Free Library of Philadelphia Collection of Literary Manuscripts
- Repository
- Free Library of Philadelphia: Rare Book Department
- Call Number
- FLP.RBD.LITERARY
- Creator
- Free Library of Philadelphia.
- Title
- Free Library of Philadelphia Collection of Literary Manuscripts
- Date [inclusive]
- 1666-1990
- Extent
- 23.0 Linear feet
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- This collection contains letters, manuscript fragments, autographs, and other documents by famous authors. The material dates from 1666 to 1990 with the bulk of the collection consisting of letters written by the authors to various friends with some letters to editors or critics.
- Cite as
- [Description and date of item], [Box and folder number], Free Library of Philadelphia Collection of Literary Manuscripts, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department.
This is a collection of manuscripts obtained by the Free Library of Philadelphia from various donations. Much of the collection was donated by Philadelphia book collectors, Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Gimbel and William McIntire Elkins, with additions from other donors and trust fund purchases. Although the majority of the authors are represented with only a few pieces of work, nine authors are better represented. These include: American authors James Branch Cabell (1879-1958), Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Agnes Repplier (1855-1950), and Mark Twain (1835-1910); English novelists Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863); Irish writers Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950); and Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894).
This collection contains letters, manuscript fragments, autographs, and other documents by famous authors. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by the authors to various friends, acquaintances, editors, and critics. Of particular interest are the complete drafts of Joseph Conrad’s "A Duel," a nearly complete draft of Victory, four pieces by Oscar Wilde (including a handwritten notebook of his sketches and poetry), and the textual corrections made by Tennyson in his Poems, chiefly lyrical and Enoch Arden. Select items have been digitized and linked to their image in the Free Library's Digital Collections.
For purposes of the finding aid, items are arranged in two artificial series based on how well-represented a writer is in this collection. For the first series, "Writers with more than four collection items," each writer serves as a sub-series and items are arranged within each sub-series chronologically. For the second series, "Writers with fewer than four collection items," items are in alphabetical order by author’s last name and then in chronological order. The physical location of collection items depends on their length, with most of the longer items being housed separately.
- Publication Information:
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Free Library of Philadelphia: Rare Book Department
- Finding Aid Author:
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Finding aid prepared by Garrett Boos
- Sponsor:
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The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources’ “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.
- Access Restrictions:
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This collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions:
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The right of access to material does not imply the right of publication. Permission for reprinting, reproduction, or extensive quotation from the rare books, manuscripts, prints, or drawings must be obtained through written application, stating the use to be made of the material. The reader bears the responsibility for any possible infringement of copyright laws in the publication of such material. A reproduction fee will be charged if the material is to be reproduced in a commercial publication.
- Processing Information:
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This inventory was entered into AT by Garrett Boos from legacy data compiled by the Rare Book Department. Each item was examined and description enhanced and standardized where necessary. This inventory was re-arranged (with no effect on the physical items) after a redesign of the Free Library's finding aid display to improve readability.
- Immediate Source of Acquisition:
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Much of this collection was donated to the Free Library by Col. and Mrs. Richard Gimbel and by William McIntire Elkins. A small portion of historically significant material comes from other donors or from dealers.
Corporate Name(s)
- American Publishing Company.
- Atlantic Monthly Press.
- Carey & Hart.
- Chatto & Windus (Firm).
- Drury Lane Theatre.
- Free Library of Philadelphia.
- Great Britain. Treasury.
- Little, Brown and Company.
- Neale Publishing Company .
- Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.).
- University of Pennsylvania.
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Diplomas
- Manuscripts
- Sketchbooks
- Sketches
- Typescripts
- Allen, Edward Frank, b. 1885
- Allston, Washington, 1779-1843
- Armstrong , Thomas, 1832-1911
- Arthur, Timothy Shay, 1809-1885
- Austin, James Trecothick, 1784-1870
- Badeau , Adam, 1831-1895
- Beauduin, Nicolas, 1880-1960
- Bell, Charles Henry, 1823-1893
- Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953
- Bene´t, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943
- Benjamin , Park, 1809-1864
- Berdoe , Edward, 1836-1916
- Bergman, Bernard, d. 1984
- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
- Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
- Bird, Robert Montgomery, 1806-1854
- Blankenburg, Rudolph, 1843-1918
- Blumenthal, Conrad
- Blumenthal, Walter Hart, 1883-1969
- Bond, Richard Frere
- Booth, Barton, 1681-1733
- Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881
- Boynton, Percy Holmes, 1875-1946
- Brinley, Mary Goodrich (Frothingham), Mrs.
- Brooks, James, 1810-1873
- Brown, David Paul, 1795-1872
- Brown, Leo Maxwell
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
- Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
- Brussel, Isidore Rosenbaum, 1895-
- Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
- Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917
- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
- Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
- Burton, William Evans, 1802-1860
- Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958
- Cain, James Mallahan, 1892-1977
- Carey, William
- Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
- Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929
- Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866
- Castle, Thomas
- Castleman, Richard
- Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901
- Chase, J. Eastman
- Childs, George William, 1829-1894
- Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947
- Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757
- Cist, Charles, 1792-1868
- Clark, Lewis Gaylord, 1808-1873
- Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877
- Clemenceau, Georges, 1841-1929
- Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
- Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
- Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924
- Cowper, William, 1731-1800
- Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
- Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882
- Dawes, Rufus, 1803-1859
- De Lancey, William Heathcote, 1797-1865
- Deane, Charles, 1813-1889
- Dechert, Robert Porter, 1842-1894
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
- Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946
- Doane, George Washington, 1799-1859
- Doggett, Thomas, d. 1721
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
- Drinker, John, 1733-1800
- Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937
- Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895
- Durand, John, 1822-1908
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Estcourt, Richard, 1668-1712
- Eustis, , Henry Lawrence, 1819-1885
- Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
- Fay, Theodore S. (Theodore Sedgwick), 1807-1898
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869
- Field, Eugene, 1850-1895
- Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917
- Freiligrath, Ferdinand, 1810-1876
- Fry, William Henry, 1813-1864
- Gaffield, Thomas
- Gallagher, William Davis, 1808-1894
- Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937
- Garrick, David, 1717-1779
- Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891-1915
- Gibbs, Arthur Hamilton, 1888-1964
- Gibbs, Jeannette Phillips, b. 1892
- Gimbel, Richard
- Godey, Louis Antoine, 1804-1878
- Gould, Hannah Flagg, 1789-1865
- Graham, George Rex, 1813-1894
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
- Greenaway, Emerson, 1906-
- Grinfield, Edward William, 1785-1864
- Guilford, Nathan, 1785-1854
- Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
- Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867
- Harland, Henry, 1861-1905
- Hart, Abraham, 1810-1885
- Hawthorne, Elizabeth Manning, 1802-1883
- Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
- Heacock, Annie, 1838-1932
- Heacock, Elizabeth Walker
- Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
- Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-1954
- Hippisley, John, d. 1748
- Hirsch, Charlotte Teller, 1876-
- Hodder, George, 1819-1870
- Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 1806-1884
- Hoffman, David, 1784-1854
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
- Holt, Guy, 1892-1934
- Horneck, Heribert
- Horner, Mary
- Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
- Hoyt, Jesse
- Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915
- Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
- Hunt, Washington, 1811-1867
- Hutchinson, Thomas
- Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788-1845
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
- Ives, Herbert Eugene, 1882-1953
- James, Henry, 1843-1916
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
- Keats, John, 1795-1821
- Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870
- King, Hannah T. (Hannah Tapfield)
- Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834
- Lancaster, T. Sewall, 19th cent
- Legare´, Hugh Swinton, 1797-1843
- LeMair, Henriette Willebeek, 1889-1966
- Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858
- Leslie, Shane, 1885-1971
- Lester, Charles Edwards, 1815-1890
- Lewis, Francis A. (Francis Albert), 1857-1927
- Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872
- Lilly, Lambert, 1798-1866
- Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871
- Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895
- Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
- Louy¨s, Pierre, 1870-1925
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
- Lunt, George, 1803-1885
- MacDonald, George, 1824-1905
- Mansfield, Beatrice Cameron, b. 1868
- Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907
- Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722
- Martin, John H.
- Masefield, John, 1878-1967
- Mathews, Cornelius, 1817-1889
- Mayer, Frank
- Medary, S. (Samuel), 1801-1864
- Mellen, Grenville, 1799-1841
- Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671
- Milhous, Katherine, 1894-
- Mills, John, d. 1736
- Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956
- Milne, Christopher, 1920-1996
- Mims, Stewart Lea, b. 1880
- Monson, William, Sir, 1569-1643
- Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, 1873-1912
- Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863
- Moore, George, 1852-1933
- Moreau de Saint-Me´ry, M. L. E. (Me´de´ric Louis Elie), 1750-1819
- Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957
- Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864
- Morris, William, 1834-1896
- Moschzisker, Robert von, 1870-1939
- Motokiyo Zeami, 1363-1443
- Neal, John, 1793-1876
- Neal, Joseph Clay, 1807-1847
- Neale, Walter, 1873-1933
- Normanby, Maria Phipps, Marchioness of, 1798-1882
- Oldden, James
- Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke, 1811-1850
- Owen, John
- Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937
- Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881
- Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894
- Penn, William, Sir, 1621-1670
- Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703
- Phillips, Stephen, 1864-1915
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821
- Potter, William
- Pound, Dorothy
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
- Rachewiltz, Mary de
- Reed, William B. (William Bradford), 1806-1876
- Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950
- Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1794-1852
- Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan, 1870-1942
- Rich, John, 1682?-1761
- Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916
- Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919
- Rivington, John, 1720-1792
- Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957
- Robinson, J.
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
- Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919
- Sargent, Epes, 1813-1880
- Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867
- Severn, Joseph, 1793-1879
- Seymour, George Steele
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
- Shelkrot, Elliot L. (Elliot Louis), 1943-
- Shepard, Ernest H. (Ernest Howard), 1879-1976
- Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865
- Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870
- Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771
- Smith, Seba, 1792-1868
- Smith, Solomon Franklin, 1801-1869
- Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
- Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866
- Sprague, Charles, 1791-1875
- Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974
- Stephen, Harry Lushington, 1860-1945
- Stephens, James, 1882-1950
- Stevenson, Alan
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- Storer, James Sargent, 1771-1853
- Story, Joseph, 1779-1845
- Strahan, William, 1715-1785
- Street, Alfred Billings, 1811?-1881
- Stronach, George, d. 1915
- Sue, Euge`ne, 1804-1857
- Sutton, Robert
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909
- Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945
- Taylor, John, 1711-1788
- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
- Thomas, Frederick William, 1867-1956
- Thompson, William Hepworth, 1810-1886
- Thurber, James, 1894-1961
- Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, Sir, 1853-1917
- Trumbull, Jonathan, 1740-1809
- Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 1784-1851
- Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871
- Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Vining, Elizabeth Gray, 1902-1999
- Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933
- Walsh, Robert, 1784-1859
- Ware, William, 1797-1852
- Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
- Weber, Paul, 1823-1916
- Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882
- Weld, Horatio Hastings, 1811-1888
- Wetmore, Prosper Montgomery, 1798-1876
- Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886
- Whitman, Sarah Helen Power, 1803-1878
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Whitmore, William Henry, 1836-1900
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
- Wilks, Robert, 1665?-1732
- Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867
- Wilson, Charles
- Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937
- Wister, Owen, 1860-1938
- Wood, Thomas
- Wood, William Burke, 1779-1861
- Authors, American--19th century
- Authors, American--20th century
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Writers with more than four collection items | |
| Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958. | |
| Autograph manuscript signed of an introduction to the magazine publication of stories
from
The Certain Hour to Edward Frank Allen. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 2 pages Probably the document mentioned in his letter to E.F. Allen, March 19, 1915: cf. Wagenknecht.
