 View

New York Times Company Records. George Jones and Henry J. Raymond papers, 1838-1981, 1859-1869

Title: New York Times Company Records. George Jones and Henry J. Raymond papers 1838-1981 1859-1869

George Jones was the first publisher of the New York Times and Henry J. Raymond was a New York politician and the first editor of the New York Times. Together with Edward B. Wesley they founded the New-York Daily Times in 1851. The collection consists of correspondence and documents by and about George Jones, Henry J. Raymond, and the early history of the Times assembled by the New York Times' publishers and staff, as well as correspondence about the collection. Collected materials include correspondence between Henry J. Raymond and notable people of the time, legal documents, memorials to Raymond, a manuscript of "Extracts from the Journal of Henry J. Raymond," photographs of Jones and Raymond, and newspaper clippings. Administrative files include letters to and from Adolph S. Ochs, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, and others regarding the acquisition of letters and documents. Artifacts consist of a lace bag and a miniature portrait of Elizabeth M. Delerchuze which she sent to Adolph S. Ochs in 1901, and the mourning badge worn by Henry J. Raymond at the funeral of Abraham Lincoln.

ArchivalResource: 1.26 linear feet (3 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/17811 View

Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852. Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold [manuscript], ca. 1851.

Title: Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold [manuscript], ca. 1851.

Includes undated, ca. 1851, letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold apologizing for missing an appointment and mentioning a few acquaintances.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647880477 View

George Barrell Cheever Collection, 1837-1859

Title: George Barrell Cheever Collection 1837-1859

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00714.xml View

Hooker, Herman, 1802-1865. Herman Hooker letters to Rufus W. Griswold [manuscript], 1853.

Title: Herman Hooker letters to Rufus W. Griswold [manuscript], 1853.

Hoeker discusses a "notice" of "poor [Horace Binney] Wallace" which he has written and wishes Griswold to publish. Mentions a previous notice published by [Henry N.] Hudson in the "Churchman." He would prefer publication in a pamphlet and describes John Wallace's interest and his wish to be anonymous. He congratuates Griswold on his "good wife." He also sends him a copy of "The planter," a racy book which may not suit.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694758607 View

Hoar, George Frisbie. 1826-1904. Autograph collection, 1598-1945

Title: George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-1945

Autograph collection of Massachusetts Republican Senator George Frisbie Hoar.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00676/catalog View

Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857. Papers, 1835-1856.

Title: Rufus W. Griswold papers, 1835-1856.

Correspondence of American editor and literary critic Rufus W. Griswold.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01234/catalog View

Hewitt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1807-1894. Mary Elizabeth Hewitt letters to R. W. Griswold [manuscript], 1841 Dec 30 and 18[?] Aug 25.

Title: Mary Elizabeth Hewitt letters to R. W. Griswold [manuscript], 1841 Dec 30 and 18[?] Aug 25.

On Dec 30, 1841, Hewitt writes to apologize for her late response in sending Griswold the desired copies during the time period he requested. She thanks him for the honor of assigning her a place among the "Poets of America," and discusses her difficulty in selecting from her poems. She concludes by responding to Griswold's questions about her maiden name and birthplace. In a second letter, Aug 25, Hewitt hopes Griswold received the packet she sent him noting how difficult it is to live more than three and a half miles from the nearest mail bag and not own a horse or any other animal.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/420531295 View

Pabodie, William Jewett, 1813-1870. Letter, 1852, June 11, Providence, Rhode Island, to Rufus W. Griswold.

Title: Letter, 1852, June 11, Providence, Rhode Island, to Rufus W. Griswold.

Includes ALS copy of Pabodie's letter (written apparently by Sarah Helen Whitman and, according to a pencilled-in note, included with her letter of 1874, December 23 to Gill). Also TL transcript of the letter.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122639418 View

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Correspondence in the Griswold Collection, Boston Public Library [manuscript] 1829-1849.

Title: Correspondence in the Griswold Collection, Boston Public Library [manuscript] 1829-1849.

