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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 GLUCK COLLECTION 
 
 OF 
 
 Manuscripts and Autographs 
 
 IN THE 
 
 BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 
 BUFFALO 
 
 JVLY 1899 
 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 GLUCK COLLECTION 
 
 OF 
 
 Manuscripts and Autographs 
 
 IN THE 
 
 BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 
 BUFFALO 
 
 July 1899 
 
Copyright, 1899, by 
 H. L. ELMENDORF, BUFFALO, N. Y. 
 
 THE MATTHEWS-NORTHRUF CO., BUFFALO, N. ' 
 
to Vow \ 
 
 JAMES FRASER GLUCK. 
 
 FRONTISPIECE 
 ADDRESSES AND MISCELLANIES 
 
PREFACE 
 
 TAMES FRASER GLUCK, who gave the Buffalo Library the manu- 
 J scripts and autographs catalogued in this volume, was born at Niag- 
 ara Falls, N. Y., April 28, 1852. He attended the common schools, 
 Upper Canada College, at Toronto, and Cornell University, graduating 
 from the latter in 1874. He studied law with Laning & Willett in 
 Buffalo, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. July 15, 1877, he mar- 
 ried Miss Effie D. Tyler, a daughter of Prof. Charles M. Tyler of 
 Cornell. He was elected a trustee of Cornell in 1883, curator of the 
 Buffalo Library in 1885, and trustee of the Grosvenor Library in the 
 same year. He died at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York, December 
 15, 1897, in his forty-sixth year. 
 
 This brief biographical sketch gives merely the dates of the prin- 
 cipal events in Mr. Gluck's short life. He was an able and successful 
 lawyer, a brilliant orator, a writer of authority on law subjects, and a 
 man of great literary ability, culture and taste. He took an active part 
 in every movement for the social and educational improvement of 
 Buffalo. He was particularly interested in the founding of the Public 
 Library, and his influence contributed largely to its establishment. 
 
 It was in 1885 that Mr. Gluck first became interested in the collec- 
 tion of autographs and manuscripts. He was at that time a curator 
 of the Buffalo Library. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, Mr. 
 Lamed, the Superintendent of the library, called attention to the auto- 
 graph manuscript of Robert Fulton, which was offered for sale in the 
 catalogue of the London "Old Book-Dealer" at a moderate price. 
 Mr. Larned gave it as his opinion that if the library could indulge in 
 the luxury of buying any curious and interesting things for exhibition, it 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 would be a very desirable thing to do. After some talk among the mem- 
 bers of the board, Mr. Gluck said : "I will buy it and present it to the 
 library." The Fulton manuscript was found to have been sold before 
 the order for it reached London, but soon afterward Mr. Gluck began 
 to secure other manuscripts of interest and value, and his zeal for col- 
 lecting grew with the growth of the treasures as they accumulated. 
 During the next two years he devoted most of his leisure time to this 
 work, which involved frequent journeys to New York and Boston and 
 correspondence and personal conference with authors, publishers and 
 dealers. Mr. Gluck obtained the first choice from the large collection 
 of autograph manuscripts gathered by Mr. James R. Osgood, and also a 
 large number from the sale of the Sir William Hamilton collection in 
 London. Many of the most valuable manuscripts were obtained directly 
 from their authors upon Mr. Gluck' s representation to them of the pur- 
 pose he had in view, of giving them to the library. Several American 
 publishers, including the Century Company, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 
 Harper & Bros., Roberts Brothers, James Redpath of the North American 
 Review, Lorrettus Metcalf of the Forum, and others, interested them- 
 selves in Mr. Gluck' s undertaking and furnished, with the consent of the 
 authors, valuable manuscripts otherwise not procurable. 
 
 January 7, 1887, Mr. Gluck presented his collection to the Buffalo 
 Library with a type-written list and description of the manuscripts. 
 At this early date Mr. J. N. Larned pronounced the collection the 
 largest and most valuable owned by any public institution in this coun- 
 try. During the ten years following the original gift Mr. Gluck 
 continued his collecting, and, on May 18, 1897, made a second gift to 
 the library of almost equal value with his first presentation. This addi- 
 tional gift was given upon the express conditions : 
 
 1st. That the board designate the room on the first floor in 
 the southwest corner of the Buffalo Library building, at the corner 
 of Washington and Clinton streets, as the specific place for this 
 collection. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 2d. That the board furnish proper cases, labels, frames, etc., to 
 protect, preserve and worthily present such collection to the public. 
 
 3d. That a proper catalogue be printed which shall describe the 
 specific items of the collection, and which shall be at all times available 
 for the use of this public. 
 
 Should the above conditions fail to be carried out, the collection 
 be shifted into another room, or the collection fail to be protected from 
 dust, or care and attention not be given to the proper preservation of 
 the manuscripts or autographs, or the catalogue be suffered to be unavail- 
 able or out of print and not be reprinted within the period of one year, 
 then the entire collection to revert to Cornell University and become 
 the property of that institution. 
 
 May 19, 1897, by formal resolutions of the Board of Directors, the 
 Buffalo Library accepted Mr. Gluck's conditions and thanked him for 
 his munificent gift. 
 
 This catalogue is published in compliance with the terms of the 
 gift, and therefore the very valuable manuscripts given to the library by 
 other friends are merely listed and not catalogued or described. 
 
 The catalogue is made, under direction of the Board, by Mrs. 
 H. L. Elmendorf. In its preparation the aid and counsel Mr. Gluck 
 would have given have been sadly missed. Many interesting items which 
 he could have supplied as to the history of the manuscripts and the cir- 
 cumstances under which he acquired them have had to be omitted. 
 
 Where the manuscripts or letters have already appeared in print 
 they have not, as a rule, been reproduced here, reference being given 
 to where they may be found in print. Whenever the manuscript differs 
 materially from the printed text, the variation is noted. Those not 
 found to have been published are printed, where their interest seemed 
 to warrant it, unless, as in the case of some of the letters, the contents 
 is entirely private. 
 
 Buffalo Public Library, 
 July 1, 1899. 
 
Descriptive Catalogue 
 
 OF THE 
 
 GLUCK COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS AND 
 
 AUTOGRAPHS IN THE BUFFALO 
 
 PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 
 Alcott, Amos Bronson, American educator and philosopher, born in 
 Wolcott, Conn., 29 November, 1799, died at Concord, Mass., 
 4 March, 1888. 
 
 Manuscript of the poem " Carmen auguratum auspicans ; a 
 prophetic ode after sacrifice, 25 September, 1881," one of the 
 many poems inspired by the death of Garfield, it is included in 
 Alcott' s Sonnets and Canzonets [821.1 A355.s]. 
 
 Alcott, Miss Louisa May, American author, daughter of Amos Bron- 
 son Alcott, born in Germantown, Pa., 29 November, 1832, died 
 at Concord, Mass., 6 March, 1888. 
 
 Manuscript of "Sophie's secret," a story first published in 
 the St. Nicholas for November and December, 1883, volume 11, 
 Pt. 1, pages 25, 114; afterward included in volume three of 
 Lulu's Library fjA 355 — 9] . 
 
 Autograph copy of a poem, "To my father, on his 86th 
 birthday," 29 November, 1885, published in Louisa May Alcott, 
 her life, letters and journals, page 387 [928.1 Al 13]. 
 
 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, American poet and novelist, born in Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., 11 November, 1836. 
 
 Two letters, dated editorial office of the Atlantic Monthly, 
 Boston, November 7 and November 19, 1885, to Mr. Gluck. In 
 
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 one of the letters the poet promises to copy "Baby Bell " for the 
 collection, which promise he afterward fulfilled, as will be seen by 
 the next entry. 
 
 Autograph copy of the poem "Baby Bell," first published 
 in 1856, included in his Poems [821.1 A3652— 1]. 
 
 Allison, John, American statesman, born at Beaver, Beaver Co. , Pa. , 
 register of the United States treasury from 1 April, 1869, until his 
 death, in Washington, D. C, 23 March, 1878. 
 
 Signature to treasury warrant for twenty-four cents, issued to 
 F. C. Harris, 12 June, 1873. 
 
 Ames, Mary Clemmer, Mrs. Daniel Ames, afterward Mrs. Edmund 
 Hudson, American author, born in Utica, N. Y., in 1839, died 
 in Washington, 18 August, 1884. 
 
 Letter, dated 89 Clinton PL, New York, 3 June, 1863, to Theo- 
 dore Tilton. The letter is concerned with some arrangements for 
 occasional contributions to the Independent. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by Geo. E. Perine & Co. from a photograph. 
 
 Anthony, Miss Susan Brownell, American reformer, born # at South 
 Adams, Mass., 15 February, 1820. 
 
 Personal letter, dated 30 January, 1863, just after the death of 
 her father, to Theodore Tilton. 
 
 The proclamation of emancipation had been issued but one 
 month previous, and the following extract from the letter gives an 
 index of the feeling of abolitionists at the time : 
 
 "Yes, I am thankful for the Proclamation, and shall be vastly more thankful 
 when I see the men and the means in actual work of executing its provisions to 
 the letter and the spirit. 
 
 But the adage 'It is hard to learn old dogs new tricks' is most strikingly 
 exemplified in the slow and feeble moves out of the traces of slavery — to turn 
 freedomward seems the work of ages, when we take into view the blood and 
 
MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 treasure poured out to save slavery inviolate — and yet the Nation does move in 
 that direction, and we will hope.'' 
 
 Portrait, engraved by Geo. E. Perine & Co. from a photograph. 
 
 Arnim, Elisabeth von, known as Bettina von Arnim, sister of Clemens 
 Brentano, wife of Ludwig Achim von Arnim, born in Frankfurt- 
 am-Main, 4 April, 1788, died in Berlin, 20 January, 1859. 
 
 Letter, dated 13 November, 1846, to Dr. Lehmann. Mme. von 
 Arnim is best known through her ardent childish friendship with 
 Goethe. Her Goethe^ Correspondence with a Child [836 6] was 
 for a long time thought to be the record of a real exchange of 
 letters. It is now known to be mainly imaginary. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by G. Wolf in Weimar. 
 
 Bacon, Sir Francis, English judge, born in 1587, died 22 August, 
 1657. 
 
 Receipt for money, dated June, 1644, given in his capacity of 
 judge of his majesty's court of King's Bench. 
 
 Bailey, Philip James, English poet, born in Nottingham, England, 
 22 April, 1816. 
 
 Autograph copy of The Festus Birth-day Book, being selections 
 from the author's long poem Festus [822.2 158]. 
 
 Balzac, Honore de, French novelist, born at Tours, 16 May, 1799, 
 died at Paris, 20 August, 1850. 
 
 Letter, without place or date, addressed to M. Merlin, probably 
 Romain Merlin, the French bibliographer. 
 
 Bates, Charlotte Fiske, now Mrs. Roge, American author, born in New 
 York City, 30 November, 1838, since 1847 a resident of Cam- 
 bridge, Mass. , a friend and collaborator of Longfellow. 
 
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 Signed manuscript of poem called "Two heads better than 
 one," first published in the Bric-a-brac department of the Cen- 
 tury for June, 1886, volume 10, page 332. 
 
 Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of, English statesman and 
 author, born in London, 21 December, 1804, died in London, 
 19 April, 1880. 
 
 Personal letter, dated 8 March, 1852, to S. Lucas, Esq., of no 
 interest except as an autograph. 
 
 Portrait, steel engraving from photograph. 
 
 Bentham, Jeremy, English writer on jurisprudence, born in Houns- 
 ditch, 15 February, 1748, died 6 June, 1832. 
 
 Personal letter, dated Hendon, Middlesex, 25 February, 1789, 
 to Lord Wycombe, the eldest son of the Earl of Shelburne. Lord 
 Shelburne, who was afterward created the first Marquis of Lans- 
 downe, was the patron and intimate friend of Bentham. The let- 
 ter is reproduced in the edition of Bentham' s Works, edited by 
 John Bowring, Edinburgh, 1843, volume 10, page 196 [340 24] . 
 
 The letter is published as under date March first, but evidence 
 of other letters seems to show conclusively that it was really 
 written as dated in this manuscript. The letter concerns the 
 proposed publication in Paris, for the use of the States General, 
 of Bentham's work on Parliamentary Tactics. 
 
 Portrait, proof copy of an engraving by S. Freeman, from the 
 painting by Worthington. 
 
 Beranger, Pierre Jean de, French lyric poet, born in Paris, 19 August, 
 1780, died in the same city, 16 July, 1857. 
 
 Part of a private letter interesting only as being a good speci- 
 men of the poet's handwriting and signature. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by A. Masson from his own drawing. 
 
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MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 Bigelow, John, American diplomatist, journalist and author, born at 
 Maiden, N. Y., 25 November, 1817. 
 
 Two personal letters, dated Berlin, 13 January and 17 June, 
 1871, to Theodore Tilton. Mr. Bigelow, at the close of his term 
 as United States Minister to France, resided with his family for 
 some time in Berlin. 
 
 The earlier letter was written on the occasion of Mr. Tilton's 
 retirement from the Independent, a short time before the close of 
 the Franco-German war. It contains a passage of some interest, 
 as follows : 
 
 " I find a great deal in my life here in Berlin that is interesting and instructive. 
 It is a city of wonderful intellectual activities, and I enjoy the facilities possessed 
 here by every presentable man for living constantly in the society of men who 
 know more of something worth knowing than he knows himself. 
 
 ' ' Germany and France are passing through a terrible ordeal. Providence never 
 wastes anything and effects are always proportioned to their causes. I do not 
 doubt, therefore, that the good that will result to the world from this war will 
 prove sufficient to reconcile the ways of God to man in allowing it to be waged. 
 Without presuming to be the interpreter of Providence, it is pretty safe to 
 assume that the war will not cease till the mind and conscience of Europe are 
 enfranchised from a great number of constraints, prejudices and illusions, religi- 
 ous, social and political, which it has been obliged to drag around like a ball and 
 chain to its leg for centuries." 
 
 The second letter relates to the founding of Mr. Tilton's paper, 
 the Golden Age, and discusses personal matters. 
 
 Portrait, proof copy of an engraving by S. Freeman from the 
 painting by Worthington. 
 
 Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, English, novelist, born at Longworth, 
 Berkshire, 7 June, 1825. 
 
 Manuscript of "To fame" a poem of four, four-line stanzas, 
 first printed in Harper' s Magazine for October, 1886, volume 73, 
 page 682. 
 
 Blaine, James Gillespie, American statesman, born in West Browns- 
 ville, Washington Co., Penna., 31 January, 1830, died in Wash- 
 ington, 27 January, 1893. 
 
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 Letter to Theodore Tilton, at Bath, as follows : 
 
 Augusta, Aug. 15, 1872. 
 My Dear Sir : 
 
 In your speeches at various points you credit me with saying that, of the 
 Liberal Republicans, "some should be coaxed back, some driven back and the 
 balance brought back." I never made the remark and, indeed, never heard it 
 until reported in your speeches. A denial of it was made in the Kennebec 
 Journal but I presume you did not see it, as you have repeated the remark since. 
 May I request respectfully that you will make the correction publicly ? 
 
 In haste, very truly yours, 
 
 J. G. BLAINE. 
 
 Portrait, engraved on steel by H. B. Hall, Jr., from a photograph. 
 
 Blake, William, English poet, painter and etcher, born in London, 28 
 November, 1757, died in the same city, 12 August, 1827. 
 
 Original water-color, one of the designs made by the gifted, but 
 eccentric, artist-poet to illustrate Europe, one of his so-called 
 "prophetic" books published in Lambeth in 1794. The drawing 
 represents a distorted, Caliban-like figure hiding behind a rock 
 with a dagger in his uplifted hand ready to strike a young man who 
 is approaching. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by A. L. Dick, from a painting by Blake 
 himself. 
 
 Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of, daughter of Edmund 
 Power, first the wife of Capt. Maurice St. Leger Farmer, afterward 
 the wife of the first Earl of Blessington, Irish author and wit, born 
 at Knockbrit, County Tipperary, Ireland, 1 September, 1789, died 
 in Paris, 4 June, 1849. 
 
 Manuscript of "To spring," a poem probably contributed to 
 The Keepsake during Lady Blessington's editorship. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by J. J. Hinchliff, from the painting by A. E. 
 Chaloner, R. A. 
 
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MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 Boker, George Henry, American poet and diplomatist, born in Phila- 
 delphia, 6 October, 1823, died in the same city, 2 January, 1890. 
 
 Autograph copy of the first stanza of his "Dirge for a soldier," 
 written in memory of Gen. Philip Kearney, killed at the battle of 
 Chantilly, 1 September, 1862. 
 
 The poem is contained in Mr. Boker's volume Poems of the War 
 [821.1 B6862.p], and in many collections. 
 
 " Close his eyes; his work is done ! 
 What to him is friend or foeman, 
 Rise of moon, or set of sun, 
 
 Hand of man, or kiss of woman ? 
 
 Lay him low, lay him low, 
 In the clover or the snow ! 
 What cares he ? he cannot know. 
 Lay him low ! " 
 
 Portrait, photograph by Gutekunst, Philadelphia. 
 
 Bowen, Henry Chandler, American journalist, for many years editor 
 and proprietor of the New York Independent, born at Woodstock, 
 Conn., 11 September, 1813, died in Brooklyn, 24 February, 1896. 
 
 Personal letter, dated Woodstock, Conn., 27 June, 1869, to 
 Theodore Tilton, interesting only as an autograph. 
 
 Bowles, The Rev. William Lisle, English clergyman and poet, brother 
 of Caroline Bowles Southey, born at King's Sutton, Northampton- 
 shire, 24 September, 1762, died at Salisbury, 7 April, 1850. 
 
 Letter, dated Bremhill, 18 November, 1833, to the Rev. George 
 Crabbe, the son of the poet, concerning Bowles's acquaintance 
 with the poet and giving incidents of the latter' s life. 
 
 Portrait, line engraving from a drawing. 
 
 Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, Norwegian-American author, born in Fred- 
 ricksvcern, Norway, 23 September, 1848, died in New York City, 
 4 October, 1895. 
 
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 Manuscript of " A child of the age," a story first published in 
 the Century for December, 1885, volume 9, page 177, afterward 
 republished in his collection of stories Vagabond Tales [B791 — 13] . 
 
 Bright, John, English statesman, born near Rochdale, Lancashire, 
 England, 16 November, 1811, died in London, 27 March, 1889. 
 Letter, dated Rochdale, 9 March, 1863, to Theodore Tilton : 
 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 I ought sooner to have acknowledged your kind letter of January 30. 
 
 It is most pleasant to me to find that my words find a welcome on your side of 
 the water — they are all spoken to give encouragement to you and to create feel- 
 ings of good will between your people and ours. 
 
 I cannot contest what you say as to an earlier proclamation of freedom. The 
 difficulties of your President are enormous and I forbear to judge him. 
 
 I only hope that God may give your people strength and virtue to gain the 
 great cause that is now in your keeping. It is freedom or slavery over all your 
 continent. The English people are true to their ancient faith and they wish 
 freedom to win and your noble Union to be restored. 
 
 Many thanks for your most friendly letter, 
 
 Believe me always, 
 
 truly yours, 
 
 JOHN BRIGHT. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by J. A. O' Neill from a photograph. 
 
 Bronte, Charlotte, English novelist, born at Thornton, 21 April, 1816, 
 married to the Rev. Arthur Nicholls, 29 June, 1854, died at 
 Haworth, 31 March, 1855. 
 
 Letter, dated Haworth, 28 July, 1852, to W. S. Williams of 
 the publishing house, Smith, Elder & Co., concerning some 
 arrangements for a new edition of "Shirley," and also concern- 
 ing the announcements of her forthcoming novel ' ' Villette. ' ' 
 
 The letter is of the period just preceding her marriage to Mr. 
 Nicholls, and while she was living alone with her father after the death 
 of her brother Bramwell and of both her sisters Emily and Anne. 
 Isolation and ill-health had induced great depression of mind 
 which is visible throughout the letter. 
 
MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 The letter is published in Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte, 
 chapter 24 [928.2 B786.g]. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by J. C. Armytage from the painting by 
 G. Richmond. 
 
 Brooks, The Right Rev. Phillips, American clergyman, bishop of 
 Massachusetts, born in Boston, 13 December, 1835, died in the 
 same city, 23 January, 1893. 
 
 Manuscript of a Thanksgiving Day sermon, preached at Trinity 
 church, Boston, 26 November, 1885, from the text in Daniel iv : 
 4,5. 
 
 Portrait, half-tone engraving from a photograph. 
 
 Brown, Dr. John, Scotch physician and author, born at Biggar, in 
 Lanarkshire, 22 September, 1810, died in Edinburgh, 11 May, 1882. 
 
 Letter to Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, who published with his 
 sanction, the author's Horcz Subsecivce under the title Spare Hours. 
 
 It is interesting to know that the volume spoken of in the letter, 
 which is the second volume of the American Spare Hours [824.2 
 B878.s], but the third of the Scotch Horce Subsecivce [824.2 B 
 878.h], was not after all published in Edinburgh until . March, 
 1882, shortly before Dr. Brown's death. 
 
 The letter is as follows : 
 
 23 Rutland Street, Edinburgh, 
 
 19 March, 1873. 
 Dear Sirs: 
 
 I have never printed your 2nd vol. of Spare Hours, owing to the refusal 
 of Bradbury & Evans to let me print the woodcuts in John Leech — but so many 
 enquiries are made for the book and your edition is in such requisition that Mr. 
 Douglas has resolved to print it now even at the risk (to use old Sam Rogers' 
 joke) of its being dished for want of the plates. Now I would like to know 
 from you, approximately, the number of both series of Spare Hours that you 
 have sold. It would also be a great kindness if you could forward to me 6 
 
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 copies of the last series and 2 of the first. I have given away all mine. For 
 this and for the expense of sending them you must allow me to pay. 
 
 I hope you are prospering and that all my friends are well — kind remem- 
 brances to them. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 J. BROWN. 
 
 Portrait, engraved from a photograph. 
 
 Browne, Charles Farrar, American humorist, known as "Artemus 
 Ward," born at Waterford, Maine, 26 April, 1834, died at South- 
 ampton, England, 6 March, 1867. 
 
 Letter, dated office of Vanity Fair, New York City, 19 Novem- 
 ber, 1861, declining an offer for a book from his pen, also 
 
 " Artemus Ward, his Programme, Dodworth Hall, 806 Broad- 
 way. ' ' 
 
 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, daughter of Edward Moulton, who after- 
 ward took the name Barrett, wife of Robert Browning the poet, 
 born 14 March, 1809, died at Florence, 29 June, 1861. 
 
 Two personal letters to Theodore Tilton, while he was editor 
 of the New York Independent. 
 
 Both letters are written during the serious decline in health and 
 strength to which both her sorrow and disappointment over Italian 
 national affairs and her grief at the death of her favorite sister 
 contributed. The first is an interesting record of her devotion to 
 the cause of united Italy. The second shows her deep feeling 
 for the safety of the United States and her intelligent understand- 
 ing of American affairs. This knowledge concerning American 
 matters was doubtless gained from association with many American 
 acquaintances, both in Florence and in Rome. Mr. Browning 
 says "In fact, I believe that if we were to make out a list of our 
 best and dearest friends we should find more American than English 
 names." 
 
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 The first letter is dated from Casa Guidi, Florence, but was 
 really written from Siena, where the Brownings spent the summer 
 of 1860, in the Villa Alberti. 
 
 The second letter was written from 126 Via Felice, Rome, cer- 
 tainly after the death of her sister, late in 1860 or early in the 
 following year, probably in April, 1861. 
 
 The handwriting is much changed from that of the first letter 
 and shows the fading vitality which suddenly failed utterly in June. 
 
 Neither of the letters has been published, and as both are of 
 great interest, they are printed in full. 
 
 July 20, [I860.] 
 
 Casa Guidi, Florence. 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 In acknowledging your liberality in the two hundred dollars received through 
 Mr. Francis, I send you other two new poems on Italian affairs with a certain 
 reasonable shyness. Pray understand that I would not for the world take 
 advantage of your having perhaps over-generously made a rash engagement with 
 me. If these mss. destined for a future edition of my Italian volume, should 
 suit you, they are at your service ; if not let them pass simply into Mr. Francis's 
 hands for the book. Do I tire you of Italy? Another time I may let you have 
 poems of a more general interest. Only, here, it is hard for us to understand 
 how anything can be of a more general interest than this subject. We are feel- 
 ing keenly about the south. May God keep that hero, Garibaldi. His danger 
 is less from the sword, than from certain influences unfavorable to the national 
 sentiment, and against which he should have steel in his brain. Divisions coming 
 now (for the first time in this great movement !) would strengthen the separatists 
 at Naples, and turn to earnest what has been merely formal and official in the 
 action of foreign diplomacy. When did Mazzini's finger ever touch Italy with- 
 out a blot showing ■where ? Mr. Francis hints that your people are not very 
 Napoleonist. Neither am I in any partisan sense. My "Summing up" is a 
 bare statement. As for the emperor there will be a reaction in time ; and mean- 
 while it would be a pity if abstract thinkers, such as you and I, should allow our- 
 selves to be carried away, in the panic and passion of Europe, from an estimate 
 of the real position. The Emperor's farsightedness in foreign policy produces a 
 necessary disagreement with statesmen who do not see far, and his recognition of 
 the rights of majorities and the nationalities, being perfectly understood by the 
 retrograde parties at least, these build monstrous barricades of impossible calum- 
 nies for the arrest of progress and the confusion of the world. Will they succeed 
 in their scheme of drumming up a coalition of the old governments against France ? 
 And, in that case, on whose side will go the peoples ? Those are questions, but 
 this is a fact, that at home the pope's tyranny is maintained and abetted by 
 
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 French anti-imperialist parties as a means of opposition to the emperor. "Non 
 his armis " you would say if you were a French protestor against the government. 
 Is France to stir a finger, do you think, to get these so-called liberals back to 
 power ? Believe in the instinct of nations. 
 
 Let me add one word. I must for I have only written so many because of 
 being drawn into admiring sympathy with you by your noble address in the 
 church of Theodore Parker. What affected me was — not the eloquence, no — 
 but the rare union of largeness and tolerance with fidelity to special truth. In 
 our age faith and charity are found — but they are unusually found apart. We 
 tolerate everybody because we doubt everything, — or else we tolerate nobody 
 because we believe something. And largeness of intellectual vision becomes in- 
 distinctness in the apprehension of outline just as is the case in physical near- 
 sightedness. I congratulate you on being able to speak so. Would that great 
 truths had always such brave witnesses. And would that brave men (like Theo- 
 dore Parker) had always great truths to be brave for. 
 
 My husband unites with me in respects and good wishes while I remain, 
 dear sir, 
 
 most faithfully yours 
 
 ELIZABETH B. BROWNING. 
 
 I recommend to your attention Edmond About's pamphlets ' ' La [nouvelle] 
 carte de l'Europe" and " La Prusse [en I860]." 
 
 We are at Siena at present, but our address continues to be Casa Guidi, 
 Florence. 
 
 126 Via Felice, 
 
 Rome [Early in 1861.] 
 My dear Mr. Tilton : 
 
 If you have had time under the pressure of your many thoughts at this crisis 
 to think of me at all you may have wondered at the gap in my letters, — but I 
 have suffered great unhappiness and lost my usual power of occupying myself 
 in consequence. 
 
 Now I send you something — or nothing as you may decide — (3 poems) 
 — I don't insist on its being something — remember that. I have received the 
 Independents very thankfully. It was by an accident that I saw the " Garibaldi " 
 stanzas in the anti-slavery paper first and I should be quick to acknowledge that 
 the typographical faults were confined to it. You are very good in representing 
 me with correctness, as in all the rest. My husband has drawn for the remit- 
 tance belonging to the two last poems, " Garibaldi " and the "Summing up." 
 
 Perhaps one of these days his sense of your generosity and appreciation of it 
 as a peculiar expression of kind sentiment towards both of us may overcome his 
 disinclination to the periodical channel. Never suppose that I have not done 
 my best to send him to you in my stead, — I know my place too well as poet, 
 and my duty too well as your contributor. Shall I say that Cornhill and the 
 Atlantic Monthly have hitherto, solicited him in vain? But I don't give up hope. 
 
 I thank you very much for your most interesting letter on American affairs. 
 I go with your party entirely. The constitution could only be rectified from 
 
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 within, unless you attacked it from without with guns, and I think Garrison 
 eschewed the latter mode. He would use neither congress nor sword. Now the 
 question is thrown into new possibilities of solution by that fine madness of the 
 South, which is God's gift to the world in these latter days in order to the resti- 
 tution of all things and the re-constitution everywhere of political justice and 
 national right. 
 
 See how it has been in Italy ! If Austria had not madly invaded Piedmont 
 in '59 France could not have fought. If the Pope had not been madly obstinate 
 in rejecting the reforms pressed on him by France, he must have been sustained 
 as a temporal ruler. If the King of Naples had not madly refused to accept 
 the overtures of Piedmont towards an alliance in free government and Italian 
 independence, we should have had to wait for Italian unity. So with the rulers 
 of Tuscany, Modena, etc. Everybody was mad at the right moment. I thank 
 God for it. "Mais mon cher," said Napoleon to the Tuscan ex-Grand Duke, 
 weeping before him as a suppliant, ' ' vous etiez ct Solferino. " That act of pure 
 madness settled the Duke's claims upon Tuscany. And looking yearningly to 
 our poor Venetia (to say nothing of other suffering peoples beyond this penin- 
 sula) my cry must still be "Give, Give ! More madness Lord ! " 
 
 The pope has been madder than anybody and for a much longer time, exactly 
 because his case was complex and difficult and because with catholic Europe and 
 the French clerical party (strengthened by M. Guizot and the whole French 
 dynastic opposition, I wish them joy of their cause) drawn up on the Holy 
 Father's side, the least touch of sanity would have saved him, to the immense 
 injury of the Italian nation. As it is we are at the beginning of the end. We 
 see light at the end of the cavern. There's a dark turning indeed about Venetia 
 — but we won't hit our heads against the stalactites even there, — and beyond we 
 get out into a free great independent Italy. May God save us to the end ! 
 
 At this point the anxiety on American affairs can take its full share of thought. 
 My partiality for frenzies is not so absorbing, believe me, as to exclude very 
 painful considerations on the dissolution of your great Union. But my serious 
 fear has been and is, not for the dissolution of the body but the death of the 
 soul — not of a rupture of the states and civil war — but of reconciliation and 
 peace at the expense of a deadly compromise of principle. Nothing will destroy 
 the republic but what corrupts its conscience and disturbs its fame — for the stain 
 upon the honor must come off upon the flag. If, on the other hand, the North 
 stands fast on the moral ground, no glory will be like your glory, — your frontiers 
 may diminish but your essential greatness will increase, your foes may be of your 
 own household, but your friends must be among all just and righteous men 
 whether in the body or out of the body. You are " compassed by a great cloud 
 of witnesses " and can afford to risk anything except conscience. Ought not the 
 North, for instance, to propose a pecuniary compromise, taxing itself for compen- 
 sation to the South. What surprises me is that the slaves don't rise. 
 
 Never imagine from anything said to you by Mr. Bayard Taylor, who remem- 
 bers far too well a mere historical remark of mine upon the influence of govern- 
 ment on art, that I am non-republican. I honor republicanism everywhere as an 
 expression of the people, but it seems to me that a theoretical attachment to any 
 
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 form of government whatever is simply pedantry, as if one should insist on 
 everybody's wearing one kind of hat, or adopting one attitude. A genuine 
 government is simply the attitude of that special people. What we require for 
 every man (or state) is life, health, muscular freedom to choose his own attitude. 
 Let us be for the democracy and leave the rest. Who cares for the figure at the 
 helm so long as the people's wind is in the sails ? I care little. Only I do care 
 that the democracy should have power — that each man should have the inherit- 
 ance of a man and the right of voting where he is taxed. So this is my creed. 
 
 If I had an opportunity I would send you photographs of my husband and even 
 of myself — though I had better rest with you perhaps in the engraving which 
 you think like Mrs. Tilton, since that surely must have points in my favor. 
 Three little daughters have you ? That is better than one little son — seeing that 
 we often feel it too frightful to have all our treasure in a single coin. The pure 
 gold of it only increases the fear. Oh — I must send you a photograph of our boy. 
 
 We shall be in Rome till May and then return to Florence. 
 
 Napoleon will come out admirably in the Italian results. He has had Europe 
 at the end of the diplomatical sword of fence, and a European coalition against 
 him as no remote contingency. Often what has seemed like opposition to our 
 progress here, has simply been putting on the drag down hill when the wheel 
 was inclined to a perilous velocity. But there are some who cannot understand, 
 and more who will not. It will be enough that the Italian nation understands. 
 
 As to novel-writing, I go so naturally into verse. What is truth in my con- 
 victions as well as what is warmest in my emotions run naturally to rhyme. 
 And life is short and art long — as has been said once or twice before. Then 
 you have Mrs. Stowe. Her new story opens beautifully and promises what she 
 can keep. I congratulate the Independent upon it. 
 
 That is all for to-day. My husband unites in regards with me, and I remain 
 most truly your friend 
 
 ELIZABETH B. BROWNING. 
 
 Five portraits: 1, from the original painting by Chappel; 2, 
 nameless; 3, Etched by H. B. Hall, N. Y., 1876; 4, Engraved 
 by G. E. Perine & Co.; 5, Engraved for the Eclectic by Perine 
 & Giles, N. Y. 
 
 Browning, Robert, English poet, born at Camberwell, 7 May, 1812, 
 died at Venice, 12 December, 1889. 
 
 Letter to Theodore Tilton, written a few weeks after Mrs. 
 Browning's death, from St. Enogat in Brittany, where Mr. Brown- 
 ing was staying with his father and sister. 
 
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 The letter has never been published and is therefore printed in full. 
 
 St. Enogat pr£s Dinard, France, Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 My dear si — (or rather, reciprocating an affectionate expression of yours, 
 shall I not say? My dear Friend) — I have felt the very kindness of your letter 
 stop more than one attempt to say something in reply to it : this, that I am resolved 
 to write now, may at least tell you that I was neither insensible nor ungrateful 
 when your two newspapers, together with that letter reached me. I will not try 
 and explain why it is that, by what might pass for a fantastic perversion of feel- 
 ing, all the last things seem almost unduly precious, — last incidents, last appre- 
 ciations, last kindnesses — and it is certainly not because our acquaintance with 
 you was late in the day, that it will be the less valued. Let me hope that, with- 
 out my motive, you will, for your part, continue to hold what you have so gener- 
 ously taken up, and remember that the dim days before me could ill spare the 
 light of a single kind face I count upon. One day, if ever we see each other 
 face to face, I may correct some of the mis-statements which have got into 
 currency, and a few of which re-appear in your notice. Dear Hillard's story is 
 altogether a myth, for instance. But absolutely nothing of the private life ever 
 transpired, and fancies like this do no great harm. I have seen no other notices, 
 indeed no other American newspapers, in this wild corner of Brittany where I 
 am endeavoring to regain strength of various kinds. In a fortnight I shall be in 
 London where I must occupy myself with the education of my only child. On 
 my arrival I will send you the photograph you had the goodness to desire — and 
 another, taken a few days before our departure from Rome, — one so nearly all / 
 could desire as to put the previous attempts out of my thoughts : there is a. 
 photograph also from a picture made of the room in Casa Guidi we have been 
 used to for fourteen years, which may go with the rest. I will send these, — say 
 for me — to dear Page, to Hillard and to other friends of whose sympathy I am 
 sure. Thank them deeply. 
 
 Chapman wrote me nearly two months ago to say that a new edition of the 
 Poems was wanted at once. I shall attend to this on my return to England, but 
 I may say something to you at once. There remain unpublished a few poems, 
 reserved for another volume. Some of them are among the writer's best, she 
 thought, and I think. Do you wish to print these, as you printed the others? 
 only, I suppose I should add, in closer succession so as to enable Chapman to 
 include them in the edition which I should retard till the latest possible. The 
 intense excitement of your own politics may have changed the direction of the 
 interest of your readers ; I can well understand if it be so ; but your own munifi- 
 cence renders such a question necessary. My wife would never, of late years, 
 write for any other periodical than yours and Thackeray's — for whom she had a 
 personal friendship : the last poem she ever wrote, an exquisite one, was sent 
 to his Magazine — but I countermanded it — nor is there any publication to which 
 I shall entrust that and the rest unless to yours. You will tell me by a word to 
 the care of Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 
 
 I have never heard from Mr. Francis, by the way, since he printed the 
 ' ' Napoleon III, " etc. — does he wish me to continue to send him early proof-sheets 
 
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 of whatever else may be published in England? I, too, have lost the "explana- 
 tion of American affairs " and what can I do, in the absence of authentic infor- 
 mation, but assure you, however unnecessarily, of my belief in the justice, and 
 confidence in the triumph of the Great Cause ? I shall soon know a little of the 
 truth on recent events only to be guessed at now, but on the righteousness of 
 the principle I want no information. God prosper it and its defenders ! 
 Ever yours affectionately and gratefully, ROBERT BROWNING. 
 
 Portrait, etching from an early picture, some time before 1854. 
 
 Bryant, William Cullen, American poet and editor, born at Cumming- 
 ton, Mass., 3 November, 1794, died in New York, 12 June, 1878. 
 
 Manuscript of the Preface to his translation of the Odyssey [883 
 25], dated [August] 1871. 
 
 Burke, Edmund, Irish statesman, born in Dublin in 1729, died at Bea- 
 consfield, 9 July, 1797. 
 
 Letter, dated 23 November, 1779, to a person unknown who had 
 presented a book, also unknown, with a complimentary letter, to 
 Mr. Burke. 
 
 .Engraved portrait. 
 
 Burns, Robert, Scotch poet, born at Alloway in Ayrshire, 25 January, 
 1759, died at Dumfries, 21 July, 1796. 
 
 Manuscripts of two songs, "Robin shure in hairst" and "The 
 banks of Nith." The first is a revision of an old song called 
 "Robin sheared in hairst." Burns writes of it, in a letter of 6 
 January, 1789, to Robert Ainslie, who was Burns' s companion on 
 his first tour to the Border counties : 
 
 "I am still catering for Johnson's publication; and, among 
 others, I have brushed up the following old favorite song a little, 
 with a view to your worship. ' ' 
 
 The song, as amended, was first printed in the sixth volume of 
 Johnson's The Scot' s Musical Museum, 1803. 
 
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 The second song, " The Banks of Nith," was printed in the third 
 volume of The Scot's Musical Museum, 1790, to the tune "Robie 
 donna gorach," by Captain Riddel in the measure of "Goodnight 
 and joy be wi' ye a' . " 
 
 Both songs are reproduced in " The Complete Works of Robert 
 Burns," Gebbie, Phila., 1886, volume 3, pages 38 and 70 [821.2 
 B967— 7]. 
 
 Two portraits : 1, engraved by J. B. Hunt from the painting by 
 A. Nasmyth in 1787 now in the National Gallery, Edinburgh ; 2, 
 engraved by H. Robinson from the original chalk drawing by 
 Archibald Skirving now in Sir Theodore Martin's collection. 
 
 Burr, Aaron, American statesman, born in Newark, N. J., 6 February, 
 1756, died on Staten Island, N. Y., 14 September, 1836. 
 
