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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.
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.
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.
People
- 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 family
- 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
Organization
- 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.
Subject
- Publisher
- Free Library of Philadelphia: Rare Book Department
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Garrett Boos
- Sponsor
- 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.
Collection Inventory
Probably the document mentioned in his letter to E.F. Allen, March 19, 1915: cf. Wagenknecht. In Cabell album.
In Cabell album.
Laid into The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
Tipped into The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
Tipped into The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
Laid into The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
Laid into The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
In Cabell album.
Laid into The Judging of Jurgen (82-1230).
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
Second page is list of corrections for Guy Holt's A Bibliography of the Writings of James Branch Cabell. Tipped into Cabell album.
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).
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped in Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
Tipped into Cabell album.
In Cabell album.
With corrections and additions in Cabell's hand. Cf. 87-1435. Housed separately.
Cf. 59-0102.
In Cabell album.
Typed addendum by Cabell pasted to letter. In Cabell album.
Xerox copy of carbon copy of the reply from the Centaur Book Shop, 5 January 1933, laid in.
In Cabell album.
In Cabell album.
Five leaves torn in two. Two parts addressed on verso, as "Copy for Fireside Companion", Cf. Beetz. Housed in Collins box.
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.
"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.
Housed in Collins box.
Housed in Collins box.
First 71 leaves are typescript. Many additions and corrections in author's hand in both typescript and manuscript. Housed separately.
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.
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.
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.
Signed at head of first page and at foot of fourth. Many additions and corrections in author's hand. Housed separately.
Signed at head of first page and at foot of fourth. Many additions and corrections in author's hand. Housed separately.
Attached to front end-paper of Conrad's Under Western Eyes (79-1077).
Bound as a volume.
Attached to verso of half-title of Emerson's English Traits (AML E55e2 Emerson).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Photograph of Holmes laid in.
Cf. Letters. Engraved portrait of Irving attached. Transcription laid in. Housed in case with another Irving letter; engraved portrait of Irving attached to case.
Leaves numbered (1), 3-9. Possibly a draft. Housed separately.
Date from note by possible recipient on verso of integral address leaf.
Photograph of Irving's home, "Sunnyside", attached. Housed in case with another Irving letter; engraved portrait of Irving attached to case.
Postscript dated Nov. 30 begins on sixth page.
Transcription laid in. Housed separately.
Published in Phillips's Poems (London, 1898).
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.
Published in Phillips's Panama and other poems (London, 1915).
On the stationery of the "C/n Cristoforo Colombo." Housed with Ezra Pound material.
Housed with Ezra Pound material.
Housed with Ezra Pound material.
Date postmarked. Housed with Ezra Pound material.
Housed with Ezra Pound material.
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.
Date from postmark.
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.
Place postmarked.
Place and date postmarked.
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.
Autograph note by Carl Gatter on each slide, identifying subjects. Photographs are prints of the slides.
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.
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.
Place and date postmarked. Blank envelope for mailing laid in.
Place postmarked. Typed copy of Pound's entry in British Who's Who 1957 laid in.
Place and date postmarked.
Place and date from postmark.
With envelope addressed in Pound's hand. Date postmarked.
Place postmarked. Date from postmark.
Date from postmark.
Date from postmark.
Date from postmark.
Place from postmark. Date postmarked.
Date from postmark.
Photograph of possibly Dorothy Pound in the castle at Brunnenburg laid in.
Additions and corrections in Pound's hand. Date postmarked. On stationery of "Albergo Grande Italia & Lido".
Sketches labeled in Pound's hand. On stationery of "Albergo Grande Italia & Lido".
Postscript in Pound's hand. Date from postmark.
On stationery bearing a design by Gaudier-Brzeska.
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.
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).
Tipped into Repplier's Compromises (58-0534).
Date from postmark. Envelope with seal.
Envelope with seal. Repplier's calling card enclosed. Magazine photograph of Repplier laid in.
Envelope with seal. Tipped into Repplier's The Promise of the Bell (61-0236).
Date supplied in possibly Lewis's hand. Tipped into Repplier's Under dispute (61-0235).
Date from postmark. Envelope with seal.
The books under review were all published in 1936. The cover letter for this manuscript is to Mr. Dewar (80-1214).
Cover letter to the manuscript, Here are Ladies (80-1215).
Date from postmark. Envelope with seal. Tipped into Repplier's Times and Tendencies (58-0533).
Date from postmark. Envelope with seal.
Envelope with seal.
Envelope with seal. Tipped into Repplier's In Pursuit of Laughter (58-0535).
Envelope with seal. On stationery of 2035 Chestnut Street. Tipped into Repplier's Compromises (58-0534).
Envelope with seal. Tipped into Repplier's Points of Friction (58-0536).
Tipped into Repplier's Under dispute (61-0235).
Photograph of Repplier laid in.
Handwritten postscript at foot of second page.
Torn in two.
Draft poster for Candida, in Shaw's hand, on second page.
Torn.
Torn.
Possibly not in Shaw's handwriting, except for signature and part of postscript. One leaf torn.
