John Neal collection, 1786-1972.

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John Neal collection, 1786-1972.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71057969

Family, business, and miscellaneous correspondence; mss. of poems, short stories, and translations; photographs and graphic material; newspaper clippings; printed books, pamphlets, and periodicals; ms. books and albums; bound periodicals; and other materials. Also includes business and personal correspondence of Mary Neal Sherwood from Henry W. Longfellow, Morgan Dix, and others and her husband Robert H. Sherwood; postcards from Daisy Sherwood (daughter of Mary Neal Sherwood) to her mother sent from various places; correspondence of Margaret Neal (daughter of John Neal) with Charles Scribner's Sons relating to the sale of family owned autographs, portraits, and letters; business correspondence of John Pierpont Neal from representatives of midwestern railroad companies; and correspondence relating to the Picking family (descendants of Laura Sherwood Picking, daughter of Mary Neal Sherwood) from Neal researchers and scholars such as Irving T. Richards.

2 boxes (1 oversized, 1 small)

Maine Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8073309

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Picking family.

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Neal, John, 1793-1876

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American author and editor John Neal was born in Maine and raised as a Quaker, although he broke with the church at a young age due to his fighting. A career as a merchant was bankrupted by the War of 1812, and he turned to literature, joining Baltimore's Delphian Club. He served as editor of various journals, and wrote long, complexly-plotted adventure novels, as well as critical essays, always seeking to promote American literature. While living in England, he wrote a long series of articles p...

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Howland, Benjamin Jenkins, 1795-1874

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Simmons, Franklin, 1839-1913

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Neal, John Pierpont, 1847-

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