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Manchester, Harriet E., d. 1915. Harriet E. Manchester letters received, 1872 Apr.-July.

Title: Harriet E. Manchester letters received, 1872 Apr.-July.

Letters from prominent authors in reply to Manchester's request for permission to use their poems in her forthcoming book.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71244346 View

Elizabeth Sedgwick Child family collection 1826-1918 1826-1837, 1855-1885 Child, Elizabeth Sedgwick family collection

Title: Elizabeth Sedgwick Child family collection 1826-1918 1826-1837, 1855-1885 Child, Elizabeth Sedgwick family collection

This collection contains correspondence related to the family of Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick Child, granddaughter of politician Theodore Sedgwick and wife of Harvard professor Francis James Child. The collection also includes several photographs and printed items.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-3223.14chi?rgn=main;view=text View

Allen, Elizabeth Akers,. Papers, 1852-1914.

Title: Papers, 1852-1914.

Correspondence and letters of Benjamin Paul Akers, Maine sculptor and artist and his wife, Elizabeth Akers Allen, chiefly relating to the life and career of Paul Akers, including letter of Samuel T. Pickard, of Amesbury, Mass., about Mrs. Akers, as well as an original ms. copy, on linen of The Pearl Diver and original ms. copy of The Lady of Stavoren; together with memorabilia including clippings, biographical sketches of Mrs. Akers, photograph of Paul Akers, and printed materials.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78194876 View

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

Portland Society of Natural History (Me.). Portland Society of Natural History records, 1850-1946.

Title: Portland Society of Natural History records, 1850-1946.

General correspondence, including letters of Elizabeth Akers Allen, Sylvester B. Beckett, Admiral George Henry Preble, and others; membership lists, treasurers' reports and bills and receipts; correspondence and journals of Herbert M.W. Haven, confectioner and amateur mineralogist and naturalist of Portland, Me.; a catalogue of the personal collection of Arthur H. Norton, curator of the Portland Society of Natural History; and newspaper clippings and scrapbooks relating to the activities of the society and containing biographical data on James Phinney Baxter, Percival Proctor Baxter, Charles Lewis Fox, Fred A. Gilbert, Charles C. Harmon, Aurelius Stone Hinds, Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, Charles Wyman Morese, George Frederick Morse, Augustus Freedom Moulton, John Neal, Sarah Payson Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), William Willis and others; also contains photographs.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71015349 View

Allen, Elizabeth Akers, 1832-1911. Elizabeth Akers Allen poem and letter, ca. 1860 and 1895.

Title: Elizabeth Akers Allen poem and letter, ca. 1860 and 1895.

The collection consists of a poem and letter. The manuscript copy of the poem, "A little while," undated (ca. 1860), signed by Elizabeth Akers, is in five stanzas of four lines each, and expresses a yearning for the peace of death. Allen writes to Mr. Shannon, 12 Dec. 1895, thanking him for the gift of a book-length pious poem, and discusses her poem "Witch Hazel" and her love of old hymns.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52863780 View

Brown University. Library (Providence, Rhode Island). Selected correspondence, 1913-1993, "Ahrens" to "Bradstreet".

Title: Selected correspondence, 1913-1993, "Ahrens" to "Bradstreet".

Includes letters exchanged by selected donors, booksellers, and researchers with librarians and support staff.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145430516 View

Elizabeth Akers Allen letters, 1863-1888

Title: Elizabeth Akers Allen letters 1863-1888

American author and editor.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6540 View

Staples, Franklin, 1833-1904. Akers brothers : a brief sketch concerning those American artists, ca. 1900.

Title: Akers brothers : a brief sketch concerning those American artists, ca. 1900.

Typescript of speech presented by Staples before the Art History Club at a meeting of that organization in Winona relating to the lives and works of Benjamin Paul Akers, the sculptor, and of the artist, Charles Akers. Part of this taken from a volume The Poets of Maine (1888), part from certain encyclopedic and other writings, and part from personal observation and acquaintance of the writer.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/438101159 View

Lawson, James, 1799-1880. Papers of James Lawson, 1867, n.d.

Title: Papers of James Lawson, 1867, n.d.

In a letter 1867, June 5, Luther R. Marsh writes that the volume "Rock me to sleep, Mother" was sent by Frederick A. Coe, and that the author is probably Mr. Ball. The collection also contains handwritten notes, presumably by Lawson, including three religious meditations, and a list of dates and numbers.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48926671 View

Nichols, George, 1809-1882. Correspondence, 1827-1885

Title: George Nichols Correspondence, 1827-1885

Professional correspondence of Riverside Press proofreader and editor George Nichols.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (4 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01315/catalog View

Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931. Rossiter and Helen Kendrick Johnson papers, 1851-1929, bulk (1883-1900).

Title: Rossiter and Helen Kendrick Johnson papers, 1851-1929, bulk (1883-1900).

