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Poe-Chivers papers

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1827-1885
Call number: mssPoechivers
Provenance: Purchased from Barker's Art Store, February 1924.

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.

mssPoechivers

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Edgar Allan Poe

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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.

(photDAG 10)

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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.

mssHM 78299

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The Nucleous of Our Planet in a State of Igneous Liquifaction: essay ; watercolor miniature of Edgar Allan Poe

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This essay was written by Eveleth in late 1848; he wrote it in response to Edgar Allan Poe's "Eureka." The cover of the volume and the printed version of Eveleth's essay are incorrectly attributed to Poe.

mssHM 1187

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Correspondence and reviews

Manuscripts

Box contains correspondence, notes, and reviews for Craig's publications: "The Enchanted Glass," "New Lamps for Old," "Freedom and Renaissance," "A New Look at Shakespeare's Quartos," "Edgar Allan Poe," and "Woodrow Wilson at Princeton." Also contains personal correspondence, and correspondence related to Stanford University.

mssCraig

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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.

mssHM 36435-36614

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