 Leaf from an index in manuscript, made by Burr while he was 
 practicing law in Albany. The history of the manuscript is given 
 in an accompanying letter of identification written by the Hon. 
 Lewis B. Proctor of Albany. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by E. G. Williams & Brother, from a painting 
 by J. Vandyke. 
 
 Burroughs, John, American naturalist and author, born in Roxbury, 
 Mass., 3 April, 1837. 
 
 Signed manuscript of ' ' Winter neighbors, ' ' an essay first published 
 in the Century for December, 1884, volume 7, page 218, afterward 
 included in his volume A Year in the Fields [824.1 B972.y]. 
 Portrait, wood-engraving, nameless. 
 
 Byron, George Gordon Noel, Baron Byron of Rochdale, English poet, 
 born in London, 22 January, 1788, died at Missolonghi, Greece, 
 19 April, 1824. 
 
 Personal letter to Th. B. Hoppner, British consul-general at 
 Venice. The stanza included in the letter was written in celebration 
 
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 of the birth of Mr. Hoppner's little son, who was christened 
 John William Rizzo. The stanza was translated into ten different 
 languages: see Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, vol- 
 ume 2, page 114 [928.2 B.99.mo]. 
 
 January 18th, 1818 
 I wish you Joy and hope that the young Venetian and his Mother are both 
 doing their best. 
 
 His father's Sense, his Mother's Grace 
 
 In Him I hope will always fit so 
 With (still to keep him in good case) 
 The Health and Appetite of Rhzo. 
 
 Yrs ever B. 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving by H. Meyer, from the original drawing, 
 made in 1817, by George Henry Harlow. 
 
 Cable, George Washington, American author, born in New Orleans, 
 La., 12 October, 1844. 
 
 Manuscript of " A disinterested report, ' ' a paper, written about 
 1881, on the educational work of the American Missionary Asso- 
 ciation in the south, compiled by Mr. Cable from the testimony 
 of southern white men. The report is written with pencil upon 
 the reverse of a patent medicine circular and is wonderfully legible 
 and precise. Mr. Cable adds a note to the manuscript saying that 
 it is the first draft of the article, written with the left hand, and 
 quite different from the final copy for the printer. 
 
 Manuscript of article "The silent south," first published in 
 the Century for September, 1885, volume 8, page 674, reprinted, 
 during the same year, in a volume called "The Silent South, together 
 with The Freedman' 's Case in Equity, and The Convict Lease Sys- 
 tem'' [974.5 21]. 
 
 Campbell, Thomas, Scotch poet, born at Glasgow, 27 July, 1777, died 
 at Boulogne, 15 June, 1843. 
 
 Manuscript of "The emigrant," a poem published anonymously 
 in 1823 in the New Monthly Magazine, which Campbell edited from 
 
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 1820 to 1830. The lines are not included in ordinary collections 
 of Campbell's poems and are therefore reproduced : 
 
 "THE EMIGRANT. 
 
 When fire sets the forests on blaze, 
 
 It expires on their desolate track ; 
 But the love which has lighted our days, 
 
 Still burns when our prospects are black. 
 
 I must go to the Huron's wild grounds, 
 
 Whilst thou bloom' st to thine own native sun ; 
 
 Oh, the ocean that parts us has bounds, 
 But the grief of our parting has none. 
 
 Can the eagle fly home to his mate ? 
 
 Can he build by Niagara's foam ? 
 And are we interdicted by fate 
 
 From a spot of the world for our home ? 
 
 Thou art lost to me ev'n as the dead, 
 
 And our tears unavailingly flow ; 
 Yet to think they could cease to be shed, 
 
 Would be worse than this burthen of woe." 
 
 Portrait, engraved, nameless. 
 
 Carleton, William, generally known as "Will Carleton," American 
 poet, born in Hudson, Mich., 21 October, 1845. 
 
 Manuscript of "Will Carleton's Walks; above and under the 
 seething falls of Niagara." 
 
 Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, born at Haddington, 14 July, 1801, mar- 
 ried to Thomas Carlyle 17 October, 1826, died 21 April, 1866. 
 
 Private letter without address, place, or date, of no general 
 interest. 
 
 Cary, Miss Phoebe, American poet, born near Cincinnati, 24 Septem- 
 ber, 1824, died in Newport, R. I., 31 July, 1871. 
 
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 Letter, dated New York, February 9, 1858, to Mr. Tilton, accom- 
 panying a poem sent to the Independent. 
 
 Portrait, steel engraving, nameless. 
 
 Channing, The Rev. William Ellery, American clergyman, born in 
 Newport, R. I., 7 April, 1780, died in Bennington, Vt, 2 Octo- 
 ber, 1842. 
 
 Manuscript of " A sunset walk," a poem in blank verse. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by J. Cheney from a painting by Washington 
 Allston in 1811. 
 
 Chapin, The Rev. Edwin Hubbell, American clergyman, for many 
 years pastor of the Fourth Universalist Society, New York, born in 
 Union Village, N. Y., 29 December, 1814, died in New York City, 
 27 December, 1880. 
 
 Manuscript of a sermon, preached in the Broadway church, 19 
 May, 1861, called "The crown of life," from the text in James 
 i. -12. 
 
 Chase, Salmon Portland, American statesman and jurist, born in Cor- 
 nish, N. H., 13 January, 1808, chief justice of the Supreme Court 
 of the United States from 6 December, 1864, until his death in 
 New York City, 7 May, 1873. 
 
 Two letters, the first dated Washington, 9 July, 1867, the second 
 dated Washington, 19 April, 1868, both to Theodore Tilton. 
 
 The earlier letter, omitting the last paragraph, is published in 
 Robert B. Warden's Account of the Private Life and Public Services 
 of Salmon Portland Chase, 1874, page 668 [923.1 C.386.w]. 
 
 The second letter, though marked "strictly private," is published 
 in J. W. Shuckers's Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland 
 Chase, 1874, page 579 [923.1 C.386.s]. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by H. B. Hall, Jr., from a photograph. 
 
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 Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, Mrs. Seth Wells Cheney, American 
 author, born in Boston, 27 June, 1824. 
 
 Autograph copy of her translation of six out of thirteen " Selec- 
 tions from forty-eight epitaphs for Cecchino Bracci Fiorentino, who 
 died in Rome in his seventeenth year, Jan. 8, 1654 " published in 
 Selected Poems from Michelangelo Buonarroti, with translations 
 from various sources, edited by Ednah D. Cheney [851 10] . 
 
 Cheney, John Vance, American poet and librarian, born in Grove- 
 land, N. Y., 29 December, 1848. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Young love is lord," a poem first pub- 
 lished in the Century for April, 1886, volume 9, page 900. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Lass Lurline," a poem first published 
 in the Century for August, 1885, volume 8, page 656. 
 
 Child, Lydia Maria Francis, Mrs. David Lee Child, American author, 
 born in Medford, Mass., 11 February, 1802, died in Wayland, 
 Mass., 20 October, 1880. 
 
 A series of six personal letters, dated Wayland, Mass. , from 12 
 February, 1860, to 27 May, 1866, to Theodore Tilton. 
 
 All the letters, save the last one, date from the troubled period 
 of the civil war. Mrs. Child was one of the earliest and most out- 
 spoken of abolitionists and the letters are full of allusions which 
 show how bitter even a woman of her natural tolerance and sweet- 
 ness of disposition could become under the excitement of the great 
 struggle. The letters contain too many personal allusions to be 
 printed. 
 
 Clarke, The Rev. James Freeman, American clergyman, for many years 
 
 pastor of the Church of the Disciples, Boston, born in Hanover, 
 
 N. H., 4 April, 1810, died in Jamaica Plain, Mass., 8 June, 1888. 
 
 Manuscript of " The machine in politics and religion," a sermon 
 
 preached 22 October, 1882, in the Church of the Disciples, Boston, 
 
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 from the text in Ezekiel i : 20, "The spirit of the living creature 
 was in the wheels," afterward published as chapter twenty-five, 
 "Moral mechanics and dynamics," in the volume Every-Day 
 Religion [241 62] . 
 
 Clay, Henry, American statesman, born in Hanover Co., Va., 12 
 April, 1777, died in Washington, 29 June, 1852. 
 
 Letter, dated White Sulphur Springs, 7 July, 1828, to Col. 
 Joseph Lovell and a group of gentlemen of Kanawha Court House, 
 now Charleston, West Virginia, expressing Mr. Clay's regret at 
 being unable to accept an invitation to a public dinner in his 
 honor. 
 
 Letter, dated 13 July, also to Col. Lovell, accompanying an 
 address, evidently asked for by the same group of gentlemen, 
 which is to be used at their discretion. The address is occu- 
 pied with two subjects : first, a defense of himself against the 
 "bargain and corruption" charges which were made directly after 
 his acceptance of the portfolio of state from President John 
 Quincy Adams ; second, a statement of his ideas on the " Ameri- 
 can system," otherwise the tariff. 
 
 Letter, dated Ashland, 18 June, 1833, to Messrs. Parks and 
 South worth, referring them to printed sources for details as to his 
 life for use in a work on American Statesmen and Orators. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by A. Sealey from a daguerreotype by Root. 
 
 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, American author, known as "Mark 
 Twain," born in Florida, Monroe Co., Mo., 30 November, 1835. 
 
 Manuscript of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer's 
 comrade, scene, the Mississippi valley, time, forty to fifty years ago. 
 First published by Charles L. Webster & Co. in 1885 [T97 — 2] . 
 
 Cleveland, Grover, twenty-second president of the United States, 
 born in Caldwell, N. J., 18 March, 1837. 
 
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 Manuscript of " A proclamation by the President of the United 
 States" for Thanksgiving Day, dated 2 November, 1885. 
 
 Letter, dated Executive Mansion, Washington, 13 December, 
 1885, to Mr. J. N. Larned, concerning the manuscript entered 
 above. 
 
 Cobbe, Miss Frances Power, Irish author and philanthropist, born in 
 Dublin, 4 December, 1822. 
 
 Signed manuscript of the conclusion of an article, dated 
 February, 1886, on "Faith healing and fear killing," pub- 
 lished in the Contemporary Review for June, 1887, volume 51, 
 page 794. 
 
 This bright, wholesome-minded Irishwoman after seventy long, 
 busy years could, in the preface to her Life, [928.2 C.633], 
 write the following : 
 
 "I would gladly accept the permission to run my earthly race 
 once more from beginning to end, taking sunshine and shade 
 just as they have flickered over the long vista of my seventy 
 years. ' ' 
 
 The printed form of the article differs somewhat from this manu- 
 script, which is as follows : 
 
 " Old Selden in his Table Talk says ' To preach long and loud and damnation 
 is the way to be cried up. Men love the man who damns them and run after him 
 again to save them ! ' The secret has I fear been bequeathed to our modern 
 priests the doctors. It is right and proper for them to warn us in moderation 
 but they carry the joke too far. ' Touch not ! Taste not ! Handle not ! There 
 is death in the Pot ! 'Ware Microbes here ! 'Ware bacili there ! 'Ware drains 
 everywhere ! All the world's a hospital and all the men and women merely 
 patients. ' They point to our hearts and bid us be anxious for nothing, not on 
 Christian principles but lest we 'dilate' that 'muscle.' They point to our 
 stomachs and repeat practically, Voltaire's inscription on the statue of Love, — 
 
 ' Qui que lu sois, void Ion maitre 
 II Vest, lefAt ou le doit $tre ! ' 
 
 There is no end to the ' host of spectres pale ' which beleaguer us summoned by 
 their spells and clothed with additional terrors by the alarming new scientific names 
 
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 they have bestowed on them. But there ought to be some limits to this perpet- 
 ual cry of ' Wolf ! Wolf ! ' We must all die sooner or later whether with the 
 aid of scientific advisers or without it ; and it would be better to die sooner, pur- 
 suing noble objects, performing natural duties and enjoying natural pleasures, than 
 a little later, amid pitiful anxieties and odious inoculations and messes, like the 
 years of the existence of Moliere's ' Malade Imaginaire.' Perhaps we may never 
 discover the secret of 'Faith Healing'; but at least we can avoid 'Fear Killing' 
 — dying by inches out of sheer anxiety to live, and being slain at last by the 
 very dread of death." 
 
 Cockburn, Sir George, British admiral of the fleet, born in 1772, died 
 19 August, 1853. 
 
 Copy in manuscript of "Extract from a Diary with particular 
 reference to General Napoleon Bonaparte on the passage from Eng- 
 land to Saint Helena in 1815 on board H. M. S. Northumberland 
 bearing the Rear Admiral's Flag." This copy was sent to Lord 
 Shaftesbury" with the following letter of explanation : 
 
 St. Katharine's, June 16, 1860. 
 My Lord : 
 
 Since the future policy of Napoleon the 3d, agreeably to the expression 
 of His Majesty's own writings, appears to be the gradual development of the 
 views of the 1st Emperor, tempered by passing events, I have ventured to 
 request the presentation of the accompanying copy of a M. S. S. to your Lordship, 
 with the hope that it may prove interesting and perhaps useful, in throwing addi- 
 tional light upon subjects of probable importance to the Government. It has 
 not been published either at home or abroad. Your Lordship may fully rely upon 
 the authenticity of the M. S. S. I have the honor to remain My Lord your obedi- 
 ent and faithful servant JOHN G. H. HILL. 
 
 The manuscript has since been published, in 1888, with the above 
 title, with a preface by Thos. Salkeld Borradaile [944.5 227] the 
 printed book varying from this copy in being somewhat more 
 complete. 
 
 Coleridge, Hartley, English author, eldest son of Samuel Taylor Cole- 
 ridge, born at Clevedon, Somersetshire, 19 September, 1796, died 
 at Grasmere, 6 January, 1849. 
 
 Original manuscript of "Address to certain golden fishes," a 
 poem first published in the Literary Souvenir for 1830, included in 
 
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 his " Poems, with a memoir of his life, by his Brother" volume 1, 
 page 123 [821.2 C6928— 1]. 
 
 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, English poet and philosopher, born at Ottery 
 St. Mary, 21 October, 1772, died at Highgate, 25 July, 1834. 
 
 Signed manuscript of a sonnet "To Mr. William Linley." 
 The sonnet was first printed in the Annual Anthology, Bristol, 
 1800, and is reproduced in editions of Coleridge's poems among 
 the "Sibylline Leaves," under the title "Lines to W. L., Esq. 
 while he sang a song to Purcell's music" [821.2 C693— 3]. 
 William Linley was the youngest brother of the three famous 
 Linley sisters, one of whom was the wife of Richard Brinsley 
 Sheridan. He was a composer and author of some note and in 
 his youth a charming singer. 
 
 The manuscript differs slightly from the printed versions and for 
 this reason is reprinted : 
 
 " While my young cheek preserves its healthful hues 
 And I have many friends, who hold me dear — 
 Linley ! methinks, I would not often hear 
 Such melodies as thine, lest I should lose 
 All memory of the wrongs and sore distress 
 For which my miserable brethren weep : 
 But should uncomforted misfortunes steep 
 My daily bread in tears and bitterness, 
 And if in Death's dread moment I should lie 
 With no beloved face by my bed side 
 To catch the last glance of my closing eye 
 O God ! such songs breath'd by my angel guide 
 Would make me pass the cup of anguish by, 
 Mix with the blest, nor know that I had died ! " 
 
 (Dated) 
 
 Donhead 
 
 September 12, 1797. 
 
 Portrait, engraved, nameless. 
 
 Collins, William Wilkie, English author, born in London, January 
 1824, died in London, 23 September, 1889. 
 
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 Manuscript of "The Two Destinies" first published in Temple 
 Bar volumes 46-48, from January to September, 1876, and issued 
 in book form in the latter part of the same year [C7138 — 31] . 
 
 The manuscript is endorsed "Presented to the Buffalo Library, 
 U. S. A., by Wilkie Collins, London, 23 June, 1886." 
 
 Portrait, engraved on steel by F. Halpine from a photograph. 
 
 Collyer, The Rev. Robert, Unitarian clergyman, born in Keighley, 
 England, 8 December, 1823. 
 
 Letter, dated Chicago, 19 September, 1864, to Theodore Tilton. 
 The writer was pastor of Unity Church, Chicago, at the time of 
 this letter, which gives a general account of the success of his work 
 and some impressions of existing political conditions. Lincoln's 
 second election was pending and there were fears among his 
 friends that Fremont's candidacy would throw the election to 
 McClellan. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by George E. Perine from a photograph. 
 
 Cone, Miss Helen Gray, American poet, born in New York, 8 March, 
 1859, instructor in English literature in the Normal College of New 
 York City. 
 
 Signed manuscript of " Woodnotes from a cage," a poem pub- 
 lished in St. Nicholas for November, 1885, volume 13, pt. 1, 
 page 36. 
 
 Autograph copy of two poems, "Oberon" and "Puck" which 
 form respectively the introductions to the grave and gay portions of 
 her volume Oberon and Puck [821.1 C7470]. The author gives 
 May, 1885, as the date when the poems were written, and copied 
 them for this collection 17 February, 1886. 
 
 Congreve, William, English dramatist, born at Bardsey, near Leeds, in 
 1670, died in London, 19 January, 1729. 
 
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 Manuscript of an eight-line stanza, dated at Bath, 24 August, 
 1728, evidently written while the poet was in that city with the 
 Duchess of Marlborough and the poet Gay : 
 
 " Not so robust in body as in mind 
 And allways undejected tho' declined 
 Not wondering at the world's new wicked ways 
 Compared with Those of our Fore father's days 
 For Virtue now is neither more nor less 
 And Vice is only varied in the Dress 
 Believe it Men have ever been the same 
 And all the Golden age is but a Dream." 
 
 Conway, The Rev. Moncure Daniel, Unitarian clergyman, born at 
 Middleton, Stafford Co., Va., 17 March, 1832. 
 
 Letter, dated Concord, Mass., February 26, [1863], to Theodore 
 Tilton. 
 
 "Your note was rec'd a day or two ago. My narrative of my own emancipa- 
 tion and that of my father's slaves by their own efforts, and our adventures in 
 passing under the Cloud and through the Sea, has excited a. good deal of atten- 
 tion and feeling in my audiences. So long as I have calls to give it as a lecture 
 as frequently as now I shall not print it. There is now a project on foot among 
 some of the anti-slavery folks of this region to send me over to England at this 
 juncture of affairs there to bear a Virginian's testimony concerning American 
 Slavery, and sketch the traitors, (many of the leading ones I know personally). 
 So in that case I shall take all my lectures. But I tell you what I would like 
 very much before I go, — which will be early in April, — and that is to give my 
 story in New York. Couldn't I give it in Plymouth Church ? I had rather give it 
 there than in Cheever's where I gave it before. Love to Mr. Beecher and thanks 
 for his having uprooted that Weed." 
 
 Cook, Clarence Chatham, American art critic and author, born in Dor- 
 chester, Mass., 8 September, 1828. 
 
 Letter, dated 78th St. [New York] Nov. 7th, 1861, to Charles 
 A. Dana. Mr. Dana's differences with Mr. Greeley on the conduct 
 of the civil war had not yet caused the former to leave the Tribune. 
 Mr. Cook was at this time a member of the Tribune staff. The 
 letter gives an inside view of the facts in the case commented upon 
 
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 by the Tribune in a leading article called " Good for stock- 
 jobbers. ' ' 
 
 Letter, dated 11 October, 1864, [to Theodore Tilton], com- 
 menting on a review of a picture by Carpenter [President Lincoln 
 signing the proclamation of emancipation] in the Independent. The 
 following extract is interesting as showing a protest against the 
 theory "art for art's sake " made thirty -five years ago. 
 
