Letters and notes, 1843-1912, n.d.

Childs, George W. (George William), 1829-1894

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George W. Childs (1829-1894) was the founder and editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and a noted philanthropist. Born in Baltimore, he moved to Philadelphia to work for a bookseller at age fourteen and soon went into business for himself at the age of eighteen. In 1849, he became a partner in the publishing firm of R. E. Petersen & Company, and in 1860 he formed a partnership with the influential publisher J. P. Lippincott. In 1864, he purchased the Philadelphia Public Ledger, in which Anth...

Dole, Nathan Haskell, 1852-1935

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Nathan Haskell Dole was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University. He worked as a teacher and journalist in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and California, and as advisor and editor for the publishing firms Crowell and Appleton. He also wrote poetry, and was a prolific translator of Russian works into English, including Tolstoy's works and numerous songs and lyrical pieces. From the description of Nathan Haskell Dole letter to Dear sir and poem, 1894-1895. (...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Tannenbaum, Samuel A. (Samuel Aaron), 1874?-1948

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Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States in 1886. In 1898, he began practicing psychotherapy in New York City. He was widely recognized as a scholar of Shakespeare and his times. From the description of Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum papers, 1857-1943. WorldCat record id: 23992343 Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum was born in Hungary around 1874. After immigrating to the United States in 1886, he studied at the College of the City of New Yo...

Lamberton, J. P.

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Haseltin, John W.

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....

Furness, Horace Howard, Mrs., 1837-1883

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Carlyle, J.

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Vining, Edward Payson, 1847-1920

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Edward Payson Vining was General Freight Agent for Union Pacific Railway Co. and was an amateur Shakespearean. From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1881. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883785 ...

Borneman, Henry S.

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Harding, W. (William Harry), 1941-

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Steinbruck, E.

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Austin Carlyle & Co.

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Ashbee, Edmund W. (Edmund William)

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Cushman, Alice.

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Hunt, William Edward

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Epithet: Canon of Wells British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x000290 James Hanley (1901-1985) was a British playwright and novelist whose books often had seafaring themes, and whose plays included THE INNER JOURNEY and SAY NOTHING. He also co-edited a book on the singer Fyodor Chaliapin. James Hanley died on Nov. 11, 1985, at the age of 84. From the description of James H...

Rutledge, Archibald.

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Pallēs, Alexandros, 1851-1935.

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882

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Lawyer and author. From the description of Richard Henry Dana correspondence, 1843-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449368 Author and lawyer Richard Henry Dana was the privileged son of an aristocratic Massachusetts family. Taking time from Harvard because of medical problems, he went to sea, where his experiences as a sailor inspired him to write Two Years Before the Mast. A sea story that was part memoir and part social commentary, the novel proved to be popular with...

Streamer, Volney, 1859-1915.

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M. Thomas & Sons.

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Thimm, Franz J. L., 1820-1889

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Epithet: author and publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001241.0x0001ab ...

Philadelphia Shakspere Society.

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Ullery, I. L.

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Edmonds, Charles, approximately 1823-

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Bueler, W. H.

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Butler, James Davie, 1815-1905

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Nichols, G. H.

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Lippe, Adolph, 1812-1888.

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Adolph Lippe was a German princeling of the same family to which Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands belongs. He came to the United States in the 1840s and took up the practice of homeopathic medicine. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1886. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884993 ...

Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899

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Bookseller. From the description of Letter, 1885 July 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497058 From the guide to the Bernard Quaritch letter, 1885, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Furness, Fannie Fassitt.

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Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912

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American Shakespeare scholar. From the description of Letters : to Dr. John C. Rolfe, 1910. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79028412 Shakespearean scholar. From the description of Papers of Horace Howard Furness, 1872-1899. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56349747 Horace Howard Furness was a lawyer and Shakespeare scholar. From the description of Scrapbook, 1869-1911. (American Philosophical Society Library). Wor...

Ike Shaw & Co.

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J.B. Lippincott & Co.

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Furness, William Henry, 1866-1920

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Between 1895 and 1901, William Furness, III., Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., and Hiram M. Hiller made a series of extended trips to Oceania, South and Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Furness, Harrison, and Hiller all received degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and donated or sold to the University Museum substantial collections of ethnographic, archaeological, and skeletal material acquired on the voyages. The Furness, Harrison, and Hiller collections, particularly those from Ocea...

Smith, Alfred Russell

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Alfred Russell Smith was a London bookseller. From the description of Letters and receipts to Horace Howard Furness, 1872. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884091 ...

Buchey, J. J.

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Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930

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Epithet: bookseller, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000701.0x000086 Antiquarian bookseller. Voynich, a Polish revolutionary, left Polandfor London and eventually settled in New York, where he became a dealer in rare books and manuscripts with shops in New York and London. The business was liquidated after his death. The "Voynich Manuscript," a manuscript in code that he disco...

Norris, Joseph Parker, 1847-1916

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J.P. Norris was editor of the American Bibliopolist. From the description of Letters to J.P. Norris, editor, from F.J. Furnivall and J. Crosby [manuscript], 1877. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 416491440 ...

Millward, A. Sydney.

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Snelgrove, A. G.

