Papers of John Kendrick Bangs [manuscript] 1890-1921.

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Papers of John Kendrick Bangs [manuscript] 1890-1921.

Manuscripts by Bangs include: Chapter 8 of The idiot at home, 1900; the poems Consolation and To Mark Twain on his seventieth birthday; and a brief essay about Thomas Bailey Aldrich [9 items. holograph & typescript signed]. For a fuller treatment, see listing in control folder.--Letters, 1892-1921, concern publication of poems and stories, second serial rights, autographs, lecture tours, and Bangs' musical play Lady Teazle [30 items. chiefly holograph signed]--Photograph, 1894, of Bangs, inscribed to Hayden Carruth [black & white. 16.5 x 10.8 cm.]--Autograph album contains signatures and poems by various American authors including Irving Bacheller, Burges Johnson and Percy Wallace MacKaye. [1 v. ca. 115 p. leather-bound. 20 cm.]. Correspondents include William Gerard Chapman, Samuel Sidney McClure, Franklin Harvey Head? and James Arthur Tufts.

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University of Virginia. Library

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