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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
OF THE
GLUCK COLLECTION
OF
Manuscripts and Autographs
IN THE
BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY
BUFFALO
July 1899
Copyright, iSgg, by
H. L. ELMENDORF, BUFFALO, N. Y.
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PREFACE
JAMES FRASER GLUCK, who gave the Buffalo Library the manu-
scripts and autographs catalogued in this volume, was born at Niag-
ara Falls, N. Y., April 28, 1852. He attended the common schools,
Upper Canada College, at Toronto, and Cornell University, graduating
from the latter in 1874. He studied law with Laning & Willett in
Buffalo, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. July 15, 1877, he mar-
ried Miss Efifie D. Tyler, a daughter of Prof. Charles M. Tyler of
Cornell. He was elected a trustee of Cornell in 1883, curator of the
Buffalo Library in 1885, and trustee of the Grosvenor Library in the
same year. He died at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York, December
15, 1897, in his forty -sixth year.
This brief biographical sketch gives merely the dates of the prin-
cipal events in Mr. Gluck's short life. He was an able and successful
lawyer, a brilliant orator, a writer of authority on law subjects, and a
man of great literary ability, culture and taste. He took an active part
in every movement for the social and educational improvement of
Buffalo. He was particularly interested in the founding of the Public
Library, and his influence contributed largely to its establishment.
It was in 1885 that Mr. Gluck first became interested in the collec-
tion of autographs and manuscripts. He was at that time a curator
of the Buffalo Library. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, Mr.
Larned, the Superintendent of the library, called attention to the auto-
graph manuscript of Robert Fulton, which was offered for sale in the
catalogue of the London "Old Book-Dealer" at a moderate price.
Mr. Larned gave it as his opinion that if the library could indulge in
the luxury of buying any curious and interesting things for exhibition, it
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would be a very desirable thing to do. After some talk among the mem-
bers of the board, Mr. Gluck said : "I will buy it and present it to the
library." The Fulton manuscript was found to have been sold before
the order for it reached London, but soon afterward Mr. Gluck began
to secure other manuscripts of interest and value, and his zeal for col-
lecting grew with the growth of the treasures as they accumulated.
During the next two years he devoted most of his leisure time to this
work, which involved frequent journeys to New York and Boston and
correspondence and personal conference with authors, publishers and
dealers. Mr. Gluck obtained the first choice from the large collection
of autograph manuscripts gathered by Mr. James R. Osgood, and also a
large number from the sale of the Sir William Hamilton collection in
London. Many of the most valuable manuscripts Avere obtained directly
from their authors upon Mr. Gluck's representation to them of the pur-
pose he had in view, of giving them to the library. Several American
publishers, including the Century Company, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
Harper & Bros., Roberts Brothers, James Redpath of the North American
Review, Lorrettus Metcalf of the Forum, and others, interested them-
selves in Mr. Gluck's undertaking and furnished, with the consent of the
authors, valuable manuscripts otherwise not procurable.
January 7, 1887, Mr. Gluck presented his collection to the Buffalo
Library with a type-written list and description of the manuscripts.
At this early date Mr. J. N. Larned pronounced the collection the
largest and most valuable owned by any public institution in this coun-
try. During the ten years following the original gift Mr. Gluck
continued his collecting, and, on May 18, 1897, made a second gift to
the library of almost equal value with his first presentation. This addi-
tional gift was given upon the express conditions :
1st. That the board designate the room on the first floor in
the southwest corner of the Buffalo Library building, at the corner
of Washington and Clinton streets, as the specific place for this
collection.
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2d. That the board furnish proper cases, labels, frames, etc., to
protect, preserve and worthily present such collection to the public.
3d. That a proper catalogue be printed which shall describe the
specific items of the collection, and which shall be at all times available
for the use of this public.
Should the above conditions fail to be carried out, the collection
be shifted into another room, or the collection fail to be protected from
dust, or care and attention not be given to the proper preservation of
the manuscripts or autographs, or the catalogue be suffered to be unavail-
able or out of print and not be reprinted within the period of one year,
then the entire collection to revert to Cornell University and become
the property of that institution.
May 19, 1897, by formal resolutions of the Board of Directors, the
Buffalo Library accepted Mr. Gluck's conditions and thanked him for
his munificent gift.
This catalogue is published in compliance with the terms of the
gift, and therefore the very valuable manuscripts given to the library by
other friends are merely listed and not catalogued or described.
The catalogue is made, under direction of the Board, by Mrs.
H. L. Elmendorf. In its preparation the aid and counsel Mr. Gluck
would have given have been sadly missed. Many interesting items which
he could have supplied as to the history of the manuscripts and the cir-
cumstances under which he acquired them have had to be omitted.
Where the manuscripts or letters have already appeared in print
they have not, as a rule, been reproduced here, reference being given
to where they may be found in print. Whenever the manuscript differs
materially from the printed text, the variation is noted. Those not
found to have been published are printed, where their interest seemed
to warrant it, unless, as in the case of some of the letters, the contents
is entirely private.
Buffalo Public Library,
July 1, 1899.
Descriptive Catalogue
OF THE
GLUCK COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS AND
AUTOGRAPHS IN THE BUFFALO
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Alcott, Amos Bronson, American educator and philosopher, born in
Wolcott, Conn., 29 November, 1799, died at Concord, Mass.,
4 March, 1888.
Manuscript of the poem "Carmen auguratum auspicans ; a
prophetic ode after sacrifice, 25 September, 1881," one of the
many poems inspired by the death of Garfield, it is included in
k\coVC% Son7iets and Canzonets [821.1 A355.s].
Alcott, Miss Louisa May, American author, daughter of Amos Bron-
son Alcott, born in Germantown, Pa., 29 November, 1832, died
at Concord, Mass., 6 March, 1888.
Manuscript of "Sophie's secret," a story first published in
the St. Nicholas for November and December, 1883, volume 11,
Pt. 1, pages 25, 114; afterward included in volume three of
Lulu' s Library [jA 355 — 9] .
Autograph copy of a poem, "To my father, on his 86th
birthday," 29 November, 1885, published \n Louisa May Alcott,
her life y letters and Journals, page 387 [928.1 Al 18].
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, American poet and novelist, born in Ports-
mouth, N. H., 11 November, 1836.
Two letters, dated editorial office of the Atlantic Monthly,
Boston, November 7 and November 19, 1885, to Mr. Gluck. In
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one of the letters the poet promises to copy " Baby Bell " for the
collection, which promise he afterward fulfilled, as will be seen by
the next entry.
Autograph copy of the poem "Baby Bell," first published
in 1856, included in his Poems [821.1 A3652— 1].
Allison, John, American statesman, born at Beaver, Beaver Co., Pa.,
register of the United States treasury from 1 April, 1869, until his
death, in Washington, D. C, 23 March, 1878.
Signature to treasury warrant for twenty-four cents, issued to
F. C. Harris, 12 June, 1873.
Ames, Mary Clemmer, Mrs. Daniel Ames, afterward Mrs. Edmund
Hudson, American author, born in Utica, N. Y., in 1839, died
in Washington, 18 August, 1884.
Letter, dated 89 Clinton PL, New York, 3 June, 1863, to Theo-
dore Tilton. The letter is concerned with some arrangements for
occasional contributions to the Independent.
Portrait, engraved by Geo. E. Ferine & Co. from a photograph.
Anthony, Miss Susan Brownell, American reformer, born at South
Adams, Mass., 15 February, 1820.
Personal letter, dated 30 January, 1863, just after the death of
her father, to Theodore Tilton.
The proclamation of emancipation had been issued but one
month previous, and the following extract from the letter gives an
index of the feeling of abolitionists at the time :
"Yes, I am thankful for the Proclamation, and shall be vastly more thankful
when I see the men and the means in actual work of executing its provisions to
the letter and the spirit.
But the adage ' It is hard to learn old dogs new tricks ' is most strikingly
exemplified in the slow and feeble moves out of the traces of slavery — to turn
freedomward seems the work of ages, when we take into view the blood and
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treasure poured out to save slavery inviolate — and yet the Nation does move in
that direction, and we will hope."
Portrait, engraved by Geo. E. Ferine & Co. from a photograph.
Arnim, Elisabeth von, known as Bettina von Arnim, sister of Clemens
Brentano, wife of Ludwig Achim von Arnim, born in Frankfurt-
am-Main, 4 April, 1788, died in Berlin, 20 January, 1859.
Letter, dated 13 November, 1846, to Dr. Lehmann. Mme. von
Arnim is best known through her ardent childish friendship with
Goethe. Her Goethe's Corrcsporidence ivith a Child [836 6] was
for a long time thought to be the record of a real exchange of
letters. It is now known to be mainly imaginary.
Portrait, engraved by G. Wolf in Weimar.
Bacon, Sir Francis, English judge, born in 1587, died 22 August,
1657.
Receipt for money, dated June, 1644, given in his capacity of
judge of his majesty's court of King's Bench.
Bailey, Philip James, English poet, born in Nottingham, England,
22 April, 1816.
Autograph copy of The Festus Birth-day Book, being selections
from the author's long poem Festus [822.2 158].
Balzac, Honore de, French novelist, born at Tours, 16 May, 1799,
died at Paris, 20 August, 1850.
Letter, without place or date, addressed to M. Merlin, probably
Romain Merlin, the French bibliographer.
Bates, Charlotte Fiske, now Mrs. Roge, American author, born in New
York City, 30 November, 1838, since 1847 a resident of Cam-
bridge, Mass. , a friend and collaborator of Longfellow.
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Signed manuscript of poem called "Two heads better than
one," first published in the Bric-a-brac department of the Cen-
tury for June, 1886, volume 10, page 332.
Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of, English statesman and
author, born in London, 21 December, 1804, died in London,
19 April, 1880.
Personal letter, dated 8 March, 1852, to S. Lucas, Esq., of no
interest except as an autograph.
Portrait, steel engraving from photograph.
Bentham, Jeremy, English writer on jurisprudence, born in Houns-
ditch, 15 February, 1748, died 6 June, 1832.
Personal letter, dated Hendon, Middlesex, 25 February, 1789,
to Lord Wycombe, the eldest son of the Earl of Shelburne. Lord
Shelburne, who was afterward created the first Marquis of Lans-
downe, was the patron and intimate friend of Bentham. The let-
ter is reproduced in the edition of Bentham' s Works, edited by
John Bowring, Edinburgh, 1843, volume 10, page 196 [340 24].
The letter is published as under date March first, but evidence
of other letters seems to show conclusively that it was really
written as dated in this manuscript. The letter concerns the
proposed publication in Paris, for the use of the States General,
of Bentham's work on Parliamentary Tactics.
Portrait, proof copy of an engraving by S. Freeman, from the
painting by Worthington.
Beranger, Pierre Jean de, French lyric poet, born in Paris, 19 August,
1780, died in the same city, 16 July, 1857.
Part of a private letter interesting only as being a good speci-
men of the poet's handwriting and signature.
Portrait, engraved by A. Masson from his own drawing.
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Bigelow, John, American diplomatist, journalist and author, born at
Maiden, N. Y., 25 November, 1817.
Two personal letters, dated Berlin, 13 January and 17 June,
1871, to Theodore Tilton. Mr. Bigelow, at the close of his term
as United States Minister to France, resided with his family for
some time in Berlin.
The earlier letter was written on the occasion of Mr. Tilton's
retirement from the Independent, a short time before the close of
the Franco-German war. It contains a passage of some interest,
as follows :
"I find a great deal in my life here in Berlin that is interesting and instructive.
It is a city of wonderful intellectual activities, and I enjoy the facilities possessed
here by every presentable man for living constantly in the society of men who
know more of something worth knowing than he knows himself.
"Germany and France are passing through a terrible ordeal. Providence never
wastes anything and effects are always proportioned to their causes. I do not
doubt, therefore, that the good that will result to the world from this war will
prove sufficient to reconcile the ways of God to man in allowing it to be waged.
Without presuming to be the interpreter of Providence, it is pretty safe to
assume that the war will not cease till the mind and conscience of Europe are
enfranchised from a great number of constraints, prejudices and illusions, religi-
ous, social and political, which it has been obliged to drag around like a ball and
chain to its leg for centuries. "
The second letter relates to the founding of Mr. Tilton's paper,
the Golden Age, and discusses personal matters.
Portrait, proof copy of an engraving by S. Freeman from the
painting by Worthington.
Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, English novelist, born at Longworth,
Berkshire, 7 June, 1825.
Manuscript of ''To fame" a poem of four, four-line stanzas,
first printed in Harper' s Magazine for October, 188G, volume 73,
page 682.
Blaine, James Gillespie, American statesman, born in West Browns-
ville, Washington Co., Penna., 31 January, 1830, died in Wash-
ington, 27 January, 1893.
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Letter to Theodore Tilton, at Bath, as follows :
Augusta, Aug. 15, 1872.
My Dear Sir :
In your speeches at various points you credit me with saying that, of the
Liberal Republicans, " some should be coaxed back, some driven back and the
balance brought back." I never made the remark and, indeed, never heard it
until reported in your speeches. A denial of it was made in the Kemiehec
Journal but I presume you did not see it, as you have repeated the remark since.
May I request respectfully that you will make the correction publicly ?
In haste, very truly yours,
J. G. BLAINE.
Portrait, engraved on steel by H. B. Hall, Jr., from a photograph.
Blake, William, English poet, painter and etcher, born in London, 28
November, 1757, died in the same city, 12 August, 1827.
Original water-color, one of the designs made by the gifted, but
eccentric, artist-poet to illustrate Europe, one of his so-called
"prophetic" books published in Lambeth in 1794. The drawing
represents a distorted, Caliban-like figure hiding behind a rock
with a dagger in his uplifted hand ready to strike a young man who
is approaching.
Portrait, engraved by A. L. Dick, from a painting by Blake
himself.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of, daughter of Edmund
Power, first the wife of Capt. Maurice St. Leger Farmer, aft ^ward
the wife of the first Earl of Blessington, Irish author and wit, born
at Knockbrit, County Tipperary, Ireland, 1 September, 1789, died
in Paris, 4 June, 1849.
Manuscript of "To spring," a poem probably contributed to
The Keepsake during Lady Blessington' s editorship.
Portrait, engraved by J. J. Hinchliff, from the painting by A. E.
Chaloner, R. A.
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Boker, George Henry, American poet and diplomatist, born in Phila-
delphia, 6 October, 1823, died in the same city, 2 January, 1890.
Autograph copy of the first stanza of his " Dirge for a soldier,"
written in memory of Gen. Philip Kearney, killed at the battle of
Chantilly, 1 September, 1862.
The poem is contained in Mr. Boker' s volume Poems of the War
[821.1 B6862.p], and in many collections.
" Close his eyes ; his work is done !
What to him is friend or foeman,
Rise of moon, or set of sun,
Hand of man, or kiss of woman ?
Lay him low, lay him low,
In the clover or the snow !
What cares he ? he cannot know.
Lay him low ! "
Portrait, photograph by Gutekunst, Philadelphia.
Bowen, Henry Chandler, American journalist, for many years editor
and proprietor of the New York Independent, born at Woodstock,
Conn., 11 September, 1813, died in Brooklyn, 24 February, 1896.
Personal letter, dated Woodstock, Conn., 27 June, 1869, to
Theodore Tilton, interesting only as an autograph.
Bowles, The Rev. William Lisle, English clergyman and poet, brother
of Caroline Bowles Sou they, born at King's Sutton, Northampton-
shire, 24 September, 1762, died at Salisbtiry, 7 April, 1850.
Letter, dated Bremhill, 18 November, 1833, to the Rev. George
Crabbe, the son of the poet, concerning Bowles's acquaintance
with the poet and giving incidents of the latter' s life.
Portrait, line engraving from a drawing.
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, Norwegian -American author, born in Fred-
ricksvoern, Norway, 23 September, 1848, died in New York City,
4 October, 1895.
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Manuscript of " A child of the age," a story first pubh'shed in
the Century for December, 1885, volume 9, page 177, afterward
republished in his collection of stories Vagabond Tales [B791 — 13].
Bright, John, English statesman, born near Rochdale, Lancashire,
England, 16 November, 1811, died in London, 27 March, 1889.
Letter, dated Rochdale, 9 March, 18G3, to Theodore Tilton :
Dear Sir :
I ought sooner to have acknowledged your kind letter of January 30.
It is most pleasant to me to find that my words find a welcome on your side of
the water — they are all spoken to give encouragement to you and to create feel-
ings of good will between your people and ours.
I cannot contest what you say as to an earlier proclamation of freedom. The
difficulties of your President are enormous and I forbear to judge him.
I only hope that God may give your people strength and virtue to gain the
great cause that is now in your keeping. It is freedom or slavery over all your
continent. The English people are true to their ancient faith and they wish
freedom to win and your noble Union to be restored.
Many thanks for your most friendly letter,
Believe me always,
truly yours,
JOHN BRIGHT.
Portrait, engraved by J. A. O'Neill from a photograph.
Bronte, Charlotte, English novelist, born at Thornton, 21 April, 1816,
married to the Rev. Arthur Nicholls, 29 June, 1854, died at
Haworth, 31 March, 1855.
Letter, dated Haworth, 28 July, 1852, to W. S. Williams of
the publishing house. Smith, Elder & Co., concerning some
arrangements for a new edition of "Shirley," and also concern-
ing the announcements of her forthcoming novel " Villette."
The letter is of the period just preceding her marriage to Mr.
Nicholls, and while she was living alone with her father after the death
of her brother Bramwell and of both her sisters Emily and Anne.
Isolation and ill-health had induced great depression of mind
which is visible throughout the letter.
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The letter is published in Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte,
chapter 24 [928.2 B786.g].
Portrait, engraved by J. C. Armytage from the painting by
G. Richmond.
Brooks, The Right Rev. Phillips, American clergyman, bishop of
Massachusetts, born in Boston, 13 December, 1835, died in the
same city, 23 January, 1893.
Manuscript of a Thanksgiving Day sermon, preached at Trinity
church, Boston, 26 November, 1885, from the text in Daniel iv :
4,5.
Portrait, half-tone engraving from a photograph.
Brown, Dr. John, Scotch physician and author, born at Biggar, in
Lanarkshire, 22 September, 1810, died in Edinburgh, 11 May, 1882.
Letter to Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, who published with his
sanction, the author's Horce Subsecivce under the title Spare Hours.
It is interesting to know that the volume spoken of in the letter,
which is the second volume of the American Spare Hours [824.2
B878.s], but the third of the Scotch Horce Subsecivce [824.2 B
878. h], was not after all published in Edinburgh until March,
1882, shortly before Dr. Brown's death.
The letter is as follows :
23 Rutland Street, Edinburgh,
19 March, 1873.
Dear Sirs :
I have never printed your 2nd vol. of Spare Hours, owing to the refusal
of Bradbury & Evans to let me print the woodcuts in John Leech — but so many
enquiries are made for the book and your edition is in such requisition that Mr.
Douglas has resolved to print it now even at the risk (to use old Sam Rogers'
joke) of its being dished for want of the plates. Now I would like to know
from you, approximately, the number of both series of Spare Hours that you
have sold. It would also be a great kindness if you could forward to me 6
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copies of the last series and 2 of the first. I have given away all mine. For
this and for the expense of sending them you must allow me to pay.
I hope you are prospering and that all my friends are well — kind remem-
brances to them.
Yours truly,
J. BROWN.
Portrait, engraved from a photograph.
Browne, Charles Farrar, American humorist, known as "Artemus
Ward," born at Waterford, Maine, 26 April, 1834, died at South-
ampton, England, 6 March, 1867.
Letter, dated office of Vanity Fair, New York City, 19 Novem-
ber, 1861, declining an offer for a book from his pen, also
" Artemus Ward, his Programme, Dodworth Hall, 806 Broad-
way. ' '
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, daughter of Edward Moulton, who after-
ward took the name Barrett, wife of Robert Browning the poet,
born 14 March, 1809, died at Florence, 29 June, 1861.
Two personal letters to Theodore Tilton, while he was editor
of the New York Independent.
Both letters are written during the serious decline in health and
strength to which both her sorrow and disappointment over Italian
national affairs and her grief at the death of her favorite sister
contributed. The first is an interesting record of her devotion to
the cause of united Italy. The second shows her deep feeling
for the safety of the United States and her intelligent understand-
ing of American affairs. This knowledge concerning American
matters was doubtless gained from association with many American
acquaintances, both in Florence and in Rome. Mr. Browning
says "In fact, I believe that if we were to make out a list of our
best and dearest friends we should find more American than English
names."
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The first letter is dated from Casa Guidi, Florence, but was
really written from Siena, where the Brownings spent the summer
of 1860, in the Villa Alberti.
The second letter was written from 126 Via Felice, Rome, cer-
tainly after the death of her sister, late in 1860 or early in the
following year, probably in April, 1861.
The handwriting is much changed from that of the first letter
and shows the fading vitality which suddenly failed utterly in June.
Neither of the letters has been published, and as both are of
great interest, they are printed in full.
July 20, [I860.]
Casa Guidi, Florence.
Dear Sir :
In acknowledging your liberality in the two hundred dollars received through
Mr. Francis, I send you other two new poems on Italian affairs with a certain
reasonable shyness. Pray understand that I would not for the world take
advantage of your having perhaps over-generously made a rash engagement with
me. If these mss. destined for a future edition of my Italian volume, should
suit you, they are at your service ; if not let them pass simply into Mr. Francis's
hands for the book. Do I tire you of Italy ? Another time I may let you have
poems of a more general interest. Only, here, it is hard for us to understand
how anything can be of a more general interest than this subject. We are feel-
ing keenly about the south. May God keep that hero. Garibaldi. His danger
is less from the sword, than from certain influences unfavorable to the national
sentiment, and against which he should have steel in his brain. Divisions coming
now (for the first time in this great movement !) would strengthen the separatists
at Naples, and turn to earnest what has been merely formal and official in the
action of foreign diplomacy. When did Mazzini's finger ever touch Italy with-
out a blot showing ivhere ? Mr. Francis hints that your people are not very
Napoleonist. Neither am I in any partisan sense. My "Summing up" is a
bare statement. As for the emperor there will be a reaction in time ; and mean-
while it would be a pity if abstract thinkers, such as you and I, should allow our-
selves to be carried away, in the panic and passion of Europe, from an estimate
of the real position. The Emperor's farsightedness in foreign policy produces a
necessary disagreement with statesmen who do not see far, and his recognition of
the rights of majorities and the nationalities, being perfectly understood by the
retrograde parties at least, these build monstrous barricades of impossible calum-
nies for the arrest of progress and the confusion of the world. Will they succeed
in their scheme of drumming up a coalition of the old governments against France ?
And, in that case, on whose side will go the peoples ? Those are questions, but
this is a fact, that at home the pope's tyranny is maintained and abetted by
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French anti-imperialist parties as a means of opposition to the emperor. " Non
his armis" you would say if you were a French protestor against the government.
Is France to stir a finger, do you think, to get these so-called liberals back to
power? Believe in the instinct of nations.
Let me add one word. I must for I have only written so many because of
being drawn into admiring sympathy with you by your noble address in the
church of Theodore Parker. What affected me was — not the eloquence, no —
but the rare union of largeness and tolerance with fidelity to special truth. In
our age faith and charity are found — but they are unusually found apart. We
tolerate everybody because we doubt everything, — or else we tolerate nobody
because we believe something. And largeness of intellectual vision becomes in-
distinctness in the apprehension of outline just as is the case in physical near-
sightedness. I congratulate you on being able to speak so. Would that great
truths had always such brave witnesses. And would that brave men (like Theo-
dore Parker) had always great truths to be brave for.
My husband unites with me in respects and good wishes while I remain,
dear sir,
most faithfully yours
ELIZABETH B. BROWNING.
I recommend to your attention Edmond About's pamphlets " La [nouvelle]'
carte de I'Europe" and " La Prusse [en I860]."
We are at Siena at present, but our address continues to be Casa Guidi,
Florence.
126 Via Felice,
Rome [Early in 1861.]
My dear Mr. Tilton :
If you have had time under the pressure of your many thoughts at this crisis
to think of me at all you may have wondered at the gap in my letters, — but I
have suffered great unhappiness and lost my usual power of occupying myself
in consequence.
Now I send you something — or nothing as you may decide — (3 poems)
— I don't insist on its being something — remember //^a/. I have received the
Independents very thankfully. It was by an accident that I saw the " Garibaldi "
stanzas in the anti-slavery paper first and I should be quick to acknowledge that
the typographical faults were confined to it. You are very good in representing
me with correctness, as in all the rest. My husband has drawn for the remit-
tance belonging to the two last poems, " Garibaldi " and the "Summing up."
Perhaps one of these days his sense of your generosity and appreciation of it
as a peculiar expression of kind sentiment towards both of us may overcome his
disinclination to the periodical channel. Never suppose that I have not done
my best to send him to you in my stead, — I know my place too well as poet,
and my duty too well as your contributor. Shall I say that Cornhill and the
Atlantic Monthly have hitherto, solicited him in vain? But I don't give up hope.
I thank you very much for your most interesting letter on American affairs.
I go with your party entirely. The constitution could only be rectified from
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within, unless you attacked it from without with guns, and I think Garrison
eschewed the latter mode. He would use neither congress nor sword. Now the
question is thrown into new possibilities of solution by that fine madness of the
South, which is God's gift to the world in these latter days in order to the resti-
tution of all things and the re-constitution everywhere of political justice and
national right.
See how it has been in Italy ! If Austria had not madly invaded Piedmont
in '59 France could not have fought. If the Pope had not been madly obstinate
in rejecting the reforms pressed on him by France, he must have been sustained
as a temporal ruler. If the King of Naples had not madly refused to accept
the overtures of Piedmont towards an alliance in free government and Italian
independence, we should have had to wait for Italian unity. So with the rulers
of Tuscany, Modena, etc. Everybody was mad at the right moment. I thank
God for it. '■^ Mais inon cker,'''' said Napoleon to the Tuscan ex-Grand Duke,
weeping before him as a suppliant, '■'■vous etiez a Solferino.^'' That act of pure
madness settled the Duke's claims upon Tuscany. And looking yearningly to
our poor Venetia (to say nothing of other suffering peoples beyond this penin-
sula) my cry must still be "Give, Give ! More madness Lord !"
The pope has been madder than anybody and for a much longer time, exactly
because his case was complex and difficult and because with catholic Europe and
the French clerical party (strengthened by M. Guizot and the whole French
dynastic opposition, I wish them joy of their cause) drawn up on the Holy
Father's side, the least touch of sanity would have saved him, to the immense
injury of the Italian nation. As it is we are at the beginning of the end. We
see light at the end of the cavern. There's'a dark turning indeed about Venetia
— but we won't hit our heads against the stalactites even there, — and beyond we
get out into a free great independent Italy. May God save us to the end !
At this point the anxiety on American affairs can take its full share of thought.
My partiality for fi-enzies is not so absorbing, believe me, as to exclude very
painful considerations on the dissolution of your great Union. But my serious
fear has been and is, not for the dissolution of the body but the death of the
soul — not of a rupture of the slates and civil war — but of reconciliation and
peace at the expense of a deadly compromise of principle. Nothing will destroy
the republic but what corrupts its conscience and disturbs its fame — for the stain
upon the honor must come off upon the flag. If, on the other hand, the North
stands fast on the moral ground, no glory will be like your glory, — your frontiers
may diminish but your essential greatness will increase, your foes may be of your
own household, but your friends must be among all just and righteous men
whether in the body or out of the body. You are "compassed by a great cloud
of witnesses " and can afford to risk anything except conscience. Ought not the
North, for instance, to propose a pecuniary compromise, taxing itself for compen-
sation to the South. What surprises me is that the slaves don't rise.
Never imagine from anything said to you by Mr. Bayard Taylor, who remem-
bers far too well a mere historical remark of mine upon the influence of govern-
ment on art, that I am non-republican. I honor republicanism everywhere as an
expression of the people, but it seems to me that a theoretical attachment to any
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form of government whatever is simply pedantry, as if one should insist on
everybody's wearing one kind of hat, or adopting one attitude. A genuine
government is simply the attitude of that special people. What we require for
every man (or state) is life, health, muscular freedom to choose his own attitude.
Let us be for the democracy and leave the rest. Who cares for the figure at the
helm so long as the people's wind is in the sails ? I care little. Only I do care
that the democracy should have power — that each man should have the inherit-
ance of a man and the right of voting where he is taxed. So this is my creed.
If I had an opportunity I would send you photographs of my husband and even
of myself — though I had better rest with you perhaps in the engraving which
you think like Mrs. Tilton, since that surely must have points in my favor.
Three little daughters have you ? That is better than one little son — seeing that
we often feel it too frightful to have all our treasure in a single coin. The pure
gold of it only increases the fear. Oh — I must send you a photograph of our boy.
We shall be in Rome till May and then return to Florence.
Napoleon will come out admirably in the Italian results. He has had Europe
at the end of the diplomatical sword of fence, and a European coalition against
him as no remote contingency. Often what has seemed like opposition to our
progress here, has simply been putting on the drag down hill when the wheel
was inclined to a perilous velocity. But there are some who cannot understand,
and more who will not. It will be enough that the Italian nation understands.
As to novel-writing, I go so naturally into verse. What is truth in my con-
victions as well as what is warmest in my emotions run naturally to rhyme.
And life is short and art long — as has been said once or twice before. Then
you have Mrs. Stowe. Her new story opens beautifully and promises what she
can keep. I congratulate the Independent upon it.
That is all for to-day. My husband unites in regards with me, and I remain
most truly your friend
ELIZABETH B. BROWNING.
Five portraits: 1, from the original painting by Chappel ; 2,
nameless; 3, Etched by H. B. Hall, N. Y., 1876; 4, Engraved
by G. E. Ferine & Co.; 5, Engraved for the Eclectic by Ferine
& Giles, N. Y.
Browning, Robert, English poet, born at Camberwell, 7 May, 1812,
died at Venice, 12 December, 1889.
Letter to Theodore Tilton, written a few weeks after Mrs.
BroAvning's death, from St. Enogat in Brittany, where Mr. Brown-
ing was staying with his father and sister.
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The letter has never been published and is therefore printed in full.
St. Enogat pres Dinard, France, Sept. 11, 1861.
My dear si — (or rather, reciprocating an affectionate expression of yours,
shall I not say? My dear Friend) — I have felt the very kindness of your letter
stop more than one attempt to say something in reply to it : this, that I am resolved
to write now, may at least tell you that I was neither insensible nor ungrateful
when your two newspapers, together with that letter reached me. I will not try
and explain why it is that, by what might pass for a fantastic perversion of feel-
ing, all the last things seem almost unduly precious, — last incidents, last appre-
ciations, last kindnesses — and it is certainly not because our acquaintance with
you was late in the day, that it will be the less valued. Let me hope that, with-
out my motive, you will, for your part, continue to hold what you have so gener-
ously taken up, and remember that the dim days before me could ill spare the
light of a single kind face I count upon. One day, if ever we see each other
face to face, I may correct some of the mis-statements which have got into
currency, and a few of which re-appear in your notice. Dear Hillard's story is
altogether a myth, for instance. But absolutely nothing of the private life ever
transpired, and fancies like this do no great harm. I have seen no other notices,
indeed no other American newspapers, in this wild corner of Brittany where I
am endeavoring to regain strength of various kinds. In a fortnight I shall be in
London where I must occupy myself with the education of my only child. On
my arrival I will send you the photograph you had the goodness to desire — and
another, taken a few days before our departure from Rome, — one so nearly all /
could desire as to put the previous attempts out of my thoughts : there is a
photograph also from a picture made of the room in Casa Guidi we have been
used to for fourteen years, which may go with the rest. I will send these, — say
for me — to dear Page, to Hillard and to other friends of whose sympathy I am
sure. Thank them deeply.
Chapman wrote me nearly two months ago to say that a new edition of the
Poems was wanted at once. I shall attend to this on my return to England, but
I may say something to you at once. There remain unpublished a few poems,
reserved for another volume. Some of them are among the writer's best, she
thought, and I think. Do you wish to print these, as you printed the others?
only, I suppose I should add, in closer succession so as to enable Chapman to
include them in the edition which I should retard till the latest possible. The
intense excitement of your own politics may have changed the direction of the
interest of your readers ; I can well understand if it be so ; but your own munifi-
cence renders such a question necessary. My wife would never, of late years,
write for any other periodical than yours and Thackeray's — for whom she had a
personal friendship : the last poem she ever wrote, an exquisite one, was sent
to his Magazine — but I countermanded it — nor is there any publication to which
I shall entrust that and the rest unless to yours. You will tell me by a word to
the care of Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly.
I have never heard from Mr, Francis, by the way, since he printed the
"Napoleon III," etc. — does he wish me to continue to send him early proof-sheets
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of whatever else may be published in England? I, too, have lost the "explana-
tion of American affairs" and what can I. do, in the absence of authentic infor-
mation, but assure you, however unnecessarily, of my belief in the justice, and
confidence in the triumph of the Great Cause ? I shall soon know a little of the
truth on recent events only to be guessed at now, but on the righteousness of
the principle I want no information. God prosper it and its defenders !
Ever yours affectionately and gratefully, ROBERT BROWNING,
Portrait, etching from an early picture, some time before 1854.
Bryant, William Cullen, American poet and editor, born at Cumming-
ton, Mass., 3 November, 1794, died in New York, 12 June, 1878.
Manuscript of the Preface to his translation of the Odyssey [883
25], dated [August] 1871.
Burke, Edmund, Irish statesman, born in Dublin in 1729, died at Bea-
consfield, 9 July, 1797.
Letter, dated 23 November, 1779, to a person unknown who had
presented a book, also unknown, with a complimentary letter, to
Mr. Burke.
Engraved portrait.
Burns, Robert, Scotch poet, born at Alloway in Ayrshire, 25 January,
1759, died at Dumfries, 21 July, 1796.
