Manuscripts

A Leaf of Spearmint: short story

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Description: Includes letter to the Editor of the Century Magazine (mssHM 22220).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1895.
Call number: mssHM 1274
Creator: Van Dyke, Henry (1852-1933)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Anderson Galleries sale, lot 1004, February 1920.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Includes letter to the printer (mssHM 22219).

mssHM 1272

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Letter to "Editor: Boston Post", 1890 March 8 (mssHM 35549). Letter to Chandler, 1896 August 8 (mssHM 35550). Letter to Henry Holt, 1908 February 19 (mssHM 35551). Letter to The New York Independent, 1909 July 30 (mssHM 35552). Letter to Laurens, 1900 October 29 (mssHM 35553). Letters to Susan Hayes Ward, 1893-1900 (mssHM 35554-35598). Letters to William Hayes Ward, 1890-1894 (mssHM 35599-35601).

mssHM 35549-35601

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O. Henry letters to Herman P. Pressler

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A group of material in one oversize blue clam shell folder related to O. Henry, the pseudonym of William Sydney Porter. The label on the folder has the title: "An Unpublished Chapter in O. Henry's Life, 1896-1897." The material includes letters from O. Henry to Pressler, letter from Herman Pressler to Dear Sir, 1921 (mssHM 12006), financial documents (mssHM 12013-12017), letter from R. M. Johnston to Herman Pressler (mssHM 12018), a letter from the Houston Daily Post to Herman Pressler (mssHM 12019), and a telegram (mssHM 12020).

mssHM 12006-12020

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Notes on Living Writers -- Robert Chambers

Manuscripts

Also enclosed: letter from John Wilson to the editor of the Manchester Examiner, March 17, 1852 (mssHM 22226).

mssHM 156

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Jack London letter to Richard Watson Gilder

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In this typed letter to The Century Magazine editor Richard Watson Gilder, London is discussing a possible short story for the magazine.

mssHM 83416

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The common sense of civil service reform :

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Open letter to the editor of Century Magazine written while Roosevelt was a commissioner on the U.S. Civil Service Commission in Washington, D.C. and signed by him. He discusses federal appointments during the Benjamin Harrison administration, in particular those of Southern white Democrats and Black Republicans; he also highlights the benefits of the civil service reform law for the government and for employees and contrasts them with the old patronage system. The letter is bound in a leather volume and includes a title page and portrait of Roosevelt. Written on United States Civil Service Commission letterhead. Published in Century Magazine, May 1894.

mssHM 6011

A Leaf of Spearmint: short story

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