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Manuscripts
Charles Warren Stoddard Collection
- Description
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.
- Date
- 1868-1908 and undated
- Call number
- mssHM 38486-HM 38513
- Provenance
- Purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, October 1963.
- Associated people
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, (1836-1907.)
- Amber, (1844-1896,)
- Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, (1835-1910,)
- Coolbrith, Ina D. (1841-1928,)
- Dwight, Theodore F., (approximately 1848-1917,)
- Rosenthal, Toby Edward, (1841-1887,)
- Sill, Edward Rowland, (1875-1928,)
- Walsh, Thomas,
