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- catalog abstract "Correspondence of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, together with two boxes of pamphlets and four boxes of notebooks, scrapbooks of Howe's publications in newspapers and magazines, diaries, 1928-1951, and other printed material. The correspondence consists chiefly of incoming letters with carbon copies of some of Howe's replies. There are also 278 letters, 1878-1904, from Howe to his mother which document his student years at Lehigh and Harvard and his early years in Boston. In general the correspondence relates to Howe's editorial and biographical work and includes letters from writers for the Youth's Companion and from authors of volumes published in the series of Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans, edited by Howe. In addition there are 17 letters, 1870-1891, from Bishop William Hobart Hare to Howe's father and a few scattered earlier letters and documents of James Buchanan, Josiah Quincy, and Daniel Webster.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly letters to Pease from many correspondents together with some drafts and carbon copies of outgoing letters, some family correspondence, and letters of others, and miscellaneous writings by Pease and others. Correspondence reflects Pease's research interests in the classics, professional activities (including the American Philological Association), and botanical interests.".
- catalog abstract "The focus of this collection is on Loammi Baldwin's military service during the Revolutionary War, his activities with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his friendship with Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. Contains correspondence (including 52 letters to his wife Mary Fowle Baldwin, many written while with the Continental Army in New York and New Jersey);Army account books; a journal, 1768-1775; documents relating to the fortification of Boston harbor; and business papers of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (particularly concerning the printing and sale of a volume of Transactions of the Academy). Other documents include a minute book, 1778-1789, of the Constitutional Society, Woburn, Mass. and papers of Committees of Correspondence in several Massachusetts towns. Also includes correspondence of two of Baldwin's sons, James Fowle Baldwin and George Rumford Baldwin, relating principally to Count Rumford and to his daughter Sarah Rumford, together with business papers, 1795-1850, of Sarah Rumford.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection is professional correspondence, primarily to Davis from his colleagues. Letters by him and between third parties also focus on his work as a geographer, geologist, and professor. The chief correspondent represented is geographer Lawrence Martin. There are compositions by Davis on geology as well as poems by him. Additionally, there are contracts, business papers, clippings, and photographs. Finally, there are some compositions by others.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection is correspondence with professional colleagues during Sarton's career. Includes much correspondence pertaining to the journal Isis. Also includes a few manuscripts by Sarton, mainly testimonials; and manuscripts by his colleagues consisting of reports, essays, addresses, abstracts, proposals, speeches, and obituaries. Also contains personal correspondence to Sarton from his daughter, the author May Sarton.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection is correspondence, much of it pertaining to Dix's work with the mentally ill. Includes letters from superintendents of hospitals for the insane: 134 from Dr. John Curwen at the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum in Harrisburg, 129 from Dr. Charles H. Nichols at the Government Hospital for the Insane (now St. Elizabeths) in Washington, D.C., and 124 from Richard S. Fellowes in New Haven, Conn., as well as 69 letters from U.S. president Millard Fillmore, and letters of thanks from states, institutions, and relatives of the mentally ill. Also contains Dix's correspondence with friends in the U.S. and Great Britain; third party correspondence relating to Dix's career or discussing her after her death; reports and notes on hospitals and prisons; documents to establish asylums, regulate prisons, or authorize Dix to organize military hospitals; military passes; notebooks Dix kept with hymns, sermons, and passages from the Bible; one diary, 1857; poems; address books; financial and genealogical papers; wills;portraits; daguerreotypes; biographical material; puzzles; printed material; clippings; and memorabilia.".
- catalog abstract "Includes 51 letters to his mother Gertrude Wells, 2 letters to his father Dr. Frank Wells, and 1 letter to his sister Briggs Wells Stabler. All the letters date from 1918 when Wells was in the office of the American Military Attaché, London.".
- catalog abstract "Contains correspondence of Price with various persons including correspondence written under his pseudonym Seymour Deming. There are letters from Price to F. H. Middleton, the donor of the collection, and other correspondence of Middleton. There are also compositions by Price including notes for Price's All souls.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of this collection consists of 837 letters, 1874-1909, to Harris from Charles H. Ames, publisher with D. C. Heath & Co. and other firms; 69 letters, 1879-1909, to Harris from Edwin Doak Mead, editor, author, and social reformer; and 22 letters, 1878-1905, to Harris from Lucia True Ames Mead, feminist, reformer, and wife of Edwin Doak Mead. Also includes lists of writings by Harris, clippings and other printed material, and some letters to Ames and other members of Harris's family.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly correspondence to officers of the society when it was based at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Concerns memberships, dues, attendance at meetings, society publications, and the Dante prize given annually for the best essay on Dante. Also contains financial accounts, copyright reports, acknowledgements of gifts to the Harvard College Library, and an address book.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, minutes, president's reports, financial records, and clippings relating to the reorganization of the Evening Post (New York) under the ownership of Thomas W. Lamont and later under the syndicate headed by Edwin F. Gay. Includes personal correspondence pertaining to changes in ownership, correspondence with Lamont regarding editorial policy, and correspondence with Mark Sullivan, journalist and historian, whom Gay recruited to write for the Post.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly correspondence, the bulk to Force in his positions as Civil War general and judge; together with letters he wrote to his family, including 88 letters, 1852-1867, to his father, the archivist and historian, Peter Force; diaries, 1861, 1863-1866; and photographs of Civil War soldiers, mostly the men of the 20th Ohio Volunteers, and of family members. Many of the letters are from soldiers who served under him or their dependents, and request recommendations for appointments or pensions; letters from John B. Raymond discuss life in Mississippi during Reconstruction. Also contains a few manuscripts; printed material, mostly papers read before various veterans groups, some by Force; maps; an album of playbills; and clippings.".