Postcard.
Signature cut out, with loss of text. On the stationery of the S.S. "Lusitania". Shaw's London address written at head. Cf. Saunders.
Last paragraph handwritten.
On the stationery of 10 Adelphi Terrace. W.C. Handwritten postscript at foot of second page.
On stationery of 10 Adelphi Terrace. London. W.C.
On the stationery of the Regina Palace Hotel.
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.
Last two paragraphs handwritten. Autograph note by Gladys Storey laid in (69-3372).
Date postmarked.
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.
Bound in a volume.
Additions and corrections in Stevenson's hand. Housed with 80-1667.
Additions and corrections in Stevenson's hand. Housed with 80-1668.
Endorsed on verso with an illegible signature. Inserted in Stevenson's "Thomas Stevenson, civil engineer" (Edinburgh, 1887).
Endorsed on verso by Alan Stevenson. Inserted in Henley and Stevenson's Admiral Guinea (Edinburgh, 1884).
Unidentified hand. Date stamped. Housed separately.
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.
Cf. Swearingen. Page numbered 58. Housed separately.
Numbered 15-31A. Cf. Swearingen. Housed separately.
With corrections and additions in Stevenson's hand. Housed separately.
Cf. Swearingen. Probably notes for his Records of a Family of Engineers. Housed separately.
Endorsed on verso by H. Dines. Attached to front end-paper of Stevenson's Underwoods (London, 1887).
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.
Cf. Swearingen. Housed separately.
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.
Published in Swinburne's Poems and Ballads (London, 1866).
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.
Written on a blank page in Swinburne's Songs of two Nations (London, 1875). Probably unpublished.
Published as "A Wasted Vigil" in Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Second series (London, 1878).
Published in Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse and other poems (London, 1882).
Published in Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, third series (London, 1889).
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.
"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.
Corrections of a few words, with new verses in Tennyson's hand in "A Dedication".
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.
Attached to the verso of the half-title of Tennyson's Maud (London, 1855).
Extensive additions.
Extensive additions to "The Lady of Shalott", The Miller's Daughter", and "Oenone".
Published photograph of one page laid in (84-1427).
Transcription laid in. Richard Harris Barham published under the name Thomas Ingoldsby.
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.
Endpaper is detached and inserted in Thackeray's Vanity Fair (London, 1848).
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).
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).
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.
Salutation to "dear W.W.F." Clipped signature of Lockhart laid in.
Signed. Pencil on paper. Bookseller's note identifying this as "Amelia" in Vanity Fair.
Pen and ink on paper. Photograph of unidentified man attached to verso of mount.
Signed "S.L. Clemens". Mourning stationery.
Nineteen typewritten leaves and one hand-written leaf. Many additions and corrections in Twain's hand. Housed separately.
Signed "Clemens". Many revisions and corrections, some in Twain's hand. Bound in a separate volume. Portrait of Twain attached.
Signed "S.L. Clemens."
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.
Signed "S.L. Clemens". Attached to front end-paper of Twain's S.L.C. to C.T. (80-1375).
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.
"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).
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.
Signed "S.L. Clemens". Attached to front end-paper of Twain's A Dog's Tale (80-1298).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Attached to front end-paper of Twain's English as She is Taught (80-1352).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Signed "Clemens". Attached to the front end-paper of Howells' My Mark Twain (80-1381).
Attached to front end-paper of Twain's Merry Tales (80-1342).
Attached to front end-paper of Twain's Sketches (80-1336).
Signed "S.L. Clemens Mark Twain". Twain's "New Year's greeting card for 1876, with an illustration of a jumping frog," laid in.
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.
Housed separately.
Housed separately; bookplate of John B. Stetson, Jr. Fourteen pages of notes by Richard Gimbel laid in.
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.
Autograph note by Carl Gatter in pencil on front wrapper of book. Housed with Ezra Pound material.
In Cabell album.
In Cabell album.
Cf. Pope.
On the author's Philadelphia stationery.
Inserted in Volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
Attached to the front end-paper of volume 1 of Borrow's The Bible in Spain (London, 1843).
Bound as a volume, with a transcription.
Inserted in volume 2 of Borrow's The Bible in Spain (London, 1843).
Signed by B. Booth, C. Cibber and Robert Wilks. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
Date supplied in pencil at head.
Corrections of a few words and punctuation marks, with new verses in Browning's hand in Prometheus Bound. Two volumes bound together.
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.
Mourning stationery. Typewritten letter signed from Smith Elder & Co. to Dr. Berdoe concerning the authenticity of this poem laid in.
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.
Housed separately.
Library also owns the book containing this sketch: Gen 80-1433.
Autograph note signed by Thomas Hutchinson on verso, 7/2/97, identifying Carman's handwriting. Probably unpublished.
Signed by Robert Wilks and Barton Booth. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
Signed by Colley Cibber, Barton Booth, and Robert Wilks. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
In French. Inserted into Robert's copy of the first edition of Moreau de St. Mery's American Journey (Garden City, New York, 1947).
