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1895/03/06
Crane, Stephen (fl. 1895)
to James Billson re: drinking exploits in Galveston, Texas
Drinking exploits with the Mayor of Galveston and the editor of "Galveston News." With TLS of Sam H. Penland re: Crane's visit.
GLC05259
20 December 1885
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
to James Billson
Thanks Billson, an English admirer, for two volumes of the English poet James Thomson, including "Essays & Phantasies," "Bumble," "Indolence," and "The Poet." Praises Thomson's writing, " ... each is so admirably honest and original and informed...
GLC05260
1893
Randall, James Ryder (1839-1908)
Copy of letter and poem by James R. Randall [Decimalized .01 and .02]
GLC05296
13 June 1893
to Isaac N. Roland
Sends an autograph copy of his poem, "Maryland, My Maryland," as Roland requested. Comments that he made an exception "for the sake of your good wife" since demand for copies of his poem is great and he normally denies requests. On stationary of...
GLC05296.01
"Maryland, My Maryland"
Handwritten copy of Randall's poem as requested by Isaac N. Roland (see GLC05296.01). Copy is noted at end "Originally written, in 1861, at Pointe Coupee La [Louisiana] by James R. Randall."
GLC05296.02
18 December 1882
Alger, Horatio (1832-1899)
[Rich is the life which seeks a noble end].
A poem about helping others. The selfless person "wins Heaven's approval, gains true success."
GLC05508.018
1887/10/01
Benjamin, Marcus (fl. 1887)
to [Johnston Livingston] re: necessity to hurry up the "Livingston matter"
The letter was printed on stationary of "Office Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography."
GLC03107.04172
1887/10/06
to Johnston Livingston re: Livingston genealogy
GLC03107.04173
1898
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1818-1914)
Maine at Gettysburg.
Title continues, Report of Maine Commissioners, Prepared by the Executive Committee. Chamberlain's presentation notice pasted onto the front flyleaf. Includes maps, photographs, narrative reports, rosters, monument dedications, and casualty reports...
GLC03852
circa 25 March 1892
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
[Final page of manuscript praising book on Civil War by Mr. Trent ]
Writes that Trent has "studied too deeply to waste his time" and discusses his proposition "that a battle for human slavery can really be called a battle for civil liberty." Roosevelt's signature is struck. Date is inferred from a stamp on verso...
GLC04725
1892/04
Field, Eugene (fl. 1892)
A Woman is a Blessing [poem] (with ALS of his brother 6/20/1903)
GLC04352.08
28 June 1888
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)
to Mr. Victor
Responds to his request for a brief memoir of her life and a photograph. Insists that he make use of it in any way that seems to be appropriate, but that he must not change her words.
GLC04353.05
1882
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Autograph signature on titlepage of 1882 edition of "Leaves of Grass"
GLC04353.10
1887/11/23
Nye, Bill
to Matthews re: asking him to resubmit article c/o Bill Nye
Jocular letter, signed J[..]sy [illegible]
GLC04353.17
Rice, R.
"The Death Knell. To the Hon. Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States."
"The Death Knell. To the Hon. Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States." A printed poem by R. Rice of Cambridge New York.
GLC04360.077
circa 1890
Howitt, William (fl. ca. 1890)
[I have found every system of political religion...]
Howitt quotes the "History of Priestcraft," 3rd ed. p. 364: "I have found every system of political religion so hostile to the growth of true knowledge, so destructive of popular freedom and happiness, that I have been constrained to cry vehemently...
GLC05508.139
4 April 1898
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
[And only the Master shall praise us...]
Kipling sends a copy of the last stanza of When Earth's Last Picture is Painted to Helen Campbell.
GLC05508.161.01
19 October 1880
Pusey, Edward
to unknown
He writes the news of several men who are in missions or learning the gospel. He also writes of his work "investigating the fulfillments of prophecy as to the Philistine cities, [illegible], Edom, Assyria," and his study of a Cuneiform inscription...
GLC05508.209
13 June 1895
Tolstoy, Leo
to Mr. Herron
Tolstoy writes that he received several of Herron's books and will start reading "The Christian State" in the hopes that it will induce him to read them all. When he is finished he will write a letter with his opinion of the book (see GLC05508.245...
GLC05508.245.01
10 July 1895
Tolstoy critiques Herron's book, "The Christian State." He agrees with Herron's view of Christianity as a "politic and economic doctrine." He was especially struck by Herron's "denunciation of the American people for not having fulfilled its...
GLC05508.245.02
8 September 1881
Whittier, John G.
Whittier writes that he is glad to see the doctrine of eternal hell and eternal suffering being abandoned. He believes that the future will provides an opportunity to turn and repent. He comments that he and his correspondent were on opposing sides...
GLC05508.261
1879
[Decimalized: John G. Whittier letter and poem].
GLC05508.262
28 June 1879
to Maria Child
Discusses the Yearly Quaker Meeting he just returned from, in addition to speakers at Garrison's funeral and William Lloyd Garrison's views on the after life. Whittier is "shocked by the barbarism & superstition of our popular faith." He says...
GLC05508.262.01
2 September 1879
[For still the unseen spirit walks...]
Whittier writes a poem: "For still the unseen spirit walks/ The garden of the heart, and talks/ With man, as under Eden's trees,/ In all his varied languages."