Manuscripts of two songs, "Robin shure in hairst " and "The
banks of Nith." The first is a revision of an old song called
"Robin sheared in hairst." Burns writes of it, in a letter of 6
January, 1789, to Robert Ainslie, who was Burns' s companion on
his first tour to the Border counties :
"I am still catering for Johnson's publication; and, among
others, I have brushed up the following old favorite song a little,
with a view to your worship. ' '
The song, as amended, was first printed in the sixth volume of
Johnson's The Scot' s Musical Museum, 1803.
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The second song, " The Banks of Nith," was printed in the third
vokime of The Scot's Musical Museum, 1790, to the tune " Robie
donna gorach," by Captain Riddel in the measure of "Goodnight
and joy be wi' ye a'."
Both songs are reproduced in " The Complete Works of Robert
Bunts," Gebbie, Phila., 1886, volume 3, pages 38 and 70 [821.2
B967— 7].
Two portraits: 1, engraved by J. B. Hunt from the painting by
A. Nasmyth in 1787 now in the National Gallery, Edinburgh; 2,
engraved by H. Robinson from the original chalk drawing by
Archibald Skirving now in Sir Theodore Martin's collection.
Burr, Aaron, American statesman, born in Newark, N. J., 6 February,
1756, died on Staten Island, N. Y., 14 September, 1836.
Leaf from an index in manuscript, made by Burr while he was
practicing law in Albany. The history of the manuscript is given
in an accompanying letter of identification written by the Hon.
Lewis B. Proctor of Albany.
Portrait, engraved by E. G. Williams & Brother, from a painting
by J. Vandyke.
Burroughs, John, American naturalist and author, born in Roxbury,
Mass., 3 April, 1837.
Signed manuscript of " Winter neighbors, ' ' an essay first published
in the Century for December, 1884, volume 7, page 218, afterward
included in his volume A Year in the Fields [824.1 B972.y].
Portrait, wood -engraving, nameless.
Byron, George Gordon Noel, Baron Byron of Rochdale, English poet,
born in London, 22 January, 1788, died at Missolonghi, Greece,
19 April, 1824.
Personal letter to Th. B. Hoppner, British consul-general at
Venice. The stanza included in the letter was written in celebration
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of the birth of Mr. Hoppner's little son, who was christened
John William Rizzo. The stanza was translated into ten different
languages: see Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, \o\-
ume 2, page 114 [928.2 B.99.mo].
January 18th, 1818
I wish you Joy and hope that the young Venetian and his Mother are both
doing their best.
His father's Sense, his Mother's Grace
In Him I hope will always fit so
With (still to keep him in good case)
The Health and Appetite of Rizzo.
Yrs ever B.
Portrait, steel-engraving by H. Meyer, from the original drawing,
made in 1817, by George Henry Harlow.
Cable, George Washington, American author, born in New Orleans,
La., 12 October, 1844.
Manuscript of ''A disinterested report," a paper, written about
1881, on the educational work of the American Missionary Asso-
ciation in the south, compiled by Mr. Cable from the testimony
of southern white men. The report is written with pencil upon
the reverse of a patent medicine circular and is wonderfully legible
and precise. Mr. Cable adds a note to the manuscript saying that
it is the first draft of the article, written with the left hand, and
quite different from the final copy for the printer.
Manuscript of article ''The silent south," first published in
the Century for September, 1885, volume 8, page 674, reprinted,
during the same year, in a volume called ^^The Silent South, together
with The Freedman^ s Case in Equity, and The Convict Lease Sys-
tem'' [974.5 21].
Campbell, Thomas, Scotch poet, born at Glasgow, 27 July, 1777, died
at Boulogne, 15 June, 1843.
Manuscript of "The emigrant," a poem published anonymously
in 1823 in the New Monthly Magazine, which Campbell edited from
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1820 to 1830. The lines are not included in ordinary collections
of Campbell's poems and are therefore reproduced :
"THE EMIGRANT.
When fax- scls the forests on blaze,
It expires on their desolate track ;
But the love which has lighted our days,
Still burns when our prospects are black.
I must go to the Huron's wild grounds.
Whilst thou bloom' St to thine own native sun ;
Oh, the ocean that parts us has bounds.
But the grief of our parting has none.
Can the eagle fly home to his mate ?
Can he build by Niagara's foam ?
And are we interdicted by fate
From a spot of the world for our home ?
Thou art lost to me ev'n as the dead,
And our tears unavailingly flow ;
Yet to think they could cease to be shed.
Would be worse than this burthen of woe."
Portrait, engraved, nameless.
Carleton, William, generally known as "Will Carleton," American
poet, born in Hudson, Mich., 21 October, 1845.
Manuscript of "Will Carleton's Walks; above and under the
seething falls of Niagara."
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, born at Haddington, 14 July, 1801, mar-
ried to Thomas Carlyle 17 October, 1826, died 21 April, 1866.
Private letter without address, place, or date, of no general
interest.
Gary, Miss Phoebe, American poet, born near Cincinnati, 24 Septem-
ber, 1824, died in Newport, R. I., 31 July, 1871.
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Letter, dated New York, February 9, 1858, to Mr. Tilton, accom-
panying a poem sent to the Independent.
Portrait, steel engraving, nameless.
Channing, The Rev. William Ellery, American clergyman, born in
Newport, R. I., 7 April, 1780, died in Bennington, Vt., 2 Octo-
ber, 1842.
Manuscript of " A sunset walk," a poem in blank verse.
Portrait, engraved by J. Cheney from a painting by Washington
Allston in 1811.
Chapin, The Rev. Edwin Hubbell, American clergyman, for many
years pastor of the Fourth Universalist Society, New York, born in
Union Village, N. Y., 29 December, 1814, died in New York City,
27 December, 1880.
Manuscript of a sermon, preached in the Broadway church, 19
May, 1861, called "The crown of life," from the text in James
i:12.
Chase, Salmon Portland, American statesman and jurist, born in Cor-
nish, N. H., 13 January, 1808, chief justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States from 6 December, 1864, until his death in
New York City, 7 May, 1873.
Two letters, the first dated Washington, 9 July, 1867, the second
dated Washington, 19 April, 1868, both to Theodore Tilton.
The earlier letter, omitting the last paragraph, is published in
Robert B. Warden's Account of the Private Life and Public Services
of Salmon Portland Chase, 1874, page 668 [928.1 C.386.w].
The second letter, though marked " strictly private," is published
in J. W. Shuckers's Life and Public Services of Sal?no?t Portland
Chase, 1874, page 579 [923.1 C.386.s].
Portrait, engraved by H. B. Hall, Jr., from a photograph.
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Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, Mrs. Seth Wells Cheney, American
author, born in Boston, 27 June, 1824.
Autograph copy of her translation of six out of thirteen " Selec-
tions from forty-eight epitaphs for Cecchino Bracci Fiorentino, who
died in Rome in his seventeenth year, Jan. 8, 1654 " published in
Selected Poems from Michelangelo Buonarroti, with translations
from various sources, edited by Ednah D. Cheney [851 10].
Cheney, John Vance, American poet and librarian, born in Grove-
land, N. Y., 29 December, 1848.
Signed manuscript of "Young love is lord," a poem first pub-
lished in the Century for April, 1886, volume 9, page 900.
Signed manuscript of "Lass Lurline," a poem first published
in the Century for August, 1885, volume 8, page 656.
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, Mrs. David Lee Child, American author,
born in Medford, Mass., 11 February, 1802, died in Wayland,
Mass., 20 October, 1880.
A series of six personal letters, dated Wayland, Mass., from 12
February, 1860, to 27 May, 1866, to Theodore Tilton.
All the letters, save the last one, date from the troubled period
of the civil war. Mrs. Child was one of the earliest and most out-
spoken of abolitionists and the letters are full of allusions which
show how bitter even a woman of her natural tolerance and sweet-
ness of disposition could become under the excitement of the great
struggle. The letters contain too many personal allusions to be
printed.
Clarke, The Rev. James Freeman, American clergyman, for many years
pastor of the Church of the Disciples, Boston, born in Hanover,
N. H., 4 April, 1810, died in Jamaica Plain, Mass., 8 June, 1888.
Manuscript of " The machine in politics and religion," a sermon
preached 22 October, 1882, in the Church of the Disciples, Boston,
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from the text in Ezekiel i : 20, "The spirit of the living creature
was in the wheels," afterward published as chapter twenty-five,
" Moral mechanics and dynamics," in the volume Every-Day
Religion [241 62] .
Clay, Henry, American statesman, born in Hanover Co., Va., 12
April, 1777, died in Washington, 29 June, 1852.
Letter, dated White Sulphur Springs, 7 July, 1828, to Col.
Joseph Lovell and a group of gentlemen of Kanawha Court House,
now Charleston, West Virginia, expressing Mr. Clay's regret at
being unable to accept an invitation to a public dinner in his
honor.
Letter, dated 1-3 July, also to Col. Lovell, accompanying an
address, evidently asked for by the same group of gentlemen,
which is to be used at their discretion. The address is occu-
pied with two subjects : first, a defense of himself against the
"bargain and corruption" charges which were made directly after
his acceptance of the portfolio of state from President John
Quincy Adams ; second, a statement of his ideas on the "Ameri-
can system," otherwise the tariff.
Letter, dated Ashland, 18 June, 1833, to Messrs. Parks and
Southworth, referring them to printed sources for details as to his
life for use in a work on American Statesmen and Orators.
Portrait, engraved by A. Sealey from a daguerreotype by Root.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, American author, known as "Mark
Twain," born in Florida, Monroe Co., Mo., 30 November, 1835.
Manuscript of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's
comrade, scene, the Mississippi valley, time, forty to fifty years ago.
First published by Charles L. Webster & Co. in 1885 [T97— 2].
Cleveland, Grover, twenty-second president of the United States,
born in Caldwell, N. J., 18 March, 1837.
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Manuscript of ** A proclamation by the President of the United
States" for Tiianksgiving Day, dated 2 November, 1885.
Letter, dated Executive Mansion, Washington, 13 December,
1885, to Mr. J. N. Larned, concerning the manuscript entered
above.
Cobbe, Miss Frances Power, Irish author and philanthropist, born in
Dublin, 4 December, 1822.
Signed manuscript of the conclusion of an article, dated
February, 1886, on "Faith healing and fear killing," pub-
lished in the Contemporary Review for June, 1887, volume 51,
page 794.
This bright, wholesome-minded Irishwoman after seventy long,
busy years could, in the preface to her Life, [928.2 C.633],
write the following :
"I would gladly accept the permission to run my earthly race
once more from beginning to end, taking sunshine and shade
just as they have flickered over the long vista of my seventy
years."
The printed form of the article differs somewhat from this manu-
script, which is as follows :
" Old Selden in his Table Talk says ' To preach long and loud and damnation
is the way to be cried up. Men love the man who damns them and run after him
again to save them ! ' The secret has I fear been bequeathed to our modern
priests the doctors. It is right and proper for them to warn us in moderation
but they carry the joke too far. ' Touch not ! Taste not ! Handle not ! There
is death in the Pot ! 'Ware Microbes here ! 'Ware bacili there ! 'Ware drains
everywhere ! All the world's a hospital and all the men and women merely
patients.' They point to our hearts and bid us be anxious for nothing, not on
Christian principles but lest we 'dilate' that 'muscle.' They point to our
stomachs and repeat practically, Voltaire's inscription on the statue of Love, —
' Qui que til sots, void t07t maUre
II Vest, le flit oil le doit etre f '
There is no end to the ' host of spectres pale ' which beleaguer us summoned by
their spells and clothed with additional terrors by the alarming new scientific names
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they have bestowed nn them. But there ought to be some limits to this perpet-
ual cry of ' Wolf ! Wolf ! ' We must all die sooner or later whether with the
aid of scientific advisers or without it ; and it would be better to die sooner, pur-
suing noble objects, performing natural duties and enjoying natural pleasures, than
a little later, amid pitiful anxieties and odious inoculations and messes, like the
years of the existence of Moliere's ' Malade Imaginaire. ' Perhaps we may never
discover the secret of 'Faith Healing'; but at least we can avoid 'Fear Killing'
— dying by inches out of sheer anxiety to live, and being slain at last by the
very dread of death."
Cockburn, Sir George, British admiral of the fleet, born in 1772, died
19 August, 1853.
Copy in manuscript of "Extract from a Diary with particular
reference to General Napoleon Bonaparte on the passage from Eng-
land to Saint Helena in 1815 on board H. M. S. Northumberland
bearing the Rear Admiral's Flag." This copy was sent to Lord
Shaftesbury with the following letter of explanation :
St. Katharine's, June 16, 1860.
Aly Lord :
Since the future policy of Napoleon the 3d, agreeably to the expression
of His Majesty's own writings, appears to be the gradual development of the
views of the ist Emperor, tempered by passing events, I have ventured to
request the presentation of the accompanying copy of a M. S.S. to your Lordship,
with the hope that it may prove interesting and perhaps useful, in throwing addi-
tional light upon subjects of probable importance to the Government. It has
not been published either at home or abroad. Your Lordship may fully rely upon
the authenticity of the M. S. S. I have the honor to remain My Lord your obedi-
ent and faithful servant JOHN G. H. HILL.
The manuscript has since been published, in 1888, with the above
title, with a preface by Thos. Salkeld Borradaile [944.5 227] the
printed book varying from this copy in being somewhat more
complete.
Coleridge, Hartley, English author, eldest son of Samuel Taylor Cole-
ridge, born at Clevedon, Somersetshire, 19 September, 1796, died
at Grasmere, 6 January, 1849.
Original manuscript of "Address to certain golden fishes," a
poem first published in the Literary Souvenir for 1830, included in
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his ^'^ Poems, with a memoir of his life, by his Brother'''' volume 1,
page 123 [821.2 C6928— 1].
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, English poet and philosopher, born at Ottery
St. Mary, 21 October, 1772, died at Highgate, 25 July, 1834.
Signed manuscript of a sonnet "To Mr. William Linley."
The sonnet was first printed in the Annual Anthology, Bristol,
1800, and is reproduced in editions of Coleridge's poems among
the "Sibylline Leaves," under the title "Lines to W. L., Esq.
while he sang a song to Purcell's music" [821.2 C693 — 3].
William Linley was the youngest brother of the three famous
Linley sisters, one of whom was the wife of Richard Brinsley
Sheridan. He was a composer and author of some note and in
his youth a charming singer.
The manuscript differs slightly from the printed versions and for
this reason is reprinted :
" While my young cheek preserves its healthful hues
And I have many friends, who hold me dear —
Linley ! methinks, I would not often hear
Such melodies as thine, lest I should lose
All memory of the wrongs and sore distress
For which my miserable brethren weep :
But should uncomforted misfortunes steep
My daily bread in tears and bitterness,
And if in Death's dread moment I should lie
With no beloved face by my bed side
To catch the last glance of my closing eye
O God ! such songs breath'd by my angel guide
Would make me pass the cup of anguish by,
Mix with the blest, nor know that I had died ! "
(Dated)
Donhead
September 12, 1797.
Portrait, engraved, nameless.
Collins, William Wilkie, English author, born in London, January
1824, died in London, 23 September, 1889.
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Manuscript of '^^ The T%vo Destinies'''' first published in Temple
Bar volumes 46-48, from January to September, 1876, and issued
in book form in the latter part of the same year [C7138 — 31] .
The manuscript is endorsed "Presented to the Buffalo Library,
U. S. A., by Wilkie Collins, London, 23 June, 1886."
Portrait, engraved on steel by F. Halpine from a photograph.
Collyer, The Rev. Robert, Unitarian clergyman, born in Keighley,
England, 8 December, 1823.
Letter, dated Chicago, 19 September, 1864, to Theodore Tilton.
The writer was pastor of Unity Church, Chicago, at the time of
this letter, which gives a general account of the success of his work
and some impressions of existing political conditions. Lincoln's
second election was pending and there were fears among his
friends that Fremont's candidacy would throw the election to
McClellan.
Portrait, engraved by George E. Perine from a photograph.
Cone, Miss Helen Gray, American poet, born in New York, 8 March,
1859, instructor in English literature in the Normal College of New
York City.
Signed manuscript of " Woodnotes from a cage," a poem pub-
lished in St. Nicholas for November, 1885, volume 13, pt. 1,
page 36.
Autograph copy of two poems, "Oberon" and "Puck" which
form respectively the introductions to the grave and gay portions of
her volume Oberon and Fuck [821.1 C7470]. The author gives
May, 1885, as the date when the poems were written, and copied
them for this collection 17 February, 1886.
Congreve, William, English dramatist, born at Bardsey, near Leeds, in
1670, died in London, 19 January, 1729.
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Manuscript of an eight-line stanza, dated at Bath, 24 August,
1728, evidently written while the poet was in that city with the
Duchess of Marlborough and the poet Gay :
" Not so robust in body as in mind
And allways undejected tho' declined
Not wondering at the world's new wicked ways
Compared with Those of our Fore father's days
For Virtue now is neither more nor less
And Vice is only varied in the Dress
Believe it Men have ever been the same
And all the Golden age is but a Dream."
Conway, The Rev. Moncure Daniel, Unitarian clergyman, born at
Middleton, Stafford Co., Va., 17 March, 1832.
Letter, dated Concord, Mass., February 26, [1863], to Theodore
Tilton.
"Your note was rec'd a day or two ago. My narrative of my own emancipa-
tion and that of my father's slaves by their own efforts, and our adventures in
passing under the Cloud and through the Sea, has excited a good deal of atten-
tion and feeling in my audiences. So long as I have calls to give it as a lecture
as frequently as now I shall not print it. There is now a project on foot among
some of the anti-slavery folks of this region to send me over to England at this
juncture of affairs there to bear a Virginian's testimony concerning American
Slavery, and sketch the traitors, (many of the leading ones I know personally).
So in that case I shall take all my lectures. But I tell you what I would like
very much before I go, — which will be early in April, — and that is to give my
story in New York. Couldn't I give it in Plymouth Church ? I had rather give it
there than in Cheever's where I gave it before. Love to Mr. Beecher and thanks
for his having uprooted that Weed."
Cook, Clarence Chatham, American art critic and author, born in Dor-
chester, Mass., 8 September, 1828.
Letter, dated 78th St. [New York] Nov. 7th, 1861, to Charles
A. Dana. Mr. Dana's differences with Mr. Greeley on the conduct
of the civil war had not yet caused the former to leave the Tribune.
Mr. Cook was at this time a member of the Tribune staff. The
letter gives an inside view of the facts in the case commented upon
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by the Tribune in a leading article called *' Good for stock-
jobbers. ' '
Letter, dated 11 October, 1864, [to Theodore Tilton], com-
menting on a review of a picture by Carpenter [President Lincoln
signing the proclamation of emancipation] in the Independent. The
following extract is interesting as showing a protest against the
theory "art for art's sake " made thirty-five years ago.
" 'Art ' is not dillettanteism nor make-believe of any sort — it is as wide and
deep as humanity, and is, or ought to be, the exponent of what is profoundest in
iiuman experience. The poor, the sick, the suffering, the deeply troubled ought to
be helped, comforted, lifted up by the artist — 'tis one of the sweetest, strongest
chains by which God draws us to him, and it is simply folly to try at this late
day to take away from God this servant of his and insist that he is no temple-
server, nor priest, no, nor even altar-boy, but only a paid panderer to our pleas-
ures, to the lowest of them too — a hired dancer and of the lower sort too. In
no canting, and in no merely sectarian or theologic sense is this view to be fought
against, tooth and nail, to the destruction it may be of all the little men who so
vigorously defend the trade by which they get their bread and butter — but in a
high, determined spirit as fighting to gain and keep for the side of Truth and
Goodness one of God's messengers who has for three hundred years or so been
made to serve the Adversary with too great diligence,"
Coolbrith, Miss Ina Donna, California poet, formerly librarian of Oak-
land Public Library, born near Springfield, 111.
Signed manuscript of "Retrospect: Los Angeles," first pub-
lished in the Cenhtry for February, 1886, volume 9, page 536.
Cooper, James Fenimore, American author, born in Burlington, N. J.,
15 September, 1789, died in Cooperstown, N. Y., 14 September,
1851.
Manuscript of part of chapter sixteen of The Headsman, or The
Abbaye des Vignerons'' [C777— 7] first published in 1833. The
manuscript is accompanied by a letter from Paul F. Cooper, the
son of the novelist, to L. B. Proctor, Esq. and a letter from the
latter to James F. Gluck reconveying the manuscript to him.
Portrait engraved by J. C. Buttre from a daguerreotype by Brady
in September, 1850, in possession of Mrs. H. F. Phinney.
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Cowper, William, English poet, born at Great Berkhampstead, 15 No-
vember, 1731, died at East Dereham, 25 April, 1800.
A long, interesting letter from the poet whom Southey called
"the best of English letter-writers," dated Weston, 25 March,
1791 to Lady Hesketh, written the spring before the publica-
tion of his translation of Homer. The letter is published in
the fourth volume of the Bohn edition of his works [821.2
C876— 1].
Vignette portrait, engraved by H. Robinson.
Crabbe, The Rev. George, English poet, born at Aldeburgh, Suffolk,
24 December, 1754, died at Trowbridge, 3 February, 1832.
Manuscript sermon first preached at Trowbridge, 14 August, 1825
from the text in 1 Thessalonians iv : 1.
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, Mrs. George Lillie Craik, English author,
born at Stokeham-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, 20 April, 1826, died
at Shortlands, Kent, 12 October, 1887.
Manuscript of "In the Happy Valley, by the author of John
Halifax, Gentleman," a story published in Our Yoiaig Folks for
July, 1869, volume 5, page 444.
Cranch, Christopher Pearse, American painter and poet, born at Alex-
andria, Va. , 8 March, 1813, died in Cambridge, Mass., 20 January,
1892.
Manuscripts of the following poems, " Ralph Waldo Emerson ;
The lady's sonnet : Twilight ; The lover's sonnet : Midnight ;
After-life ; Prince Yousuf and the Alcayde, a ballad," all of which
were published in his volume '■^ Ariel and Caliban, with other poems
[821.1 C89.a].
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Crawford, Francis Marion, American novelist, son of Thomas Craw-
ford, the sculptor, born in Italy, 2 August, 1845.
Signed manuscript of chapters twenty-three and twenty-four of
his novel A Roman Singer, first printed in the Atlantic Monthly, July,
1883 — June, 1884, volumes 52 and 53, afterward published in book
form [C902— 18].
Curtis, George William, American author and reformer, born in Provi-
dence, R. I., 24 February, 1824, died on Staten Island, N. Y., 31
August, 1892.
Manuscript of the " Easy Chair " from Harper' s Monthly for Jan-
uary, 1886, volume 72, page 315, with a letter, dated 19 Decem-
ber, 1885, to Mr. Gluck concerning it.
Two personal letters, dated North Shore, 18 and 23 October,
1865, to Theodore Tilton. The letters tell of the delight of Mr.
Curtis's children over the gift, from the author, of Mr. Tilton's
books Golden-Haired Gertrude, and The Fly.
Portrait, engraved by J. C. Buttre from an early drawing.
Dana, Richard Henry, American author, born in Cambridge, Mass., 15
November, 1787, died in Boston, 2 February, 1879.
Signed autograph copy of the "Introduction to the Buccaneer,"
accompanied by a note, dated 43 Chestnut St., Jan. 23, 1841 to G.
S. Hillard, Esq.
" The Buccaneer " is Mr. Dana's best known poem and was first
published in 1827. It is included in Poetical and Prose Writings
[820.1 D169vl]. The five stanzas of the Introduction maybe
found in many collections of poetry.
The note is as follows :
My dear sir : Making an autographic exhibition of myself runs counter to my
idiosyncrasy but I cannot refuse yoic. And under the same loving necessity I send
you the lines that you ask a copy of.
R. H. D.
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Davis, Jefferson, President of the Confederate States of America, born
in Todd Co., Kentucky, 3 June, 1808, died in New Orleans, La., 6
December, 1889.
Letter, dated War Dept., 23 December, 1854, to L C. McMahon,
Washington, D. C. Mr. Davis was secretary of war under Presi-
dent Pierce at this time. The letter concerns an official detail
and is interesting solely as a specimen of Mr. Davis's hand-
writing.
Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding, Mrs. Lemuel Clark Davis, born in
Washington, Pa., 24 June, 1831.
Signed manuscript of "Some testimony in the case," an article
on the negro problem, first published in the Atlantic Monthly for
November, 1885, volume 56, page 602. The manuscript is accom-
panied by a letter from Mrs. Davis to Mr. Aldrich, at that time the
editor of the Atlajitic Monthly.
De Kay, Charles, American poet and journalist, for some years literary
editor of the New York Times, grandson of Joseph Rodman Drake,
born at Washington, D. C, 25 July, 1848.
Manuscript of an article on Antoine Louis Barye, written under
the pseudonym Henry Eckford, first published in the Century for
February, 1886, volume 9, page 483.
DeQuincey, Thomas, English author, born at Greenhay, Manchester,
15 August, 1785, died at Lasswade, near Edinburgh, 8 December,
1859.
Proof-sheets, with many corrections and additions, viz.: manu-
script and proofs of the Preface to "Essays sceptical and anti-
sceptical ; " proofs from "Miracles as subjects of testimony;"
from "Casuistry;" from "Greece under the Romans;" from
" Homer and the Homeridte," and thirty-four notes, most of them
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without address or signature, according to DeQuincey's habit,
nearly all of them addressed to his publishers.
The notes, many of which are written on odd scraps of paper,
are filled with side-lights on the author's physical condition and
with hints of his pecuniary difficulties. Taken together they make
a picture of DeQuincey's existence which appeals strongly to the
reader's sympathy.
Portrait, anonymous steel-engraving.
Dickens, Charles, English author born at 387 Mile End Terrace,
Commercial Road, Landsport, Portsea, 7 February, 1812, died at
Gadshill, 9 June, 1870.
Manuscript of " The great international walking match of Febru-
ary 29th, 1868." The match was devised by Dickens during his
trip to America in 1868 and was managed by him and James T.
Fields. The latter prints this description, somewhat altered by
the author, in his Yesterdays with Authors, pages 177-183 [824.1
F462.y].
A private letter to James R. Osgood, from Norwich, March 29th,
1867, answering a proposition to write for the new children's maga-
zine published by Ticknor and Fields and agreeing to give a story
of the length of Hunted Down for ;^1000. The story, *' Holiday
romance," was published in Our Young Folks, January, March,
April and May, 1868, volume 4.
Letter to Fields, Osgood & Co. from office of All the Year
Roufid, March 2, 1869.
Five portraits: 1, engraving, anonymous; 2, engraving by
D. J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall ; 3, engraving by J. A.
J. Wilcox ; 4, outline engraving by C. H. Jeens from the Maclise
painting of 1839 ; 5, engraving by J. C. Buttre.
Dickinson, Miss Anna Elizabeth, American orator and reformer, born
in Philadelphia, 28 October, 1842.
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Personal letter, dated Philadelphia, May 15, 1867, to Theodore
Tilton.
Portraits: 1, engraved by G. E. Perine ; 2, process cut from
a photograph by Sarony.
Disraeli, Isaac, English author, of Jewish descent, father of Lord
Beaconsfield, born at Enfield, Middlesex, May, 1766, died at Brad-
enham House, Buckinghamshire, 19 January, 1848.
Manuscript of a poem, dated Brighton, 3 August, 1805, "The
English Muse to Thomas Powell, Esq., on his having composed
two comic-heroic poems in English and in French."
The English poem was called "Emma, or The Baculiniad,"
the French " La Diane au Bain."
Miisa loquitur :
" Unfilial traitor ! oft I hailed thy strain
When Emtna was the vision of thy brain ;
But now a rebel in this bold essay —
Oh crime unknown ! — six chants en vers frant^ais !
Mine are these ardours ! all the fancy mine !
My freer genius nerves each gallic line ;
With my own arms thou makest my Rival strong ;
The british flame, breaks in her colder song !
Ingrate ! these foreign bays in vain you boast,
Your crime self-punished views the glory lost !
The applauding Gaul who reads thy sportive strain
Shall wreathe these vine-leaves round the Muse of Seine ;
Shall laugh to scorn thy ever-baffled claim,
And eager rase the impostor's English name"
MUSA ANGLICANA.
Dodge, Miss Mary Abby, American author, better known by her pen-
name, "Gail Hamilton," born in Hamilton, Mass., in 1833, died
17 August, 1896.
Signed manuscript of an essay on "Words," presented to Mr.
Gluck for the library by James Redpath.
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A brilliant, characteristic, personal letter, dated Hamilton, Mass.,
13 November, 1869, to Theodore Tilton, beginning as follows:
" I am long-suffering and forgiving to a fault but never, while reason remains
will I write for a man who calls me Abigail Dodge i Suppose I should up and
call you Theodolite Tilton would you not scintillate through three columns of the
Lidependent \x\ a fine frenzy rolling? Generally I don't answer Abigail letters at
all — looking into space with a lofty disdain."
Dodge, Mary Mapes, Mrs. William Dodge, American author, editor of
St. Nicholas, born in New York City in 1838.
Autograph copy, signed, of the second stanza of the poem
"Heart-oracles," included in her volume Along the luay [821.1
D645.a].
Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley, Mrs. Seneca R. Dorr, American poet and
novelist, born in Charleston, S. C, 13 February, 1825.
Letter, dated Rutland, Vt., 4 August, 1886, to Mr. Gluck, accom-
panying an autograph copy of her poem " A dream of songs unsung,"
dated 4 January, 1884, published in her volume Afternoon Songs
[821.1 D716.a].
Dorset, Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of, and Earl of Middlesex, English
poet and courtier, born 24 January, 1637-8, died at Bath, 29 Jan-
uary, 1706.
Manuscript of two characteristic stanzas called "Another new
song to Cloris from the Blind Archer." The manuscript is from
Alexander Pope's collection and bears an indorsement by him of its
genuineness.
Douglass, Frederick, Negro journalist and orator, born at Tuckahoe,
Md., February, 1817, died in Washington, 20 February, 1895.
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Letter, dated Rochester, 20 June, 1863, to Theodore Tilton,
congratulating him on his anniversary speech on behalf of the negro
race and thanking him for it.
Letter, dated Rochester, 15 October, 1864, to Theodore Tilton,
which is printed in full, omitting some slight closing personalities :
Rochester, Oct. 15, 1804.
y]/i' Dear Mr. Tilton :
I am obliged by your favor containing a copy of your recent speech in Latimer
hall. I had read that speech in the Tribune several days ago, and in my heart
thanked you for daring thus to break the spell of enchantment which slavery,
though wounded, dying and despised, is still able to bind the tongues of our
republican orators. It was a timely word wisely and well spoken, the best and
most luminous spark struck from tlie flint and steel of this canvass. To all
appearance we have been more ashamed of the negro during this canvass than
those of '56 and '60. The President's " To wkoja it may concern,'''' frightened
his party and his party in return frightened the President. I found him in this
alarmed condition when I called upon him six weeks ago — and it is well to note the
time. The country was struck with one of those bewilderments which dethrone
reason for the moment. Every body was thinking and dreaming of peace — and
the impression had gone abroad that the President's antislavery policy was about
the only thing which prevented a peaceful settlement with the Rebels. McClellan
was nominated and at that time his prospects were bright as Mr. Lincoln's were
gloomy. You must therefore, judge the President's words in the light of the cir-
cumstances in which he spoke. Atlanta had not fallen ; Sheridan had not swept
the Shenandoah — and men were ready for peace almost at any price. The Presi-
dent was pressed on every hand to modify his letter " To whom it may concern "
— how to meet this pressure he did me the honor to ask my opinion. He showed
me a letter written with a view to meet the peace clamour raised against him.
The first point made in it was the important fact that no man or set of men
authorized to speak for the Confederate Government had ever submitted a propo-
sition for peace to him. Hence the charge that he had in some way stood in the
way of peace fell to the ground. He had always stood ready to listen to any such
propositions. The next point referred to was the charge that he had in his
Niagara letter committed himself and the country to an abolition war rather than
a war for the union, so that even if the latter could be attained by negotiation,
the war would go on for Abolition. The President did not propose to take back
what he had said in his Niagara letter but wished to relieve the fears of his peace
friends by making it appear that the thing which they feared could not happen
and was wholly beyond his power. Even if I would, I could not carry on the
war for the abolition of slavery. The country would not sustain such a war and
I could do nothing without the support of Congress. I could not make the
abolition of slavery an absolute prior condition to the re-establishment of the
union. All that the President said on this point was to make manifest his want
of power to do the thing which his enemies and pretended friends professed to be
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afraid he would do. Now the question he put to me was " Shall I send forth this
letter?" To which I answered " Certainly not." It would be given a broader
meaning than you intend to convey — it would be taken as a complete surrender
of your antislavery policy — and do you serious damage. In answer to your
Copperhead accusers your friends can make this argument of your want of power
— but you cannot wisely say a word on that point. I have looked and feared
that Mr. Lincoln would say something of the sort, but he has been perfectly silent
on that point and I think will remain so. But the thing which alarmed me most
was this: The President said he wanted some plan devised by which we could
get more of the slaves within our lines. He thought that now was their time —
and that such only of them as succeeded in getting within our lines 7vould be free after
the war is over. This shows that the President only has faith in his proclamations
of freedom during the war and that he believes their operation will cease with the
war. We were long together and there was much said — but this is enough.
I gave my address, To the People of the U. S., to the Committee appointed to
publish the Minutes of the Convention. It is too lengthy for a newspaper
article though of course I should be very glad to see it noticed in the Independent.
You may not be aware that I do not see the Independent now-a-days. It was
discontinued several months ago. If you were not like myself taxed on every
hand both by your own disposition to give and the disposition of others to ask
I should ask you to send me the Independent for one year on your own account.
We had Anna Dickinson here on Thursday night. Her speech made a pro-
found impression. Nothing from Phillips, Beecher or yourself could have been
more eloquent, and in her masterly handling of statistics she reminded one of
Horace Mann in his palmiest days. I never listened to her with more wonder.