Signed by Annie Heacock and Elizabeth W. Heacock, Principals. On vellum. Housed with Ezra Pound material.
Signed by Annie Heacock and Lida R. LeMaistre, Principals. On vellum. Housed with Ezra Pound material.
Signed by C. Cibber and Robert Wilks. Countersigned with an illegible signature. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
Probably accompanied the affidavit of 29 June 1714 (87-1125). Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
The additions mostly consist of a single word or brief phrase.
"Began Sept 5 1904 Finished Oct 28 1904" -- at head of first page. Bound in one volume.
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.
Bound in cloth and signed on upper cover by Doyle.
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).
Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
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.
On the stationery of the New Directions Publishing Corporation. Stamped with date of receipt: Apr 15 1968.
Possibly unpublished.
A wax impression of Garrick's ring, bearing his likeness, is laid in.
Duplicate copy laid in. Housed with Ezra Pound material.
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).
With additions and corrections in Haggard's hand. Written in reply to Robert Louis Stevenson's An Object of Pity (Amsterdam, 1892); cf. Swearingen.
Autograph note on verso inked out.
Autograph note by Mark Twain on envelope. Attached to front end-paper of Twain's What is Man? (80-1372).
Autograph note by Julian Hawthorne, identifying author, at foot. Typewritten letter signed from Mrs. Julian Hawthorne, authenticating the poem, laid in. Transcription laid in.
On the stationery of "Chelten Hills School, Wyncote, Penna." Housed with Ezra Pound material.
Autograph note signed in unidentified hand on title-page. Housed separately.
Transcription laid in. Housed separately.
Place and date postmarked. Autograph note by Twain on front of envelope. Attached to front end-paper in Twain's Christian Science (80-1293).
Attached to front end-paper of Howells' Their Husbands' Wives (80-1303).
Attached to front end-paper of Howells' My Mark Twain (80-1381).
Identification of handwriting not certain.
Inserted in Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (London, 1775).
With seal.
Inserted in Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (London, 1775).
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.
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.
Manuscript poem, signed Hannah T. King.
Several words effaced.
Signed "Saida".
On the stationery of the War Department, Archive Office.
Signed "F.L. Hawks".
On mourning stationery. Attached to front end-paper of Locker-Lampson's Poems (London, 1868).
Housed separately.
Autograph note by Blumenthal at foot. Photograph of Masefield, inscribed "From John & Constance. 8. V11. 1951" at foot, laid in.
Date from postmark.
Attached to front end-paper of Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (80-1283).
Autograph note of a notice of the meeting of the Peace Society laid in.
Inserted in volume 1 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
Signed "Christopher Robin Milne". Date postmarked. On illustrated stationery designed by Ernest H. Shepard.
Inserted into Roberts's copy of the first edition of Moreau de St. Mery's American Journey (Garden City, New York, 1947).
Probably notes made by Southey in preparing his Lives of the British Admirals (London, 1833-1840).
With seal.
Identity of recipient is uncertain.
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.
Autograph note signed by Hart at foot.
Inserted into Roberts's copy of the first edition of Moreau de St. Mery's American Journey (Garden City, New York, 1947).
Signed by Bierce and Neale.
Attached to front end-paper of Twain's Autobiography (80-1288).
Attached to front end-paper of Paine's Mark Twain (80-1320).
Attached to front end-paper of Paine's edition of Mark Twain's Letters (80-1330).
Dated in pencil in unidentified hand on verso. Transcription laid in.
Also signed by Joseph Mennes and William Penn.
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.
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.
Housed with Ezra Pound material.
Housed with Ezra Pound material.
Signed by Thomas Wood, witness. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
Pen and ink on paper. Inserted into the signed limited edition of Lydia Bailey (Garden City, New York, 1947)
Inserted into the signed limited edition of Lydia Bailey (Garden City, New York, 1947); identified as a "page from the working manuscript".
"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.
Pages numbered (53)-114. Bound in a separate volume.
Date from note in possibly Wright's hand on verso of integral address leaf.
Recipient's name in pencil in unidentified hand at head.
Signed "L.W. Sigourney".
Place postmarked.
Signed twice, in different styles.
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).
On the stationery of the "New York School Journal and Educational News".
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.
In French.
Signed by Colley Cibber, Barton Booth and Robert Wilks. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
On the stationery of "U.S.M.S. 'St. Paul'".
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.
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.
Signed by Morris and Walker; entries in Walker's hand. Kelmscott design on cover.
Notice of meeting "9.ii. 1917 at 8".
Author's name in pencil at head, in unidentified hand.
Piece missing from third page with loss of text.
On the stationery of The Courant.
Written on final, blank page of printed leaflet of Whittier's poem, "Fitz-Greene Halleck".
Bound in a volume.
Signed by Robert Wilks. Inserted in volume 2 of Colley Cibber's Apology (London, 1740).
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).
Signed by Wood on cover and title-page. Notes and directions in Wood's hand.
Postscript in Zahn's hand. On the stationery of Charles Sessler. Program of the Booksellers' Association of Philadelphia for Thursday, May 19, 1938, enclosed.