Collection contains the Johnson's correspondence, accounts, writings, notes, photographs, and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet (14 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60597600 View

Charles E.L. Wingate papers, 1821-1919 (bulk 1892-1898)

Title: Charles E.L. Wingate papers

Papers of American newspaper editor Charles E. L. Wingate.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (1 box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01259/catalog View

Allen, Elizabeth Akers, 1832-1911. Elizabeth Akers Allen collection, 1866-1911.

Title: Elizabeth Akers Allen collection, 1866-1911.

This collection is composed primarily of letters from Elizabeth Akers Allen to her friend Gilbert Tracy, written between 1902-1911. The bulk of the letters were written in 1902, and discuss her work, finances, and other personal matters. Also included are several letters to Tracy from Akers Allen's daughters, Grace Cook and Florence Percy McIntyre. Some literary correspondence between Akers Allen and several publishers is included, as well as a manuscript copy of Sea birds, under the pseudonym Florence Percy, dated 1866.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755731835 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

Chapman, Leonard Bond, 1834-1915. Papers, 1726-1915.

Title: Papers, 1726-1915.

Manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and genealogical and historical notes chiefly consisting of materials pertaining to the history of old Falmouth, Me., and her families; also correspondence, notes, and data relating to the ancestors and descendants of Edward Chapman (1642-1678); Joseph Hartwell Williams's genealogical notes, correspondence, and compilations on the descendants of Richard Williams and on the Cony family; miscellaneous mss. relating to Joseph Chapman, Jr., of Nobleboro, Me., Nathaniel Knight and Peter Lunt, of Falmouth, the Merrill family of Bethel, and Pote family of Freeport; political correspondence of Albion Keith Parris; and personal letters of Elizabeth Akers Allen, journalist.

ArchivalResource: 7.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70974975 View

Underwood, Francis Henry, 1825-1894. Papers of Francis Henry Underwood [manuscript], 1859?-1874?

Title: Papers of Francis Henry Underwood [manuscript], 1859?-1874?

The collection contains the final page of a book review for an English translation of an unidentified book about Egyptian pharaohs by Heinrich B. Brugsch. In two letters to John Williamson Palmer, Underwood reiterates a request by James Russell Lowell that Palmer write a series for the Atlantic Monthly; describes the background, writing, and employment needs of Elizabeth Ann (Chase) Akers Allen; asks for biographical information on Palmer and suggestions of passages from his work for anthologizing in his planned handbook of American authors (The builders of American literature). In the third letter, Underwood asks William Adolphus Wheeler to send books by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. and Charles Sprague's "Poems and orations" (probably "Writings of Charles Sprague, now first collected").

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647813203 View

Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. Collection [18 pieces] by poets/lyricists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, [1810-1907], various locations.

Title: Collection [18 pieces] by poets/lyricists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, [1810-1907], various locations.

This is primarily a collection of letters and autograph manuscripts (some signed), by well-known song-writers of this period. Usually they are lyrics of songs that the author of the song has written in his own hand and signed. See tracings for list of composers and songs.

ArchivalResource: 18 items ; mounted on paper, most 32.5 x 25.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18782565 View

Allen, Elizabeth Akers, 1832-1911. Rock me to sleep : autograph manuscript of the poem signed "Elizabeth Akers" : [n.p.], [ca. 1860-1865].

Title: Rock me to sleep : autograph manuscript of the poem signed "Elizabeth Akers" : [n.p.], [ca. 1860-1865].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 291 x 187 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270132678 View

Allen, Elizabeth Akers, 1832-1911. Manuscripts [manuscript], 1864-1902.

Title: Manuscripts [manuscript], 1864-1902.

ArchivalResource: 14 Items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647878994 View

Dorr, Julia C. R. (Julia Caroline Ripley), 1825-1913. Papers of 47 women authors, chiefly American [manuscript] 1847-1949, 1970.

Title: Papers of 47 women authors, chiefly American [manuscript] 1847-1949, 1970.

The collection consists primarily of social notes and brief replies to queries. Several are addresed to Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin. Included is a tribute to Edward Everett Hale by Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr, The lover by Theodosia Pickering Garrison, an untitled verse by Sarah Jane Clarke Lippincott and several quotations. Of interest is a letter from Ella Wheeler Wilcox which mentions Jack London, and describes her efforts to contact her deceased husband through mediums. In addition to the above, the following women are represented: Elizabeth Chase Taylor Akers Allen, Jan Goodwin Austin, Mary Hunter Austin, Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, Clara Barrus, Mary L.B. Branch, Grace MacGowan Cooke, Faith Baldwin, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, Alice Morse Earle, Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, Mary Hallock Foote, Margaret Witter Fuller, Anna Maria Hall, Olive Harper, Beatrice Harraden, Constance Cary Harrison, Mary Jane Hawes Holmes, Margaret Briscoe Hopkins, Julia Ward Howe, Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb, Eliza Leslie, Octavia W. LeVert, Kate Lewis, Alice M. Longfellow, Julia Magruder, Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, Edna Dean Proctor, Corrine Roosevelt Robinson, Alice Marland Wellington Rollins, Adele Ruenzler, Katharine Abbott Sanborn, Molly Elliot Seawell, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Isabella Caroline Somerset, Louise Stocton, Margaret M'Nair Stokes, Adeline Trafton, Mary Alden Ward, Lilian Whiting, Phyllis Ayame Whitney, and Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin.