One thing however I think you can say to her, if you ever get the chance, for it
ought to be said and she will hear it and bear it from you, as well or better than
from most other persons, and that is Stop that walking. She walked incessantly
— back and forth — from one side the broad platform to the other. It is a new
trick and one which I neither think useful or ornamental but really a defect and
disfigurement. She would allow me to tell her so, I think, because she knows how
sincerely I appreciate both her wonderful talents and her equally wonderful devo-
tion to the cause of my enslaved race.
I am not doing much in this Presidential Canvass for the reason that Repub-
lican committees do not wish to expose themselves to the charge of being the
" Niggar " party. The negro is the deformed child which is put out of the room
when company comes. I hope to speak some after the election, though not much
before, and I am inclined to think I shall be able to speak all the more usefully
because I have had so little to say during the present canvass. I now look upon
the election of Mr. Lincoln as settled. When there was any shadow of a hope
that a man of more decided antislavery convictions and policy could be elected,
I was not for Mr. Lincoln, but as soon as the Chicago convention my mind was
made up and it is made up still. All dates changed with the nomination of
McClellan.
I hope that in listening to Mr. Stanton's version of my visit to the President
you kept in mind something of Mr. Stanton's own state of mind concerning
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public affairs. I found him in a very gloomy state of mind, much less hopeful
than myself, and yet more cheerful than I expected to find him. I judge from
your note that he must have imparted somewhat of the hue of his own mind
to my statements. He thinks far less of the President's honesty than I do, and
far less of his antislavery than I do. I have not yet come to think that honesty
and politics are incompatible.
Portrait, engraved by A. H. Ritchie from a photograph.
Dryden, John, English poet, born at Aldwinkle All Saints, Northamp-
tonshire, 9 August, 1631, died in London, 1 May, 1700.
Signed manuscript of the famous epistle "To my dear friend
Mr. Congreve on his Comedy called the ' Double Dealer.' "
Congreve's comedy was first played in November, 1693 but with-
out the popular favor that might have been anticipated from Dry-
den's almost fulsome praises.
The "epistle " is reproduced in good editions of Dryden \e. g.:
821.2 D799—lv2w- 821.2 D799— 2vll].
2 engraved portraits, nameless.
Dumas, Alexandre, French novelist and dramatist, born at Villers-
Cotterets (Aisne), 24 July, 1803, died at Puits near Dieppe, 5
December, 1870.
Short letter without place or date, giving a very good specimen
of the great novelist's handwriting and signature.
Eastman, Elaine Goodale, Mrs. Charles Eastman, American author
and teacher, born in Mount Washington, Mass., 9 October,
1863.
Letter, dated Hampton, Va., 28 December, 1885, to Mr. Gluck,
interesting only as an autograph.
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Edgeworth, Miss Maria, novelist, English by birth and family, Irish
by residence and sympathy, born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire,
1 January, 1767, died at Edgevvorthstown, 22 May, 1849.
Letter, dated Edgevvorthstown, 80 June, 1846, to "Messrs. T.
Robinson & Sons, Charleston, North America."
The letter is a request for the transmission, by the gentlemen to
whom it is addressed, of a package of Miss Edgeworth' s own writings
to her nephew, R. L. Edgeworth, resident in America. Though
the author was seventy-nine at this time, the writing is most
legible and steady and the letter very clearly and pleasantly
worded.
Portrait, engraved from the original painting by Chappell.
Biographers agree, however, that no portrait of Miss Edgeworth
was ever taken and that all so-called portraits of her are purely
fancy productions.
Edwards, Miss Amelia Blandford, English traveller, author and
archaeologist, born in 1831, died in London, 15 April, 1892.
Signed manuscript of "Monsieur Maurice, a novelette by the
author of ' Barbara's History,' etc." Written and first published
[E261— 8] in 1873 and presented 28 February, 1887, to Mr. Gluck
for the library.
Eggleston, The Rev. Edward, American author and clergyman, born in
Vevay, Ind., 10 December, 1837.
Manuscript of " A school of long ago," published in St. Nicholas
for July, 1885, volume 12, pt. 2, page 643.
Eliot, George, originally Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans, afterward Mrs.
George Henry Lewes, later Mrs. John William Cross, English
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novelist, born in Warwickshire, 22 November, 1819, died in
London, 22 December, 1880.
Letter, dated The Heights, Witley near Godalming, 8 June,
1879, to Mr. Triibner, concerning some proof errors in Theophrastiis
Such.
2 portraits: 1, etching by E. A. Fowle ; 2, etching by S. A.
Schoff.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, American author and philosopher, born in
Boston, 25 May, 1803, died in Concord, Mass., 27 April, 1882.
Signed manuscript of Representative men : seven lectures.
Francis H. Underwood preserved the manuscript and it bears the
following inscription in his handwriting: "This volume is made
up of the original manuscripts sent to the press by the illustrious
author. The handwriting is well known and the autograph is a
sufficient attestation. The manuscripts were preserved by me while
in the employ of the publishers of the works of Emerson, Messrs.
Phillips, Sampson & Co., between 1853 and 1859.
Boston, Dec. 7, 1873."
The manuscript shows traces of the author's habits of composition,
for nearly every page is scored and interlined with changes. Whole
paragraphs, whole pages in some cases, are scored out, sometimes
to appear again in another connection, sometimes to be rejected
entirely. The altered paging shows plainly the expansion of
thought as the subject was longer considered. The two earliest
essays are much more added to than the later ones. The lectures
were first delivered during the winter of 1845-46, beginning 11
December, before the Boston Lyceum, in the Odeon. They were also
delivered during Mr. Emerson's second visit to England, in 1847-
48, at the Athenreum, Manchester, and were first published in July,
1850, since when they have been often reprinted [824.1 E53.r].
4 portraits: 1, steel-engraving by J. A. J. Wilcox; 2, wood-
engraving by T. Cole from a drawing by Wyatt Eaton ; 3, 4, steel-
engravings, nameless.
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Fawcett, Edgar, American novelist and poet, born in New York City,
26 May, 1847.
Original manuscript of story " Sister Dorothy."
Manuscript of " Irony," a poem published in his moXvivcvq Ro77iance
am/ J^everj, page 121 [821.1 F278.r].
Manuscript of poem " My echo."
Field, Miss Mary Katherine Kemble, better known as "Kate Field,"
American journalist and author, born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1838,
died in Honolulu, 19 May, 1896.
Letter, dated Tremont House, Boston, November 6, 1862,
accompanying an article submitted to the editor of the Independent.
Fields, Annie Adams, Mrs. James Thomas Fields, born in Boston,
Mass., 1834.
Signed manuscripts of two poems, "To the poetess" and
" Theocritus " ; published in her volume Under the Olive, pages 13
and 121 [821.1 F461.u].
Fields, James Thomas, American publisher, born in Portsmouth, N. H.,
31 December, 1816, died in Boston, 24 April, 1881.
Letter, dated Boston, August 27, 1860, to Bayard Taylor, concern-
ing the publication of the blue and gold edition of Taylor's poems.
Note, dated office of the Atlantic Monthly, Boston, May 28,
1867, to Theodore Tilton, telling him that his article, "The
mystery of nature," is accepted for the Atlantic Monthly and will
appear as soon as a good ])lace can be found for it.
Manuscript of extracts from a lecture on Shelley :
"There is an unpublished Ariette for music, which Shelley wrote to a lady
singiny to her accompaniment on the guitar, which seems to me one of the most
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perfect songs that ever dropped out of a poet's heart. Every word falls into its
place as if born to fit it. Nothing can be conceived more faultless in finish and
it alone would give its author high place as a lutanist in verse if he had only
achieved this one melody.
' As the moon's soft splendor
O'er the faint cold starlight of heaven is thrown
So thy voice most tender
To the strings without soul has given its own.
The stars will awaken
Though the moon sleep a full hour later tonight
No leaf will be shaken
Whilst the dews of thy melody scatter delight.'
One day the teacher of Laura Bridgman, the deaf, dumb and blind girl, was
endeavoring to explain to her the difference between the material and the imma-
terial and he used the word soul.
• What is soul ? ' inquired the poor child.
'That which thinks, feels, hopes and loves,' responded the teacher.
' And it aches too sometimes — -don't it?' eagerly questioned the poor girl !
'Yes, Laura,' that is the penalty people have to pay for possessing a soul:
it will ache sometimes as Shelley discovered very early in his mortal pilgrim-
age."
Note from a lecture on Longfellow :
" I remember how instantaneously in the year 1839 The Voices of the Night sped
triumphantly on its way ! how it ran from house to house : how it was quoted at
the iireside and in the pulpit, in the cabin and in the forecastle : how men and
women ready to perish got hold of it and from those deep cisterns of hope and
confidence and love drew something that quenched despair and gave them heart
for any fate !
What I claim for Longfellow is a high and honorable place in the poetical and
prose literature of this century ; a rank with some of the great spirits who still
rule us from their urns : a fame sound and enduring, a name that can never die
out of the annals of English literature and language. I find in him those price-
less qualities of excellence which the world having once recognized never forgets
or ceases to regard with affection. Longfellow interposes no difficulties in the
strait line to his reader's understanding."
Portrait, wood-engraving.
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Fiske, John, American evolutionist and historian, born at Hartford,
Conn., 80 March, 1842.
Review of James T. Fields : Biographical Notes and Personal
Sketches [928.1 F.46.f] written for the Atlantic Monthly and pub-
lished in the number for January, 1882, volume 49, page 134.
Portrait, wood -engraving from a photograph.
Foote, Mary Anna Hallock, Mrs. Arthur De Wint Foote, American
author and artist, born at Milton-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., 19 No-
vember, 1847.
Signed manuscript of "A cloud on the mountain," a short
story first published in the Century for November, 1885, volume 9,
page 28, afterward republished in her volume In Exile and Other
Stories [F689 — 3].
Wood-engraving, " Ruth Mary stood on the high river-bank," en-
graved by T. Cole from a drawing by the author illustrating the story.
Forster, John, English historian and biographer, born at Newcastle, 2
April, 1812, died in Kensington, 2 February, 1876.
Letter, dated London, 16 March, 1869, to Fields, Osgood & Co.,
announcing that the first volume of Forster' s Life of Landor has
been sent to them with the idea that they might possibly wish to
issue an American edition. Mr. Forster writes, "As you will pub-
lish with my authority you must excuse my making it a condition
that no change of any kind how minute soever is to be made in my
text." The American edition [928.2 L.235.f] which was issued
in 1869, in one volume, instead of the English two, nevertheless
follows American forms of spelling.
Franklin, Benjamin, American statesman, born in Boston, 17 January,
1706, died in Philadelphia, 17 April, 1790.
Letter, dated London, 3 August, 1772, to Noble Wimberley
Jones, Esq., of Georgia. The letter was written while Franklin,
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as agent for Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Georgia,
was in London to obtain redress of grievances and wrongs, and is
as follows :
Dear Sir :
On my late Return from the Country I found your Favour of March 18 whicli
had been left by Mr. Stephens. I have not since seen him but shall be glad of
any Opportunity of seeing him on your recommendation. I see by the Papers
that your new Assembly is dissolved. I am concerned at the uncomfortable
Train your public Affairs have lately taken, but hope it cannot long continue.
You will see by the enclosed that the Lords of the Council have not favoured our
Petition. It was difficult to get them to give a Hearing to an Affair which they
had before considered and determined. There is supposed to be a Change
intended in the American Administration here. If it takes place I apprehend our
Affairs must receive some Advantage since we can scarce have a Minister less
favourable to our Interests than the present. With great and sincere Esteem I
have the Honor to be Sir your most obedient and most hum. Servant
B. FRANKLIN.
Portrait, steel-engraving by H. Wright Smith from portrait by
Cochin, 1777.
Fremont, Jessie Ann Benton, the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart
Benton and the wife of Gen. John C. Fremont, American author,
born in Virginia, in 1824.
Manuscript of "American midshipmen at the tomb of Napo-
leon," a sketch first published in the Wide Awake for May, 1886,
in the Chautau(]ua Young Folks Reading Union department, page
128, volume 22, afterward reprinted in her volume Souvenirs of
My Time [923.1 F.885].
Frothingham, The Rev. Octavius Brooks, American clergyman, born in
Boston, 26 November, 1822, died in Boston, 27 November, 1895.
Letter, dated April 27th [no year], to Theodore Tilton, interest-
ing as an example of the very characteristic handwriting of the
author.
Portrait, engraved by H. B. Hall from a photograph.
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Gilder, Richard Watson, American poet, since the year 1881 editor-
in-chief of the Century, born in Bordentown, N. J., 8 Febru-
ary, 1844.
Signed manuscript of the poem "Recognition" published as
the opening of the third part of his volume The Celestial Passioji,
page 45 [821.1 G4686.c] and afterward included in the collection
of his various smaller books called Five Books of Song, page 54
[821.1 G4686.f].
The manuscript is endorsed by the author "the first incomplete
draft" and varies somewhat from the printed version. With the
author's permission it is printed in full as giving an opportunity for
interesting observation of the poet's method.
"RECOGNITION.
I.
In waking visions of the awful night
This I beheld : Stark space and therein God,
God who in dual nature doth abide —
Love, and the Loved One, Power and Beauty's self ;
And forth from God did come — with dreadful thrill
Creation, boundless, to the eye unformed
And white with fire and light ineffable
And outward pulsings like the boreal flame :
One mighty cloud it seemed, nor star, nor earth,
Or like some nameless growth of tKe under-seas ;
Creation dumb, to the eye unconscious, yet alive
With swift, concentric, never-ceasing urge —
Resolving gradual to one disk of fire.
And as I looked, behold ! the flying rim
Grew separate from the centre ; this again divided
And the whole still swift revolved
Ring within ring, and fiery wheel in wheel ;
Till, sudden or slow as chanced, the outmost edge
Whirled into fragments, each a separate sun.
With lesser globes attendant on its flight.
These while I gazed turned dark with smouldering fires
And, slow contracting, grew to solid orbs.
Then knew I that this planetary world.
Cradled in light and curtained with the dawn
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And starry eve, was born ; though in itself
Perfect, and O most fair, yet but a part
And atom of the living universe.
II.
Unconscious still the child of the conscious God,
Creation, born of Beauty and of Love,
Beauty the womb and mother of all worlds.
But soon with silent speed the new-made earth
Swept near me where I watched the birth of things,
Its greatening bulk eclipsing, star by star.
Half the bright heavens. Then I beheld crawl forth
Upon the earth's cool crust most wondrous forms
Wherein were hid, in transmutation strange,
Sparks of the ancient, never-ceasing fire ;
Shapes moved not solely by exterior law
But having will and motion of their own, —
First sluggish and minute, then by degrees
Horrible, monstrous and enorm, without
Intelligence. Then other forms more fine
Streamed ceaseless on my sight until at last
Rising and turning its slow gaze about
Across the abysmal void, the mighty child
Of the supreme, divine Omnipotence —
Creation, born of God, by him begot.
Conscious in Man, no longer blind and dumb.
Beheld and knew its father and its God."
Signed manuscript of poem, "Failure and success," an eight-
line stanza published in his Two Worlds and Olher Poems and
afterward included in his Five Books of Song, page 162 [821.1
G4686.f].
Gladstone, William Ewart, English statesman, born at Liverpool, 29
December, 1809, died at Hawarden Castle, 19 May, 1898.
Signed manuscript of "Russia and England," a paper pub-
lished in the Nineteenth Century for March, 1880, volume 7,
page 538, in review of Mme. Novikofif's book jRussia and Eng-
land, by O. K.
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Godwin, Parke, American journalist and author, son-in-law of William
Cullen Bryant, born in Paterson, N. J., 25 February, 1816.
Letter, dated Roslyn, Long Island, June 26, 1871, to Theodore
Tilton, as follows :
"Your letter is persuasive enough to extract fire from a cucumber; but
unfortunately I am less susceptible than even that proverbial esculent. I am so
many years behindhand with my book (long promised) that I allow myself no
time for anything else — except getting ill at times. Besides I wrote all I had to
say on Free Trade twenty years ago in the old Democratic Review and so much
better than I could write it now that I should hate to provoke any comparisons
on the part of ancient friends by any new adventures. Still, if I ever should get
time to think of matters later than the twelfth century, I would more willingly
write for the Golden Age than for elsewhere."
Portrait, engraved by H. B. Hall from a drawing by T. Hicks.
Godwin, William, English author, born at Wisbeach, Cambridge-
shire, 3 March, 1756, died in London, 7 April, 1836.
Letter, in third person, to Effingham Wilson, Esq., in 1830,
announcing the publication of Thoughts on Man.
Portrait, steel-engraving, anonymous.
Gosse, Edmund William, English author, born in London, 21 Septem-
ber, 1849.
Original manuscript of a poem called " Simimer flies " with the
following note to Richard Watson Gilder on the manuscript :
Dear Gilder
Eh?
Yours
E. G.
25.7.85.
The poem was first published under the title "Circling fancies "
in the Century for June, 1896, volume 10, page 259, and afterward
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included in Mr. Gosse's volume In Russet and Silver, page 85
[821.2 G678.i].
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, eighteenth president of the United States,
born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, 27 April, 1822, died at Mt.
McGregor, N. Y., 23 July, 1885.
Personal letter, dated Long Branch, N. J., 3 August, 1884, to
Gen. James Grant Wilson :
" I have your letter of yesterday. On account of my continued lameness I will
not be able to attend the reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee
this year.
I have completed two of the four articles on the war that I promised the Cen-
tury Magazine, Shiloh and Vicksburg. The Wilderness Campaign — and that is
to be followed by one on the closing scenes of the war — is commenced."
Facsimiles: of Gen. Grant's letter to Gen. Buckner at Fort
Donelson, Feb. 16th, 1862 ; of Gen. Grant's pass to Chas. New-
comb through the lines towards Hankerson's Ferry, June 29, 1863 ;
of Grant's Commission as Lieutenant General in the United States
Army, March 10, 1864 ; of Grant's letter to Gen. Sherman on the
fall of Atlanta, Sept. 4th, 1864.
Portraits, engravings from photographs, two by H. B. Hall, Jr.,
one anonymous.
Gray, Thomas, English poet, born at Cornhill, London, 26 December,
1716, died at Cambridge, England, 30 July, 1771.
Manuscript of Latin notes of natural history observations.
Title page of M. d'Anville's Notice de V ancienne Gaule, with
autograph and memoranda by the poet.
Fac-simile of "Elegy, written in a country churchyard," illus-
trated with a view of Stoke Poges church etched by C. J. Smith
from a drawing by De Cort in 1790.
Fac-simile of a letter to Mr. Dodsley.
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Numbers of the London Chronicle for Aug. 12-15, 1775, and
for Aug. 15-17, 1775, containing '' Some account of the Life and
Writings of Mr. Gray extracted from the Memoirs just published
by the Rev. Mr. Mason."
3 portraits: 1, engraved by Holl ; 2, engraved by J. Hopwood
from the original painting, at the age of fifteen, by Richardson ;
3, medallion engraving by H. W. Smith.
Greeley, Horace, American author and journalist, born in Amherst,
N. H., 3 February, 1811, died in Pleasantville, near New York
City, 29 November, 1872.
Manuscript signed '* H. G.," Preface to Essays designed to eluci-
date the science of Political Economy, dated Dec. 1, 1869, published
by Ticknor and Fields, 1870 [330 44].
Letter, dated office of the Tribune, New York, July 10, 1865,
to Theodore Tilton.
"I suppose I must stop writing for you under the vote of today ; tho' /don't
believe the Tribune has one less subscriber today for all I've written for the Inde-
pendent. However I shall slip in an article now and then without my name, for
I presume the name is the trouble. I don't think writing good articles for other
papers does hurt ; if I wrote bad ones it might."
Letter, dated New York Tribune office, Dec. 16, 1871, to
F. N. Burdick, Labor Tribune, Philadelphia.
My dear Sir :
I have yours of the iith inst. I must answer briefly.
I judge myself an older man than you and therefore less hopeful of the imme-
diate future. You seem to think that uprightness in politics will win as a rule ;
I am not sure of that. You judge the hired laborers in favor of Reform ; I hold
the most of them intensely Conservative and hopeless of improvement. Did
they ever even 7ciis/i to have slavery abolished? Yet slavery would not permit
labor to be respected. I heartily wish my name had never been connected with
the Presidency. I see plainly that it can only result in vexation and misappre-
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hension. And I shall never shape and groove my opinions to make myself
acceptable to any party. So far as the Labor party seems to me right, I approve
and commend its propositions but no further for twenty offices.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
Portraits: 1, engraved from a photograph. 2, mezzo-tint from
a drawing by J. Ruger, Brooklyn.
Guizot, Fran(,ois Pierre Guillamne, French historian and statesman,
born at Nimes, 4 October, 1787, died at Val Richer in Normandy,
12 September, 1874.
Letter, dated 8 January, 1846, from the Cabinet of the Ministcre
des Affaires Etrangeres, to a colleague.
Hale, The Rev. Edward Everett, American author and clergyman,
born in Boston, 3 April, 1822.
Manuscript of an article on the " Chautauqua Literary and Scien-
tific Circle," published in the Century for November, 1885,
volume 9, page 147.
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, Mrs. David Hale, American author, for
many years editor of Godey'' s Lady'' s Book, born in Newport,
N. H., 24 October, 1788, died in Philadelphia, 30 April, 1879.
Autograph stanza, dated Philadelphia, 24 March, 1854 :
" What might a single mind may wield
With Truth for sword and Faith for shield
And Hope to lead the way !
Thus all great triumphs are obtained —
From evil good — as God ordained
The night before the day."
Portrait, engraved by W. G. Armstrong from the painting by
W. B. Chambers.
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Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, Canadian judge, and author known by
his pen name " Sam Slick," born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1797,
died at Isleworth, England, 27 August, 1865.
Letter, dated Gordon House, Isleworth, June 19th, 1865, to
person unknown. The letter expresses thanks for the gift of a book
and accepts the dedication of the second edition.
Portrait, wood-cut by N. Orr.
Hamilton, Alexander, American statesman, born on the island of
Nevis, West Indies, 11 January, 1757, died in New York City, 12
July, 1804.
Manuscript of a bill of costs in the New York Supreme Court,
October, 1784, with a letter from his son, James Alexander Hamil-
ton, to Ticknor and Fields, accompanying the gift.
Circular letter, from the Treasury Department, 8 June, 1792,
to the Collectors. A formal letter from Hamilton, as Secretary of
the Treasury, as to the construction to be placed upon certain
sections of the Collection Law.
Portrait, steel-engraving by W. G. Jackman, from the painting
by L. W. Gibbs.
Hamilton, Sir William, diplomatist and archaeologist, born in Scot-
land, 13 December, 1730, died in London, 6 April, 1803.
Letter, dated Naples 24 April 1770 to Messrs. Hart & Wilkens.
Manuscript of ''Loose thoughts relative to the Two Sicilies
and its present situation, Palermo, 28 August, 1799." Sir William
Hamilton was British envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary at the court of Naples from 1764 to April, 1800, and accom-
panied the king and queen of Naples in their flight from Naples to
Palermo in December, 1798. The manuscript appears to have
been written during the period which he spent with the king and
queen at Palermo,
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Harris, Joel Chandler, American author and journalist, editor of
the Atlanta Constitution, born at Eatonton, Ga., 8 December,
1848.
Signed manuscript of "Trouble on Lost Mountain," a story first
published in the Century, for January, 1886, volume 9, page 425,
afterward included in his volume Free Joe, and Other Georgian
Sketches [H3145— 1] .
Letter, dated Atlanta, 9 April, 1883, to James R. Osgood,
about the publication of a forthcoming book \_Niglits with Uncle
Remus, 828.1 68].
Harris, William Torrey, American educator and speculative philos-
opher, born at Killingly, Conn., 10 September, 1835.
Manuscript of an article on "A theory of insanity," published in
\kiQ. Journal of Speculative Philosophy for January, 1887, volume 21,
page 222.
Harte, Bret, American poet and novelist, born in Albany, N. Y., 25
August, 1839.
Manuscript of "Handsome is as Handsome does by Ch s
R de, " one of the author's celebrated Condensed Novels
[H327— 6] .
Manuscript of a poem called "Por el rey : northern Mexico,
1640" published under the title "For the King" in his volume
Echoes of the Foothills, page 29 [821.1 H327.ec] and in the River-
side edition of his Poetical Works [821.1 H327— 1].
Hawthorne, Julian, American novelist, born in Boston, 22 June,
1846.
Signed manuscript of the story " The Book of the Flood."
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, American romance writer, born in Salem,
Mass., 4 July, 1804, died in Plymouth, N. H., 18 May, 1864.
Letter, dated Lenox, June, 1851, to James T. Fields. The
letter was written during Hawthorne's short residence at Lenox,
the period of his greatest literary activity, just after the publication
of The House of the Seven Gables and while the The Wonder Book
was being written.
Dear Fields :
I send you a letter from an original genius which I have not hitherto answered
because I cannot make out his name. He speaks of a book which he has sent to
your care for me.
If you have the book, and if his name is in it I wish you would send him a
copy of the Scarlet Letter as he requests and let me know what his name is. As
to his book you may send it at your own convenience — or not at all — just as
may suit you best.
I have just received a letter from another claimant of the Pyncheon estate. I
wonder if ever, and how soon, I shall get at a just estimate of how many jackasses
there are in this ridiculous world. My correspondent by the way estimates the
number of these Pyncheon Jackanapes at about twenty ; I am doubtless to be
remonstrated with by each individual. After exchanging shots with all of them I
shall get you to publish the whole correspondence in a style corresponding with
that of my other works ; and I anticipate a great run for the volume. This last
letter fills two sheets.
I should be glad of a certificate of deposit for Fifty Dollars, as early as possible.
I hope to send you some of the Wonder Book in a fortnight or thereabouts.
It grieves me infinitely to be compelled to write a book at this season ; but I shall
put it through.
Truly yours
NATH'L HAWTHORNE.
P. S. My last Pyncheon correspondent demands that another name be
substituted instead of that of the family; — to which I assent in case the pub-
lishers can be prevailed on to cancel the stereotype plates. Of course you will
consent ! Pray do !
Hay, Col. John, American author and diplomat. Secretary of State,
1899, born at Salem, Ind., 8 October, 1838.
Letter, dated Astor House, 8 April, 1871, to James R. Osgood,
giving some directions concerning the publication of Castilian
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Days [914.6 32]. Interesting only as a specimen of Col. Hay's
handwriting.
Letter, dated Legation of the United States, Vienna, Feb-
ruary 12, 1868, to Theodore Tilton. The letter expresses quite
clearly the depth of Col. Hay's republican convictions after seeing
monarchy at close quarters.
Portrait, wood-cut from a photograph.
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, American poet, called the Laureate of the
South, born in Charleston, S. C, 1 January, 1830, died near
Augusta, Ga., 6 July, 1886.
Signed manuscript of "Face to face," a poem published in
Harper's Magazine for May, 1886, volume 72, page 884.
Autograph copy of the third stanza of his poem "Lyric of
action," from his Poe7ns, page 285 [821.1 H423— 1].
Hayne, William Hamilton, American poet, son of Paul Hamilton
Hayne, born in South Carolina, 1856.
Signed manuscript of "A band of bluebirds — in autumn," a
poem published in Harper's Magazine iox October, 1886, volume
73, page 765.
Hazlitt, William, English author, born in Maidstone, 10 April, 1778,
died in London, 18 September, 1830.
Manuscript of a lecture "On Dryden and Pope," the fourth of
a series on the English poets delivered in 1818 at the "Surrey
Institution," which afterward came to be known as the "Devil's
Pulpit." Hazlitt's audience at this institution was rather a mixed
multitude with whom he had but imperfect sympathy. The course
was sufficiently successful, however, to induce the management to
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arrange for two succeeding courses, on The English Comic Writers
and on The Age of Elizabeth.
The manuscript is interesting, being thirty-eight pages folio, and
is of value as Hazlitt's "autograph productions are among the
rarest of those of the era and circle of which he made a part. ' '
The lectures were first published in 1819 and have been reprinted
many times [821.2 H431].
Heine, Heinrich, German poet, of Jewish descent, born in Diisseldorf,
13 December, 1797, died in Paris, 17 February, 1856.
Note of four lines, dated 14 September, 1843, with signature in
the French form.
Collection of newspaper cuttings concerning his life, death and
genius.
Portraits : 1, photograph from a painting in health ; 2, engrav-
ing by Weger and Singer from a drawing by Ch. Gleyre, in
sickness.
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, daughter of George Browne, English poet,
born in Liverpool, 25 September, 1793, died in Dublin, 16 May,
1885.
Manuscript of nine songs gathered under the general caption
"Songs for Evening Music," including the following individual
poems : "Ye are not missed fair flowers ; By a mountain stream ;
Willow song ; Brightly hast thou fled ; Sing, gondolier ! ; The rock
beside the sea ; The orange-bough ; Come to me. Sleep ! ; Leave
me not yet ! "
All the songs are published in the seventh volume of Mrs.
Hemans' s Works [821.2 H487 — 1] but nearly all of them have
slight verbal differences in the manuscript from the printed form.
Letter, dated from Dawson St., post-marked 18 November,
1833, to S. C. Hall.
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Higginson, The Rev. Thomas Wentworth, American author, born in
Cambridge, Mass., 22 December, 1823, Colonel of the first regi-
ment of freed slaves in the United States army.
Manuscript of " How I was educated," an article first published
in the Forum for April, 1886, volume 2, page 172, afterward
republished in the collection The College and the Church [370 88] .
Letter, dated Newport, R. I., March 19, 1868, to Theodore
Tilton, giving some rather caustic comments on political persons of
the day, etc.
Letter dated Newport, R. I., April 24, 1869, to Theodore Tilton,
which is reproduced with the permission of the author, as follows :
Dear Sir :
I wish it were in my power to attend the Woman's Suffrage meeting at Brook-
lyn, As it is not I wish to call the attention of that meeting to a single point.
One of the few plausible arguments against Woman's Suffrage is the alleged
incapacity of that sex for military duty. This is a point on which a returned
soldier may perhaps speak his mind frankly.
I honestly believe that if this question were put to the returned soldiers for
decision, it would be decided in favor of women two to one. And that for this
plain reason. They see, if nobody else does, the absurdity of disfranchising
women for a reason which would equally exclude every member of the other
sex who staid at home during the war.
The great difficulty of filling up our wasted regiments showed how very small
proportion of our men are both able and willing to do military duty. If only
the bayonets are to vote they will make a very small oligarchy. In this city, for
instance, out of 2200 legal voters not 400 served in the war. Are they to dis-
franchise all the rest ? Open the door wide enough to admit a single civilian and
every woman in the land has a right to walk in. Consider for instance the posi-
tion of the most eminent recent advocate of this theory, Mr. Horace Greeley.
When he urges the unfitness of woman to vote until she carries a musket there is
no discourtesy in asking — Does Mr. Greeley propose to disfranchise himself?
Yet what services did he render, during the war, that an equally intelligent
woman might not have rendered ?
I do not mean to slight his services, nor theirs. The women who worked in
our hospitals, or in the Sanitary Commission, were rendering military service
just as essentially as those who were enrolled in our armies. Their work may
not have been as dangerous, but it was quite as indispensable.
What they did in this war they will do in the next, and that as volunteers,
without bounty, and without waiting to be drafted. It is altogether unreasonable
to enfranchise one class of volunteers and disfranchise another.
Now that the war is over, we shall be in danger of forgetting all this. History
ignores women's services because men are commonly the historians. It is the
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same with the arts that preserve history. We have a striking instance of this
before us in the proposed statues which are to surround the base of the Lincoln
monument. Washington has been the scene of many artistic as well as political
absurdities. But their climax seems to me to have been reached in the proposi-
tion, now pending, to represent the Sanitary Commission by the statue of a tnan !
I am yours very cordially
THOMAS WENTWORTII HIGGINSON.
Portrait, engraved by J. J. Cade.
Hillard, George Stillman, American lawyer, journalist and author, born
in Machias, Me., 22 September, 1808, died in Boston, 21 January,
1879.
Signed autograph, dated Boston, March 29, 1854, as follows :
"The stately march of our laws and speech, which began at the rock of
Plymouth, will ever move in the paths of honor and peace so long as it follows
that great, guiding light which led the Pilgrims into their land of promise."
Hogg, James, called the Ettrick Shepherd, Scotch poet, born at
Ettrick, Selkirkshire, in 1770, died 21 November, 1835.
Original manuscript of the first forty -seven stanzas of "Earl
Walter; the twelfth bard's song" from the long poem "The
queen's wake."
The manuscript is accompanied by the following letter, dated 13
July, 1831, to Bernard Barton :
My dear Sir :
"The enclosed paper was given me by a friend at college in 1820, who had it
from Thomas Moore with a statement that it came into his hands among other
writings from James Hogg. The person who gave it to me never doubted its
authenticity.
I have much pleasure in presenting it to you and am, my dear sir
Yours faithfully
WOODTHORPE COLLETT."
The poem is included in the Works of the Ettrick Shepherd, page
28 [821.2 B— H71G— 1]
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Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, American physician and author, born at
Cambridge, Mass., 29 August, 1809, died in Boston, Mass., 7
October, 1894.
Signed manuscript of "The new i)ortfolio : a cry from the
study," an article published in the Atlantic Mon/hly for January,
1886, volume 57, page 91.
Portrait, engraved by H. B. Hall & Sons from a photograph.
Hood, Thomas, English poet, born in London, 23 May, 1799, died in
the same city, 3 May, 1845.
Manuscript of "She is all heart," a poem of seven stanzas
accompanying an original sketch, probably by Hood himself though
signed " M. K."
The drawing is reproduced in HooiV s Oum, second series, page
477 [828.2 29] as illustrating a prose sketch entitled "Nothing
but hearts ! ' '
Hooker, Isabella Beecher, Mrs. John Hooker, youngest daughter of
Dr. Lyman Beecher, born in Litchfield, Conn., 22 February, 1822.
