Collection of autograph letters and autographs, 1865-1890.

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Collection of autograph letters and autographs, 1865-1890.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40465154

Papers of an autograph dealer include lists of autographs in stock, for exchange and duplicates, want lists and letters from other autograph dealers, particularly Ben W. Austin of Sioux City, Iowa (1877-1885). (Much included in Draper's inventory is presumed to have come from the papers of African American attorney Robert Morris of Boston). There is a collection of English autographs, including Birket Foster, Daniel Maclise, John Stuart Mill, Florence Nightengale and John Tenniel. Also included are: Letter, 1890 Feb. 18, Cambridge, from Charles W. Eliot to Henry F. Jenks regarding a passage from Matthew 12; letter, 1862 May 10, Boston, from George Stillman Hillard to Samuel G. Drake commenting on Drake's monograph on Sir Walter Raleigh; letter, 1870 March 5, Cambridge, from William Dean Howells to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, pleased that Longfellow also admires modern Italian poetry; and autograph quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1882 Jan. 2 Boston), Lucy Larcom (1881 May 1, Beverley), John Greenleaf Whittier (1881 March 1, Danvers), Ferdinard de Lesseps (1880 April 1, N.Y.) and John Gibbs Gilbert (1888 Oct. 10, N.Y.). With a letter, 1847, to James Draper in England from J. Draper in New England describing his efforts to establish a textile manufactory.

ca. 100 items, in folder ; 38 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 1805-1894.

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Gilbert, John, 1810-1889

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Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893

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