Manuscripts
Mary Mapes Dodge letters
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Mary Mapes Dodge letters
Manuscripts
The collection consists primarily of letters from Mary Mapes Dodge to Horace Elisha Scudder. There is also one letter in the collection from Mary Elizabeth Dodge to an individual identified as Webb.
mssHM 36105-36170
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Charles Augustus Keeler papers
Manuscripts
A collection of approximately 1,700 items from 1895 to 1944; it consists of personal, business, and literary papers, notebooks, a scrapbook, and ephemera. Correspondents represented in the collection include: Gertrude Franklin Atherton, Mary Hunter Austin, Francis F. Browne, Luther Burbank, John Burroughs, Gelett Burgess, Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Ina Donna Coolbrith, Mary Mapes Dodge, Mary Hallock Foote, Richard Watson Gilder, Herbert Hoover, Julia Ward Howe, James H. Hyslop, George Wharton James, David Starr Jordan, Joseph LeConte, Jack London, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Edwin Markham, Bailey Millard, John Muir, Yoň Noguchi, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Horace Elisha Scudder, Lucy Poate Stebbins, George Sterling, Charles Warren Stoddard, Sun Yat-Sen, Bayard Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.
mssKeeler
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Miss Dodge letter to Mr. Maltbie
Manuscripts
Intense letter about gynecology and women's medical issues, possibly including abortion, from a Miss Dodge in New York City to a Mr. Maltbie. Dodge's letter concerns her friend (Maltbie's female cousin) who is "in a state of despondency & distress". It appears that this cousin, Miss Boynton, is the victim of an inept obstetrician. Miss Dodge appeals to Maltbie to get proper medical car for Boynton. In a post-postscript, the letter contains a reference to gynecologist Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet (1828-1919), co-founder of the Women's Hospital of New York.
mssHM 82989
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Fred James Dodge papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 2,313 items from 1890 to 1938; it includes letters, documents and 116 photographs related to the activities of Wells, Fargo and Co., special agent Fred James Dodge. Subject matter includes nine criminal investigations in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana from 1893 to 1912. The photographs are of outlaws and others; the collection also includes lists of criminals, and twenty-three letters to and from John P. Clum, 1930 to 1932. There is also a small amount of Dodge's personal and business papers, reports, miscellaneous items and ephemera.
mssDodge
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley letters to Sir John Bowring
Manuscripts
A collection of letters written by Mary Shelley from 1817 to 1849. The majority of the letters are to her stepsister Clair Clairmont (1798-1879), but there are also several letters written to English poet Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) and his wife, Marianne Hunt (1788-1857), and one letter to English publisher and author Charles Ollier (1788-1859). There is a bound volume containing letters from Mary Shelley to British politician, writer, and literary translator Sir John Bowring, from 1828 to 1837, while he was editor of the Westminster Review.
mssHM 2759-2770
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Mary Alice Prentice Huntington letter to "My dear cousin,"
Manuscripts
This letter from Mary Alice Prentice Huntington to a cousin, written from Ross Valley, north of San Francisco, discusses her mother's poor health and a possible trip to India. She also encourages her cousin to visit her in San Francisco.
mssHM 84149