Correspondence with the following people: Charles Anthon, Daniel Bryan, William Evans Burton, Thomas Holley Chivers, Maria Clemm, Philip Pendleton Cooke, S.D. Craig, Dow & Thomas, William Davis Gallagher, William Mitchell Gillespie, Lewis Antonie Godey, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Harper & Bros., James Ewell Heath, M.E. Hewitt, Joseph Hopkinson, Richard Henry Horne, A.M. Ide, John Pendleton Kennedy, Lee & Blanchard, Jane Ermina Locke, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Anna Charlotte Lynch, J.M. McTilton, Lucian Minor, Anna Cora Mowatt, William Poe, William Gilmore Simms, Susan Archer Talley, Frederick William Thomas, C.W. Thomson, John Tomlin, Beverley Tucker, R. Tyler, Thomas Willis White, Nathaniel Parker Willis, William Wirt.

ArchivalResource: 140 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967010 View

Historical Society Of Pennsylvania. Gratz Collection.

Title: Historical Society Of Pennsylvania. Gratz Collection.

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Seba Smith/Major Jack Downing Collection, 1838-1851

Title: Seba Smith/Major Jack Downing Collection 1838-1851

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00752.xml View

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Papers of Edgar Allan Poe, 1836-1955.

Title: Papers of Edgar Allan Poe, 1836-1955.

The collection includes one manuscript by Poe, a fragment of "The Rational of Verse." The collection contains 20 letters, 8 of which are by Poe and 4 by his mother-in-law, Maria Clemm. They discuss Poe's literary background and his writings, especially "The Literati of New York City ..." and "Eureka," their publication and copyright ownership; Maria Clemm's health, loss of loved ones and financial problems; the estate of William Clemm, Jr.; William James Hubard; and periodical literature. Also George R. Graham; "Penn Magazine" (later "Stylus"); Caddie [Richmond?]'s dancing; "Annie" [Nancy Locke Heywood Richmond]; Poe publisher Justus Starr Redfield; a biographical sketch of F.W. Thomas; the writing of Thomas Holley Chivers; the "Southern Literary Messenger"; "Memoir of an Author" by Rufus W. Griswold; the authenticity of a Vernon Fletcher portrait of Poe; and the authorship of "Autobiography of a Monomaniac ..." There are also 4 magazine photographs (2 of John Allan, 2 of the "Southern Literary Messenger" building); 2 receipts, one of which is signed by Poe; 4 miscellaneous photocopies (2 from Harper and Brothers "A Catalogue of Valuable Standard Works" containing a description of "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" by Poe, page one of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and a page of a manuscript of "Marginalia" by Poe); and a stanza of "Isabella" by Sara Anna Lewis copied in Poe's hand. Correspondents include Clifton Waller Barrett; Mary A. Benjamin; Nicholas Biddle; John Bisco; Henry S. Borneman; Thomas Holley Chivers; Lewis Jacob Cist; Maria Poe Clemm; George W. Eveleth; Godey's Lady's Book; Rufus W. Griswold; Gabriel Harrison; James A. Harrison; Washington Irving; John P. Kennedy; Jane Ermina Starkweather Locke; John Neal; Nancy Locke Heywood Richmond; Laura Stedman; Swain, Abell and Simmons; Frederick William Thomas; Thomas Willis White; and Nathaniel Parker Willis.

ArchivalResource: 32 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49378316 View

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. Letters : Washington, [D.C.], 1850-1856.

Title: Letters : Washington, [D.C.], 1850-1856.

Three letters, to Interior Dept. chief clerk D.C. Goddard (May 25, 1850), New York journalist and anthologist Rufus Wilmot Griswold (Feb. 23, 1855), and Maine physician Augustus Choate Hamlin (Mar. 27, 1856), concerning a recommendation, progress on and Congressional support for Schoolcraft's multi-volume work on U.S. Indian tribes, Hamlin's investigation of Scandinavian and Indian inscriptions for the work, and the republication of an 1821 poem by Schoolcraft.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (2 folders) ; 26 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40342265 View

Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 1806-1884. Letter [ca. 1844, New York] to [R. W.] Griswold [New York]

Title: Letter [ca. 1844, New York] to [R. W.] Griswold [New York]

Discusses writings of Mrs. [E. O.] Smith; has obtained for Griswold a copy of her "[Western] captive," printed "withing the last two or three" years [i.e. in 1842. cf. Griswold's "Female poets of America"]

ArchivalResource: [2] p. on 1 l. Holograph.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34364041 View

Lilly, Josiah Kirby, 1861-1948. Letters collected by Josiah K. Lilly [manuscript], 1848-1855.

Title: Letters collected by Josiah K. Lilly [manuscript], 1848-1855.

Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, Sarah Helen Whitman, Rufus W. Griswold, and others.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647889878 View

Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857. Letter to George Dewey. New York, NY. 1850 Jan. 19.

Title: Letter to George Dewey. New York, NY. 1850 Jan. 19.

Concerning the style of the portrait to be printed and other articles including the verses he wishes inset on the last page.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122609900 View

Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857,. Letter from "Lester" to R.W. Griswold [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Letter from "Lester" to R.W. Griswold [manuscript], n.d.

In the letter Lester discusses organizing for an unidentified political campaign, mentioning that he had seen the strontest Webster men.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648004533 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

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

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01530/catalog View

Lydia Maria Child Collection, 1844-1879

Title: Lydia Maria Child Collection 1844-1879

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00076.xml View

Foster, George G., 1856-. Letter to Rufus Griswold. St. Louis, MO. 1841 Apr. 4.

Title: Letter to Rufus Griswold. St. Louis, MO. 1841 Apr. 4.

Sending a copy of his Daily and Weekly paper with the hope of renewing a friendship.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122400209 View

Samuel Griswold Goodrich Collection, 1822-1852

Title: Samuel Griswold Goodrich Collection 1822-1852

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00563.xml View

Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. Letters of Samuel Griswold Goodrich, 1822-1856.

Title: Letters of Samuel Griswold Goodrich, 1822-1856.

Letters from Goodrich primarily concerning publishing. His letter to James Gates Percival, dated November 27, 1822, discusses Percival's works and advises him to avoid controversy in his writing. Goodrich urges Franklin Haven to use his influence in promoting subscriptions to "Natural History" in Boston. He sends waste sheets of poems to Rufus Wilmot Griswold to give him some idea of their quality. Letters concerning Goodrich's own writing include a discussion of "Peter Parley's Short Stories for Long Nights;" a contribution to an annual appearing under Eliza Leslie's auspices and his admiration of her works; his purchase of copies of "Pic'l England," "Penny Magazine, " and "Penny Cyclopedia" for use in U.S. magazines; and his financial affairs concerning his books. Two letters mention "The Token." Correspondence also includes a letter to Richard L. Pease concerning speaking dates to Whigs in Nantucket and Edgartown, and mentioning L.H. Jenks; two letters concerning autographs; and a letter requesting assistance in locating the designer, Billings, from whom he wants to obtain drawings. Correspondents include James Gates Percival, Allen and Ticknor, Eliza Leslie, Franklin Haven, T.J. Huntington, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Weare C. Little, Richard L. Pease, and Rev. William B. Sprague.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34689934 View

Ticknor and Fields records, 1839-1881.

Title: Ticknor and Fields records, 1839-1881.

Primarily correspondence of James Thomas Fields and other editors at Ticknorand Fields, a nineteenth-century Boston, Massachusetts, publishing house.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00106/catalog View

William Gilmore Simms collection of papers, 1839]-[1869?

Title: William Gilmore Simms collection of papers 1839]-[1869?

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence written by the author.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19328 View

Caroline May Collection, 1848, n.d.

Title: Caroline May Collection 1848, n.d.

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00265.xml View

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. Papers of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [manuscript], 1764-1934 (bulk 1830-1881).

Title: Papers of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [manuscript], 1764-1934 (bulk 1830-1881).

Collection contains portions or fragments of manuscripts, early drafts and fair copies of a variety of prose and verse. Correspondents, chiefly recipients, include George L. Austin, Arlo Bates, Charlottes Fiske Bates, Richard Bentley, D. Bogue, Robert Bonner, Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen, George W. Childs, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Frederic S. Cozzens, Charles Deane, Theodore S. Fay, W. P. Fessenden, J. T. Fields, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Sara Josepha Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, John Keese, Fanny Kemble, Edith Longfellow, Fanny Longfellow, James R. Lowell, H. H. Milman, John Neal, Charles Eliot Norton, J. W. Palmer, Epes Sargent, Minot J. Savage, Horace E. Scudder, Ann S. Stephens, Charles Sumner, W. W. Follett Synge, George G. Ticknor, Osmond Tiffany, [Henry T.?] Tuckerman, Samuel Ward, John F. Weir, and William A. Wheeler. The collection also contains some miscellaneous items including a court order in favor of Stephen Longfellow; and photographs of Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: ca. 290 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647976795 View

Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1813-1904.

Title: Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne [manuscript] 1659-1963 (bulk 1839-1864).