In Cabell album.
|
1915 March 19 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Frank Allen, concerning
The Certain Hour. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page In Cabell album.
|
1915 April 6 |
| Printed page proofs for
The Judging of Jurgen, Chicago. Chicago, 16 leaves Laid into
The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
|
1920 |
| Autograph letter signed to George Seymour, including the poem "Before each tarra diddle",
published in
The Judging of Jurgen. Rockbridge Alum Springs, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into
The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
|
1920 August 16 |
| Typewritten letter signed to George Seymour, concerning
The Judging of Jurgen. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into
The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
|
1920 September 23 |
| Typewritten letter signed (possibly draft) to George Seymour, concerning
The Judging of Jurgen. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Laid into
The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
|
1920 October 8 |
| Typewritten letter signed to George Seymour, concerning
The Judging of Jurgen. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Laid into
The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
|
1920 November 8 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Leonard D. Weil. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia,
1 page with envelope In Cabell album.
|
1920 November 16 |
| Typewritten letter signed to George Seymour, concerning his Joseph Hergesheimer, an
essay in interpretation. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page with envelope Laid into
The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
|
1921 February 11 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Percy Boynton. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page | 1921 February 11 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1922 July 1 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1923 December 4 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 2 pages Second page is list of corrections for Guy Holt's
A Bibliography of the Writings of James Branch Cabell. Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1923 December 15 |
| Typescript, signed, of "About these books" to David Jester Jr. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton,
Virginia, 4 pages With corrections in Cabell's hand. Autograph note signed to David Jester, Jr., 17
May 1924, at head of first page. Published as Cabell's preface to Guy Holt's
A Bibliography of the Writings of James Branch Cabell (Philadelphia, 1924).
|
1924 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 January 7 |
| Typewritten note signed to David Jester. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1
page Tipped in Cabell album.
|
1924 January 21 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 January 28 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 February 8 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 February 21 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 February 26 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 April 10 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 April 17 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia,
1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 April 22 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 April 25 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
works. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 May 10 |
| Typewritten letter signed to David Jester, concerning Holt's bibliography of Cabell's
writings. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia, 1 page Tipped into Cabell album.
|
1924 May 17 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Helen Godey Wilson. Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Virginia,
1 page with envelope In Cabell album.
|
1925 December 18 |
| Corrected page proofs of
The Silver Stallion (New York, 1926) with the typescript of the table of contents,
118 pages With corrections and additions in Cabell's hand. Cf. 87-1435. Housed separately.
|
circa 1926 January |
| Typewritten letter signed to Mr. Colman, concerning the corrected page proofs of Cabell's
The Silver Stallion. 3201 Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 1 page Cf. 59-0102.
|
1926 January 13 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Helen Godey Wilson. Cayford Cottage, Mountain Lake, Virginia,
1 page with envelope In Cabell album.
|
1927 August 17 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Harold T. Mason, concerning Brussel's bibliography of
Cabell's works. 3201 Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 1 page Typed addendum by Cabell pasted to letter. In Cabell album.
|
1932 April 12 |
| Typewritten letter signed to the Centaur Book Shop, concerning Brussel's bibliography
of Cabell's works. 3201 Monument Avenue, Richard, Virginia, 1 page Xerox copy of carbon copy of the reply from the Centaur Book Shop, 5 January 1933,
laid in.
|
1933 January 1 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Mr. McGee. 3201 Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 1 page | 1941 October 3 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Jacqes D. Benoliel. 27 Locust Street, St. Augustine,
Florida, 1 page In Cabell album.
|
1952 March 10 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Jacqes D. Benoliel. 27 Locust Street, St. Augustine,
Florida, 1 page with envelope In Cabell album.
|
1952 March 24 |
| Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. | |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of "The Dead Alive", 50 leaves (now in 55 leaves) Five leaves torn in two. Two parts addressed on verso, as "Copy for Fireside Companion",
Cf. Beetz. Housed in Collins box.
|
1873 |
| Uncorrected galley proofs and page proofs (incomplete) of "The Dead Alive", New York,
18 leaves Fifteen leaves of galley proofs and three leaves of page proofs; each run is incomplete,
and each contains duplicates. "The Dead Alive; A Story, was commenced in No. 322 of
The New York Fireside Companion." -- at head of first galley proof. " 'John Jago's Ghost' ... appeared under the
title 'The Dead Alive' from December 1873 into January of 1874 in
The New York Fireside Companion." -- Beetz. Housed in Collins box.
|
1873 December-1874 January |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of "Percy And The Prophet", 47 leaves "For the Extra (Midsummer) Number of All The Year Round" - at head of first leaf.
Cf. Beetz. Later issued with other works, sometimes entitled "Mr. Percy and the prophet".
Housed in Collins box.
|
1877 |
| Autograph letter signed to Mr. Hague concerning the "In Memoriam" poem by Hague. 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London W., 2 pages | 1884 August 18 |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of "Royal Love", 23 leaves Housed in Collins box.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of "The First Officer's Confession: Edited By Wilkie
Collins", 21 page Housed in Collins box.
|
undated |
| Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. | |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett. Stanford-le-Hope, Kent, 2 pages | 1897 February 2 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett concerning his literary agent Pawling, and his book "Nigger of the 'Narcissus'". Stanford-le-Hope, Kent, 1 page | 1897 November 5 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett. Pent Farm, Stanford, near Hythe, Kent, 3 pages | 1899 November 19 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett analyzing his faults as a writer; receives a favorable letter from Henry James. Pent Farm, Stanford, near Hythe, Kent, 8 pages | 1900 November 12 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett, reporting that Nostromo is finished. Pent Farm, Stanford, near Hythe, Kent, 8 pages | 1904 September 3 |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of "A Duel", with some typewritten pages, 220 leaves First 71 leaves are typescript. Many additions and corrections in author's hand in
both typescript and manuscript. Housed separately.
|
1907 April 4 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett about Garnett's review of Conrad's latest book. Someries, Luton, Bedfordshire, 2 pages | 1907 October 1 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett about reviews of his recent collection of tales, 4 pages | 1908 August 21 |
| Typescript of "Under Western Eyes," with some handwritten pages, 843 pages in 841
leaves Final twenty-three pages and several other pages in author's hand. Autograph note
signed by Edward Garnett, concerning the text, laid in. Newspaper clipping, reporting
sale of text, laid in. Cf. Ehrsam. Housed separately.
|
circa 1910 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett, 1 page | 1910 April 15 |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of "Freya of the Seven Isles", 223 leaves with envelope Autograph note signed by Conrad "To printer" laid in, concerning title page. "Freya
of the Seven Isles. MS. 26 Decer 1910 to 28 Febr 1911" - Autograph note signed on
envelope. Housed separately.
|
1911 February 28 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett about his latest novels. Capel House, Orlestone, Near Ashford, 2 pages with envelope | 1911 October 12 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett about his work. Capel House, Orlestone, Near Ashford, 2 pages with envelope | 1912 January 27 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett about his latest works, 2 pages with envelope | 1912 November 5 |
| Autograph page of the original manuscript of Joseph Conrad's Chance., 2 pages | circa 1913 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett about Garnett's review of his latest work. Capel House, Orlestone, Near Ashford, 2 pages with envelope | 1914 January 28 |
|
Typescript (incomplete), signed, of "Victory", 750 leaves Complete to end of possible penultimate chapter. Signed at head of first page and
at several other places in text. Many additions and corrections in author's hand.
Agent's label attached to first page. Bookplate of Jerome Kern attached to slip case,
and bookplate of John Quinn laid in. Cf. Jean-Aubry. Housed separately.
|
circa 1914 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett about a completed manuscript, 3 pages with envelope | 1917 December 30 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett about the "A of G" ( The Arrow of Gold). Spring Grove, Wye, 4 pages | 1919 September 24 |
| Typescript, signed, of first draft of the author's note to "'Twixt Land and Sea".
Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 4 leaves Signed at head of first page and at foot of fourth. Many additions and corrections
in author's hand. Housed separately.
|
1920 April |
| Typescript, signed, of first draft of the author's note to
Chance. Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 4 leaves Signed at head of first page and at foot of fourth. Many additions and corrections
in author's hand. Housed separately.
|
1920 May |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett about a dramatic production of his work. Oswalds, Bishopsbourne, Kent, 4 pages with envelope | 1922 November 2 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett about a dramatic production of his work. Possibly Bishopsbourne, Kent, 2 pages with envelope | 1922 November 17 |
| Autograph letter signed to Edward Garnett. 17 Gillingham Street, London, 4 pages | undated |
| Autograph note signed to Edward Garnett, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Conrad's
Under Western Eyes (79-1077).
|
undated |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. | |
| Autograph letter signed to Thomas Carlyle, introducing Mr. George Grinnell. Concord, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1840 April 22 |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of the first thirteen lines of his poem, "Seashore",
1 page Bound as a volume.
|
undated |
| Autograph letter signed (fragment) to an unidentified recipient, 1 page Attached to verso of half-title of Emerson's
English Traits (AML E55e2 Emerson).
|
undated |
| Autograph letter signed to T. Sewall Lancaster, accepting an invitation to the Gloucester Lyceum. Concord, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1845 February 14 |
| Guilford, Nathan, 1785-1854. | |
| Autograph letter signed to Isaac Jenks, Jr. Harrington, Connecticut, 3 pages Published in
Guilford & Green (Bird & Bull Press, 1970) as
Dear Friend at Home: Letters written by Nathan Guilford on a journey to Kentucky in
1814, with an introduction by Whitfield, Bell, Jr. Housed in Guilford box.
|
1814 September 19 |
| Autograph letter signed to Isaac Jenks, Jr. Possibly Litchfield, Connecticut, 4 pages Postscript headed "Wednesday Morning" at foot of third page. Published in
Guilford & Green (Bird & Bull Press, 1970) as
Dear Friend at Home: Letters written by Nathan Guilford on a journey to Kentucky in
1814, with an introduction by Whitfield, Bell, Jr. Housed in Guilford box.
|
1814 September 20 |
| Autograph letter signed to Isaac Jenks, Jr. Warwick, New York, 2 pages Published in
Guilford & Green (Bird & Bull Press, 1970) as
Dear Friend at Home: Letters written by Nathan Guilford on a journey to Kentucky in
1814, with an introduction by Whitfield, Bell, Jr. Housed in Guilford box.
|
1814 September 23 |
| Autograph letter signed to Isaac Jenks, Jr. Sussex Court House, Newtown, New Jersey,
4 pages Published in
Guilford & Green (Bird & Bull Press, 1970) as
Dear Friend at Home: Letters written by Nathan Guilford on a journey to Kentucky in
1814, with an introduction by Whitfield, Bell, Jr. Housed in Guilford box.
|
1814 September 23 |
| Autograph letter signed to Isaac Jenks, Jr. Hope, New Jersey, 3 pages Third page headed "Easton Pennsylvania. Monday Morning Sept. 26. 1814". Published
in
Guilford & Green (Bird & Bull Press, 1970) as
Dear Friend at Home: Letters written by Nathan Guilford on a journey to Kentucky in
1814, with an introduction by Whitfield, Bell, Jr. Housed in Guilford box.
|
1814 September 24 |
| Autograph letter signed to Isaac Jenks, Jr. Allentown Pennsylvania, 4 pages Second page headed "Reading Pennsylvania Sept. 28. Wednesday Morning." Published in
Guilford & Green (Bird & Bull Press, 1970) as
Dear Friend at Home: Letters written by Nathan Guilford on a journey to Kentucky in
1814, with an introduction by Whitfield, Bell, Jr. Housed in Guilford box.
|
1814 September 27 |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. | |
| Autograph letter signed to John Owen. Boston, 1 page | 1837 December 15 |
| Autograph letter signed to George William Childs. 21 Charles Street, Boston, 1 page | 1863 May 14 |
| Autograph letter signed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 21 Charles St., 1 page Letter removed from RBD copy of
The Song of Hiawatha (RBD AML L86S)
|
May 5th 1865 |
| Autograph letter signed to Mr. Osgood. 296 Beacon Street, Boston, 3 pages Photograph of Holmes laid in.
