Papers of Bret Harte [manuscript] 1859-1901.

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Papers of Bret Harte [manuscript] 1859-1901.

About 55 autograph manuscripts of works, and some 420 letters written by Harte. Includes manuscripts of At the hacienda, Barker's luck, [an essay on] Bayard Taylor, A blue grass Penelope, Captain Jim's friend, Clarence, Cressy, Dick Boyle's business card, Don Diego of the south, A drift from Redwood Camp, Gabriel Conroy, The goddess of Excelsior, The homecoming of Jim Wilkes, Jeff Brigg's love story, Johnnyboy, The landlord of the Big Flume Hotel. Legend of Cologne, Lord of Fontenelle, A Maecenas of the Pacific Slope, Maruja, Mr. Bilson's housekeeper, The moral and instructive ballad of the good Lord Byron, A Newport romance, A niece of Snapshot Harry's, A night at Hays, On the Dedlow marsh, Peter Schroeder, A pupil of Chesnut Ridge, The reformation of James Reddy, a review of Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "Malbone," a review of Mrs. Hawthorne's "Notes in England and Italy," A romance of the hoardings, The Rose of Tuolumne, Salomy Jane's kiss, See Yup, The sheriff of Siskyou, Snow-bound at Eagle's, Sweet Mary, The twins of Table Mountain, A vision of the fountain, What Miss Edith saw from her window, A yellow dog, The Young America condensed novel (The hoodlum band ; or, Pirate prodigy), 3 reviews, and other works. Recipients of Harte's letters are his wife, Anna Griswold Harte; their son, Francis King Harte; Florence (Mrs. Arthur) Henniker, a novelist; and Rudolph Schneider.

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