Letters to Elizabeth Barrett Browning [manuscript], 1842-1844.

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Letters to Elizabeth Barrett Browning [manuscript], 1842-1844.

Subjects covered include: Mathews's writings, including Behemoth and Poems on Man; American poetry; the need for an international copyright law; The American Copyright Club; and Barrett Browning's writing and the American publishing of her work. Also mentioned are Charles Dickens, Evert Augustus Duyckinck, Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, William Ellery Channing, Charles Welford, and Henry G. Langley.

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Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (born September 1, 1791, Norwich, Connecticut–died June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut), poet, also known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford", was the only daughter of a gardener. She attended private school with the assistance of her father’s employer, and founded a Hartford school for girls in 1814. At this school, without any specialized training, Sigourney taught a deaf student, Alice Cogswell, to read and write in English. Cogswell would later be the first student enr...

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the aboli...

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet and translator. Born on March 6, 1806, Barrett Browning became proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and other European languages. At the age of eleven she wrote a verse "epic" in four books of rhyming couplets, "The Battle of Marathon," which was privately printed in 1820 at her father's expense. She went on to write such works as "An essay on mind," "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh." In September of 1846, she secretly marr...

Welford, Charles

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Epithet: of Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers, of New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x000162 ...

Mathews, Cornelius, 1817-1889

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Author. From the description of Letter of Cornelius Mathews, no year Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454393 American author and editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Rufus W. Griswold, 1841 Nov. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270637257 From the description of Papers of Cornelius Mathews, 1841-1888. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136446 ...

American Copyright Club

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Langley, Henry G.

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c9 English writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Office of All the Year Round, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C., to Frederick Lehmann, 1863 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125432 English novelist and publisher. From the description of ALS : Broadstairs, Kent, to Mr. Cullenford, 18...

Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878

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Evert A. Duyckinck was born on Manhattan Island, and graduated from Columbia University. Although accepted to the bar, he did not practice law, but lived a life devoted to literature. At the center of New York's literary culture, he had important friendships with Poe, Irving, and Melville, acting as editor, associate, and friend. He and his younger brother, George, served as editors for several noteworthy literary enterprises, including the influential Literary World and the groundbreaking Cyclo...