|
1877 December 22 |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of a poem, "A Few Can Touch the Magic String". Boston, 1 page | 1881 November 30 |
| Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. | |
| Autograph letter signed to Mary Fairlie Cooper. New York, 4 pages Cf. Letters. Engraved portrait of Irving attached. Transcription laid in. Housed in
case with another Irving letter; engraved portrait of Irving attached to case.
|
1807 April 9 |
| Autograph letter (fragment) to an unidentified recipient. Amsterdam, 8 leaves Leaves numbered (1), 3-9. Possibly a draft. Housed separately.
|
1822 July |
| Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient. Possibly Chandos Street, London,
1 page Date from note by possible recipient on verso of integral address leaf.
|
1830 January 26 |
| Autograph letter signed to Miss M. A. Fillmore. Washington, D.C., 1 page Photograph of Irving's home, "Sunnyside", attached. Housed in case with another Irving
letter; engraved portrait of Irving attached to case.
|
1853 March 7 |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of an unidentified prose work, 1 page | undated |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. | |
| Autograph letter signed to Ferdinand Freiligrath, illustrated with a sketch. Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 8 pages with illustrations Postscript dated Nov. 30 begins on sixth page.
|
1847 November 30 |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of first verse of his poem "Excelsior", 1 page | 1852 November |
| Autograph letter signed to Ferdinand Freiligrath, mentioning his poem "Hiawatha" and
Mr. Lowell. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 4 pages Transcription laid in. Housed separately.
|
1855 April 25 |
| Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3 pages | 1872 April 14 |
| Autograph letter to the Dowager Lady Danne. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1 page with envelope | 1878 December 8 |
| Autograph letter signed to Reverend Dr. Bosworth, 1 page | undated |
| Phillips, Stephen, 1864-1915. | |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "The Question", 1 page Published in Phillips's Poems (London, 1898).
|
circa 1898 |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of a poem, "Grief and God", 4 pages Published in Phillips's
New Poems (London, 1907). Autograph letter signed from S.B. Luyster, Jr., to T. Tillston (sic)
Wells, concerning the manuscript, laid in. Transcription laid in.
|
circa 1907 |
| Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient. 3 Down Place, Hammersmith, London W., 1 page | 1912 September 24 |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of a poem, "The Passing of Julian", 2 pages Published in Phillips's
Panama and other poems (London, 1915).
|
circa 1915 |
| Pound, Dorothy. | |
| Autograph letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter, concerning Ezra Pound. Brunnenburg,
Tirolo Merano, Italy, 2 pages with envelope On the stationery of the "C/n Cristoforo Colombo." Housed with Ezra Pound material.
|
1958 July 24 |
| Autograph letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter, concerning Ezra Pound. Brunnenburg,
Tirolo Merano, Italy, 2 pages with envelope Housed with Ezra Pound material.
|
1960 March 15 |
| Autograph letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter, concerning Ezra Pound. Brunnenburg,
Tirolo Merano, Italy, 3 pages with envelope Housed with Ezra Pound material.
|
1961 January 26 |
| Autograph note signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter, on postcard bearing a photograph of Schloss
Brunnenburg. Brunnenburg, Tirolo Merano, Italy, 1 card illustrated with envelope Date postmarked. Housed with Ezra Pound material.
|
circa 1963 December |
| Envelope addressed to Elsie Kugel Gatter, containing a calling card of Mrs. Homer
L. Pound, 1 page with 1 card Housed with Ezra Pound material.
|
undated |
| Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. | |
| Six photographs of Cheltenham Military Academy, including two group photographs showing
Ezra Pound. Ogontz, Pennsylvania, 6 photographs Subjects include two group photographs of students and teachers on the steps of Norwood
Hall, showing Ezra Pound, and four other group photographs of school activities.
|
circa 1900 |
| Newspaper article announcing Pound's impending marriage to Dorothy Shakespear, showing a photograph of Pound. Philadelphia, 1 page | 1914 March 26 |
| Autograph letter signed to Margaret Doolittle. Washington, D.C., 1 page with envelope Date from postmark.
|
1955 December 9 |
| Eight photographs of places in Pennsylvania associated with Ezra Pound. Pennsylvania,
8 photographs Subjects include Wyncote Elementary School; Miss Ridpath's school; Chelten Hills School;
Calvary Presbyterian Church; 417 Walnut Street in Jenkintown (two views); Wanamaker's
Pond; and a view of the cave on the Wanamaker Estate. Autograph note by Carl Gatter
on verso of each photograph, identifying the subject.
|
circa 1955 |
| Autograph letter signed to Carl William Gatter, with a diagram. Washington, D.C.,
2 pages illustrated with envelope Place postmarked.
|
1956 July 18 |
| Autograph letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter, with a diagram. Washington, D.C., 1
page with envelope Place and date postmarked.
|
1956 October 15 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Carl William Gatter, with sketches. Washington, D.C.,
3 pages illustrated Additions and corrections in Pound's hand. Place postmarked. Date from postmark. Two
published reviews of Pound's work laid in, and the first two issues of
Academia Bulletin, mentioning Pound.
|
1957 January 5 |
| Nine colored slides of Ezra Pound, Dorothy Pound and Marcella Spann visiting the Gatter
home in Wyncote. Wyncote, Pennsylvania, 9 color slides with 7 photos Autograph note by Carl Gatter on each slide, identifying subjects. Photographs are
prints of the slides.
|
1957 June 27 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter. Washington, D.C., 1 page with envelope Place postmarked. Copy of linoleum block Christmas card by Carl Gatter, showing the
"domestic seat", home of the Pounds and later the Gatters, laid in.
|
1957 December 26 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Carl William Gatter. Washington, D.C., 1 page with envelope Additions and corrections in Pound's hand. Place postmarked. Mimeo copy of typewritten
letter from Pound to the
Times Literary Supplement, December 6, 1957 laid in. Typed extract of Coke's Institutes laid in. Two copies
of a printed review in the
Square $ Series laid in.
|
1958 February 3 |
| Typed envelope, with corrections in Pound's hand, to Carl William Gatter, enclosing
a copy of Pound's
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska con un manifesto vorticista (Milano, 1957). Washington, D.C.,
1 page with 1 volume Place and date postmarked. Blank envelope for mailing laid in.
|
1958 February 5 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Carl William Gatter. Washington, D.C., 1 page with envelope Place postmarked. Typed copy of Pound's entry in
British Who's Who 1957 laid in.
|
1958 March 6 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter. St. Eliz, Washington, D.C., 1 page
with envelope Place and date postmarked.
|
1958 March 9 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Carl Gatter. St. Eliz, Washington, D.C., 1 page with
envelope Place and date from postmark.
|
1958 April 2 |
| Autograph note signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter, on the half-title of Motokiyo's
Nishikigi (Milano, 1957). Italy, 1 volume with envelope With envelope addressed in Pound's hand. Date postmarked.
|
1958 April 25 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter. Washington, D.C., 2 pages Place postmarked. Date from postmark.
|
1958 May 5 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter. 3514 Brothers Place, Washington,
D.C., 1 page with envelope Date from postmark.
|
1958 May 12 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter. 3514 Brothers Place, Washington,
D.C., 1 page with envelope Date from postmark.
|
1958 May 27 |
| Autograph letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter. 3514 Brothers Place, Washington, D.C.,
1 page with envelope Date from postmark.
|
1958 June 7 |
| Autograph note signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter. 3514 Brothers Place, Washington, D.C.,
1 card Place from postmark. Date postmarked.
|
1958 June 8 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Carl William Gatter. 3514 Brothers Place, Washington,
D.C., 1 page with envelope Date from postmark.
|
1958 June 19 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter, with a photograph. Brunnenburg, Tirolo
Merano, Italy, 1 page with envelope Photograph of possibly Dorothy Pound in the castle at Brunnenburg laid in.
|
1958 December 30 |
| Typewritten letter signed to "Mere et fils Gatter" (Elsie Kugel Gatter and Carl William
Gatter). Rapallo, Italy, 1 page with envelope Additions and corrections in Pound's hand. Date postmarked. On stationery of "Albergo
Grande Italia & Lido".
|
1959 March 31 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Carl Gatter, with sketches. Rapallo, Italy, 1 page with
envelope Sketches labeled in Pound's hand. On stationery of "Albergo Grande Italia & Lido".
|
1959 June 11 |
| Typewritten note signed to Carl Gatter, with two ink-stamps of oriental design. Rapallo,
Italy, 1 card illustrated Postscript in Pound's hand. Date from postmark.
|
1959 June 27 |
| Autograph letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter and Carl William Gatter. 80 via A., Poliziano, Roma, 1 page with envelope | 1960 March 20 |
| Autograph letter signed to Carl William Gatter. 2 St. Ambrogio, Rapallo, Italy, 2
pages illustrated with envelope On stationery bearing a design by Gaudier-Brzeska.
|
1966 August 23 |
| Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950. | |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of
Books That Have Hindered Me, sent to the Riverside Press. 4015 Locust Street, Philadelphia,
22 leaves Date of receipt by the Riverside Press, "Apr 25 1889", stamped on verso of first leaf.
Author's address supplied in unidentified hand at head of first leaf. Various editor's
marks in text. Published in the
Atlantic Monthly, July 1889.
|
1889 April |
| Autograph letter signed to Mrs. Dimock. 1208 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 2 pages | 1899 May 2 |
| Autograph letter signed to Elbert Hubbard. 1900 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 4 pages | 1900 January 1 |
| Autograph letter signed to Mary Goodrich Frothingham Brinley. C/o Mr. Henry Wheelwright, Cohasset, Massachusetts, 6 pages | 1907 July 10 |
| Autograph letter signed to Blanche McClelland Lewis. 2035 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
2 pages with envelope Date supplied in possibly Lewis's hand. Envelope, with seal, is addressed to Mr. Francis
A. Lewis. Tipped into Repplier's
Americans and Others (61-0239).
|
1913 November 4 |
| Autograph letter signed to Justice Robert von Moschzisker. 2111 Pine Street, Philadelphia,
2 pages Tipped into Repplier's
Compromises (58-0534).
|
1918 January 3 |
| Autograph letter signed to Blanche McClelland Lewis. 2111 Pine Street, Philadelphia,
2 pages with envelope Date from postmark. Envelope with seal.
|
1920 February 9 |
| Autograph letter signed to Blanche McClelland Lewis. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 2 pages Envelope with seal. Repplier's calling card enclosed. Magazine photograph of Repplier
laid in.
|
1922 March 6 |
| Autographed envelope to Blanche McClelland Lewis, probably enclosing a copy of Repplier's
The Promise of the Bell (Boston, 1924). 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1 envelope Envelope with seal. Tipped into Repplier's
The Promise of the Bell (61-0236).
|
1924 November 17 |
| Autograph letter signed to Francis Albert Lewis. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 2 pages Date supplied in possibly Lewis's hand. Tipped into Repplier's
Under dispute (61-0235).
|
1924 October 4 |
| Autograph letter signed to Blanche McClelland Lewis. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1 page with envelope Date from postmark. Envelope with seal.
|
1930 February 16 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of book reviews,
Here are Ladies, sent to Mr. Dewar. Philadelphia, 20 leaves The books under review were all published in 1936. The cover letter for this manuscript
is to Mr. Dewar (80-1214).
|
1936 June |
| Autograph letter signed to Mr. Dewar, accompanying some book reviews. 920 Clinton
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1 page Cover letter to the manuscript,
Here are Ladies (80-1215).
|
1936 July 27 |
| Autograph letter signed to Anne Macbeth von Moschzisker. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1 page with envelope Date from postmark. Envelope with seal. Tipped into Repplier's
Times and Tendencies (58-0533).
|
1938 March 26 |
| Autograph letter signed to Richard Gimbel. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1 page with envelope Date from postmark. Envelope with seal.
|
1938 June 22 |
| Autograph letter signed to Richard Gimbel. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1 page with envelope Envelope with seal.
|
1938 June 23 |
| Autograph letter signed to Anne Macbeth von Moschzisker. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1 page with envelope Envelope with seal. Tipped into Repplier's
In Pursuit of Laughter (58-0535).
