Manuscripts

Jewett, Sarah Orne. Proof sheets for Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

Description: 4 pages.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911
Call number: mssFI 5637
Creator: Fields, James Thomas (1817-1881)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, July 1922.; Gift of Boylston Beal, 1934 and 1936.; Purchased from Autograph Alcove, May 1989.; Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Bole, Jr., 1978 and 1986.; purchased from Autograph Alcove, May 1989.
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4. Clark, Mary Victoria (Novello) Cowden-. 3 volumes of printed poems, one of which contains a ms. inscription to Sarah Orne Jewett

Manuscripts

This collection of papers of James Thomas Fields and Annie Adams Fields consists of notebooks and loose papers containing their poetry, essays, notes for speeches, a few scattered diary entries, and memoranda. Also included are letters to and from the Fieldses, as well as a group of letters from James Fields to Annie. Complementing the fully-catalogued Fields papers, these personal papers of James and Annie Fields comprising the addenda contain anecdotes and references to some of the literary figures represented in the main body of the Fields papers. Some notable correspondents in this collection are Booker T. Washington and John Greenleaf Whittier. There is also a photograph of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett now in the Colby College Library

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Mary Todd Lincoln, Marienbad, letter to Sally Orne

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Mary Todd Lincoln, Chicago, letter to Sally Orne

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Mary Todd Lincoln, Frankfurt, Germany, letter to Sally Orne

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The Hogarth-Fields Letters

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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Jewett, Sarah Orne. Proof sheets for Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett

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