Personal letter, dated Hartford, 1 November, 1871, to Theodore
Tilton.
Portrait, engraved by J. C. Buttre from a photograph by J. A.
Whipple.
Howells, William Dean, American author, born in Martin's Ferry,
Ohio, 1 March, 1837.
Manuscript of A Foregone Conclusion, a novel first published in
the Atlantic Monthly during July to December, 1874, volume 34,
brought out the same year in book form [H8G — 7] .
Portrait, wood-engraving from a photograph.
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Hughes, Thomas, English author, born at Uffington, Berkshire, 20
October, 1823, died at Brighton, 22 March, 1896.
Letter, dated from the Athenaeum Chib, London, 8 November,
1872, to Miss [Elizabeth Palmer] Peabody.
Dear Miss Peabody :
I was so horribly ashamed to get your note that I left it lying on the table for
some hours — in fact until I had gone down and seen Emerson in his lodgings.
They are very comfortable and homely and much frequented now by Americans.
I got them first for Lowell and since then the Miss Hoars have been in them and
some other New Englanders, friends of the Professor. I hope Emerson will enjoy
his visit as he seems strong. Tomorrow he and his son are coming to lunch with
me in the Temple and see the Lord Mayor's Show. What an occupation for a
Seer ! ! Miss Emerson I am sorry to say has sprained her ancle and cannot get
about. They only propose to stay a few days and then to flit for Italy, but I
hope will be back in the spring for a longer sojourn. I am delighted to hear that
you are sowing some of the dear Prophet's [The Rev. Frederick Denison
Maurice] works in your soil. They ought to bear good fruit there. He used to
say that no man's life sh"! be published within twenty years of his death, Freddy
(the eldest son, whom I don't think you know) was rather impressed with this
saying, but I believe (for I have not seen him for some time) that he is hard at
work on the memoir. If I can find a copy of Subscription no Bondage I will send
it you but I know it is very hard to get, having indeed no copy myself. Kinder-
garten are, I am told for I am sorry to say I have had no time for personal search,
making great progress here. I got the pamphlet and quite hold with you that
unless Kindergarten start from and end in Christ they are as meaningless as —
well, a railway ring or a gold ring,
I see you date from Cambridge, a place of most charming memories to me, but
I don't remember Totten Street, I have a photograph of Elmwood always on my
mantel piece and hope some day to revisit it and Concord. My wife is fairly well,
but with a threatening of bronchitis which I am sorry to say always haunts her
through our winter months. The children were never better.
I wish we had a Kindergarten near by but in default we must do our best to
rear them on your principles. Pray give my kindest regards to Mrs. Putnam and
any other friends who remember me and believe me, dear Miss Peabody, always
repentantly and most truly yours THOS HUGHES.
Portrait, engraved from a photograph.
Hughes, Anne Frances Ford, called Fanny, Mrs. Thomas Hughes.
Letter from 5 Ethelbert Crescent, Cliftonville, Margate.
My dear Miss Peabody :
Many thanks for your kind sympathy — your letter followed us here. My
husband is much better for the entire quiet and sea air. We are both sorry that
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you go before we return to London but we hope to see Una [Miss Una Haw-
thorne.] Will she come Sunday the 26th inst. when we shall be settled at home?
I am very glad you saw Edmund Maurice again. Have you seen the Illustrated
Review of May ist. It contains a dreadful picture of my husband but rather a
nice notice of his writings. I hope the voyage will restore you to health. You
will see Lowell and Emerson and so many great men I long to know. Send
them over to England if you can ! Have you heard if Mr. Morley and Lily are
in London, they were due last week. I hope Mrs. Stackpole received your
letter. I do not feel certain as to the address. With our united kind regards
to you and Una and hopes that you may have a good passage I remain always
yours
May 13th FANNY HUGHES
Hughes, Mrs. Margaret L., mother of Thomas Hughes.
Letter to A. H.
Uffington House
Sunday evening, Dec. 6th, '84
My dear Friend :
I got yr kind letter yesterday evening and Miss Peabody's interesting enclo-
sure, thank you for both. I hope the Piute Chieftainess will have great success
in her mission. It will be an everlasting disgrace to the white man for his treat-
ment of the Indian so long as history shall be read. It is time that he did all in
his power to repair it. I am better now, dear friend, but still very weak. Fan-
nie's and my love to you and May
Ever lovingly yrs
MARGARET L. HUGHES
Hugo, Victor Marie, Comte, French poet and novelist, born at Besan-
?on, 26 February, 1802, died in Paris, 22 May, 1885.
Short note without place, date or address, interesting only as a
specimen of handwriting.
Portrait, engraved, nameless.
Hunt, James Henry Leigh, known as "Leigh Hunt," English essay-
ist, critic and poet, born at Southgate, Middlesex, 19 October,
1784, died at Putney, 28 August, 1859.
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Manuscript of the following sonnet, which is not found in ordi-
nary editions of Hunt's poems :
"TO FAME
O Fame, what art thou ? Who can know, alas !
His claim to any share in thee or thine.
Till he has pass'd that dim and awful line,
Which no man ever pass'd or e'er shall pass.
Prizing thy gifts ! Rare beings still amass
Treasures that after ages count divine ;
Yet ere they pass from earth thou giv'st no sign
That they in memory sh^ll outlive the mass.
How oft, in life, they pine for very bread,
While wordy critics smirch their lays with blots ;
How oft above each unremember'd head,
Year after year, the dock or hemlock rots ;
And then thou nam'st their love, or woe, or mirth ;
And towns that let them die, boast that they gave them birth."
Manuscript of a notice, for the Exa?niner, of a lecture by
Carlyle on German literature, the fifth in a series given at Wills's
rooms on the second of May, 1837. The lectures seem to have
been given extempore and are not in print and, therefore, Mr.
Hunt's report is printed in full as follows :
" Mr. Carlyle (as in programme announced) omitted a lecture on Whit-Monday
and gave his fifth on Friday. It was upon the semi-sceptical, semi-religious
elegancie of Haller and others ; the vital scholarship of Heyne, making flesh-and-
blood realities of the ancient writers ; the religious devotion of infidel Winckell-
mann to pagan art ; the school of the ' Strength-men ' (as they called them-
selves) rather Convulsion and Weakness men, 'Byronism, spasmodically writh-
ing and wriggling and hating and cursing the world they were born in ' ; on the
Nicolai and Adelung ' utilitarians ' who discovered that ' feeling was useful ' ;
and on the sentimentalities of Lavater and others, men more respectable than the
fuss they set going about 'goodness' and 'philanthropy,' as if there were
nothing in the world worth thinking of but a certain moral habitude apter to
talk than to do ; or, as if a good thing were so very wonderful when it was done.
There was some tender ground in this for obvious reasons ; and also in what the
lecturer said about the nothingness of metaphysics, ' a vortex creating and swal-
lowing itself ; but the frankness and gallantry of his love of truth and his hearty
sympathy with whatsoever realizes a firm footing for itself on God's world, apart
from make-believes and hypocrisies of any sort, carried him manfully through
all ; nor has any one of his lectures left his audience in warmer-hearted condition
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with their instructor. We are to have two more lectures (for he has thrown in a
seventh for nothing) during which we expect to hear much about Goethe."
Portrait, engraved by H. Wright Smith from a drawing by J.
Hayter.
Huxley, Thomas Henry, English scientist and author, born at Ealing,
4 May, 1825, died 29 June, 1895.
Brief letter without address, place or date.
Portrait, engraved by Geo. E. Perine from a photograph.
Ingelow, Miss Jean, English poet, born at Boston, Lincolnshire, 1820,
died in Kensington, 20 July, 1897.
Manuscript of " The monitions of the unseen," a poem published
in 1870 in the volume ** The Monitions of the Unseen^ and Poems
of Love and Childhood'' [821.2 146. m].
Portrait, engraving, nameless.
Irving, Washington, American author. United States minister to Spain
from 1842 to 1846, born in New York City, 3 April, 1783, died at
Sunnyside, 28 November, 1859.
Manuscript of chapter twelve of volume five of his Life of George
Washington [923.1 W.27.i], with reproduction in print and a
portrait of Washington engraved by H. B. Hall from the painting
by Rembrandt Peale.
Jackson, Andrew, seventh president of the United States, born in the
Waxhaw settlement, on the border between North and South
Carolina, 15 March, 1767, died at the Hermitage, near Nashville,
Tenn., 8 June, 1845.
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Signature to the commission of Samuel Swartwout as Collector
of the customs of the district of New York, dated 28 April,
1834. This commission is the record of an early and very noted
instance of an appointment to the federal service under the spoils
system.
Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske, formerly Mrs. Edward B. Hunt, after-
ward Mrs. William S. Jackson, American author, known as " H.
H." and as " Helen Hunt," born in Amherst, Mass., 18 October,
1831, died in San Francisco, 12 August, 1885.
Manuscript of an article called "One thirty -six hours on the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad."
Manuscript of "Father Junipero and his work," an article
first published in the Century for May, 1883, volume 4, page 3,
afterward reprinted, in the form of this manuscript, in Glimpses of
Three Coasts, 1886 [913 240].
James, George Payne Rainsford, English novelist, born in London, 9
August, 1801, died in Venice, 9 May, 1860.
Short private letter, without place or date, to Col. Goodwin,
Stockbridge.
Portrait, engraved by Whitechurch from a drawing by Baden,
1846.
James, Henry, American author, son of Henry James, the theologian,
born in New York City, 15 April, 1843.
Manuscript of an essay on " Ivan Turgenieff " first published in
the Atlantic Monthly for January, 1884, volume 53, page 42, and
afterward reprinted in \n?, xoXuvae. Partial Portraits [824.1 J27.p]
The essay is supplementary to a preceding essay on Turgeniefif's
novels which was first printed in the North American Review, vol-
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ume 118, page 326, and afterward republished in his volume
French Poets a7id Novelists [840 417].
Portraits, one wood-engraving, and one process-cut from photo-
graphs.
Jameson, Anna Brownell Murphy, Mrs. Robert Jameson, born at
Dublin, 17 May, 1794, died at Ealing, Middlesex, 17 March, 1860.
Private letter without date written from Vere St., London, to
Mrs. Parkes, the mother of Mrs. Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc.
Portrait, engraved from a painting by Alonzo Chappel.
Janvier, Thomas Allibone, American journalist and author, born in
Pennsylvania, 1849.
Signed manuscript of "At Mrs. Berty's tea," a story first pub-
lished in the Century for December, 1885, volume 9, page 307.
Jefferson, Joseph, American actor, born in Philadelphia, 20 Febru-
ary, 1829.
Letter, without date, to Laurence Hutton :
My dear Mr. Hutton :
I am overwhelmed with mortification for I find upon referring to your note that it
is I, not yourself, that made the error, I regret this more than I can say. I think
it was the 29 contained in the number of your house that shifted its quarters and
got into my head that caused the blunder. And I am under the impression
too that Mr, Gilder said something about Tuesday in connection with the matter.
However, it can't be helped now and the loss was mine.
Faithfully yours, J, JEFFERSON,
Portrait, etching by S, Hollyer,
Jefferson, Thomas, third president of the United States, born in Shad-
well, Albemarle Co., Va,, 2 April, 1743, died at Monticello, 4
July, 1826.
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Letter, dated Monticello, Virginia, May 14, 1806, to "The
Rev. Doctr. G. C. Jenner. "
Mr. Jefferson seems to have been confused as to the identity of
the person to whom the letter is addressed as he, quite evidently,
believed the Rev. Dr. G. C. Jenner to have been the discoverer of
vaccination. He was, however, a nephew of Dr. Edward Jenner,
much interested in his uncle's work.
Sir:
1 have received the copy of the Evidence at large respecting the discovery of
the Vaccine inoculation, which you have been pleased to send me, and for which
I return you my thanks. Having been among the early converts, in this
part of the globe, to its efficacy, I took an early part in recommending it to my
countrymen. I avail myself of this occasion of rendering you my portion of the
tribute of gratitude due to you from the whole human family. Medecine has
never before produced any single improvement of such utility. Harvey's discov-
ery of the circulation of the blood was a beautiful addition to our knowledge of
the animal economy, but on a review of the practice of medecine before and since
that epoch, I do not see any great amelioration which has been derived from that
discovery. You have erased from the calendar of human afflictions one of its
greatest. Yours is the comfortable reflection that mankind can never forget that
you have lived. Future nations will know by history only that the loathsome
small-pox has existed and by you has been extirpated. Accept the most fervent
wishes for your health and happiness and assurances of the greatest respect and
consideration. -pH. JEFFERSON.
2 portraits. 1, steel-engraving engraved by J. C. Buttre from
a painting by G. Stuart. 2, steel-engraving, anonymous.
Jewett, Miss Sarah Orne, American novelist, born in South Berwick,
Maine, 3 September, 1849.
Signed manuscript of chapters two, three and four of A Country
Doctor [J59— 1] .
Portrait, wood-engraving from a photograph.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, English lexicographer and author, born at
Lichfield, 18 September, 1709, died in London, 13 December,
1784.
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Letter, dated 27 May, 1775, [from London] to his friend the
Rev. Dr. John Taylor at Lichfield. The letter announces an
intended visit to Oxford and other places, which Boswell does not
record.
Portrait engraved from a painting by Alonzo Chappel copied
from a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Keats, John, English poet, born in London, 31 October, 1795, died
in Rome, 23 February, 1821.
Manuscript of a curious sonnet, dated 16 January, 1818, entitled
"To Mrs. Reynolds' cat." Mrs. Reynolds was the mother of
Keats's friend, John Hamilton Reynolds, and of the wife of
Thomas Hood. She gave the sonnet to Hood, who published it in
the Comic Annual for 1830. It is given in the Poetical and Other
Writings of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, volume
4, page 425 [821.2 K25 — 5]. Mr, Forman also refers to some
varying forms of the sonnet in his volume Poetry and Prose by John
Keats [821.2 K25— 5v5].
Ordinary editions of Keats's poems do not contain the sonnet,
which is reproduced, with the spelling, capitalization and punctua-
tion of the manuscript.
"TO MRS. REYNOLDS' CAT.
Cat ! who hast past thy grand Climacteric,
How many mice and Rats hast in thy days
Destroyed ? how many tit bits stolen ? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green and prick
Those velvet ears — but prythee do not stick
Thy latent talons in me — and upraise
Thy gentle mew, and tell me all thy frays
Of Fish and Mice and Rats and tender chick.
Nay look not down nor lick thy dainty wrists
For all the weezy Asthma, and for all
Thy tail's tip is nicked off, and though the fists
Of many a Maid has given thee many a mawl
Still is that fur as soft as when the lists
In youth thou enterd'st on glass bottled wall.
Janr. 16, 1818"
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Kent, James, American jurist, chancellor of New York State, born in
Putnam Co., N. Y., 31 July, 1763, died in New York City, 12
December, 1847.
Manuscript of the draft of an opinion concerning a case in
litigation.
King, The Rev. Thomas Starr, American clergyman, born in New York
City, 17 December, 1824, died in San Francisco, 4 March, 1864.
Manuscript of a sermon on " Righteousness," text I John iii : 7
preached Sunday, 29 October, 1848, probably at the Universalist
church in Charlestown, Mass., and repeated in San Francisco, 4
October, 1863.
Kingsley, The Rev. Charles, English clergyman and author, born at
Holne Vicarage, 12 June, 1819, died at Eversley, 23 January,
1875.
Original manuscript of part of a lecture on " The first discovery
of America," first published in his collection called Lectures
Delivered in America in 181 1^ [824.2 K55.1] afterward reprinted
in a collection called Historical Lectures and Essays, which forms
volume seventeen of his collected works.
Kingsley, Miss Rose Georgina, daughter of the Rev. Charles Kingsley,
English author, born at Eversley, in 1845.
Original manuscript of an article called " Stoned by a mountain "
first published in the Wide Awake for March, 1886, volume 22,
page 245.
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von, German author, born in
Weimar, 3 May, 1761, died in Mannheim, 23 March, 1819.
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Letter, dated 21 November, 1800, to Herr Leissring, singer and
actor in Breslau.
Newspaper cuttings concerning Kotzebue and concerning Sand,
who assassinated him.
Portrait, engraved by Ridley from a painting in Berlin, published
30 April, 1800.
Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de, French poet, born at
Macon, 21 October, 1790, died at Paris, 1 March, 1869.
Letter, dated Beyrouth, Nov. 12, 1832, on purely personal busi-
ness detail.
Portrait, steel-engraving by W. J. Edwards from a painting by
Gerard.
Lamb, Charles, English author, born in London, 10 February, 1775,
died in Edmonton, 27 December, 1834.
Manuscript of " Theses qucedam Theologicce ^ ^ accompanied by a
letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This letter and the accom-
panying document record one of the few instances in Lamb's
patient life when he allowed his wit to carry a sting. In 1797
Coleridge satirized his own style and that of Lamb and Lloyd in
what are known as the Higginbotham sonnets. He apparently
offended both his friends and an estrangement followed which was
painful to Coleridge. On the eve of his departure, with Words-
worth, for Germany he sent, without other goodbye, the following
message to Lamb, " Poor Lamb, if he wants any knowledge he may
apply to me." The message, no doubt intended as a jest by Cole-
ridge, when repeated by a mutual friend to Lamb, evidently nettled
him and he responded with the theses and letter. It appears that
Lamb rather admired his own hit, for the theses, somewhat amended,
and the occasion of them are repeated in a letter, dated 28 July,
1798, to Robert Southey, which may be found in Ainger's edition
of Lamb's letters [826.2 92]. The theses and letter and the story
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of them are also given in Cottle's Reminiscences of Coleridge and
Souihey [928.2 C677.co].
It is pleasant to record that, on Coleridge's return to England,
the friendship between him and Lamb was resumed and never
again broken while they lived. The documents are reproduced,
as the text varies slightly from that printed by Cottle.
"THESES QU/EDAM THEOLOGIC^.
1. Whether God loves a lying Angel better than a true Man ?
2. Whether the Archangel Uriel could affirm an untruth.? and if he could
whether he %vould ?
3. Whether Honesty be an angelic virtue ? or not rather to be reckoned among
those qualities which the Schoolmen term ' Virtutes minus splendid^ et term et
ho minis particeps ' ?
4. Whether the higher order of Seraphim Illuminati ever sneer?
5. Whether pure intelligences can love ?
6. Whether the Seraphim Ardentes do not manifest their virtues by the way
of vision and theory? and whether practice be not a sub-celestial and merely
human virtue?
7. Whether the Vision Beatific be anything more or less than a perpetual
representment to each individual Angel of his own present attainments and future
capabilities, somehow in the manner of mortal looking-glasses, reflecting a per-
petual complacency and self-satisfaction?
8 and last. Whether an immortal and amenable soul may not come to be
damned at last, and the man never suspect it beforehand ?
Learned Sir, my Friend,
Presuming on our long habits of friendship and emboldened further by your
late liberal permission to avail myself of your correspondence, in case I want any
knowledge, (which I intend to do when I have no Encyclopaedia or Lady's
Magazine at hand to refer to in any matter of science,) I now submit to your
enquiries the above Theological Propositions, to be by you defended, or oppugned,
or both, in the Schools of Germany, whither I am told you are departing, to the
utter dissatisfaction of your native Devonshire and regret of universal England ;
but to my own individual consolation if thro the channel of your wished return,
Learned Sir, my Friend, may be transmitted to this our Island, from those famous
Theological Wits of Leipsic and Gottingen, any rays of illumination, in vain to be
derived from the home growth of our English Halls and Colleges. Finally, wish-
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ing Learned Sir, that you may see Schiller and swing in a wood {vide Poems) and
sit upon a Tun, and eat fat hams of Westphalia,
I remain
Your friend and docile Pupil to instruct
CHARLES LAMB.
To S. T. Coleridge 1798
Portrait, engraved by W. Finden from a drawing by T. Wage-
man.
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, afterward Mrs. George Maclean, English
poet, born in Chelsea, 14 August, 1802, died at Cape Coast Castle,
15 October, 1838.
Miss Landon was for some years a vivid figure in London liter-
ary life, her writings were of a fashion long outgrown and Richard
Garnett says of her that she can rank only as a gifted improvisa-
trice.
The lines of the autograph are from her Female Characters of
Scott and have a curious interest from the fact that they were
written at Cape Coast Castle, of which her husband was governor,
shortly before her death under tragic circumstances.
Letter, postmarked July 5, 1834, from Paris, to William Shobert
of John Bentley's publishing house, concerning the transmission
of certain promised manuscript from Paris to her publisher in
London.
Portraits: 1, engraved by J. Thomson from Maclise's painting;
2, engraving, nameless.
Lang, Andrew, Scotch author, born at Selkirk, 31 March, 1844.
Manuscript of "Grass of Parnassus," a poem first published in
Harper' s Magazine for October, 1886, volume 73, page 665, and
afterward used as an introduction to his volume called Grass of
Parnassus [821.2 L269.g].
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Lathrop, George Parsons, American author, son-in-law of Nathaniel
Hawthorne, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, 25 August, 1851, died in
New York City, 19 April, 1898.
Manuscript of "An American Lordship," an article on the sub-
ject of an island lying off the eastern end of Long Island, called
in the old time the Isle of Wight, now known as Gardiner's Island,
connected with an episode in Captain Kidd's career. The paper was
published in the Century for December, 1885, volume 9, page 227.
Lazarus, Miss Emma, American poet of Jewish ])arentage, born in
New York City, 22 July, 1849, died in the same city, 19 Novem-
ber, 1887.
Signed manuscript of " Gifts," a poem first published in the Coi-
fi/ry for November, 1885, volume 9, page 58, and afterward included
in the second volume of her collected Poems [821.1 L431 — 1].
Lincoln, Abraham, sixteenth president of the United States, born in
Hardin Co., Ky., 12 February, 1809, died in Washington, D. C,
15 April, 1865.
Private letter, dated Executive Mansion, Washington, March 13,
1864, to the Hon. Michael Hahn, published in the Abraham Lin-
eoln, a history, by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, volume 8, page
434 [923.1 L.63.n].
The letter was written immediately after Governor Hahn's
inauguration as first free-state governor of Louisiana, and com-
mends to his attention the idea that the elective franchise should
be conferred upon the intelligent negroes, at least, saying, "They
would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the
jewel of liberty within the family of freedom."
Facsimile of letter, dated City Point, April 2, 7.45, 1865, from
President Lincoln to Mrs. Lincoln.
Portrait, steel engraving by A. H. Ritchie from a photograph by
Brady.
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Lippincott, Sarah Jane Clarke, Mrs. Leander K. Lippincott, American
author known as "Grace Greenwood," born in Pompey, N. Y.,
23 September, 1823.
Signed autograph copy, dated New York, 5 April, 1889, of the
following stanza :
" Let the haughty smile, the low defame,
The heartless worldling mock, —
Let them sneer at Bunker's glorious hill
And Plymouth's hallowed rock,
I thank my God my fathers came
Of the good old Pilgrim stock ! "
Personal letter, dated 25 W. 37th St., New York, 14 May, 1871,
to Mr. Tilton. Speaking of Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New
York Tribune, she says :
" Personally I like Mr. Reid but as an editor he exasperates me. lie tinkers
my articles and he abuses my principles. He cuts out my jokes and cuts into my
sentiment ; he is death on poetry and the woman question."
Portraits: 1, engraved by W. G. Armstrong from a sketch by
G. H, Cushman ; 2, half-tone from an early drawing ; 3, engraved by
J. Andrews and H. W. Smith from a painting by C. G. Thompson.
Litchfield, Miss Grace Denio, American novelist, born in New York,
in 1849.
Signed manuscript of ''The top of the ladder," a story pub-
lished in the Wide Awake, for May, 1886, volume 22, page 334.
Signed manuscript of a poem called " The snowstorm."
Lodge, Henry Cabot, United States Senator from Massachusetts and
author, born in Boston, 12 May, 1850.
Signed manuscript of a review of George W. Julian's Political
Recollections, lSJ^O-1872 [923.1 J. 94] published in the Atlantic
Monthly for April, 1884, volume 53, page 560.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, American poet, born in Portland,
Me., 27 February, 1807, died in Cambridge, Mass., 24 March,
1882.
Manuscript, dated 13 November, 1873, of sonnet on Milton,
and letters, one to Miss Gertrude Bloede and three to Mr.
Osgood, interesting only as good specimens of the poet's hand-
writing.
Engraved portrait, nameless.
Lover, Samuel, Irish song-writer, novelist and painter, born in Dub-
lin, 24 February, 1797, died at St. Heliers, 6 July, 1868.
Manuscript and music of the song *' The Indian Summer." The
song, of which both the words and the music are Lover's, is one of
his most graceful compositions and was written during his visit to
the United States in 1846 during which he experienced, to quote
his own words : " The brief period which succeeds the autumnal
close, called the Indian summer, a reflex as it were of the early
portion of the year, strikes a stranger in America with peculiar
beauty and quite charmed me. ' '
Published, without music, in Lover's Poetical Works [821.2
L9117— 1].
Lowell, James Russell, American poet, essayist and diplomatist, born
in Cambridge, Mass., 22 February, 1819, died in the same city,
12 August, 1891.
Manuscript of "The Winthrop papers," a critical review pub-
lished in the North American Review for October, 1867, volume
105, page 592, and afterward incorporated under the title " New
England two centuries ago " in his Literary Essays, volume 2, page
19 [820.1 L915].
Two portraits: 1, engraved by H. B. Hall from the crayon by
William Page; 2, engraved by J. A. J. Wilcox from a photograph.
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Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron, Eng-
lish novelist, born in London, 25 May, 1803, died at Torquay, 18
January, 1873.
Manuscript of part of an article on the " Death of Sir Walter
Scott" published in October, 1832, in the New Monthly Magazine
of which Lord Lytton, then Mr. Bulwer, was editor, afterward
included in the Critical and Miscellaneous Papers of Sir Edward
Lytton Buhver [824.2 L998.cr] collected from the New Monthly
Magazine and the Monthly Chronicle and published by Lea &
Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1841.
Private letter, dated Ventnor, 10 December, 1856, interesting
only as an autograph.
Portrait, engraved from a painting by Alonzo Chappel.
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of, only son of the
first Baron Lytton, English statesman and poet, best known as a
poet under his pen name "Owen Meredith," born in London, 8
November, 1831, died at Paris, 24 November, 1891.
Signed manuscript of "Atlantis," a poem in twelve unequal
stanzas, ten manuscript pages. The poem is in celebration of the
struggle of the American civil war and is not included in the ordi-
nary editions of the Earl of Lytton's poems.
Autograph copy of ' ' North and South, ' ' a poem of two
eight-line stanzas, published in After Paradise, 1887 [821.2
L9981.a].
Lytton, Rosina Wheeler Bulwer-Lytton, Lady, wife of the first Baron
Lytton, born in Ireland, 4 November, 1802, died at Upper Syden-
ham, 12 March, 1882.
A letter without place or date to William Jerdan, editor of the
Literary Gazette.
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Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron Macaiilay of Rothley, Eng-
lish historian and essayist, born at Rothley Temple, 25 October,
1800, died at Holly Lodge, Kensington, 28 December, 1859.
Letter, dated from the Albany, London, March 25, 1849, writ-
ten to an American friend in response to a letter of congratula-
tion on his History of England, the first two volumes of which
were just published. The letter is most characteristic, giving
Macaulay' s conception of American taste and some American
habits, and is printed in full :
My dear Sir :
I have received a very kind and welcome letter from you which it would be un-
grateful in me not promptly to acknowledge. What you tell me of the reception
which my book has found in the United States gratifies me much, but at the same
time surprises me. For it seems to me that very few books have in as high a
degree the merit or demerit of being intensely English : and I should have
thought that this peculiarity, which has conduced not a little to the success of my
volumes here, would have made them seem dull to a people who have never seen
anything resembling our Court, our Bishops, our country gentlemen, our country
clergymen, to a people who are strangers to the feeling of loyalty to a family,
respect for an aristocracy, zeal for the privileges of an established Church. I
should have thought that our disputes about the patriarchal theory of government,
the divine right of kings, regency, abdication, and so forth would have been as
uninteresting to you as the controversy between the followers of Omar and the
followers of Ali. I am glad to find that I was mistaken. I should greatly en-
joy a trip to the United States if I could be sure that I should be as free and as
obscure as I am when I go to Paris or Brussels, that I should be at liberty to
choose my own associates and that I should never be forced to make a show of
myself at dinners and public meetings. But my dislike of exhibition which was
always strong and which never yielded except to clear public duty, has, since I
quitted politics, become almost morbid. And what I hear of the form in which
your countrymen shew their kindness and esteem for men whose names are at all
known deters me from visiting you. I need not tell you that I mean no national
reflection. Perhaps the peculiarity to which I allude is honorable to the Ameri-
can character; but it must cause annoyance to sensitive and fastidious men.
Brougham or O'Connell would have liked nothing better. But Cowper would
have died or gone mad : Byron would have insulted his admirers, and have been
shot or tarred and feathered ; and, though I have stronger nerves than Cowper's,
and, I hope, a better temper than Byron's, I should suffer much pain and give
much offense.
I assure you that I and many others remember your visit to us with pleasure,
and hope to see you here again. We have gone through rough times ; but a
quiet season seems to be before us. But I must stop.
Ever yours truly T. B. MACAULAY.
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McKay, James T., American author.
Signed manuscript of "A story with a hero," published in the
Century for August, 1885, vohune 8, page 569.
McMaster, John Bach, American historian, professor of American
history at the University of Pennsylvania, born in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
29 June, 1852.
Original manuscript of pages 581-586 of volume two of his
History of the People of the United States [971 115], with a letter
to Mr. Gluck accompanying the manuscript.
Marble, Manton, American journalist, founder of the New York World,
born at Worcester, Mass., 16 November, 1835.
Letter, dated ''The World" office, New York, May 21st, 1863,
to Theodore Tilton. Interesting chiefly as a specimen of the
famous editor's style and handwriting.
Portrait, wood-engraving by W. S. L. Jewett from a photograph
by Rockwood.
Matthews, Brander, American author, professor of literature at Colum-
bia University, born in New Orleans, La., 21 February, 1852.
Signed manuscript of "Love at first sight; a dialogue at din-
ner," first published in the Century iox October, 1885, volume 8,
page 838, afterward included in his volume A Secret of the Sea
[M438— 8] .
Melanchthon, Philipp, German theologian, born at Bretten in the
Palatinate, 16 February, 1497, died at Wittenberg, 19 April, 1560.
Receipt, written in German, beginning " Ich Philippus Melan-
thon."
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Theological manuscript in Latin. From the Hodges collec-
tion.
Portrait, photograph from etching of 1526 by Albrecht Diirer.
Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner, called Joaquin, American poet, born in the
Wabash district, Ind., 10 November, 1841.
Collection of manuscripts of essays, poems, and drama, viz. :
"On the death of Peter Cooper" ; from "Kit Carson's ride" ;
from ' ' Songs of the Sunland ' ' ; from ' ' Even so, ' ' eU.
Mitford, Miss Mary Russell, English novelist and dramatist, born at
Alresford, Hampshire, 16 December, 1787, died at Svvallowfield,
10 January, 1855.
Letter, without place or date, to her publishers, concerning the
manuscript of a volume of her tales. Interesting only as a speci-
men of Miss Mitford' s handwriting.
Two portraits: 1, engraved by William Read; 2, engraved
by H. W. Smith from the second painting by John Lucas, now in
the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Montalembert, Charles Forbes, Comte de, French author and states-
man, born in London, in 1810, died in Paris, 12 March, 1870.
Letter, dated Paris, 15 April, 1849, to M. M. Barthelemy, from
the Comite electoral pour la defense de la liberte religieuse of
which Count de Montalembert was at this date the president.
Montgomery, George Edgar, American poet.
Signed manuscript of " A lightning flash," a poem first published
in T/ie Century for August, 1886, volume 10, page 542.
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Montgomery, James, Scotch poet, born at Irvine in Ayrshire, 4 No-
vember, 1771, died at Sheffield, 30 April, 1854.
Letter, dated Sheffield, March 11, 1807, to Dr. John Aikin at
Stoke Newington. The letter was written while the poet was still
smarting under a contemptuous review by Francis Jeffrey in the
Edinburgh Review [January, 1807, volume 9, page 347] and
expresses much gratitude for comfort and encouragement to Dr.
Aikin, who had at this time just founded his literary paper, the
Athenceum.
Manuscript of "The world before the flood: Canto iii. The
patriarchs; Canto iv. The prophecy of Enoch," which is pub-
lished in his Poetical Works, volume 2 [821.2 M787— 1].
The manuscript is dated 30 December, 1809, and bears a super-
scription to Dr. Aikin and a postmark 13 January, 1810.
Two portraits: 1, a steel-engraving by H. Adlard from the
painting by John Jackson, R. A., in 1827, one of the two best
portraits ; 2, engraving, anonymous.
Moore, Thomas, Irish poet, born in Dublin, 28 May, 1779, died at
Sloperton Cottage near Devizes, 25 February, 1852.
Manuscript, dated June 6, 1818, of two songs: the first ** Angel
of Charity " set to an air by Handel ; the second " Oh ! how sweet
to think hereafter ' ' set to an air by Haydn.
Portrait, engraved, nameless.
Motley, John Lothrop, American historian and diplomatist, born in
Dorchester, Mass., 15 April, 1814, died near Dorchester, England,
29 May, 1877.
Letter, dated Nahant, 26 August, 1875, to Horace Mann.
The letter was written during the author's last visit to America,
very soon after the death of Mrs. Motley. Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes in his John Lothrop Motley [928.1 M.85.h] has the
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following passage in relation to Mrs. Motley's death, which shows
the conditions of mind and body under which the letter was
written :
"On the last day of 1874 the beloved wife, whose health had
for some years been failing, was taken from him by death. She
had been the pride of his happier years, the stay and solace of
those which had so tried his sensitive spirit. The blow found him
already weakened by mental suffering and bodily infirmity, and he
never recovered from it."
