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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Portraits of Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher
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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
A cabinet photograph of an older Harriet Beecher Stowe, showing her in profile, taken approximately 1880s by photographer George H. Hastings, Boston, Massachusetts. Signed by Stowe on the lower front mount, below the image.
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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.
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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.
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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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Correspondence with the Publishers of Her True Story of Lady Byron's Life and The Original Unpublished Manuscript of the Suppressed Preface.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).
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Manuscripts
The collections consist primarily of letters from various American and British authors to James Fields, mostly relating to publication of their manuscripts by his firm Ticknor and Fields and in The Atlantic monthly. The collection, and especially the addenda, also includes letters to Annie Fields concerning literary matters. There are also poems, manuscripts, and correspondence by and about the following individuals: Thomas Aldrich, Charlotte Cushman, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jessie Benton Frémont, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom, Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott (better known by her pen name Grace Greenwood), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Helena Modjeska, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Booker T. Washington and John Greenleaf Whittier. The collection also contains essays, notes, speeches, notebooks, photographs, and articles. The collections chiefly deal with the activities of Ticknor and Fields, as well as Fields' and his wife's own literary efforts. The following authors are subjects in the collections: Robert Burns, Lord Byron, John Milton and Percy Shelley. Presidential items in this collection include John Adams autograph bill for legal services to Thomas Pratt, 1767 October 14 (mssFI 5102) and two autograph letters signed from William H. Taft to Annie Adams Fields, 1914 February? and 1914 March 10 (mssFI 4098, mssFI 4099).
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Visual Materials
A photograph of Henry Ward Beecher in stereograph form. The image is a studio portrait of Beecher at the peak of his celebrity, photographed by Napoleon Sarony, who sold the image as part of his "stereo celebrities" series, as noted on the mount.
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