The collection contains literary manuscripts, correspondence, business papers, portraits and other items pertaining to Hawthorne. Collection contains the manuscripts of "Chiefly about war matters," "Consular experiences," "A description of a tragedy" by H. Aldrich, "Jonathan Cilley," fragment of "Our old home," fragment of "Septimus Felton, "A sketch or two in Warwick," a fragment of "Times Portraiture," annotated by Elizabeth P. Peabody, an 1815 copybook, an essay for "Homes of American Authors" beginning "I passed by the Old Manse...."and "Cuban Journal" by Sophia Peabody. The collection also contains an electrostatic copy of the original manuscript of "A wonder book for boys and girls." Correspondents include Catharine Ainsworth, George Bancroft, Moncure Daniel Conway, William Cox Bennett, Francis Bennoch, Dr. John Brown, Zachariah Burchmore, Henry Colman, Evert Duyckinck, Lydia Tuttle Fessenden, James T. Fields, Samuel G. Goodrich, Rufus W. Griswold, E. W. Gurney, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, George S. Hillard, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Alexander Ireland, George Payne Rainsford James, George Parsons Lathrop, Henry W. Longfellow, Horace Mann, Horace Mann, Jr., Robert Manning,Herman Melville (copy), James Miller, J. L. O'Sullivan, George P. Putnam, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, C.H. Peirce, Franklin Pierce, Roberts Brothers, Stephen Pleasonton, William Buell Sprague, George Nicholas Sanders, John Sartain, Alexander Strahan, Charles Sumner, L.A. Surette, Howard Ticknor, W. D. Ticknor, Ticknor & Co., William A. Tiffany, Martin Van Buren, C. W. Webber, Sidney Webster, William A. Wheeler, and E. P. Whipple, Topics include his the customhouse in Boston (1839-40), Brook Farm, 1841, customhouse in the District of Salem and Beverly (1847-54), and consul at Liverpool (1853-60). Also health of self and family, pet dog, wife and children, current writing, lecturers for the [Boston?] Lyceum, London social life, Delia Bacon's book on Shakespeare, life in Italy, horse racing in England, and pessimistic outlook on the Civil War. Of interest are in depth letters concering religion and spirituality from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to General E. A. Hitchcock. In addition there are brief mentions of Louis Agassiz, Barry Cornwall, George Curtis, Jefferson Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Grace Greenwood, Jean Ingelow, Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Mary Peabody Mann, Mary Russell Mitford, John Lothrop Motley, and Albert Smith. The collection also contains various Custom House receipts consular affidavits and certification, shipping certificate, and royalty check of Hawthorne. In addition the collection contains miscellaneous legal documents pertaining to the Hawthorne family including a fragment of a legal document, 1659, a survey, 1675, a warrant, 1707, and an account 1800. In addition the collection contains portraits of Hawthorne including two ambrotypes, a carte-de-visite, a cabinet card, and several engravings, together with three pencil drawings by Sophia Hawhtorne and an engraving of the Hawthorne residence. Of interest is "Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tributes by American Authors on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth" containing letters and brief manuscripts solicited by Ralph Waldo Stoddard in 1904. The collection also contains photostatic and typescript copies of Hawthorne items elsewhere. There are several twentieth century letters concerning provenance of some of the letters, and a post 1955 compilation of notes and excerpts pertaining to Una Hawtorne.

ArchivalResource: 215 items.

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Foster, George G., d. 1856. Letters to Rufus Wilmot Griswold [manuscript], 1835-1841.

Title: Letters to Rufus Wilmot Griswold [manuscript], 1835-1841.

Foster discusses finances, travels, personal problems, employment, friendship, and his papers the "Hedgehog" and "Pennant." He mentions the Native American Association and expresses disdain for Africa, Negroes, and northern agitators.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647817320 View

Gard, Daniel Hosmer, 1844-1925. Papers 1794-1925.

Title: Papers 1794-1925.