The letter is as follows :
Aly dear friend :
Many thanks for your most kind and interesting and touching letter. I wait
impatiently for the sequel you promise. How I wish I could write to you. It
would be an immense relief but my arm seems pinioned to my side by those
invisible threads which are stronger than iron chains and the effort to write
reacts on the brain. You will pardon me I am sure. I send the papers you
asked for and doubly wish I could write to you of the angel whose departure has
left me desolate. But you will take the will for the deed. Return them quite
at your leisure. Pray give my kindest regard and remembrance to Mrs. Mann.
Of course she knows as well as you how sacredly confidential the paper written
by me is.
I am sincerely and affectionately yours J. L. M.
Portrait, engraved by John Sartain from a photograph.
Mott, Lucretia Coffin, Mrs. James Mott, American reformer, born on
Nantucket Island, 3 January, 1793, died at Roadside, near Phila-
delphia, 11 November, 1880.
Letter, dated Roadside, 3mo 18, 1870, to Theodore Tilton, in
reply to a letter from him with regard to an attempt to unite the
American Woman Suffrage Association and the Union Woman
Suffrage Society. The letter is interesting not only as the letter of
a woman then seventy-seven years old, but as revealing the spirit
of the quiet Friend who was so strong an influence in all the stirring
reform movements of her time.
Portrait, engraved by G. E. Perine from a photograph.
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Moulton, Ellen Louise Chandler, Mrs. William A. Moulton, American
author, born at Pomfret, Conn., 5 April, 1835.
Autograph copy of the poem "Love's resurrection day," first
published in Harper^ s Magazine for June, 1884, volume 69, page
104, afterward included in her volume The Garden of £)rea?ns
[821.1 M927.g].
Sonnet entitled "Ralph Waldo Emerson," published in her
volume The Garden of Dreams [821.1 M927.g].
Muhlenberg, Gen. John Peter Gabriel, American patriot, clergyman,
soldier and legislator, born at Trappe, Pa., 1 October, 1746, died
near Philadelphia, 1 October, 1807.
Signature on a check for two hundred dollars for stamps on the
Bank of the United States, 9 July, 1802. Gen. Muhlenberg was
at this time supervisor of revenue for the district of Pennsylvania.
This is the stalwart clergyman who announced from his pulpit,
" There is a time for all things — a time to preach and a time to
pray; but there is also a time to fight and that time has now
come," threw off his gown, disclosing the full uniform of a colonel,
proceeded to the church door and ordered the drums to beat for
recruits. The recruits came.
Mundt, Klara Miiller, wife of Theodor Mundt, German novelist,
known by her pen-name " Luise Miihlbach," born in Neubranden-
burg, 2 January, 1814, died in Berlin, 26 September, 1873.
Part of a letter without address, place or date, giving a specimen
of the handwriting and signature of the novelist.
Murfree, Miss Mary Noailles, American novelist writing under the
name of Charles Egbert Craddock, born in Murfreesborough,
Tenn., in 1850.
Signed manuscript of "Drifting down Lost Creek," a short
story first published in the Atlantic Monthly in March and April,
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1884, volume 53, pages 362, 441, afterward included in the collec-
tion of stories In the Tennessee Mountains [C8842 — 4] . The man-
uscript consists of fifty pages and is very decided and very clear.
Examination of it explains how it was that the editor of the Atlantic
(Thomas Bailey Aldrich) accepted the masculine pen-name of the
writer in good faith and addressed Charles Egbert Craddock as
"Dear Sir."
New York State
Commissions signed by the early governors.
12 May, 1798, by John Jay.
25 March, 1803, by George Clinton.
16 April, 1806, by Morgan Lewis.
10 April, 1810, by Daniel D. Tompkins.
30 April, 1821, by DeWitt Clinton.
8 March, 1824, by Joseph C. Yates.
22 April, 1828, by Nathaniel Pitcher.
23 February, 1829, by Martin Van Buren.
3 April, 1829, by Enos Thompson Throop.
16 March, 1833, by William L. Marcy.
17 March, 1840, by William H. Seward.
27 February, 1844, by William C. Bouck.
7 May, 1845, by Silas Wright.
7 April, 1848, by John Young.
Newman, His Eminence John Henry, English cardinal of the Roman
Catholic Church, born in London, 21 February, 1801, died in
Edgbaston, 11 August, 1890.
Letter, with autograph, dated 30 December, 1885, to the Rever-
end Father M. P. Connery of Akron, N. Y. The handwriting
of both the letter and the autograph, written in the eighty-fifth
year of the great cardinal's life, shows the effects of increasing age
and weakness, although he lived nearly five years longer. The
sentiment of the autograph is a verse, slightly altered, from the
Vulgate Bible, Hebrews x : 37, and means, being translated, ' ' For
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yet a little while and he that is to come will come and will not
delay."
Letter and autograph are as follows :
Dear Mr. Cannery,
My fingers are so stiff and feeble that I do not write without effort and pain.
I enclose what I can. Yours very truly
JOHN H. CARD. NEWMAN.
Ad hue modicum aliquantulum qui venturus est veniet et non tardabit.
J. II. CARD. NEWMAN.
Dec. 30, 1885.
Portrait, engraved by Joseph Brown.
O'Reilly, John Boyle, Irish patriot, journalist and poet, for twenty
years editor of the Boston Pilot, born at Dowth Castle, Ireland, 28
June, 1844, died at Hull, Mass., 10 August, 1890.
Autograph copy of the concluding ten lines of his poem "The
ride of Collins Graves ; an incident of the flood in Massachusetts,
16 May, 1874," published in his volume Songs, Legends and
Ballads [821.1 066. s].
Ossoli, Sarah Margaret Fuller, American author, for some time editor
of the Dial, born at Cambridgeport, Mass., 23 May, 1810, mar-
ried December, 1847, to Giovanni Angelo Marchese Ossoli, ship-
wrecked near Fire Island, 19 July, 1850.
Letter, dated Rome, 514 Corso, 8th March, 1848 :
Aly dear Miss Stirling :
That I have not written as you wish impute to my very bad health during the
winter. You are often present to my thoughts. The same cause has pre-
vented my cultivating the acquaintances to whom you introduced me and who
promised to be very agreeable. Let me on my side present Mr. Hedge one of
the most cultivated and refined minds of my country and a friend of Emerson's
no less than mine. What great and stirring times are these of Paris. I should
like much to receive a few lines from you about what you have known of them.
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Had I but been in Paris this 14th of February as I was last year ; it was on that
day I went with you to hear Chopin and afterwards the dear kind Chevalier.
Time permits today no word more except, dear Miss Stirling, in hope of some-
time meeting again yours afifectionately g t^j FULLER
Portraits : 1, engraved by H, B. Hall, Jr. ; 2, engraved by
F. T. Stuart.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, English poet and courtier, born at Compton-
Scorpion, in Warwickshire, 18 June, 1581, died in the Tower, 15
September, 1613.
A very early manuscript copy of "Sir Thomas Ouerburye his
obseruations in trayuelle upon ye state of the 17 prouinces as they
stood Anno Domini 1609 the treaty of peace being then on foote,"
from the Osterley Park library, the original being at Lambeth.
Portrait, steel-engraving published in 1796 by Harding, from his.
drawing of the original by C. Jansen in the Bodleian gallery, Oxford.
Parker, Elizabeth Lowber Chandler, Mrs. Leroy Parker, American
author, known as Bessie Chandler, born in Batavia, N. Y., 1856.
Manuscript of "My rival," a poem published in the Century for
October, 1885, volume 8, page 976.
Parker, The Rev. Theodore, American clergyman, born in Lexington,
Mass., 24 August, 1810, died in Florence, Italy, 10 May, 1860.
Manuscript sermon for Thanksgiving Day, preached at West
Roxbury, Mass., November 25, 1841, from the text Job xii : 8.
Portrait, steel-engraving by H. Adlard, from a photograph taken
in 1846.
Parkman, Francis, American historian, born at Boston, 16 September,
1823, died at Boston, 8 November, 1893.
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Manuscript of Count Fnmfenac and JVeta France under Louis
XIV [976 60], the fifth part of the great series, France and Eng-
land in North America. The preface and the notes, of which
there are many, are in Mr. Parkman's handwriting, but the body
of the manuscript is made by an amanuensis, according to the
author's constant practice.
Parton, James, American author, born at Canterbury, England, 9 Feb-
ruary, 1822, died at Newburyport, Mass., 17 October, 1891.
Letter, dated Newburyport, Mass., December 13, 1885, to
Mr. Gkick, expressing Mr. Parton 's regret that he could not
give one of his manuscripts to the Library, as he possessed none
of them.
Portrait, wood-cut from a photograph.
Parton, Sarah Payson Willis, Mrs. James Parton, sister of Nathaniel
Parker Willis, American author known by her pen-name, "Fanny
Fern," born at Portland, Me., 7 July, 1811, died in New York, 10
October, 1872.
Personal letter dated 27 February, 1863, to Theodore Tilton :
Dear Tilton :
When I receive letters from friends or strangers signifying pleasure at anything
I may have written, — well — I like it ! Thinking that this may also be true of
you I must tell you that I read aloud " The one true Church " the other evening
with great delight quite ignorant that you were the author. Do you suppose I
liked it the less when Perkins informed me of this fact last evening ? Not a
"■ ■ Yours truly FANNY FERN.
Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Dighton, English poet, born at Wood-
ford, Essex, 23 July, 1823, died at Lymington, 26 November,
1896.
Letter written in the third person, dated Library, British
Museum, December 29, 1847, to Mr. J. B, Nichols. The letter
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offers a paper on William Browne for the Gentleman! s Magazine.
Mr. Patmore was assistant librarian in the Library of the British
Museum from 1846 to 1865.
Payne, John Howard, American dramatist, born in New York City, 9
June, 1792, American consul from 1841 to 1852 in Tunis, Africa,
where he died, 10 April, 1852.
Autograph, being a copy of the two stanzas by Aaron Hill :
** Tender-handed stroke a nettle," etc.
Facsimile of " Home sweet home."
Portraits: 1, steel-engraving nameless; 2, steel-engraving by
G. R. Hall, from a daguerreotype by Brady, made for Gabriel
Harrison's "Life of Payne."
Percival, James Gates, American poet and geologist, born in Kensing-
ton, Conn., 15 September, 1795, died in Hazel Green, Wis., 2
May, 1856.
Letter dated New Haven, March 29th, 1841, to D. H. Williams,
with signed manuscripts of three songs: "Evening; Awake my
Lyre; and Hunting song."
Portrait, engraved by H. W. Smith from a painting by Francis
Alexander.
Perry, Miss Nora, American author, born in Dudley, Mass., in 1841,
died in the same place 13 May, 1896.
Manuscript of "The children's cherry feast," a poem concern-
ing the siege of the city of Naumberg by the Hussites under
Prokopius in 1432. The poem was first published, with illustra-
tions, in the Wide Awake for May, 1886, volume 22, page 347, and
is included in the volume New Songs and Ballads [821.1 P4642.n] .
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Manuscript of "Tyrant Tacy," a story first published in St.
Nicholas for February, 1885, volume 12, pt. 1, page 260, and is
included in her book of stories A Flock of Girls [P4642 — 2] .
Signed manuscript of " Autograph hunting and autographs," an
article published in Wide Awake for February, 1886, volume 22,
page 191.
Signed manuscript of " Cressid," a poem first published in the
Atlantic Monthly for April, 1885, volume 55, page 476, afterward
reprinted in her volume New Songs and Ballads [821.1 P4642.n].
Autograph copy of the first stanza of her poem "Some day of
days," published in her volume After the Ball and Her Lover' s
Friend, etc. [821.1 P4642.a].
Phillips, Wendell, American orator and lecturer, born in Boston, 29
November, 1811, died in the same city, 2 February, 1884.
Letter, dated September 10 [1862], probably to Theodore Til-
ton, written just before the preliminary warning of the proclama-
tion of emancipation.
Dear friend :
Congratulate you on the baby — lucky baby. Wish I could see you an hour
before you go to Washington — too lazy to write what I would like to say. No,
I don't care much to talk before that event. Your private talks with cabinet
will have no good effect except on yon — they have no time, if they had the
ability, to exercise foresight — they only meet the hour as it comes, often too late.
Presses and public speakers are what we need to tell the people what ought to be
done & so teach and mould the cabinet and enable them to do it. I should like
to write an article & may. Why did not add to her grand his-
tory some concluding hint to the people what to do. Persevere he [she] says —
good — but persevere in what direction how what step shall the Govt take to
cower John Bull & checkmate France ?
Tell us wise men & we'll demand it and our demand will enable the Govt
to do it.
Goodbye
faithfully
WENDELL PHILLIPS
Two personal letters to Theodore Tilton, the first dated 12 No-
vember, 1860, the second 15 November, 1861.
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Piatt, John James, American poet, consul at Cork from 1882 to 1893,
born at Milton, Ind., 1 March, 1835.
Autograph copy of " A song of content," an eight line stanza
published in his Poems of House and Home page 35 [821.1
P5835.p].
Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan, Mrs. John James Piatt, American poet,
born in Lexington, Ky. , 11 August, 1836.
Signed manuscript of "In primrose time," a poem first pub-
lished in St. Nicholas for May, 1885, volume 12, pt. 2, page 497,
afterward used as the introductory poem and title to her collection
In Frhnrose Time [821.1 P5836.i].
Autograph copy of "Making peace," a poem of two four line
stanzas first published in Scrihncr'' s Monthly for November, 1874,
volume 9, page 31, afterward reprinted in her volume That New
World, and other poems, page 90 [821.1 P5836.t].
Picard, George Henry, x\merican physician and novelist, born in
Berea, Ohio, 3 August, 1850.
Manuscript of A Alission Flower; an American Jiovel, pub-
lished in 1885 [P5863— 1].
Pierpont, The Rev. John, American clergyman, poet, lawyer and
reformer, born at Litchfield, Conn., 6 April, 1785, died in Med-
ford, Mass., 26 August, 1806.
Letter, dated West Medford, Mass., 11 December, 1854, to
Norman C. Perkins.
Mr. Pierpont, who was the author of the famous " Airs of Pales-
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tine," was pastor of the Congregational Church of Medford at the
time of this letter :
" I send you these lines on the marvelous and fearful science of
PSYCHOMETRY.
We stamp ourselves on every page w^e write :
That page shall bring our hidden things to light.
Send you a note to China or the pole,
Where'er the winds blow or the waters roll,
That note shall bear the impress of your soul.
We must, therefore, be a little careful what we commit to paper by way of
complying with the requests of our friends that we would favor them with our
autograph."
Portrait, engraved by H. S. Sadd from a daguerreotype by
Whipple.
Pillsbury, Parker, American anti-slavery reformer, born in Hamilton,
Mass., 22 September, 1809, died at Concord, N. H., 7 July, 1898.
Letter, dated Concord, N. H., 22 June, 1863, to Theodore Til-
ton. The letter represents the most radical anti-slavery opinion at
this time of excited feeling. The following extract from a descrip-
tion by James Russell Lowell of the abolitionists at the Anti-
Slavery Bazaar at Faneuil Hall, 22 December, 1846, is, a younger
contemporary says, '*a wonderfully graphic sketch of Pillsbury,
who was always at a white heat in any case,"
" Beyond, a crater in each eye,
Sways brown, broad-shouldered Pillsbury,
Who tears up words like trees by roots,
A Theseus in stout cowhide boots,
The wager of eternal war
Against that loathsome Minotaur
To whom we sacrifice each year
The best blood of our Athens here —
*****
A terrible denouncer he,
Old Sinai burns unquenchably
Upon his lips ; he well might be a
Hot-blazing soul from fierce Judea,
Habakkuk, Ezra, or Ilosea."
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The letter, omitting some slight personalities, is as follows :
Dear Friend :
I am forbidden to write or speak, unless there be more than ordinary reason.
But reading tlie apology for Charles Sumner's part in the Stevenson Brigadier-
ship by your (and our) Washington correspondent "Avon" moved to say that
though the offence was most ineffably mean, the explanation seems to me (/'<? we,
understand) worse indescribably. And Avon is Seward's man also of late.
What has got into him ? And now Hunter is bidden to i>iU the dust. What is
the apology for that ? Freemont {thus) and Butler, Hamilton and Hunter, Siegel
and Stringham — all shelved ! ! Well.
Did you read about our grand gathering, here in Concord, the other day ? Do
not overlook Blair's speech in it (or to it, or at it) as you please. And remember
he spoke for Washington ; especially for Lincoln, And let me tell you that ten
thousand people came here to meet "Freemont and Jessie" who were advertized
and re-advertized and cross advertized when the getters up of the affair knew that
in detailing Blair, they inevitably excluded Freemont ! "Freemont and Jessie"
were only "decoy ducks"; and I hope somebody will tell them so — and tell them
also how little the regency here seemed to regret their abscence ! Dry eyes had they.
I hope we shall hear less about "Honest Abe" in some quarters, now that
Blair has blared so loud for his re-election, and on a basis as damnably negro hating
as hell and Hunkerdom can desire. And the colored population are to come
and fight our battles for us on such terms as these ; on part pay and all white
officers, at that ! ! And Garrisonian abolitionists have left their proper work to
assist in this adding new insults to old injuries by aiding to enlist them. Dear me !
May I never recover my health, if it cannot be used to better purpose. Rather
this night let me die. Does the Independent thunder like Patmos and Mount
Horeb in Mr. Beecher's abscence? I threw the Tribune to the dogs when you
took Greeley so well in hand. It comes every day yet but I send it no more
dollars. And Gerrit Smith too must bow the knee. His excuses wont do.
Men like him have no right to talk in that way to the delight of all Hunkers at
a time like this. He meant well enough no doubt — but that doesn't help the case
at all. He misleads thousands who would be true as the polar star only that he
and Greeley bewilder them and cause them to fall. I hear such men talk every
day good men at heart too. Don't this letter (so badly written withal) make
you glad I am disabled? A good many I understand are glad enough that my
powers are paralyzed. It may be for the best.
Your ever faithful friend,
PARKER PILLSBURY.
Poe, Edgar Allan, American poet, born in Boston, 19 January, 1809,
died in Baltimore, 7 October, 1849.
MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS
Letter, dated Philadelphia, 22 April, 1843, to Thomas G.
Mackenzie as follows :
JMy Dear Thomas :
About a fortnight ago I wrote to Peter D. Bernard, wlio married one of T. W.
White's daughters, and made inquiry about "The Southern Literary Messenger"
but have received no reply. I am very anxious to ascertain if it is for sale, and if
it is, I wish to purchase it (through my friends here). You wrote me, some time
ago, that the heirs had not made up their minds respecting it. Would you do
me the favor, now, to call upon I'ernard, or upon some one of the other heirs,
and inquire about it?
I can't imagine why Bernard did not reply to my letter. If the list is for sale
I would make arrangements for its immediate purchase upon terms which would
be fully satisfactory to the heirs. But do not let them suppose I am too anxious.
By the bye, there may be some prejudice, on the part of the heirs, against me
individually, on account of my quitting White — suppose, then, you get some
one of your friends to negotiate for you and don't let me be known in the
business at all. Merely ascertain if the list is for sale and upon what terms.
Please oblige me in this matter as soon as possible, as I am exceedingly anxious
about it. Tell Rose that Virginia is much better, toe and all, and that sh« has
been out lately, several times, taking long walks. She sends a great deal of love
to all. Remember me kindly to the whole family and believe me
Yours most truly
EDGAR A. POE.
Portrait, engraved by F. T. Stuart.
Pope, Alexander, English poet, born in London, 21 May, 1688, died
at Twickenham, 30 May, 1744.
Letter, dated Twickenham, 17 January, 1740-1, to John Brins-
den, secretary to Lord Bolingbroke, of interest only as a specimen
of the poet's handwriting.
Portraits : 1, engraving by J. A. J. Wilcox ; 2, engraving,
nameless.
Porter, Miss Rose, American author, born in New York City in 1845.
Signed manuscript of Honoria, or the Gospel of a Life, a novel
published in New York, 1885 [P8477— 1].
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Preston, Miss Harriet Waters, American author, well known as a
translator, especially from the French and Provencal, born in Dan-
vers, Mass., about 1843.
Signed manuscript of "Miss Ingelow and Mrs. Walford," an
article published in the Atlantic Monthly for August, 1885, volume
56, page 230.
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Prime, The Rev. Samuel Iren?eus, American author and clergyman,
editor of the New York Observer from 1840 to 1885, born at
Ballston, N. Y., 6 November, 1812, died at Manchester, Vt., 18
July, 1885.
Letter, dated 2 October, 1855, to Theodore Tilton, congratulat-
ing him upon his marriage. Mr. Tilton was, during this year, a
member of the staff of the New York Observer.
Portrait, erigraving.
Procter, Miss Adelaide Anne, eldest child of Bryan Waller Procter,
English poet, born in London, 30 October, 1825, died at Malvern,
2 February, 1864.
Manuscript of a sonnet,
"CALVUS.
Bald mortal Ihou dost ape the skeleton
That satirizes man and all his doings
From every open'd grave, and shouldst seem one,
But for the glowworm which is in thine eyes,
And certain airs that from thy lips arise.
Why now to see thee at thine amorous wooings
Or gravely preaching immortality,
To which thy living death's head gives the lie,
Would make the shadow that all life receiveth
Shake his dim sides with horrible derision.
Tell us, old Calvus ! what about thee cleaveth.
To make distinction still between the vision
Of a death's head and thine? Get thee false hair
For thy sole privilege to upper air."
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Procter, Bryan Waller, English poet, writing chiefly under the pen-
name "Barry Cornwall," born at Leeds, 21 November, 1787, died
in London, 5 October, 1874.
Manuscript of " The blood horse," a poem printed in his q.o\-
\&ci\on English songs, and other small poems [821.2 P9631.e].
Portrait, engraved.
Pugh, Sarah, American reformer, friend and co-laborer of Lucretia
Mott.
Postscript to letter from Lucretia Mott to Theodore Tilton, 18
March, 1870.
Rame, Louise de la, English author, known by her pen-name " Ouida,"
who has lived for many years in Italy, born at Bury St. Edmunds
in 1840.
Proofsheets, with author's emendations, of an article on
"Female suffrage," published in the North American Review (ox
September, 1886, volume 143, page 190.
Read, Thomas Buchanan, American poet and painter, born in Chester
Co., Pa., 12 March, 1822, died in New York, 11 May, 1872.
Signed autograph copy of the first five lines of the second
stanza of his poem "The flag of the constellation," published in
his Poetical Works, volume 3, page 290 [821.1 R2846— 1].
Reade, Charles, English novelist, born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, 8 June,
1814, died in London, 11 April, 1884.
A series of letters, dated Knightsbridge, May 21-26th [1869], to
Benjamin Webster, manager of the Adelphi theater, concerning
the play " Dora," founded on Tennyson's poem of the same name,
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with manuscript directions concerning the play. Also, printed
text of the play, and copies of various songs used as incidental
music in connection with the play.
Portrait, engraved from a photograph, anonymous.
Reid, Whitelaw, American journalist, editor and principal owner of
the New York Tribune since 1872, born near Xenia, Ohio, 27
October, 1837.
Letter, dated Washington, 6th July, 1864, to Theodore Tilton.
Mr. Reid was at this time the correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette in Washington and this was also the period of strained
relations between President Lincoln and Secretary Chase, to which
the letter alludes.
Portrait, wood-cut from an early photograph by Sarony.
Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, German author writing under the name
Jean Paul, born in Bayreuth, 21 March, 1763, died in the same
place, 14 November, 1825.
Personal letter, dated Baireut, 29 July, 1809, to Hofrath Haug
at Stuttgart.
Collection of newspaper cuttings of biographical notices, trans-
lations and criticisms.
Portraits : 1, engraved by Adrian Sleich from the painting by
Friedrich Meyer in 1811 ; 2, engraved by C. A. Schwerdge-
burth from a painting by C. Vogel ; 3, engraved by J. Sartain
from a painting by Fiirster ; 4, wood-engraving, nameless.
Robertson, William, Scotch historian, born at Borthwick, Midlothian,
19 September, 1721, died near Edinburgh, 11 June, 1793.
Letter dated " College of Edinburgh, May 6th, 1773 " to William
Smith, chief justice of the provinces of New York, 1763, and
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author of "History of the province of New York from its discov-
ery to 1762" [973 14,v4,5] ; together with a series of ''Queries
relating to the manners of the Indians."
The letter and queries were preparatory for the writer's famous
History of A?nerica [970 9] published in 1777. In the preface
he acknowledges his indebtedness for help from William Smith.
The letter, omitting some personalities, is as follows :
Sir :
I have already collected most of the books relating to the history of the Colo-
nies, together with their various Codes of laws, and what I still want I shall be
able to pick up here or in London, so that I need not give you any trouble with
respect to these. I am fully sensible of what you say concerning the importance
and utility of a full representation of the present state of our Colonies and the
difficulty of procuring such accurate information as may preserve one from mis-
takes and even from gross blunders. When I have looked into this branch of my
subject with some more attention, and have formed my own ideas with regard to
it, I shall then be able to propose queries with greater discernment, and I hope
then to derive great advantage from the correspondence to which you invite me.
My first object has been the progress of the Spanish discoveries, and the state
and manners of the aboriginal inhabitants of America. By the interposition of
Lord Grantham, our ambassador at Madrid, to whom I have the honour to be
known personally, I have procured much information from Spain, and by the
good offices of Mr. Waddilove, chaplain to the Ambassy I have obtained the
most compleat collection of Spanish books relative to America that ever was in
Britain. I flatter myself that I have been able to give a more accurate account
of the manners of the natives and more authentic representation of the state of
the country than any that has hitherto been published. A view of the human
species in the rudeness of its early and infant state is a curious and instructive
article in the history of man and has never been exhibited by any but persons
blinded or deceived by some favourite system which they had formed. As I
wish to obtain all the information possible concerning the condition and charac-
ter of man in this stage of his existence I have taken the liberty to inclose a
set of Queries relating to the manners of the Indians. You (as I learn from your
History) have already given some attention to inquiries of this kind, and I sup-
pose that you can procure me some intelligence with respect to the points I
mention in the Queries. Many of them, I am aware, will appear to you trifling
and uninteresting and perhaps they are so. But they have all some refer-
ence either to ideas of my own, or to some of those systems concerning rude
Nations, particularly the Americans, which have been published by M. Buffon,
the Author of Recherches Philosophiqiies sier les A mericains, by Rousseau etc. I
flatter myself that you will be so good as to obtain for me any elucidation of
these points which you think may be useful to me as soon as you can. I accom-
pany this request with no apology, your friendly offer leaves me no room to doubt
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that you will not grudge the labour of executing such a commission. The book
to which you allude, viz. Political Essays concerning the British Empire is not
written by Lord Kaims. I know not the author but it is a work of merit. I
shall flatter myself with the hopes of hearing from you soon, and I have the
honour to be with great respect
Sir
Your most obedient and obliged
humble Servant
WILLIAM ROBERTSON.
QUERIES.
Is the bodily constitution of the Indians as vigorous and robust as that of people
of similar climates on the ancient continent ?
Is the beardless countenance and want of hair upon every part of the body but
the head natural to the Indians ?
N. E. The most accurate Spanish and French travellers, who have viewed the
Indians in every climate of America, represent this defect as universal and con-
sider it as a natural distinction of the Americans. I observe that in a note p. 37
of your history of N. York you seem to think it is not natural, but it appears to
me more strange that all the tribes scattered over America from Cape Horn to
the river St. Lawrence should agree in one custom of plucking out their hair, than
that they should naturally want it. Lawson in his New Voyage to Carolina
Lond. 1709. 4 to p. 52 mentions his having seen Indians with beards. A well
attested fact will destroy at once any reasoning and theory. But is this fact well
attested?
Are the Indians defective in animal passion for their females and does their
constitutional vigour seem to be less in this respect than that of the people of
the ancient continent ?
The Spanish and French Missionaries describe, with astonishment, the cold-
ness and chastity of the Indians, not only in temperate and northern climates but
in the torrid zone. Lawson and Brickell in their accounts of Carolina represent
their manners in a very different light. You as I see p. 37 have received informa-
tion which confirms this. I should wish to have this more fully explained ; par-
ticularly
Have their Songs and Dances any reference to love and gallantry, or are they
rather martial and formal ?
Does their common discourse turn often upon love and the animal passion
between the sexes?
Is the appetite of Indians for food greater or less than that of Europeans ?
Is the period of human life among them longer or shorter than in the other
continent?
What are the diseases to which they are most subject ?
Does Polygamy take place among the Indians of North America?
Are their marriages permanent, or when dissolved, how ai'e the children dis-
posed of?
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What is the character of their women with regard to chastity both before and
after marriage?
How are the women treated by their husbands ?
Whether are the Indian women prolifick ?
Do many of their children die in nonage ?
What is the state of parental tenderness and affection among them and what
the returns of filial duty and respect when compared with what takes place in
other nations ?
What are their ideas of property ?
Whether does the product of their agriculture and the game taken in hunting
belong to the community or to the individual ?
What degree of authority do their Sachems or Chiefs possess? Is it confined
solely to military command or is it exercised likewise during peace?
Is the authoi-ity of their chiefs hereditary or elective or does it result tacitly
from their merit and eminent qualities ?
Do they exercise any criminal jurisdiction by punishing such as are guilty of
acts of violence or is the right of revenge left wholly in the hands of private
persons ?
What are the motives and objects of their wars ?
Whether are many of their prisoners spared and adopted or are they mostly put
to death ?
Whether is their fortitude under torture general or do many of them shrink or
lose spirit under their sufferings ?
Do they in their works of art discover any considerable degree of contrivance
and ingenuity ?
When they settle among Europeans, or have much intercourse with them, do
they discover any talents for mechanical arts or acquire habits of industry ?
Have they any Songs or Poems comprising any traditional history of their
country or relating the actions of their great warriors?
Could a literal translation be procured of some of those poetical compositions
if any such there be ?
Have they any idea of a Deity whom they suppose to be the Creator and
Governour of the world ?
Have they rites which may be denominated religious or are any of them
singular and remarkable ?
What are their ideas concerning a future state ?
Whether is the language of each tribe distinct or may all the dialects of North
America be referred (as the French Missionaries assert) to two or three mother
languages ?
The short account of the Iroquois language which you have published p. 39 is
curious, but if you can apply for information to any person who has had a liberal
education I should wish to have his ideas concerning the genius and structure
of their language.
Portrait, engraved by Ridley and published by J. Sewell in
1802.
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Rogers, Samuel, English poet, born at Stoke Newington, 30 July, 1763?
died at Hornsey, 18 December, 1855.
Note without place or date to Miss Mary Sharpe, and brief auto-
biographical notes.
Rohlfs, Anna Katharine Green, Mrs. Charles Rohlfs, American novel-
ist, born on Long Island, N. Y., in 1846.
Manuscripts of three poems: ''Through the trees; In farewell ;
Ode to Grant." The first two poems are included in her volume
The Defence of the Bride, and other poems [821.1 G975.d].
Rossetti, Dante Charles Gabriel, English poet and painter, born in
London, 12 May, 1828, died at Birchington, near Margate, 10
April, 1882.
Manuscript of a sonnet on Coleridge, written in 1880, printed
as one of a set of sonnets on five English poets, Chatterton, Blake,
Coleridge, Keats and Shelley, in his Ballads and Sonnets [821.2
R8292.b].
The lines vary somewhat from the printed form and are printed
in full :
"COLERIDGE.
His soul fared forth even as the Father-dove
Through hidden places plies his hour-long quest,
To feed his soul-brood hungering in the nest ;
But his warm Heart, the mother-bird, above
Their callow fledgling progeny still hove
With tented roof of wings and fostering breast
Till the Soul fed the soul-brood. Richly blest
From Heaven their growth, whose food was human love.
Yet ah ! Like desart pools that show the stars
Once in long leagues, — even such the scarce-snatched hours
Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers, —
Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars !
Five years from seventy saved ! Yet kindling skies
Own them a beacon to our centuries."
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Letter dated Wednesday [13 April, 1881] to Mr. F. S. Ellis, of
the firm of Ellis and White, his publishers.
My dear Ellis :
Thanks for your note. Is it likely that there will now be a break in the print-
ing owing to the Easter week? I have a friend coming to town to whom I
should like to show the "King's Tragedy" on some historical grounds and
should thus like to have the M. S. by Saturday morning, if not likely to be in
use for some days. Of course I suppose they could not get it all in type by then.
Yours ever
D. G. ROSSETTI
P. S. Pray pardon trouble. Thanks for the descriptive papers safe to hand.
I have received this evening sheet 1 of the " King's Tragedy."
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, French author, born in Geneva, 28 June,
1712, died at Ermenonville, near Paris, 3 July, 1778.
Letter, dated Montmorency, 18 February, 1758, to M. Jacob
Vernes, a Swiss protestant theologian, who later attacked Rous-
seau's opinions in his book Lettres et Dialogues snr le Christianisme
de J. J. Rousseau. The letter is long and characteristic, dwelling
on his isolation and ill-health and discussing at some length his
religious philosophy. It is published in Rousseau's CEuvres com-
piles, 1793, volume 1, page 179 [840 296], also in his (Euvrcs,
1817, volume 1, page 448 [840 102].
Portrait, engraving, nameless.
Ruskin, John, English art critic and author, born in London, 8 Febru-
ary, 1819.
Letter, dated Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 14 February,
1876, to Sir John Gilbert, at Vanbrugh Park, Blackheath, Lon-
don. Mr. Ruskin was Slade Professor of Fine Art in Oxford at
the time of this letter, which is as follows :
Aly dear Sir yohn :
Indeed I am most grateful for your letter, and proud of its kind expression of
wish that I should have some part in the honour of the dear old room.