|
January 11 |
| Autograph letter signed to Justice Robert von Moschzisker. 2111 Pine Street, Philadelphia,
4 pages with envelope Envelope with seal. On stationery of 2035 Chestnut Street. Tipped into Repplier's
Compromises (58-0534).
|
January 21 |
| Autograph letter signed to Miss Sartain. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 pages | February 24 |
| Autograph letter signed to Mrs. von Moschzisker. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1 page | March 19 |
| Autograph letter signed to Mrs. Robert von Moschzisker. 2035 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
2 pages with envelope Envelope with seal. Tipped into Repplier's
Points of Friction (58-0536).
|
May 14 |
| Autograph letter signed to Mr. Watts. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 pages | October 17 |
| Autograph letter signed to Miss Sartain. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 pages | November 2 |
| Autograph letter signed to Mr. Watts. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 pages | November 4 |
| Autograph letter signed to Francis Albert Lewis. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 2 pages Tipped into Repplier's
Under dispute (61-0235).
|
November 20 |
| Autograph letter signed to Mr. Watts. 920 Clinton Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 pages | November 22 |
| Autograph letter signed to Charles Augustus Brinley. 1208 Spruce Street, Philadelphia,
2 pages Photograph of Repplier laid in.
|
November 30 |
| Autograph letter signed to Mary Goodrich Frothingham Brinley. 1900 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia, 4 pages | undated |
| Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. | |
| Autograph letter signed to Richard Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W., 1 page | 1894 June 5 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Richard Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W., 1 page | 1894 June 9 |
| Autograph letter signed to Richard Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W., 2 pages | 1895 February 27 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Richard Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W., 2 pages Handwritten postscript at foot of second page.
|
1895 February 22 |
| Typewritten letter to Richard Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W., 1 page | 1895 March 9 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Richard Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W., 2 pages Torn in two.
|
1895 March 16 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Richard Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W., 2 page
illustrated Draft poster for
Candida, in Shaw's hand, on second page.
|
1895 March 27 |
| Autograph letter (fragment) to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. The Rectory Stratford St. Andrew, Saxmundham, Suffolk, 1 page | 1896 August 4 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. The Rectory Stratford St. Andrew, Saxmundham, Suffolk, 3 pages | 1896 August 8 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W.,
2 pages Torn.
|
1897 January 8 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W., 2 pages with envelope | 1897 March 26 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W.,
2 pages Torn.
|
1897 December 10 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W., 2 pages with envelope | 1898 January 1 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. 29 Fitzroy Square, London W.,
7 pages Possibly not in Shaw's handwriting, except for signature and part of postscript. One
leaf torn.
|
1898 March 19 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Richard Mansfield. Pitsfold, Haslemere, Surrey, 2 pages | 1898 July 16 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. Blen-Cathra, Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, 2 pages with envelope | 1899 January 2 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. Blen-Cathra, Hindhead, Haslemere,
Surrey, 2 pages Postcard.
|
1899 March 26 |
| Autograph letter signed to Richard Mansfield. Blen-Cathra, Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, 2 pages | 1899 April 28 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. Blen-Cathra, Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, 2 pages with envelope | 1899 May 3 |
| Autograph letter to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. Possibly in the Mediterranean, Malta
to Algiers, 4 pages Signature cut out, with loss of text. On the stationery of the S.S. "Lusitania". Shaw's
London address written at head. Cf. Saunders.
|
1899 October 21 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield, concerning Elbert Hubbard.
10 Adelphi Terrace, London W.C., 3 pages Last paragraph handwritten.
|
1900 January 7 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. 10 Adelphi Terrace, London W.C., 2 pages | 1900 February 11 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. Blackdown Cottage near Haslemere,
Surrey, 2 pages On the stationery of 10 Adelphi Terrace. W.C. Handwritten postscript at foot of second
page.
|
1900 June 12 |
| Autograph note signed to Kirkwood Hackett. Malvern Hotel Great Malvern Worcestershire,
1 card On stationery of 10 Adelphi Terrace. London. W.C.
|
1922 April 6 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield. Stresa, Lac Majeur, Italy,
1 page with envelope On the stationery of the Regina Palace Hotel.
|
1927 August 3 |
| Autograph note signed to Gladys Storey, on verso of post card bearing a photograph of Shaw. 4 Whitehall Court, London S.W., 1 card illustrated | 1927 October 19 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Gladys Storey, concerning Charles Dickens and Kate Perugini.
4 Whitehall Court, London S.W., 2 pages A copy, with notes and corrections in Shaw's hand, of 69-3373, with postscript dated
14th August 1944, authorizing her to quote his letter.
|
1939 July 21 |
| Typewritten letter signed to Gladys Storey, concerning Charles Dickens and Kate Perugini.
4 Whitehall Court, London S.W., 3 pages with envelope Last two paragraphs handwritten. Autograph note by Gladys Storey laid in (69-3372).
|
1939 July 21 |
| Autograph letter signed to Beatrice Cameron Mansfield, on verso of postcard bearing
a photograph of Shaw. 4 Whitehall Court, London S.W., 1 card Date postmarked.
|
1939 August 10 |
| Autograph letter signed to Gladys Storey. Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 1 card | 1941 December 17 |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. | |
| Sketchbook, containing several verses (fragments), sketches of landscapes, and portraits.
Edinburgh, 36 leaves in 1 volume Sketches in pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor on paper. Some are signed. Includes
sketches of Eilean Erraid, probably done in 1868 or 1869. Cf. Steuart.
|
circa 1868 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of "Law of Possession", "Property Actions" and "Usufruct",
being notes when a law student. Edinburgh, 28 pages on 27 leaves Bound in a volume.
|
circa 1874 |
| Corrected copy (fragment) of Stevenson and Henley's
Deacon Brodie (Edinburgh), 1880), 24 pages Additions and corrections in Stevenson's hand. Housed with 80-1667.
|
circa 1880 |
| Corrected copy of Stevenson and Henley's
Deacon Brodie (Edinburgh), 1880), 1 volume Additions and corrections in Stevenson's hand. Housed with 80-1668.
|
circa 1880 |
| Printed document, signed. Check for payment to the Army & Navy Cooperative Society
Limited. Bournemouth, Hampshire, 1 page Endorsed on verso with an illegible signature. Inserted in Stevenson's "Thomas Stevenson,
civil engineer" (Edinburgh, 1887).
|
1887 February 22 |
| Printed document, signed. Check for payment to Alan Stevenson. Bournemouth, Hampshire,
1 page Endorsed on verso by Alan Stevenson. Inserted in Henley and Stevenson's
Admiral Guinea (Edinburgh, 1884).
|
1887 April 16 |
| Autograph note signed (carbon of delivery copy of telegram) to Chatto & Windus, concerning
verses for Underwoods. 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, 1 page Unidentified hand. Date stamped. Housed separately.
|
1887 May 26 |
| Corrected proof sheets of his Memoirs and portraits (London, 1887), 1 volume With corrections and additions in Stevenson's hand. Stamped by the printers in several
places with the date 16 Aug 87. Bound as a volume.
|
circa 1887 August |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of
In the South Seas, i.e. "Part V. The Gilberts. XLVIII. Butaritari", 2 pages Cf. Swearingen. Page numbered 58. Housed separately.
|
circa 1888-1891 |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of the
Wrecker; "Chapter XIX Travels with a Shyster", 19 leaves Numbered 15-31A. Cf. Swearingen. Housed separately.
|
circa 1889-1891 |
| Corrected copy of Stevenson's
Father Damien (Sydney, 1890), 1 volume With corrections and additions in Stevenson's hand. Housed separately.
|
circa 1890 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of "The Builders of the Bell Rock", concerning his grandfather,
Robert Stevenson, 2 leaves Cf. Swearingen. Probably notes for his
Records of a Family of Engineers. Housed separately.
|
circa 1891-1893 |
| Printed document, signed. Banker's order, requesting Harry Jay Moors to pay Mr. Dines.
Vailima, Western Samoa, 1 page Endorsed on verso by H. Dines. Attached to front end-paper of Stevenson's
Underwoods (London, 1887).
|
1892 August 14 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of "The Plantation", 18 pages on 15 leaves Partly in Stevenson's hand, and partly in the hand of Isobel Strong Field. This is
part one of his projected novel,
Sophia Scarlet, referred to in his letter to Sidney Colvin, 31 January 1892. Cf. Swearingen. Portrait
of Stevenson laid in.
|
circa 1892 |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of
Weir of Hermiston. Vailima, Western Samoa, 4 pages Cf. Swearingen. Housed separately.
|
circa 1894 |
| Autograph manuscript signed (draft) of several verses and revisions, with a sketch,
1 page illustrated Previously identified as intended for
A Child's Garden of Verses, but unpublished there. Notes on verso in possibly Stevenson's hand of a chess game
with Edward B. Oakley. Housed separately.
|
undated |
| Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909. | |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "In the orchard (Provencal burden)", 1 page Published in Swinburne's
Poems and Ballads (London, 1866).
|
1866 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "Grace Darling", 4 pages Printed pamphlet of "Grace Darling" (London, 1893), "Printed only for private circulation",
laid in. Autograph note in unidentified hand, dating manuscript. Bound in a separate
volume with Jerome Kern's bookplate.
|
circa 1875 |
| Autograph manuscript signed (possible fragment) of "De Religione", 1 page Written on a blank page in Swinburne's
Songs of two Nations (London, 1875). Probably unpublished.
|
circa 1875 |
| Autograph manuscripts signed of a poem, "Lost Vigil", 4 pages Published as "A Wasted Vigil" in Swinburne's
Poems and Ballads, Second series (London, 1878).
|
circa 1878 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "After looking into Carlyle's 'Reminiscences'",
1 page Published in Swinburne's
Tristram of Lyonesse and other poems (London, 1882).
|
circa 1882 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "A Lyke-Wake Song", 1 page Published in Swinburne's
Poems and Ballads, third series (London, 1889).
|
circa 1889 |
| Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 1809-1892. | |
| Corrections and additions in Tennyson's hand, in his
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (London, 1830). Cambridge, 1 volume Alterations of several words and phrases. Autograph note signed by W.H. Thompson in
book: "The pen & ink alterations are in the author's handwriting. They were made by
him when visiting Cambridge in Autumn 1834, or possibly in the Spring of 1835." Notes
by an unidentified collator laid in.
|
circa 1834 |
| Corrections and additions in Tennyson's hand in the second author's proofs of his
Enoch Arden, entitled Idylls of the Hearth (London, 1864), 1 volume "With suggestions by J.B. Payne and Sir George Young, Bart." -- Autograph note in
unidentified hand on titlepage corrections of many words and punctuation marks, with
new verses in Tennyson's hand in
A Welcome to Alexandra.
|
1864 |
| Corrections and additions in Tennyson's hand in the third author's proofs of his
Enoch Arden, entitled Idylls of the Hearth (London, 1864), 1 volume Corrections of a few words, with new verses in Tennyson's hand in "A Dedication".
|
1864 |
| Corrections and additions in Tennyson's hand in the fourth author's proofs of his
Enoch Arden, entitled Idylls of the Hearth (London, 1864), 1 volume Change of title and of a few words. New verses and notes in Tennyson's hand in "A
Dedication". Autograph letter (fragment) from an unidentified author to Tennyson tipped
in opposite "A Dedication", with more verses and notes in Tennyson's hand on verso.
|
1864 |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of a poem, "She promised & that night he rode
away", 1 page Attached to the verso of the half-title of Tennyson's
Maud (London, 1855).
|
undated |
| Corrections and additions in Tennyson's hand in his
The Princess: A Medley (London, 1847), 1 volume Extensive additions.
|
undated |
| Corrections and additions in Tennyson's hand in his
Poems (London, 1833), 1 volume Extensive additions to "The Lady of Shalott", The Miller's Daughter", and "Oenone".
|
undated |
| Autograph letter signed to Mr. Trench, with photograph of Tennyson. Park House Maidstone, Kent, 2 pages | May 12 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of several poems, "When all among the thundering drums",
"Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea", "As thro' the land at eve we went" and
"Home they brought her Warrior dead", from "The Princess", 4 pages Published photograph of one page laid in (84-1427).
|
undated |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. | |
| Autograph letter signed to Mr. Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby), with a sketch. Liverpool,
Lancashire, 2 pages illustrated Transcription laid in. Richard Harris Barham published under the name Thomas Ingoldsby.
|
1842 July 1 |
| Sketchbook, containing many portraits, landscapes and architectural views, primarily
in Honfleur and Rouen. France, 1 volume illustrated Pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor sketches. Unsigned. Dates from 1842 and 1843 on
a few sketches. Thackeray's calling card attached to front paste-down. Thackeray's
seal stamped on first two sketches. Autograph note from Mrs. Procter to J.B. Campbell
tipped in.
|
circa 1842 |
| Sketch. Caricature of the author carrying a book. Attached to the free endpaper of
his
Vanity Fair, presented to Lady Maria Liddell Phipps Normanby, 1 leaf illustrated Endpaper is detached and inserted in Thackeray's
Vanity Fair (London, 1848).
|
1848 |
| Original sketches, entitled
Metamorphoses, done for William Bradford Reed and his family. Philadelphia, 1 volume
illustrated Pen and ink on paper in sketchbook. Four sets of metamorphoses. Published as
A Book of Drawings by William Makepeace Thackeray: A Series of Metamorphoses Made
in Philadelphia 1853, for the children of William B. Reed (Philadelphia, 1925).
|
1853 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a lecture on King George II, 49 pages on 48 leaves Partly in Thackeray's hand, with parts written by Harriet Stephen and Mr. Hodder.