Superintendent of telegraph for the Columbus, Hocking Valley, and Toledo Railway, and bookseller, of Columbus, Ohio. Correspondence, journals, account books, legal papers, tariff of telegraph rates, scrapbooks, and autograph collection. Contact repository for more information.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5914379 View

Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857. Rufus W. Griswold papers, 1785-1897 year (Bulk: 1834-1857)

Title: Rufus W. Griswold papers, 1785-1897 year (Bulk: 1834-1857)

This collection contains the letters of Rufus Griswold (1815-1857), editor of Graham's Magazine and publisher of American literature and poetry in the mid 19th century. The letters document his relationships -- both business and personal -- with his contemporaries. Most notable in the collection is the correspondence between Griswold and Edgar Allan Poe. Also included are manuscripts of poems, articles, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 1267 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767863985 View

Sprague, Charles, 1791-1875. Autograph letter signed Chas. Sprague to: Dear Sir December 9, 1841.

Title: Autograph letter signed Chas. Sprague to: Dear Sir December 9, 1841.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70817351 View

Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879. Papers of Sarah Josepha Buell [manuscript] 1827-79.

Title: Papers of Sarah Josepha Buell [manuscript] 1827-79.

Poem, To Miss Sophia Cheney [1 l. holograph signed]--Letters, 1843-73, to Ulysses Simpson Grant, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Benson John Lossing and others concern social engagements, Mrs. Hale's rejection of poems for publication, and engravings for and publication of her own works [10 items. holograph signed]--Newspaper clipping, 1879, obituary of Mrs. Hale [1 item. printed].

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647942705 View

Lippincott, Sara Clarke, 1823-1904. Sara Clarke Lippincott/Grace Greenwood Collection, 1844-1903

Title: Sara Clarke Lippincott/Grace Greenwood Collection 1844-1903

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Louis Antoine Godey Collection, 1847, 1848

Title: Louis Antoine Godey Collection 1847, 1848

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1787-1879. Letter, 1842 April 27 [n.p.], to Mr. Ticknor [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1842 April 27 [n.p.], to Mr. Ticknor [n.p.].

Comments on the likenesses of Longfellow, Sprague, Bryant, Halleck, and himself on Griswold's frontispiece. Griswold made one or two mistakes.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3245410 View

Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949. Barrett assorted authors collection, 1814-1947

Title: Barrett assorted authors collection [manuscript] 1814-1947.

The collection contains manuscripts of The broken battalions by Paul Hamilton Hayne, The flower of Liberty by Oliver W. Holmes, and The need of two loaves by Nathaniel Parker Willis, as well as a printed pamphlet What Mr. Jenkins thinks by Heman Lincoln Wayland. Topics discussed in the authors' correspondence include personal finances, efforts to get published, lectures and public appearances, booksellers and selling, book reviews, book and autograph collecting, other writers, current writing, illnesses, regrets and acceptances and editing. There are brief comments on current events including the slave trade, the War of 1812, the Civil War and World War I. Correspondents are: James Truslow Adams, George Ade, Washington Allston, Leonard Bacon, Isaac Bailey, S. Baring-Gould, Albert Barnes, Theodric Romeyn Beck, Lyman Beecher, J.D. Bell, William Rose Benét, Robert Bonner, Henry Chandler Bowen, Louis Bromfield, James Brooks, George Washington Bungay, Thornton W. Burgess, John Burroughs, George Washington Cable, Henry Charles Carey, William Ellery Channing, William Ellery Channing, Francis James Child, George William Childs, Horace Porter, Alexander Robert Chisolm, William Conant Church, Edward Daniel Clarke, Richard Coe, Joseph Green Cogswell, Samuel Stillman Conant, Charles Taber Congdon, Martin Franklin Conway, Moncure Daniel Conway, Joseph Cook, David Goodman Croly, Jane Cunningham Croly, Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, George Ticknor Curtis, George William Curtis. Frederic Dannay, Francis W. Dawson, Joseph Delaplaine, Eugene Lemoine Didier, Mary Abigail Dodge, Ignatius Donnelly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Addis Emmet, Jeremiah Evarts, Edward Everett, T. Farre, Edward S. Farrow, C.C. Felton, John Fiske, Clyde Fitch, Peter Force, Hamlin Garland, Caroline Howard Gilman, Parke Godwin, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Asa Gray, Barry Gray, George Gray, Joel Tyler Headley, Robert Silliman Hillyer, Edward Howard House, Freeman Hurst, Burges Johnson, Thomas Wallace Knox, Melville de Lancey Landon, Fitzhugh Lee, Francis Lieber, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Benson Lossing, Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop, William McFee, Archibald MacLeish, Julia Marlowe, Samuel Merwin, Elias Nason, Scott Nearing, Bill Nye, Edgar Wilson, James Parton, James Kirke Paulding. Jonathan Cogswall Perkins, Bliss Perry, Morris Phillips, Wendell Phillips, Octavius Pickering, George Henry Preble, William Hickling Prescott, Agnes Repplier, Edgar Saltus, Carl Sandburg, Frederick Saunders, John Savage, Montgomery Schuyler, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Ernest Thompson Seton, Elizabeth M. Sewell, Lemuel Shattuck, George William Sheldon, Henry Augustus Shute, L.H. Sigourney, Upton Sinclair, Edward Spencer, Charles Sprague, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ann Sophia Stephens, M. Stillman, Jared Sparks, Richard Henry Stoddard, Wilkins Tannehill, Bayard Taylor, Marion Harland, Maurice Thompson, John Reuben Thompson, Benjamin W. Ticknor, George Ticknor, Theodore Tilton, George Francis Train, John Townsend Trowbridge, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Henry Van Dyke, Jeanette Walworth, Joseph Warren, Heman Lincoln Wayland. Noah Webster, R.A. West, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Marshall Pinckney Wilder, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and James Grant Wilson. Recipients includes William Johnson Bacon, Henry Carey Baird, James Nelson Barker, [Maxwell Struthers?] Burt, Henry Charles Carey, Carey & Hart, Eckstein Case, Salmon Portland Chase, William Pleater Davidge, Eugene Lemoine Didier, Charles Daniel Drake, John Wakefield Francis, Samuel Ward Francis, Nathan Hale, Joseph LeRoy Harrison, Abraham Hart, George Stillman Hillard, Isabella Batchelder James, Ralph Olmstead Keeler, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, F.W. McDonough, R. Shelton Mackenzie, North American Review, Horace Porter, Justus Starr Redfield, Matthew Hale Smith, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Richard Henry Stoddard, Theodore Tilton, Charles Burr Todd, and James Wolcott Wadsworth. The collection also contains portraits of John Esten Cooke, George William Curtis, Jeremiah Evarts, James Kirke Paulding, William H. Prescott, and Bayard Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 144 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647968743 View

