Papers : of Alexander Duncan Savage, 1860-1974.

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Papers : of Alexander Duncan Savage, 1860-1974.

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The collection consists almost entirely of Savage's correspondence with family and friends and ranges from his college days at the University of Virginia to his death in 1935. He describes the teaching methods of Maximilian Schele de Vere and Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, student life at the universities of Leipzig and Bonn, vacations on Staten Island and the Virginia beaches, and efforts to find suitable employment. Of greatest interest is correspondence detailing a scandal at the N.Y. Metropolitan Museum of Art in which the director Louis Palma di Cesnola supervised the reconstruction of antique statues. Letters from his parent Thomas Staughton Savage and Elizabeth Rutherford Savage describe activities of other family members and life in the towns of Pass Christian, Miss. and Rhinecliff, N.Y. where his father held Episcopalian pastorates. His brother Thomas Rutherford Savage describes his medical practice at the Michigan State Insane Asylum. Much of the later correspondence describes the family's financial difficulties. The collection also contain some of Savage's financial papers, translations and articles by him including "The stone in the road," a famous children's story, a catalog, 1890, from his N.Y. City girls' school, clippings, postcards, pencil sketches, biographical data, and photographs. Correspondents include Jessie Duncan Savage Cole, Sophie Cole, Thomas Casilear Cole, Thomas L. Cole, Louis Palma di Cesnola, Gaston Feuardent, Richard Watson Gilder, Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, James Albert Harrison, Dorothea Cole Macomber, and Susan C. Dabney Smedes.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Savage, Alexander Duncan, 1848-1935.

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Savage, who attended the University of Virginia, was a classicist, educator, and museum curator. From the description of Papers : of Alexander Duncan Savage, 1860-1974. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 29733940 From the description of Papers of Alexander Duncan Savage, 1851-1936. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136141 ...

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Michigan State Insane Asylum.

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DeVere, Maximilian Schele, 1820-1898.

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Cole, Jessie Duncan Savage, 1858-1940,

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Universität Leipzig

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Harrison, James Albert, 1848-1911

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Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909

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Gilder authored the book, THE NEW DAY, A POEM IN SONGS AND SONNETS... (New York : Scribner, Armstrong and Company, 1876) in which this is tipped in. It contains the bookplate of Brainerd. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Ira Hutchinson Brainerd, [1876?] Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398276 Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909), American poet and editor, served as editor-in-chief of Scribner's Monthly and its successor The Century Illustrated Monthly...

University of Virginia

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Cesnola, Luigi Palma ˜diœ 1832-1904

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