- catalog abstract "The John Updike Papers include a variety of materials reflecting his personal, literary and business life. Includes materials documenting his early life, correspondence, autograph manuscript compositions, speeches, interviews legal and business records, biographical materials, fan mail, video tapes, photographs and drawings, clippings on his life and subject and research files he compiled, and much more.".
- catalog abstract "Contains professional correspondence and legal documents reflecting the careers of the two John Lowells, father and son. Includes depositions, testimonies and memoranda from legal cases; reports and petitions of congresses; and deeds, contracts, wills, accounts, receipts, and promissory notes. Also includes records of the Continental Congress, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, various Massachusetts courts, and New England town meetings, as well as correspondence and court documents concerning the senior Lowell's service on a commission to determine the Massachusetts-New York border, and much correspondence about land sales and debt collection. Also contains correspondence of other family members, including a younger John Lowell (1856-1922) who traveled in Europe in the 1870s, and correspondence of third parties.".
- catalog abstract "Louisa May Alcott's papers consist of manuscripts of stories (many of which were later published in Lulu's Library or A Garland for Girls) plays, and poems; autobiographical notes and diary entries for 1852; a few notebooks including one of story ideas, Hints for Tales; as well as some correspondence with family, friends, and publishers. The papers of her sister, May Alcott Nieriker, consist of diaries, the unpublished manuscript of An Artist's Holiday; 11 pen, ink, and watercolor drawings; a cashbook; and a few letters. There are also pen and ink drawings for Louisa's books including Little Men; and letters by Louisa's parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection is letters to Bird from his political colleagues in the Free-Soil and antislavery movements, about two thirds of them written before or during the Civil War. Also contains a few letters and manuscripts by Bird; a few letters to and manuscripts by his relatives; some correspondence between third parties; miscellaneous manuscripts; and printed material. Includes 65 letters to Bird from Daniel Alvord.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly correspondence of Joseph Whipple, much of it pertaining to his tenure as customs collector from secretaries of the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury and others, together with business correspondence and documents concerning the Whipples' commercial and shipping enterprise (especially in the 1760s), letters from William to Joseph when William was in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and a few letters to William on revolutionary regiments. Also contains journals, 1779-1780, 1809, and 1813-1814, kept by Joseph; some correspondence, documents, and notebooks of the Lowell family; diaries, notebooks, logbooks, accounts, and correspondence of other third parties; state and federal documents on militias, taxes, and appointments, etc.; and miscellaneous manuscripts, documents, church minutes, ships' certificates, and printed material.".
- catalog abstract "Collection consists chiefly of personal and professional correspondence of Samuel June Barrows, Isabel Chapin Barrows, and Mabel Barrows Mussey with a small group of correspondence of Henry Raymond Mussey. The largest groups of letters are those exchanged between family members, but there are also significant groups of letters from others, including Alice Stone Blackwell, Alice Cunningham Fletcher, and William Pryor Letchworth, who shared the Barrows' reform interests. Also includes diary, 1882-1912, and autobiography of Isabel Chapin Barrows covering the early years of her life; manuscripts of plays by Mabel Barrows Mussey; manuscripts and clippings of Samuel June Barrows and Isabel Chapin Barrows; and four boxes of photographs. Some of the material in the collection is in shorthand.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection includes letters addressed to John Greenleaf Whittier and to Samuel Thomas Pickard, and correspondence grouped under "Other letters" carried on between relatives and friends of Whittier's and Pickard's. Correspondents include: Mary Abigail Dodge, Annie Fields, Sarah Orne Jewett, Thomas Star King, Mary Todd Lincoln, Bliss Perry, Benjamin Perley Poore, Charles Sumner, Celia Thaxter, and J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge. There are significant collections of letters from Lucy Larcom and to Elizabeth (Hussey) Whittier, the poet's sister. The rest of the material includes typescript and manuscript copies by Samuel Thomas Pickard of Whittier's letters and poems. Pickard had sold many of Whittier's autograph letters and manuscripts in order to raise funds to preserve the poet's home in Amesbury. Finally there is a small collection of autograph manuscripts by Lucy Larcom and others which includes poems dedicated to Whittier and essays in the form of letters. The miscellaneous material contains notes and drafts by Pickard in relation to his biography of Whittier and printed ephemera.".