Autograph note signed by Anne Ritchie, identifying scribes, attached. Cf. DNB. Bound
in a separate volume, with bookplates of Phoebe Boyle and Jerome Kern. Later published
in
The Four Georges (London, 1860).
|
circa 1855 |
| Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient. Manchester, Lancashire, 1 page | 1856 December 12 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of his lecture,
Humour & Charity, with a sketch, 38 leaves illustrated Autograph note signed by Anne Ritchie on first page: "written by me AR with corrections
& some pages in my Fathers own writing". A later version of a lecture first published
as
Charity and Humour in the English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (New York, 1853). Douglas Jerrold's death, which occurred on 8 June 1857, is referred
to in the text as taking place a few weeks earlier. Pen and ink sketch on paper. Bound
as a volume.
|
1857 June |
| Autograph letter signed to Mr. Fairbairn. Palace Green, Kensington, London W., 1 page | undated |
| Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient, 1 page Salutation to "dear W.W.F." Clipped signature of Lockhart laid in.
|
undated |
| Original drawing of possibly Amelia, 1 leaf Signed. Pencil on paper. Bookseller's note identifying this as "Amelia" in
Vanity Fair.
|
undated |
| Original sketch of self-portrait with children, 1 leaf Pen and ink on paper. Photograph of unidentified man attached to verso of mount.
|
undated |
| Photograph of Thackeray, 1 leaf | undated |
| Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. | |
| Autograph letter (fragment) to Karl Gerhardt. Elmira, New York, 1 page | 1885 September 5 |
| Autograph letter signed to Mr. Bliss concerning royalties from his books. 30 Wellington
Court, Albert Gate, London, 4 pages Signed "S.L. Clemens". Mourning stationery.
|
1900 January 16 |
| Typescript of "A Defence of General Funston", with Autograph manuscript signed of
a postscript, 20 leaves Nineteen typewritten leaves and one hand-written leaf. Many additions and corrections
in Twain's hand. Housed separately.
|
1902 |
| Typescript of "Does the Race of Man love a Lord?", with Autograph manuscripts signed
of title-page, 18 leaves Signed "Clemens". Many revisions and corrections, some in Twain's hand. Bound in a
separate volume. Portrait of Twain attached.
|
1902 |
| Printed mourning card, signed, and with two-line autograph note, to an unidentified
recipient. Florence, Italy, 1 page Signed "S.L. Clemens."
|
1904 June |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment), 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
Is Shakespeare dead? (80-1316). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on end-paper.
|
1905 August 6 |
| Autograph note signed to Charlotte Teller Hirsch, 1 page Signed "S.L. Clemens". Attached to front end-paper of Twain's S.L.C. to C.T. (80-1375).
|
circa 1905 |
| Autograph note (fragment) for his
King Leopold's Soliloquy (Boston, 1905), 1 page Attached to inside front cover of
Twain's King Leopold's Soliloquy (80-1376). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on inside cover.
|
circa 1905 |
| Autograph manuscript signed of memoranda for his speech "Morals and Memory", 1 page "Used at Barnard College March 7/06" -- Autograph note at foot. The speech was published
in Mark Twain's
Speeches, (New York, 1910). Attached to front end-paper of Mark Twain's
Speeches (80-1339).
|
circa 1906 March |
| Autograph note to an unidentified recipient, 1 page Directions for distributing Twain's
A Horse's Tale (New York, 1907). Attached to front end-paper in Twain's
A Horse's Tale (80-1299). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on end-paper.
|
circa 1907 |
| Autograph letter signed (fragment) to an unidentified recipient, 1 page Signed "S.L. Clemens". Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
A Dog's Tale (80-1298).
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment), 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (80-1300). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's hand-writing,
on end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment), 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
Following the Equator (80-1307). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment), 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
How to tell a Story (80-1310). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment), 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
A Tramp Abroad (80-1367). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on front end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a note, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
English as She is Taught (80-1352).
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a note, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
The Stolen White Elephant (80-1360). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a note, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
Tom Sawyer Abroad (80-1365). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of a diary entry, 1 page Attached to front end paper in Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (80-1281). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on endpaper.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a lecture note, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Harte and Twain's
Sketches of the Sixties (80-1382). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of lecture notes, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Mark Twain's speeches (80-1340). Autograph note signed
by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting, on end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed of a memorandum, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (80-1341). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of a note, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
The Mysterious Stranger (80-1343). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph note to an unidentified recipient, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
The $30,000 Bequest and other stories (80-1364). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson, identifying Twain's handwriting,
on end-paper.
|
undated |
| Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient, 1 page Signed "Clemens". Attached to the front end-paper of Howells'
My Mark Twain (80-1381).
|
undated |
| Signature, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
Merry Tales (80-1342).
|
undated |
| Signature, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
Sketches (80-1336).
|
undated |
| Signature, 1 page Signed "S.L. Clemens Mark Twain". Twain's "New Year's greeting card for 1876, with
an illustration of a jumping frog," laid in.
|
undated |
| Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. | |
|
Typescript of Salome to Pierre Louys, 1 volume 63 leaves, pages 47-64 In French. Extensively marked and corrected, sometimes in Wilde's hand. Bound as a
volume, containing leaves from a carbon copy of the script ((2), 63 leaves), followed
by pages from its original typescript (p. 47-64). The direction "A Pierre Louys" is
written three on this copy. With book plate of John Quinn.
|
circa 1894 |
|
Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of
The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Canto III with comment, 4 pages Housed separately.
|
undated |
|
Autograph manuscripts signed of many poems, in a notebook illustrated with numerous
sketches, 142 pages Housed separately; bookplate of John B. Stetson, Jr. Fourteen pages of notes by Richard
Gimbel laid in.
|
undated |
| Typescript carbon copy, annotated, of unpublished part of De Profundis, used in the
libel case Douglas v. Ransome, 137 pages tied at corner. Housed separately. Typescript was prepared by Robbie Ross from the original manuscript
that Wilde sent from prison. Ross abridged the original manuscript for publication
as
De Profundis. H. A. McCardie annotated this typescript and read into the court record during Lord
Alfred Douglas' libel suit against critic Arthur Ransome.
|
circa 1913 |
| Writers with fewer than four collection items | |
| Allston, Washington, 1779-1843. Autograph note signed to Mr. and Mrs. Norton declining a dinner invitation. Cambridge Port, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1818 September 5 |
| Arthur, Timothy Shay, 1809-1885. Autograph note signed to O. F. Keeler conveying advertisements to be published in a directory. Philadelphia, 1 page | 1851 June 10 |
| Beauduin, Nicolas, 1880-1960. Autograph note signed to Ezra Pound, on the half-title
of Beauduin's
Rythmes et chants dans le renouveau. Possibly Paris, 1 volume Autograph note by Carl Gatter in pencil on front wrapper of book. Housed with Ezra
Pound material.
|
circa 1920 |
| Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953. Typewritten letter signed to Katherine Brinley, to arrange a meeting. Kings Land, Shipley, Horsham, Sussex, England W., 1 page | 1920 June 26 |
| Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953. Autograph letter signed to Katherine Brinley inviting her to his home. 10 Park Row, Knightsbridge, London S.W., 1 page | 1920 June 29 |
| Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. Typewritten letter signed to Mr. Taylor, concerning the taping of "John Brown's body" as a talking book. Killingworth R.F.D., Clinton, Connecticut, 1 page | undated |
| Benjamin, Park, 1809-1864. Autograph note signed to Morris, 1 page | 1860 June 7 |
| Benoliel, D. Jacques, d.1954. Typewritten letter signed (carbon copy) to James Branch
Cabell. Philadelphia, 2 pages In Cabell album.
|
1952 March 17 |
| Benoliel, D. Jacques, d.1954. Typewritten letter signed (carbon copy) to James Branch
Cabell. Philadelphia, 2 pages In Cabell album.
|
1952 March 28 |
| Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914. Autograph letter signed to Adolphe DeCastro (sic Danziger).
18 Iowa Circle, Washington, D.C., 3 pages Cf. Pope.
|
circa 1901 |
| Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914. Autograph note signed to Walter Neale, 1 page | undated |
| Bird, Robert Montgomery, 1806-1854. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient concerning entomology in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. Possibly New York, 2 pages | 1833 October 25 |
| Blankenburg, Rudolph, 1843-1918. Autograph letter signed to Mrs. M. W. Bruce concerning
his book, Philadelphia in the Civil War. Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania, 1 page On the author's Philadelphia stationery.
|
1916 July 29 |
| Booth, Barton, 1681-1733. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient, 1
page Inserted in Volume 2 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
undated |
| Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881. Autograph letter signed to Rhys Rhys. 22 Hereford
Square, Brompton, London, 1 page Attached to the front end-paper of volume 1 of Borrow's
The Bible in Spain (London, 1843).
|
1863 April 30 |
| Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881. Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "The Fall
of Zolnok", 4 pages Bound as a volume, with a transcription.
|
undated |
| Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881. Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of notes about
Spain, 2 pages Inserted in volume 2 of Borrow's
The Bible in Spain (London, 1843).
|
undated |
| Boval, Mr. Document contracting a debt for goods sold to "Mr. Wilk and Company at
the Theater in Drury Lane" (Drury Lane Theatre), 1 page Signed by B. Booth, C. Cibber and Robert Wilks. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
1715 October 15 |
| Brill, C. Autograph letter signed to possibly Alexander McKay, concerning A.A. Milne.