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But I had nothing by me but what I was ashamed to send. I can only draw
in black & white just now, for engraving, or else natural history detail not im-
portant enough for exhibition.
I have more writing to do and more business every day and what little skill my
fingers had must soon leave them : but I hope yet to send a sketch or two of
skies, some day, if ever we see the sky again. I wish my St. George's company
were gaining ground fast enough for us to hope to have Sir John Gilbert draw
some of our battles for us. But believe me Ever my dear Sir John faithfully
and heartily yours
J. RUSKIN.
Manuscript of passages from the essay, "Qui judicatis terram,"
from Unto This Last, Wiley edition, 1869, p. 70, 77 [330 58].
Portraits: 1, steel-engraving, anonymous, from drawing; 2,
process reproduction of a drawing by B. Lander from a photo-
graph from life.
Saint Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de, French author, born at
Havre, 19 January, 1737, died at Eragny, near Pontoise, 21
January, 1814.
Part of a personal letter, without place, date or address, giving a
very good specimen of the author's handwriting and signature.
Portrait, engraving, nameless.
Sainte - Beuve, Charles Augustin, French critic and poet, born at
Boulogne-sur-Mer, 23 December, 1804, died in Paris, 13 October,
1869.
Short note without place or date, giving a specimen of M. Sainte-
Beuve's handwriting and signature.
Sala, George Augustus Henry, English journalist and author, born in
London, 24 November, 1828, died at Brighton, 8 December,
1895.
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Manuscript of an article called "On a certain team of horses,"
seven pages of the very clear, microscopic handwriting of the
famous journalist.
Sanborn, The Rev. Franklin Benjamin, American journalist and author,
born in Hampton Falls, N. H., 15 December, 1831.
Manuscript of a sermon on " Immortality," Luke xvii : 21, and
XXI : 38, preached at Elmira, 19 April, 1885.
Savage, The Rev. Minot Judson, American clergyman and author,
pastor of the Church of the Unity, Boston, since 1874, born at
Norridgewock, Me., 10 June, 1841.
Original manuscript of a sermon preached at the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the dedication of the Church of the Unity, Boston,
1884.
Autograph copy of poem "Where is God?" dated Boston, 16
April, 1886.
Portrait, wood-engraving by A. C. Russell from photograph.
Saxe, John Godfrey, American lawyer and poet, born in Highgate, Vt.,
2 June, 1816, died in Albany, 31 March, 1887.
Letter, dated Albany, N. Y., 15 April, 1872, to James R.
Osgood concerning the selection of Augustus Hoppin as the
illustrator for a holiday edition of Saxe's poem "The proud Miss
MacBride." The edition, as discussed, was issued in 1873.
Scott, Sir Walter, Scotch novelist and poet, born in Edinburgh, 15
August, 1771, died at Abbotsford, 21 September, 1832.
Manuscript of part of an essay on "Chivalry," written in
1814, for the Supplement to the fourth and fifth editions of the
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Encyclopgedia Britannica, of which the first part was published in
December, 1815. The essay was incorporated into the body of
the seventh edition and retained its place in the eighth, but was
omitted in the ninth. Scott received one hundred pounds for the
essay. It has been reprinted together with the essays on ''Drama "
and on "Romance" which were written for the same work
[940.1 19].
The manuscript is accompanied by the following note from Scott :
Sir:
I am obliged with your flattering letter and readily send you the specimen you
wish to possess of my handwriting. I am sorry to say neither my hand or eyes
are so good as when I was younger.
I am sir
Your obedient servant
WALTER SCOTT.
Edinburgh
25 Feby 1826.
Scudder, Horace Elisha, American author, born in Boston, 16 October,
1838.
Manuscript of the first draft of "The golden egg and cock of
gold," a story written in 1861 or 1862 and first published in Dream
Children [j S4364.d] in Cambridge, 1864. The story was trans-
lated into Latin by J. H. Allen and published in Allen's Latm
Primer in 1870.
Portrait, wood-cut, from a photograph.
Sedgwick, Miss Catherine Maria, American author and teacher, born
at Stockbridge, Mass., 28 December, 1789, died near Roxbury
Mass., 31 July, 1867.
Letter, dated 9 January, 1856, to Miss Peabody, concerning
some private charity in which both were interested.
Portrait, engraved by P. Halpin from a painting by Ingham.
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Seward, William Henry, American statesman, secretary of state during
President Lincoln's administration, born at Florida, Orange Co.,
N. Y., 16 May, 1801, died at Auburn, N. Y., 10 October,
1872.
Note, without place or date, to the President, as follows :
"Mr. Everett consents that you see the inclosed correspondence. It reveals
the coldness, almost the ill will, of the British Government from the first. I
wonder at its short sightedness."
Portrait, engraved by A. H. Ritchie from a photograph.
Shaw, Henry Wheeler, American humorist, better known as "Josh
Billings," born in Lanesborough, Mass. 21 April, 1818, died in
Monterey, Cal., 14 October, 1885.
Manuscript of forty-two aphorisms published from month to
month during the year 1885 in the Century under the title " Uncle
Esek's Wisdom."
Portrait, etched by H. B. Hall from a photograph by Sarony,
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, English poet, born at Field Place, Warnham,
4 August, 1792, drowned near Leghorn, Italy, 8 July, 1822.
Letter, dated Marlow, 13 July, 1817, probably to C. & J. Oilier,
Shelley's publishers at this time, ordering a copy of Coleridge's
Sibylline Leaves, which had recently been published.
Portrait, engraved by W. Finden from Miss Curran's painting,
1819.
Shenstone, William, English poet, born at Halesowen, Worcestershire,
13 November, 1714, died at Leasowes, 11 February, 1763.
Autograph endorsement on a manuscript written by Mr. Dal-
rymple, dated 18 March, 1760. Also copy by Mr. Shenstone of a
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letter written by Mr. Spence to the Rev'^'' Mr. W , Septem-
ber 9, 1751.
Portrait, engraved by W. Ridley from a drawing.
Sherman, Frank Dempster, American poet, born at Peekskill, N. Y.,
6 May, 1860.
Signed manuscript of " A betrothal," a poem first published in
the Centuij, for May, 1886, volume 10, page 61, and reprinted in
his volume Madrigals and Catches [821.1 S553.m].
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley, American author and philanthropist, born
in Norwich, Conn., 1 September, 1791, died in Hartford, Conn.,
10 June, 1865.
Signed manuscript of "The butterfly," a poem of two stanzas
published in her collection called Focahofiias, and other poems
[821.1 S578.p].
Portrait, engraved by Burt from a painting by Francis Alexander
in 1828.
Sill, Edward Rowland, American poet and scholar, born in Windsor,
Conn., 29 April, 1841, died in Cleveland, 27 February, 1887.
Signed manuscript of "The crazy-quilt memory," an article
published in the "Contributors' Club" of the Atlantic Monthly
for April, 1886, volume 57, page 570.
Simms, William Gilmore, American novelist, born at Charleston,
S. C, 17 April, 1806, died in the same city, 11 June, 1870.
Letter, dated Charleston, December 18, 1867, interesting simply
as a specimen of Mr. Simms's handwriting.
Portrait, engraved, nameless.
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Smalley, George Washburne, American journalist, English corre-
spondent for the Netv York Tribune from 1867 to 1895, since 1895
the American correspondent of the London Times, born at Frank-
lin, Mass., 2 June, 1833.
Letter, dated 31 December, 1867, from the London offices of the
New York Tribune, 17 Henrietta St., Covent Garden, to Theodore
Tilton. The following extracts from the letter give some interesting
details of the impressions and feelings of the American in London :
"I should like to write to somebody every day, if I could, for I hunger and
thirst after letters from home — and home means all America. You wont know
till you come out here how to long for letters. And from a man who lives inside
the newspaper world and has the entree of the Tribune office a letter, a note, a
line is a treasure for which I am grateful Over here everybody
thinks you are all in the same boat — all Republican and Radical people I mean
— and would be amazed to hear that W. P. and H. G. were not bosom friends.
. . . . I wonder if you would like my quiet life over here. You may bury
yourself in London so many fathoms deep that nobody will know of your
existence, or you may swim the stream in company with lots of pleasant fellows.
I made last year a good many acquaintances and when all that is done you may
see all of London people and life you care to. The ' season ' here you know is
over in July and from August to December nobody stays in town. About this
time they begin to come back and dinner invitations come thick upon you. I
have been to four or five within a fortnight — am to dine on Thursday with King-
lake. All summer we spent at Norwood within a few minutes of the Crystal
Palace which was Fairy Land for the children
Do you remember the old grandees in the Newcomes that formerly lived in
Harley St. and all had the same plate and servants and had the same dinners ?
We are in the next street, close to Cavendish square. As for these offices I
believe they are part of the property which Henry VIII confiscated away from
the monks and gave to the Duke of Bedford, or an ancestor of the Duke not a
Duke in those days, as to which I am not learned. But this is a real delight,
and perhaps almost the best in London next to the living men, to find yourself
every day and ten times a day passing through streets and by buildings which are
famous for the very events and people that are dearest to us in English history.
. . . . Climate excepted we all like London, but the climate is awful, and I
for one can do nothing without constant open air exercise "
Portrait, process-cut from a photograph by W. & D. Downey,
London.
Smith, Gerrit, American philanthropist, born at Utica, N. Y., 6 March,
1797, died in New York, 28 December, 1874.
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Letter, dated Peterboro, Oct. 25, 1863, to Theodore Tilton,
approving a speech of Mr. Tilton's on the negro, saying :
"I am very glad to get your letter and the second edition of your speech on
the Negro. I read it when it first appeared, and liked it much. I have read it
again today, and I like it more. Nothing in it pleases so much as the Irish-
man's and the Negro's side-by-side ride toward the Millenium."
Smith, Horatio, better known as Horace Smith, English poet, born in
London, in 1779, died at Tunbridge Wells, 12 July, 1849.
Signed autograph copy, dated Brighton, 24th August, 1828, of
the last four lines of "The poet and the alchemist." The poem
is included in Rejected addresses and other poems, page 172 [821.2
S651— 1] .
Smith, The Rev. Samuel Francis, American clergyman, born in Boston,
21 October, 1808, died in Boston, 16 November, 1895.
Manuscript copy of "America," written in 1832, copied Dec.
11, 1885, at Newton Centre, Mass.
Portrait, wood-engraving.
Southey, Caroline Anne Bowles, English poet, second wife of Robert
Southey, born at Lymington, Hampshire, 7 October, 1786, died
at the same place, 20 July, 1854.
Manuscript of " Patience and toasted cheese," a poem of
twenty-four six-line stanzas.
Southey, Robert, English poet and historian, born at Bristol, 12 Aug-
ust, 1774, died at Keswick, 21 March, 1843.
Manuscript of chapter 173 of The Doctor. Southey published
Ty/^' Z)^r/'w anonymously, the first two volumes in January, 1834,
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volume 3 in 1835, volumes 4 and 5 in 1837, and volumes 6 and 7
in 1847, edited by John Wood Warter, his son-in-law. The book
made a great stir in literary circles and was extensively reviewed
with various guesses at the authorship. The curious may trace
contemporary opinion by examining Fraser's Magazine for Decem-
ber, 1837, January and March, 1838, volume 16, page 657, volume
17, page 106, 310 ; Blackwood' s Magazine for August and Octo-
ber, 1835, volume 38, page 269, 547 ; Quarterly Review for
March, 1834, volume 51, page 68 ; Knickerbocker Magazine for
November, 1836, volume 8, page 605. The book is a most
curious medley and the longer one examines it the more just seems
the comment of the Quarterly Revieio that " The Doctor is the
work of a man who stands more in need of physic than of criti-
cism " : and the more obvious it appears that it gives many indi-
cations of the decay of Southey's clear and brilliant mind which
was first observed by his friends in 1839, and which ended in death
four years later.
Sparks, The Rev. Jared, American historian, born at Willington,
Conn., 10 May, 1789, died at Cambridge, Mass., 14 March,
1866.
Letter, dated Cambridge, April 10, 1854, to Norman C. Perkins.
The letter simply says that he cannot give to Mr. Perkins an
autograph of Franklin as collectors have exhausted his stock.
Portrait, engraved by S. A, Schoff from the painting by T.
Sully.
Spinner, Francis Elias, American financier, treasurer of the United
States from 16 March, 1861, to 30 June, 1875, born at German
Flats (now Mohawk), N. Y., 21 January, 1802, died at Jackson-
ville, Fla., 31 January, 1890.
Signature on United States treasury warrant for twenty-four cents,
issued 12 June, 1873, to F. C. Harris.
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Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, Mrs. Richard S. Spofford,
American author, born in Calais, Maine, 3 April, 1835.
Signed manuscript of " A girl and a jewel," a story first pub-
lished in the Wide Awake for December, 1885, to May, 1886,
volume 22, afterward reprinted as a separate book in 1891 under
the title A Lost Jewel [JS762 — 1].
Autograph copy of two stanzas from her poem ' ' My own song, ' '
included in her Poems, 1882 [821.1 S7625.p].
Autograph copy of " Measure for measure," two four-line stanzas
published in her Poems, 1882 [821.1 S7625.p].
Stael-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de, French
author, born at Paris, 22 April, 1766, died in the same city, 14
July, 1817.
Letter, without place, date or address, written from Switzerland
and probably addressed to Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Mrs. Henry B. Stanton, American reformer,
born at Johnstown, N. Y., 12 November, 1815.
Letter, dated Louisville, Kansas, Sept. 15th, [1867], to Theodore
Tilton. The letter was written during the campaign of four weeks
which Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony and others made in behalf of
woman suffrage in Kansas in the autumn of 1867.
Portraits: 1, engraved by H. B. Hall; 2, process-cut from a
photograph by Rockwood, 1895.
Stirling, James Hutchison, Scotch philosopher, born in Glasgow, 22
June, 1820.
Manuscript of " Criticism of Kant's Main Principles," an article
published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy for July and
October, 1880, volume 14, page 257, 353.
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Stockton, Francis Richard, American humorist, born in Philadelphia,
5 April, 1884.
Letter, dated Philadelphia, 30 December, 1885, to Mr. Gluck,
expressing Mr. Stockton's regret that he is unable to give to the
library one of his manuscripts, as for many years all his work has
been dictated to an amanuensis.
Stoddard, Charles Warren, American author, born in Rochester, N. Y.,
7 August, 1843.
Signed manuscript of " Premonition," a poem first published in
the Century for March, 1886, volume 9, page 729.
Stoddard, Richard Henry, American poet and journalist, literary
reviewer of the New York World from 1860 to 1870, after 1880
for many years literary editor of the New York Mail and Express,
born at Hingham, Mass., 2 July, 1825.
Signed manuscript of "The Brahman's son," a poem first pub-
lished in Harper' s Magazine for October, 1886, volume 73, page
738, afterward included in his The Lion' s Cub, ivith other verse,
page 132 [821.1 S8688.1].
Stoddard, William Osborn, American author, private secretary to
President Lincoln from 1861 to 1864, born in Homer, N. Y., 24
September, 1835.
Signed manuscript of Abraham Lincoln, the true story of a great
life, 1884 [923.1 L.63.st].
Stone, Lucy, Mrs. Henry B. Blackwell, American reformer and jour-
nalist, editor of the Boston Woman' s Journal from 1870 until her
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death, born at West Brookfield, Mass., 13 August, 1818, died at
Dorchester, Mass., 18 October, 1893.
Personal letter, dated Montclair, 31 December, 1862, to Theo-
dore Tilton, of no interest except as an autograph.
Portrait, engraved by J. C. Buttre from a photograph by J.
Notman.
Story, William Wetmore, American sculptor and poet, son of Judge
Joseph Story, born in Salem, Mass., 12 February, 1819, died in
Rome, 7 October, 1895.
Signed manuscript, dated Palazzo Barberini, Rome, June, 1885,
of the preface to the collection of his Poems, 1886 [821.1
S8888— 1].
Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Lyman
Beecher, American author, born in Litchfield, Conn., 14 June,
1812, died in Hartford, Conn., 1 July, 1896.
Signed manuscript of "A day at Tivoli."
Two letters, the first dated Andover, March 12, [1861], the sec-
ond written later in the same year, both to Theodore Tilton and
both concerned with the publication of her story The Pearl of
On' s Island [S892 — 8] in the Independent. The later part of the
story was delayed and the letters detail the causes and plan arrange-
ments for the publication of the second part.
Portraits: 1, engraved by H. W. Smith from the portrait by
G. Richmond ; 2, engraved by R. Young in 1853 from an original
portrait in the possession of Sampson Low & Co., London; 3,
engraved from the original painting by Chappel ; 4, a photograph ;
5, a wood -cut from a photograph.
Strickland, Miss Agnes, English historian, born in London, 19 August,
1796, died at Southwold, 13 July, 1874.
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Manuscript of '* Rufus Impey and the Sporting Party," a child's
moral tale.
Sumner, Charles, American statesman, born in Boston, 6 January,
1811, died at Washington, D. C, 11 March, 1874.
Letter, dated Senate Chamber, 20th April, 1867, to Theodore
Tilton. This is the original manuscript of the letter, alluded to in
the tenth of the succeeding series, written at Mr. Tilton's request
and published in the Independent ; afterward republished, under the
title "Equal Suffrage at once by an act of Congress rather than
constitutional amendment," in Sumner's Works, volume 11, page
356 [329.1 126].
A series of twelve letters, all but one unpublished and per-
sonal, on public affairs, the first dated 22 June, 1860, the last
25 March, 1871, all to Theodore Tilton as editor of the New York
Independent.
First, dated 22 June, 1860, from the Senate Chamber, Washing-
ton, expresses to the Independent Mr. Sumner's thanks for its appre-
ciation of his speech in the Senate, 4 June, 1860, on the bill for
the admission of Kansas as a free state. The speech referred to
was published with the title " The barbarism of slavery," in Sum-
ner's Works, volume 5, page 1 [329.1 120]. In the course of
the letter Mr. Sumner speaks of Burke's two speeches, "On con-
ciliation with America " and "On economical reform," published
in his Works, volumes 1, 2 [820.2 B959], as "the two greatest
speeches in the English language."
Second, dated Boston, 21 July, 1860, replies to a criticism in the
Independent of Sumner's speech before the Young Men's Repub-
lican Union, at Cooper Institute, New York, 11 June, 1860, pub-
lished with the title, "The Republican party, its origin, necessity
and permanence," in Sumner's Works, volume 5, page 191
[329.1 120].
Third, dated Boston, 29 October, 1865, was iniblished in the
I?idependent a.nd republished with the title " Equal rights versus the
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presidential policy in reconstruction," in Sumner's Works, volume
9, page 500 [329.1 124].
Fourth, dated Boston, 2 November, 1865, details the safeguards
and guarantees necessary in the plans for reconstruction, and urges
that they be demanded.
Fifth, dated Washington, D. C, 3 December, 1865, describes
an interview with President Johnson during the evening of 2
December, 1865, and comments upon the president's position as to
reconstruction.
Sixth, dated Senate Chamber, 12 April, 1866, objects to the
phrases ** rhetorical " and " elaborating sentences before delivery,"
as applied by the Independent to Mr. Sumner's speech-making
methods.
Seventh, dated Senate Chamber, 6th June, 1866, gives the argu-
ment for the validity and constitutionality of the Political Rights
bill.
Eighth, dated Washington, D. C, 23 December, 1866, was
written directly after the postponement, because of the constitu-
tional limitation of the right of suffrage to "white" persons, of the
bill for the admission of Nebraska as a state.
Ninth, dated Senate Chamber, 18 April, 1867, gives the argu-
ment against a constitutional amendment as the means of establish-
ing equal suffrage and in favor of the attainment of the same end
by act of Congress.
Tenth, dated Senate Chamber, 20 April, 1867, is a private letter
accompanying a letter written for publication in the Independent on
the same subject as the Ninth letter. The public letter is the one
referred to in the first entry under Sumner.
Eleventh, dated Washington, 9 May, 1869, is as follows :
"The question of Cuba is vast, containing not merely the fate of that island
but the question of war with Spain and also our question with England. I hesi-
tate how to treat it : not that I have doubts, but I am not sure that it is advisable
for me to enter upon it.
Never before was statesmanship more needed to guide our country. May God
send us a good deliverance ! "
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Tiuelfth, dated Senate Chamber, 25 March, 1871, expresses Mr.
Sumner's thanks to the Independent for its treatment of him and
explains his feeling with regard to his removal, on account of his
personal relations with the President and the Secretary of State,
from the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Taney, Roger Brooke, American jurist, born in Calvert Co., Md., 17
March, 1777, died in Washington, 12 October, 1864.
Signature as Secretary of the Treasury, dated 28 April, 1834, to
the commission of Samuel Swartwout as Collector of customs of the
district of New York.
Taylor, Bayard, American author, born in Kennett Square, Chester
Co., Pa., 11 January, 1825, died in Berlin, 19 December, 1878.
Manuscript of the Notes to the second part of Faust, published
by James R. Osgood & Co., 25 March, 1871 [832 35].
The manuscript is one hundred and twenty-five pages, letter-size,
and is very clear and beautiful.
Portrait, engraved by H. B. Hall & Sons from a photograph.
Taylor, The Right Rev. Jeremy, English bishop and author, born at
Cambridge, 1613, died at Lisburn, August, 1667.
Letter, dated Hilsborough, November 11, 1661, "To the most
Reverend Father in God John [Bramhall] Lord ArchBp. of Ard-
magh primate of all Ireland and Metropolitan : his Grace at his
house in Dublin or Droghedah."
Taylor was at this time Bishop of Down and Connor and the
letter is mainly concerned with ecclesiastical forfeitures. The fol-
lowing passage is on the new sect, the Society of Friends, whose
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mild doctrines seem to have alarmed ecclesiastical circles in Great
Britain much as they did Puritan authorities in New England :
"My Lord I againe renew my suit about the Quakers that some secular course
may be taken to scatter their meetings ; fr, fr anything else they are inconsid-
erable ; save only that they abuse many weake, phantastic and hypochondriacal
people ; and under a cover of simplicity teach the people principles of disobedi-
ence to all Governement. I know your Grace is a better player at Tennis than I
am, but if I strike first and turne the Quakers over ye Ban into Ardmagh, they
will as hardly remoove as a Spaniard from his garrison."
Portrait, steel-engraving, anonymous.
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet, born at Somersby,
6 August, 1809, died at Aldworth, 6 October, 1892.
Letter, dated Farringford, 4 April, 1867, to James R. Osgood,
Tavistock Hotel, Covent Garden, W. C.
Note to Martin Farquhar Tupper at Albury, containing Tenny-
son's autograph for Brantz Mayer, of Baltimore, endorsed to this
effect by Mr. Tupper, 10 February, 1869.
Proof-sheets, with author's corrections and additions, of A
Selection from the Works of Afred Tennyson, published in Moxon's
Series of Miniature Poets. London. 1865.
In Alfred Tennyson, a Memoir, by his son, volume 2, page 19
[928.2 T,25], in an extract from Mrs. Tennyson's journal, is given
the text of a preface said to have been written for this volume,
which was issued first in three-penny numbers. This preface does
not, however, appear in the volume. Mrs. Tennyson also notes
that six poems, "The captain; On a mourner; Home they
brought him slain with spears; and Three sonnets to a coquette,"
are new.
Portrait, engraved, nameless.
Thaxter, Celia Laighton, Mrs. Levi Lincoln Thaxter, born at Ports-
mouth, N. H., 29 June, 1836, died on the island of Appledore,
Isles of Shoals, 26 August, 1894.
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Letter dated Boston, 24 March, 1886, to Mr. Gluck, transmitting
autograph copies of two poems. The first, called "A tryst," was
published in her collection of Poems, 1881 [821.1 T369.p], and
was read over and over again by Lieut. Greely to his men during
their Arctic imprisonment; the second, called "Questions" was
published in her collection The Cruise of the Mystery, and other
poems [821.1 T369.c].
Thomas, Miss Edith Matilda, American poet, born in Chatham, Ohio,
12 August, 1854.
Signed manuscript of "Flake white," an essay on snow, pub-
lished in the Athiiitic Monthly for March, 1885, volume 55, page
344, and reprinted in her volume of essays The Round Year [824. 1
T455.p].
Thompson, Maurice, American author, born at Fairfield, Ind., 9 Sep-
tember, 1844.
Manuscript of " A song of the mockingbird, dedicated to an
English sky-lark," published m\a^ Poems, 1892 [821.1 T474.p],
as "To an English skylark."
Thoreau, Henry David, American author, born at Concord, Mass., 12
July, 1817, died in the same place, 6 May, 1862.
Autograph of extracts from the writings of the poet Francis
Quarles.
Thorpe, Rose Hartwick, Mrs. Edmund C. Thorpe, American poet, born
at Mishawaka, Ind., 18 July, 1850.
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Autograph copy, dated Pacific Beach, California, of the follow-
ing poem :
"THE CHRISTMAS LOVE.
Glimmer of gold in the morning mist ;
Haze of amber and amethyst ;
Spices blown o'er a shining strand ;
Christmas day in the south-west land.
Garlands of flowers, or drifts of snow,
The whole world shares in the Christmas glow
Of that love which prompts the heart to make
Gifts of love for the dear Christ's sake."
Ticknor, George, American author, born in Boston, 1 August, 1791,
died in the same city, 26 January, 1871.
Letter, dated London, June 4, 1838, to Robert Southey, intro-
ducing Charles Sumner. The letter was written just at the close of
Mr. Ticknor's second visit in Europe, which was made immediately
after the close of his fifteen years of most distinguished service as
professor of modern languages at Harvard. He had begun the col-
lection of his library of Spanish and Portuguese literature during
his first visit in 1819, and now, in preparation for writing his
famous History of Spanish Literature [860 1] , had increased it.
The Ticknor Library in the Boston Public Library is the beautiful
memorial not only of Mr. Ticknor's learning, but also of his interest
in and love for the great institution of which he was one of the
founders.
Such is the man who introduces Charles Sumner, then but
twenty-seven and in the midst of the enjoyment of his first Euro-
pean trip, to the great poet Southey. It is disappointing to learn
from Sumner's interesting letters to George S. Hillard, published in
Pierce's Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, volume 1, page
355-359 [923.1 Su.6.p], that he missed Southey, who was on the
continent. He however met "a young and lovely daughter of
Southey's " at Wordsworth's, where his visit was one of " unmingled
pleasure."
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The letter is as follows :
My dear Sir,
Before I leave London let me introduce to you, my friend Mr. Charles Sumner
of Boston, who is likely soon to visit your part of England. He is a young man of
a very lofty moral purity of character and of attainments in the science of the Law,
which, for his age, are extraordinary and accounted so, not only in the United
States, but in Europe, where his reputation had, in some instances, preceded him.
I commend him to you, as one with whom you will be pleased to talk, for it is
rare, in one so young, to find a mind so fair and so wise.
We all remember your kindness to us at Keswick and hope we may be kindly
remembered by you, when we shall be on the other side of the Atlantic, to which
we are hastening. ^rs. very faithfully ^^0. TICKNOR.
Portraits: 1, of Ticknor, steel-engraving by H. W. Smith from
a photograph by Black in 1867 ; 2, of Southey, steel-engraving by
S. A. Schoff; 3, of Sumner, steel-engraving by Augustus Robin
from a photograph.
Tilton, Theodore, American journalist, born in New York, 2 October,
1835, on the staff of the New York Independent from 1856 to 1863,
its editor-in-chief from 1863 to 1872.
Signed autograph copy of "The cloud of witnesses," a poem
published in his volume The Sexton' s Tale, and other poems, page
65 [821.1 T5815.S].
Portrait, wood-cut from a photograph.
Trollope, Anthony, English novelist, born in London, in 1815, died
in the same city, 6 December, 1882.
Letter, dated 39 Montagu Square, London, 2 December, 1878.
The letter is written to the publisher of one of his latest stories
and is an interesting instance of the care which the novelist used
to make the details of his work correct.
My dear Mr. Ireland :
I shall have finished my story in about a week. I find that there arise in it
various legal points, — not legal questions with which I should not dabble, — but
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matters of phraseology and form. I suppose it would be out of the question for
you to have it printed at once in slips so as to enable me to get a barrister to read
it? I could not ask a friend to do this in Mss. I have had this done be-
fore, but I can understand that it would be out of the question to do it where
the types are so constantly required as in a newspaper establishment. It is how-
ever as well to ask the question.
Yours always
faithfully
ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
TrowbridgCy John Townsend, American author, born in Ogden, N. Y. ,
18 September, 1827.
Manuscript of the poems the " Rhyme of John Paul Jones " and
"The battle of the Serapis and the Poor Richard."
Manuscript of The Kelp- Gatherers, a story first published in the
St. Nicholas for June to October, 1886, volume 13, pt. 2, page
584, afterward republished in book form [JT8634 — 13].
Portrait, photograph by Warren.
Tupper, Martin Farquhar, English poet, born in London, 17 July,
1810, died at Albury House, near Guildford, 29 November, 1889.
Letter, dated April 2, [1850], to W. N. L., /. e. William Nan-
son Lettsom. The stupendous work alluded to in the letter is
probably Lettsom' s translation of the Nibelungenlied, which was
published in 1850.
Worthy W. N. L. :
Here's one of my last, thrown to you by way of excuse for a how dye-do.
Know also that I've eased my conscience of a veriiiii dictum anent your stu-
pendous work and that I've sent off the vengeful critique in question to a friendly
editor. If and when it appears in print you shall have it forthwith. I heartily
applaud you as a genuine wonder : why, there are hardly half a dozen Latin
words in the whole 10,000 lines : and you have done your work admirably.
Suffer this buttering : but I wouldn't say it if I didn't think it.
Very sincerely yours
MARTIN F. TUPPER.
Portrait, engraved from a drawing.
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Turner, John Mallord William, English landscape painter, born 23
April, 1775, died in Chelsea, 19 December, 1851.
Manuscript note to a fellow artist, of no interest except as giving
a very good signature.
Portrait, engraved by W. Hall.
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, French philosopher and author,
born in Paris, 24 November, 1694, died in the same city, 30 May,
1778.
Signature on an official certificate of identification, dated 3
November, 1767, given in the town of Gex in which the Chateau
of Ferney was situated.
Portrait, engraved by J. Romney from a drawing by G. M.
Brighty, from the painting by La Tour, published in 1817 by
C. G. Dyer.
Wallace, Gen. Lew., American lawyer, soldier and author. United
States minister to Turkey from 1881 to 1885, born at Brookville,
Ind., 10 April, 1827.
Letter, dated Crawfordsville, Ind., 14 December, 1885, to Mr.
Gluck, a specimen of Gen. Wallace's handwriting, otherwise of no
interest.
Portrait, half-tone engraving from a photograph.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mrs. Herbert Dickinson Ward,
American author, born in Boston, 31 August, 1844.
Signed manuscript of " The tenement-house fire," a poem first
published, with illustrations, in the Wide Awake for March, 1886,
volume 22, page 250.
Portrait, half-tone engraving from a photograph.
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Warner, Charles Dudley, American author, born in Plainfield, Mass.,
12 September, 1829.
Letter, dated Hartford, Conn., 10 January, 1886, to Mr. Gluck,
accompanying the signed manuscript of "Society in the new
South" an essay first published in the New Princeton Review for
January, 1886, volume 1, page 1, afterward reprinted in his Studies
in the South a?id West, page 18 [917.4 65].
Warner, Miss Susan, American author, known also by her pen-name
"Elizabeth Wetherell," born in New York City, 11 July, 1819,
died at Highland Falls, N. Y., 17 March, 1885.
Letter, dated The Island, Sept. 7, 1853, probably to Mr. Samuel
Carter, the publisher of her book The laiv and the Testimony, report-
ing a missing signature in her copy of this book, which was pub-
lished during 1853 [220.0 30].
Washington, George, first president of the United States, born at
Pope's Creek, Va., 22 February, 1732, died at Mount Vernon, 14
December, 1799.
Letter, dated Head Qrs., New York, Sept. 12, 1776, to the
President of Congress. The date, September 12, is the day of
that consultation of Washington with his generals which decided
the evacuation of New York. The anxiety of the great general is
evident throughout the letter. The manuscript is from Sir William
Hamilton's collection and is apparently unpublished. It is there-
fore reprinted with the spelling, punctuation and capitalization of
the original :
Sir
I yesterday received the favor of your letter of the 9th with Its several Inclo-
sures and am extremely happy that your Hon'bl Body had anticipated my recom-
mendation by resolving on an Augmentation of six hundred men to the Garrisons
in the Highlands — the importance of those posts demands the utmost attention,
and every exertion to maintain them.
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The vessels for the removal of the sick are not yet arrived. Their present situa-
tion gives me great anxiety. As the wind is now favourable I would fain hope
that a sufficient number will come down to day to take in the whole. If they do
not my distress will be much increased.
Gen'l Clinton in a letter of the 8th transmitted me a list of artillery and ord-
nance stores wanted at Forts Montgomery and Constitution, which Included the
several articles you have determined to procure, Except those mentioned below. —
I directed that they should be sent up, but as the situation of our Affairs at this
Time may not perhaps admit of It I think It will be prudent for Mr. Schenk whom
you have appointed an agent in this Instance to get all he can — Should he be
able to obtain the supply you have voted necessary — and Gen'l Clinton's demand
be complied with also, no damage will be done — our stores will not be too large.
I have the Honor to be
with great respect
Sir
Your Most Obed. Sevt.
G° WASHINCiTON
Intrenching Tools
Iron Carriages
Cannon Harness
Armourer with his Tools.
Portrait, steel-engraving by H. W. Smith from G. Stuart's
Athenaeum painting.
Watterson, Henry, American journalist, born in Washington, D. C,
16 February, 1840, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal since
1868.
Letter, dated Louisville, Nov. 16th, [1873], to Theodore Til-
ton, interesting only as a specimen of Mr. Watterson's hand-
writing.
Watts, The Rev. Isaac, English clergyman and poet, born at South-
ampton, 17 July, 1674, died at Theobald's, Newington, 25
November, 1748.