Greenwood, Grace, 1823-1904. Letter to Mr. Griswold. : Providence, RI. [18--] Dec. 19.

Title: Letter to Mr. Griswold. : Providence, RI. [18--] Dec. 19.

Expressing her hope to see him and his friends the Careys.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311769418 View

Richard Henry Dana Sr. and Jr. Collection, 1852-1874

Title: Richard Henry Dana Sr. and Jr. Collection 1852-1874

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00232.xml View

Lewis, Estelle Anna Blanche Robinson, 1824-1880. Letters, Brooklyn, N.Y., to Rufus Wilmont Griswold [manuscript] 1849 July and Dec.

Title: Letters, Brooklyn, N.Y., to Rufus Wilmont Griswold [manuscript] 1849 July and Dec.

Mrs. Lewis requests Griswold to join her family in church and to take an interest in Mr. Elliot, an artist. She wants information on sending a portrait and attempts to banish Griswold's presentiment of death in the cholera epidemic of 1849.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647948576 View

Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886. Letter, Philadelphia, to Rufus Wilmot Griswold? [manuscript] 1851 Jan. 24.

Title: Letter, Philadelphia, to Rufus Wilmot Griswold? [manuscript] 1851 Jan. 24.

Lea invites Griswold for a visit.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647948582 View

Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857,. Letters relative to Poe: [manuscript], 1843-1849.

Title: Letters relative to Poe: [manuscript], 1843-1849.

The collection contains a letter from F. W. Thomas to Robert Tyler, 1843 February 8, and a letter from George Lippon to Rufus W. Griswold, 1849 November 22.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647917125 View

Hirst, Henry Beck, 1813-1874. Papers : of Henry Beck Hirst, 1844-1849 [manuscript].

Title: Papers : of Henry Beck Hirst, 1844-1849 [manuscript].

The collection contains a poem, "Sonnet," dedicated to Robert Morris of Philadelphia. In an accompanying letter to Morris Hirst expresses his admiration and friendship. There is also a letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold discussing publication of some poems.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647812915 View

Hosmer, William Howe Cuyler, 1814-1877. Letters: of William Howe Cuyler Hosmer, 1844-1859 [manuscript].

Title: Letters: of William Howe Cuyler Hosmer, 1844-1859 [manuscript].