- catalog abstract "Contains an English translation by Aiken, ca. 1934, of La Mujer de Sal by Tomás Borrás, together with letters and documents relating to the translation.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence of Sherry Mangan dating primarily from the 1940s and 1950s, including extensive files of carbon copies of his outgoing letters, together with manuscripts of stories, poems, and articles; and some correspondence and manuscripts of others. The collection includes separate files of Fourth International papers, 1939-1960, including correspondence, reports, notes, and twelve issues, 1944-1946, of the Bulletin of the European Secretariat (in French); and Time-Life-Fortune papers, 1937-1956, including correspondence, newsletters, cables, and dispatches. Material on these two significant areas of Mangan's life can be found in his correspondence files as well. Among the correspondents who figure prominently in the collection are the composer Virgil Thomson, a lifelong friend of Mangan's; the publisher James Laughlin of New Directions, for whom Mangan did translation work; and Michel Pablo, leader of the Fourth International.".
- catalog abstract "Letters to Walter Lichtenstein from various persons together with carbon copies of some of Lichtenstein's replies. Includes 30 letters from Herbert Hoover and 5 letters from Adlai Stevenson. The letters to Lichtenstein are mostly short and largely personal. Lichtenstein's letters are generally longer and include commentary on political and economic issues.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection is correspondence between Newhall and his friend and colleague Ferdinand Reyher. The Newhall-Reyher correspondence discusses their research and writing on photography and early photographers. The compositions include articles and drafts for photography magazines, and bibliographies and notes on photography. Also contains an article by Berenice Abbott, "Photography today and tomorrow," correspondence of Newhall in his position as curator at the George Eastman House, a few letters to Reyher from third parties, a poem, and printed material. Includes one typescript 1969 letter from Beaumont Newhall to Ernst Halberstadt, concerning these papers and a typescript photocopy of a 1969 letter from Newhall to Houghton Library about the gift of these materials to Harvard.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly correspondence with Charles William Eliot, Edward Mandell House, and Theodore Roosevelt, among others. Letters by Martin are mostly retained carbon copies. Also contains essays, editorials, poems, notes, and drafts of compositions, printed copies of his articles, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. Materials pertain to both his writing career and his interest in spiritualism, as well as the subjects of his editorials and contemporary socio-political issues. Also includes correspondence with psychic mediums, many of whom he apparently supported financially.".
- catalog abstract "Includes four notebooks kept by Kittredge while an undergraduate at Harvard, and in the years following his graduation of 1882, prior to beginning his graduate studies at Harvard in 1888. Volumes contain: transcripts of poems by various poets, mostly English before 1700 and notes; tales, legends, myths, and romances reflecting various European customs and superstitions; and miscellaneous notes, ballad texts, and quotes. Volume covers are in poor condition.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of letters, sermons, and other manuscripts of William Allen and other members of the Allen family. Also includes printed material on William Allen and on the Battle of Bennington.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly correspondence with family members, friends, and literary and political associates. Includes letters by Chapman to his mother Eleanor Jay Chapman, to his first wife Minna Timmins Chapman, to his second wife Elizabeth Chanler Chapman, and to his children. Also contains autograph manuscript and typescript articles, essays, plays, poems, and reviews by Chapman as well his notebooks, among other items.".
- catalog abstract "Collection consists of papers of John Hay and papers of Abraham Lincoln collected by Hay. Includes autograph manuscript of Hay's novel The bread-winners, the 1911 edition with manuscript revisions, and a reader's report in French for the publisher Hachette. Includes portions of the manuscript biography in Hay's hand of his joint work with John G. Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln: A History. Autograph manuscripts in Lincoln's hand include a Thanksgiving proclamation (1863); speech on the abolition of slavery in Maryland (1864); letters to B. F. James; two briefs relating to legal cases (1840-1842); and a facsimile copy of the Emancipation Proclamation with manuscript additions. Includes a retained copy of a letter (1865) from Mary Todd Lincoln to Queen Victoria concerning the death of Lincoln. Also contains a typescript letter with manuscript revisions from Theodore Roosevelt to John Hay recounting his western trip in the summer of 1903.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection is professional correspondence, mostly letters to Reynolds concerning his literary studies and book reviews. Much of the correspondence is with Irish authors, including 252 letters from Oliver St. John Gogarty, and 42 from Sean O'Casey, as well as 16 letters by William Butler Yeats to others. Other correspondence is with editors of literary review periodicals or colleagues in the college teaching of English. Manuscripts by Reynolds consist mainly of articles and notes on Gogarty and O'Casey, and a diary and notebook of his trip, 1927, to Ireland. Also contains a few manuscripts by Gogarty, O'Casey, and other authors; ballads and poems collected by Reynolds; and clippings and other printed material, mostly concerning Gogarty and O'Casey.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of verse by Waterman including "Song Poems" and "Sonnets of a Budding Bard." The poems, typed cut-outs, some clipped from newspapers, have been mounted on sheets of paper. Includes an index of titles.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of manuscripts of poems by Frost, some inscribed to the donor, Hyde Cox. Includes drafts, fragments, and poems later published under different titles.".