13 Mallord Street, Chelsea, London S.W., 1 page Date supplied in pencil at head.
|
1926 January 22 |
| Brooks, James, 1810-1873. Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient. New York, 1 page | 1866 December 7 |
| Brown, David Paul, 1795-1872. Autograph letter signed to K. E. Lockwood. Philadelphia, 1 page | 1841 October 16 |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Corrections and additions in Browning's hand
in her
Prometheus Bound (London, 1833) and
The Seraphim, and other poems (London, 1838), 1 volume Corrections of a few words and punctuation marks, with new verses in Browning's hand
in
Prometheus Bound. Two volumes bound together.
|
undated |
| Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient, concerning access to correspondence of E. B. Browning for publication. 19 Warwick Crescent, London W., 1 page | 1882 May 5 |
| Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Autograph letter signed to Castall & Co. Publishers regarding Symon's Study of Browning. Llangollen, Wales, 1 page | 1886 October 7 |
| Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Autograph letter signed to George Yeates Hunter, concerning
Christopher Smart. 9 Warwick Crescent, London W., 1 page Cf. Baylor Bulletin V. xxxvii, No.3 and 4 (September, 1934). Attached to Hunter's
copy of Browning's
Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day, (London, 1887), accompanied by a signed note in Hunter's hand concerning their correspondence.
|
1887 April 16 |
| Browning, Robert Wiedemann Barrett, 1849-1912. Autograph letter signed to Dr. Edward
Berdoe concerning an unpublished poem by his father. La Torre all' Antella, Florence,
3 pages Mourning stationery. Typewritten letter signed from Smith Elder & Co. to Dr. Berdoe
concerning the authenticity of this poem laid in.
|
1904 March 4 |
| Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878. Autograph letter signed to John Durand, inviting Durand and Dr. Clemenceau to Roslyn. New York, 2 pages | 1867 October 18 |
| Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917. Signature, 1 page Signed "W.F. Cody Buffalo Bill." Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
A Horse's Tale (80-1299). Autograph note signed by Merle Johnson on end-paper.
|
1874 March 8 |
| Burns, Robert, 1759-1796. Autograph manuscripts signed of two poems, "There's nane that's blest of human kind" and "Katharine Jaffrey", and two anecdotal notes, 2 pages | undated |
| Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. Autograph manuscripts signed of the second verse of his
poem, "Waiting". West Park New York, 1 page Housed separately.
|
1887 February 1 |
| Burton, William Evans, 1802-1860. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient, inviting him to his country home in Glen Cove. Chambers Street, New York, 2 pages | 1852 June 18 |
| Cain, James Mallahan, 1892-1977. Typewritten letter signed to Bernard Aaron Bergman
concerning a Thurber sketch. 6707 44th Avenue, Hyattsville, Maryland, 1 page Library also owns the book containing this sketch: Gen 80-1433.
|
1975 March 23 |
| Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929. Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "Before the Sparrows",
1 page Autograph note signed by Thomas Hutchinson on verso, 7/2/97, identifying Carman's
handwriting. Probably unpublished.
|
circa 1897 |
| Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866. Autograph letter signed to Governor Samuel Medary. Washington, D.C., 2 pages | 1858 December 11 |
| Castle, Thomas. Autograph document signed to Drury Lane Theatre contracting a debt
for services to Robert Wilks and Barton Booth, 1 page Signed by Robert Wilks and Barton Booth. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
1714 January 30 |
| Castle, Thomas. Autograph document signed Drury Lane Theatre contracting a debt for
the purchase of goods by Colley Cibber, Barton Booth and Robert Wilks, 1 page Signed by Colley Cibber, Barton Booth, and Robert Wilks. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley
Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
|
1715 March 5 |
| Castle, Thomas. Autograph document signed Drury Lane Theatre, bill for goods sold
to possibly Drury Lane Theatre, 1 page Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
1716 May 26 |
| Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901. Autograph letter signed to Benjamin Franklin Guild about a social engagement. Boston, 2 pages | undated |
| Charles, Joseph D., 1907-1966. Typewritten letter signed to Kenneth Lewis Roberts.
Ambassade d'Haiti, Washington D.C., 1 page In French. Inserted into Robert's copy of the first edition of Moreau de St. Mery's
American Journey (Garden City, New York, 1947).
|
1947 July 21 |
| Chelten Hills School, Wyncote, Pennsylvania. Printed document, signed. Graduation
diploma for Esther Heacock. Wyncote, Pennsylvania, 1 page Signed by Annie Heacock and Elizabeth W. Heacock, Principals. On vellum. Housed with
Ezra Pound material.
|
1898 June |
| Chelten Hills School, Wyncote, Pennsylvania. Printed document, signed. Graduation
diploma for Priscilla Walker Heacock. Wyncote, Pennsylvania, 1 page Signed by Annie Heacock and Lida R. LeMaistre, Principals. On vellum. Housed with
Ezra Pound material.
|
1901 June |
| Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947. Autograph note signed to Robert Dechert concerning an engagement to speak. Katonah, Westchester County, New York, 1 page | 1915 December 27 |
| Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757. Document signed, affidavit giving testimony concerning
Thomas Doggett, 2 pages Signed by C. Cibber and Robert Wilks. Countersigned with an illegible signature. Inserted
in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
1714 June 29 |
| Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757. Autograph letter signed to possibly John Churchill Marlborough,
the Duke of Marlborough, 1 page Probably accompanied the affidavit of 29 June 1714 (87-1125). Inserted in volume 2
of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
1714 June 30 |
| Cist, Lewis Jacob, 1818-1885. Autograph letter signed to James T. Worthington, describing recent purchases for his autograph collection. Cincinnati, 3 pages | 1851 July 20 |
| Cobbett, William, 1763-1835. Autograph letter signed to James Oldden of Philadelphia, concerning John Oldden. Pall Mall, London, 3 pages | 1801 June 24 |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Corrections and additions in Coleridge's hand
in his
Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of
Prudence, Morality and Religion (London, 1825), 21 page The additions mostly consist of a single word or brief phrase.
|
undated |
| Colvin, Sidney, Sir, 1845-1927. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Adcock, concerning a projected anthology of great English poetry. 35 Palace Gardens, Terrace, Kensington, London W., 7 pages | 1913 March 26 |
| Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Autograph letter signed to Colonel Aspinwell introducing his brother-in-law, Reverend Dr. de Lancey. St. Mark's Place, New York, 1 page | 1835 April 15 |
| Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient, complaining of a false portrait of her circulating in the United States Mason Croft, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, 2 pages | 1920 May 31 |
| Cox, Asa R. Autograph manuscript signed, signed, of the poem "To Charlotte". Kensington, Philadelphia, 1 page | 1856 March 27 |
| Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Typewritten letter signed to Margaret T. Schwartz. 41 Grand View Boulevard, Tuckahoe 7, New York, 1 page | 1945 April 25 |
| Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Typewritten letter signed to Margaret T. Schwartz. 41 Grand View Boulevard, Tuckahoe 7, New York, 1 page | 1945 May 17 |
| Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946. Typewritten letter signed to Margaret T. Schwartz. 41 Grand View Boulevard, Tuckahoe 7, New York, 1 page | 1945 May 24 |
| Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882. Autograph note signed to J. Eastman Chase. Boston, 1 page | 1857 May 6 |
| Dawes, Rufus, 1803-1859. Autograph letter signed to Richard F. Bond about a painting by Paul Weber. Washington, D.C., 1 page | 1857 May 21 |
| Deane, Charles, 1813-1889. Autograph letter signed to William Henry Whitmore. Sparks Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1874 August 11 |
| Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946. Autograph manuscripts signed of
The Clansman, circa 520 leaves "Began Sept 5 1904 Finished Oct 28 1904" -- at head of first page. Bound in one volume.
|
1904 September 5 |
| Doane, George Washington, 1799-1859. Autograph note signed to W. Castell, 1 page | undated |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. Autograph manuscripts signed of "Some Reminiscences
of Sport". Crowboro, Sussex, 21 leaves Bound in vellum and signed on upper cover by Doyle. First published as "Some Recollections
of Sport" in Strand Magazine, Sept. 1909. Later included in
Memories and Adventures (London, 1924). Cf. Green & Gibson.
|
1909 |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. Autograph manuscripts signed of "The Case of
Oscar Slater". Windlesham Crowborogh, Sussex, 39 leaves Bound in cloth and signed on upper cover by Doyle.
|
1912 |
| Drinker, John. Autograph manuscripts signed including some Autograph letter signed to his sister Mary Horner, containing many poems. Philadelphia area, 56 pages | 1757 |
| Drury Lane Theatre. Autograph document signed, giving notice to John Rich that Mary
Davison has been hired as an actress, 1 page Signed by Barton Booth, Colley Cibber and Robert Wilks, and by R. Castelman (sic)
and J. Robinson, witnesses. Trimmed at right edge with loss of text. Inserted in volume
2 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
1722 October 6 |
| Dumas, Alexandre, 1807-1870. Autograph note signed to the French Ambassador in Italy, introducing Madame Fanny Gordosa. Possibly Paris, 1 page | 1860 |
| Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895. Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient, 1 page | undated |
| Estcourt, Richard, 1668-1712. Autograph letter signed to Sir John Stanley, 1 page Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
undated |
| Everett, Edward, 1794-1865. Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient. 32 Summer Street, Boston, 1 page | 1858 June 10 |
|
Family visitor. Autograph manuscripts signed of two privately produced biweekly magazines,
The Family Visitor and
The Critic on the Hearth, illustrated with many sketches. Philadelphia, 554 pages
illustrated
The Family Visiter appeared every second week throughout 1848.
The Critic on the Hearth appeared on the alternate weeks, but ceased with its issue for February 19th, 1848.
Bound in a volume with the title page, "Family Visiter Vol 2 January 1 1848". Apparently
unpublished. Six engravings attached.
|
1848 January 1 |
| Fay, Theodore Sedgwick, 1807-1898. Autograph letter signed to Samuel Bulkley Ruggles. Possibly Berlin, 3 pages | 1850 April 18 |
| Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Autograph note signed to Emerson Greenaway. 333 Sixth Avenue,
New York, New York, 1 page On the stationery of the New Directions Publishing Corporation. Stamped with date
of receipt: Apr 15 1968.
|
1968 April 99 |
| Field, Eugene, 1850-1895. Autograph manuscript signed of the title-page for his A Little Book Western Verse. Chicago, 2 pages | 1889 |
| Field, Eugene, 1850-1895. Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "There is a posie
filled with dew", on strawboard, 1 page Possibly unpublished.
|
undated |
| Forman, Harry Buxton, 1842-1917. Autograph letter signed to Thomas James Wise. London, 3 pages | 1897 September 25 |
| Gallagher, William Davis, 1808-1894. Autograph document signed to John d'Estimauville for receipt of fees on shipment of goods. Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky, 1 page | 1863 October 9 |
| Garrick, David, 1717-1779. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Reynolds. Possibly London,
1 page A wax impression of Garrick's ring, bearing his likeness, is laid in.
|
1776 January 12 |
| Gatter, Carl William, 1926-. Mimeographed copy of "Ezra Pound in Wyncote". Wyncote,
Pennsylvania, 14 leaves Duplicate copy laid in. Housed with Ezra Pound material.
|
circa 1963 |
| Godey, Louis Antoine, 1804-1878. Autograph letter signed to possibly J.C. Buthe. Philadelphia, 1 page | 1851 October 17 |
| Gould, Hannah Flagg, 1789-1865. Autograph manuscripts signed of the poem "Earth and Heaven". Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1857 December 3 |
| Graham, George Rex, 1813-1894. Autograph letter signed to Alfred Billings Street, inviting more articles and poems for publication. Philadelphia, 1 page | 1850 February 7 |
| Great Britain Treasury. Printed document, ordering repayment of money to Thomas Doggett
from the Exchequer, 1 page Signed on verso by Thomas Doggett, 9 May 1717, and by J. Miller, witness. Trimmed
at head and foot with loss of text. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
1715 February |
| Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. Autograph letter signed to possibly J.S. Boccu. Paris, 2 pages | 1855 July 5 |
| Haggard, Bazett Michael, 1847?-1899. Corrected copy of his
Objects of Pity (Amsterdam, circa 1892), with a signed presentation inscription to
Mrs. Forsyth. Apia Samoa, Western Samoa, 1 volume With additions and corrections in Haggard's hand. Written in reply to Robert Louis
Stevenson's
An Object of Pity (Amsterdam, 1892); cf. Swearingen.
|
1894 September 29 |
| Hale, Sara Josepha Buell, 1788-1879. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient.