 ' ' ' Art ' is not dillettanteism nor make-believe of any sort — it is as wide and 
 deep as humanity, and is, or ought to be, the exponent of what is profoundest in 
 human experience. The poor, the sick, the suffering, the deeply troubled ought to 
 be helped, comforted, lifted up by the artist — 'tis one of the sweetest, strongest 
 chains by which God draws us to him, and it is simply folly to try at this late 
 day to take away from God this servant of his and insist that he is no temple- 
 server, nor priest, no, nor even altar-boy, but only a paid panderer to our pleas- 
 ures, to the lowest of them too — a hired dancer and of the lower sort too. In 
 no canting, and in no merely sectarian or theologic sense is this view to be fought 
 against, tooth and nail, to the destruction it may be of all the little men who so 
 vigorously defend the trade by which they get their bread and butter — but in a 
 high, determined spirit as righting to gain and keep for the side of Truth and 
 Goodness one of God's messengers who has for three hundred years or so been 
 made to serve the Adversary with too great diligence. " 
 
 Coolbrith, Miss Ina Donna, California poet, formerly librarian of Oak- 
 land Public Library, born near Springfield, 111. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Retrospect: Los Angeles," first pub- 
 lished in the Century for February, 1886, volume 9, page 536. 
 
 Cooper, James Fenimore, American author, born in Burlington, N. J., 
 15 September, 1789, died in Cooperstown, N. Y., 14 September, 
 1851. 
 
 Manuscript of part of chapter sixteen of The Headsman, or The 
 Abbaye des Vignerons" [C777 — 7] first published in 1833. The 
 manuscript is accompanied by a letter from Paul F. Cooper, the 
 son of the novelist, to L. B. Proctor, Esq. and a letter from the 
 latter to James F. Gluck reconveying the manuscript to him. 
 
 Portrait engraved by J. C. Buttre from a daguerreotype by Brady 
 in September, 1850, in possession of Mrs. H. F. Phinney. 
 
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 Cowper, William, English poet, born at Great Berkhampstead, 15 No- 
 vember, 1731, died at East Dereham, 25 April, 1800. 
 
 A long, interesting letter from the poet whom Southey called 
 "the best of English letter -writers, " dated Weston, 25 March, 
 1791 to Lady Hesketh, written the spring before the publica- 
 tion of his translation of Homer. The letter is published in 
 the fourth volume of the Bohn edition of his works [821.2 
 C876— 1]. 
 
 Vignette portrait, engraved by H. Robinson. 
 
 Crabbe, The Rev. George, English poet, born at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 
 24 December, 1754, died at Trowbridge, 3 February, 1832. 
 
 Manuscript sermon first preached at Trowbridge, 14 August, 1825 
 from the text in 1 Thessalonians iv : 1. 
 
 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, Mrs. George Lillie Craik, English author, 
 born at Stokeham-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, 20 April, 1826, died 
 at Shortlands, Kent, 12 October, 1887. 
 
 Manuscript of "In the Happy Valley, by the author of John 
 Halifax, Gentleman," a story published in Our Young Folks for 
 July, 1869, volume 5, page 444. 
 
 Cranch, Christopher Pearse, American painter and poet, born at Alex- 
 andria, Va., 8 March, 1813, died in Cambridge, Mass., 20 January, 
 1892. 
 
 Manuscripts of the following poems, " Ralph Waldo Emerson ; 
 The lady's sonnet : Twilight ; The lover's sonnet : Midnight • 
 After-life ; Prince Yousuf and the Alcayde, a ballad, ' ' all of which 
 were published in his volume " Ariel and Caliban, with other poems 
 [821.1 C89.a]. 
 
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 Crawford, Francis Marion, American novelist, son of Thomas Craw- 
 ford, the sculptor, born in Italy, 2 August, 1845. 
 
 Signed manuscript of chapters twenty-three and twenty-four of 
 his novel A Roman Singer, first printed in the Atlantic Monthly, July, 
 1883 — June, 1884, volumes 52 and 53, afterward published in book 
 form [C902— 18]. 
 
 Curtis, George William, American author and reformer, born in Provi- 
 dence, R. I., 24 February, 1824, died on Staten Island, N. Y., 31 
 August, 1892. 
 
 Manuscript of the " Easy Chair ' ' from Harper's Monthly for Jan- 
 uary, 1886, volume 72, page 315, with a letter, dated 19 Decem- 
 ber, 1885, to Mr. Gluck concerning it. 
 
 Two personal letters, dated North Shore, 18 and 23 October, 
 1865, to Theodore Tilton. The letters tell of the delight of Mr. 
 Curtis's children over the gift, from the author, of Mr. Tilton's 
 books Golden-Haired Gertrude, and The Fly. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by J. C. Buttre from an early drawing. 
 
 Dana, Richard Henry, American author, born in Cambridge, Mass., 15 
 November, 1787, died in Boston, 2 February, 1879. 
 
 Signed autograph copy of the "Introduction to the Buccaneer," 
 accompanied by a note, dated 43 Chestnut St. , Jan. 23, 1841 to G. 
 S. Hillard, Esq. 
 
 "The Buccaneer" is Mr. Dana's best known poem and was first 
 published in 1827. It is included in Poetical and Prose Writings 
 [820.1 D169vl]. The five stanzas of the Introduction maybe 
 found in many collections of poetry. 
 
 The note is as follows : 
 
 My dear sir : Making an autographic exhibition of myself runs counter to my 
 idiosyncrasy but I cannot refuse you. And under the same loving necessity I send 
 you the lines that you ask a copy of. 
 
 R. H. D. 
 
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 Davis, Jefferson, President of the Confederate States of America, born 
 in Todd Co., Kentucky, 3 June, 1808, died in New Orleans, La., 6 
 December, 1889. 
 
 Letter, dated War Dept., 23 December, 1854, to I. C. McMahon, 
 Washington, D. C. Mr. Davis was secretary of war under Presi- 
 dent Pierce at this time. The letter concerns an official detail 
 and is interesting solely as a specimen of Mr. Davis's hand- 
 writing. 
 
 Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding, Mrs. Lemuel Clark Davis, born in 
 Washington, Pa., 24 June, 1831. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Some testimony in the case," an article 
 on the negro problem, first published in the Atlantic Monthly for 
 November, 1885, volume 56, page 602. The manuscript is accom- 
 panied by a letter from Mrs. Davis to Mr. Aldrich, at that time the 
 editor of the Atlantic Monthly. 
 
 De Kay, Charles, American poet and journalist, for some years literary 
 editor of the New York Times, grandson of Joseph Rodman Drake, 
 born at Washington, D. C, 25 July, 1848. 
 
 Manuscript of an article on Antoine Louis Barye, written under 
 the pseudonym Henry Eckford, first published in the Century for 
 February, 1886, volume 9, page 483. 
 
 DeQuincey, Thomas, English author, born at Greenhay, Manchester, 
 15 August, 1785, died at Lasswade, near Edinburgh, 8 December, 
 1859. 
 
 Proof-sheets, with many corrections and additions, viz.: manu- 
 script and proofs of the Preface to "Essays sceptical and anti- 
 sceptical;" proofs from "Miracles as subjects of testimony;" 
 from "Casuistry;" from "Greece under the Romans;" from 
 " Homer and the Homeridae," and thirty-four notes, most of them 
 
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 without address or signature, according to DeQuincey's habit, 
 nearly all of them addressed to his publishers. 
 
 The notes, many of which are written on odd scraps of paper, 
 are filled with side-lights on the author's physical condition and 
 with hints of his pecuniary difficulties. Taken together they make 
 a picture of DeQuincey's existence which appeals strongly to the 
 reader's sympathy. 
 
 Portrait, anonymous steel-engraving. 
 
 Dickens, Charles, English author born at 387 Mile End Terrace, 
 Commercial Road, Landsport, Portsea, 7 February, 1812, died at 
 Gadshill, 9 June, 1870. 
 
 Manuscript of " The great international walking match of Febru- 
 ary 29th, 1868. ' ' The match was devised by Dickens during his 
 trip to America in 1868 and was managed by him and James T. 
 Fields. The latter prints this description, somewhat altered by 
 the author, in his Yesterdays with Authors, pages 177-183 [824.1 
 F462.y]. 
 
 . A private letter to James R. Osgood, from Norwich, March 29th, 
 1867, answering a proposition to write for the new children's maga- 
 zine published by Ticknor and Fields and agreeing to give a story 
 of the length of Hunted Down for ^1000. The story, " Holiday 
 romance," was published in Our Young Folks, January, March, 
 April and May, 1868, volume 4. 
 
 Letter to Fields, Osgood & Co. from office of All the Year 
 Round, March 2, 1869. 
 
 Five portraits: 1, engraving, anonymous ; 2, engraving by 
 D. J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall ; 3, engraving by J. A. 
 J. Wilcox j 4, outline engraving by C. H. Jeens from the Maclise 
 painting of 1839 ; 5, engraving by J. C. Buttre. 
 
 Dickinson, Miss Anna Elizabeth, American orator and reformer, born 
 in Philadelphia, 28 October, 1842. 
 
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 Personal letter, dated Philadelphia, May 15, 1867, to Theodore 
 Tilton. 
 
 Portraits: 1, engraved by G. E. Perine; 2, process cut from 
 a photograph by Sarony. 
 
 Disraeli, Isaac, English author, of Jewish descent, father of Lord 
 Beaconsfield, born at Enfield, Middlesex, May, 1766, died at Brad- 
 enham House, Buckinghamshire, 19 January, 1848. 
 
 Manuscript of a poem, dated Brighton, 3 August, 1805, "The 
 English Muse to Thomas Powell, Esq., on his having composed 
 two comic -heroic poems in English and in French." 
 
 The English poem was called "Emma, or The Baculiniad," 
 the French " La Diane au Bain." 
 
 Musa loquitur : 
 " Unfilial traitor ! oft I hailed thy strain 
 When Emma was the vision of thy brain ; 
 But now a rebel in this bold essay — 
 Oh crime unknown ! — six chants en vers francais ! 
 Mine are these ardours ! all the fancy mine ! 
 My freer genius nerves each gallic line ; 
 With my own arms thou makest my Rival strong ; 
 The british flame, breaks in her colder song ! 
 Ingrate ! these foreign bays in vain you boast, 
 Your crime self-punished views the glory lost ! 
 The applauding Gaul who reads thy sportive strain 
 Shall wreathe these vine-leaves round the Muse of Seine ; 
 Shall laugh to scorn thy ever-baffled claim, 
 And eager rase the impostor's English name " 
 
 MUSA ANGLICANA. 
 
 Dodge, Miss Mary Abby, American author, better known by her pen- 
 name, "Gail Hamilton," born in Hamilton, Mass., in 1833, died 
 17 August, 1896. 
 
 Signed manuscript of an essay on "Words," presented to Mr. 
 Gluck for the library by James Redpath. 
 
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 A brilliant, characteristic, personal letter, dated Hamilton, Mass., 
 13 November, 1869, to Theodore Tilton, beginning as follows : 
 
 "I am long-suffering and forgiving to a fault but never, while reason remains 
 will I write for a man who calls me Abigail Dodge ! Suppose I should up and 
 call you Theodolite Tilton would you not scintillate through three columns of the 
 Independent in a fine frenzy rolling ? Generally I don't answer Abigail letters at 
 all — looking into space with a lofty disdain." 
 
 Dodge, Mary Mapes, Mrs. William Dodge, American author, editor of 
 St. Nicholas, born in New York City in 1838. 
 
 Autograph copy, signed, of the second stanza of the poem 
 "Heart-oracles," included in her volume Along the way [821.1 
 D645.a]. 
 
 Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley, Mrs. Seneca R. Dorr, American poet and 
 novelist, born in Charleston, S. C, 13 February, 1825. 
 
 Letter, dated Rutland, Vt., 4 August, 1886, to Mr. Gluck, accom- 
 panying an autograph copy of her poem ' ' A dream of songs unsung, ' ' 
 dated 4 January, 1884, published in her volume Afternoon Songs 
 [821.1 D716.a]. 
 
 Dorset, Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of, and Earl of Middlesex, English 
 poet and courtier, born 24 January, 1637-8, died at Bath, 29 Jan- 
 uary, 1706. 
 
 Manuscript of two characteristic stanzas called "Another new 
 song to Cloris from the Blind Archer. ' ' The manuscript is from 
 Alexander Pope's collection and bears an indorsement by him of its 
 genuineness. 
 
 Douglass, Frederick, Negro journalist and orator, born at Tuckahoe, 
 Md., February, 1817, died in Washington, 20 February, 1895. 
 
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 Letter, dated Rochester, 20 June, 1863, to Theodore Tilton, 
 congratulating him on his anniversary speech on behalf of the negro 
 race and thanking him for it. 
 
 Letter, dated Rochester, 15 October, 1864, to Theodore Tilton, 
 which is printed in full, omitting some slight closing personalities : 
 
 Rochester, Oct. 15, 1864. 
 My Dear Mr. Tilton: 
 
 I am obliged by your favor containing a copy of your recent speech in Latimer 
 hall. I had read that speech in the Tribune several days ago, and in my heart 
 thanked you for daring thus to break the spell of enchantment which slavery, 
 though wounded, dying and despised, is still able to bind the tongues of our 
 republican orators. It was a timely word wisely and well spoken, the best and 
 most luminous spark struck from the flint and steel of this canvass. To all 
 appearance we have been more ashamed of the negro during this canvass than 
 those of '56 and '60. The President's " To whom it may concern," frightened 
 his party and his party in return frightened the President. I found him in this 
 alarmed condition when I called upon him six weeks ago — and it is well to note the 
 time. The country was struck with one of those bewilderments which dethrone 
 reason for the moment. Every body was thinking and dreaming of peace — and 
 the impression had gone abroad that the President's antislavery policy was about 
 the only thing which prevented a peaceful settlement with the Rebels. McClellan 
 was nominated and at that time his prospects were bright as Mr. Lincoln's were 
 gloomy. You must therefore, judge the President's words in the light of the cir- 
 cumstances in which he spoke. Atlanta had not fallen ; Sheridan had not swept 
 the Shenandoah — and men were ready for peace almost at any price. The Presi- 
 dent was pressed on every hand to modify his letter " To whom it may concern " 
 — how to meet this pressure he did me the honor to ask my opinion. He showed 
 me a letter written with a view to meet the peace clamour raised against him. 
 The first point made in it was the important fact that no man or set of men 
 authorized to speak for the Confederate Government had ever submitted a propo- 
 sition for peace to him. Hence the charge that he had in some way stood in the 
 way of peace fell to the ground. He had always stood ready to listen to any such 
 propositions. The next point referred to was the charge that he had in his 
 Niagara letter committed himself and the country to an abolition war rather than 
 a war for the union, so that even if the latter could be attained by negotiation, 
 the war would go on for Abolition. The President did not propose to take back 
 what he had said in his Niagara letter but wished to relieve the fears of his peace 
 friends by making it appear that the thing which they feared could not happen 
 and was wholly beyond his power. Even if I would, I could not carry on the 
 war for the abolition of slavery. The country would not sustain such a war and 
 I could do nothing without the support of Congress. I could not make the 
 abolition of slavery an absolute prior condition to the re-establishment of the 
 union. All that the President said on this point was to make manifest his want 
 of power to do the thing which his enemies and pretended friends professed to be 
 
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 afraid he would do. Now the question he put to me was " Shall I send forth this 
 letter?" To which I answered "Certainly not." It would be given a broader 
 meaning than you intend to convey — it would be taken as a complete surrender 
 of your antislavery policy — and do you serious damage. In answer to your 
 Copperhead accusers your friends can make this argument of your want of power 
 
 — but you cannot wisely say a word on that point. I have looked and feared 
 that Mr. Lincoln would say something of the sort, but he has been perfectly silent 
 on that point and I think will remain so. But the thing which alarmed me most 
 was this: The President said he wanted some plan devised by which we could 
 get more of the slaves within our lines. He thought that now was their time — 
 and that such only of them as succeeded in getting within our lines would be free after 
 the war is over. This shows that the President only has faith in his proclamations 
 of freedom during the war and that he believes their operation will cease with the 
 war. We were long together and there was much said • — but this is enough. 
 
 I gave my address, To the People of the U. S., to the Committee appointed to 
 publish the Minutes of the Convention. It is too lengthy for a newspaper 
 article though of course I should be very glad to see it noticed in the Independent. 
 You may not be aware that I do not see the Independent now-a-days. It was 
 discontinued several months ago. If you were not like myself taxed on every 
 hand both by your own disposition to give and the disposition of others to ask 
 I should ask you to send me the Independent for one year on your own account. 
 
 We had Anna Dickinson here on Thursday night. Her speech made a pro- 
 found impression. Nothing from Phillips, Beecher or yourself could have been 
 more eloquent, and in her masterly handling of statistics she reminded one of 
 Horace Mann in his palmiest days. I never listened to her with more wonder. 
 One thing however I think you can say to her, if you ever get the chance, for it 
 ought to be said and she will hear it and bear it from you, as well or better than 
 from most other persons, and that is Stop that walking. She walked incessantly 
 
 — back and forth — from one side the broad platform to the other. It is a new 
 trick and one which I neither think useful or ornamental but really a defect and 
 disfigurement. She would allow me to tell her so, I think, because she knows how 
 sincerely I appreciate both her wonderful talents and her equally wonderful devo- 
 tion to the cause of my enslaved race. 
 
 I am not doing much in this Presidential Canvass for the reason that Repub- 
 lican committees do not wish to expose themselves to the charge of being the 
 " Niggar " party. The negro is the deformed child which is put out of the room 
 when company comes. I hope to speak some after the election, though not much 
 before, and I am inclined to think I shall be able to speak all the more usefully 
 because I have had so little to say during the present canvass. I now look upon 
 the election of Mr. Lincoln as settled. When there was any shadow of a hope 
 that a man of more decided antislavery convictions and policy could be elected, 
 I was not for Mr. Lincoln, but as soon as the Chicago convention my mind was 
 made up and it is made up still. All dates changed with the nomination of 
 McClellan. 
 
 I hope that in listening to Mr. Stanton's version of my visit to the President 
 you kept in mind something of Mr. Stanton's own state of mind concerning 
 
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 public affairs. I found him in a very gloomy state of mind, much less hopeful 
 than myself, and yet more cheerful than I expected to find him. I judge from 
 your note that he must have imparted somewhat of the hue of his own mind 
 to my statements. He thinks far less of the President's honesty than I do, and 
 far less of his antislavery than I do. I have not yet come to think that honesty 
 and politics are incompatible. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by A. H. Ritchie from a photograph. 
 
 Dryden, John, English poet, born at Aldwinkle All Saints, Northamp- 
 tonshire, 9 August, 1631, died in London, 1 May, 1700. 
 
 Signed manuscript of the famous epistle "To my dear friend 
 Mr. Congreve on his Comedy called the ' Double Dealer. ' ' ' 
 
 Congreve's comedy was first played in November, 1693 but with- 
 out the popular favor that might have been anticipated from Dry- 
 den's almost fulsome praises. 
 
 The "epistle " is reproduced in good editions of Dryden [e. g.. 
 821.2 D799— lv2or 821.2 D799— 2vll]. 
 
 2 engraved portraits, nameless. 
 
 Dumas, Alexandre, French novelist and dramatist, born at Villers- 
 Cotterets (Aisne), 24 July, 1803, died at Puits near Dieppe, 5 
 December, 1870. 
 
 Short letter without place or date, giving a very good specimen 
 of the great novelist's handwriting and signature. 
 
 Eastman, Elaine Goodale, Mrs. Charles Eastman, American author 
 and teacher, born in Mount Washington, Mass., 9 October, 
 1863. 
 
 Letter, dated Hampton, Va., 28 December, 1885, to Mr. Gluck, 
 interesting only as an autograph. 
 
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 Edgeworth, Miss Maria, novelist, English by birth and family, Irish 
 by residence and sympathy, born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, 
 1 January, 1767, died at Edgevrorthstown, 22 May, 1849. 
 