- catalog abstract "Contains autograph manuscript diaries of Sarah Bryant from 1795 to 1847 (lacks 1809) describing the weather and daily activities of her family. Also includes letters, 1786-1787, from Peter Bryant; a typed manuscript by Beatrice Jones based on Sarah Bryant's diaries; and photographs of Cummington scenes relating to the Bryant family.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly correspondence; 98 letters to Howe were either written in thanks for his books, mainly Muscles of the Eye (1907-1908), or were written in 1925 to congratulate him on the celebration of his 50 years in the practice of medicine. Letters by Howe mostly respond to the 1925 event; a few discuss his laboratory. The 50 letters to his wife express sympathy on his death or thank her for the book she wrote about him. Third party correspondence pertains to the 1925 celebratory dinner for Howe. Also contains a few articles and abstracts by Howe, correspondence with Mrs. Howe concerning the Lucien Howe Library of Ophthalmology, memorials, and a scrapbook of clippings.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of the letters Grossmann received from painters, poets, and composers from around the country in response to his request for donations of drawings and manuscripts for the auction. Most responses were positive, though a few declined participation. Also includes form letters and postcards sent out by Grossmann for the committee, the auction catalog, and a few clippings.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence consists primarily of 82 letters, 1899-1908, of friendship and love from Kahlil Gibran to Peabody; also drafts of two letters she wrote to him, and a long autobiographical letter she wrote to Frederic Fairchild Sherman in 1898. Compositions consist of poems and plays by Peabody including drafts of her comedy, The chameleon; two pencil drawing portraits she did; her notes on her talks with Gibran; two pencil drawing portraits he did of her; and a poem by Gibran. Also the privately printed sheet music of five songs by Peabody.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of correspondence between family members, mostly on personal matters: weddings, births, visits, and household moves, though the earliest letter predicts the British defeat in North America. Also contains two unidentified manuscripts relating to schools.".
- catalog abstract "Contains primarily typescript early poems by Blackmur as well as some autograph versions.".
- catalog abstract "Letters from Brooks to Edward Everett Hale concern professional matters such as his work with Harvard Divinity School and his writing. Brooks' letters to Lady Stanley refer to Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston, Mass. as well as personal matters. Letters from Mary F. Brooks to Lady Stanley are about Phillips Brooks' illness and death.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of correspondence of Edward Jackson Holmes and other members of the Holmes family, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Abiel Holmes, and John Holmes. Includes 72 letters, 1886, accepting or declining invitation to a reception given in London by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and his daughter Mrs. Turner Sargent. Also includes diary, 1886, of Amelia Jackson Holmes Sargent; diary, 1896, of Edward Jackson Holmes; address and engagement books, 1886, of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.; manuscripts of writings by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and others; and Jacob Wendell's account book, 1748-1750, of the committee for rebuilding Boston Court House.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 55 letters by Sedgwick to Mabel Hooper La Farge, together with one letter from Ellery Sedgwick to Mabel Hooper La Farge and one letter from Thomas La Farge to Henry Dwight Sedgwick. Sedgwick's letters are often concerned with questions of religious belief as well as his travels and writings.".
- catalog abstract "This collection contains 304 letters from Perry to H. W. Fay, along with several letters written to Perry from various correspondents. The letters from Perry to Fay were written while Perry was living in Paris. These letters contain detailed descriptions of Perry's daily life in Paris, and also describe his travels in Europe. Perry also writes of the Episcopal society, and publications in Paris newspapers, which he frequently sent to Fay. Perry also suggests to Fay articles that could be published in the Nation. Perry writes often of his tennis games, stamp collecting, the local cuisine, and several times mentions visits he made to Monet. Letters written to Perry include comments on his book Evolution of the Snob.".
- catalog abstract "The core of this collection was gathered by Henry Ware Eliot, T. S. Eliot's brother. This portion of the T.S. Eliot collection consists of correspondence; notes; and writings, chiefly manuscripts of plays, addresses, radio broadcasts, and articles, by Eliot; notes on Harvard and Oxford courses, 1910-1915; and papers for philosophy courses. Includes 57 letters, 1937-1959, from Eliot to E. Martin Browne, who produced Eliot's plays, as well as production scripts and other papers relating to his plays, such as stage plans, seating plans, and programs for various productions of Murder in the Cathedral.".
- catalog abstract "Autograph manuscript compositions for novels by Chambers, including Alisa Page, The Business of Life, The Danger Mark, The Fighting Chance, The Firing Line, The Girl Philippa, The Hidden Children, Quick Action, The Reckoning, Who Goes There? and The Younger Set.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks, legal and business papers, memorabilia, photos, and other papers, together with Gannett family papers. Includes correspondence of Gannett's grandfather and father, Unitarian clergymen Ezra Stiles Gannett of Boston and William Channing Gannett; 91 letters, 1796-1817, from Gannett's great-grandfather Caleb Gannett to John Mico Gannett, and journals of his grandmother Anna Tilden Gannett. Lewis Gannett's correspondence (including some carbon copies of outgoing letters) reflects his interests in current literature and in political activities such as the American Fund for Public Service. There are many letters from authors of volumes published in Doubleday's Mainstream of America Series, edited by Gannett. Manuscripts include juvenile compositions and early writings reflecting his initial desire to be a naturalist; essays and book reviews; Cream Hill, his book about country life; the Harper Book of Family Verse, which Gannett edited; and an incomplete autobiography.".