Manuscript of ''Diuine Miscellanies, or A mixture of matter,
being the exercise of solitary thoughts on occasionall meditations,
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various observations and serious contemplations digested into poems
and epigrams."
Portrait, engraving, nameless.
Webster, Daniel, American statesman, born in Salisbury, now Frank-
lin, N. H., 18 January, 1782, died in Marshfield, Mass., 24 Octo-
ber, 1852.
Letter, dated Brunswick Hotel, Hanover Square, July 27, 1839,
to John H. Tredgold, Esq., making an appointment to meet Mr.
Tredgold and his friends at the end of August,
Whipple, Edwin Percy, American author, born in Gloucester, Mass.,
8 March, 1819, died in Boston, 16 June, 1886.
Signed manuscript of "Domestic service," an article first pub-
lished in the Forum for March, 1886, volume 1, page 25, after-
wards included in Outlooks on Society, Literature and Politics, page
99 [824.1 W573.0].
Portrait, steel-engraving by J. A. J. Wilcox from a photograph.
White, Horace, American journalist, born at Colebrook, N. H., 10'
August, 1834, joint editor, with E. L. Godkin, of the New York
Evening Post since 1883.
Private letter, dated Chicago, October 28th, 1872, to Theodore
Tilton, making an inquiry on behalf of the Liberal Republicans
concerning the policy of the Neiv York Tribune in case of Grant's
election.
Portrait, engraved by Samuel Sartain.
White, Richard Grant, American author and Shakespearean scholar,
born in New York City, 22 May, 1821, died in the same city, 8
April, 1885.
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Manuscript of " Stage Rosalinds," an article first published in
the Atlantic Moiithly, for February, 1883, volume 51, page 248,
afterward republished in his volume Studies in Shakespeare, 1886
[822.3 321].
Portrait, wood-engraving from a photograph.
Whitman, Walt, American poet, born in West Hills, Long Island, 31
May, 1819, died in Camden, N. J., 23 March, 1892.
Manuscript of the essay " Robert Burns as poet and person."
A peculiar manuscript written on scraps of paper of all sorts and
kinds and embodying in it printed extracts from an earlier article.
The essay in its present form was published in his collection
November Boughs [824.1 W615.n].
Portrait, engraving by S. A. Schofif.
Whitney, Adeline Button Train, Mrs. Seth D. Whitney, American
author, born in Boston, 15 September, 1824.
Signed, autograph copy of "A violet," a poem of three four-
line stanzas, published in her volume Pansies [821.1 W617.p].
Portrait, wood-cut by A. L. L. from a photograph.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, American poet, born in East Haverhill,
Mass., 17 December, 1807, died at Hampton Falls, N. H., 7 Sep-
tember, 1892.
Manuscript of "The King's missive, 1661," a poem originally
written for the Memorial History of Boston, volume 1, page xxv
[972 B— 8].
The ballad celebrates the release by Governor Endicott of the
Quakers confined in Boston jail. "The King's missive" was
brought to Governor Endicott by Samuel Shattuck, a banished
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Quaker. The poem gives its title to a volume of Whittier's poems
The Kiw-' s Missive, and other poems, 1881 [821.1 W625.k].
Letter, dated Amesbury, 10th 9th mouth, 1864, to Theodore
Tilton, writteu just after the death of Miss Elizabeth Hussey
Whittier, 3 September, 1864.
My dear fd Tilton :
I thank thee for thy kind letter, I fully believe that a great good has befallen
my dear sister — whose years of pain and trial and weariness terminated so recently
— but the loss is heavy to me. Always in delicate health there was a constant
solicitude on my part — a constant watchfulness over her — and for this perhaps I
loved her all the more. I pray to be preserved from selfish sorrow and repining.
For I know it is all in mercy that she has been called away into rest and peace.
I cannot now write anything worthy of her memory. But I would be glad to see
a brief notice of her departure in the Independent. She has written but few
poems but these show that she had real poetic feeling. Such pieces as her " Dr.
Kane in Cuba" and " I.ady Franklin" show what she might have done had she
cherished any ambition for literary reputation. She loved home, quiet and all
beautiful things — enjoying as well as suffering much from her delicately sensi-
tive temperament. No one ever had warmer friends. She esteemed any one
better than herself and while full of charity for others she was inexorable in
regard to what she looked upon as her own short-comings. Since the death of
our mother she has had little inclination to go abroad and rarely left home except
on some errand of charity or kindness. All the strength of her last days was
expended in efforts to relieve the sick and wounded soldiers and the poor freed-
men.
Thanking thee for thy kindness I am most truly thy friend.
JOHN G. WHITTIER
I am glad to see all loyal men rallying in favor of Lincoln. He is not the man
of my choice but between him and that traitor platform who could hesitate ! I
wish Fremont were in a better position.
I enclose two or three little poems of my sister's. There is a beautiful little
thing of hers in the Hymns of the Ages 2d series page 53. If thee does not
print them in the Independent please return the enclosed.
Portrait, engraved by Schoff from a photograph.
Willis, Nathauiel Parker, American poet, born at Portland, Me., 20
January, 1806, died at Idlevvild, 20 January, 1867.
Letter, without place or date, to James T. Fields, conveying the
regrets of Mr. Willis at not being able to accept an invitation to
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deliver a poem in Boston. The letter is quoted, in part, in
Nathaniel Parker Willis, by Henry A. Beers, page 271 [928.1
W677.b].
Portrait, engraved without signature.
Wilson, Henry, American statesman, senator from Massachusetts for
eighteen years, vice-president of the United States from March,
1873, until his death, born at Farmington, N. H., 16 February,
1812, died in Washington, 22 November, 1875.
Letter, dated Natick, September 8, 1866, to Theodore Tilton.
The letter is a complaint of injustice on Mr. Tilton's part against
Mr. Wilson in charging him with defeating an expression by the
southern convention in favor of suffrage with a refutation of the
charge.
Portrait, steel-engraving from a photograph.
Wilson, Gen. James Grant, American soldier and author, born in Edin-
burgh, Scotland, 28 April, 1832.
Manuscript of the chapters on Fitz-Greene Halleck and Nathaniel
Parker Willis from his book Bryant and his Friends [928.1
B.84.W].
Winsor, Justin, American librarian and author, born in Boston, 2 Jan-
uary, 1831, died in Cambridge, Mass., 22 October, 1897.
Signed manuscript of "Americana in libraries and bibliog-
raphies," from his Narrative and Critical History of A?>ierica,
volume 1, page i - xviii [970 B — 15].
Letter, dated 21 January, 1887, to Mr. J. N. Larned concerning
the manuscript described above.
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Winter, William, American journalist and dramatic critic, born at
Gloucester, Mass., 15 July, 1836.
Original manuscript of " Lester Wallack ; his ancestry, training
and career," an article published in the New York Tribune, May,
1886. A part of the article is reprinted in Actors and Actresses of
the Present Time, volume 5 [927 M.43v5].
Wood, The Rev. John George, English naturalist and author, born in
London, 1827, died in Coventry, 4 March, 1889,
Original manuscript of " Dime museums, from a naturalist's point
of view," an article published in the Atlantic Monthly {ox June,
1885, volume 55, page 759.
Woolsey, Miss Sarah Chauncey, American author known by her pen-
name "Susan Coolidge," niece of Theodore Dwight Woolsey,
born at Cleveland, Ohio, about 1845.
Letter dated Newport, 11 May, 1886, to James Fraser Gluck,
accompanying autograph copies of seven poems: "The Cradle
tomb in Westminster Abbey; November; Eighteen; Savoir c'est
pardonner ; Till the day dawn ; Ebb-tide ; Tokens," all published
in her volume called Verses [821.1 C774.v].
Manuscript of "The Marble Queen," the poem which describes
Rausch's recumbent statue at Charlottenburg of Queen Louise of
Prussia and the influence of the memory of the much loved queen
in uniting Germany.
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, American educator, president of Yale
college from 1846 to 1871, born in New York City, 31 October,
1801, died in New Haven, Conn., 1 July, 1889.
Manuscript of an article "On the imperfect knowledge of the
moral statistics of the United States," read Thursday, 8 September,
1881, before the general meeting of the American Social Science
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Association, at Saratoga, and published in the American Journal of
Social Science for November, 1881, vohime 14, page 129.
Portrait, engraved by A. H. Ritchie from a daguerreotype by
Moulthrop.
Wordsworth, William, English poet, born at Cockermouth, Cumber-
land, 17 April, 1770, died at Rydal Mount, 23 April, 1850.
Autograph copy of the poem ''If this great world of joy and
pain." The poem was written in 1833 and first published in 1835.
The copy is dated Rydal Mount, 29 July, 1840, and was made for
an American, the Rev. Charles Edwards Lester, who was in Eng-
land at this time. The autograph is accompanied by a letter, dated
Kendal, July 29, 1840, to Mr. Lester from Mary Caroline Braith-
waite from which such parts as refer to Wordsworth are as follows :
Kendal July 29, 1840
Dear Sir :
You are indeed honored ! I never knew Wordsworth write so much before.
It is unusual for him, as his eyesight is very defective, and the exertion is painful
to him. No doubt you will justly appreciate the favour. I rejoice to send you so
gratifying an autograph as it is just what you wished but which I did not dare to
hope for.
Dear Robin wishes me to say that by tonight's mail, he will forward for your
acceptance, two views of the Lakes Rydall and Winandermere. The view of the
latter is taken from Low Wood, the Inn where flags in honor of the Queen
Dowager were waving.
I think it would gratify Wordsworth if you were to acknowledge the receipt of
the Autograph and if you like you might say you had ventured to take a piece of
the Stone he has celebrated. My Conscience rather smites me for being accessory
to it.
The poem, although accessible in most editions of Wordsworth's
poems, is also reproduced :
" If this great world of joy and pain
Revolves in one sure track ;
If freedom, set, will rise again.
And virtue, flown, come back.
Woe to the purblind crew who fdl
The heart with each day's care ;
Nor gain, from past or future, skill
To bear, and to forbear. "
Portrait, engraved by F. T. Stuart.
125
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Young, John Russell, American journalist, United States minister to
China from 1882 to 1885, librarian of the Congressional Library
from 30 June, 1897 to his death, born in Dowington, Pa., 20
November, 1841, died in Washington, 17 January, 1899.
Personal letter, dated New York, 2 July, 1874, to Theodore
Tilton, Mr. Young being at that date on the staff of the New York
Herald.
126
LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS IN THE
BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY NOT BELONGING
TO THE GLUCK COLLECTION, ARRANGED
UNDER THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS WHO
GAVE THEM TO THE LIBRARY.
Adam, Robert B.
Letters from Gen. Charles George Gordon, from his sister, A.
Gordon, and from his brother, H. W. Gordon.
Letters from Sir Rowland Hill, and from his nephew, George
Birkbeck Hill, all the gift of George Birkbeck Hill to Mr. Adam
for the library. ^
Barry, Gen. William V.
Autograph letters addressed to Gen. Barry, presented by his
daughters, comprising letters from Lord Abinger, Gen. Adelbert
Ames, Mr. Lars Anderson, Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Maj.-Gen. N. P.
Banks, Gen. J. G. Barnard, Gen. W. W. Belknap, Gov. John Lee
Carroll, Maj.-Gen. George A. Custer, Admiral Chas. H. Davis,
ex-Pres. Millard Fillmore, Gov. Hamilton Fish, Gen. W. B.
Franklin, Gen. U. S. Grant, Col. E. B. Hamley, Vice-Pres. Han-
nibal Hamlin, Rear-Adm. H. K. Hoff, Gov. John T. Hoffman,
Mr. James Barron Hope, Capt. de Horsey, Rt. Rev. John Johns,
Prince de Joinville, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Lord Lyons, Maj.-Gen.
George B. McClellan, Gen. Irwin McDowell, Gen. George G.
Meade, Gen. Geo. W. Morell, Gen. Albert J. Myer, Maj.-Gen.
Napier, H. B. M. A., Lieut. -Col. Edward Neville, Scots Fusilier
127
MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS IN
Guards, Comte de Paris, Maj.-Gen. Robert Patterson, Col. Peter
A. Porter, Capt. S. Ringgold, Admiral C. R. P. Rodgers, Gen.
T. J. Rodman, Rear-Adm. J. R. Sands, Maj.-Gen. J. M. Scho-
field. Senator Carl Schurz, Gen. John Sedgwick, Lieut. -Gen.
Philip Sheridan, Hon. John Sherman, Gen. W. T. Sherman,
Mrs. W. T. Sherman, Gen. H. W. Slocum, Hon. Edwin M. Stan-
ton, Admiral S. D. Trenchard, Gen. Emory Upton, Maj.-Gen.
W. J. Worth.
Corning, The Rev. J. Leonard.
Manuscript of a sermon by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
preached at the installation of Mr. Corning in 1863.
Cothran, George W.
Manuscript oi Assessors and Collectors : a lull and complete state-
ment of the law defining their powers, duties and liabilities,
and the remedies against them ; with all needful forms. Gift of
the author.
De Vere, Aubrey.
Letters to Mr. John Charles Earle.
Fryer, T. T.
Manuscript of part of an Editor's Introduction by David Gray.
Gibbons, Mrs. Charles W.
A volume containing autographs, letters, documents, etc., in the
handwriting of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Francis Chantrey, Mme.
128
THE BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY
D'Arblay, the Duke of Kent, Mme. Vestris, James McAdam, the
Princess Elizabeth, and others.
Harrison, Gabriel.
Letter from John Howard Payne to R. W. Elliston, Esq.
Howland, Henry R.
Manuscript by John James Audubon of the first draft of the
introduction to The Birds of America.
Johnston, James N.
Manuscript of a lecture by David Gray, on Robert Burns, deliv-
ered in Buffalo, 25 January, 1865.
Keene, Miss Mary V.
Letter from Miss Charlotte Cushman, to Miss Keene.
Meech, Henry.
Letter from Edwin Booth, to Meech Bros.
Norton Collection.
Gathered and preserved for the Young Men's Association by
Charles D. Norton and others. Autograph letters of John Quincy
Adams, V. G. Audubon, Henry Ward Beecher, Thomas H. Ben-
ton, Lewis Cass, Salmon P. Chase, Myron H. Clark, Henry Clay,
DeWitt Clinton, Thomas Corwin, George William Curtis, John A.
Dix, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, Millard Fillmore,
129
MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS IN
Hamilton Fish, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Philip Livingston, Benson
J. Lossing, Robert Morris, Oliver Hazard Perry, William H.
Seward, Horatio Seymour, Charles Sumner, Henry David Thoreau,
Daniel D. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Elihu B. Washburne,
Daniel Webster, Fletcher Webster, Nathaniel Parker Willis.
Parke, Mrs. James B.
Letter from James Anthony Froude, to Mrs. Parke.
Smith, T. Guilford.
Letter from Sir Henry Bessemer, to Mr. Smith.
Southworth, M. M.
Letter from Levi Woodbury, to P. D. A. Parks and M. M.
Southworth. Letter from Henry Clay, to P. D. A. Parks and
M. M. Southworth. [Catalogued with Gluck collection also, by
mistake.]
Thwaites, Reuben Gold.
Manuscript of the Introduction to his edition of The Jesuit Rela-
tions. Gift of the author.
Warren, Joseph.
Autograph copy of a poem by John G. Saxe, "A reflective
retrospect. ' '
130
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Weil, Dr. Charles.
Manuscript poem by Eugene Field " To mistress Bessie," with
portrait of Field, the gift of De Witt Miller.
Wilkeson, John.
Letter from Gov. De Witt Clinton to Judge Wilkeson of Buffalo.
Promissory note made by Brigham Young to Milton Sheldon, 16
March, 1830.
Wilson, Francis.
First page of the manuscript of Eugene Field as I Knew Him,
with signature and portrait. Clift of the author.
131
INDEX.
ilBINGER, Lord, Letter to Barry,
Gen. William F.,
Adam, Robert B., Gift of mss.,
Adams, John Quincy, Letter from,
see Norton collection, , , . .
Address to certain golden fishes,
see Coleridge, Hartley, ....
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, see
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne,
After-life, see Cranch, Christopher
Pearse,
Aikin, Dr. John, Letter to, from
Montgomery, James, ....
Alcott, Amos Bronson
Poem on his 86th birthday, see
Alcott, Louisa May, ....
Alcott, Louisa May,
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, ....
Letter to, from Davis, Rebecca
Blaine Harding,
Allison, John,
America, see Smith, The Rev. Sam-
uel Francis,
American lordship, An, see Lathrop,
George Parsons,
American midshipmen at the tomb
of Napoleon, see Fremont, Jessie
Ann Benton,
American Missionary Association,
Report on, see Cable, George
Washington,
Americana in libraries and bibliog-
raphies, see Winsor, Justin,
Ames, Gen. Adelbert, Letter to
Barry, Gen. William F., .
127
127
129
24
22
29
77
1
1
1
1
31
2
104
70
43
18
123
127
Ames, Mrs. Daniel, see Ames, Mary
Clemmer, 2
Ames, Mary Clemmer, .... 2
Anderson, Lars, Letter to Barry,
Gen. William F., 127
Angel of charity, see Moore,
Thomas, 77
Another new song to Cloris, see Dor-
set, Earl of, 34
Anthony, ^san Brownell, ... 2
Ardmagh, John, Archbishop of,
Letter to, from Taylor, The Rev.
Jeremy, Ill
Armstrong, Gen. Samuel C, Letter
toBarry, Gen. William F., . . 127
Arnim, Bettina von, see Arnim,
Elisabeth von, 3
Arnim, Elisabeth von, .... 3
Assessors and collectors, see Coth-
ran, George W., 128
Atlantis, see Lytton, Earl of, . . 73
Audubon, John James, Introduction
to The birds of America, see How-
land, Henry R., 129
Audubon, V. G., Letter from, see
Norton collection, 129
Autograph hunting and autographs,
see Perry, Nora, 85
Awake my lyre, see Percival, James
Gates, 84
DABY Bell, see Aldrich, Thomas
Bailey, 2
Bacon, Sir Francis 3
133
INDEX
Bailey, Philip James,
Balzac, Honore de,
Band of bluebirds — in autumn, A,
see Hayne, William Hamilton,
Banks, Gen. Nathaniel Prentiss,
Letter to Barry, Gen. William F.,
Banks of Nith, The, see Burns,
Robert,
Barbara's history, The author of,
see Edwards, Amelia Blandford,
Barnard, Gen. John Gross, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F.,
Barry, Gen. William F., Letters to,
Barthelemy, M. M., Letter to, from
Montalembert,
Barton, Bernard, Letter to, from
Woodthorpe CoUett, see Hogg,
James,
Barye, Antoine Louis, Article on,
see De Kay, Charles, ....
Bates, Charlotte Fiske, ....
Battle of the Serapis and the Poor
Richard, The, see Trowbridge,
John Townsend,
Beaconsfield, Earl of,
Beecher, The Rev. Henry Ward,
Letter from, see Norton collec-
tion,
.Sermon, see Corning, The Rev.
J. Leonard,
Belknap, Gen. William Worth, Let-
ter to Barry, Gen. William F.,
Bentham, Jeremy,
Benton, Thomas Hart, Letter from,
see Norton collection, ....
Beranger, Pierre Jean de, ....
Bessemer, Sir Henry, Letter to
Smith, T. Guilford,
Betrothal, A, see Sherman, Frank
Dempster,
Bigelow, John,
Billings, Josh, see Shaw, Henry
Wheeler,
Blackmore, Richard Doddridge,
Blackwell, Mrs. Henry B., see Stone,
Lucy,
PAGE
3
3
53
127
16
38
127
127
76
56
31
3
116
4
129
128
127
4
129
4
130
102
5
101
107
Blaine, James Gillespie, .
Blake, William,
Blessington, Countess of, .
Bloede, Gertrude, Letter to, from
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
Blood horse. The, see Procter, Bryan
Waller
Boker, George Henry, ....
Bonaparte, Napoleon, Reference to
see Cockburn, Sir George, .
Book of the flood. The, see Haw
thorne, Julian,
Booth, Edwin, Letter to Meech
Bros., see Meech, Henry, . .
Bouck, William C, Commission
signed by, see New York State,
Bowen, Henry Chandler, .
Bowles, Caroline Anne, see Southey
Caroline Anne Bowles, . . .
Bowles, The Rev. William Lisle,
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, . .
Brahman's son. The, see Stoddard,
Richard Henry,
Braithwaite, Mary Caroline, Letter
to the Rev. Charles E. Lester, see
Wordsworth, William, ....
Bramhall, John, Archbishop of
Ardmagh, Letter to, from Taylor,
The Rev. Jeremy, .....
Bright, John,
Brightly hast thou fled, see Hemans,
Felicia Dorothea
Brinsden, John, Letter to, from
Pope, Alexander,
Bronte, Charlotte,
Brooks, The Rev. Phillips, . . .
Brown, Dr. John,
Browne, Charles Farrar, ....
BrowTiing, Elizabeth Barrett,
Browning, Robert,
Bryant, William Cullen, ....
William Cullen Bryant, and his
friends, see Wilson, James
Grant
Buccaneer, Introduction to the, see
Dana, Richard Henry, ....
PAGE
5
G
6
72
91
i
24
51
129
80
7
104
7
7
107
125
111
8
54
89
8
9
9
10
10
14
16
123
30
134
INDEX
Buonarroti, Michelangelo, Epitaphs
by, see Cheney, Ednah Dow Little-
hale, 21
Burdick, F. N., Letter to, from
Greeley, Horace, iS
Burke, Edmund, 16
Burns, Robert, 16
Robert Burns as poet and person,
see Whitman, Walt, .... 121
Burr, Aaron, 17
Burroughs, John, 17
Butterfly, The, see Sigourney, Lydia
Huntley 102
By a mountain stream, see Hemans,
Felicia Dorothea, 54
Byron, Lord, 17
VIABLE, George Washington, .
Calvus, see Procter, Adelaide Anne,
Campbell, Thomas, ....
Carleton, William,
Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, . .
Carlyle, Thomas, Notice of his lee
tures on German literature, see
Hunt, James Henry Leigh, .
Carlyle, Mrs. Thomas, see Carlyle,
Jane Baillie Welsh, ....
Carmen auguratum auspicans, se^
Alcott, Amos Bronson, .
Carroll, John Lee, Letter to Barry,
Gen. William F., ....
Cary, Phoebe,
Cass, Lewis, Letter from, see Norton
collection,
Chandler, Bessie, see Parker, Eliza
beth Lowber Chandler, . .
Channing, The Rev. William EUery
Chapin, The Rev. Edwin Hubbell
Chase, Salmon Portland, .
Letter from, see Norton coUec
tion,
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle, Article on, see Hale, The
Rev. Edward Everett, ....
Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale,
18
90
18
19
19
60
19
127
19
129
82
20
20
20
129
49
21
PAGE
Cheney, John Vance, 21
Cheney, Mrs. Seth Wells, see
Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, . 21
Child, Mrs. David Lee, see Child,
Lydia Maria Francis 21
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, ... 21
Child of the age, A, see Boyesen,
Hjalmar Hjorth, 8
Children's cherry feast, The, see
Perry, Nora, 84
Chivalry, see Scott, Sir Walter, . . 99
Christmas love. The, see Thorpe,
Rose Hartwick, 113
Circling fancies, see Gosse, Edmund
William, 46
Clark, Myron Holley, Letter from,
see Norton collection, .... 129
Clarke, The Rev. James Freeman, . 21
Clay, Henry 22
Letter from, see Norton collection, 129
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, . . 22
Clemmer, Mary, see Ames, Mary
Clemmer, 2
Cleveland, Grover, 22
Clinton, De Witt, Commission
signed by, see New York State, 80
Letter from, see Norton collec-
tion, 129
Letter to Judge Wilkeson, see
Wilkeson, John, 131
Clinton, George, Commission signed
by, see New York State, ... 80
Cloud of witnesses, The, see Tilton,
Theodore, 115
Cloud on the mountain, A, jf^Foote,
Mary Anna Hallock, .... 42
Cobbe, Frances Power, .... 23
Cockburn, Sir George, .... 24
Coleridge, Hartley, 24
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ... 25
Letter to, from Lamb, Charles, . 67
Sonnet on, see Rossetti, Dante
Charles Gabriel, 96
Collett, Woodthorpe, Letter to Ber-
nard Barton, see Hogg, James, . 56
Collins, William Wilkie 25
135
INDEX
PAGE
CoUyer, The Rev. Robert, ... 26
Come to me, Sleep ! see Hemans,
Felicia Dorothea 54
Cone, Helen Gray, 26
Congreve, William, 26
Epistle to, see Dryden, John, . . 37
Connery, The Rev. Father, Letter
to, from Newman, John Henry,
Cardinal, 80
Conway, The Rev. Moncure Daniel, 27
Cook, Clarence Chatham, ... 27
Coolbrith, Ina Donna, 28
Coolidge, Susan, see Woolsey, Sarah
Chauncey, 124
Cooper, James Fenimore, ... 28
Cooper, Paul F., Letter to L. B.
Proctor, see Cooper, James Feni-
more, 28
Cooper, Peter, On the death of, see
Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner, . . 76
Corning, The Rev. J. Leonard, Gift
of ms., 128
Cornwall, Barry, see Procter, Bryan
Waller, 91
Corwin, Thomas, Letter from, see
Norton collection, 129
Cothran, George W., 128
Count Frontenac and New France
under Louis XIV, see Parkman,
Francis, 83
Country doctor. A, see Jewett, Sarah
Orne, 64
Cowper, William, 29
Crabbe, The Rev. George, ... 29
Letter to, from Bowles, The Rev.
William Lisle, 7
Craddock, Charles Egbert, see Mur-
free, Mary Noailles, 79
Cradle tomb in Westminster Abbey,
The, see Woolsey, Sarah Chaun-
cey, 124
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, . . 29
Craik, Mrs. George Lillie, see Craik,
Dinah Maria Mulock, .... 29
Cranch, Christopher Pearse, ... 29
Crawford, Francis Marion, ... 30
Crazy-quilt memory. The, see Sill,
Edward Rowland,
Cressid, see Perry, Nora, ....
Cross, Mrs. John William, see Eliot,
George
Cross, Marian, see Eliot, George,
Crown of life, The, see Chapin, The
Rev. Edwin Hubbell, ....
Curtis, George William, ....
Letter from, see Norton collec-
tion,
Cushman, Charlotte, Letter to
Keene, Mary V.,
Custer, Gen. George Armstrong,
Letter to Barry, Gen. Wil-
liam F.,
102
85
38
38
20
30
129
129
127
D
ANA, Charles Anderson, Letter
to, from Cook, Clarence Chat-
ham, 27
Dana, Richard Henry, 30
Davis, Admiral Charles Henry,
Letter to Barry, Gen. William F., 127
Davis, Jefferson, 31
Davis, Mrs. Lemuel Clark, see Da-
vis, Rebecca Blaine Harding, . 31
Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding, . 31
Day at Tivoli, A, see Stowe, Har-
riet Elizabeth Beecher, .... 108
De Kay, Charles, 31
De Quincey, Thomas, 31
De Vere, Aubrey, 128
Dickens, Charles, 32
Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth, ... 32
Dime museums, j^(? Wood, The Rev.
John George, 124
Dirge for a soldier, see Boker,
George Henry, 7
Discovery of America, The first,
see Kingsley, The Rev. Charles, 66
Disinterested report. A, see Cable,
George Washington, .... 18
Disraeli, Benjamin, see Beaconsfield,
Earl of, 4
Disraeli, Isaac, 33
136
INDEX
Diuine miscellanies, see Watts, The
Rev. Isaac, 119
Dix, John Adams, Letter from, see
Norton collection, 129
Doctor, The, see Southey, Robert, . 104
Dodge, Mary Abby, 33
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 34
Dodge, Mrs, William, see Dodge,
Mary Mapes, 34
Domestic service, see Whipple, Ed-
win Percy, 120
Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley, ... 34
Dorr, Mrs. Seneca R., see Dorr,
Julia Caroline Ripley, .... 34
Dorset, Earl of, 34
Douglass, Frederick, 34
Dream of songs unsung. A, see Dorr,
Julia Caroline Ripley, .... 34
Drifting down Lost Creek, see Mur-
free, Mary Noailles, .... 79
Dryden, John, 37
Lecture on, see Hazlitt, William, 53
Dumas, Alexandre, 37
Earl Walter, see Hogg, James, . . 56
Earle, John Charles, Letters to,
from De Vere, Aubrey, . . . 128
Eastman, Elaine Goodale, ... 37
Easy Chair, sec Curtis, George Wil-
liam, 30
Ebb-tide, see Woolsey, Sarah Chaun-
cey, 124
Eckford, Henry, see De Kay,
Charles, 31
Edgeworth, Maria, 38
Edwards, Amelia Blandford, . . 38
Eggleston, Edward, 38
Eighteen, see Woolsey, Sarah
Chauncey, 124
Eliot, George, 38
Ellis, F. S., Letter to, from Ros-
setti, Dante Charles Gabriel, . . 97
Elliston, R. W., Letter to, from
John Howard Payne, see Harri-
son, Gabriel, 129
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, .... 39
Letter from, see Norton collection, 129
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Poem on,
see Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 29
Sonnet on, see Moulton, Ellen
Louise Chandler, 79
Emigrant, The, see Campbell,
Thomas, 18
Ettrick Shepherd, The, see Hogg,
James, 50
Evans, Marian, or Mary Ann, sec
Eliot, George, 38
Even so, see Miller, Cincinnatus
Hiner, 76
Evening, see Percival, James Gates, ^4
Everett, Edward, Letter from, see
Norton collection, 129
JTaCE to face, sec Hayne, Paul
Hamilton, 53
Failure and success, see Gilder,
Richard Watson, 45
Faith healing and fear killing, see
Cobbe, Frances Power, ... 23
Father Junipero and his work, see
Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske, . . 62
Faust, Notes to part 2, see Taylor,
Bayard, Ill
Fawcett, Edgar, 40
Female characters of Scott, see
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, . . G9
Fern, Fanny, see Parton, Sarah Pay-
son Willis, 83
Festus Birth-day Book, see Bailey,
Philip James, 3
Field, Eugene, To mistress Bessie,
see Weil, Dr. Charles, . . . 131
Eugene Field as I knew him, see
Wilson, Francis, 131
Field, Kate, sec Field, Mary Kathe-
rine Kemble, 40
40
40
40
Field, Mary Katherine Kemble,
Fields, Annie Adams
Fields, James Thomas, . . .
Letters to, from
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, .
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, .
52
122
187
INDEX
Fields, J. T., Review of Biograph-
ical notes on, see Fiske, John,
Fields, Mrs. James Thomas, see
Fields, Annie Adams, . . • .
Fields, Osgood & Co., Letters to,
from
Dickens, Charles
Forster, John
Fillmore, Millard, Letter from, see
Norton collection, ....
Letter to Barry, Gen. William F. ,
Fish, Hamilton, Letter from, see
Norton collection, ....
Letter to Barry, Gen. William F.,
Fiske, John,
Flag of the constellation. The, see
Read, Thomas Buchanan, .
Flake white, see Thomas, Edith
Matilda,
Foote, Mrs. Arthur De Wint, see
Foote, Mary Anna Hallock, . .
Foote, Mary Anna Hallock, . . .
For the king, see Harte, Bret, . .
Foregone conclusion, A, j-<'e? Howells,
William Dean,
Forster, John,
Franklin, Benjamin,
Franklin, Gen. William Buel, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F., . .
Fremont, Jessie Ann Benton, .
Frothingham, The Rev. Octavius
Brooks,
Froude, James Anthony, Letter to
Parke, Mrs. James B., . . . .
Fryer, T. T., Gift of ms., . . .
Fuller, Sarah Margaret, see Ossoli,
Sarah Margaret Fuller, ....
