American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1753-1952.

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American and English literary and historical papers collected by Atcheson L. Hench [manuscript] 1753-1952.

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Material collected by Hench, some as an autograph collection and others for use in his classes at the University of Virginia with examples of various periods. Modern autographs collected by Hench include letters by associates of Edgar Allan Poe; Civil War letters; papers relating to Virginia history; correspondence of writers and politicians, particularly from the Victorian era; and other miscellaneous correspondence with literary or histocial interest. Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman to Louis Palma di Cesnola, Thomas D. English, Harrison Grey Fiske, Paul Hamilton Hayne, James R. Osgood & Co., Karl Knortz, William Henry Rideing, Charles Warren Stoddard and others include routine thanks and introductions and social notes and freqeuntly discuss literary matters. Alexander Hamilton Stephens writes to Paul Hamilton Hayne conveying personal news and critiquing two poems. Alexander H. H. Stuart writes to Lewis Jacob Cist, Henry R. Howland, the Rev. E. F. Strickland and others concerning routine matters and requests. Also shares some memories of Thomas Jefferson. John Reuben Thompson writes to Anna C. Lynch Botta, and Joseph Ripley Chandlerr on routine mattersand a lecture engagement. A sonnet is included. Henry Theodore Tuckerman writes to Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta, Francis James Child, James T. Fields, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Lea & Blanchard, Benson John Lossing, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Edwin Percy Whipple, Nathaniel Parker Willis and others on literary, publishing and social matters, particularly his work on George Washington portaits, the inauguration of Houdon's statue of Washington at which Virginia Governor Floyd revealed his ignorance of art, and the completion of the statues at the base of the equestrian statue of Washington by Randolph Rogers. With these are several poems by Tuckerman. Martin Farquhar Tupper accepts an invitation, declines to join an association and sends thanks for a note and speciment paper and warns the sender against disseminating infidel and immoral periodicals. Single items of interest include Homer Saint-Gaudens to Charles Elmer Rice agreeing to do his best; Camille Saint-Saëns declining an invitation; John Singer Sargent thanks Sir George Henschel for an invitation (copy). Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Mary Russell Mitford on the lack of culture in the United States; Walter W. Skeat writes concerning his work on "Piers Plowman" and an unidentified manuscript; a letter from Wiliam Henry Smith to Charles Dickens on a visit to the house "Greenland"; Stephen Spender to Herbert W. K. Fitzroy concerning a stint as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia; Edward Stanly to Henry A. Wise on a challenge to duel; Frank R. Stockton sends Amelie Amélie Troubetzkoy apples from the Piedmont region. Also John Bannister Tabb to John Lane on publishing matters; John Taliaferro asks Tristam Burges to convey the principles of a claims commutation case to Muhlenberg; Littleton Waller Tazewell on a routine financial matter and an autograph request; Dr. James H. Thompson, 12th Maine surgeon reporting on medical cases; George Ticknor to Emma S. Robers enquiring after her father's health; Frances Trollope to mary Russell Mitford praising the "Our village" sketches and commenting on the London stage, the Kembles and Macready; Pierre Troubetzkoy writes concerning a painting of William Gladstone; and Lyon G. Tyler thanks Charles Elmer Rice for an offer of Tyler family information. The collection also contains four sermons on Old Testament texts, 1752-1778, at least one ty the Rev. Timothy Alden, Sr., of the Congregationalist church in Barnstable, Mass.; autographs of Dallas Lore Sharp, Jean Sibelius; a requisiton from J[erome?] J. Shedd, 1863, for lumber, nails and quicklime for the Union hospital at Acquia Creek; and a land grant signed by George W. Smith, 1811.

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Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876

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American lawyer and politician; governor of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to President Buchanan, 1857 Mar. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588282 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Thomas Teackle in Baltimore, 1841 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588600 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Col. T.H. Ellis, 1859 Aug. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588...

