Manuscripts

Harriet Beecher Stowe collection

Description: A collection of short stories, poems, and letters. The majority of the collection are stories written for children including Little Pussy Willow, Parts I-XVI; Queer Little People; and Uncle Abel and Little Edward. There is also a small number of letters written to Stowe's publisher, James Ripley Osgood.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1840-1896
Call number: mssStowehb
Creator: Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: provenance unknown. In library as of 1931.; removed from manuscript mssHM 12470, 1931.; removed from rare book 129880, April 1937.

Harriet Beecher Stowe collection

Manuscripts

A collection of short stories, poems, and letters. The majority of the collection are stories written for children including Little Pussy Willow, Parts I-XVI; Queer Little People; and Uncle Abel and Little Edward. There is also a small number of letters written to Stowe's publisher, James Ripley Osgood.

mssStowehb

Portraits of Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher

Manuscripts

Eight black and white printed portraits, one frontispiece of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and one portrait of Henry Ward Beecher.

mssHM 24162-24166

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Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe : compiled from her letters and journals

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609893

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Lady Byron Vindicated: Preface

Manuscripts

Full title on cover of the book: The Byron-Stowe Controversy, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Correspondence with the Publishers of Her True Story of Lady Byron's Life and The Original Unpublished Manuscript of the Suppressed Preface. The volume includes letters to Fields and Osgood (mssHM 24348-24376).

mssHM 2547

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Frost, Robert. [Collection of poems presented to Susan Hayes Ward at Christmas, 1911]

Manuscripts

24 leaves (22 written pages including note of presentation), 4 7/8 x 6 3/8 in. Autograph manuscript signed. Contents: My Giving Reluctance To a Moth Seen in Winter Unchastened On the Sale of My Farm Wind and Window-Flower Pussy-Willow Time Pursuit of the Word Death Tutelary Elves The Rain Bath To the Loud Southwester The Little Things of War Determent Pan Desponds New Grief Winter Winds

HM 7237

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James Russell Lowell collection

Manuscripts

A collection of correspondence and manuscripts written by James Russell Lowell, including essays, poems, and short stories; included is an essay on Herbert Spencer, the poems "In Far Japan" and "At the Exhibition," and a short story, "Uncle Cobus's Story." The collection also includes two forgeries, the poems "And again to the child..." and "Zekle crep' up quite unknown." The correspondence includes letters to and from James T. Fields, John Fiske, William Leonard Gage, Arthur Gilman, George W. Smalley, George Ticknor, and John Greenleaf Whittier. A number of the manuscripts and letters are window mounted on pages removed from albums, some letters with envelopes.

mssLowelljr

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