Cornwall authors collection, 1848-1987, 1955-1987 (bulk)

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Cornwall authors collection, 1848-1987, 1955-1987 (bulk)

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Collection concerns the lives and careers of local authors and consists primarily of clippings, research notes and correspondence, booklets, autobiographies, biographies, and bibliographies. Authors include Lyman Abbott, Djuna Barnes, Lewis Beach, Ameila Barr, Harriet Brent Jacobs, Edward Payson Roe, Henry H. Tryon, N. P. Willis, and David Sands. Collection also includes manuscript pages by Edward Payson Roe and a manuscript memoir by his sister on the Roe family in Cornwall, with photographs.

1 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6879848

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Cornwall Public Library. Cornwall on Hudson Branch.

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Collecting area: History of Cornwall, N.Y. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155524644 ...

Barnes, Djuna, 1892-1982

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Noted journalist and avant-garde author Djuna Barnes was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, on June 12, 1892, the second child and only daughter of Wald and Elizabeth Chappell Barnes. Barnes studied art at the Pratt Institute (1912-1913) and at the Art Student's League of New York (1915-1916). In 1913, she began working as a freelance journalist and illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and was soon writing and illustrating features and interviews for the New Y...

Roe, Edward Payson, 1838-1888

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American author and clergyman. From the description of Papers of Edward Payson Roe, 1871-1888. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34689926 American clergyman and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, New York, to [Henry Chandler] Bowen, 1887 Dec. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270656294 ...

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867

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American journalist and poet. From the description of Letter : to "My dear fellow," [18--] July 12. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28900949 Willis was a journalist and writer of plays, poems and short stories. From the description of Letter, to Maunsell B. (Maunsell Bradhurst) Field, 1854 March 31. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122493287 Nathaniel Parker Willis was one of the highest paid periodical writers of his day, a poet, ...

Sands, David, 1745-1818

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David Sands was a Quaker minister from southeastern New York. He was born into a Presbyterian family at Cowneck, Long Island, on 11 mo. 4 1745. Around 1759 the family moved to Cornwall in Orange County, N.Y., where the sickly youth spent much of his time in contemplation of religious matters. In 1766 Sands was convinced to join the Society of Friends through the ministry of English Quaker Samuel Nottingham and was accepted into membership in Nine Partners Monthly Meet1ng, N.Y. ...

Tryon, Henry

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Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x000285 ...

Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897

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Beach, Lewis, 1835-1886

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Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

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American clergyman, author, and editor who worked with Henry Ward Beecher as co-editor of the "Christian Union." From the description of Autograph, 1897. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367554802 American author. From the description of Letter : Cornwall on Hudson, [N.Y.] to Mr. Bok, 1908 Oct. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 33376379 Lyman Abbott was an influential American pastor and author. Born in Massachusetts and educated i...

Barr, Amelia E., 1831-1919

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American novelist. From the description of Letter to "Dear Miss Watson" [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647804716 Journalist and author of historical fiction, Amelia Barr was the author of dozens of novels, including Remember the Alamo (1888) and The Paper Cap (1918). From the description of Letter, 1895. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009180 Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr was born in England and emigrated to ...