Cesnola, Luigi Palma ˜diœ 1832-1904

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Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the description of Autograph note signed with initials : to Harper & Brothers, 1891 Nov. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611628 Union Army officer; United States consul in Cyprus; director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the description of Papers, 1863-1885. (New Hampshire Newsp Project). WorldCat record id: 122525185 Epithet: Conte; archaeologist British Library Archives and Manusc...

Rogers, Randolph, 1825-1892

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Sculptor from Ann Arbor, Michigan. From the description of Randolph Rogers papers, 1853-1925. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421856 Sculptor; Rome, Italy. Born Waterloo, N.Y. Works include figures on Washington Monument, Richmond, Va., military commissions in Cincinnati, Detroit, Providence, seated Lincoln in Philadelphia, and others. From the description of Randolph Rogers papers, 1848-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883

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Former vice-president of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Letter, 1866 Dec. 26, Crawfordville, Georgia, to Henry Bradley Plant. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 260819402 Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Alexander H. Stephens papers, 1844-1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476996 Lawyer, journalist, governor of Geo...

Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855

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Mitford was an English author and dramatist. From the description of Letters to various correspondents, 1826-1854. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612374161 From the guide to the Mary Russell Mitford letters to various correspondents, 1826-1854., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Mary Russell Mitford was an English poet, playwright, and short-story writer. From the description of Mary Russell Mitford collection of ...

Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0001c0 Composed originally for solo piano 1893. This orchestration 1979. From the description of Sonata für pianoforte, op. 12 / Jean Sibelius ; orchestrated [by] Albert B. Conkey. 1979. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 41962755 Finnish composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dat...

English, Thomas Dunn, 1819-1902

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American physician, lawyer, and author. From the description of Hurrah for you, Old Glory : typed poem signed : place not specified, [ca. 1895]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270614458 From the description of Ben Bolt : autograph manuscript signed of the poem : place not specified, [1843 or later]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79736806 From the description of Ruins : autograph manuscript signed of the poem : place not specified, [1894 or earlier]. (Unknown). Worl...

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist. From the description of Catharine Maria Sedgwick letters and portraits, 1837-1855. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 35155329 American author, pioneered the American domestic novel. From the description of Papers of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1801-1865 (bulk 1834-1865). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136087 American author. From the description of ...

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...

Howland, Henry R. (Henry Raymond), 1844-1930

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Associated with the John T. Noye Manufacturing Co. and the Spencer Lens Co.; longtime member of the board of managers of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. From the description of Address at dedication of Seneca Indian Park : typescript, 1912 June 29. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 36088095 From the description of Henry R. Howland research papers, 1901-ca. 1924. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 191767459 From the description of Lett...

Rideing, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1918

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Photograph taken by the journalist William H. Rideing who occasionally visited Holmes at his house in Beverly Farms. From the description of Oliver Wendell Holmes at Beverly Farms [graphic]. [ca. 1885] (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 124051582 Writer, editor of Youth's companion. From the description of Letters, 1886 October 5 and November 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54994659 From the description of Letters, 1898 May 16, n.d....

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

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Florence 1856-1925 London. From the description of Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925) [painting]. [ca. 1905] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906593 Anglo-American painter. From the description of Letters, 1881-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81028068 Sargent was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France, England and elsewhere. From the description of [Letter] Sunday, 33, T...

Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902

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American fiction writer. From the description of Letter [manuscript]: Frank R. Stockton, Washington, D.C., to Mr. Walker, 1899 March 18. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823789 American novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Charlottesville, Va., to Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1884 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 645458453 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lego, to Mrs. Constance Cary Harrison, 1885...

Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

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The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867

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American journalist and poet. From the description of Letter : to "My dear fellow," [18--] July 12. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28900949 Willis was a journalist and writer of plays, poems and short stories. From the description of Letter, to Maunsell B. (Maunsell Bradhurst) Field, 1854 March 31. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122493287 Nathaniel Parker Willis was one of the highest paid periodical writers of his day, a poet, ...