Manuscripts
Poe-Chivers papers
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Poe-Chivers papers
Manuscripts
A collection containing poems, manuscripts, and correspondence related to Thomas Holley Chivers and Edgar Allan Poe. There are 35 letters by Edgar Allan Poe to various correspondents and a large number of letters from Chivers to Poe. There are a few poems by Chivers, including "Hymn of Faith," "Noises of the Night," and "Lament for Shelley Lost at Sea," and a manuscript of "Life of Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Analysis; A Brief Summary of Poe's Birth, Life, and Death." The majority of the collection consists of letters regarding the Poe-Chivers controversy with various correspondents, including Maria Clemm, John Gierlow, Jedediah Hunt, Richard Malcom Johnston, William Gilmore Simms, and Sarah Helen Whitman.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Visual Materials
A daguerreotype of a daguerreotype portrait of author Edgar Allan Poe taken in the studio of photographer William A. Pratt in Richmond, Virginia, in September, 1849. Poe is seated, wearing coat, vest and loose tie, with his hand at his waist. Poe died weeks later on October 7, 1849, in Baltimore. This is a daguerreotype copy, laterally reversed, of the original daguerreotype, which is sometimes called the "Thompson" daguerreotype.
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Edgar Allan Poe, and, the Moon God: radio play
Manuscripts
The manuscript is the script for a radio play entitled "Edgar Allan Poe, and, the Moon God." It contains three acts.
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Theodore Van Soelen letters
Manuscripts
The collection consists of 180 letters from 1950 to 1963, from more than eighty persons to Theodore Van Soelen. The letters are from artists, writers, and prominent men in public life; the subject matter focuses on art, New Mexico government, and politics. Correspondents include: Paul Horgan, Peter Hurd, Tom Lea, Paul Manship, Edwin L. Mechem, Nicholas Roosevelt, Paul Sample, Allan Shivers, John F. Simms, Edward Streeter, Robert Lewis Taylor, and Paul Dudley White.
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William P. Fuller scrapbook
Manuscripts
A scrapbook kept by William P. Fuller of letters, photographs, and newspaper clippings covering the years 1863-1899. The autograph letters are by G.T. Beauregard (April 20, 1886), John G. Nicolay (April 18, 1887), Lydia Howard Sigourney (March 14, 1863), Mark Twain (January 23, 1869), Charles D. Warner (May 12, 1887), and John L. Worden (May 16, 1887). The photographs include, among others, the conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, known as the "Siamese twins," Mr. & Mrs. General Tom Thumb, and Edgar Allan Poe (none of the photographs are dated). The newspaper clippings include poems and various articles but the majority of the clippings are newspaper columns written by William P. Fuller. Included are columns about Abraham Lincoln (no date), Andersonville prison (October 19, 1880), and Lewis G. Clarke (no date); there is also a long series of columns from August 1883 about a journey west Fuller took that included Missouri, Yellowstone, Oregon and Washington. The scrapbook was disbound by the Huntington Conservation department in 2019 and each page, some with inserted pieces, was placed in individual folders; the original covers were retained and the material is in fair condition though some pages are brittle and darkened due to age and glue.
mssHM 83752
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Mitchell Kennerley letters to Henry E. Huntington
Manuscripts
Also: description and photograph of George Romney painting of Master John Walter Tempest; copy of letter from Huntington to Kennerley, 1923 October 29; copies of four letters and two telegram from Huntington to Kennerley, 1924. Subjects: tapestry sale, portrait of Edgar Allen Poe, Anderson Galleries, "Benjamin Franklin before the Privy Council" by Christian Schussele, portrait of Edwin Booth, Thomas Gainsborough's sketch book, marble busts of Dante and Homer.
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