- catalog abstract "Consists chiefly of letters acknowledging the gift of Horace E. Scudder's memoir Henry Oscar Houghton: a biographical outline (1897). The letters, which often include reminiscences of Houghton, were written to Henry Oscar Houghton Jr. and his sisters; George H. Mifflin; Houghton, Mifflin and Company; and Horace E. Scudder. Also includes some miscellaneous correspondence together with records, minutes, and programs, 1878-1883, of the Game Club, a social club in Cambridge, Mass, and a photograph of the men of the Riverside Press composing room, as well as other photographs.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence with authors, together with manuscripts and proofs of pieces printed by the Lowell-Adams House Printers. Authors represented include Conrad Aiken, W. H. Auden, James Vincent Cunningham, Richard Eberhart, James Merrill, William Saroyan, John Updike, and Edmund Wilson.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence (chiefly 1925-1937), manuscripts of writings, business papers, clippings, photographs, and printed material. Compositions include early and late drafts of The Story of a Country Town with many revisions, early drafts and printer's copy of his autobiography Plain People, and early drafts of The Mystery of the Locks and of A Moonlight Boy. There are also 14 part-books for the play version of Story of a Country Town. There are also letters of sympathy on Howe's death sent to his niece Adelaide Howe, together with other correspondence of Adelaide Howe.".
- catalog abstract "CCorrespondence concerning book purchases with various booksellers and customers, and a stock inventory. Also includes correspondence between Geoffrey G. L. Gomme, an employee of Edgar H. Wells & Co., and Harvard professor James Buell Munn regarding book requests. Also contains letters concerning Flora V. Livingston's Bibliography of the works of Kipling.".
- catalog abstract "Contains letters, 1850-1875, to Warren, chiefly concerning the Bunker Hill Monument Association; and letters of a personal or social nature to contemporary politicians.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 80 autograph and typescript letters by Norton to her friend Paton while the latter was living in Europe. The letters range over places, people, books, and current events.".
- catalog abstract "Contains correspondence of Thaddeus Stevens concerning politics, legal affairs, and his iron business; correspondence of his nephews, Thaddeus Stevens Jr. and Alanson J. Stevens, both soldiers in the Civil War; and some third party correspondence. Most of the letters by T. Stevens Sr. are to his nephews. Also includes accounts, photographs, printed material, and a few miscellaneous papers.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection consists of letters by Robert Gould Shaw to his family, including 98 letters to his mother, 31 to his father, and some to his sisters and brothers-in-law. Most were written during the Civil War, though some to his parents are from his pre-war days when he traveled in Europe and was a student at Harvard. Also contains a memorial poem to Shaw by James Russell Lowell, correspondence and genealogical notes of the Barlow family (one of Shaw's sisters married Francis Channing Barlow), and a box of notes for a biography of Shaw by Louisa Barlow Jay.".
- catalog abstract "Collection contains letters written to book collector and seller Gordon Cairne from Conrad Aiken, Ezra Pound, and Dorothy Pound. These letters mostly are requests for books that they wish to buy from Cairne, and also concern how much money they owe the bookseller. Letters also discuss the bookselling business. The collection also contains limericks written for Cairne by Aiken, a Hallmark card with a poem written by Aiken, many postcards, a musical program, an invitation, newspaper clippings about books, and a cartoon.".
- catalog abstract "Manuscripts of published and unpublished works by Hale with some clippings from periodicals and a few letters, chiefly rejection letters from magazines. Some of the manuscripts are written in an account book which also records Hale's personal expenses while a student at Harvard, 1890-1891.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence (including carbon copies of outgoing letters); manuscripts of poems, plays, and prose writings; diaries and memoirs; scrapbooks of publications and reviews; photographs of family members and friends from the literary and theatrical worlds; manuscripts of writings by others, many with annotations by Witter Bynner. Includes letters to Bynner's uncle, the novelist Edwin Lassetter Bynner, and other family letters. Also contains tapes of interviews with Bynner as well as business and legal papers belonging to him. Also with a pencil drawing caricature of Witter Bynner by Paul Horgan; and a portrait pencil drawing of D.H. Lawrence by Miguel Covarrubias.".
