Harry Elkins Widener manuscript file, 1861-1908.

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Harry Elkins Widener manuscript file, 1861-1908.

Miscellaneous letters and other manuscripts removed from volumes in theHarry Elkins Widener Collection, with items added from other sources.

2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6384659

Houghton Library

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Charles Benjamin Foote

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Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908

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American poet, critic, and journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to F.B. Sanborn, 1881 Jul. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575155 Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) was poet, critic, editor, and stockbroker in New York City. He published his first volume in 1860, entitled Poems Lyrical and Idyllic, followed by a succession of works and anthologies. Stedman was also a member and officer of many national and local literary associations....

Eleanor Elkins Widener

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Widener, Harry Elkins, 1885-1912

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American book collector. His collection became the nucleus of the Widener Memorial Library of Harvard University. From the description of List of books in the library of Harry E. Widener : AMs, [ca. 1910]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122380562 ...

Thomas, George C. (George Clifford), 1839-1909

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Doubleday, Frank Nelson, 1862-1934

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Publisher. From the description of Letter to D. M. Martin [manuscript], 1926 November 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816280 ...

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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Scottish historian and social critic considered the most important philosophical moralist of the early Victorian age. From the description of Letter, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461042 Scottish essayist and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gt. Malvern, to Robert Browning, 1851 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133400 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to William Tait, 1834 S...

Marvin, S. W., fl. 1897

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Stevenson, Robert L. (Robert Louis), 1883-

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Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, 1791-1865

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Thomas Pettigrew, antiquarian and Librarian to the Duke of Sussex, was active in a number of British learned societies, including the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquarians. He was the author of History of Egyptian Mummies (1834) and Chronicles of the Tombs (1857), as well as of a memoir of the life of Lord Nelson. From the description of Pettigrew papers, 1815-1863. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 70064103 From the description of Pettigrew papers, 1797-1865. (...

Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937

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Epithet: of Add MS 38794 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001295.0x00005c Thomas James Wise was an English book collector, printer, bibliographer, and literary forger. From the description of Thomas James Wise collection of papers, 1876-1937. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455235 From the guide to the Thomas James Wise collection of papers, 1876-1937, (The New York Public ...

Charles Scribner's Sons.

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Charles Scribner, 1821-1871, was a partner in the publishing firm of Baker & Scribner, 1846-1871, and carried on alone after Baker's death in 1850. He formed Scribner & Welford in 1857. Charles Scribner's Sons was established in 1870, the same year SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY began. His son Charles, 1854-1930, became president in 1875. He began SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE in 1887. It ceased publication in 1930. His son Charles, 1890-1952, became president in 1932. From the description of Char...

Hopkins, Frank Easton, 1863-1933

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President of the Marion Press. From the description of Letter : Jamaica, Queensborough, N.Y., to Dorothy Furman, 1907 July 28. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23247518 ...

Sharp, William, 1855-1905

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William Sharp was a noted English author, writing prolifically in every conceivable genre. After his death, it was surprisingly revealed that he was also "Fiona MacLeod," a popular mystical writer whose work became a keystone of the Celtic Renaissance. Sharp's themes of mysticism, alienation, symbolism, and spiritual exhaustion fuse mythology with modernism, anticipating the work of Eliot, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence. From the description of William Sharp letters, 1889-1894. (Pennsylvan...

De Vinne Press

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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907

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New Hampshire-born author and poet. From the description of Letter : Redman Farm, Ponkapog, Mass. to John M. Milson, 1904 May 25. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103796 From the description of Letters and ephemera, 1879-1891. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103833 From the description of Letters to Israel Tisdale Talbot, 1868-1875. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103776 During the Civil War Aldrich worked a...

G. M. (George Millar) Williamson

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John Grant

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Shapter

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Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928

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Edmund Gosse, a well known man of letters, librarian to the House of Lords (1904-1914), and author of the autobiography, Father and Son (1907), was a pioneering translator of Ibsen and author of numerous volumes of poetry, criticism and biography. Charles Edmund Merrill was an active member of the Grolier Club from 1910 until his death in 1942. From the description of Letters : to Charles E. Merrill, 1910-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122577035 English poet and man of...

Marshal Keith

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Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901

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Artist and book illustrator. From the description of Letters, 1895-1901. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40067220 English illustrator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to an unidentified correspondent, 1885 March 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270501055 Kate Greenaway, English illustrator. From the description of Kate Greenaway manuscript material : 1 item, 1889 (New York Public Library). WorldCa...

Stuart M. Samuel

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Sadik, Marvin S.

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