Hosmer discusses publication of his poems; replies to invitations to lecture; gives subjects in which he is conversant; and mentions "Legends." A sonnet, "Night," is included in the text of one letter. The correspondents are Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Cyrus Powers, and "friend Marshall."

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647812343 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

Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870. William Gilmore Simms collection of papers, [1839]-[1869?].

Title: William Gilmore Simms collection of papers, [1839]-[1869?].

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence by the author.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19328 View

Horace Greeley Papers, 1812-1928, (bulk 1860-1872)

Title: Horace Greeley Papers 1812-1928 (bulk 1860-1872)

Journalist. Correspondence, autobiography, writings by and about Greeley, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, a notebook, printed matter, and other papers pertaining to his life and career as a journalist.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items; 7 containers; 2.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009284 View

Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866. Francis L. Hawks Letters [manuscript] 1852-1860.

Title: Francis L. Hawks Letters [manuscript] 1852-1860.

Hawks politely declines an invitation of Cyrus Field, informs Rufus Wilmot Griswold that he will be unable to attend a memorial service for [James Fenimore] Cooper and explains the reasons for a visit and his intentions to secure Griswold's likeness.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/420463382 View

Elizabeth Oakes Smith Collection, 1843-1883

Title: Elizabeth Oakes Smith Collection 1843-1883

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00481.xml View

Browne, Martha Griffith, d. 1906. Letter, 1852, Nov. 14, Louisville, Ky., to Rufus W. Griswold.

Title: Letter, 1852, Nov. 14, Louisville, Ky., to Rufus W. Griswold.

Asks Griswold to review her book and give it a strong recommendation. Believes Appleton's has sent him a copy. Signed Mattie Griswold.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. ; 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122491440 View

Lewis Gaylord Clark Collection, 1834-1867, n.d.

Title: Lewis Gaylord Clark Collection 1834-1867, n.d.

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00717.xml View

White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885. Papers of Richard Grant White, 1842-1884.

Title: Papers of Richard Grant White, 1842-1884.

The letters contain correspondence with members of the publishing and literary fields. Topics include commentary on Shakespeare, especially proof that John Collier's folio is a fake and advice to a young girl on reading Shakespeare. The correspondence also notes the publication of "Idylls of the king," and discusses his own work and forthcoming articles in magazines on various literary subjects. The correspondence also affords glimpses of family life, particularly regarding his son, Richard Mansfield, an unemployed mechanical engineer in Colorado. In addition the collection contains a print of White and a poem by him "My Heart's Grace."

ArchivalResource: 24 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31685639 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01965/catalog View

Nichols, Mary Sargeant Gove, 1810-1884. Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols letters to Alonzo Lewis [manuscript], 1848-1859, undated.

Title: Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols letters to Alonzo Lewis [manuscript], 1848-1859, undated.

Over the course of 11 years, Nichols writes to her dear friend Alonzo Lewis about poetry, her life, and career as an author. The letters are typically very stream-of-consciousness, and Nichols often delves into issues of religion, including her conversion to Roman Catholicism, family, and the ways in which Lewis is "truly a poet." Briefly mentions Anna Bishop, Sarah Jane Lipppincott Clarke (Grace Greenwood), Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Jenny Lind, Herman Melville, John Godfrey Saxe, [Richard Henry?] Stoddard, and Nathaniel Willis. Includes a poem, written as a valentine, entitled "The rose and the ray." Collection also contains a letter from J. E. Worcester sending a dictionary.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/174964798 View

Kirkland, Caroline M. (Caroline Matilda), 1801-1864. Papers : of Caroline M. Kirkland, 1840-1934 (bulk 1840-1848) [manuscript].

Title: Papers : of Caroline M. Kirkland, 1840-1934 (bulk 1840-1848) [manuscript].

The papers contain three typescripts by Jane Clark: "The life of Caroline Matilda Kirkland," "Joseph Stansbury," and pages 4-7 of "Joseph Stansbury"; six letters from Kirkland chiefly re articles and stories she submitted, including "The bee tree" for publication in "The Gift"; subjects desired and payment offered by "Graham's Magazine"; a love story she plans to submit; and her work with "The Union Magazine"; and two letters from Jane Clark to Louise Kirkland Sanborn re information on the life of Kirkland, Joseph Stansbury, and other Stansbury ancestors to help Clark in her biographical writing. There are also two copies of an engraving of Kirkland. Kirkland's correspondents include Messrs. Carey and Hart (publishers), Evart A. Duyckinck, Charles S. Francis, and Rufus Wilmot Griswold.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647812208 View

Osgood, Samuel, 1812-1880. Sam Osgood letters [manuscript], 1851, 1852, 1898.