 Letter, dated Edgeworthstown, 30 June, 1846, to "Messrs. T. 
 Robinson & Sons, Charleston, North America." 
 
 The letter is a request for the transmission, by the gentlemen to 
 whom it is addressed, of a package of Miss Edgeworth' s own writings 
 to her nephew, R. L. Edgeworth, resident in America. Though 
 the author was seventy-nine at this time, the writing is most 
 legible and steady and the letter very clearly and pleasantly 
 worded. 
 
 Portrait, engraved from the original painting by Chappell. 
 Biographers agree, however, that no portrait of Miss Edgeworth 
 was ever taken and that all so-called portraits of her are purely 
 fancy productions. 
 
 Edwards, Miss Amelia Blandford, English traveller, author and 
 archaeologist, born in 1831, died in London, 15 April, 1892. 
 
 Signed manuscript of " Monsieur Maurice, a novelette by the 
 author of 'Barbara's History,' etc." Written and first published 
 [E261— 8] in 1873 and presented 28 February, 1887, to Mr. Gluck 
 for the library. 
 
 Eggleston, The Rev. Edward, American author and clergyman, born in 
 Vevay, Ind., 10 December, 1837. 
 
 Manuscript of " A school of long ago," published in St. Nicholas 
 for July, 1885, volume 12, pt. 2, page 643. 
 
 lliot, George, originally Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans, afterward Mrs. 
 George Henry Lewes, later Mrs. John William Cross, English 
 
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 novelist, born in Warwickshire, 22 November, 1819, died in 
 London, 22 December, 1880. 
 
 Letter, dated The Heights, Witley near Godalming, 8 June, 
 1879, to Mr. Trubner, concerning some proof errors in Theophrastus 
 Such. 
 
 2 portraits: 1, etching by E. A. Fowle; 2, etching by S. A. 
 Schoff. 
 
 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, American author and philosopher, born in 
 Boston, 25 May, 1803, died in Concord, Mass., 27 April, 1882. 
 
 Signed manuscript of Representative men : seven lectures. 
 
 Francis H. Underwood preserved the manuscript and it bears the 
 following inscription in his handwriting: "This volume is made 
 up of the original manuscripts sent to the press by the illustrious 
 author. The handwriting is well known and the autograph is a 
 sufficient attestation. The manuscripts were preserved by me while 
 in the employ of the publishers of the works of Emerson, Messrs. 
 Phillips, Sampson & Co., between 1853 and 1859. 
 
 Boston, Dec. 7, 1873." 
 
 The manuscript shows traces of the author's habits of composition, 
 for nearly every page is scored and interlined with changes. Whole 
 paragraphs, whole pages in some cases, are scored out, sometimes 
 to appear again in another connection, sometimes to be rejected 
 entirely. The altered paging shows plainly the expansion of 
 thought as the subject was longer considered. The two earliest 
 essays are much more added to than the later ones. The lectures 
 were first delivered during the winter of 1845-46, beginning 11 
 December, before the Boston Lyceum, in the Odeon. They were also 
 delivered during Mr. Emerson's second visit to England, in 1847- 
 48, at the Athenseum, Manchester, and were first published in July, 
 1850, since when they have been often reprinted [824.1 E53.r]. 
 
 4 portraits : 1, steel-engraving by J. A. J. Wilcox ; 2, wood- 
 engraving by T. Cole from a drawing by Wyatt Eaton ; 3, 4, steel- 
 engravings, nameless. 
 
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 Fawcett, Edgar, American novelist and poet, born in New York City, 
 26 May, 1847. 
 
 Original manuscript of story " Sister Dorothy." 
 
 Manuscript of " Irony," a poem published in his volume Romance 
 andRevery, page 121 [821.1 F278.r]. 
 
 Manuscript of poem ' ' My echo. ' ' 
 
 Field, Miss Mary Katherine Kemble, better known as "Kate Field," 
 American journalist and author, born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1838, 
 died in Honolulu, 19 May, 1896. 
 
 Letter, dated Tremont House, Boston, November 6, 1862, 
 accompanying an article submitted to the editor of the Independent. 
 
 Fields, Annie Adams, Mrs. James Thomas Fields, born in Boston, 
 Mass., 1834. 
 
 Signed manuscripts of two poems, "To the poetess" and 
 "Theocritus " ; published in her volume Under the Olive, pages 13 
 and 121 [821.1 F461.u]. 
 
 Fields, James Thomas, American publisher, born in Portsmouth, N. H., 
 31 December, 1816, died in Boston, 24 April, 1881. 
 
 Letter, dated Boston, August 27, 1860, to Bayard Taylor, concern- 
 ing the publication of the blue and gold edition of Taylor's poems. 
 
 Note, dated office of the Atlantic Monthly, Boston, May 28, 
 1867, to Theodore Tilton, telling him that his article, "The 
 mystery of nature," is accepted for the Atlantic Monthly and will 
 appear as soon as a good place can be found for it. 
 
 Manuscript of extracts from a lecture on Shelley : 
 
 "There is an unpublished Ariette for music, which Shelley wrote to a lady 
 singing to her accompaniment on the guitar, which seems to me one of the most 
 
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 perfect songs that ever dropped out of a poet's heart. Every word falls into its 
 place as if born to fit it. Nothing can be conceived more faultless in finish and 
 it alone would give its author high place as a lutanist in verse if he had only 
 achieved this one melody. 
 
 ' As the moon's soft splendor 
 O'er the faint cold starlight of heaven is thrown 
 So thy voice most tender 
 To the strings without soul has given its own. 
 
 The stars will awaken 
 
 Though the moon sleep a full hour later tonight ; 
 
 No leaf will be shaken 
 
 Whilst the dews of thy melody scatter delight. ' 
 
 One day the teacher of Laura Bridgman, the deaf, dumb and blind girl, was 
 endeavoring to explain to her the difference between the material and the imma- 
 terial and he used the word soul. 
 
 ' What is soul ? ' inquired the poor child. 
 
 ' That which thinks, feels, hopes and loves, ' responded the teacher. 
 
 • And it aches too sometimes — don't it? ' eagerly questioned the poor girl ! 
 
 'Yes, Laura,' that is the penalty people have to pay for possessing a soul: 
 it will ache sometimes as Shelley discovered very early in his mortal pilgrim- 
 age." 
 
 Note from a lecture on Longfellow : 
 
 " I remember how instantaneously in the year 1839 The Voices of the Night sped 
 triumphantly on its way ! how it ran from house to house : how it was quoted at 
 the fireside and in the pulpit, in the cabin and in the forecastle : how men and 
 women ready to perish got hold of it and from those deep cisterns of hope and 
 confidence and love drew something that quenched despair and gave them heart 
 for any fate ! 
 
 What I claim for Longfellow is a high and honorable place in the poetical and 
 prose literature of this century ; a rank with some of the great spirits who still 
 rule us from their urns : a fame sound and enduring, a name that can never die 
 out of the annals of English literature and language. I find in him those price- 
 less qualities of excellence which the world having once recognized never forgets 
 or ceases to regard with affection. Longfellow interposes no difficulties in the 
 strait line to his reader's understanding." 
 
 Portrait, wood-engraving. 
 
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 Fiske, John, American evolutionist and historian, born at Hartford, 
 Conn., 30 March, 1842. 
 
 Review of James T. Fields : Biographical Notes and Personal 
 Sketches [928.1 F.46.f] written for the Atlantic Monthly and pub- 
 lished in the number for January, 1882, volume 49, page 134. 
 
 Portrait, wood-engraving from a photograph. 
 
 Foote, Mary Anna Hallock, Mrs. Arthur De Wint Foote, American 
 author and artist, born at Milton-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., 19 No- 
 vember, 1847. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "A cloud on the mountain," a short 
 story first published in the Century for November, 1885, volume 9, 
 page 28, afterward republished in her volume In Exile and Other 
 Stories [F689— 3]. 
 
 Wood-engraving, ' ' Ruth Mary stood on the high river-bank, ' ' en- 
 graved by T. Cole from a drawing by the author illustrating the story. 
 
 Forster, John, English historian and biographer, born at Newcastle, 2 
 April, 1812, died in Kensington, 2 February, 1876. 
 
 Letter, dated London, 16 March, 1869, to Fields, Osgood & Co., 
 announcing that the first volume of Forster' s Life of Landor has 
 been sent to them with the idea that they might possibly wish to 
 issue an American edition. Mr. Forster writes, ' ' As you will pub- 
 lish with my authority you must excuse my making it a condition 
 that no change of any kind how minute soever is to be made in my 
 text." The American edition [928.2 L.235.f] which was issued 
 in 1869, in one volume, instead of the English two, nevertheless 
 follows American forms of spelling. 
 
 Franklin, Benjamin, American statesman, born in Boston, 17 January, 
 1706, died in Philadelphia, 17 April, 1790. 
 
 Letter, dated London, 3 August, 1772, to Noble Wimberley 
 Jones, Esq., of Georgia. The letter was written while Franklin, 
 
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 as agent for Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Georgia, 
 was in London to obtain redress of grievances and wrongs, and is 
 as follows : 
 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 On my late Return from the Country I found your Favour of March 18 which 
 had been left by Mr. Stephens. I have not since seen him but shall be glad of 
 any Opportunity of seeing him on your recommendation. I see by the Papers 
 that your new Assembly is dissolved. I am concerned at the uncomfortable 
 Train your public Affairs have lately taken, but hope it cannot long continue. 
 You will see by the enclosed that the Lords of the Council have not favoured our 
 Petition. It was difficult to get them to give a Hearing to an Affair which they 
 had before considered and determined. There is supposed to be a Change 
 intended in the American Administration here. If it takes place I apprehend our 
 Affairs must receive some Advantage since we can scarce have a Minister less 
 favourable to our Interests than the present. With great and sincere Esteem I 
 have the Honor to be Sir your most obedient and most hum. Servant 
 
 B. FRANKLIN. 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving by H. Wright Smith from portrait by 
 Cochin, 1777. 
 
 Fremont, Jessie Ann Benton, the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart 
 Benton and the wife of Gen. John C. Fremont, American author, 
 born in Virginia, in 1824. 
 
 Manuscript of "American midshipmen at the tomb of Napo- 
 leon," a sketch first published in the Wide Awake for May, 1886, 
 in the Chautauqua Young Folks Reading Union department, page 
 128, volume 22, afterward reprinted in her volume Souvenirs of 
 My Time [923.1 F.885]. 
 
 Frothingham, The Rev. Octavius Brooks, American clergyman, born in 
 Boston, 26 November, 1822, died in Boston, 27 November, 1895. 
 Letter, dated April 27th [no year] , to Theodore Tilton, interest- 
 ing as an example of the very characteristic handwriting of the 
 author. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by H. B. Hall from a photograph. 
 
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 Gilder, Richard Watson, American poet, since the year 1881 editor- 
 in-chief of the Century, born in Bordentown, N. J., 8 Febru- 
 ary, 1844. 
 
 Signed manuscript of the poem "Recognition" published as 
 the opening of the third part of his volume The Celestial Passion, 
 page 45 [821.1 G4686.c] and afterward included in the collection 
 of his various smaller books called Five Books of Song, page 54 
 [821.1 G4686.f]. 
 
 The manuscript is endorsed by the author "the first incomplete 
 draft ' ' and varies somewhat from the printed version. With the 
 author's permission it is printed in full as giving an opportunity for 
 interesting observation of the poet's method. 
 
 "RECOGNITION. 
 
 I. 
 
 In waking visions of the awful night 
 
 This I beheld : Stark space and therein God, 
 
 God who in dual nature doth abide — 
 
 Love, and the Loved One, Power and Beauty's self ; 
 
 And forth from God did come — with dreadful thrill 
 
 Creation, boundless, to the eye unformed 
 
 And white with fire and light ineffable 
 
 And outward pulsings like the boreal flame : 
 
 One mighty cloud it seemed, nor star, nor earth, 
 
 Or like some nameless growth of the under-seas ; 
 
 Creation dumb, to the eye unconscious, yet alive 
 
 With swift, concentric, never-ceasing urge — 
 
 Resolving gradual to one disk of fire. 
 
 And as I looked, behold ! the flying rim 
 
 Grew separate from the centre ; this again divided 
 
 And the whole still swift revolved 
 
 Ring within ring, and fiery wheel in wheel ; 
 
 Till, sudden or slow as chanced, the outmost edge 
 
 Whirled into fragments, each a separate sun, 
 
 With lesser globes attendant on its flight. 
 
 These while I gazed turned dark with smouldering fires 
 
 And, slow contracting, grew to solid orbs. 
 
 Then knew I that this planetary world, 
 
 Cradled in light and curtained with the dawn 
 
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 And starry eve, was born ; though in itself 
 Perfect, and O most fair, yet but a part 
 And atom of the living universe. 
 
 II. 
 
 Unconscious still the child of the conscious God, 
 Creation, born of Beauty and of Love, 
 Beauty the womb and mother of all worlds. 
 But soon with silent speed the new-made earth 
 Swept near me where I watched the birth of things, 
 Its greatening bulk eclipsing, star by star, 
 Half the bright heavens. Then I beheld crawl forth 
 Upon the earth's cool crust most wondrous forms 
 Wherein were hid, in transmutation strange, 
 Sparks of the ancient, never-ceasing fire ; 
 Shapes moved not solely by exterior law 
 But having will and motion of their own, — 
 First sluggish and minute, then by degrees 
 Horrible, monstrous and enorm, without 
 Intelligence. Then other forms more fine 
 Streamed ceaseless on my sight until at last 
 Rising and turning its slow gaze about 
 Across the abysmal void, the mighty child 
 Of the supreme, divine Omnipotence — 
 Creation, born of God, by him begot, 
 Conscious in Man, no longer blind and dumb, 
 Beheld and knew its father and its God." 
 
 Signed manuscript of poem, "Failure and success," an eight- 
 line stanza published in his Two Worlds and Other Poems and 
 afterward included in his Five Books of Song, page 162 [821.1 
 G4686.f]. 
 
 Gladstone, William Ewart, English statesman, born at Liverpool, 29 
 December, 1809, died at Hawarden Castle, 19 May, 1898. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Russia and England," a paper pub- 
 lished in the Nineteenth Century for March, 1880, volume 7, 
 page 538, in review of Mme. NovikofT's book Russia and Eng- 
 land, by O. K. 
 
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 Godwin, Parke, American journalist and author, son-in-law of William 
 Cullen Bryant, born in Paterson, N. J., 25 February, 1816. 
 
 Letter, dated Roslyn, Long Island, June 26, 1871, to Theodore 
 Tilton, as follows : 
 
 "Your letter is persuasive enough to extract fire from a cucumber ; but 
 unfortunately I am less susceptible than even that proverbial esculent. I am so 
 many years behindhand with my book (long promised) that I allow myself no 
 time for anything else — except getting ill at times. Besides I wrote all I had to 
 say on Free Trade twenty years ago in the old Democratic Review and so much 
 better than I could write it now that I should hate to provoke any comparisons 
 on the part of ancient friends by any new adventures. Still, if I ever should get 
 time to think of matters later than the twelfth century, I would more willingly 
 write for the Golden. Age than for elsewhere. " 
 
 Portrait, engraved by H. B. Hall from a drawing by T. Hicks. 
 
 Godwin, William, English author, born at Wisbeach, Cambridge- 
 shire, 3 March, 1756, died in London, 7 April, 1836. 
 
 Letter, in third person, to Effingham Wilson, Esq., in 1830, 
 announcing the publication of Thoughts on Man. 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving, anonymous. 
 
 Gosse, Edmund William, English author, born in London, 21 Septem- 
 ber, 1849. 
 
 Original manuscript of a poem called " Summer flies " with the 
 following note to Richard Watson Gilder on the manuscript : 
 
 Dear Gilder 
 
 Eh? 
 Yours 
 
 E. G. 
 25.7.85. 
 
 The poem was first published under the title " Circling fancies " 
 in the Century for June, 1896, volume 10, page 259, and afterward 
 
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 included in Mr. Gosse's volume In Russet and Silver, page 85 
 [821.2 G678.i]. 
 
 Grant, Ulysses Simpson, eighteenth president of the United States, 
 born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, 27 April, 1822, died at Mt. 
 McGregor, N. Y., 23 July, 1885. 
 
 Personal letter, dated Long Branch, N. J., 3 August, 1884, to 
 Gen. James Grant Wilson : 
 
 " I have your letter of yesterday. On account of my continued lameness I will 
 not be able to attend the reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee 
 this year. 
 
 I have completed two of the four articles on the war that I promised the Cen- 
 tury Magazine, Shiloh and Vicksburg. The Wilderness Campaign — and that is 
 to be followed by one on the closing scenes of the war — is commenced. " 
 
 Facsimiles : of Gen. Grant's letter to Gen. Buckner at Fort 
 Donelson, Feb. 16th, 1862 ; of Gen. Grant's pass to Chas. New- 
 comb through the lines towards Hankerson's Ferry, June 29, 1863 ; 
 of Grant's Commission as Lieutenant General in the United States 
 Army, March 10, 1864 ; of Grant's letter to Gen. Sherman on the 
 fall of Atlanta, Sept. 4th, 1864. 
 
 Portraits, engravings from photographs, two by H. B. Hall, Jr., 
 one anonymous. 
 
 Gray, Thomas, English poet, born at Cornhill, London, 26 December, 
 1716, died at Cambridge, England, 30 July, 1771. 
 
 Manuscript of Latin notes of natural history observations. 
 
 Title page of M. d'Anville's Notice de V ancienne Gaule, with 
 autograph and memoranda by the poet. 
 
 Fac -simile of "Elegy, written in a country churchyard," illus- 
 trated with a view of Stoke Poges church etched by C. J. Smith 
 from a drawing by De Cort in 1790. 
 
 Fac-simile of a letter to Mr. Dodsley. 
 
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 Numbers of the London Chronicle for Aug. 12-15, 1775, and 
 for Aug. 15-17, 1775, containing " Some account of the Life and 
 Writings of Mr. Gray extracted from the Memoirs just published 
 by the Rev. Mr. Mason. ' ' 
 
 3 portraits : 1, engraved by Holl ; 2, engraved by J. Hopwood 
 from the original painting, at the age of fifteen, by Richardson ; 
 3, medallion engraving by H. W. Smith. 
 
 Greeley, Horace, American author and journalist, born in Amherst, 
 N. H., 3 February, 1811, died in Pleasantville, near New York 
 City, 29 November, 1872. 
 
 Manuscript signed " H. G.," Preface to Essays designed to eluci- 
 date the science of Political Economy, dated Dec. 1, 1869, published 
 by Ticknor and Fields, 1870 [330 44]. 
 
 Letter, dated office of the Tribune, New York, July 10, 1865, 
 to Theodore Tilton. 
 
 "I suppose I must stop writing for you under the vote of today ; tho' /don't 
 believe the Tribune has one less subscriber today for all I've written for the Inde- 
 pendent. However I shall slip in an article now and then without my name, for 
 I presume the name is the trouble. I don't think writing good articles for other 
 papers does hurt ; if I wrote bad ones it might. " 
 
 Letter, dated New York Tribune office, Dec. 16, 1871, to 
 F. N. Burdick, Labor Tribune, Philadelphia. 
 
 My dear Sir : 
 
 I have yours of the nth inst. I must answer briefly. 
 
 I judge myself an older man than you and therefore less hopeful of the imme- 
 diate future. You seem to think that uprightness in politics will win as a rule : 
 I am not sure of that. You judge the hired laborers in favor of Reform ; I hole 
 the most of them intensely Conservative and hopeless of improvement. Die 
 they ever even wish, to have slavery abolished ? Yet slavery would not permit 
 labor to be respected. I heartily wish my name had never been connected wit! 
 the Presidency. I see plainly that it can only result in vexation and misappre 
 
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 hension. And I shall never shape and groove my opinions to make myself 
 acceptable to any party. So far as the Labor party seems to me right, I approve 
 and commend its propositions but no further for twenty offices. 
 
