Authors and publishers -- United States.
Subject
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Found in 5 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.
George Jean Nathan collection
Collection
Identifier: 4615
Abstract
Manuscripts, correspondence, printed newspaper articles, clippings, and photographs by, to, or about Nathan, documenting his career as theater critic, author, and editor of the literary newspaper The American Spectator. Includes manuscripts for books and articles by Nathan; extensive correspondence concerning dealings with publishers, authors, and producers; letters from readers and fellow writers commenting on Nathan's work, including letters on the American Mercury and the American...
Dates:
1913-1958.
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.
Theodore Roosevelt collection
Collection
Identifier: 4652
Abstract
Consists mainly of letters by Roosevelt to a variety of correspondents, but also includes several autographs, photographs, one printed item, two documents, and newspaper articles from the Star _amp Herald in Panama (1939) and the Panama Morning Journal (1913, 1914).
Dates:
1883 - 1953; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1918
Typographic Years collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 4623
Scope and content
Typed manuscript, first and second runs of galley proofs, page proofs, and revisions of galley proofs of Blumenthal's book Typographic Years: A Printer's Journey Through a Half Century, 1925-1975 (New York: Frederic C. Beil, 1982; limited ed. New York: Grolier Club [printed by Stinehour Press, Lunenberg, Vt.], 1982), with holograph corrections by Blumenthal. Also included is correspondence between Blumenthal and Donald D. Eddy relating to the book, including a letter from Blumenthal dated...
Dates:
[ca. 1980]-1986.