Papers of Frank Dempster Sherman [manuscript], 1882-1909.

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Papers of Frank Dempster Sherman [manuscript], 1882-1909.

The collection contains seven poems, including one dedicated to his father John Dempster Sherman. Topics in the correspondence include a search for information about his grandfather James Sherman, the work of other poets particularly Bliss Carman, William Watson, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and David Pell Secor, his deceased friend Charles Henry Lüders, some verses for publication and stamp collecting.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7922716

University of Virginia. Library

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Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929

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(William) Bliss Carman (1861-1929) was a Canadian poet and editor. Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he studied at the universities of New Brunswick and Harvard. He is usually grouped with the Confederation Poets, who developed a distinctively Canadian poetic voice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Yet this identification with the Confederation group is somewhat misleading as Carman spent much of his life in New England and many readers assumed that he was American. Carman ed...

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907

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New Hampshire-born author and poet. From the description of Letter : Redman Farm, Ponkapog, Mass. to John M. Milson, 1904 May 25. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103796 From the description of Letters and ephemera, 1879-1891. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103833 From the description of Letters to Israel Tisdale Talbot, 1868-1875. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103776 During the Civil War Aldrich worked a...

Sherman, Frank Dempster, 1860-1916

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American author and poet. From the description of Poems, 1905-1906. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58776294 Frank Dempster Sherman was an American architect, mathematician, poet, and genealogist. He studied at Columbia and Harvard, and later taught architecture at Columbia, but also emerged as a popular and proficient poet of light verse. Noted for his wit, sympathy, and diverse interests, Sherman also wrote children's verse under the pseudonym F...

Church, Mary Brownson,

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Watson, William, 1858-1925

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Brothers William and Robert Watson, probably from New York, went to California in search of gold, although William also worked as a storekeeper. From the description of Letter, August 23, 1851. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 697840885 The English poet Sir William Watson was the author of Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems (1890), Lachrymae Musarum, written on the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1892), Ode on the Day of the Coronation of King Edwa...

Sherman, John Dempster.

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Secor, David Pell, 1824-1909

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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...

Lüders, Charles Henry, 1858-1891.

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Sherman, James, 1796-1862

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Norris, Howes, -1842

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