Found 9 collections related to Poets, American

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) was an American physician and poet. The miscellany includes brief notes regarding speaking engagements, requests for autographs, acknowledgments of gifts received, and other social matters; and several stanzas from published poems signed and dated, ostensibly to be given as autographs less

Letters written by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to various friends, colleagues, and publishers, including Lewis Pennell, Evert Augustus Duyckinck, James Thomas Fields, and Carey & Hart. Letters discuss publication of his work; books bought, borrowed, and read; Longfellow's translations of Jean Paul and others; as well as personal and social matters. Also present are a manuscript stanza from The Golden Legend; a letter to Longfellow from a young girl; and several autographs less

Brief letters from American poet James Russell Lowell to Henry Joseph Gardner, H. A. P.Torrey, and others, largely pertaining to engagements and other social matters. One letter to Mrs. Merritt (possibly painter Anna Lea Merrit) is written in verse and signed "Eternumque Sedebit." Also present are fragments from several lectures, circa 1894 less

Letters of American poet E. A. Robinson to various individuals written between 1918 and 1934 generally relating to writing, publishing, and recommendations for reading and study; a draft of a letter relating to copyright; and signed typescript of his poem, "Tact." less

Poetry magazine edited and published by Greg Masters, Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. Fourteen issues appeared between 1977-1985; a fifteenth was begun, but was never completed. Prominent contributors included Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Edwin Denby, Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, and Anne Waldman. Records consist of manuscripts and typescripts of published and unpublished poems, original cover artwork and negatives, mock-ups and final copies of each issue of the magazine, correspondence from readers and contributors, invoices, grant proposals, and business receipts. less

Clara Barrus (1864-1931) was a physician and long-time companion and biographer of naturalist John Burroughs. Her papers consist of incoming correspondence, 1906-1931, primarily from her friends Elizabeth Dowden and Charles Fletcher Lummis, her notes on a trip to Italy in 1929, and a few of her poems. less

Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892) was an American writer, artist, and Unitarian minister. The papers consist of a small quantity of correspondence, poems, and financial documents. Correspondence is predominantly outgoing and pertains to both the creative and financial aspects of his art and writing. One letter by his wife, Elizabeth, is also present. Poems include several manuscript copies of his works, some emended in pencil. Financial documents include canceled checks and receipts for loans of his paintings to the Brooklyn Art Association and other unidentified institutions less

Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820) was an American poet. Drake's poems were frequently published in the Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, and he was considered a member of the "Knickerbocker Group." In 1819, Drake and fellow poet Fitz-Greene Halleck wrote a series of satirical verses for the New York Evening Post, which were published under the penname "The Croakers." He died of tuberculosis soon after. The papers consist of one letter to Fitz-Greene Halleck, probably from 1817, informing Halleck of the suicide of Walter Franklin; one undated manuscript verse, signed Croakers, "to _____ Esquire;" and an image of Drake published by the Society of Iconophiles in 1903 less

Patti Smith is an American musician, artist, poet, and author best known for her band, the Patti Smith Group, and her memoir, Just Kids. The Patti Smith notebooks and manuscripts consist of unpublished poetry and prose pieces, as well as song lyrics, notes, and reflections dating from the late 1970s to 2014. less