Bill Nye papers, 1882-1902.

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Bill Nye papers, 1882-1902.

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Correspondence and typewritten transcripts of correspondence, drawings, epigrams, and other papers reflecting Nye's career as a humorist and author. Includes letters to his agent James B. Pond and to James Whitcomb Riley and others pertaining to life on the lyceum circuit and to contemporary literary and political figures including Samuel Langhorne Clemens and James A. Garfield.

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Pond, James B. (James Burton), 1838-1903

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