- catalog abstract "Primarily letters to Alexander Woollcott concerning life in the film industry and theater in the New York and London, from authors and actors, including Irving Berlin, Willa Cather, Charles Chaplin, Noel Coward, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Moss Hart, Jerome Kern, Margaret Mitchell, Edward R. Murrow, Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, and Thornton Wilder, among many others. Also includes letters from his radio broadcasts listeners, correspondence concerning his alumnus activities at Hamilton College, and correspondence with Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan and his associations with the Seeing Eye and Talking Books for the Blind. Collection also contains clippings, photographs, expense accounts, and copies of court documents.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence and documents, including family letters primarily from Frederic Tudor to his brother William and from William Tudor Jr. to his father. Correspondence also includes thirty-four letters, 1789-1801, to William Tudor Sr. written from England by Sarah Troutbeck, daughter of John Troutbeck, King's reader at King's Chapel, Boston, who had returned to England during the Revolution. Another group of nineteen letters, written in 1823 from Washington by William Lee (1772-1840) to William Tudor Jr. comment on political events. Other family papers include college papers written at Harvard by John Henry Tudor, another son of William Tudor Sr. and some documents relating to John Tudor, the father of William Tudor Sr. Other documents include powers of attorney for William Tudor. Sr., often relating to the administration of loyalist properties, and papers relating to his tenure as Massachusetts secretary of state.".
- catalog abstract "Letters from various correspondents addressed to William Tudor during his years of diplomatic service at Lima and Rio de Janeiro. Letters concern both personal and professional matters.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of letters, manuscripts, and documents chiefly of eighteenth and nineteenth century American and English literary and political figures. Approximately 175 persons are represented in the collection. Most of the papers were collected by Sen. George Frisbie Hoar. Includes some early documents, 1653-1769, of the Hoar family.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly business correspondence of Thomas Melvill or his son Thomas. Includes letters and documents reflecting the elder Melvill's position as naval officer; correspondence between father and son concerning the latter's commercial ventures in Europe; letters about the farm at Pittsfield; and papers pertaining to legal matters such as the lawsuit of Melvill heirs to recover some French property to which they had a claim by marriage, material concerning the seizure of cargo of the sloop Falmouth in 1789, and letters to or from Lemuel Shaw, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1830-1860). Also contains accounts, receipts, promissory notes, insurance policies and other business papers.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly letters to Eliot from writers, critics and publishers, many concerning his role as editor of The Criterion; also includes Eliot's Ph.D. thesis in philosophy at Harvard, "Experience and the Objects of Knowledge in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley." Includes letters from Conrad Aiken, Ernst Robert Curtius, John Gould Fletcher, E.M. Forster, Andre Gide, Herman Hesse, James Joyce, John Maynard Keynes, Harold Monro, I. A. Richards, May Sinclair, William Carlos Williams, and Virginia Woolf.".
- catalog abstract "Records include minutes of meetings, catalogues of periodicals and books circulated, reports, miscellaneous correspondence including acceptances and resignations, obituaries of members, bills, receipts, vouchers, and photographs.".
- catalog abstract "Letter books, diaries, account book, notebooks, memoranda, literary manuscripts, and correspondence reflecting Barlow's diverse activities in literature, diplomacy, politics, and business. Includes papers relating to Barlow's mission to Algiers. Among the literary manuscripts are a preliminary sketch of the Vision of Columbus, rough drafts and revisions of The Columbiad, and Cantos I and II of The Hasty Pudding. Correspondence includes over 300 letters from Barlow to his wife, Ruth Baldwin Barlow, and letters to and from Robert Fulton and Noah Webster. Also included are clippings and notes concerning Barlow collected by Lemuel G. Olmstead and S. L. M. Barlow II.".
- catalog abstract "Papers of Henry Larcom Abbot, together with papers of other family members. Abbot's papers include diaries, 1856-1919 (1896 lacking), correspondence, reports, essays, maps, and photographs relating to survey work in Oregon in the 1850's, flood control work on the Mississippi River, Civil War service as an engineer and head of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, torpedo experiments, and work on coastal defenses. Additional family papers consist of two boxes of sermons, 1797-1827, of Abiel Abbot, minister of the First Church in Beverly, Mass., and grandfather of Henry Larcom Abbot's wife; six boxes of sermons, 1819-1830, of Stevens Everett, minister in Hallowell, Me., and father of Henry Larcom Abbot's wife; and one box of letters, 1792-1900, chiefly to William Ebenezer Abbot, a son of Abiel Abbot and also a Unitarian minister.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 14 letters by Gardiner, chiefly to various family members; and 40 letters to Gardiner, including 30 letters from George Ticknor relating chiefly to his work on a biography of the historian William Hickling Prescott. Gardiner was a close friend of Prescott's and executor of his estate.".
- catalog abstract "Autographs, engravings, and broadsides collected by the Fullers along with some letters to Fuller from Harvard professors and colleagues in philosophy. Autographs include John Quincy Adams, Wilkie Collins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harrison Gray Otis, George Santayana, and Daniel Webster as well as those of British kings and European nobles, among others.".
- catalog abstract "Contains letters from Ezra Pound to Jeanne Robert Foster, some relating to T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, and from Pound to H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and others. Also includes letters from Dorothy Pound and Homer L. Pound to Foster, and letters to her from various others. There is a typescript prospectus for a new monthly review, with manuscript corrections in the hand of Pound, and photographs of Pound and others, and clippings concerning him. Also includes a group photograph of Eric Satie with others.".
