Papers of Alice and Phoebe Cary, 1855-1870.

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Papers of Alice and Phoebe Cary, 1855-1870.

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The collection contains manuscripts for : "Our spirits seem to me as wines..," March 1855, and "Adelied," n.d. by Alice Cary; and "Uncertainty" and "Alas," n.d., by Phoebe Cary. Letters written by Alice Cary and Phoebe Cary discuss health, writing, editing and publishing matters, and offer advice and encouragement to others. Frederick West Lander, Charles F. Deems, Thurlow Weed and John Greenleaf Whittier are mentioned. Correspondents include Charles F. Deems, Richard Watson Gilder, Emily Hartley, James Ripley Osgood, Richard Henry Stoddard. The collections also contains engravings of both sisters, and a photograph of Phoebe. A bound volume of clippings contains copies of their poetry, obituaries, and reminiscences of them, as well as the manuscript for "Alas."

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Cary, Phoebe, 1824-1871

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Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824 – July 31, 1871) was an American poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820–1871). The sisters co-published poems in 1849, and then each went on to publish volumes of their own. After their deaths in 1871, joint anthologies of the sisters' unpublished poems were also compiled. phoebe Cary was born on September 4, 1824, in Mount Healthy, Ohio near Cincinnati, and she and her sister Alice were raised on the Clovernook farm in what is now North College H...

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...

Cary, Alice, 1820-1871

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American poet and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [New York, N.Y.], to Horace Greeley, 1868 Sept. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133539 Poet. From the description of Papers, 1870. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 42584184 Author Alice Cary was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, to Robert and Elizabeth (Jessup) Cary. She lived with her sister Phoebe, also a writer, in Ohio and New York City. Both women wrote an...

Deems, Charles F. (Charles Force), 1820-1893

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Clergyman, writer, and college president. From the description of Papers, 1855-1891. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38518969 Clergyman and educator. From the description of Charles F. Deems correspondence, 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423590 American clergyman and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wilmington, N.C., to Messrs. Harper, 1858 Apr. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531327 ...

Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892

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James R. Osgood was a native of Maine who went to work for the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields. He eventually founded the subsidiary group James R. Osgood & Co. which was associated with many fine writers. The firm struggled financially, and when Osgood stepped down, was dissolved into Houghton, Mifflin. From the description of James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54667691 Publisher....

Lander, F. W. (Frederick West), 1821-1862

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Explorer, engineer, and army officer. From the description of Papers of F. W. Lander, 1836-1894 (bulk 1849-1862). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71062217 ...

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...

Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882

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Thurlow Weed, politician and journalist, was born in Cairo, N.Y., on 15 November 1797. He married Catherine Ostrander in 1818. Weed was a leader of the anti-Masonic movement of the 1820's and 30's, a New York assemblyman from 1829-1831, and a key member of the Whig Party and then the Republican Party. From 1824-1826 Weed was the owner and editor of Rochester Telegraph. He published Anti-Masonic Enquirer, and from 1829-1863 he worked as a reporter and editor for the anti-Masons' paper, Albany Eve...

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...

Hartley, Emily

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