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Russell, Edward R. (Edward Richard), 1834-1920

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Title: 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x000067 ...

Millard, Clara.

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Schelling, Felix Emmanuel, 1858-1945

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Felix Emmanuel Schelling joined the faculty of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 1886. He was curator of the H. H. Furness Memorial Library from 1933 to 1945. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, [1895]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884799 From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1890-1928. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884801 A.B., LL.B...

Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930

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This is Horace Howard Furness, Jr., son of Horace Howard Furness. Both father and son were Philadelphia Shakespeare scholars. From the description of Papers and letters to Horace Howard Furness (Sr.), W. U. Hensel, J. DeWitt Miller, Edward H. Sothern [?] and Mrs. Stevenson, 1882-ca. 1929, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883347 Horace Howard Furness, Jr. was the son of Horace Howard Furness. Both father and son were eminent Shakespeare schola...

Giles, Henry, 1809-1882

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Henry Giles was a Unitarian minister and critic. Born in Ireland, he converted to Unitarianism and spoke throughout Great Britain, finally emigrating to the United States. He spoke to Unitarian congregations in New England, and began publishing essays, mostly on literature, but also on history and social issues. His criticism is observant and in many ways ahead of its time, but perhaps because of his duties as minister, his writing seems patterned and somewhat unfinished. From the de...

Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893

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American actor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : New York and Chicago, to Elsie Leslie, 1889 Dec. 5 and 1890 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270532629 From the description of Letters, 1858, 1887. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56685372 Edwin Booth (1833-1893) was the son of Junius Brutus Booth, the great British tragedian, and the older brother of John Wilkes Booth; Edwin was best known for his Shakespearean roles. ...

Hunter, George W., -1900

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Witty, C. H.

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Wright, William Aldis, 1831-1914

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English literary and biblical scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to George Crabbe, 1883 Sept. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 605966319 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to George Crabbe, 1883 Oct. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 605952785 English scholar and writer. From the description of Letters : to Edward Clodd, 1893 Oct. 3 and 12. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); Unive...

Bright, Miss.

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McClellan, Katherine Elizabeth.

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Jefferys, C. P. B., Jr.

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Wister, A. L. (Annis Lee), 1830-1908

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Annis Lee Wister was the sister of Horace Howard Furness. From the description of Letters to her nephews, to Horace Howard Furness and to Ida Cushman, ca. 1870-1896, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883913 American translator of German stories. From the description of Letter, 1908 September 11, Lindenshade, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, to Barrett Wendell [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812176 ...

Westcott & Thomson

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Lindsay.

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Camac, W.

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Wood, H. C. (Horatio Curtis), Jr., 1841-1920

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Philadelphia therapeutist. From the description of Letter, undated, Philadelphia. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 154271546 ...

Stetson, C.

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Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1957

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Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910

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English scholar and editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Mrs. Mark's, Temple Gardens, Lincoln, to an unknown correspondent, 1890 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125491 Frederick James Furnivall (1825-1910) was an English scholar and editor who helped to organize the Working Men's College. Various organizations he founded include the Early English Text Society, Chaucer Society, New Shakspere Society, Wiclif Society, Browning Society, and Shelle...

Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889

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English writer and librarian. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London, to J. Harrison, 1868 July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270665313 Shakespeare scholar, literary antiquary, and lexicographer. From the description of Correspondence, 1849-1892. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34367915 Shakespeare scholar, literary antiquary, lexicographer, and critic. From the description of Correspondence, with W...

Mead, Leonard C.

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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

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Poet and author, Cornell University non-resident professor. From the description of James Russell Lowell letter and portrait, 1871 July 12. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 123412650 Lowell was an author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat. He edited The Atlantic Monthly, and with Charles Eliot Norton, The North American Review ; was professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard; and U.S. minister to Spain and to England. Aldrich was ...

Sartain, John, 1808-1897

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Engraver, portrait and miniature painter John Sartain was born in London in 1808 and moved to the United States in 1830 after a seven year apprenticeship to London engraver John Swaine. Besides his banknote and portrait engraving, Sartain was noted for his magazine engravings. In 1849 he began his own magazine, entitled Sartain's Union Magazine of Letters and Art, but ceased its publication three years later due to financial troubles. Sartain was also the director of the Pennsylvania Academy of ...

Childress, Rufus J. (Rufus Jackson), 1849-

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Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915

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William Uhler Hensel was born in Quarryville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on 3 December 1851. Hensel attended the local public school and a series of private academies before entering Franklin and Marshall College in 1866. Hensel was very active in the school including fraternities and clubs. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1870. After graduation, Hensel pursued a career in law and studied under Judge Isaac Hiester and David G. Eshleman. In 1873, Hensel was adm...

Stillé, Alfred, 1813-1900

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Philadelphia-born physician and elder brother of Charles Janeway Stillé. He served as professor of theory and practice of medicine at the University of Pennyslvania from 1864 until his retirement in 1883. From the description of Alfred Stillé lecture notes, 1882-1884. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 214284746 U.S. physician. From the description of Notes on theory and practices of med. by Prof. Stillé, 1868-1869 : [University of Penns...

Editorial Research Company.

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Franklin Inn Club.

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