Edwin Booth to Dr. Hennessey note

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  Booth, Edwin. Note

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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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  Isaac Edwin Gates letters to Henry E. Huntington

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  Also: copy of letter from Arabella D. Huntington and Henry E. Huntington to Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, 1904 March 21; copies of letters by Huntington to Gates, 1904 March 26, May 5, 1905 December 23, 1906 January 18; letter from Gates to Huntington, 1905 December 15; printed notice and proxy form of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., 1907 April 12; letter from Charles M. Mapes to Gates, 1907 September 18. Subjects: Collis P. Huntington's estate.

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  Thoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's Spital sermon... : manuscript

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  Handwriten manuscript by William Godwin. Bound with a copy of the sale catalogue of Mr. Sotheby and Son, of Godwin's Library in 1836 and clipping of Lot 305A from the Forman sale in 1920.

  mssHM 43327

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  Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters) Stanton letter to Ogden Hoffman

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  Stanton writes to Hoffman "in respect to the publication of your decision." He also hopes Hoffman will soon have time for leisure upon finishing current land cases, and away from Washington, D.C.: "I mean in New York which after all next to San Francisco is the only place on the continent for a gentleman of leisure."

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  Edwin W. Clarke correspondence

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  Letters received by Edwin W. Clarke. Correspondents include: Dr. W. A. Clarke of Whitesboro, N.Y.; James Caleb Jackson, Starr Clark, Abel Brown, and Silas W. Brewster. The letters discuss meetings of various abolitionist societies in New York; the operations of the Underground Railroad, the Liberty Party, abolitionist press, etc.

  mssHM 27155-27170

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  Wallace Stevens postcard

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  This postcard contains an image of "Jamaica Rio Cobra Kanal" and is postmarked from Kingston, 1912, March 5. It is addressed to "Mr. Stevens" and contains the message "My best greetings." The signature is difficult to read and the author may be D. Vandenbosch (or Vanden Bosch).

  mssHM 79169