Found 5 collections related to Autographs (manuscripts)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, poet, and critic best known for his Gothic horror short stories, such as "The Tell-Tale Heart," and poems, including "The Raven." "The Rationale of Verse," dated circa 1846, consists of one page of thirty-four lines of poetics. less

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a 19th-century American poet, essayist, and journalist. The Walt Whitman manuscripts, dating from circa 1874 to 1892, comprise two autograph manuscript poems, "A Thought of Columbus" and "Come, said my Soul," and an autograph envelope. less

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, poet, and critic best known for his Gothic horror short stories, such as "The Tell-Tale Heart," and poems, including "The Raven." "To Zante," dated November 6, 1840, consists of an autograph manuscript that is part of a letter. less

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) was an American writer, humorist, and literary and social critic who wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain. Olivia Susan "Susy" Clemens (1872-1896) was Samuel Clemens's eldest daughter. "In Memory of Olivia Susan Clemens, 1872-1896" consists of a biographical autograph manuscript by Samuel Clemens about Susy Clemens and an envelope. less

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) was an American poet, writer, physician, and professor who was part of the New England-based writers group called the Fireside Poets. "The Chambered Nautilus" autograph manuscript fragment, dated November 30, 1886, consists of the last stanza of Wendell's poem, along with his signature and location. less