ArchivalResource: 57 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647951513 View

Tracy, Gilbert A. (Gilbert Avery), b. 1835. Gilbert A. Tracy autograph collection, 1862-1917.

Title: Gilbert A. Tracy autograph collection, 1862-1917.

Autographs by authors, poets, journalists, politicians and military figures, collected by noted autograph collector Gilbert A. Tracy. A significant number of poems written, and many signed by, Elizabeth Akers are part of the collection, as is an epic poem about the Mayflower written by Theodore Tilton. Other significant names found in the letters, a number of which were addressed to Edward M. Stanton, were Mary Abigail Dodge, Frederick Douglass, John C. Fremont, Ulysses S. Grant, Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson, Robert E. Lee, William T. Sherman, Emma D.E.N. Southworth, Lewis Wallace, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Some letters were written between Generals and other officers during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear foot (1/2 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/748811368 View

Papers, 1854-1930, 1860-1898 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1854-1930, 1860-1898 (bulk).

Draft copies of McKay's poems, articles, and short stories, 1868-1890; clippings of his works, 1868-1898; letters from publishers with the bulk from S. S. McClure, 1868-1890; personal letters dealing with his works include John Greenleaf Whittier, Texas Historical Society, Medora Clark, Eugenia Winklereid, and Elizabeth Akers Allen, 1874-1887; cards and letters from family and friends, 1870-1890; letter of thanks from Elizabeth B. Custer [widow of Gen. George A. Custer] regarding a McKay poem about the General, Feb. 15, 1888; school diaries of Mary McKay (1854) and James T. McKay (1860, 1862); practice books of Maggie, George and James T. McKay; graduation programs of Huntington High School, 1862, 1864; diary, 1867, notebooks about writings, 1870-1888; sketchbooks; George McKay's copybook and library card for the Mercantile Library Association of Brooklyn, 1864; census reports of D. M. McKay family (incomplete), 1870; merit certificates; catalog, program, list of book titles of Huntington Public Library, 1876; photograph album and obituaries. Biographical sketch by Romanah Sammis, 1930.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155565243 View

Betty Thomson papers

Title: Betty Thomson papers

Correspondence; notebooks with sketches, poems, writings on art; photographs of Thomson's family, work, and friends; financial and legal papers; loose sketches and drawings and one sketchbook; subject files; and printed materials.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9388ff493-2b09-4c05-bb89-fa1140e1479b View

Abbott, Emma, 1850-1891. Women authors collection, A-Al, 1944-1965.

Title: Women authors collection, A-Al, 1944-1965.

Single item and one-folder collections of letters and writings by women authors are described in this aggregate record. Included are Emma Abbott autograph sentiment, n.d.; Georgette Agnew mss. poem, 1949; Dame Emma Albani visiting cards; ; Daisy Aldan letter to Diane Di Prima, 1965; Elizabeth Akers Allen signed poem, "A little while."

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43026662 View

Rossiter and Helen Kendrick Johnson papers, 1851-1929, 1883-1900

Title: Rossiter and Helen Kendrick Johnson papers 1851-1929 1883-1900

Rossiter Johnson (1840-1931) was an American author and editor. In addition to editing historical and reference works, he wrote biographies, histories and poetry. He and his first wife, Helen Kendrick Johnson (1844-1914), were ardent anti-feminists who belonged to various organizations opposed to women's suffrage. Helen Johnson was also an author and editor. Collection contains the Johnson's correspondence, accounts, writings, notes, photographs, and printed matter. Rossiter Johnson's papers consist mainly of correspondence with family members and literary, social and political associates. Other materials are accounts, speeches, notes, and printed matter. Helen Kendrick Johnson's papers include correspondence with family members, accounts, writings, and printed announcement of club meetings. Photographs are of the Johnson family and others.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet (14 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1576 View

Poets of America, extra-illustrated.

Title: Poets of America, extra-illustrated.

Manuscripts inserted into Edmund Clarence Stedman, Poets of America(Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1885), including letters, compositions, and notes.

ArchivalResource: 130 items inserted in 2 v.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01524/catalog View

Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1915.

Title: Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1915.

Correspondence and manuscripts of American writer and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier and his American biographer Samuel Thomas Pickard.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (5.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00386/catalog View