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Bruce, John Edward
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc Micro R-905
.25 linear feet (4 microfilm reels)
Papers include letters written to Bruce from black politicians, journalists, intellectuals, and activists including John Wesley Cromwell, Alexander Crummell, Richard T. Greener, T. Thomas Fortune, and Arthur A. Schomburg, as well as manuscript and...
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Gilbert, George B.
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4405
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
The Gilbert family papers consist of correspondence, mainly letters to George B. Gilbert of New York City, and to Mrs. Maria R. M. Gilbert from her brothers, sister, and other relatives. Some letters relate to George B. Gilbert's work with the...
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4413
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Consists of several brief notes written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, mostly relating to social engagements, and manuscript copies of verses "Reichthum und Blute," and "Der Gute Schenke Spricht," which notes that it is a translation from the...
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Mistral, Frédéric, 1830-1914
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4550
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Nine letters and three manuscript poems by French poet Federic Mistral, along with an autograph manuscript signed Lou Cascarelet, a pseudonym used by Mistral, Joseph Roumanille, Anselme Mathieu, and other Provençal poets
Friedman, Phil, 1921-1988
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss-2004-019
.67 linear feet (2 boxes)
Philburn (Phil) Friedman (1921-1988) was an American stage manager. Friedman managed numerous Broadway and West Coast theater productions, many of them musicals, including Kismet (1953), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961),...
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Morris, George Pope, 1802-1864
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4556
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Letters and poems of American editor, poet, and songwriter, George Pope Morris. Letters relate chiefly to a falling out between Morris and James Watson Webb, and to the business of publishing. An emended manuscript draft of his poem "The...
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Pérez Bonalde, Juan Antonio, 1846-1892
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4577
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde (1846-1892) was a Venezuelan translator and poet. Letters in the collection date between 1879 and 1888 and relate both to his poetry and his work as a translator. Several manuscript poems are also present. In Spanish,...
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Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 1790-1867
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4433
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
The collection consists mainly of letters, generally social in nature, from American poet and satirist Fitz-Greene Halleck to various parties including his sister, Maria, and newspaper editor and politician Theophilus Carey Callicot. Also present...
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Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4440
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
A small quantity of letters and manuscript material by American author Bret Harte, as well as a document generated in his capacity as United States Consul in Glasgow, Scotland. Material includes holograph copies of his poems "Truthful James to the...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4452
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
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...
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Longfellow, Henry W. (Henry Wadsworth), 1895-1986
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4527
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
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...
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McElhenny, H. H.
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4533
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Two manuscript poems with annotations by H. H. McElhenny: "New York City Lunatic Asylum" and "The Union Volunteer."
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1865-1940
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4531
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Collection consists chiefly of thirty-three letters from American soldier and politician George B. McClellan to New Jersey politician Theodore Frelinghuysen Randolph, 1869 to 1880, relating to mining interest and New Jersey politics; and several...
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4636
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Several brief letters and autographs of American abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a draft of a letter to the editor of the [New York?] Tribune regarding life in Florida dated February 8, 1877. Also includes a copy of the poem...
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Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4623
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Lydia Huntley Sigourney, born Lydia Howard Huntley, was a 19th century American poet and educator. Her letters discuss social engagements; the education of young ladies in Connecticut; books of interest or purchased; and matters relating to the...
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Sugden, Thomas D. (Thomas Dodgson), -1923
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3828
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Letters to engraver Thomas Dodgson Sugden of Bridgewater, Connecticut, from librarians, art organizations, historical societies, and artists pertaining to wood engraving; and a notebook, 1895, in which Sugden has gathered "the many notes on...
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Taylor, Joseph F.
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4640
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Letters to and from publisher Joseph F. Taylor concerning J. F. Taylor &Company and related business matters; professional and social engagements; and a manuscript copy of the poem "American for Me" by Henry Van Dyke in Van Dyke's hand,...
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Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3876
.21 linear feet (1 box)
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, and travel writer. His papers consist chiefly of letters and travel essays written to the New York Tribune between October 1856 and December 1857 while on his extensive...
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Ford, Emily Ellsworth (Fowler), 1826-1893
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1038
6.34 linear feet (16 boxes)
Emily Ellsworth (Fowler) Ford was an educated nineteenth-century women who wrote prolifically from adolescence until her death in 1893. Her work was published in a variety of contemporary literary journals, magazines, and newspapers. She was the...
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Pech, James, b. 1830
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2362
.21 linear feet (1 volume)
Manuscript copy of Fugitive Lays of Love and Friendship, 1866, by James Pech, Doctor of Music at New College, Oxford
Parrott, John Horton
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 2344
.21 linear feet (1 volume)
Volume of manuscript poems by John Horton Parrott of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Most of the poems were written in 1904 "during an interval of enforced leisure", though a few date as early as 1893. Includes letters from the author
Whipper, Leigh R. (Leigh Rollin), 1877-1975
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 47
Correspondence, plays, poems, sketches, and song lyrics by Whipper and others, including a musical comedy by Whipper and Porter Grainger entitled "We's Risin': A Story of the Simple Life in the Souls of Black Folk." Majority of the correspondence...
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Davis, John P. (John Preston), 1905-1973
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc Micro R-5858
Writings and research files, along with personal papers, and corrrespondence documenting Davis' multifaceted career, 1923-1972. Includes material on the AMERICAN NEGRO REFERENCE BOOK, 1966, edited by Davis; papers relating to Frederick Douglass,...
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Canning, Joseph C
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 467
.13 linear feet (1 volume)
Journal of Joseph C. Canning covers his period of service as Acting Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy, aboard the U.S.S. Cambridge on blockade duty off the Virginia and Carolina coasts and on duty off the New England coast, 1861-1864; aboard...
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Herwegh, Georg, 1817-1875
Music Division | JOB 91-42
1 item
Georg Herwegh, a German poet, was a friend of composer Richard Wagner. Clipping of a poem which deals humorously with Wagner's Munich experiences. The former owner Mrs. Burrell dates it as of 1865. The article, in an unidentified publication,...
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Bieber, Albert A. (Albert Aloysius), 1888-
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 298
.25 linear feet (1 box)
Albert Aloysius Bieber was a book dealer located successively in New York City, West Hoboken, Jersey City, and Manasquan, New Jersey. These papers include letters from customers (including bibliographers, collectors, authors, college professors,...
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Winter, William, 1836-1917
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 3361
.52 linear feet (1 box, 1 volume)
This collection holds papers of the American poet and critic William Winter, with correspondence, manuscript poems, a biographical sketch by his son, Jefferson Winter, and a printed catalogue from the sale of his library and effects after death....
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Fritsch, Bianca
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 1086
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Diary of Bianca Fritsch, Jan. 1-20, 1892, probably kept while training to be a nurse; also two notebooks of poems by Goethe, Hebbel, Rükert, and others. In German
White, David H., 1945-
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 18072
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
Notebook, presumed to belong to David Henry White, containing 83 doggerel poems in which are embedded names, addresses, and cities of the friends of the writer and compiler of the notebook. Poems contain commentary on political and social issues...
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Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 4540
.2 linear feet (2 folders)
Mainly consists of letters written by Masters between 1928-1936 to "Harry." Most are on stationery from the Hotel Chelsea, and many use the pseudonyms Lute Puckett and Dr. Lucius Atherton. also included are a typescript of his sonnet series "The...
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