VJARDINER, Marguerite, jf^Bless-
ington. Countess of,
Garfield, James Abram, Poem on his
death, see Alcott, Amos Bronson,
Gibbons, Mrs. Charles W., Gift of
mss.,
Gifts, see Lazarus, Emma,
42
40
32
42
129
127
130
127
42
91
113
42
42
51
57
42
42
127
43
43
130
128
81
128
70
Gilbert, Sir John, Letter to, from
Ruskin, John 97
Gilder, Richard Watson, .... 44
Letter to, from Gosse, Edmund
William, 46
Gladstone, William Ewart, ... 45
Gluck, James Eraser, Letters to,
from
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, . . 1
Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley, . 34
Eastman, Elaine Goodale, . . 37
McMaster, John Bach, ... 75
Parton, James, 83
Proctor, Lewis B., see Cooper,
James Fenimore, .... 28
Stockton, Francis Richard, . 107
Thaxter, Celia Laighton, . . 113
Warner, Charles Dudley, . . 118
Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, . . 124
Godwin, Parke, 46
Godwin, William, 46
Golden egg and cock of gold. The,
see Scudder, Horace Elisha, . . 100
Goodale, Elaine, see Eastman,
Elaine Goodale 37
Goodwin, Col., Letter to, from
James, George Payne Rainsford, G2
Gordon, A., Letter to George Birk-
beck Hill, see Adam, Robert B., 127
Gordon, Gen. Charles George, Let-
ter to H. W. Gordon, see Adam,
Robert B., 127
Gordon, Henry W., Letter to George
Birkbeck Hill, see Adam, Robert
B., 127
Gosse, Edmund William, .... 46
Grant, Gen. Ulysses Simpson, . . 47
Letter to Barry, Gen. William F., 127
Ode to, see Rohlfs, Anna Kath-
arine Green, 96
Grass of Parnassus, see Lang, An-
drew, 69
Gray, David, Editor's introduction,
see Fryer, T. T., 128
Lecture on Robert Burns, see
Johnston, James N., . . . . 129
138
INDEX
PAGE
Gray, Thomas, 47
Great international walking match,
The, see Dickens, Charles, . . 32
Greeley, Horace, 48
Green, Anna Katharine, see Rohlfs,
Anna Katharine Green, ... 9G
Greenwood, Grace, see Lippincott,
Sarah Jane Clarke, 71
Guizot, Frangois Pierre Guillaume, 49
n., H., j-^' Jackson, Helen Maria
Fiske, 62
Hahn, Hon. Michael, Letter to,
from Lincoln, Abraham, ... 70
Hale, Mrs. David, see Hale, Sarah
Josepha Buell, 49
Hale, The Rev. Edward Everett, . 49
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, ... 49
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, . . .50
Hall, S. C, Letter to, from He-
mans, Felicia Dorothea, ... 54
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, see Wilson,
Gen. James Grant, 123
Hamilton, Alexander, 50
Hamilton, Gail, see Dodge, Mary
Abby, 33
Hamilton, James Alexander, Letter
to Ticknor & Fields, see Hamil-
ton, Alexander, 50
Hamilton, Sir William, .... 50
Hamley, Col. Edward Bruce, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 127
Hamlin, Hannibal, Letter to Barry,
Gen. W^illiam F., 127
Handsome is as handsome does, by
Ch — s R — de, see Harte, Bret, . 51
Harris, Joel Chandler, 51
Harris, William Torrey, .... 51
Harrison, Gabriel, Gift of ms., . . 129
Hart & Wilkens, Letter to, from
Hamilton, Sir William, ... 50
Harte, Bret, 51
Haug, Hofrath, Letter to, from
Kichter, Jean Paul Friedrich, . . 92
Hawthorne, Julian, 51
1
PAGE
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 52
Hay, Col. John 52
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, .... 53
Hayne, William Hamilton, ... 53
Hazlitt, William, 53
Headsman, The, see Cooper, James
Fenimore, 28
Heart-oracles, see Dodge, Mary
Mapes, 34
Heine, Heinrich, 54
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, ... 54
Hesketh, Lady, Letter to, from
Cowper, William, 29
Higginson, The Rev. Thomas
Wentworth, 55
Hill, Aaron, see Payne, John How-
ard, 84
Hill, George Birkbeck, Letters to,
and from, see Adam, Robert B., . 127
Hill, John G, H., Letter to Lord
Shaftesbury, see Cockburn, Sir
George, 24
Hill, Sir Rowland, Letter from, see
Adam, Robert B., 127
Hillard, George Stillman, ... 5G
Letter to, from Dana, Richard
Henry, 30
Hoff, Rear-Adm. Henry Kuhn,
Letter to Barry, Gen. William F., 127
Hoffman, John Thompson, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 127
Hogg, James, 56
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, Letter from,
see Norton collection, .... 130
Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, . . 57
Home sweet home, see Payne, John
Howard, 84
Honoria, see Porter, Rose, ... 89
Hood, Thomas, 57
Hooker, Isabella Beecher, ... 57
Hooker, Mrs. John, see Hooker,
Isabella Beecher, 57
Hope, James Barron, Letter to
Barry, Gen. William F., . . . 127
Hoppner, John William Rizzo,
Lines on, see Byron, Lord, . . 17
:9
INDEX
Hoppner, Th. B., Letter to, from
Byron, Lord, 17
Horsey, Algernon, F. R. de, Let-
ter to Barry, Gen. William F., . 127
How I was educated, see Higginson,
Thomas Wentvvorth, .... 55
Howells, William Dean, .... 57
Howland, Henry R., Gift of ms., . 129
Huckleberry Finn, Adventures
of, see Clemens, Samuel Lang-
home, 22
Hudson, Mrs. Edmund, see Ames,
Mary Clemmer, 2
Hughes, Anne Frances Ford, . . 58
Hughes, Margaret L., 59
Hughes, Thomas, 58
Hughes, Mrs. Thomas, see Hughes,
Anne Frances Ford, 58
Hugo, Victor Marie, 59
Hunt, Mrs. Edward B., see Jackson,
Helen Maria Fiske, 62
Hunt, Helen, see Jackson, Helen
Maria Fiske, 62
Hunt, James Henry Leigh, ... 59
Hunting song, see Percival, James
Gates, 84
Hutton, Laurence, Letter to, from
Jefferson, Joseph 63
Huxley, Thomas Henry, .... 61
If this great world of joy and pain,
see Wordsworth, W^illiam, . . . 125
In farewell, sec Rohlfs, Anna Kath-
arine Green, 96
In primrose time, see Piatt, Sarah
Morgan Bryan, 86
In the Happy Valley, see Craik, Di-
nah Maria Mulock 29
Indian summer. The, see Lover,
Samuel, 72
Ingelow, Jean, 61
Ireland, Mr., Lelicr to, from Trol-
lope, Anthony, 115
Irony, see Fawcett, Edgar, ... 40
Irving, Washington, 61
J PAGE
ACKSON, Andrew, .... 61
Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske, . . 62
Jackson, Mrs. William S., see Jack-
son, Helen Maria Fiske, ... 62
James, George Payne Rainsford, . 62
James, Henry, 62
Jameson, Anna Brownell Murphy, . 63
Jameson, Mrs. Robert, see Jameson,
Anna Brownell Murphy, ... 63
Janvier, Thomas Allibone, ... 63
Jay, John, Commission signed by,
see New York State, 80
Jean Paul, see Richter, Jean Paul
Friedrich, 92
Jefferson, Joseph, 63
Jefferson, Thomas, 63
Jenner, The Rev. G. C, Letter to,
from Jefferson, Thomas, ... 64
Jerdan, William, Letter to, from
Lytton, Baroness, 73
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 64
John Halifax, gentleman. The author
of, see Craik, Dinah Maria Mu-
lock, 29
Johns, The Rev. John, Letter to
Barry, Gen. William F,, . . . 127
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 64
Johnston, James N., Gift of ms., . 129
Joinville, Prince de, Letter to Barry,
Gen. William F., 127
Jones, John Paul, Rhyme of, see
Trowbridge, John Townsend, . 116
Jones, Noble Wimberley, Letter to,
from Franklin, Benjamin, ... 43
Julian, George W. , Review of his
Political recollections, see Lodge,
Henry Cabot 71
iA.ANT, Immanuel, Criticism of
his Main principles, see Stirling,
James Hutchison, 106
Kearney, Gen. Philip, Dirge for, see
Boker, George Henry, .... 7
Keats, John, 65
Keene, Mary V., Gift of ms., . . 129
140
INDEX
Kelp-gatherers, The, see Trowbridge,
John Townsend, IIG
Kent, James, G6
King, The Rev. Thomas Starr, . . G6
King's missive. The, see Whittier,
John Greenleaf, 121
Kingsley, The Rev. Charles, . . GO
Kingsley, Rose Georgina, . . . (JG
Kit Carson's ride, see Miller, Cin-
cinnatus Hiner, 76
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdi-
nand von, G6
LaDY'S sonnet: Twilight, The,
see Cranch, Christopher Pearse, . 29
Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis
de Prat de, 67
Lamb, Charles, 67
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, ... 69
Lang, Andrew, 69
Lamed, Josephus Nelson, Letters
to, from
Cleveland, Grover, .... 23
Winsor, Justin, 123
Lass Lurline, see Cheney, John
Vance, 21
I-athrop, George Parsons, ... 70
Lazarus, Emma, 70
Leave me not yet ! see Hemans,
Felicia Dorothea, 54
Lee, Gen. Robert Edward, Letter to
Barry, Gen. William F., . . . 127
Lehmann, Dr., Letter to, from Ar-
nim, Elisabeth von, 3
Leissring, Herr, Letter to, from
Kotzebue, August Friedrich Fer-
dinand von, 67
Lester, The Rev. Charles Edwards,
Letter to, from Mary Caroline
Braithwaite, j'^^ Wordsworth, Wil-
liam, 125
Lettsom, William Nanson, Letter to,
from Tupper, Martin Farquhar, . 116
Lewes, Mrs. George Henry, see
Eliot, George, 38
PAGE
Lewes, Marian, see Eliot, George, . 38
Lewis, Morgan, Commission signed
by, see New York State, ... 80
Lightning flash. A, see Montgomery,
George Edgar, 76
Lincoln, Abraham, 70
Abraham Lincoln, the true story
of a great life, see Stoddard,
William Osborn, 107
Lincoln, Mrs. Abraham, Letter to,
from Lincoln, Abraham, ... 70
Linley, William, Sonnet to, see Col-
eridge, Samuel Taylor, ... 25
Lippincott, Mrs. Leander K., see
Lippincott, Sarah Jane Clarke, . 71
Lippincott, Sarah Jane Clarke, . . 71
Litchfield, Grace Denio, .... 71
Livingston, Philip, Letter from, see
Norton collection, 130
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 71
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, . 72
Lecture on, see Fields, James
Thomas, 41
Loose thoughts relative to the Two
Sicilies and its present situa-
tion, 1799, see Hamilton, Sir
William, 50
Lossing, Benson John, Letter from,
see Norton collection 130
Louise, Queen of Prussia, Poem on
her statue, see Woolsey, Sarah
Chauncey, 124
Love at first sight, see Matthews,
Brander, 75
Lovell, Col. Joseph, Letters to,
from Clay, Henry, 22
Lover, Samuel 72
Lover's sonnet : Midnight, see
Cranch, Christopher Pearse, . . 29
Love's resurrection day, see Moul-
ton, Ellen Louise Chandler, . . 79
Lowell, James Russell, .... 72
Lucas, S., Letter to, from Beacons-
field, Earl of, 4
Lyons, Lord, Letter to Barry, Gen.
William F., 127
141
INDEX
Lyric of action, see Hayne, Paul
Hamilton, 53
Lytton, Baron, 73
Lytton, Baroness, 73
Lytton, Earl of, 73
M.
Thomas Babing-
74
127
127
21
89
69
lACAULAY,
ton,
McClellan, Gen. George Brinton,
Letter to Barry, Gen. William
F
McDowell, Gen. Irwin, Letter to
Barry, Gen. William F., . . .
Machine in politics and religion,
The, see Clarke, James Freeman,
McKay, James T., 75
Mackenzie, Thomas G., Letter to,
from Poe, Edgar Allan, . . .
Maclean, Mrs. George, see Landon,
Letitia Elizabeth,
McMahon, I. C., Letter to, from
Davis, Jefferson, 31
McMaster, John Bach, .... 75
Making peace, see Piatt, Sarah Mor-
gan Bryan, 86
Mann, Horace, Letter to, from Mot-
ley, John Lothrop, 77
Marble, Manton, 75
Marble queen. The, see Woolsey,
Sarah Chauncey, 124
Marcy, William L., Commission
signed by, see New York State, . 80
Mark Twain, see Clemens, Samuel
Langhorne, 22
Matthews, Brander, 75
Meade, Gen. George Gordon, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F.,
Meech, Henry, Gift of ms. , . . .
Meech Bros., Letter to, from Edwin
Booth, see Meech, Henry, . . .
Melanchthon, Philipp, ....
Meredith, Owen, see Lytton, Earl
of,
Merlin, M., Letter to, from Balzac,
Honore de,
127
129
129
75
73
Meyer, Gen. Albert James, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 127
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Epitaphs
by, see Cheney, Ednah Dow Little-
hale, 21
Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner, ... 76
Miller, De Witt, Gift of portrait of
Eugene Field, 131
Miller, Joaquin, see Miller, Cincin-
natus Hiner, 76
Milton, John, Sonnet on, see Long-
fellow, Henry Wadsworth, . . 72
Miss Ingelow and Mrs. Walford, see
Preston, Harriet Waters, ... 90
Mission flower, A, see Picard,
George Henry, 86
Mrs. Berty's tea, At, see Janvier,
Thomas AUibone, 63
Mrs. Reynolds' cat. Sonnet to, sec
Keats, John, 65
Mitford, Mary Russell, .... 76
Monitions of the unseen. The, sec
Ingelow, Jean, 61
Monsieur Maurice, see Edwards,
Amelia Blandford, 38
Montalembert, Comte de, ... 76
Montgomery, George Edgar, . . 76
Montgomery, James, 77
Moore, Thomas, 77
Moral mechanics and dynamics, see
Clarke, James Freeman, ... 21
Moral statistics of the United States,
On the imperfect knowledge of
the, see Woolsey, Theodore
Dwight, 124
Morell, Gen. George Webb, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 127
Morris, Robert, Letter from, see
Norton collection, 130
Motley, John Lothrop, .... 77
Mott, Mrs. James, j^^Mott, Lucretia
Coffin, 78
Mott, Lucretia Coffin, 78
Moulton, Ellen Louise Chandler, . 79
Moulton, Mrs. William A., see
Moulton, Ellen Louise Chandler, 79
142
INDEX
PAGE
Miihlbach, Luise, see Mundt, Klara
Miiller, 79
Muhlenberg, Gen. John Peter Ga-
briel, 79
Mulock, Dinah Maria, see Craik,
Dinah Maria Mulock, .... 29
Mundt, Klara Miiller, 79
Mundt, Frau Theodor, see Mundt,
Klara Miiller, 79
Murfree, Mary Noailles, .... 79
My echo, see Fawcett, Edgar, . . 40
My rival, see Parker, Elizabeth Low-
bar Chandler, 82
N
APIER, Gen., Letter to Barry,
Gen. William F. ,
Napoleon I, Reference to, see Cock-
burn, Sir George,
Narrative and critical history of
America, see Winsor, Justin, .
Negro problem, see
Cable, George Washington, . .
Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding, .
Pillsbury, Parker,
Sumner, Charles,
Neville, Lieut. -Col. Edvi'ard, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F., .
New England two centuries ago, see
Lowell, James Russell, ....
New portfolio. The, see Holmes, Dr.
Oliver Wendell,
New York State, Governors of, .
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal, .
Niagara Falls, see Carleton, Wil-
liam,
Nicholls, Charlotte, see Bronte,
Charlotte,
Nichols, J. B., Letter to, from
Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Digh-
ton,
North and South, see Lytton, Earl
of,
Norton collection of manuscripts, .
November, see Woolsey, Sarah
Chauncey,
127
24
123
18
31
88
109
127
72
57
80
80
19
83
73
129
124.
PAGE
BERON, see Cone, Helen Gray, 26
Obseruations in trayuelle, see Over-
bury, Sir Thomas, 82
Odyssey, Preface to translation of,
see Bryant, William Cullen, . . 16
Oh ! how sweet to think hereafter,
see Moore, Thomas, 77
Oilier, C. & J., Letter to (?), from
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, .... 101
One thirty-six hours on the Denver
and Rio Grande Railroad, see
Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske, . . 62
Orange-bough, The, see Hemans,
Felicia Dorothea, 54
O'Reilly, John Boyle, 81
Osgood, James R., Letters to, from
Dickens, Charles, 32
Harris, Joel Chandler, .... 51
Hay, Col. John, 52
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 72
Saxe, John Godfrey, .... 99
Tennyson, Alfred, 112
Ossoli, Sarah Margaret Fuller, . . 81
Ouida, see Rame, Louise de la, . . 91
Overbury, Sir Thomas, .... 82
r ARTS, Comte de, Letter to Barry,
Gen. William F., 128
Parke, Mrs. James B., Gift of ms., 130
Parker, Elizabeth Lowber Chand-
ler,
Parker, Mrs. Leroy, see Parker, Eliz-
abeth Lowber Chandler, . .
Parker, The Rev. Theodore, . .
Parkes, Mrs. Joseph, Letter to, from
Jameson, Anna Brownell Murphy,
Parkman, Francis,
Parks, P. D. A., Letters to, from
Clay, Henry 22, 130
Woodbury, Levi, see Southworth,
M. M., 130
Parton, James, 83
Parton, Mrs. James, see Parton,
Sarah Payson Willis, .... 83
Parton, Sarah Payson Willis, . . 83
143
INDEX
from
Patience and toasted cheese, see
Southey, Caroline Anne Bowles,
Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Digh-
ton
Patterson, Gen. Robert, Letter to
Barry, Gen. William F
Paul, John, see Jones, John Paul, .
Payne, John Howard
Letter to R. W. Elliston, see Har-
rison, Gabriel,
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, Letters
to, from
Hughes, Anne Frances Ford,
Hughes, Thomas,
Sedgwick, Catherine Maria, .
Percival, James Gates, ....
Perkins, Norman C, Letters to,
from
Pierpont, The Rev. John,
Sparks, The Rev. Jared,
Perry, Nora,
Perry, Oliver Hazard, Letter
see Norton collection,
Phillips, Wendell, . .
Piatt, John James, .
Piatt, Mrs. John James, see
Sarah Morgan Bryan,
Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan,
Picard, George Henry,
Pierpont, The Rev. John, .
Pillsbury, Parker, .
Pitcher, Nathaniel, Commission
signed by, see New York State,
Poe, Edgar Allan,
Poet and the alchemist, The, see
Smith, Horatio,
Pope, Alexander,
Lecture on, see Hazlitt, William,
Per el rey, see Harte, Bret, . . .
Porter, Col. Peter Augustus, Let-
ter to Barry, Gen. William F., .
Porter, Rose,
Powell, Thomas, The English Muse
to, see Disraeli, Isaac, ....
Premonition, see Stoddard, Charles
Warren,
104
83
128
116
84
129
Piatt
58
58
100
84
80
105
84
130
85
86
86
86
86
86
87
80
88
104
89
53
51
128
89
33
107
Preston, Harriet Waters, . . .
Prime, The Rev. Samuel Irenteus,
Prince Yousuf and the Alcayde, see
Cranch, Christopher Pearse, .
Procter, Adelaide Anne, . .
Procter, Bryan Waller, . . .
Proctor, Lewis B., Letter from, see
Burr, Aaron,
Letter to James F. Gluck, see
Cooper, James Fenimore, .
Psychometry, see Pierpont, The Rev
John,
Puck, see Cone, Helen Gray,
Pugh, Sarah,
PAGE
90
90
29
90
91
17
28
87
26
91
VjJUARLES, Francis, Extracts from
his writings, see Thoreau, Henry
David, 113
Queen's wake. The, see Hogg,
James, 56
Questions, see Thaxter, Celia Laigh-
lon, 113
Qui judicatis terram, see Ruskin,
John 98
rVAME, Louise de la, .... 91
Read, Thomas Buchanan, ... 91
Reade, Charles, 91
Recognition, see Gilder, Richard
Watson, 44
Reconstruction, Letters on, see Sum-
ner, Charles, 110
Reflective retrospect. A, by John G.
Saxe, see Warren, Joseph, . . . 130
Reid, Whitelaw, 92
Representative men, see Emerson,
Ralph Waldo, 39
Retrospect, see Coolbrith, Ina Donna, 28
Rhyme of John Paul Jones, see
Trowbridge, John Townsend, . 116
Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, . . 92
Ride of Collins Graves, The, see
O'Reilly, John Boyle, .... 81
Ringgold, Captain Samuel, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 128
144
INDEX
I'AGE
Robertson, William, 92
Robin shure in hairst, see Burns,
Robert, 16
Robinson, T., and Sons, Letter to,
see Edgeworth, Maria, .... 38
Rock beside the sea. The, see
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, . . 54
Rodgers, Admiral Christopher Ray-
mond Perry, Letter to Barry,
Gen. William F., 128
Rodman, Gen. Thomas Jefferson,
Letter to Barry, Gen. William F., 128
Roge, Charlotte Fiske, see Bates,
Charlotte Fiske, 3
Rogers, Samuel, 96
Rohlfs, Anna Katharine Green, . 96
Rohlfs, Mrs. Charles, see Rohlfs,
Anna Katharine Green, ... 96
Roman singer, A, see Crawford,
Francis Marion, 30
Rossetti, Dante Charles Gabriel, . 96
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, .... 97
Rufus Impey and the sporting party,
see Strickland, Agnes 109
Ruskin, John, 97
Russia and England, see Gladstone,
William Ewart, 45
OACKVILLE, Charles, see Dorset,
Earl of, 34
Saint Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernar-
din de, 98
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, . 98
Sala, George Augustus Henry, . . 98
Sanborn, The Rev. Franklin Benja-
min, 99
Sand, Karl Ludwig, Newspaper
cuttings concerning, see Kotze-
bue, August Friedrich Ferdinand
von, 66
Sands, Rear- Admiral Joshua Ratoon,
Letter to Barry, Gen. William F., 128
Savage, The Rev. Minot Judson, . 99
Savoir c'est pardonner, see WOolsey,
Sarah Chauncey, 124
FACE
Saxe, John Godfrey, 99
A reflective retrospect, see War-
ren, Joseph, 130
Schofield, Gen. John McAllister,
Letter to Barry, Gen. William
F., 128
School of long ago. A, see Eggles-
ton, Edward, 38
Schurz, Carl, Letter to Barry, Gen.
William F., 128
Scott, Sir Walter, 99
Death of, see Lytton, Baron, . . 73
Scudder, Horace Elisha, .... 100
Sedgwick, Catherine Maria, . . . 100
Sedgwick, Gen. John, Letter to
Barry, Gen. William F., . . . 128
Sermons by
Beecher, The Rev. Henry Ward,
see Corning, The Rev. J.
Leonard, 128
Brooks, The Rev. Phillips, . . 9
Chapin, The Rev. Edwin Hub-
bell, 20
Clarke, The Rev. James Freeman, 21
King, The Rev. Thomas Starr, . 66
Parker, The Rev. Theodore, . . 82
Sanborn, The Rev. Franklin Ben-
jamin, 99
Savage, The Rev. Minot Judson, 99
Seward, William Henry, .... 101
Commission signed by, see New
York State, 80
Letter from, see Norton collec-
tion, 130
Seymour, Horatio, Letter from, see
Norton collection, 130
Sharpe, Mary, Letter to, from
Rogers, Samuel, 96
Shaw, Henry Wheeler, .... 101
She is all heart, see Hood, Thomas, 57
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 101
Arietta for music, see Fields,
James Thomas, 41
Lecture on, see Fields, James
Thomas, 40
Shenstone, William, 101
145
INDEX
Sheridan, Gen. Philip, Letter to
Barry, Gen. William F., .
Sherman, Frank Dempster, .
Sherman, John, Letter to Barry,
Gen. William F.,
Sherman, Gen. William Tecum-
seh. Letter to Barry, Gen. Wil-
liam Y.,
Sherman, Mrs. William Tecumseh,
Letter to Barry, Gen. William F.,
Shobert, William, Letter to, from
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth,
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley,
Silent south. The, see Cable, George
Washington,
Sill, Edward Rowland
Simms, William Gilmore,
Sing, gondolier ! see Hemans, Feli-
cia Dorothea,
Sister Dorothy, see Fawcett, Edgar,
Skylark, To an English, see Thomp-
son, Maurice,
Slick, Sam, see Haliburton, Thomas
Chandler,
Slocum, Gen. Henry Warner, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F.,
Small ey, George Washburne,
Smith, Gerrit,
Smith, Horatio,
Smith, The Rev. Samuel Francis, .
Smith, T. Guilford, Gift of ms., .
Smith, William, Letter to, from
Robertson, William, ....
Snowstorm, The, see Litchfield,
Grace Denio
Society in the new south, see
Warner, Charles Dudley, . . .
Some day of days, see Perry, Nora,
Some testimony in the case, see
Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding,
Song of content. A, see Piatt, John
James,
Song of the mockingbird. A, see
Thompson, Maurice, ....
Songs for evening music, see He-
mans, Felicia Dorothea, . . .
128
102
128
128
128
69
102
18
102
102
54
40
113
50
128
103
103
104
104
130
92
71
118
85
31
86
113
54
104
130
105
105
106
106
Songs of the sunland, see Miller,
Cincinnatus Hiner, 76
Sophie's secret, see Alcott, Louisa
May, 1
Southey, Caroline Anne Bowles, . 104
Southey, Robert, 104
Letter to, from Ticknor, George, 114
Southey, Mrs. Robert, see Southey,
Caroline Anne Bowles, ....
South worth, M. M., Gift of ms., .
Sparks, The Rev. Jared, ....
Spinner, Francis Elias, ....
Spoflford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott,
Spofford, Mrs. Richard S., see Spof-
ford, Harriet Elizabeth Pres-
cott, - . .
Stael-Holstein, Anne Louise Ger-
maine Necker, 106
Stage Rosalinds, see White, Richard
Grant, 121
Stanton, Edwin McMasters, Letter
to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 128
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, .... 106
Stanton, Mrs. Henry B. , see Stanton,
Elizabeth Cady, 106
Stirling, Miss, Letter to, from Ossoli,
Sarah Margaret Fuller, ... 81
Stirling, James Hutchison, . . . 106
Stockton, Francis Richard, . . . 107
Stoddard, Charles Warren, . . . 107
Stoddard, Richard Henry, . . . 107
Stoddard, William Osborn, ... 107
Stone, Lucy, 107
Stoned by a mountain, see Kingsley,
Rose Georgina 66
Story, William Wetmore 108
Story with a hero, A, see McKay,
James T., 75
Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, . 108
Strickland, Agnes, 108
Summer flies, see Gosse, Edmund
William, 46
Sumner, Charles, 109
Letter from, see Norton collection, 130
Letter introducing him to Robert
Southey, see Ticknor, George, . 114
146
INDEX
Sunset walk, A, see Channing, The
Rev. William Ellery 20
Swartwout, Samuel, Commission as
Collector of the customs, see
Jackson, Andrew, G2
also Taney, Roger Brooke, . . Ill
1 ANEY, Roger Brooke, . , . Ill
Taylor, Bayard, Ill
Letter to, from Fields, James
Thomas, 40
Taylor, The Rev. Jeremy, . . . Ill
Taylor, The Rev. John, Letter to,
from Johnson, Dr. Samuel, . . 65
Tenement-house fire. The, j^t^Ward,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, ... 117
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 112
Thanksgiving Day proclamation, see
Cleveland, Grover, 23
Thaxter, Celia Laighton 112
Thaxter, Mrs. Levi Lincoln, sec
Thaxter, Celia Laighton, . . . 112
Theocritus, see Fields, Annie Adams, 40
Theory of insanity. A, see Harris,
William Torrey 51
Theses qujedam theologicce, see
Lamb, Charles, 67
Thomas, Edith Matilda 113
Thompson, Maurice, 113
Thoreau, Henry David, . . . . 113
Letter from, see Norton collection, 130
Thorpe, Mrs. Edmund C, see
Thorpe, Rose Hartwick, . . . 113
Thorpe, Rose Hartwick, .... 113
Throop, Enos Thompson, Commis-
sion signed by, see New York
State, 80
Through the trees, see Rohlfs, Anna
Katharine Green, 96
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, .... 130
Ticknor, George, 114
Ticknor & Fields, Letters to, from
Brown, Dr. John, 9
Hamilton, James Alexander, see
Hamilton, Alexander, ... .50
Till the day dawn, see Woolsey,
Sarah Chauncey, 124
Tilton, Theodore, 115
Letters to, from
Ames, Mary Clemmer, ... 2
Anthony, Susan Brownell, . . 2
Bigelow, John, 5
Blaine, James Gillespie, . . G
Bowen, Henry Chandler, . . 7
Bright, John, 8
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, . 10
Browning, Robert, .... 14
Gary, Phcebe, 20
Chase, Salmon Portland, . . 20
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, . 21
Collyer, The Rev. Robert, . . 26
Conway, The Rev. Moncure
Daniel, 27
Cook, Clarence Chatham, . . 28
Curtis, George William, . . 30
Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth, . 33
Dodge, Mary Abby, .... 34
Douglass, Frederick, . . • 35
Field, Mary Katherine Kemble, 40
Fields, James Thomas, ... 40
Frothingham, The Rev. Oc-
tavius Brooks, 43
Godwin, Parke, 46
Greeley, Horace, 48
Hay, Col. John, 53
Higginson, Thomas Wentwortli, 55
Hooker, Isabella Beecher, , . 57
Lippincott, Sarah Jane Clarke, 71
Marble, Manton, 75
Mott, Lucretia Coffin, ... 78
Parton, Sarah Payson Willis, . 83
Phillips, Wendell, .... 85
Pillsbury, Parker, 87
Prime, The Rev. Samuel Iren-
ceus, 90
Reid, Whitelaw, 92
Smalley, George Washburne, . 103
Smith, Gerrit, 103
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, . . 106
Stone, Lucy 108
Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, 108
147
INDEX
Tilton, Theodore, Letters to, from
Sumner, Charles,
Watterson, Henry, ....
White, Horace,
Whittier, John Greenleaf, . .
Wilson, Henry,
Yoimg, John Russell,
Tivoli, A day at, see Stowe, Harriet
Elizabeth Beecher,
To an English skylark, see Thomp-
son, Maurice,
To fame, see Blackmore, Richard
Doddridge,
To fame, see Hunt, James Henry
Leigh,
To mistress Bessie, by Eugene Field,
see Weil, Dr. Charles, ....
To spring, see Blessington, Countess
of,
To the poetess, see Fields, Annie
Adams
Tokens, see Woolsey, Sarah Chaun-
cey,
Tompkins, Daniel D., Commis-
sion signed by, see New York
State
Letter from, see Norton collec-
tion,
Top of the ladder. The, see Litch-
field, Grace Denio,
Tredgold, John H., Letter to, from
Webster, Daniel,
Trenchard, Admiral Stephen Deca-
tur, Letter to Barry, Gen. William
F.,
Trollope, Anthony,
Trouble on Lost Mountain, see Har-
ris, Joel Chandler,
Trowbridge, John Townsend, . .
Triibner, Mr. , Letter to, from Eliot,
George,
Tryst, A, see Thaxter, Celia Laigh-
ton,
Tapper, Martin Farquhar, . .
Letter to, from Tennyson, Al-
fred
109
119
120
122
123
126
108
113
5
60
131
6
40
124
80
130
71
120
128
115
51
116
39
113
116
112
Turgenieff, Ivan, Essay on, see
James, Henry, 62
Turner, John Mallord William, . 117
Twain, Mark, see Clemens, Samuel
Langhorne, 22
Two destinies, The, see Collins,
William Wilkie, 26
Two heads better than one, see
Bates, Charlotte Fiske, .... 4
Two Sicilies, The, see Hamilton, Sir
William, 50
Tyrant Tacy, see Perry, Nora, . . 85
U
NCLE Esek's wisdom, see Shaw,
Henry Wheeler, 101
Underwood, Francis H., Comment
on mss. of Representative men,
see Emerson, Ralph Waldo, . . 39
United States, History of the peo-
ple of the, see McMaster, John
Bach, 75
Upton, Gen. Emory, Letter to
Barry, Gen. William F., . . . 128
VAN BUREN, Martin, Commis-
sion signed by, see New York
State, 80
Letter from, see Norton collec-
tion, 130
Vernes, Jacob, Letter to, from
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, ... 97
Violet, A, see Whitney, Adeline
Dutton Train, 121
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, 117
W.
ALLACE, Gen, Lew., ... 117
Wallack, Lester, his ancestry, train-
ing and career, see Winter, Wil-
liam, 124
Ward, Artemus, see Browne, Charles
Farrar, 10
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, . . 117
148
INDEX
Ward, Mrs. Herbert Dickinson, see
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, . 117
Warner, Charles Dudley, . . . . 118
Warner, Susan, 118
Warren, Joseph, Gift of ms., . . 130
Washburne, Elihu Benjamin, Letter
from, see Norton collection, . . 130
Washington, George, 118
Life of, see Irving, Washington, . (il
Watterson, Henry 119
Watts, The Rev. Isaac, .... 119
Webster, Benjamin, Letters to, see
Reade, Charles, 91
Webster, Daniel, 120
Letter from, see Norton collec-
tion, 130
Webster, Hetcher, Letter from, see
Norton collection, 130
Weil, Dr. Charles, Gift of ms., . . 131
Wetherell, Elizabeth, see Warner,
Susan, 118
Whipple, Edwin Percy, . . . . 120
White, Horace, 120
White, Richard Grant, .... 120
Whitman, W^alt, 121
Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train, . 121
Whitney, Mrs. Seth D., see Whit-
ney, Adeline Dutton Train, . . 121
Whittier, John Greenleaf, . . . 121
Wilkeson, John, Gift of mss., . . 131
Wilkeson, Judge Samuel, Letter to,
from De Witt Clinton, see Wilke-
son, John, 131
Williams, D. IL, Letter to, from
Percival, James Gates, .... 84
Williams, W. S., Letter to, from
Bronte, Charlotte, 8
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, Letter
from, see Norton collection, . 130
Chapter on, see Wilson, Gen.
James Grant, 123
Willow song, see Hemans, Felicia
Dorothea, 54
Wilson, Effingham, Letter to, from
Godwin, William, 46
W^ilson, Francis, 131
Wilson, Henry, 123
Wilson, Gen. James Grant, . . . 123
Letter to, from Grant, Ulysses
Simpson, 47
Winsor, Justin, 123
Winter, William, 124
Winter neighbors, see Burroughs,
John,
Winthrop papers, Review of, see
Lowell, James Russell,
Woman suffrage, see
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,
Mott, Lucretia Coffin, .
Ram6, Louise de la, ...
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, . .
Wood, The Rev. John George, .
Woodbury, Levi, Letter to P. D. A
Parks and M. M. Southworth, see
Southworth, M. M., ...
Woodnotes from a cage, see Cone,
Helen Gray,
Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, . .
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, . .
Words, see Dodge, Mary Abby,
Wordsworth, William, . . .
World before the flood. The, se
Montgomery, James, ...
Worth, Gen. William Jenkins, Let
ter to Barry, Gen. William F.,
Wright, Silas, Commission signed
by, see New York State, . .
Wycombe, Lord, Letter to, from
Bentham, Jeremy
17
72
78
91
106
124
130
26
124
124
33
125
77
128
80
80
54
I ATES, Joseph C, Commission
signed by, see New York State, ,
Ye are not missed, fair flowers, see
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, . .
Young, Brigham, Promissory note,
see Wilkeson, John 131
Young, John, Commission signed
by, see New York State, ... 80
Young, John Russell, 126
Young love is lord, see Cheney, John
Vance, 21
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