 Yours, HORACE GREELEY. 
 
 Portraits: 1, engraved from a photograph. 2, mezzo-tint from 
 a drawing by J. Ruger, Brooklyn. 
 
 Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume, French historian and statesman, 
 born at Nimes, 4 October, 1787, died at Val Richer in Normandy, 
 12 September, 1874. 
 
 Letter, dated 8 January, 1846, from the Cabinet of the Ministere 
 des Affaires Etrangeres, to a colleague. 
 
 Hale, The Rev. Edward Everett, American author and clergyman, 
 born in Boston, 3 April, 1822. 
 
 Manuscript of an article on the " Chautauqua Literary and Scien- 
 tific Circle," published in the Century for November, 1885, 
 volume 9, page 147. 
 
 Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, Mrs. David Hale, American author, for 
 many years editor of Godey's Lady's Book, born in Newport, 
 N. H., 24 October, 1788, died in Philadelphia, 30 April, 1879. 
 
 Autograph stanza, dated Philadelphia, 24 March, 1854 : 
 
 " What might a single mind may wield 
 With Truth for sword and Faith for shield 
 
 And Hope to lead the way ! 
 Thus all great triumphs are obtained — 
 From evil good — as God ordained 
 
 The night before the day." 
 
 Portrait, engraved by W. G. Armstrong from the painting by 
 W. B. Chambers. 
 
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 Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, Canadian judge, and author known by 
 his pen name " Sam Slick," born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in 1797, 
 died at Isleworth, England, 27 August, 1865. 
 
 Letter, dated Gordon House, Isleworth, June 19th, 1865, to 
 person unknown. The letter expresses thanks for the gift of a book 
 and accepts the dedication of the second edition. 
 
 Portrait, wood-cut by N. Orr. 
 
 Hamilton, Alexander, American statesman, born on the island of 
 Nevis, West Indies, 11 January, 1757, died in New York City, 12 
 July, 1804. 
 
 Manuscript of a bill of costs in the New York Supreme Court, 
 October, 1784, with a letter from his son, James Alexander Hamil- 
 ton, to Ticknor and Fields, accompanying the gift. 
 
 Circular letter, from the Treasury Department, 8 June, 1792, 
 to the Collectors. A formal letter from Hamilton, as Secretary of 
 the Treasury, as to the construction to be placed upon certain 
 sections of the Collection Law. 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving by W. G. Jackman, from the painting 
 by L. W. Gibbs. 
 
 Hamilton, Sir William, diplomatist and archaeologist, born in Scot- 
 land, 13 December, 1730, died in London, 6 April, 1803. 
 
 Letter, dated Naples 24 April 1770 to Messrs. Hart & Wilkens. 
 
 Manuscript of "Loose thoughts relative to the Two Sicilies 
 and its present situation, Palermo, 28 August, 1799." Sir William 
 Hamilton was British envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten- 
 tiary at the court of Naples from 1764 to April, 1800, and accom- 
 panied the king and queen of Naples in their flight from Naples to 
 Palermo in December, 1798. The manuscript appears to have 
 been written during the period which he spent with the king and 
 queen at Palermo. 
 
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 Harris, Joel Chandler, American author and journalist, editor of 
 the Atlanta Constitution, born at Eatonton, Ga., 8 December, 
 1848. 
 
 Signed manuscript of " Trouble on Lost Mountain," a story first 
 published in the Century, for January, 1886, volume 9, page 425, 
 afterward included in his volume Free Joe, and Other Georgian 
 Sketches [H3145— 1]. 
 
 Letter, dated Atlanta, 9 April, 1883, to James R. Osgood, 
 about the publication of a forthcoming book [Nights with Uncle 
 Remus, 828.1 68]. 
 
 Harris, William Torrey, American educator and speculative philos- 
 opher, born at Killingly, Conn., 10 September, 1835. 
 
 Manuscript of an article on "A theory of insanity," published in 
 the Journal of Speculative Philosophy for January, 1887, volume 21, 
 page 222. 
 
 Harte, Bret, American poet and novelist, born in Albany, N. Y., 25 
 August, 1839. 
 
 Manuscript of "Handsome is as Handsome does by Ch s 
 
 R de," one of the author's celebrated Condensed Novels 
 
 [H327— 6]. 
 
 Manuscript of a poem called "Por el rey : northern Mexico, 
 1640" published under the title "For the King" in his volume 
 Echoes of the Foothills, page 29 [821.1 H327.ec] and in the River- 
 side edition of his Poetical Works [821.1 H327— 1]. 
 
 Hawthorne, Julian, American novelist, born in Boston, 22 June, 
 1846. 
 
 Signed manuscript of the story " The Book of the Flood." 
 
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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, American romance writer, born in Salem, 
 Mass., 4 July, 1804, died in Plymouth, N. H., 18 May, 1864. 
 
 Letter, dated Lenox, June, 1851, to James T. Fields. The 
 letter was written during Hawthorne's short residence at Lenox, 
 the period of his greatest literary activity, just after the publication 
 of The House of the Seven Gables and while the The Wonder Book 
 was being written. 
 
 Dear Fields : 
 
 I send you a letter from an original genius which I have not hitherto answered 
 because I cannot make out his name. He speaks of a book which he has sent to 
 your care for me. 
 
 If you have the book, and if his name is in it I wish you would send him a 
 copy of the Scarlet Letter as he requests and let me know what his name is. As 
 to his book you may send it at your own Convenience — or not at all — just as 
 may suit you best. 
 
 I have just received a letter from another claimant of the Pyncheon estate. I 
 wonder if ever, and how soon, I shall get at a just estimate of how many jackasses 
 there are in this ridiculous world. My correspondent by the way estimates the 
 number of these Pyncheon Jackanapes at about twenty ; I am doubtless to be 
 remonstrated with by each individual. After exchanging shots with all of them I 
 shall get you to publish the whole correspondence in a style corresponding with 
 that of my other works ; and I anticipate a great run for the volume. This last 
 letter fills two sheets. 
 
 I should be glad of a certificate of deposit for Fifty Dollars, as early as possible. 
 
 I hope to send you some of the Wonder Book in a fortnight or thereabouts. 
 It grieves me infinitely to be compelled to write a book at this season ; but I shall 
 put it through. 
 
 Truly yours 
 
 NATH'L HAWTHORNE. 
 
 P. S. My last Pyncheon correspondent demands that another name be 
 substituted instead of that of the family; — to which I assent in case the pub- 
 lishers can be prevailed on to cancel the stereotype plates. Of course you will 
 consent ! Pray do ! 
 
 Hay, Col. John, American author and diplomat, Secretary of State, 
 1899, born at Salem, Ind., 8 October, 1838. 
 
 Letter, dated Astor House, 8 April, 1871, to James R. Osgood, 
 giving some directions concerning the publication of CastiUan 
 
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 Days [914.6 32]. Interesting only as a specimen of Col. Hay's 
 handwriting. 
 
 Letter, dated Legation of the United States, Vienna, Feb- 
 ruary 12, 1868, to Theodore Tilton. The letter expresses quite 
 clearly the depth of Col. Hay's republican convictions after seeing 
 monarchy at close quarters. 
 
 Portrait, wood-cut from a photograph. 
 
 Hayne, Paul Hamilton, American poet, called the Laureate of the 
 South, born in Charleston, S. C, 1 January, 1830, died near 
 Augusta, Ga., 6 July, 1886. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Face to face," a poem published in 
 Harper' s Magazine for May, 1886, volume 72, page 884. 
 
 Autograph copy of the third stanza of his poem "Lyric of 
 action," from his Poems, page 285 [821.1 H423— 1]. 
 
 Hayne, William Hamilton, American poet, son of Paul Hamilton 
 Hayne, born in South Carolina, 1856. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "A band of bluebirds — in autumn," a 
 poem published in Harper's Magazine for October, 1886, volume 
 73, page 765. 
 
 Hazlitt, William, English author, born in Maidstone, 10 April, 1778, 
 died in London, 18 September, 1830. 
 
 Manuscript of a lecture "On Dryden and Pope," the fourth of 
 a series on the English poets delivered in 1818 at the "Surrey 
 Institution," which afterward came to be known as the "Devil's 
 Pulpit." Hazlitt' s audience at this institution was rather a mixed 
 multitude with whom he had but imperfect sympathy. The course 
 was sufficiently successful, however, to induce the management to 
 
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 arrange for two succeeding courses, on The English Comic Writers 
 and on The Age of Elizabeth. 
 
 The manuscript is interesting, being thirty-eight pages folio, and 
 is of value as Hazlitt's "autograph productions are among the 
 rarest of those of the era and circle of which he made a part. ' ' 
 
 The lectures were first published in 1819 and have been reprinted 
 many times [821.2 H431]. 
 
 Heine, Heinrich, German poet, of Jewish descent, born in Diisseldorf, 
 13 December, 1797, died in Paris, 17 February, 1856,. ; 
 
 Note of four lines, dated 14 September, 1843, with signature in 
 the French form. 
 
 Collection of newspaper cuttings concerning his life, death and 
 genius. 
 
 Portraits : 1, photograph from a painting in health ; 2, engrav- 
 ing by Weger and Singer from a drawing by Ch. Gleyre, in 
 sickness. 
 
 Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, daughter of George Browne, English poet, 
 born in Liverpool, 25 September, 1793, died in Dublin, 16 May, 
 1835. 
 
 Manuscript of nine songs gathered under the general caption 
 "Songs for Evening Music," including the following individual 
 poems : "Ye are not missed fair flowers ; By a mountain stream ; 
 Willow song ; Brightly hast thou fled ; Sing, gondolier ! ; The rock 
 beside the sea ; The orange-bough ; Come to me, Sleep ! ; Leave 
 me not yet ! ' ' 
 
 All the songs are published in the seventh volume of Mrs. 
 Hemans's Works [821.2 H487— 1] but nearly all of them have 
 slight verbal differences in the manuscript from the printed form. 
 
 Letter, dated from Dawson St., post -marked 18 November, 
 1833, to S. C. Hall. 
 
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 Higginson, The Rev. Thomas Wentworth, American author, born in 
 Cambridge, Mass., 22 December, 1823, Colonel of the first regi- 
 ment of freed slaves in the United States army. 
 
 Manuscript of " How I was educated," an article first published 
 in the Forum for April, 1886, volume 2, page 172, afterward 
 republished in the collection The College and the Church [370 88] . 
 Letter, dated Newport, R. I., March 19, 1868, to Theodore 
 Tilton, giving some rather caustic comments on political persons of 
 the day, etc. 
 
 Letter dated Newport, R. I., April 24, 1869, to Theodore Tilton, 
 which is reproduced with the permission of the author, as follows : 
 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 I wish it were in my power to attend the Woman's Suffrage meeting at Brook- 
 lyn. As it is not I wish to call the attention of that meeting to a single point. 
 
 One of the few plausible arguments against Woman's Suffrage is the alleged 
 incapacity of that sex for military duty. This is a point on which a returned 
 soldier may perhaps speak his mind frankly. 
 
 I honestly believe that if this question were put to the returned soldiers for 
 decision, it would be decided in favor of women two to one. And that for this 
 plain reason. They see, if nobody else does, the absurdity of disfranchising 
 women for a reason which would equally exclude every member of the other 
 sex who staid at home during the war. 
 
 The great difficulty of filling up our wasted regiments showed how very small 
 proportion of our men are both able and willing to do military duty. If only 
 the bayonets are to vote they will make a very small oligarchy. In this city, for 
 instance, out of 2200 legal voters not 400 served in the war. Are they to dis- 
 franchise all the rest? Open the door wide enough to admit a single civilian and 
 every woman in the land has a right to walk in. Consider for instance the posi- 
 tion of the most eminent recent advocate of this theory, Mr. Horace Greeley. 
 When he urges the unfitness of woman to vote until she carries a musket there is 
 no discourtesy in asking — Does Mr. Greeley propose to disfranchise himself? 
 Yet what services did he render, during the war, that an equally intelligent 
 woman might not have rendered ? 
 
 I do not mean to slight his services, nor theirs. The women who worked in 
 our hospitals, or in the Sanitary Commission, were rendering military service 
 just as essentially as those who were enrolled in our armies. Their work may 
 not have been as dangerous, but it was quite as indispensable. 
 
 What they did in this war they will do in the next, and that as volunteers, 
 without bounty, and without waiting to be drafted. It is altogether unreasonable 
 to enfranchise one class of volunteers and disfranchise another. 
 
 Now that the war is over, we shall be in danger of forgetting all this. History 
 ignores women's services because men are commonly the historians. It is the 
 
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 same with the arts that preserve history. We have a striking instance of this 
 before us in the proposed statues which are to surround the base of the Lincoln 
 monument. Washington has been the scene of many artistic as well as political 
 absurdities. But their climax seems to me to have been reached in the proposi- 
 tion, now pending, to represent the Sanitary Commission by the statue of a man ! 
 I am yours very cordially 
 
 THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by J. J. Cade. 
 
 Hillard, George Stillman, American lawyer, journalist and author, born 
 in Machias, Me., 22 September, 1808, died in Boston, 21 January, 
 1879. 
 
 Signed autograph, dated Boston, March 29, 1854, as follows : 
 
 " The stately march of our laws and speech, which began at the rock of 
 Plymouth, will ever move in the paths of honor and peace so long as it follows 
 that great, guiding light which led the Pilgrims into their land of promise." 
 
 Hogg, James, called the Ettrick Shepherd, Scotch poet, born at 
 Ettrick, Selkirkshire, in 1770, died 21 November, 1835. 
 
 Original manuscript of the first forty -seven stanzas of "Earl 
 Walter; the twelfth bard's song" from the long poem "The 
 queen's wake." 
 
 The manuscript is accompanied by the following letter, dated 13 
 July, 1831, to Bernard Barton : 
 
 My dear Sir : 
 
 "The enclosed paper was given me by a friend at college in 1820, who had it 
 from Thomas Moore with a statement that it came into his hands among other 
 writings from James Hogg. The person who gave it to me never doubted its 
 authenticity. 
 I have much pleasure in presenting it to you and am, my dear sir 
 
 Yours faithfully 
 
 WOODTHORPE COLLETT." 
 
 The poem is included in the Works of the Ettrick Shepherd, page 
 28 [821.2 B— H716— 1] 
 
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 Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, American physician and author, born at 
 Cambridge, Mass., 29 August, 1809, died in Boston, Mass., 7 
 October, 1894. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "The new portfolio: a cry from the 
 study," an article published in fat. Atlantic Monthly for January, 
 1886, volume 57, page 91. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by H. B. Hall & Sons from a photograph. 
 
 Hood, Thomas, English poet, born in London, 23 May, 1799, died in 
 the same city, 3 May, 1845. 
 
 Manuscript of ' ' She is all heart, ' ' a poem of seven stanzas 
 accompanying an original sketch, probably by Hood himself though 
 signed " M. K." 
 
 The drawing is reproduced in Hood's Own, second series, page 
 477 [828.2 29] as illustrating a prose sketch entitled "Nothing 
 but hearts! " 
 
 Hooker, Isabella Beecher, Mrs. John Hooker, youngest daughter of 
 Dr. Lyman Beecher, born in Litchfield, Conn., 22 February, 1822. 
 
 Personal letter, dated Hartford, 1 November, 1871, to Theodore 
 Tilton. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by J. C. Buttre from a photograph by J. A. 
 Whipple. 
 
 Howells, William Dean, American author, born in Martin's Ferry, 
 Ohio, 1 March, 1837. 
 
 Manuscript of A Foregone Conclusion, a novel first published in 
 the Atlantic Monthly during July to December, 1874, volume 34, 
 brought out the same year in book form [H86 — 7] . 
 
 Portrait, wood-engraving from a photograph. 
 
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 Hughes, Thomas, English author, born at Ufnngton, Berkshire, : 
 October, 1823, died at Brighton, 22 March, 1896. 
 
 Letter, dated from the Athenaeum Club, London, 8 Novembi 
 1872, to Miss [Elizabeth Palmer] Peabody. 
 
 Dear Miss Peabody : 
 
 I was so horribly ashamed to get your note that I left it lying on the table 
 some hours — in fact until I had gone down and seen Emerson in his lodgin] 
 They are very comfortable and homely and much frequented now by Americai 
 I got them first for Lowell and since then the Miss Hoars have been in them a 
 some other New Englanders, friends of the Professor. I hope Emerson will enj 
 his visit as he seems strong. Tomorrow he and his son are coming to lunch w 
 me in the Temple and see the Lord Mayor's Show. What an occupation foi 
 Seer ! ! Miss Emerson I am sorry to say has sprained her ancle and cannot ( 
 about. They only propose to stay a few days and then to flit for Italy, but 
 hope will be back in the spring for a longer sojourn. I am delighted to hear tl 
 you are sowing some of the dear Prophet's [The Rev. Frederick Denis 
 Maurice] works in your soil. They ought to bear good fruit there. He used 
 say that no man's life sh d be published within twenty years of his death. Fred 
 (the eldest son, whom I don't think you know) was rather impressed with tl 
 saying, but I believe (for I have not seen him for some time) that he is hard 
 work on the memoir. If I can find a copy of Subscription no Bondage I will se 
 it you but I know it is very hard to get, having indeed no copy myself. Kind 
 garten are, I am told for I am sorry to say I have had no time for personal sean 
 making great progress here. I got the pamphlet and quite hold with you tl 
 unless Kindergarten start from and end in Christ they are as meaningless as 
 well, a railway ring or a gold ring. 
 
 I see you date from Cambridge, a place of most charming memories to me, 1 
 I don't remember Totten Street. I have a photograph of Elmwood always on i 
 mantel piece and hope some day to revisit it and Concord. My wife is fairly w( 
 but with a threatening of bronchitis which I am sorry to say always haunts 1 
 through our winter months. The children were never better. 
 
 I wish we had a Kindergarten near by but in default we must do our best 
 rear them on your principles. Pray give my kindest regards to Mrs. Putnam a 
 any other friends who remember me and believe me, dear Miss Peabody, alwi 
 repentantly and most truly yours THOS HUGHES. 
 
 Portrait, engraved from a photograph. 
 
 Hughes, Anne Frances Ford, called Fanny, Mrs. Thomas Hughes. 
 Letter from 5 Ethelbert Crescent, Cliftonville, Margate. 
 
 My dear Miss Peabody : 
 
 Many thanks for your kind sympathy — your letter followed us here. I 
 husband is much better for the entire quiet and sea air. We are both sorry tl 
 
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 you go before we return to London but we hope to see Una [Miss Una Haw- 
 thorne.] Will she come Sunday the 26th inst. when we shall be settled at home? 
 I am very glad you saw Edmund Maurice again. Have you seen the Illustrated 
 Review of May 1st. It contains a dreadful picture of my husband but rather a 
 nice notice of his writings. I hope the voyage will restore you to health. You 
 will see Lowell and Emerson and so many great men I long to know. Send 
 them over to England if you can ! Have you heard if Mr. Morley and Lily are 
 in London, they were due last week. I hope Mrs. Stackpole received your 
 letter. I do not feel certain as to the address. With our united kind regards 
 to you and Una and hopes that you may have a good passage I remain always 
 yours 
 
 May 13th FANNY HUGHES 
 
 Hughes, Mrs. Margaret L., mother of Thomas Hughes. 
 Letter to A. H. 
 
