Autograph album, 1854-1908.

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Autograph album, 1854-1908.

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The album contains autographs and letters collected by Higginson (or her father Thomas W. Higginson). Some autographs are written in the album; others are on calling cards, note cards or other paper items and mounted in the album. There are letters from Robert Browning, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Louise Imogen Guiney, Julia Ward Howe, Julia Marlowe, Harriet Prescott Spofford and Mark Twain. Signatures (sometimes with a sentimental verse) include Phillips Brooks, John White Chadwick, Gretchen Osgood Dana, Anagarika Dharmapala, Lucia Fairchild (includes a drawing by Fairchild), Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Dean Howells, R.U. Johnson, Brander Matthews, Sir Walter Scott, Algernon D. Swinburne, Peter Thacher, Justin Winsor (including the photograph of Winsor) and John Henry Wright.

1 v. ; 21 cm.

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7673156

Smith College, Neilson Library

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