Manuscripts

Correspondence: Beecher-Royce

Description: Correspondence between Mary Ward Beecher and Louis H.D. Crane; Mary's letters to her friends and relatives, a volume of her poetry, three sermons and poem by William Henry Beecher, miscellaneous letters, family photographs and ephemera.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1872-1888
Call number: mssBeecher
Creator: Beecher (Family)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs. C.H. Lanier, June 30, 1965.
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Beecher family papers

Manuscripts

Correspondence between Mary Ward Beecher and Louis H.D. Crane; Mary's letters to her friends and relatives, a volume of her poetry, three sermons and poem by William Henry Beecher, miscellaneous letters, family photographs and ephemera.

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Miscellaneous

Manuscripts

mssBeecher

Portraits of Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher

Manuscripts

Eight black and white printed portraits, one frontispiece of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and one portrait of Henry Ward Beecher.

mssHM 24162-24166

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

Primarily letters to Crane, George Gregg and Crane, Adeline Huntley

mssWhittier

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Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher correspondence (1860-1867)

Manuscripts

The collections consist primarily of letters from various American and British authors to James Fields, mostly relating to publication of their manuscripts by his firm Ticknor and Fields and in The Atlantic monthly. The collection, and especially the addenda, also includes letters to Annie Fields concerning literary matters. There are also poems, manuscripts, and correspondence by and about the following individuals: Thomas Aldrich, Charlotte Cushman, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jessie Benton Frémont, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom, Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (better known by her pen name Grace Greenwood), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helena Modjeska, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Booker T. Washington and John Greenleaf Whittier. The collection also contains essays, notes, speeches, notebooks, photographs, and articles. The collections chiefly deal with the activities of Ticknor and Fields, as well as Fields' and his wife's own literary efforts. The following authors are subjects in the collections: Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Milton and Percy Shelley. Presidential items in this collection include John Adams autograph bill for legal services to Thomas Pratt, 1767 October 14 (mssFI 5102) and two autograph letters signed from William H. Taft to Annie Adams Fields, 1914 February? and 1914 March 10 (mssFI 4098, mssFI 4099).

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Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher correspondence (1868-1884)-Sumner, Charles

Manuscripts

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Correspondence: Beecher-Royce

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