Philadelphia, 1 page Autograph note on verso inked out.
|
1852 May 8 |
| Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867. Autograph letter signed to Charles Edwards Lester. Guilford, Connecticut, 2 pages | 1862 May 2 |
| Harland, Henry, 1861-1905. Autograph letter signed to Joseph Marshall Stoddart. 35 Beekman Place, New York, 2 pages | September 19 |
| Harland, Henry, 1861-1905. Autograph letter signed to Joseph Marshall Stoddart. 35 Beekman Place, New York, 3 pages | 1889 June 7 |
| Harvey, George Brinton McLellan, 1864-1928. Autograph letter signed to Samuel L. Clemens
(Mark Twain). Dublin, New Hampshire, 2 pages with envelope Autograph note by Mark Twain on envelope. Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
What is Man? (80-1372).
|
1906 August 1 |
| Hawthorne, Elizabeth Manning, 1802-1883. Autograph letter signed to Maria L. Hawthorne (Hathorne sic), mentioning their brother Nathaniel. Salem, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1821 November 21 |
| Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Lockwood, mentioning Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthornden, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, 1 page | April 21 |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Autograph letter signed (fragment) to an unidentified recipient. Concord, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1852 July 15 |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "The Moon
is Bright in that Chamber Fair", 1 page Autograph note by Julian Hawthorne, identifying author, at foot. Typewritten letter
signed from Mrs. Julian Hawthorne, authenticating the poem, laid in. Transcription
laid in.
|
undated |
| Heacock, Elizabeth Baynes Walker. Autograph letter signed to Joseph Heacock. Brooklyn
Navy Yard, New York, 4 pages with envelope On the stationery of "Chelten Hills School, Wyncote, Penna." Housed with Ezra Pound
material.
|
1900 September 17 |
| Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Andrews. The Cedars, Newark, New Jersey, 1 page | 1857 August 15 |
| Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-1954. Typescript of "The Decline in Liquid and Solid Pleasures".
The Dower House, West Chester, Chester County Pennsylvania, 5 leaves Autograph note signed in unidentified hand on title-page. Housed separately.
|
undated |
| Hoffman, Charles Fenno, 1806-1884. Autograph letter signed to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, 1 page | undated |
| Hoffman, David, 1784-1854. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient. 45 Conduit Street, Hanover Square, London, 1 page | undated |
| Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910. Autograph letter signed to Adam Badeau. South Boston,
4 pages Transcription laid in. Housed separately.
|
1860 February 23 |
| Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Envelope addressed to Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain).
New York, New York, 1 envelope Place and date postmarked. Autograph note by Twain on front of envelope. Attached
to front end-paper in Twain's
Christian Science (80-1293).
|
1902 December 28 |
| Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Signature, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Howells'
Their Husbands' Wives (80-1303).
|
undated |
| Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Signature, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Howells'
My Mark Twain (80-1381).
|
undated |
| Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859. Autograph manuscript signed of poem, "To John Keats", on blank
page in
Poems by John Keats (London, 1817), possibly in Hunt's hand, 2 pages Identification of handwriting not certain.
|
1817 March 2 |
| Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Autograph note to Hannah Horneck, 1 page Inserted in Johnson's
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (London, 1775).
|
1770 June 13 |
| Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Autograph letter signed to the Reverend Dr. John Taylor,
2 pages With seal.
|
1775 December 23 |
| Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Autograph document signed, receipt for payment by John
Rivington "by the hand of Mr. Strahan", 1 page Inserted in Johnson's
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (London, 1775).
|
1776 March 16 |
| Keats, John, 1795-1821. Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of "I stood tip-toe
upon a little hill", 1 page Autograph note signed by Charles Cowden Clarke, Novr. 21st. 1851, to William Potter,
identifying poem, on verso of integral leaf. Published in Keats's
Poems (London, 1817). Photostat and sale catalog record laid in.
|
circa 1817 |
| Keats, John, 1795-1821. Autograph manuscript signed (fragment) of his poem "Isabella"
to Henry Wriford, 2 pages Fragment consists of stanzas LX and LXIII. Published in Keats's
Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and other poems (London, 1820). Autograph note signed by Joseph Severn in margin, identifying Keats's
handwriting and presenting the fragment to possibly Henry Wriford, Rome, May 1st.
1863.
|
circa 1820 |
| Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870. Autograph letter signed to J. Apolion Cheney. 90 Madison Street, Baltimore, 3 pages | 1869 January 7 |
| King, Hannah T. (Hannah Tapfield). Vale 1877. Possibly Salt Lake City, Utah, 2 pages Manuscript poem, signed Hannah T. King.
|
circa 1877 December |
| Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. Unattributed verses in the hand of Charles Lamb, on blank pages in Lamb's copy of the Works of Michael Drayton (London, 1748), 14 pages | undated |
| Legaré, Hugh Swinton, 1797-1843. Autograph letter signed to possibly F. B. Shuford.
Washington, D.C., 2 pages Several words effaced.
|
1843 March 19 |
| LeMair, Henriette Willebeek. Typed letter to an unidentified recipient, mentioning
Mr. McKay, 1 page Signed "Saida".
|
1924 May 2 |
| Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858. Autograph letter signed to Messrs. Carey and Hart, mentioning Hannah Flagg Gould, 1 page | 1836 February 2 |
| Leslie, Shane, 1885-1971. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient. 128 West 59th Street, New York, 2 pages | 1919 March 19 |
| Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872. Autograph letter signed to William Pitt Fessenden. Washington,
D.C., 2 pages On the stationery of the War Department, Archive Office.
|
1866 June 30 |
| Lilly, Lambert, 1798-1866. Autograph letter signed to Henry Jackson Morton. New York,
1 page Signed "F.L. Hawks".
|
1839 July 11 |
| Locke, Richard Adams, 1800-1871. Autograph letter signed to Thomas H. Lane, 1 page | 1846 May 11 |
| Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Stanley. New
Haven Court, Cromer, Norfolk, 3 pages On mourning stationery. Attached to front end-paper of Locker-Lampson's
Poems (London, 1868).
|
1886 August 10 |
| Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient.
Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3 pages Housed separately.
|
1866 September 26 |
| Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Autograph letter signed to Thomas Gaffield. Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2 pages | 1871 May 12 |
| Lunt, George, 1803-1885. Autograph letter signed to Mr. D. Roberts. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1831 September 26 |
| Lunt, George, 1803-1885. Autograph letter signed to Charles Henry Bell. Scituate, Massachusetts, 3 pages | 1883 June 4 |
| MacDonald, George, 1824-1905. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient. Bordighera, Italy, 2 pages | 1889 February 20 |
| Masefield, John, 1878-1967. Typewritten letter (copy) to Leo M. Brown. Burcote Brook,
Abingdon, Berkshire, 1 page Autograph note by Blumenthal at foot. Photograph of Masefield, inscribed "From John
& Constance. 8. V11. 1951" at foot, laid in.
|
1951 July 5 |
| Masefield, John, 1878-1967. Typewritten letter signed to Walter Hart Blumenthal and
Claudine Blumenthal. Burcote Brook, Abingdon, Berkshire, 2 pages with envelope Date from postmark.
|
1951 July 5 |
| Masefield, John, 1878-1967. Autograph letter signed to "Walter & Claudine" (Walter Hart Blumenthal and Claudine Blumenthal). Burcote Brook, Abingdon, Berkshire, 2 pages with envelope | 1952 January 31 |
| Mathews, Cornelius, 1817-1889. Autograph letter signed to Edwin Percy Whipple. New York, 1 page | 1848 December 30 |
| Mayer, Frank. Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient. Boston, Massachusetts,
1 page Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (80-1283).
|
1871 February 10 |
| Mellen, Grenville, 1799-1841. Autograph letter signed to C.S. Davies, L. Cutter and
S. Greenbass of the Peace Society of Maine. Portland, Maine, 1 page Autograph note of a notice of the meeting of the Peace Society laid in.
|
1826 May 13 |
| Milhous, Katherine, 1894-1977. Autograph manuscript signed of "Pure and sensual - ES?", 1 page | 1962 January 1 |
| Mills, John, d.1736. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient, concerning
Thomas Doggett, 2 pages Inserted in volume 1 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
circa 1714 |
| Milne, Alan Alexander, 1882-1956. Autograph letter signed to Alexander McKay. 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea, London S.W., 3 pages | 1925 June 10 |
| Milne, Alan Alexander, 1882-1956. Autograph letter signed to Alexander McKay. 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea, London S.W., 1 page | 1925 October 28 |
| Milne, Christopher, 1920-1996. Autograph letter signed to Charles Wilson. London,
1 page illustrations with envelope Signed "Christopher Robin Milne". Date postmarked. On illustrated stationery designed
by Ernest H. Shepard.
|
1929 September 30 |
| Mims, Stewart Lea, 1880-1961. Typewritten letter signed to Kenneth Lewis Roberts.
Brookside Drive Greenwich, Connecticut, 3 pages Inserted into Roberts's copy of the first edition of Moreau de St. Mery's
American Journey (Garden City, New York, 1947).
|
1947 July 16 |
| Monson, William, Sir, 1569-1643. Autograph manuscript signed (copy by Southey) of
a passage from book 1, page 194 of
Monson's Naval Tracts, as published by Awnsham Churchill in his
A Collection of Voyages and Travels (...) (London, 1732), 1 page Probably notes made by Southey in preparing his
Lives of the British Admirals (London, 1833-1840).
|
circa 1830 |
| Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863. Printed document, signed. Lease to John H. Martin.
New York, 1 page With seal.
|
1850 May 4 |
| Moore, George, 1852-1933. Autograph letter signed to possibly John Drinkwater. 121
Ebury Street, Pimlico, London S.W., 1 page Identity of recipient is uncertain.
|
undated |
| Moreau de Saint-Mery, Mederic Louis Elie. Typescript of the translation by Anna and
Kenneth Roberts of his
American Journey, with additions and corrections in the hand of Kenneth Roberts, 464
pages on 410 leaves Some additions and corrections in several unidentified hands. Beginning of last chapter
has an autograph note signed by Kenneth Roberts: "This chapter was translated by Major
and Mrs. A. Hamilton Gibbs." Bound as a volume.
|
circa 1945 |
| Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957. Signature, 1 page | undated |
| Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864. Autograph letter signed to Abraham Hart. New York,
1 page Autograph note signed by Hart at foot.
|
1852 June 22 |
| Morris, William, 1834-1896. Autograph letter signed to Thomas Armstrong. Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London, 2 pages | 1887 May 28 |
| Morris, William, 1834-1896. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient. Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London, 2 pages | undated |
| Mosser, Katharine. Typewritten letter signed to her brother-in-law, Ken (Kenneth Lewis
Roberts). French House Northampton Massachusetts, 2 pages Inserted into Roberts's copy of the first edition of Moreau de St. Mery's
American Journey (Garden City, New York, 1947).
|
1947 |
| Neal, John, 1793-1876. Autograph letter signed to the Editors of the Atlantic Monthly. Portland, Maine, 1 page | 1861 March 20 |
| Neal, Joseph Clay, 1807-1847. Autograph letter signed to Lewis G. Clark. Philadelphia, 1 page | 1847 January 5 |
| Neale Publishing Company. Printed document, signed. Contract for the publication of
Ambrose Bierce's
Write It Right, 2 pages Signed by Bierce and Neale.
|
1909 May 15 |
| Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke, 1811-1850. Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "You've woven roses round my way", 1 page | undated |
| Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Kozley. Redding,
Connecticut, 2 pages Attached to front end-paper of Twain's
Autobiography (80-1288).
|
1912 January 10 |
| Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Kozley. Redding,
Connecticut, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Paine's
Mark Twain (80-1320).
|
1912 January 15 |
| Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Kozley. Warwick East
Bermuda, 1 page Attached to front end-paper of Paine's edition of
Mark Twain's Letters (80-1330).
|
1913 February 17 |
| Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881. Autograph letter signed to Thomas Gaffield. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 4 pages | 1860 May 26 |
| Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860. Autograph letter signed to Jesse Hoyt. Navy Agent's Office, New York, 1 page | 1838 April 10 |
| Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894. Autograph letter signed to Maria Louisa Hawthorne,
mentioning Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1 page Dated in pencil in unidentified hand on verso. Transcription laid in.
