Rosalie Ford Barr papers, 1885-1954 (bulk 1898-1909).

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Rosalie Ford Barr papers, 1885-1954 (bulk 1898-1909).

Consists of 5 autograph letters to Rosalie Ford Barr from her brothers Paul Leicester Ford and Worthington Chauncey Ford, additional correspondence from other family members and between Mrs. Barr's children and grandchildren and newsclippings and correspondence between Mrs. Barr and several contemporary authors. Also includes holograph poem "5 o'clock tea," by Mrs. Barr's mother, Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford.

44 items ; 26.3 cm. or smaller.

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Ford, Emily Ellsworth Fowler, 1826-1893

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Emily Ellsworth (Fowler) Ford (1826-1893), a granddaughter of Noah Webster (1748-1843) the lexicographer, and daughter of William Chauncey Fowler (1793-1881) a professor of rhetoric and oratory and English literature at Amherst College (1838-1843), grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved to Brooklyn, New York in late 1853 upon her marriage to Gordon Lester Ford (1823-1891), a businessman and lawyer. Ford came from a prominent family, well-connected within both social and literary ...

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Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901

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American author and sailor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (7) : Washington, D.C., to Harper & Brothers, 1863-1886 Dec. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611572 Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) was an American journalist and author. He edited the New York Evening Post from 1857 to 1871, was the New York Herald's Washington correspondent from 1874 to 1890, and wrote political works and books about the sea. He advocated the Union cause in the U.S. Civil W...

Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902

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American author and historian. From the description of Letters, 1898, Brooklyn, to Worthington Chauncey Ford. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122580858 American historian and novelist. From the description of Papers : of Paul Leicester Ford, 1888-1905. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 29734016 From the description of Typed letter signed : Brooklyn, New York, to [George Haven] Putnam, 189? May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

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Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941

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Thaw, Alexander Blair.

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