Manuscripts

Henry Mills Alden letter to William Dean Howells

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1896 April 24.
Call number: mssHM 7452
Creator: Alden, Henry Mills (1836-1919)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown, [date of acquisition not identified].
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William Dean Howells letters

Manuscripts

This group of letters includes one letter by John Mead Howells and twenty letters by William Dean Howells

mssHM 54970-54990

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Personal journal that Charles Henry Alden kept while onboard of the Delaware. The journal, intended for his wife, consists of detalied and vivid accounts of the Delaware's voyages in South America and the Mediterranean, complete with watercolor and pencil illustrations, samples of the ship's logs, index and appendix consisting of clippings of Alden's newspaper articles. The manuscript opens with Alden's letter to his wife that recaps the events between his leaving home and the Delaware's departure for South America, followed by a copy of the letter from the Delaware officers to the departing Secretary of the Navy George Edmund Badger (Sep. 1841), an account of the day in port at Hampton Roads, and the detailed, illustrated description of the Delaware. The journal proper begins on p. 115. The entries include accounts of the life onboard; marine wildlife, encounters with other ships; an arrest of a slaver by the British Navy, sketches of South American landscape, sights, and peoples, including slaves; descriptions of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, including Alden's take on the revolution in Brazil, the battle of Arroyo Grande, and events leading to the Guerra Grande in Uruquay; and accounts of the Mediterranean, including Portugal, Spain, Minorca, and Italy.

mssHM 46321

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William Dean Howells papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists primarily of letters from William Dean Howells to the following correspondents: Sylvester Baxter, William Henry Bishop, Charles Eliot Norton, William Henry Rideing, and Charles Warren Stoddard. The collection also contains one poem by William Dean Howells, one letter from Elinor Mead Howells, and two letters from Mildred Howells to Sylvester Baxter and Charles Warren Stoddard.

mssHM 41383-41535

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Life in letters of William Dean Howells

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401563

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mssHM 20277

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A study of death / Henry Mills Alden

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Henry Mills Alden letter to William Dean Howells

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