Papers of Richard Harding Davis [manuscript] 1863-1916.

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Papers of Richard Harding Davis [manuscript] 1863-1916.

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Author. Correspondence; pieces from the diary (1865-79) of Davis' mother, Rebecca Harding Davis; MSS. of Davis' plays and dramatizations by others from Davis' stories; agreements between Davis and various publishers; copyrights; clippings concerning Davis' father's death in 1904; notebooks, address books, accounts, notes; Lehigh College scrapbook (1880-84), photos., and other papers. Includes draft of article on Joseph Pulitzer, notes on the life of Philo Norton McGiffen, preface to an unpublished story on South America, correspondence, clippings, tracts, etc. (1907-09) relating to Sebastian H.L. de Magali's Brazil filibuster incident, and correspondence of Davis' father, Lemuel Clarke Davis, his brother, Charles Belmont Davis, and his mother, Rebecca Harding Davis. Correspondents include Louisa May Alcott, Henry Mills Alden, Robert Bacon, James Gillespie Blaine, Edward William Bok, John Griffin Carlisle, Warwick Stevens Carpenter, Wilbur John Carr, Arthur W. Carswell, George William Childs, Grover Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. William Collier, Edward Fales Coward, George William Curtis, Augustin Daly, Pierre Paul Demers, Mary Dillon, Irving Bedell Dudley, Bernard Morris Lee Ernst, Ernst & Cane, Adam Everly, John Fox, Jr., Charles Frohman, Daniel Frohman, F.E. Fyles, Franklin Fyles, Edward James Garner, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, J. Henry Harper, Harper & Bros., O. Harrington, George Harvey, John Hay, Rutherford B. Hayes, Henry Hayns, Hilary Abner Herbert, Laura Hoffmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Carl Hovey, Henry Irving, Helen Jackson, Joseph Jefferson, William B.B. King, Frederick Leslie, Llewellyn Legge, Will H. Lewis, Jr., William Loeb, André de Lorde, Henry Ronald Douglass MacIver, Sebastien H.L. de Magali, John Hudson Merrill, Nelson Appleton Miles, Levi Parsons Morton, George Parker, Jr. and Sr., J.C. Pegram, Jr., Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Henry Codman Potter, Thomas Brackett Reed, William Charles Reick, Paul Revere Reynolds, Elihu Root, Arthur Hawley Scribner, Charles Scribner, John Sherman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tarleton B. Taylor, Ellen Terry, Arthur Turner Vance, Frank H. Warner, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Francis Wilson, Huntington Wilson, and George E. Wood.

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Lehigh University.

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Founded in 1865, Lehigh is a research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It is a coeducational, nondenominational, private university, home to more than 4,700 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students. The university offers majors and programs in four colleges: The College of Arts and Sciences, The College of Business and Economics, The College of Education and The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. From the description of Lehigh University "Administr...

Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916

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Epithet: Mrs; of Add MS 37312 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x0001da American author, editor and war correspondent. From the description of Richard Harding Davis Letters concerning South Africa and the Boer War [manuscript], 1899-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 611582020 American newspaperman, war correspondent and novelist. From the description of Letter to Arthur...

Pulitzer, Joseph, 1847-1911

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Joseph Pulitzer (born József Pulitzer; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New York. Born in Makó, Hungary, he grew up there and in Pest, where he was educated by private tutors and taught French and ...

Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910

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American novelist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Philadelphia, to Harper & Brothers, 1878 Mar. 20 and [no year] Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270532807 American author. From the description of Papers of Rebecca Harding Davis, 1872-1883. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136436 Rebecca Harding Davis was a novelist. Her husband was Lucius Clarke Davis, who worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer and was late...

Davis, L. Clarke (Lemuel Clarke), 1835-1904

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Lucius Clarke Davis worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer before becoming an editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. His wife was the novelist Rebecca Harding Davis. From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1880-1899. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155869115 Editor and author. From the description of Letters, 1869 March 20-Dec. 14, Philadelphia, to G.P. Putnam & Son, N.Y. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 148...

Davis, Charles Belmont, 1866-1926

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Charles Belmont Davis was an American writer. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, [1908]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191062367 ...