Donald Grant Mitchell letters and etched portrait, 1886-1890.

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Donald Grant Mitchell letters and etched portrait, 1886-1890.

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The collection consists of three items: etched portrait of Mitchell, by G.W.H. Ritchie, in a mat frame signed and dated by Mitchell, 6 Nov. 1886; short note accompanying the portrait, 8 Nov. 1886, considering it a good etching, but a poor portrait; letter to My dear Mr. Williams, 10 May 1890, thanking him for a recent letter and praising the letter.

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Ritchie, G. W. H. (George W. H.)

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Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908

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Donald Grant Mitchell, essayist and novelist, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, graduated from Yale College in 1841 and, after serving abroad briefly as U.S. consul in Venice, Italy, from 1853 to 1854, settled near New Haven, Connecticut. Mitchell wrote literary criticism, travel literature, and volumes of essays on rural themes, including Reveries of a Bachelor (1850), My Farm of Edgewood: A Country Book (1863), and Rural Studies (1867). Other works include the novel Doctor Johns (1866), About ...