Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Letters and poems of Bryant and Holmes [Decimalized .01-.07]

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GLC#: GLC06631
Type: Header Record
Date: 1866/02/25
Author/Creator: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
Title: Letters and poems of Bryant and Holmes [Decimalized .01-.07]
Place Written: Various Places
Pagination

Time Period

Primary time period: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Sub-Era: Reconstruction

Subjects

Literature and Language Arts

Poetry

Showing 7 of 7 records

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Bradford R. Wood

February 23, 1866

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

Bryant, editor of the New York Evening Post, replies to a letter from Wood, former Representative from New York. Discusses Black suffrage: "I utterly detest the narrow principles of that party which denied equal rights to any of our fellow men on...

GLC06631.01

Collection Item

Autograph quotation signed

[Last lines of Bryant's poem Thanatopsis]

January 21, 1878

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

"So live, that when thy summons comes to join/ The innumerable caravan which moves/ To that mysterious realm where each shall take/ His chamber in the silent halls of Death,/ Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night,/ Scourged to his dungeon, but...

GLC06631.02

Collection Item

Autograph quotation signed

[Verse from William Cullen Bryant's poem, The Battlefield]

18 May 1878

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

Verse from Bryant's poem, "Truth crushed to earth, shall rise again/The eternal years of God are here. But Error, wounded, writhed in pain/And dies amid his worshippers." Signed and dated, New York, May 18th, 1878.

GLC06631.03

Collection Item

Photograph signed

Oliver Wendell Holmes

1892 March 18

GLC06631.04

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to unknown re" appreciative letter to a reader

1891/03/13

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

GLC06631.05