GLC05508.262.02
21 January 1878
Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
[Last lines of Bryant's poem Thanatopsis]
"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
18 May 1878
[Verse from William Cullen Bryant's poem, The Battlefield]
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
1892 March 18
Unknown
Oliver Wendell Holmes
GLC06631.04
1891/03/13
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
to unknown re" appreciative letter to a reader
GLC06631.05
18 May 1891
The Chambered nautilus.
The last seven lines of his poem on immortality.
GLC06631.06
15 May 1888
Union and liberty.
This is the next to the last stanza of his poem on divine protection for humanity.
GLC06631.07
14 October 1880 to 25 February 1882
Simpson, Jr Lt. Edward
Navigation note book
Lt. Simpson's navigational logbook aboard the U.S.F.S. Richmond in the South Pacific Ocean. Pages 156 - 180 are a series of question and answer exercises on the theory and practice of navigation. Page 181 contains a series of translation exercises...
GLC05911.19.02
20 September 1885
French conjugation chart
Written from U.S. Marine Barracks, in Annapolis, Maryland. "Locality being a powerful aid to the Memory . . . to conjugate the verbs... and... the gender of French nouns." Red, blue and yellow "swirl" marbled boards.
GLC05911.23
1888
Complete Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman 1855-1888
Printed on titlepage, "Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W.W.) ... Portraits from Life ... Autograph." Contains printings of Leaves of Grass (1881), Specimen Days and Collect (1882), and November Boughs (1888). Each printing paginated...
GLC08728
1885/12/24
Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
to Yale Law school.
Offers to fund a black student's education to Yale Law School: "we have ground the manhood out of them & the shame is ours, not theirs."
GLC07971
26 February 1891
Brown, John Jr. (1821-1895)
to F.B. Sanborn
Acknowledging that his father, John Brown, sometimes offered remarks from the audience at religious assemblies, but refuting accounts that his father ever preached. Also discusses his brothers Jason's attempt to sell Sanborn's biography of their...
GLC08250
1880 ca.
Hastings (fl. 1880)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Heavily vignetted profile portrait of Stowe as an older woman. Signed on mount.
GLC07093
10 May 1886
Whittier declines an invitation to a religious festival because it coincides with the Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) at Amesbury, Massachusetts. He discusses schisms within his correspondent's religious community, particularly the debate over...
GLC05092.01
14 May 1881
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
to Sallie E. Bickford
Whittier declines Bickford's invitation to a Union meeting because he has a Quaker meeting the day before in Amesbury.
GLC05092.02
circa 25 October 1892
[Program for the play Hiawatha]
Performed at the Shawmut Universalist Church. Includes pencil notes (possibly designating who will perform each part). Contains a list of names on verso of persons responsible for different aspects of production. The name "Sarah Bickford" is...
GLC05092.03.01
[Poem found within a play program]
Found within GLC05092.03.01, a program for the play "Hiawatha" performed at the Shawmut Universalist Church. Possibly created in Boston, Massachusetts, where "Hiawatha" was performed.
GLC05092.03.02
20 May 1896
Responds to a request from an unknown woman and writes out one verse of his poem, "Maryland My Maryland." States that he is not able to write out the entire poem because so many people ask for it.
GLC05094
30 September 1890
Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)
to Robert Hunter
To Robert Hunter, author of: "'Sketches of War History:....We are all simply witnesses on the Stand of the Great Tribunal of History out of which will be wrought the 'Judgment' leaving the great mass to drift into the ocean of oblivion, or float...
GLC09384
1900
Five issues of The Atlantic Monthly magazine, 1900 [Decemilized .01-.05]
Five issues of The Atlantic Monthly from 1900. Issues from February, August, September, November and December.
GLC09887
February 1900
The Atlantic Monthly
The Atlantic Monthly [Vol. 85 No. 508 (February 1900)]
One issue of the Atlantic Monthly dated February 1900. The Atlantic monthly is a literary journal that publishes assorted writings on a wide range of topics and authors. The articles included in this issue are; "The Library of Congress" by Herbert...
GLC09887.01
August 1900
The Atlantic Monthly [Vol. 86 No. 514 (August 1900)]
One issue of the Atlantic Monthly dated August 1900. The Atlantic monthly is a literary journal that publishes assorted writings on a wide range of topics and authors. The articles included in this issue are; "Political Education" by Arthur Twining...
GLC09887.02
September 1900
The Atlantic Monthly [Vol. 86 No. 515 (September 1900)]
One issue of the Atlantic Monthly dated September 1900. The Atlantic monthly is a literary journal that publishes assorted writings on a wide range of topics and authors. The articles included in this issue are; "The American Boss" by Francis C...
GLC09887.03
November 1900
The Atlantic Monthly [Vol. 86 No. 517 (November 1900)]
One issue of the Atlantic Monthly dated November 1900. The Atlantic monthly is a literary journal that publishes assorted writings on a wide range of topics and authors. The articles included in this issue are; "A defense of American Parties" by...
GLC09887.04
December 1900
The Atlantic Monthly [Vol. 86 No. 518 (December 1900)]
One issue of the Atlantic Monthly dated December 1900. The Atlantic monthly is a literary journal that publishes assorted writings on a wide range of topics and authors. The articles included in this issue are; "Verses" by James Russell Lowell, "The...
GLC09887.05
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