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Thomas Starr King letter to J.H. Bragdon
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Thomas Starr King letter to Charles Warren Stoddard
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King sends his regrets that he will be unable to meet Stoddard, and hopes Stoddard will understand that King's hastily pencilled criticisms are a sign of King's high opinion of Stoddard's work: "It is because you have strong powers & good capacities that I speak of Blemishes for than excellences." With two bits of printed ephemera, one a clipping from an unknown source containing a short biography of Thomas Starr King.
mssHM 29246
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Thomas Starr King letter to "my dear Woodbury"
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Writing to the otherwise unnamed "Woodbury", King ponders over which of his previous lectures he ought to adapt for an upcoming speaking engagement.
mssHM 29247
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Malcolm King letter to Arthur Lee Kellogg
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In this letter to his nephew, addressed "Artie Kellogg, Esq.," Malcolm King thanks him for the letter he sent along with his "Auntie Emma's" and reminds him to take care of his "Papa and Mama." King also reminds that "if Lucy is there, don't let her eat too much melon." The letter is signed "your Uncle Malcolm."
mssHM 4280
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Stephen Mallory White letter to Lawrence F. Bower
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White informs Bower that he currently has no photograph, but one could be had from "Bell, the photographer of this city." On letterhead of the United States Senate. Typed letter, signed by hand. Includes clipping with photograph of White.
mssHM 21327
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King, Thomas Starr. Dedication
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This collection consists of an autograph album containing handwritten notes, letters, poems, and drawings by approximately 200 friends and acquaintances of American author Charles Warren Stoddard, including leading American literary figures, journalists, poets, critics, politicians, and actors of the late 19th century. Among the many notable contributors are Samuel Clemens, Bret Harte, and Joaquin Miller. The earliest item in the book is an 1863 dedication by Thomas Starr King, and continues with contributions primarily from members of San Francisco literary society beginning in the mid-to-late 1860s through the late 1890s, as well as from friends in other locales where Stoddard lived or traveled including Louisville, Kentucky; Washington, D.C.; Massachusetts; New York; and Hawaii. A letter from L.C. Bayles (page 23) introduces lines of verse with the note "in accordance with your request," reflecting Stoddard's curation of the album as a compendium of verse and personal sentiments tailored towards friendships and literary musings. The volume includes two photographs of groups of men and women, captioned, "Riverdale, N.Y., July 4th 1890" (page 116). There are manuscript poems and lines of verse, often penned specifically for Stoddard, from literary friends including Isaac Hull Adams; Daniel Dulany Addison; Benjamin Parke Avery; William Barry; Fred Buel; James F. Bowman; George Burrows; Carrie Carlton; Bliss Carman; Pierre Cauwet; Robert W. Chambers; Sarah M. Clarke; Ada Clare; Katherine E. Conway; Ina D. Coolbrith; R.M. Daggett; Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren; Malcolm Douglas; Theodore F. Dwight; Eugene Field; Hamlin Garland; Grace Greenwood; Bret Harte; Jerome Hart; John Hay; Charles Hinton; Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.; William Dean Howells; Daniel E. Hudson; Thomas A. Janvier; Tremenheere Johns; Ralph Keeler; George Kennan; Orpheus C. Kerr; Alice Kingsbury (Cooley); Rudyard Kipling; Emilie Lawson; James Linen; Fitz Hugh Ludlow; Adah Isaacs Menken; John Malone; Joaquin Miller; Morton Mitchell and Laddie Mitchell; James Whitcomb Riley; James Jeffrey Roche; Edgar Saltus; Richard Henry Savage; Emma D.E.N. Southworth; Frank Soulé; Bella Z. Spencer; Horatio Stebbins; Maria Longworth Storer (with sketches); J.D. Strong; M.D. Strong; H.A. Stuart; T.R. Sullivan; Bayard Taylor; Charles Wadsworth; Charles Henry Webb; May Wentworth; George Edward Woodberry; and R.C. Wyllie. Prose and letters from L.C. Bayles; Frederick Billings; Ezra S. Carr and his wife, Jeanne C. Smith Carr; Samuel Clemens; Laura Cuppy; G.B. Densmore; Annie Fields; Archibald C. Gunter; Francis King Harte; Louise E. Holden; Jules Luquiens; C.T.H. Palmer; Theodore Roosevelt; Anna Josephin Savage; Rodney L. Tabor; Charles A. Wetmore; Virgil M. Williams; and Thérèse Yelverton. Drawings include ones by Reginald B. Birch; John S. Bugbee; Arthur Lemon; G. Thomas; and Theodore Wores. There are also brief notes and/or signatures of individuals including Charles Francis Adams; Henry Adams; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Ada, Dyas; Louise Imogen Guiney; Iza Duffus Hardy; Clarence King; Francis D. Millet; Thomas Nelson Page; Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Dudley Warner; and Lydia Woodworth. The contents are handwritten on blank pages in an "Album" published by Leavitt & Allen, consisting of 241 pages including an engraved title page and frontispiece and [8] other engraved plates with illustrations by Creswick, W.H. Bartlett, W. Tombleson; J. Smillie and T. Addison Richards; engravings by J. Sartain; J. Bannister; Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Smillie; J. White; and C.T. Giles. Edges gilt.
mssHM 35075
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David Starr Jordan letter to [William Henry] Irwin
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Letter to congratulate Will Irwin on his Saturday Evening Post article, "Europe Today and Tomorrow." Jordan mentions that he is on a lecture tour speaking similarly about "the dynastic basis of war." Letter is on illustrated letterhead from the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington.
mssHM 29242