 Uffington House 
 
 Sunday evening, Dec. 6th, '84 
 My dear Friend: 
 
 I got yr kind letter yesterday evening and Miss Peabody's interesting enclo- 
 sure, thank you for both. I hope the Piute Chieftainess will have great success 
 in her mission. It will be an everlasting disgrace to the white man for his treat- 
 ment of the Indian so long as history shall be read. It is time that he did all in 
 his power to repair it. I am better now, dear friend, but still very weak. Fan- 
 nie's and my love to you and May 
 
 Ever lovingly yrs 
 
 MARGARET L. HUGHES 
 
 Hugo, Victor Marie, Comte, French poet and novelist, born at Besan- 
 con, 26 February, 1802, died in Paris, 22 May, 1885. 
 
 Short note without place, date or address, interesting only as a 
 specimen of handwriting. 
 
 Portrait, engraved, nameless. 
 
 Hunt, James Henry Leigh, known as "Leigh Hunt," English essay- 
 ist, critic and poet, born at Southgate, Middlesex, 19 October, 
 1784, died at Putney, 28 August, 1859. 
 
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 Manuscript of the following sonnet, which is not found in ordi- 
 nary editions of Hunt's poems : 
 
 "TO FAME 
 
 O Fame, what art thou ? Who can know, alas ! 
 
 His claim to any share in thee or thine, 
 
 Till he has pass'd that dim and awful line, 
 
 Which no man ever pass'd or e'er shall pass, 
 Prizing thy gifts ! Rare beings still amass 
 
 Treasures .that after ages count divine ; 
 
 Yet ere they pass from earth thou giv'st no sign 
 
 That they in memory shall outlive the mass. 
 How oft, in life, they pine for very bread, 
 
 While wordy critics smirch their lays with blots ; 
 
 How oft above each unremember'd head, 
 Year after year, the dock or hemlock rots ; 
 
 And then thou nam'st their love, or woe, or mirth ; 
 
 And towns that let them die, boast that they gave them birth. " 
 
 Manuscript of a notice, for the Examiner, of a lecture by 
 Carlyle on German literature, the fifth in a series given at Wills' s 
 rooms on the second of May, 1837. The lectures seem to have 
 been given extempore and are not in print and, therefore, Mr. 
 Hunt's report is printed in full as follows : 
 
 " Mr. Carlyle (as in programme announced) omitted a lecture on Whit-Monday 
 and gave his fifth on Friday. It was upon the semi-sceptical, semi-religious 
 elegancie of Haller and others ; the vital scholarship of Heyne, making flesh-and- 
 blood realities of the ancient writers ; the religious devotion of infidel Winckell- 
 mann to pagan art ; the school of the ' Strength-men ' (as they called them- 
 selves) rather Convulsion and Weakness men, 'Byronism, spasmodically writh- 
 ing and wriggling and hating and cursing the world they were born in ' ; on the 
 Nicolai and Adelung ' utilitarians ' who discovered that ' feeling was useful ' ; 
 and on the sentimentalities of Lavater and others, men more respectable than the 
 fuss they set going about 'goodness' and 'philanthropy,' as if there were 
 nothing in the world worth thinking of but a certain moral habitude apter to 
 talk than to do ; or, as if a good thing were so very wonderful when it was done. 
 There was some tender ground in this for obvious reasons ; and also in what the 
 lecturer said about the nothingness of metaphysics, ' a vortex creating and swal- 
 lowing itself ; but the frankness and gallantry of his love of truth and his hearty 
 sympathy with whatsoever realizes a firm footing for itself on God's world, apart 
 from make-believes and hypocrisies of any sort, carried him manfully through 
 all ; nor has any one of his lectures left his audience in warmer-hearted condition 
 
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 with their instructor. We are to have two more lectures (for he has thrown in a 
 seventh for nothing) during which we expect to hear much about Goethe." 
 
 Portrait, engraved by H. Wright Smith from a drawing by J. 
 Hayter. 
 
 Huxley, Thomas Henry, English scientist and author, born at Ealing, 
 4 May, 1825, died 29 June, 1895. 
 
 Brief letter without address, place or date. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by Geo. E. Perine from a photograph. 
 
 Ingelow, Miss Jean, English poet, born at Boston, Lincolnshire, 1820, 
 died in Kensington, 20 July, 1897. 
 
 Manuscript of " The monitions of the unseen," a poem published 
 in 1870 in the volume " The Monitions of the Unseen, and Poems 
 of Love and Childhood" [821.2 I46.m]. 
 
 Portrait, engraving, nameless. 
 
 Irving, Washington, American author, United States minister to Spain 
 from 1842 to 1846, born in New York City, 3 April, 1783, died at 
 Sunnyside, 28 November, 1859. 
 
 Manuscript of chapter twelve of volume five of his Life of George 
 Washington [923.1 W.27.i], with reproduction in print and a 
 portrait of Washington engraved by H. B. Hall from the painting 
 by Rembrandt Peale. 
 
 Jackson, Andrew, seventh president of the United States, born in the 
 Waxhaw settlement, on the border between North and South 
 Carolina, 15 March, 1767, died at the Hermitage, near Nashville, 
 Tenn., 8 June, 1845. 
 
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 Signature to the commission of Samuel Swartwout as Collector 
 of the customs of the district of New York, dated 28 April, 
 1834. This commission is the record of an early and very noted 
 instance of an appointment to the federal service under the spoils 
 system. 
 
 Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske, formerly Mrs. Edward B. Hunt, after- 
 ward Mrs. William S. Jackson, American author, known as " H. 
 H." and as " Helen Hunt," born in Amherst, Mass., 18 October, 
 1831, died in San Francisco, 12 August, 1885. 
 
 Manuscript of an article called " One thirty -six hours on the 
 Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. ' ' 
 
 Manuscript of ' ' Father Junipero and his work, ' ' an article 
 first published in the Century for May, 1883, volume 4, page 3, 
 afterward reprinted, in the form of this manuscript, in Glimpses of 
 Three Coasts, 1886 [913 240]. 
 
 James, George Payne Rainsford, English novelist, born in London, 9 
 August, 1801, died in Venice, 9 May, 1860. 
 
 Short private letter, without place or date, to Col. Goodwin, 
 Stockbridge. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by Whitechurch from a drawing by Baden, 
 1846. 
 
 James, Henry, American author, son of Henry James, the theologian, 
 born in New York City, 15 April, 1843. 
 
 Manuscript of an essay on " Ivan Turgenieff " first published in 
 the Atlantic Monthly for January, 1884, volume 53, page 42, and 
 afterward reprinted in his volume Partial Portraits [824.1 J27.p] 
 The essay is supplementary to a preceding essay on Turgenieff' s 
 novels which was first printed in the North American Review, vol- 
 
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 ume 118, page 326, and afterward republished in his volume 
 French Poets and Novelists [840 417]. 
 
 Portraits, one wood-engraving, and one process-cut from photo- 
 graphs. 
 
 Jameson, Anna Brownell Murphy, Mrs. Robert Jameson, born at 
 Dublin, 17 May, 1794, died at Ealing, Middlesex, 17 March, 1860. 
 
 Private letter without date written from Vere St., London, to 
 Mrs. Parkes, the mother of Mrs. Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc. 
 
 Portrait, engraved from a painting by Alonzo Chappel. 
 
 Janvier, Thomas Allibone, American journalist and author, born in 
 Pennsylvania, 1849. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "At Mrs. Berty's tea," a story first pub- 
 lished in the Century for December, 1885, volume 9, page 307. 
 
 Jefferson, Joseph, American actor, born in Philadelphia, 20 Febru- 
 ary, 1829. 
 
 Letter, without date, to Laurence Hutton : 
 
 My dear Mr. Hutton : 
 
 I am overwhelmed with mortification for I find upon referring to your note that it 
 is I, not yourself, that made the error. I regret this more than I can say. I think 
 it was the 29 contained in the number of your house that shifted its quarters and 
 got into my head that caused the blunder. And I am under the impression 
 too that Mr. Gilder said something about Tuesday in connection with the matter. 
 However, it can't be helped now and the loss was mine. 
 
 Faithfully yours, J. JEFFERSON. 
 
 Portrait, etching by S. Hollyer. 
 
 Jefferson, Thomas, third president of the United States, born in Shad- 
 well, Albemarle Co., Va., 2 April, 1743, died at Monticello, 4 
 July, 1826. 
 
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 Letter, dated Monticello, Virginia, May 14, 1806, to "The 
 Rev. Doctr. G. C. Jenner." 
 
 Mr. Jefferson seems to have been confused as to the identity of 
 the person to whom the letter is addressed as he, quite evidently, 
 believed the Rev* Dr. G. C. Jenner to have been the discoverer of 
 vaccination. He was, however, a nephew of Dr. Edward Jenner, 
 much interested in his uncle's work. 
 
 Sir: 
 
 I have received the copy of the Evidence at large respecting the discovery of 
 the Vaccine inoculation, which you have been pleased to send me, and for which 
 I return you my thanks. Having been among the early converts, in this 
 part of the globe, to its efficacy, I took an early part in recommending it to my 
 countrymen. I avail myself of this occasion of rendering you my portion of the 
 tribute of gratitude due to you from the whole human family. Medecine has 
 never before produced any single improvement of such utility. Harvey's discov- 
 ery of the circulation of the blood was a beautiful addition to our knowledge of 
 the animal economy, but on a review of the practice of medecine before and since 
 that epoch, I do not see any great amelioration which has been derived from that 
 discovery. You have erased from the calendar of human afflictions one of its 
 greatest. Yours is the comfortable reflection that mankind can never forget that 
 you have lived. Future nations will know by history only that the loathsome 
 small-pox has existed and by you has been extirpated. Accept the most fervent 
 wishes for your health and happiness and assurances of the greatest respect and 
 consideration. TH. JEFFERSON. 
 
 2 portraits. 1, steel-engraving engraved by J. C. Buttre from 
 a painting by G. Stuart. 2, steel-engraving, anonymous. 
 
 Jewett, Miss Sarah Orne, American novelist, born in South Berwick, 
 Maine, 3 September, 1849. 
 
 Signed manuscript of chapters two, three and four of A Country 
 Doctor [J59— 1] . 
 
 Portrait, wood-engraving from a photograph. 
 
 Johnson, Dr.. Samuel, English lexicographer and author, born at 
 Lichfield, 18 September, 1709, died in London, 13 December, 
 1784. 
 
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 Letter, dated 27 May, 1775, [from London] to his friend the 
 Rev. Dr. John Taylor at Lichfield. The letter announces an 
 intended visit to Oxford and other places, which Boswell does not 
 record. 
 
 Portrait engraved from a painting by Alonzo Chappel copied 
 from a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 Keats, John, English poet, born in London, 31 October, 1795, died 
 in Rome, 23 February, 1821. 
 
 Manuscript of a curious sonnet, dated 16 January, 1818, entitled 
 "To Mrs. Reynolds' cat." Mrs. Reynolds was the mother of 
 Keats' s friend, John Hamilton Reynolds, and of the wife of 
 Thomas Hood. She gave the sonnet to Hood, who published it in 
 the Comic Annual for 1830. It is given in the Poetical and Other 
 Writings of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, volume 
 4, page 425 [821.2 K25 — 5]. Mr. Forman also refers to some 
 varying forms of the sonnet in his volume Poetry and Prose by John 
 Keats [821.2 K25— 5v5]. 
 
 Ordinary editions of Keats' s poems do not contain the sonnet, 
 which is reproduced, with the spelling, capitalization and punctua- 
 tion of the manuscript. 
 
 "TO MRS. REYNOLDS' CAT. 
 
 Cat ! who hast past thy grand Climacteric, 
 
 How many mice and Rats hast in thy days 
 
 Destroyed ? how many tit bits stolen ? Gaze 
 With those bright languid segments green and prick 
 Those velvet ears — but prythee do not stick 
 
 Thy latent talons in me — and upraise 
 
 Thy gentle mew, and tell me all thy frays 
 Of Fish and Mice and Rats and tender chick. 
 Nay look not down nor lick thy dainty wrists 
 
 For all the weezy Asthma, and for all 
 
 Thy tail's tip is nicked off, and though the fists 
 Of many a Maid has given thee many a mawl 
 
 Still is that fur as soft as when the lists 
 In youth thou enterd'st on glass bottled wall. 
 
 Janr. 16, 1818" 
 
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 Kent, James, American jurist, chancellor of New York State, born 
 Putnam Co., N. Y., 31 July, 1763, died in New York City, 
 December, 1847. 
 
 Manuscript of the draft of an opinion concerning a case 
 litigation. 
 
 King, The Rev. Thomas Starr, American clergyman, born in New Yi 
 City, 17 December, 1824, died in San Francisco, 4 March, 186' 
 
 Manuscript of a sermon on "Righteousness," text I John in : 
 preached Sunday, 29 October, 1848, probably at the Universa 
 church in Charlestown, Mass., and repeated in San Francisco 
 October, 1863. 
 
 Kingsley, The Rev. Charles, English clergyman and author, born 
 Holne Vicarage, 12 June, 1819, died at Eversley, 23 Janua 
 1875. 
 
 Original manuscript of part of a lecture on "The first discovi 
 of America," first published in his collection called Lectu 
 Delivered in America in 1874. [824.2 K55.1] afterward reprini 
 in a collection called Historical Lectures and Essays, which foi 
 volume seventeen of his collected works. 
 
 Kingsley, Miss Rose Georgina, daughter of the Rev. Charles Kingsl 
 English author, born at Eversley, in 1845. 
 
 Original manuscript of an article called " Stoned by a mountaii 
 first published in the Wide Awake for March, 1886, volume ! 
 page 245. 
 
 Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdinand von, German author, born 
 Weimar, 3 May, 1761, died in Mannheim, 23 March, 1819. 
 
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 Letter, dated 21 November, 1800, to Herr Leissring, singer and 
 actor in Breslau. 
 
 Newspaper cuttings concerning Kotzebue and concerning Sand, 
 who assassinated him. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by Ridley from a painting in Berlin, published 
 30 April, 1800. 
 
 Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de, French poet, born at 
 Macon, 21 October, 1790, died at Paris, 1 March, 1869. 
 
 Letter, dated Beyrouth, Nov. 12, 1832, on purely personal busi- 
 ness detail. 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving by W. J. Edwards from a painting by 
 Gerard. 
 
 Lamb, Charles, English author, born in London, 10 February, 1775, 
 died in Edmonton, 27 December, 1834. 
 
 Manuscript of ' ' Theses qucedam Theological ' ' accompanied by a 
 letter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This letter and the accom- 
 panying document record one of the few instances in Lamb's 
 patient life when he allowed his wit to carry a sting. In 1797 
 Coleridge satirized his own style and that of Lamb and Lloyd in 
 what are known as the Higginbotham sonnets. He apparently 
 offended both his friends and an estrangement followed which was 
 painful to Coleridge. On the eve of his departure, with Words- 
 worth, for Germany he sent, without other goodbye, the following 
 message to Lamb, "Poor Lamb, if he wants any knowledge he may 
 apply to me. ' ' The message, no doubt intended as a jest by Cole- 
 ridge, when repeated by a mutual friend to Lamb, evidently nettled 
 him and he responded with the theses and letter. It appears that 
 Lamb rather admired his own hit, for the theses, somewhat amended, 
 and the occasion of them are repeated in a letter, dated 28 July, 
 1798, to Robert Southey, which may be found in Ainger's edition 
 of Lamb's letters [826.2 92]. The theses and letter and the story 
 
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 of them are also given in Cottle's Reminiscences of Coleridge and 
 Southey [928.2 C677.co]. 
 
 It is pleasant to record that, on Coleridge's return to England, 
 the friendship between him and Lamb was resumed and never 
 again broken while they lived. The documents are reproduced, 
 as the text varies slightly from that printed by Cottle. 
 
 "THESES QILEDAM THEOLOGIC^. 
 
 1. Whether God loves a lying Angel better than a true Man ? 
 
 2. Whether the Archangel Uriel could affirm an untruth? and if he could 
 whether he would ? 
 
 3. Whether Honesty be an angelic virtue ? or not rather to be reckoned among 
 those qualities which the Schoolmen term ' Virtutes minus splendidtz et terra et 
 hominis particeps ' ? 
 
 4. Whether the higher order of Seraphim Illuminati ever sneer ? 
 
 5. Whether pure intelligences can love ? 
 
 6. Whether the Seraphim Ardentes do not manifest their virtues by the way 
 of vision and theory ? and whether practice be not a sub-celestial and merely 
 human virtue? 
 
 7. Whether the Vision Beatific . be anything more or less than a perpetual 
 representment to each individual Angel of his own present attainments and future 
 capabilities, somehow in the manner of mortal looking-glasses, reflecting a per- 
 petual complacency and self-satisfaction? 
 
 8 and last. Whether an immortal and amenable soul may not come to be 
 damned at last, and the man never suspect it beforehand ? 
 
 Learned Sir, my Friend, 
 
 Presuming on our long habits of friendship and emboldened further by your 
 late liberal permission to avail myself of your correspondence, in case I want any 
 knowledge, (which I intend to do when I have no Encyclopaedia or Lady's 
 Magazine at hand to refer to in any matter of science,) I now submit to your 
 enquiries the above Theological Propositions, to be by you defended, or oppugned, 
 or both, in the Schools of Germany, whither I am told you are departing, to the 
 utter dissatisfaction of your native Devonshire and regret of universal England ; 
 but to my own individual consolation if thro the channel of your wished return, 
 Learned Sir, my Friend, may be transmitted to this our Island, from those famous 
 Theological Wits of Leipsic and Gottingen, any rays of illumination, in vain to be 
 derived from the home growth of our English Halls and Colleges. Finally, wish- 
 
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 ing Learned Sir, that you may see Schiller and swing in a wood (vide Poems) and 
 sit upon a Tun, and eat fat hams of Westphalia, 
 
 I remain 
 
 Your friend and docile Pupil to instruct 
 
 CHARLES LAMB. 
 To S. T. Coleridge 1798 
 
 Portrait, engraved by W. Finden from a drawing by T. Wage- 
 man. 
 
 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, afterward Mrs. George Maclean, English 
 poet, born in Chelsea, 14 August, 1802, died at Cape Coast Castle, 
 15 October, 1838. 
 
 Miss Landon was for some years a vivid figure in London liter- 
 ary life, her writings were of a fashion long outgrown and Richard 
 Garnett says of her that she can rank only as a gifted improvisa- 
 trice. 
 
 The lines of the autograph are from her Female Characters of 
 Scott and have a curious interest from the fact that they were 
 written at Cape Coast Castle, of which her husband was governor, 
 shortly before her death under tragic circumstances. 
 
 Letter, postmarked July 5, 1834, from Paris, to William Shobert 
 of John Bentley's publishing house, concerning the transmission 
 of certain promised manuscript from Paris to her publisher in 
 London. 
 
 Portraits : 1, engraved by J. Thomson from Maclise's painting; 
 2, engraving, nameless. 
 
 Lang, Andrew, Scotch author, born at Selkirk, 31 March, 1844. 
 
 Manuscript of "Grass of Parnassus," a poem first published in 
 Harper' s Magazine for October, 1886, volume 73, page 665, and 
 afterward used as an introduction to his volume called Grass of 
 Parnassus [821.2 L269.g]. 
 
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 Lathrop, George Parsons, American author, son-in-law of Nathan 
 Hawthorne, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, 25 August, 1851, died 
 New York City, 19 April, 1898. 
 
 Manuscript of "An American Lordship," an article on the su 
 ject of an island lying off the eastern end of Long Island, call 
 in the old time the Isle of Wight, now known as Gardiner's Islan 
 connected with an episode in Captain Kidd's career. The paper v, 
 published in the Century for December, 1885, volume 9, page 22 
 
 Lazarus, Miss Emma, American poet of Jewish parentage, born 
 New York City, 22 July, 1849, died in the same city, 19 Novel 
 ber, 1887. 
 