- catalog abstract "Contains letters to Sanborn from various correspondents. Letters from William Ellery Channing concern Channing's biography of Henry Thoreau and letters from Thomas Wentworth Higginson concern raising funds for the aid of fugitive slaves in Kansas. Additionally, there are letters from Sanborn to various family members as well as poems and other compositions by Sanborn. Also contains letters from William Ellery Channing to Ralph Waldo Emerson discussing poetry, the Dial, and lecture tours. Letters from Channing to Elizabeth Hoar are about their relationship, poetry, and mutual acquaintances. There is a journal, notebooks, and poems by Channing, among other items.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of letters to Blanck from various correspondents, mostly friends from Boston, but also from a few writers about whom he was doing bibliographical work. Includes 9 letters from Joseph Presser, 34 letters from Harold Koplow Zimmerman, and 9 drawings in pencil and crayon by Hyman Bloom.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 129 letters written by Ward in New York City and London to his niece Margaret Chanler.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 18 letters from Jackson to Keyes Metcalf, director of the Harvard University Library written during a trip in April and May of 1945 to Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. The letters discuss libraries and book collectors in these countries and include information on possible acquisitions for the Harvard library. Also includes notes taken in Lima, Peru and a small amount of other correspondence.".
- catalog abstract "Manuscript, drafts, and galley proofs of "Goodspeed's memoirs, Bookseller" (published 1937); manuscript of his "Angling in America" (published 1939); Catalogues (on cards) of the libraries of Frank Brewster Bemis and Harold Murdock. Also includes illustrations used in "Yankee Bookseller."".
- catalog abstract "Letters, notes, compositions, photographs, and printed matter concerning the history of the Wentworth House and Mary Baker Eddy's connections with it.".
- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection is manuscripts by Lang consisting of poems, plays, novels, various drafts, and notes, as well as notebooks with diary entries and drafts of poems and plays. Also contains a few manuscripts by other writers including Djuna Barnes and Frank O'Hara; some personal correspondence of Lang; correspondence of her husband Bradley S. Phillips mostly concerning possible publication of his wife's work after her death; address books; and printed material.".
- catalog abstract "Collection includes letters written from Roger Sherman Greene to his wife Kate, mostly during his stay in China. Letters address topics such as the earthquake in Yokohama and the recovery after, train travel through and descriptions of China, hospitals and medical care in China, teaching illiterate adults to read, Soochow University, and travels through Shanghai. Collection also includes various notebooks, day books, account books, appointment books, and calenders that Green kept during his time in China and at home.".
- catalog abstract "Includes journals, notebooks, and account books documenting Wulsin's zoological collecting in China and other regions in East Asia from 1921 to 1924 for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard and the National Geographic Society, and trips to East Africa and Madagascar from 1914 to 1915. Notes pertain to equipment, provisions, personnel, photography, transport, weather and other matters. Also field notes for archaeological collecting in Persia from 1930 to 1932; and journal, 1914, recording a voyage to Lesser Antilles and other islands.".
- catalog abstract "Includes contract, scenario, script, playbills, box-office reports, clippings, and correspondence concerning the writing, production, and performances of Lo. Nearly all the correspondence is to Franklin P. Adams, and the bulk of it is from Harry Askin, the production's manager.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 17 letters, 1956-1958, from Howe to Jack Hagstrom, chiefly concerning Howe's books and current writers; 16 letters (carbon copies) from Hagstrom to Howe; and correspondence between Hagstrom and Howe's daughter, Helen Howe Allen. Also includes two letters from Howe to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant.".
- catalog abstract "Letters to Robert Carter chiefly relating to editorial, literary, and social concerns. Correspondents include Richard Watson Gilder, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Charles Sumner. Also includes photograph of Benjamin Disraeli, the first earl of Beaconsfield.".
- catalog abstract "Consists chiefly of letters and documents of American and British historical and literary figures. Most of the material dates from the nineteenth century. Includes 129 letters, 1885-1916, from Henry Adams to Lucy W. Baxter, Bernard Berenson, William Hallett Phillips, James Ford Rhodes, Charles Warren Stoddard and others; and 57 letters, 1878-1891 by John Hay, mostly to his brother Leonard Hay. Includes manuscript and proofs for the translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf published in New York in 1939 and documents, correspondence, and maps concerning a projected operation of the German army in 1945. Also includes some correspondence of Schaffner's, chiefly with booksellers, and drawings and plans of his library.".
- catalog abstract "Moore's 34 letters, 1950-1954, to Engel concern the editing and publishing of her work, particularly her translations of the Fables of La Fontaine. Olson's 41 letters discuss both personal and professional matters. Also includes poems by Olson that were sent with his letters.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of typescripts of Goldsbury's letters to his family in Minneapolis, Minn. The letters form a diary of his travels across the Atlantic and in Europe and the Middle East.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 29 letters by Scudder, chiefly concerning editorial affairs of the Atlantic Monthly and Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Includes 19 letters to Albert Bushnell Hart and 4 letters to Ellen Russell Emerson.".
- catalog abstract "Contains correspondence between the publisher, Simon and Schuster, the literary agent, Brandt & Brandt, and Berenson's secretary, Nicky Mariano, concerning the publication of Berenson's war-time diary Rumor and reflection.".
