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William Sams papers
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William Sams papers
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A collection of letters addressed to William Sams from artists, writers, actors, playwrights, composers, and singers; some of the letters include short poems and envelopes. The letters are written by, among others, John B. Buckstone, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, John Pritt Harley, Charles Kean, Ellen Kean, Mary Keeley, Robert Keeley, Dame Madge Kendal, Thomas Landseer, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron, Charles Mathews, Sarah Jane Mellon, John Everett Millais, James Robinson Planché, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
mssHM 15984-16052
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay letter to Charles Knight
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A.L.S. from Thomas Babington Macaulay, to Charles Knight, concerning Macaulay's decision to cease writing for Knight's Quarterly Magazine; letter published in Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Vol. 1, page 189.
mssHM 80325
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William Dean Howells papers
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The collection consists primarily of letters from William Dean Howells to the following correspondents: Sylvester Baxter, William Henry Bishop, Charles Eliot Norton, William Henry Rideing, and Charles Warren Stoddard. The collection also contains one poem by William Dean Howells, one letter from Elinor Mead Howells, and two letters from Mildred Howells to Sylvester Baxter and Charles Warren Stoddard.
mssHM 41383-41535
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Fanny Kemble Papers
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The collection consists of manuscript poems, documents, and correspondence by and related to English actor and author Fanny Kemble. Correspondents include: Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, Charles John Kean, John Mitchell Kemble, John Poole, Adelaide Kemble Sartoris, and Charles Mayne Young. Manuscript include: Kemble, Frances Anne - poems: Autumn - written after a ride by the Schuylkill (HM 45058) "Silence - instead of thy sweet song my Bird" (HM 45059) Lines Written by the Sea Side (HM 45060) Morning by the Sea (HM 45060) To Shakespeare (HM 45060) Written at Trenton (last ten lines only, HM 45061) Documents include: Kemble, Frances Anne: Ticket of admission for Readings from Shakespeare for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [1849] (HM 45062) Correspondence (notable persons and those represented by 3 or more pieces): Coutts, Angela Georgina (Baroness Burdett-Coutts): 3 pieces, 1858-1872, to Mary Harness; 1 piece, 1867, Mar. 26, to William Harness Kean, Charles John: 3 pieces, 1842-1857, to William Harness Kean, Ellen (Tree): 1 piece, 1866, June 5, to William Harness Kean, Mary (Chambers): 1 piece, 1840, Dec. 9, to Mary Harness Kemble, Frances Anne 6 pieces, 1858-before 1893, to [Unidentified] 1 piece, 1858, Dec. 25, to Bellows 2 pieces, 1869-1877, to Ellen M. Camac 1 piece, 1884, Mar. 3, to Frances Power Cobbe 1 piece, 1853, July 28, to Anna (Shaw) Curtis 3 pieces, 1857-1858, to George William Curtis 15 pieces, 1877-1889, to Blanche Donne 2 pieces, 1877, to Valentia Donne 2 pieces, 1858-1862, to William Bodham Donne 1 piece, 1853, Dec. 25, to Mrs. Filsbee 1 piece, 1844, Apr. 27, to James H. Hackett 5 pieces, 1841-1879, to Mary Harness 25 pieces, 1863-1892, to Polly Hogge 1 piece, 1876, June 20, to William Dean Howells 1 piece, 1865, to Miss Mitchell 1 piece, 1869, to T. B. Pugh 4 pieces, 1862, to Dora Sedgwick 1 piece, 1849, Feb. 8, to George H. Whitney Kemble, Harry: 1 piece, 1859, Jan. 31, to Mary Harness Kemble, John Mitchell: 1 piece, 1840, to William Harness Poole, John: 1 piece, 1856, Apr. 18, to William Harness Sartoris, Adelaide (Kemble): 3 pieces, 1873->1879, to Mary Harness Sartoris, Edward John: 2 pieces, 1873->1879, to Mary Harness Young, Charles Mayne: 1 piece, 1824, Dec. 23, to Charles Kemble
mssHM 45049-45144
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Charles William Watts papers
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A collection of 91 items from 1897 to 1963, which consists chiefly of letters written by Charles William Watts to his wife and daughter between 1897 and 1900. The letters are written from Alaska, including Juneau, Sheep Camp, Skagway, the Yukon River Valley, Dawson, and the Klondike River Valley. Watts's letters describe the Klondike gold rush and life in Alaska and in the Yukon. The collection also contains a photograph of Charles William Watts with a group of hunters and various clippings. There are also a few letters and notes written in 1963 by Lee Rohrbough.
mssHM 48341-48427
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William Williams papers
Manuscripts
Personal and business papers of William Williams, chiefly his correspondence with his father-in-law and his brothers-in-law Henry Huntington, Jr. (1813-1854), and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington (1816-1882). Also included are a few letters from Benjamin Nicoll Huntington to his mother, Catherine M. Haven Huntington.
mssHM 46555-46670