Manuscripts

Collection of letters and manuscripts by composers and poets

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1811-1894.
Call number: mssHM 45663-45668
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of October 1978.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Bennett, Sanford Fillmore, (1836-1898.); Key, Francis Scott, (1779-1843.); Newman, John Henry, (1801-1890.); Payne, John Howard, (1791-1852.); Randall, James Ryder, (1839-1908.)

American poets manuscripts binding

Manuscripts

mssHM 1216-1246, 21958

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American poets manuscripts table of contents

Manuscripts

Typescript list of poets and their poems which were formerly bound in the volume prior to July 1997. The last page notes two additional poems, handwritten in pencil.

mssHM 1216-1246

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Manuscripts: Composer

Manuscripts

The collection consists of the papers of Elizabeth Boynton Harbert. Chiefly correspondence, the collection also contains manuscripts (including diaries, address books of woman suffrage workers, poetry and music), printed matter and ephemera, large scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, some photographs, and an extensive collection of pamphlets and broadsides on the topic of woman suffrage.

mssHarbert

Psalter, with collects : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-188v; ff. 189-194v blank. [Psalter]. Latin. Biblical psalter, each psalm proceded by a titulus and followed by collects (here "oratio"); the collects generally agree with the Roman series, except for 12 of the Hispanic series and 27 not precisely identified; collect R74 is copied twice, after Pss. 73 and 74; the collect after Ps. 118, 96 is R11811; after Ps. 118, 153 there are 4 collects. See L. Brou, The Psalter Collects. HBS 83 (London 1949). On ff. 167-177v, canticles; on ff. 177v-181v, Gloria, Credo, Pater noster, Te deum, Quicumque vult; on ff. 181v-187, litany including Germanus, Nicholas and Louis among the confessors; Benedict, Maurus, Placidus, Onuphrius and Leonard among the monks and hermits; Scholastica among the virgins; on ff. 187-188v, added, s. XVII, an index in Italian of the psalms for the office of the Virgin arranged according to the hours of the office, and index of the penitential and gradual psalms with reference to page numbers added to the text leaves by the same person.

mssHM 1041

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Manuscripts: Poet

Manuscripts

mssHarbert

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Henri Coulette interviews with poets, correspondence, and manuscripts

Manuscripts

Collection of 14 CDs, 5 letters, and 2 manuscripts of interviews with poets, correspondence, and letters. In 1970, Henri Coulette interviewed fourteen American poets; these interviews have been migrated to compact discs (mssHM 83713-82726). Also included is a memorial essay about Henri Coulette written by Robert Dana ([Apr. 20, 1988], mssHM 83727); two letters by Zbignew Herbert (1969, mssHM 83728-83729); two letters and a poem by Donald Justice (1969-1970, mssHM 83730-83731); and one letter by W.D. Snodgrass (1968, mssHM 83732). All material is in excellent condition.

mssHM 83713-83732

Collection of letters and manuscripts by composers and poets

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