William Cullen Bryant manuscript material : 8 items 1831-1871

Holograph stanza from his poem, "The Battle-Field" : 2 Dec 1870 : (MISC 1266) : from New York : the ninth stanza; 4 lines, with full signature, place and date; begins, "Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; / The eternal years of God are hers...".|||To John Howard Bryant, his brother : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Jun 1841 : (MISC 3779) : from 41 Nassau Street, Cor. Liberty, New York ("office of The Evening Post" printed stationery) : begins, "I have just got your letter. Mr. [Parke] Godwin being in the office ..." Tipped into a copy of T. F. Madigan's Word Shadows of the Great (1930). Shelved as *Pforz BT (Bryant, W. C.) 01.|||To an L. M. Gardner : 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Dec 1859 : (MISC 1379) : from New York : begins, "I am sorry that I have no manuscript from the hand of Washington Irving to send you ...".|||To Mr. [A.?] Hinton : 1 autograph letter signed : 10 July 1871 : (MISC 0011) : from Roslyn, L.I. N.Y. : begins, "If I had read your brother's book School days at Mount Pleasant I would cheerfully state any favorable impression in made upon me ...".|||To Washington Irving, author : 3 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Dec 1831 : (MISC 0648) : from New York : begins, "I have put to press in the city a duodecimo volume of 240 pages, comprising all my poems which I thought worth printing ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 May 1832 : (MISC 0649) : from Philadelphia : begins, "I wrote to you some time since to express my thanks for the kind interest you had taken in the publication of my book in England ..." -- 1 autograph leter signed : 8 Apr 1842 : (MISC 0650) : from New York : begins, "A friend of mine has desired of me a letter of introduction to you ...".|||To Gulian C. Verplanck, author and congressman: 1 autograph letter signed : 29 Dec 1831 : (MISC 0647) : [no place] : begins, "I intend to send a copy of my poems to Murray of London for publication. I think of sending by the next packet, and of referring him to Washinton Irving, as to the character of the work ...".