- catalog abstract "Contains letters to Schroeder from his friends Lincoln Kirstein and Ivor Armstrong Richards; and manuscripts, mostly poems, by Kirstein, Richards and others. The letters discuss writing projects as well as personal matters. Also includes ephemera relating to plays by Richards performed at Harvard with Schroeder and Richards in the cast.".
- catalog abstract "Letters to Neal from Park Benjamin, Sir John Bowring, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Pierpont, Ann S. Stephens, and others concern authors and writing, payment for Neal's work, health concerns, slavery in the south, interpretations of poetry, comments about Portland, Maine, and thank-you letters. In addition, correspondence from the Sun Times in New York, the Boston Literary Gazette, and other publications write to Neal soliciting submissions. Also included in the collection are two dime novels written by Neal: Little Moccasin and the White-Faced Pacer, and several bound scrapbooks containing clippings of his work.".
- catalog abstract "Contains letters to Nicholas Paine Gilman, concerning The New World, a quarterly journal of philosophy and religion edited by Everett and Gilman. Also includes diaries of European trips and a commonplace book.".
- catalog abstract "Letters to Lowes from various correspondents, chiefly concerning his writings and other academic activities. Includes letters from Robert Bridges, Alice Brown, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, and Edwin Arlington Robinson.".
- catalog abstract "Includes 68 letters, 1862-1865, chiefly written to his mother Louisa Nightingale; clippings concerning the 29th Massachusetts Regiment; a daguerreotype of Nightingale; and a typed transcription of the letters with an introduction and notes by Wolcott D. Street.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly contains personal letters to the Finks, especially from musicologist and pianist, Nicolas Slonimsky, and author, critic, and editor, Isaac Goldberg. Also includes some letters to Goldberg concerning his writings (which included work on music, Spanish, Portuguese, and Yiddish literature), H.L. Mencken, George Gershwin and others; a notebook and sheet music by Slonimsky; a memorial to Goldberg; and photographs and clippings of Frances Fink, Goldberg, Mencken, and Slonimsky.".
- catalog abstract "Consists chiefly of correspondence among family members namely correspondence between Samuel Ward and Julia Rush Cutler Ward. Also contains poems by family members, including poems written by Samuel for Julia; prayers, religious journals, notes, and verse by Julia; a journal by Samuel; a few receipts; a will; and miscellaneous manuscripts.".
- catalog abstract "Catch-all box includes Holmes' letters to various correspondents and a few other items, including genealogy, photographs, and a vita found with the letters. Letters reflect a wide range of topics including his views on issues in medicine and education, comments on student days at Harvard and his literary work, such as the origin and purpose of Elsie Venner.".
- catalog abstract "18 letters (chiefly carbon copies or revised drafts) from Adams and 39 letters to him. Most of the letters to Adams are from publishers, including Macmillan, S. S. McClure, and George W. Jacobs Company. Includes three letters from Theodore Roosevelt.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 53 letters in French from Louis Agassiz to Pedro II, mainly concering Agassiz's expedition to Brazil (to collect specimens for the Harvard Museum in Cambridge, Mass.). His letters are written from the U.S., Brazil and on board ship and give progress reports on his trips to the Amazon and other areas in Latin America. He also discusses American literary figures, such as Longfellow and Emerson, with Pedro II. A few other letters in the collection are from Alexander Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and John Greenleaf Whittier.".
- catalog abstract "The collection focuses on the years Wheeler taught at Harvard. It contains letters to him pertaining to both personal and professional matters, manuscripts by him on classical figures, one box of page proofs with manuscript revisions of his edition of Herodotus published in 1842, notes, exercises (mostly Greek translations) by the students he taught, reading lists, subject outlines, and lists of students.".
- catalog abstract "Letters of Edward William Hooper, chiefly to his father and sisters, detailing his experiences in the Civil War in South Carolina where he worked with the freedmen on the Sea Islands. Includes a manuscript, ca. 1892, on the governance of the Sea Islands during the Civil War.".
- catalog abstract "Includes Houghton's "Journal of private correspondence and notebook," containing copies of letters, 1839-1840, and journal, 1839-1852. Also includes account books, 1845-1851, 1840-1850; and one volume of letters of condolence, 1891, on the death of Houghton's wife, Nanna Wyer Houghton (with correspondents whose names begin with A-H). Also includes two volumes of condolence letters on the death of Henry Oscar Houghton. One volume consists of letters to the family (with correspondents whose names begin with A-K). The other volume includes letters to Houghton, Mifflin and Company.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of correspondence of Oliver Wendell Holmes (together with other family letters), manuscripts of poems and other short writings, notes, a few business papers, and clippings. Letters by Holmes are mostly draft copies.".
- catalog abstract "Contains 21 letters to Sanborn from various persons, chiefly concerning political and social issues.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence of Francis J. Child, together with personal account books from his student years at Harvard, notebooks, journals, and commonplace books. Also includes correspondence of Child's wife, Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick Child; letters, 1912-1925, to Gilbert Campbell Scoggin concerning Francis J. Child; and a daguerreotype of a group including Child and his wife.".