Autograph letters signed and intialled from Richard Henry Stoddard, New York, Long Island and elsewhere(?), to various people [manuscript], 1852-1892.

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Autograph letters signed and intialled from Richard Henry Stoddard, New York, Long Island and elsewhere(?), to various people [manuscript], 1852-1892.

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Correspondents: W.C. Bennett, Mrs. Horace Silsby, William Winter and another. In (1) Stoddard thanks Bennett for his "boke" of songs and writes of British and American authors. In (2) he thanks Mrs. Silsby for including his Shakespeare verses in her book. In (3) he comments on his ode to Abraham Lincoln. In (4) he wishes Winter would hear the Shakespearean readings of Sydney Woollett. Also, a poem to James Lorimer Graham, Jr. accompanying a volume of Shakespeare's sonnets and beginning, What can I give him, who so much hath given, 1864. Poem listed in the Folger card index of first lines. 2 essays, "The English Laureates" and "Romeo and Juliet", 1892; the title-page to "The Lion's Cub", 1890; and an obituary notice.

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Graham, James Lorimer, 1831-1876

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Bennett, W. C. (William Cox), 1820-1895

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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...

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Silsby, Mary R., 1843 or 1844-1916

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