Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1880-1895.

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Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1880-1895.

Includes one newspaper clipping, one xerox of it, and one poem titled "The Bird" (originally titled "The Bird of God", but corrected in Stoddard's hand). Also includes three manuscript drafts of a poem by Stoddard entitled "The Master's Gloves" (or "On the Master's Gloves), signed by Stoddard and dated 23 January 1894. One draft is inscribed to Furness. The drafts show signs of corrections and changes. The poem concerns a pair of gloves that supposedly belonged to Shakespeare and that came into Furness' possession.

5 items (12 leaves).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6954880

University of Pennsylvania Library

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Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903

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American poet. From the description of Manuscript letter : Mattapoisett, to Lafcadio Hearn, 1885 Feb. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 635599094 Army officer. From the description of Abraham Lincoln : poem, 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 748677748 Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903), author, poet, editor, and literary critic, was born in Hingham, Mass., one of three children of sea captain Reuben Stoddard (1800-1827) and Sophia Gurney Stoddard (18...