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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National Monuments: a sonnet

Manuscripts

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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Jack London letter to Richard Watson Gilder

Manuscripts

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 :

Manuscripts

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

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Henri Coulette interviews with poets, correspondence, and manuscripts

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Collection of 14 CDs, 5 letters, and 2 manuscripts of interviews with poets, correspondence, and letters. In 1970, Henri Coulette interviewed fourteen American poets; these interviews have been migrated to compact discs (mssHM 83713-82726). Also included is a memorial essay about Henri Coulette written by Robert Dana ([Apr. 20, 1988], mssHM 83727); two letters by Zbignew Herbert (1969, mssHM 83728-83729); two letters and a poem by Donald Justice (1969-1970, mssHM 83730-83731); and one letter by W.D. Snodgrass (1968, mssHM 83732). All material is in excellent condition.

mssHM 83713-83732

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On the Erection of a Statue in Honor of Oliver Cromwell : an essay

Manuscripts

Also includes a letter to Jane Welsh Carlyle (mssHM 34577) and a letter from James Carlyle (mssHM 34578).

mssHM 34577-34579

A Leaf of Spearmint: short story

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