Found 55 collections related to Poems

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, librarians, and members of the Order of Bookfellows) written between 1915 and 1934, as well as a collection Bieber assembled of verses of "minor" American poets in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, dated 1768-1933 less

The Beeks family papers consist mainly of personal correspondence. Also included are manuscripts, a commonplace book, a few photographs, and other personal miscellany. The bulk of the material dates between 1899-1928, and includes a letterpress copybook documenting the law practice of James Beeks between 1899-1901; correspondence written to his wife, Sarah Jane Brackinridge Beeks during his business trip to Cuba in 1902; and the correspondence of his eldest son, Edward Beeks, while living in Shanghai from 1911-1928. Other correspondents include Beeks' children McCary W. Beeks, Gertrude Beeks Easley, Helen Beeks Lounsbury, and various members of the extended family less

Collection consists of correspondence, dispatches, writings by Bancroft and others, legal papers and accounts, clippings, notes, photographs, and research materials. General correspondence, 1823-1890, contains Bancroft's correspondence, 1847-1849, as U.S. Minister to Great Britain with Cave Johnson, Postmaster-General of the U.S., concerning postal communications and postal treaties with Great Britain; correspondence, 1863-1889, of Bancroft and J. Dickinson Logan, with the librarian and historian, George Moore, on historiographical matters; correspondence, 1887, with J.G. Harris relating to the presidency of James K. Polk; and general correspondence with other political figures. There are also dispatches of the U.S. legations at London, 1847-1849, and Berlin, 1867-1870, reflecting Bancroft's tenure as U.S. Minister to Great Britain and Germany. The bulk of the other papers concerns Bancroft's writings and includes some poetry, articles, addresses and notes, drafts, proofs, and various printed editions of History of the United States and writings about John Adams and Martin Van Buren. There are also a few photographs, clippings, book catalogs and lists, lists of source material in European archives, some legal papers and accounts, notes taken at Göttingen University, transcriptions of rare books, and materials relating to the San Juan water boundary dispute between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1872. less

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 the U.S.S. Mohican on active duty off the Virginia and Carolina coasts during campaigns of Forts Fisher and McAllister, and the final campaigns of the American Civil War, 1864-1865; and aboard the U.S. Ironclad Shawnee off the New England coast, 1865. Includes original poems, several manuscript orders of Confederate officers W. Lamb and D.T. Millard, many clippings on the Civil War and death of President Garfield. Index to principal events is included less

William Steele (1762-1851) and his wife Mary Dayton Steele (1769-1834) resided with their family in New Jersey and later moved to upstate New York. William Steele was born in New York City and served in the Revolutionary War. In 1791 he married Mary Dayton, daughter of physician Jonathan Dayton (1731-1778) of Springfield, New Jersey. The Steele family moved from New Jersey to Painted Post, Steuben County, New York in 1819. William Steele died in Big Flats, Chemung County, New York in 1851. An album of original verse by William Steele (1762-1851), inspired by incidents of personal and family life, life events, and celebrations, as well as local, historical and political events. Dated poems span 1781-1850, with earlier poems noting the locations of Springfield and other places in New Jersey, and later poems noting the locations of Painted Post and Big Flats, both near Corning, New York. Poems marking births, marriages and deaths provide genealogical information on members of the Steele, Dayton, Salter and Winans families, and other individuals. A note by William Steele pasted inside the front cover states that the poems have been transcribed for the pleasure of his family and friends. A "Genealogy of the Steele Family of Springfield, N.J.," compiled from the poems at a later date, is pasted inside the back cover. Also present is a 12-page pamphlet, "Elegy on the Rt. Honorable William Pitt, late Earl of Chatham on his accepting a peerage" (Boston, 1808; Shaw & Shoemaker 14692), and a few research notes. less

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. Correspondence includes letters to and from actors, journalists, and literary friends, mainly about drama in New York and London less

Theresa Bernstein (1890-2002) was an artist and writer known for her cityscape paintings of New York City. The Theresa Bernstein letters to the Futransky family (1958-1991) consists of 59 letters from Theresa Bernstein to the family written during the years as well as exhibition materials and poetry composed by Bernstein. less

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 of the day. The writer appears to have been an ardent Republican and abolitionist and to have taught at a school for Black children in Richmond, Va. some time after the Civil War. Some notations in the book are in a shorthand or code less

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 Return;" a draft of a poem written under the pseudonym Lute Puckett dedicated "to the late William Jennings Bryan;" photographs; clippings and memorabilia less

William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) was a Unitarian theologian. His nephew, also named William Ellery Channing (1817-1901), was a poet and biographer of Henry Thoreau. The collection contains outgoing letters from both Channing the clergyman, and his nephew, the poet. Also included are drafts of poems by the younger Channing, and ephemera relating to a centennial concert given at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in honor of the elder Channing less

Willis Gaylord Clark (1808-1841) was an American poet, and the twin brother of editor Lewis Gaylord Clark. Willis Gaylord Clark (1808-1841) was an American poet, and the twin brother of editor Lewis Gaylord Clark. The papers consist predominantly of outgoing letters from Clark to various friends and colleagues. Also included is a calling card, a promissory note, and an emended draft of his poem A Changeful Picture for submission to the United States Literary Gazette less

One of twenty-five privately published copies of a memorial to the family dog, Fay, who died "of apoplexy" in Brooklyn in 1879. The volume contains a poem on the loss of Fay, and transcriptions of letters written about Fay and his death by his owner, Fred, and by Fred's father. The volume also contains manuscript drafts of the same, as well as two photographs of Fay with Fred less

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 Millionaire" is present, as are offprints of other poems. less

Collection includes original and transcribed letters and other material by English-American political theorist Thomas Paine. Original material includes a January 14, 1779, letter to Henry Laurens with an account of "monies rec'd since I have been in America," and a manuscript copy of the poem "Castle in the Air." Transcriptions include the Laurens letter, as well as an 1808 exchange between Paine and London Corresponding Society activist Thomas Hardy. less

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, Italian, and English. less

Velimir Khlebnikov manuscripts consist of five manuscript versions of the following published and unpublished poems: S utroboĭ medno︠i︡u (first line); Minin-nizhegorode︠t︡s (first line); O stroenii vremeni; Adam za adamom (first line); and Denʹ mirovogo Baĭrana (first line). less

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 are circular letters from 1868 soliciting friends, family, and associates for letters from Halleck to be published in a memorial volume. Manuscript material includes holographs of several poems. Engravings and autographs of Halleck are also present less

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 Editor," "Guild's Signal," and "Dickens in Camp;" an untitled manuscript; a partial draft of "Washington in New Jersey;" and an 1884 statement showing the principal imports to Glasgow from the United States less