Title: Sam Osgood letters [manuscript], 1851, 1852, 1898.

In a letter,1851 Oct 8.,Osgoodwrites to the Rev. Dr. Griswold apologizing for his report, as the words are impromptu. He is "in the habit" of seeing [page] proofs and asks that proofs be sent to his house at 86 No. Eleventh St. or the office of the Christian Inquirer. In a letter, 1852 Feb 28, Oswald writes to Griswold that will send his speech as nearly as he can remember it. He asks for proofs, since he is worried about misprints. He feels pleasure in bothering Griswold, who got him into a "dreadful scape" on Wednesday, and writes, "Only the grace of heaven saved me from breaking down." In a letter, 1898 Nov 15,Osgood writes to "My dear Mr. Curtis[?]" describing Mr. Bryant's religious views and character, and embarks upon a personal anecdote about Bryant.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648010837 View

Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. Letters of Samuel Griswold Goodrich [manuscript], 1822-1856.

Title: Letters of Samuel Griswold Goodrich [manuscript], 1822-1856.

Letters from Goodrich primarily concerning publishing. His letter to James Gates Percival, dated November 27, 1822, discusses Percival's works and advises him to avoid controversy in his writing. Goodrich urges Franklin Haven to use his influence in promoting subscriptions to "Natural History" in Boston. He sends waste sheets of poems to Rufus Wilmot Griswold to give him some idea of their quality. Letters concerning Goodrich's own writing include a discussion of "Peter Parley's Short Stories for Long Nights;" a contribution to an annual appearing under Eliza Leslie's auspices and his admiration of her works; his purchase of copies of "Pic'l England," "Penny Magazine," and "Penny Cyclopedia" for use in U.S. magazines; and his financial affairs concerning his books. Two letters mention "The Token." Correspondence also includes a letter to Richard L. Pease concerning speaking dates to Whigs in Nantucket and Edgartown, and mentioning L.H. Jenks; two letters concerning autographs; and a letter requesting assistance in locating the designer, Billings, from whom he wants to obtain drawings. Correspondents include James Gates Percival, Allen and Ticknor, Eliza Leslie, Franklin Haven, T.J. Huntington, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Weare C. Little, Richard L. Pease, and Rev. William B. Sprague.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647877815 View

Papers, 1838-1850.

Title: Papers, 1838-1850.

Papers of American poet Frances Sargent Locke Osgood.

ArchivalResource: 1box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01252/catalog View

Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection, 1838-1854

Title: Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection 1838-1854

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00748.xml View

Maria Gowen Brooks papers, ca. 1827-1946, bulk (ca. 1827-1843).

Title: Maria Gowen Brooks papers, ca. 1827-1946, bulk (ca. 1827-1843).

Collection consists of Brooks's correspondence, some copies, relating to her work and to personal matters, and poems including manuscript of Zophiël with revisions and comments.

ArchivalResource: .3 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122639978 View

Godey, Louis Antoine, 1804-1878. Letters of Louis Antoine Godey, 1847-1865.

Title: Letters of Louis Antoine Godey, 1847-1865.

Letters describe articles in "Godey's Lady's Book" and express satisfaction with the quality of the magazine; give ideas for future pieces; and discuss the buying and selling of autographs. There are also two humorous notes to social acquaintances. Mentions John Wanamaker, the Young Men's Christian Association and Fanny Elssler's dancing to benefit the Bunker Hill Monument. The correspondents include Hannah M. Taylor, Rufus W. Griswold, Mr. Camac, and F.J. Duer.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34566940 View

Hillard, George Stillman, 1808-1879. George S. Hillard letters [manuscript] 1842-1876.

Title: George S. Hillard letters [manuscript] 1842-1876.

Over half of these letters regard professional matters of Hillard's life, including responses to invitations to lecture, correspondence about various articles and literary matters, or ptofessional and social contacts. The remaining letters are personal in nature, freqeuntly declining invitations to social events. Louis Agassiz is mentioned.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423062093 View

Whitman, Sarah Helen, 1803-1878. Papers, 1816-1878.

Title: Papers, 1816-1878.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122622963 View