Autograph album, 1786-1902,n.d. (bulk 1858-1859).

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Autograph album, 1786-1902,n.d. (bulk 1858-1859).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122411173

Autograph album compiled by Gamaliel Lyman Dwight and dating from 1786 to 1902, although the bulk dates from 1858 to 1859. Most of the autographs include a few simple lines in which the signer indicates that he or she is glad to comply with Dwight's request for an autograph. There are a few more substantive items with signatures. There is a poem (1859) and a selection of prose (1853) by Ralph Waldo Emerson; a poem (1858) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; and a verse written by Horace Greeley. A manuscript copy of Albert G. Greene's poem Old Grimes is in the album. There are several letters (1786-1808) written by U.S. Presidents and other federal officials to David Howell, attorney of the U.S. for the District of R.I., regarding federal matters. The letters to Howell are from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, and Albert Gallitan.

1 v.

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6707018

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63k44cq (person)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts– April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.Epithet: American essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x000365 ...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61m016f (person)

Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60863v9 (person)

Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...

Greene, Albert G. (Albert Gorton), 1802-1868

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pr8p9z (person)

American poet, jurist, book collector. From the description of The baron's last banquet [manuscript], 1838 February 22. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694738680 ...

Dwight, Gamaliel Lyman, d. 1875.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv3g94 (person)