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John Vance Cheney papers, (bulk 1885-1895)
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Charles Augustus Keeler papers
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A collection of approximately 1,700 items from 1895 to 1944; it consists of personal, business, and literary papers, notebooks, a scrapbook, and ephemera. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Gertrude Franklin Atherton, Mary Hunter Austin, Francis F. Browne, Luther Burbank, John Burroughs, Gelett Burgess, Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Ina Donna Coolbrith, Mary Mapes Dodge, Mary Hallock Foote, Richard Watson Gilder, Herbert Hoover, Julia Ward Howe, James H. Hyslop, George Wharton James, David Starr Jordan, Joseph LeConte, Jack London, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Edwin Markham, Bailey Millard, John Muir, Yoň Noguchi, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Horace Elisha Scudder, Lucy Poate Stebbins, George Sterling, Charles Warren Stoddard, Sun Yat-Sen, Bayard Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.
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Sarah Hughes Cornell papers
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The collection contains letters addressed to Sarah Hughes Cornell as well as several addressed to Edwin Emerson (1869-1959), a war correspondent and editor, and his wife, Mary Edith Emerson. The collection also contains news clippings, photographs and a scrapbook. Most of the correspondents were also American authors or editors, including Ina Donna Coolbrith, Forrestine Cooper Hooker, George Wharton James, and Lincoln Stephens.
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John Hay letters to editors
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Letters to editors of publisher The Century Company, primarily Richard Watson Gilder and Clarence Clough Buel, regarding the publication of Abraham Lincoln: A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, 1890.
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Ina D. Coolbrith papers
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The collection consists of correspondence and the personal papers of California poet Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841-1928). The materials primarily date after 1906, as many of her manuscripts and mementos were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco fire. The papers include letters from personal friends about her health, birthday greetings, etc., fan letters from readers and admirers, requests for her poems and for permission to use them, materials related the publication of her writings, material related to lecturer and editor George W. James and the Coolbrith Home Fund, and materials concerning the Congress of Authors in San Francisco (1915), including letters from numerous authors in response to her invitation to attend the event. There are also a few occasional references to poetry in American for the period of 1906 to 1925. Unfortunately the present collection contains little of importance bearing on Coolbrith's relation with such literary figures as Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, or George Sterling. There are two boxes of ephemera at the end of the collection. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Gertrude Atherton (12 pieces), Albert M. Bender (3 pieces), Amanda (Mathews) Chase (3 pieces), Ina Coolbrith (19 pieces), Bio (Terrill) DeCasseres (3 pieces), Iza Duffus Hardy (14 pieces), George Wharton James (26 pieces), Charles Meeker Kozlay (3 pieces), Charles Fletcher Lummis (7 pieces), Edwin Markham (8 pieces), Edward F. O'Day (5 pieces), James D. Phelan (4 pieces), Charles Phillips (11 pieces), Don Carlos Pickett (6 pieces), Herman George Scheffauer (4 pieces), and Edmund Clarence Stedman (7 pieces).Some notable letters include two November 1926 letters from Albert M. Bender concerning George Sterling's death; an August 21, 1912 letter from Amanada (Matthews) Chase describing a visit to Katharine (Tynan) Hinkson; a February 9, 1912, letter from Ina Coolbrith to George Wharton James mentioning "I told you Harte did not like Joaquin & that we disagreed with regard to his talent ...", as well as another February 9, 1912, letter from Coolbrith to Laurie Haynes Martin regarding Bret Harte's career; a September 22, 1921, letter from George H. Himes, telling of printing a book for Joaquin Miller in 1868; correspondence from George Wharton James regarding the Coolbrith Home Fund; and "Five Quatrains for my friend, Henry Meade Bland" by Edwin Markham (June 1, 1918).
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John Milton Hay letters to the editors of the Century magazine
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Hay's letters to Richard Watson Gilder and Clarence Clough Buel concerning the progress of his history of Lincoln; editorial changes, problems with of publishing, and his reminiscences of his work at the Lincoln's White House
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Gerald John Kane collection
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A collection which consists of approximately 12,500 items; it includes letters, documents, account books, and business records collected by Gerald John Kane related to the history of Nevada (1839-1952). The collection includes material about mining companies, business firms, land, railroads, stage lines, and politics, centering around Austin, Virginia City, Nye County, Ormsby County, Goldfield, Dayton, and Lander County, Nevada. Additionally, there is material about Adolph Sutro and the Sutro Tunnel Company; miscellaneous papers related to land and mining in California and Arizona; Army records of Archie W. Barrie and photographs from the Philippine Islands; and volumes related to taxation in Utah.
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