|
1838 November 9 |
| Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703. Document signed, addressed to the Captain of H.M.S. "Happy
Return". Navy Agent's Office, New York, 1 page Also signed by Joseph Mennes and William Penn.
|
1666 July 17 |
| Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821. Manuscript. Bath, 3 pages Identified by J.F. (possibly James Fellowes) as extract from "Christmas Day Sermon"
by Grinfield; signed H.L.P. On verso: note (possibly by James Fellowes) about the
Cave of Macpelah and the burial habits of the ancients.
|
1815 December 25 |
| Pound, Homer Loomis, 1858-1942. Autograph note signed on verso of photograph of himself,
on "His 80th", to possibly Clare R. Warren. Rapallo, Italy, 1 black and white photo
with one photo Another photograph of H.L. Pound laid in, with Autograph note by him, "Rapallo Italy
Aug 1933". Autograph note by Carl Gatter on verso of each.
|
1938 |
| Rachewiltz, Mary de. Autograph letter signed to Elsie Kugel Gatter, concerning the
writer's father, Ezra Pound. Brunnenburg, Tirolo Merano, Italy, 1 page with envelope Housed with Ezra Pound material.
|
1958 April 1 |
| Rachewiltz, Mary de. Autograph letter signed to Carl William Gatter, concerning her
father, Ezra Pound. Brunnenburg, Tirolo Merano, Italy, 1 page Housed with Ezra Pound material.
|
1963 September 4 |
| Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1794-1852. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Taylor, mentioning a letter from Keats, 1 page | undated |
| Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan, 1870-1942. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Manson. 1444 St. James Court, Louisville, Kentucky, 2 pages | undated |
| Rich, John, 1682?-1761. Autograph document signed to Drury Lane Theatre giving notice
to Robert Wilks, Colley Cibber and Barton Booth that John Hippisley had been hired
as an actor, 1 page Signed by Thomas Wood, witness. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
1722 November 8 |
| Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916. Typescript, signed, of poem "It's Got To Be", 2 pages | undated |
| Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Sketch, signed, with explanatory notes." Map drawn
for William Bartram, Esqre, of Philadelphia, by Lydia Bailey Hamlin, December, 1813,
showing the arrangement of the farm", 1 page illustrated Pen and ink on paper. Inserted into the signed limited edition of
Lydia Bailey (Garden City, New York, 1947)
|
circa 1946 |
| Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Typescript with extensive additions and corrections in Roberts's hand, of the Foreword to Lydia Bailey, 15 pages on 14 leaves | circa 1946 |
| Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957. Typescript with many additions and corrections
in Roberts's hand, of the first page of the Foreward to
Lydia Bailey, 1 page Inserted into the signed limited edition of
Lydia Bailey (Garden City, New York, 1947); identified as a "page from the working manuscript".
|
circa 1946 |
| Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882. Autograph manuscripts signed of several poems,
"Rose Mary", "The White Ship", "The Leaf", and "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", 77 pages
on 64 leaves "Rose Mary", "The White Ship", "The Leaf", and "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" were published
in
Ballads and Sonnets (London, 1881). Bound in a volume, interleaved with the framed pages of the first
edition of
Ballads and Sonnets.
|
circa 1881 |
| Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient. Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire, 1 page | 1884 September 19 |
| Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Autograph manuscript signed of "A Night at the Hospice of
St. Bernard. Aetate 14", 62 pages Pages numbered (53)-114. Bound in a separate volume.
|
undated |
| Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919. Typewritten letter signed to Thomas Harrison Montgomery, concerning a Saur Bible. 4428 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA, 1 page | 1901 November 7 |
| Sargent, Epes, 1813-1880. Autograph letter signed to William Henry Fry. Boston, 1 page | 1865 December 14 |
| Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. Autograph letter signed to Thomas Guthrie Wright. Possibly
Castle Street, Edinburgh, 1 page Date from note in possibly Wright's hand on verso of integral address leaf.
|
1808 January 4 |
| Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867. Autograph letter signed to possibly Louisa Caroline
Tuthill. 54 East 16th Street, New York, 1 page Recipient's name in pencil in unidentified hand at head.
|
1847 March 8 |
| Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865. Autograph note signed to Mr. Herring, 1 page Signed "L.W. Sigourney".
|
undated |
| Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870. Autograph letter signed to Messrs. Carey & Hart.
Charleston, South Carolina, 1 page Place postmarked.
|
undated |
| Smith, Seba, 1792-1868. Autograph letter signed to Mr. J.Q. Day. New York, 1 page | 1841 June 7 |
| Smith, Seba, 1792-1868. Autograph manuscripts signed of a poem, "This World's Not All a Fleeting Show", transcribed by the author for Miss H.J. True. Patchogue, Long Island, New York, 1 page | 1866 January 14 |
| Smith, Solomon, 1801-1869. Autograph letter signed to Christ Neale. Office Bank United States, Washington, D.C., 1 page | 1836 May 16 |
| Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Autograph note signed to Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1858 August 20 |
| Sprague, Charles, 1791-1875. Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient. Boston,
1 page Signed twice, in different styles.
|
1857 January 1 |
| Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974. Typescript of a poem, "J.B.C.: In Gratitude", 1 page Instructions for printing in possibly Starrett's hand. Published in Cabell's
The Judging of Jurgen (Chicago, 1920). Laid into
The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
|
1920 |
| Stephens, Ann Sophia, 1813-1886. Autograph letter signed to Thurlow Weed. New York, 1 page | 1863 September 7 |
| Stone, William Leete, 1835-1908. Autograph letter signed to Alfred Billings Street.
89 Liberty Street, New York, 1 page On the stationery of the "New York School Journal and Educational News".
|
1875 February 1 |
| Storer, James Sargant, 1771-1853. Fifty engravings, hand-colored, to illustrate the
poems of William Cowper; identified by quotations from Cowper in an unidentified hand,
50 leaves illustrated Identity of artist uncertain. Possibly the engravings for Storer's
Cowper: Illustrated by a Series of Views in or near the Park of Weston-Underwood,
Bucks (London, 1803). Formerly attributed to Henry Sargant Storer. Some pages watermarked
1820. Bound in a volume.
|
circa 1820 |
| Story, Joseph, 1779-1845. Autograph letter signed to James Trecothick Austin. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1835 July 10 |
| Street, Alfred Billings, 1811-1881. Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "A Golden Noon", 2 pages | undated |
| Stronach, George. Autograph letter signed to Walter Thomas Spencer, concerning Robert Louis Stevenson. 7 Warrenden Park Crescent, Edinburgh, 1 page | 1902 December 5 |
| Sue, Eugene, 1804-1857. Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient, 1 page In French.
|
undated |
| Sutton, Robert. Document contracting a debt for the purchase of goods by Robert Wilks,
Colley Cibber, Thomas Doggett and Colley Booth, 1 page Signed by Colley Cibber, Barton Booth and Robert Wilks. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley
Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
1714 January 9 |
| Thomas, Frederick William, 1806-1866. Autograph note signed to Charles Cist, 1 page | undated |
| Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, Sir, 1852-1917. Autograph letter signed to William Carey,
2 pages On the stationery of "U.S.M.S. 'St. Paul'".
|
1897 February 12 |
| Trumbull, John, 1756-1843. Autograph letter signed to Captain Cracraft. Paris, 1 page Another Autograph letter signed from Trumbull to Cracraft on verso; dated twice; 22d.
Mar. 1795, and 21st March 1795. This letter crossed through. Housed separately.
|
1795 March 21 |
| Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, 1784-1851. Autograph letter signed to Abel Parker Upshur. Williamsburg, Virginia, 1 page | 1841 December 10 |
| Tuckerman, Henry Theodore, 1813-1871. Autograph manuscripts signed of a poem, "Freedom! beneath thy banner I was born". New York, 1 page | 1864 January 19 |
| University of Pennsylvania. Alumni register: August, 1908. Philadelphia, 356 pages
illustrated Contents include an article by Herbert E. Ives, "An ill-fated summer in British Columbia,"
concerning the death of Edward Heacock, childhood friend of Ezra Pound. Heacock's
obituary is also included. Housed with Ezra Pound material.
|
1908 August 99 |
| Vining, Elizabeth Gray, 1902- Autograph letter signed to Elliot L. Shelkrot. Kendal at Longwood, 243 Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, 1 page with envelope | 1990 November 10 |
| Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933. Printed dues record of the Socialist League, Hammersmith,
for E. Howard Scott. Hammersmith, London, 1 card Signed by Morris and Walker; entries in Walker's hand. Kelmscott design on cover.
|
1890 January |
| Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933. Autograph note to "Miss May Morris or Miss Sloan",
on his printed calling card. 16 Cliffords Inn, London, 1 card Notice of meeting "9.ii. 1917 at 8".
|
1917 February |
| Walsh, Robert, 1784-1859. Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "My Green Pelisse",
2 pages Author's name in pencil at head, in unidentified hand.
|
undated |
| Ware, William, 1797-1852. Autograph letter signed to possibly R.G. Van Polanen. New
York, 3 pages Piece missing from third page with loss of text.
|
1833 August 19 |
| Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900. Autograph letter signed to the American Publishing
Co. Hartford, Connecticut, 1 page On the stationery of
The Courant.
|
1890 April 8 |
| Weld, Horatio Hastings, 1811-1888. Autograph letter signed to possibly Mr. Tillson. Philadelphia, 1 page | October 3 |
| Wetmore, Prosper Montgomery, 1798-1876. Autograph letter signed to George Pope Morris. New York, 2 pages | 1845 December 15 |
| Wetmore, Prosper Montgomery, 1798-1876. Autograph letter signed to Washington Hunt. New York, 1 page | 1850 August 20 |
| Whitman, Sarah Helen Power, 1803-1878. Autograph letter signed to Mr. Owen. Providence, Rhode Island, 4 pages | 1874 September 11 |
| Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Signature, on leaf from autograph book. Camden, New Jersey, 1 page | 1879 June 21 |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient. Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1 page | 1858 September 22 |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. Autograph letter signed to an unidentified recipient.
Oak Knoll, Danvers, Massachusetts, 1 page Written on final, blank page of printed leaflet of Whittier's poem, "Fitz-Greene Halleck".
|
1877 May 1 |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. Autograph manuscript signed of a poem, "Golden
Wedding of Edward and Elizabeth Gove", 3 pages Bound in a volume.
|
undated |
| Wilks, Robert, 1665?-1732. Autograph document to Drury Lane Theatre from "8 mene Cleaning
the Street", contracting a debt for services "by Mr. Wilks order", 1 page Signed by Robert Wilks. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's
Apology (London, 1740).
|
undated |
| Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867. Autograph letter signed to possibly Mr. Lynch. Idlewild, New York, 1 page | 1857 February 5 |
| Wister, Owen, 1860-1938. Autograph letter signed to Moncure Biddle. 1004 West End
Trust Building, Philadelphia, 1 page On mourning stationery, with the address Butler Place, Logan Station Philadelphia
crossed out. Attached to the front end-paper of Wister's
The Pentecost of Calamity (75-1895).
|
February 11 |
| Witmer, Emma Repplier. Autograph letter signed to Miss Liveright, concerning the writer's aunt, Agnes Repplier. 31 Lincoln Court Apartments, Philadelphia, 2 pages | 1958 January 8 |
| Wood, William Burke, 1779-1861. Copy of Colley Cibber's
The Double Gallant (London, 1777), with prompter's notes, 1 volume Signed by Wood on cover and title-page. Notes and directions in Wood's hand.
|
undated |
| Zahn, Mabel A., 1881?-1975. Typewritten letter signed to Anne Macbeth von Moschzisker,
concerning a collection of Agnes Repplier's books. 1310 Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
1 page Postscript in Zahn's hand. On the stationery of Charles Sessler. Program of the Booksellers'
Association of Philadelphia for Thursday, May 19, 1938, enclosed.
|
1938 May 20 |
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Third Floor, Central Library
Hours of Operation
Weekdays 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Tours of the department are available Monday through Friday at 11 a.m., or at other times by prior arrangement
Contact
215-686-5416