Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Letter of Maria White (Mrs. James Russell) Lowell to Sophia (Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
A collection of correspondence and manuscripts written by James Russell Lowell, including essays, poems, and short stories; included is an essay on Herbert Spencer, the poems "In Far Japan" and "At the Exhibition," and a short story, "Uncle Cobus's Story." The collection also includes two forgeries, the poems "And again to the child..." and "Zekle crep' up quite unknown." The correspondence includes letters to and from James T. Fields, John Fiske, William Leonard Gage, Arthur Gilman, George W. Smalley, George Ticknor, and John Greenleaf Whittier. A number of the manuscripts and letters are window mounted on pages removed from albums, some letters with envelopes.
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