Found 9 collections related to Essays

Lore Segal is a New York based novelist and children's book author. A daughter of Austrian Jews, Segal escaped Nazi occupied Vienna on the first Kindertransport in 1939. This collection contains letters and documents of her family in Austria and England during World War II, and their emigration to the Dominican Republic and the United States; letters to Segal from throughout her life; letters from Segal as a young girl and documenting her time at Yaddo; and literary manuscripts documenting her novels, children's books, short stories and other writings. Also present are letters and writings of her husband, literary editor David Segal. less

Éva Gauthier (1885-1958) was a Canadian-American vocalist best known for her performances of contemporary music and her associations with George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, and other composers. The Éva Gauthier papers, dating from 1899 to 1960, document the singer's life and career through correspondence; photographs; writings; programs and publicity material; business and legal records; and clippings. less

Papers consist mainly of letters to Washington, D. C., attorney David A. Hall mainly relating to legal matters and District of Columbia lands. Also included are indentures pertaining to real property in the District of Columbia, and two manuscripts by Hall relating to succession less

Richard E. Helbig was a New York Public Library employee who worked with the German-American collection. His papers (1896-1938) are comprised of articles authored by Helbig; correspondence; bibliographic reports; and notes on the library's German materials. less

Volumes of the manuscript periodical issued and privately circulated by The Fraternity, a social literary club, between 1877 and 1878. Issues contain poems, short stories, essays, and letters, as well as pen and ink, pencil, and painted illustrations. Editors and contributors include G. H. Putnam, Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Robert Swain Gifford and his wife Frances E. Gifford, Bayard Taylor, E.C. Stedman, R.H. Stoddard, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Calvert Vaux, Charles Follen McKim, T. M. Coan, and others less

Highlights of the collection include an important portion of the "Ktaadn" section of The Maine Woods; "Nature and Bird Notes, " a journal kept by Henry, John and Sophia Thoreau with leaves, grass and wild flowers laid in; and Thoreau's famous letter to his brother addressed to Sachem Hopeful of Hopewell and signed Tahatawan. The Berg also has a daguerrotype of Thoreau ("my friends think [it] is pretty good though better looking than I"), a pencil made by him (his father's company manufactured them), and an original pencil map of Walden Pond. less

This is a synthetic collection covering the years 1821 to 1912 (bulk 1837-1882) with some undated material. The collection is particularly strong on poetry, including over twenty poems in manuscript, most from Emerson's earlier period. The correspondence covers a wide range of correspondents, including Amos Bronson Alcott, H.G.O. Blake, Thomas Carlyle, Horace Greeley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophie Peabody Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau. The collection also contains Whitman's notes about relations between Emerson and himself. less