Manuscripts

1888-1890

Description: A collection of 218 items covering the years 1776 to 1895, which consists primarily of letters from publishers regarding Cheney's writings, especially his poetry, and letters from literary associates. Correspondents include: Ina Donna Coolbrith, Richard Watson Gilder, Edwin Markham, Joaquin Miller, Adolph Sutro, and Edmund Clarence Stedman. There is also one letter by Daniel Webster written shortly before his death. Several letters also deal with the Oakland Public Library and San Francisco Free Library.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1776-1895.
Call number: mssCH
Creator: Cheney, John Vance (1848-1922)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Dawson's Book Shop, 1952.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

John Vance Cheney papers

Manuscripts

A collection of 218 items covering the years 1776-1895, which consists primarily of letters from publishers regarding Cheney's writings, especially his poetry, and letters from literary associates. Correspondents include: Ina Donna Coolbrith, Richard Watson Gilder, Edwin Markham, Joaquin Miller, Adolph Sutro, and Edmund Clarence Stedman. There is also one letter by Daniel Webster written shortly before his death. Several letters also deal with the Oakland Public Library and San Francisco Free Library.

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1891-1895

Manuscripts

A collection of 218 items covering the years 1776 to 1895, which consists primarily of letters from publishers regarding Cheney's writings, especially his poetry, and letters from literary associates. Correspondents include: Ina Donna Coolbrith, Richard Watson Gilder, Edwin Markham, Joaquin Miller, Adolph Sutro, and Edmund Clarence Stedman. There is also one letter by Daniel Webster written shortly before his death. Several letters also deal with the Oakland Public Library and San Francisco Free Library.

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1776-1887

Manuscripts

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Charles Augustus Keeler papers

Manuscripts

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, Yoné 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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Manuscripts

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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Literary manuscripts

Manuscripts

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.

mssKeeler

1888-1890

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