Manuscripts

The Youth of Mary Stuart: essay

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Description: With inlaid portraits of Longfellow, and Mary,Queen of Scots; also a printed copy of the essay.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1829-1834.
Call number: mssHM 10486
Creator: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William K. Bixby sale, 1918.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Bible Mary Queen of Scots Carried to the Block is Owned in St Louis: Priceless Book is in W. K. Bixby's Collection

Manuscripts

A newspaper article with colored illustrations; it was published in the Feature section of The St. Louis Republic about the Bible carried by Mary Queen of Scots as she was executed on February 8, 1587. The article describes the creation and history of the Bible and how it was obtained by William K. Bixby, a renowned St. Louis collector; the Bible was acquired by Henry E. Huntington through G. D. Smith in August 1918 and is cataloged as mssHM 1200.

mssHM 84408

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow letters to Bayard Taylor

Manuscripts

Also includes letters to Mary P. Thacher, Mrs. T. W. Higginson, and Charles A. Davis; and one poem.

mssHM 10474-10485

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow collection

Manuscripts

A collection of manuscripts, poems, and correspondence related to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The manuscripts include the lectures "Literature of the Middle Ages" and "Each day is a branch of the tree of life...;" the poems include "Autumnal Nightfall," "A Song of Savoy," and "Woods in Winter." The correspondence deals with Longfellow's poems and publishing, and some letters are in response to requests for his autograph. Correspondents include, among others, Francis Fauvel-Gouraud, Ferdinand Freiligrath, George Washington Greene, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, James Riley Osgood, Theophilus Parsons, Thomas Buchanan Read, William Winter, and Robert C. Winthrop.

mssLongfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow collection

Manuscripts

mssLongfellow

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[Emblematical drawing of Marie Stewart, wife of John Erskine, Earl of Mar] : [graphic]

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A pen and ink emblematical drawing of Marie Stewart (approximately 1582-1644), the wife of John Erskine, Earl of Mar, building a brick edifice, with dividers, measure rule and angle-iron; headed "Sapiens Mvlier Aedificat Domv[m]". Signed by Esther Inglis. A dedicatory verse in Latin by Inglis' husband, Bartholomew Kello, to John, Earl of Mar (1558-1634), is at the head of the drawing. Two verses to Marie Stewart, one in Latin and the other in French follow the drawing. The Latin verse is probably by Kello, the French verse is copied from the one accompanying this image in Montenay's Emblemes. There it applies to Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre. Inglis changes the word "Reine" to "Dame," referring to the Countess of Mar. The image and subject was previously misidentified as Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).

283000 v.5:111

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Love and Friendship : draft of an essay

Manuscripts

Manuscript (holograph) draft of an essay on "Love" and "Chastity and Sensuality." With two marginal annotations by F. B. Sanborn.

mssHM 13196

The Youth of Mary Stuart: essay

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