United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Frederick Briggs letters : to James Russell Lowell
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 4625
Scope and content
Letters on literary, political, cultural, personal, and family matters. Includes substantial discussion especially of the publication of Lowell's poems in Briggs's journal, but also of the slavery question and other political issues of the day. Also discussed are recently published poems and novels, recent paintings, the activities of portrait painter William Page (a friend of Briggs and Lowell), and the character of Edgar Allan Poe, who contributed to the Broadway Journal.
Dates:
1843-1860.
John S. Hart letters
Collection
Identifier: 4637
Scope and content
Consists mainly of letters to Hart from a variety of correspondents, including school and college teachers and administrators, clergymen, and authors. Many letters provide biographical and bibliographical information on authors, including authors of religious works, for a book Hart was compiling on American literature, probably his Manual of American Literature (Philadelphia, 1873). Also included is considerable correspondence from fellow editors evaluating poems submitted to Sartain's Union...
Dates:
1834-1877.
Moses Coit Tyler collection
Collection — Bound manuscript 48++ (index--photocopy): [Barcode: 31924117272827]
Identifier: 14-17-2641
Abstract
Diaries, lecture notes, and commonplace books by Moses Coit Tyler, and letters to him from others.
Dates:
1779-1900-(bulk 1850-1900)