Manuscripts

Thomas Starr King letter to Charles Warren Stoddard

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1863, January 10.
Call number: mssHM 29246
Creator: King, Thomas Starr (1824-1864)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William Wreden, 1965, January 5.

Thomas Starr King letter to J.H. Bragdon

Manuscripts

King informs Bragdon that he has no available Tuesdays between November and March, so he must decline Bragdon's request. Letter is pasted to backing sheet with photograph of King and an unidentified woman. Also included with letter is a one-page printed clipping containing a short biography of King.

mssHM 29245

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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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Charles Warren Stoddard letters

Manuscripts

Collection of seven letters from Charles Warren Stoddard to theater figure Will Stuart (4 letters); illustrator W. W. Denslow (2 letters); and one unidentified friend chiefly discussing friends, writing projects, and literary topics.

mssHM 2979-2985

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Charles Warren Stoddard Collection

Manuscripts

This collection contains 10 manuscripts and 18 letters either written by or related to American author Charles Warren Stoddard. Manuscripts consist of poems by Stoddard, as well as a contemporary copy of a poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and two reminiscences by poet Ina D. Coolbrith about John Greenleaf Whittier and Bret Harte and Stoddard. Includes letters to Stoddard from Samuel Clemens (contemporary copy) "Amber" (Martha Everts Holden); Grace Keeler Machin; Alice Macleod; Toby Rosenthal; Edward Rowland Sill; Thomas Walsh; and Carrie Wyatt. There are also single images of Stoddard's friends Thérèse Yelverton and David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii, as well as two envelopes and two printed articles by Stoddard.

mssHM 38486-HM 38513

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Ina D. Coolbrith letters to Charles Warren Stoddard

Manuscripts

A collection of letters from poet Ina D. Coolbrith to her friend, writer Charles Warren Stoddard. The collection also includes a letter to Stoddard from Coolbrith and Albert Gerberding, a letter to Stoddard from Harrison Gurard, two poems and one folder of ephemera.

mssHM 38419-38485

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Ina D. Coolbrith letters to Charles Warren Stoddard

Manuscripts

mssHM 38419-38485

Thomas Starr King letter to Charles Warren Stoddard

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