 Signed manuscript of ' ' Gifts, ' ' a poem first published in the Ce 
 tury for November, 1885, volume 9, page 58, and afterward includi 
 in the second volume of her collected Poems [821.1 L431 — 1]. 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham, sixteenth president of the United States, born 
 Hardin Co., Ky., 12 February, 1809, died in Washington, D. C 
 15 April, 1865. 
 
 Private letter, dated Executive Mansion, Washington, March 1 
 1864, to the Hon. Michael Hahn, published in the Abraham Li 
 coin, a history, by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, volume 8, paj 
 434 [923.1 L.63.n]. 
 
 The letter was written immediately after Governor Hahr 
 inauguration as first free-state governor of Louisiana, and cor 
 mends to his attention the idea that the elective franchise shou 
 be conferred upon the intelligent negroes, at least, saying, "Th< 
 would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep tl 
 jewel of liberty within the family of freedom." 
 
 Facsimile of letter, dated City Point, April 2, 7.45, 1865, fro 
 President Lincoln to Mrs. Lincoln. 
 
 Portrait, steel engraving by A. H. Ritchie from a photograph 1 
 Brady. 
 
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 Lippincott, Sarah Jane Clarke, Mrs. Leander K. Lippincott, American 
 author known as "Grace Greenwood," born in Pompey, N. Y., 
 23 September, 1823. 
 
 Signed autograph copy, dated New York, 5 April, 1889, of the 
 following stanza : 
 
 " Let the haughty smile, the low defame, 
 
 The heartless worldling mock, — 
 Let them sneer at Bunker's glorious hill 
 
 And Plymouth's hallowed rock, 
 I thank my God my fathers came 
 
 Of the good old Pilgrim stock ! " 
 
 Personal letter, dated 25 W. 37th St., New York, 14 May, 1871, 
 to Mr. Tilton. Speaking of Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New 
 York Tribune, she says : 
 
 "Personally I like Mr. Reid but as an editor he exasperates me. He tinkers 
 my articles and he abuses my principles. He cuts out my jokes and cuts into my 
 sentiment ; he is death on poetry and the woman question." 
 
 Portraits : 1, engraved by W. G. Armstrong from a sketch by 
 G. H. Cushman ; 2, half-tone from an early drawing ; 3, engraved by 
 J. Andrews and H. W. Smith from a painting by C. G. Thompson. 
 
 Litchfield, Miss Grace Denio, American novelist, born in New York, 
 in 1849. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "The top of the ladder," a story pub- 
 lished in the Wide Awake, for May, 1886, volume 22, page 334. 
 
 Signed manuscript of a poem called "The snowstorm." 
 
 Lodge, Henry Cabot, United States Senator from Massachusetts and 
 author, born in Boston, 12 May, 1850. 
 
 Signed manuscript of a review of George W. Julian's Political 
 Recollections, 184.0-1872 [923.1 J. 94] published in the Atlantic 
 Monthly for April, 1884, volume 53, page 560. 
 
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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, American poet, born in Portland, 
 Me., 27 February, 1807, died in Cambridge, Mass., 24 March, 
 1882. 
 
 Manuscript, dated 13 November, 1873, of sonnet on Milton, 
 and letters, one to Miss Gertrude Bloede and three to Mr. 
 Osgood, interesting only as good specimens of the poet's hand- 
 writing. 
 
 Engraved portrait, nameless. 
 
 Lover, Samuel, Irish song-writer, novelist and painter, born in Dub- 
 lin, 24 February, 1797, died at St. Heliers, 6 July, 1868. 
 
 Manuscript and music of the song ' ' The Indian Summer. ' ' The 
 song, of which both the words and the music are Lover's, is one of 
 his most graceful compositions and was written during his visit to 
 the United States in 1846 during which he experienced, to quote 
 his own words : " The brief period which succeeds the autumnal 
 close, called the Indian summer, a reflex as it were of the early 
 portion of the year, strikes a stranger in America with peculiar 
 beauty and quite charmed me." 
 
 Published, without music, in Lover's Poetical Works [821.2 
 L9117— 1]. 
 
 Lowell, James Russell, American poet, essayist and diplomatist, born 
 in Cambridge, Mass., 22 February, 1819, died in the same city, 
 12 August, 1891. 
 
 Manuscript of "The Winthrop papers," a critical review pub- 
 lished in the North American Review for October, 1867, volume 
 105, page 592, and afterward incorporated under the title "New 
 England two centuries ago ' ' in his Literary Essays, volume 2, page 
 19 [820.1 L915]. 
 
 Two portraits : 1, engraved by H. B. Hall from the crayon by 
 William Page; 2, engraved by J. A. J. Wilcox from a photograph. 
 
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 Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron, Eng- 
 lish novelist, born in London, 25 May, 1803, died at Torquay, 18 
 January, 1873. 
 
 Manuscript of part of an article on the " Death of Sir Walter 
 Scott" published in October, 1832, in the New Monthly Magazine 
 of which Lord Lytton, then Mr. Bulwer, was editor, afterward 
 included in the Critical and Miscellaneous Papers of Sir Edward 
 Lytton Bulwer [824.2 L998.cr] collected from the New Monthly 
 Magazine and the Monthly Chronicle and published by Lea & 
 Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1841. 
 
 Private letter, dated Ventnor, 10 December, 1856, interesting 
 only as an autograph. 
 
 Portrait, engraved from a painting by Alonzo Chappel. 
 
 Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of, only son of the 
 first Baron Lytton, English statesman and poet, best known as a 
 poet under his pen name "Owen Meredith," born in London, 8 
 November, 1831, died at Paris, 24 November, 1891. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Atlantis," a poem in twelve unequal 
 stanzas, ten manuscript pages. The poem is in celebration of the 
 struggle of the American civil war and is not included in the ordi- 
 nary editions of the Earl of Lytton' s poems. 
 
 Autograph copy of "North and South," a poem of two 
 eight-line stanzas, published in After Paradise, 1887 [821.2 
 L9981.a]. 
 
 Lytton, Rosina Wheeler Bulwer-Lytton, Lady, wife of the first Baron 
 Lytton, born in Ireland, 4 November, 1802, died at Upper Syden- 
 ham, 12 March, 1882. 
 
 A letter without place or date to William Jerdan, editor of the 
 Literary Gazette. 
 
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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron Macaulay of Rothley, Eng- 
 lish historian and essayist, born at Rothley Temple, 25 October, 
 1800, died at Holly Lodge, Kensington, 28 December, 1859. 
 
 Letter, dated from the Albany, London, March 25, 1849, writ- 
 ten to an American friend in response to a letter of congratula- 
 tion on his History of England, the first two volumes of which 
 were just published. The letter is most characteristic, giving 
 Macaulay' s conception of American taste and some American 
 habits, and is printed in full : 
 
 My dear Sir : 
 
 I have received a very kind and welcome letter from you which it would be un- 
 grateful in me not promptly to acknowledge. What you tell me of the reception 
 which my book has found in the United States gratifies me much, but at the same 
 time surprises me. For it seems to me that very few books have in as high a 
 degree the merit or demerit of being intensely English : and I should have 
 thought that this peculiarity, which has conduced not a little to the success of my 
 volumes here, would have made them seem dull to a people who have never seen 
 anything resembling our Court, our Bishops, our country gentlemen, our country 
 clergymen, to a people who are strangers to the feeling of loyalty to a family, 
 respect for an aristocracy,, zeal for the privileges of an established Church. I 
 should have thought that our disputes about the patriarchal theory of government, 
 the divine right of kings, regency, abdication, and so forth would have been as 
 uninteresting to you as the controversy between the followers of Omar and the 
 followers of AH. I am glad to find that I was mistaken. I should greatly en- 
 joy a trip to the United States if I could be sure that I should be as free and as 
 obscure as I am when I go to Paris or Brussels, that I should be at liberty to 
 choose my own associates and that I should never be forced to make a show of 
 myself at dinners and public meetings. But my dislike of exhibition which was 
 always strong and which never yielded except to clear public duty, has, since I 
 quitted politics, become almost morbid. And what I hear of the form in which 
 your countrymen shew their kindness and esteem for men whose names are at all 
 known deters me from visiting you. I need not tell you that I mean no national 
 reflection. Perhaps the peculiarity to which I allude is honorable to the Ameri- 
 can character; but it must cause annoyance to sensitive and fastidious men. 
 Brougham or O'Connell would have liked nothing better. But Cowper would 
 have died or gone mad : Byron would have insulted his admirers, and have been 
 shot or tarred and feathered ; and, though I have stronger nerves than Cowper's, 
 and, I hope, a better temper than Byron's, I should suffer much pain and give 
 much offense. 
 
 I assure you that I and many others remember your visit to us with pleasure, 
 and hope to see you here again. We have gone through rough times ; but a 
 quiet season seems to be before us. But I must stop. 
 
 Ever yours truly T. B. MACAULAY. 
 
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 McKay, James T. , American author. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "A story with a hero, " published in the 
 Century for August, 1885, volume 8, page 569. 
 
 McMaster, John Bach, American historian, professor of American 
 history at the University of Pennsylvania, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 29 June, 1852. 
 
 Original manuscript of pages 581-586 of volume two of his 
 History of the People of the United States [971 115], with a letter 
 to Mr. Gluck accompanying the manuscript. 
 
 Marble, Manton, American journalist, founder of the New York World, 
 born at Worcester, Mass., 16 November, 1835. 
 
 Letter, dated "The World" office, New York, May 21st, 1863, 
 to Theodore Tilton. Interesting chiefly as a specimen of the 
 famous editor's style and handwriting. 
 
 Portrait, wood-engraving by W. S. L. Jewett from a photograph 
 by Rockwood. 
 
 Matthews, Brander, American author, professor of literature at Colum- 
 bia University, born in New Orleans, La., 21 February, 1852. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Love at first sight; a dialogue at din- 
 ner," first published in the Century for October, 1885, volume 8, 
 page 838, afterward included in his volume A Secret of the Sea 
 [M438— 8]. 
 
 Melanchthon, Philipp, German theologian, born at Bretten in the 
 Palatinate, 16 February, 1497, died at Wittenberg, 19 April, 1560. 
 
 Receipt, written in German, beginning "Ich Philippus Melan- 
 thon." 
 
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 Theological manuscript in Latin. From the Hodges collec- 
 tion. 
 
 Portrait, photograph from etching of 1526 by Albrecht Diirer. 
 
 Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner, called Joaquin, American poet, born in the 
 Wabash district, Ind., 10 November, 1841. 
 
 Collection of manuscripts of essays, poems, and drama, viz. : 
 "On the death of Peter Cooper" ; from "Kit Carson's ride" ; 
 from ' ' Songs of the Sunland ' ' ; from ' ' Even so, ' ' etc. 
 
 Mitford, Miss Mary Russell, English novelist and dramatist, born at 
 Alresford, Hampshire, 16 December, 1787, died at Swallowfield, 
 10 January, 1855. 
 
 Letter, without place or date, to her publishers, concerning the 
 manuscript of a volume of her tales. Interesting only as a speci- 
 men of Miss Mitford's handwriting. 
 
 Two portraits : 1, engraved by William Read ; 2, engraved 
 by H. W. Smith from the second painting by John Lucas, now in 
 the National Portrait Gallery, London. 
 
 Montalembert, Charles Forbes, Comte de, French author and states- 
 man, born in London, in 1810, died in Paris, 12 March, 1870. 
 
 Letter, dated Paris, 15 April, 1849, to M. M. Barthelemy, from 
 the Comite electoral pour la defense de la liberte religieuse of 
 which Count de Montalembert was at this date the president. 
 
 Montgomery, George Edgar, American poet. 
 
 Signed manuscript of " A lightning flash, " a poem first published 
 in The Century for August, 1886, volume 10, page 542. 
 
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MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 Montgomery, James, Scotch poet, born at Irvine in Ayrshire, 4 No- 
 vember, 1771, died at Sheffield, 30 April, 1854. 
 
 Letter, dated Sheffield, March 11, 1807, to Dr. John Aikin at 
 Stoke Newington. The letter was written while the poet was still 
 smarting under a contemptuous review by Francis Jeffrey in the 
 Edinburgh Review [January, 1807, volume 9, page 347] and 
 expresses much gratitude for comfort and encouragement to Dr. 
 Aikin, who had at this time just founded his literary paper, the 
 Athenaeum. 
 
 Manuscript of "The world before the flood: Canto iii, The 
 patriarchs; Canto iv, The prophecy of Enoch," which is pub- 
 lished in his Poetical Works, volume 2 [821.2 M787— 1]. 
 
 The manuscript is dated 30 December, 1809, and bears a super- 
 scription to Dr. Aikin and a postmark 13 January, 1810. 
 
 Two portraits : 1, a steel-engraving by H. Adlard from the 
 painting by John Jackson, R. A., in 1827, one of the two best 
 portraits; 2, engraving, anonymous. 
 
 Moore, Thomas, Irish poet, born in Dublin, 28 May, 1779, died at 
 Sloperton Cottage near Devizes, 25 February, 1852. 
 
 Manuscript, dated June 6, 1818, of two songs: the first "Angel 
 of Charity " set to an air by Handel ; the second " Oh ! how sweet 
 to think hereafter " set to an air by Haydn. 
 
 Portrait, engraved, nameless. 
 
 Motley, John Lothrop, American historian and diplomatist, born in 
 Dorchester, Mass., 15 April, 1814, died near Dorchester, England, 
 29 May, 1877. 
 
 Letter, dated Nahant, 26 August, 1875, to Horace Mann. 
 
 The letter was written during the author's last visit to America, 
 very soon after the death of Mrs. Motley. Dr. Oliver Wendell 
 Holmes in his John Lothrop Motley [928.1 M.85.h] has the 
 
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 following passage in relation to Mrs. Motley's death, which she 
 the conditions of mind and body under which the letter \ 
 written : 
 
 " On the last day of 1874 the beloved wife, whose health h 
 for some years been failing, was taken from him by death. S 
 had been the pride of his happier years, the stay and solace 
 those which had so tried his sensitive spirit. The blow found h 
 already weakened by mental suffering and bodily infirmity, and 
 never recovered from it. ' ' 
 
 The letter is as follows : 
 
 My dear friend : 
 
 Many thanks for your most kind and interesting and touching letter. I w 
 impatiently for the sequel you promise. How I wish I could write to you. 
 would be an immense relief but my arm seems pinioned to my side by the 
 invisible threads which are stronger than iron chains and the effort to wr 
 reacts on the brain. You will pardon me I am sure. I send the papers y 
 asked for and doubly wish I could write to you of the angel whose departure r 
 left me desolate. But you will take the will for the deed. Return them qu 
 at your leisure. Pray give my kindest regard and remembrance to Mrs. Mar 
 Of course she knows as well as you how sacredly confidential the paper writt 
 by me is. 
 
 I am sincerely and affectionately yours J. L. M. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by John Sartain from a photograph. 
 
 Mott, Lucretia Coffin, Mrs. James Mott, American reformer, born c 
 Nantucket Island, 3 January, 1793, died at Roadside, near Phil 
 delphia, 11 November, 1880. 
 
 Letter, dated Roadside, 3mo 18, 1870, to Theodore Tilton, 
 reply to a letter from him with regard to an attempt to unite tl 
 American Woman Suffrage Association and the Union Woms 
 Suffrage Society. The letter is interesting not only as the letter - 
 a woman then seventy-seven years old, but as revealing the spii 
 of the quiet Friend who was so strong an influence in all the stirrii 
 reform movements of her time. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by G. E. Perine from a photograph. 
 
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MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 Moulton, Ellen Louise Chandler, Mrs. William A. Moulton, American 
 author, born at Pomfret, Conn., 5 April, 1835. 
 
 Autograph copy of the poem "Love's resurrection day," first 
 published in Harper's Magazine for June, 1884, volume 69, page 
 104, afterward included in her volume The Garden of Dreams 
 [821.1 M927.g]. 
 
 Sonnet entitled "Ralph Waldo Emerson," published in her 
 volume The Garden of Dreams [821.1 M927.g]. 
 
 Muhlenberg, Gen. John Peter Gabriel, American patriot, clergyman, 
 soldier and legislator, born at Trappe, Pa., 1 October, 1746, died 
 near Philadelphia, 1 October, 1807. 
 
 Signature on a check for two hundred dollars for stamps on the 
 Bank of the United States, 9 July, 1802. Gen. Muhlenberg was 
 at this time supervisor of revenue for the district of Pennsylvania. 
 This is the stalwart clergyman who announced from his pulpit, 
 " There is a time for all things — a time to preach and a time to 
 pray; but there is also a time to fight and that time has now 
 come," threw off his gown, disclosing the full uniform of a colonel, 
 proceeded to the church door and ordered the drums to beat for 
 recruits. The recruits came. 
 
 Mundt, Klara Miiller, wife of Theodor Mundt, German novelist, 
 known by her pen-name "Luise Miihlbach," born in Neubranden- 
 burg, 2 January, 1814, died in Berlin, 26 September, 1873. 
 
 Part of a letter without address, place or date, giving a specimen 
 of the handwriting and signature of the novelist. 
 
 Murfree, Miss Mary Noailles, American novelist writing under the 
 name of Charles Egbert Craddock, born in Murfreesborough, 
 Tenn., in 1850. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Drifting down Lost Creek," a short 
 story first published in the Atlantic Monthly in March and April, 
 
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 1884, volume 53, pages 362, 441, afterward included in the collec- 
 tion of stories In the Tennessee Mountains [C8842 — 4] . The man- 
 uscript consists of fifty pages and is very decided and very clear. 
 Examination of it explains how it was that the editor of the Atlantic 
 (Thomas Bailey Aldrich) accepted the masculine pen-name of the 
 writer in good faith and addressed Charles Egbert Craddock as 
 "Dear Sir." 
 
 New York State 
 
 Commissions signed by the early governors. 
 
 12 May, 1798, by John Jay. 
 
 25 March, 1803, by George Clinton. 
 
 16 April, 1806, by Morgan Lewis. 
 
 10 April, 1810, by Daniel D. Tompkins. 
 
 30 April, 1821, by DeWitt Clinton. 
 
 8 March, 1824, by Joseph C. Yates. 
 
 22 April, 1828, by Nathaniel Pitcher. 
 
 23 February, 1829, by Martin Van Buren. 
 3 April, 1829, by Enos Thompson Throop. 
 
 16 March, 1833, by William L. Marcy. 
 
 17 March, 1840, by William H. Seward. 
 27 February, 1844, by William C. Bouck. 
 7 May, 1845, by Silas Wright. 
 
 7 April, 1848, by John Young. 
 
 Newman, His Eminence John Henry, English cardinal of the Roman 
 Catholic Church, born in London, 21 February, 1801, died in 
 Edgbaston, 11 August, 1890. 
 
 Letter, with autograph, dated 30 December, 1885, to the Rever- 
 end Father M. P. Connery of Akron, N. Y. The handwriting 
 of both the letter and the autograph, written in the eighty-fifth 
 year of the great cardinal's life, shows the effects of increasing age 
 and weakness, although he lived nearly five years longer. The 
 sentiment of the autograph is a verse, slightly altered, from the 
 Vulgate Bible, Hebrews x : 37, and means, being translated, " For 
 
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 yet a little while and he that is to come will come and will not 
 delay." 
 
 Letter and autograph are as follows : 
 
 Dear Mr. Cannery, 
 
 My fingers are so stiff and feeble that I do not write without effort and pain. 
 I enclose what I can. Yours very truly 
 
 JOHN H. CARD. NEWMAN. 
 
 Ad hue modicum aliquantulum qui venturus est veniet et non tardabit. 
 
 J. H. CARD. NEWMAN. 
 Dec. 30, 1885. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by Joseph Brown. 
 
 O'Reilly, John Boyle, Irish patriot, journalist and poet, for twenty 
 years editor of the Boston Pilot, born at Dowth Castle, Ireland, 28 
 June, 1844, died at Hull, Mass., 10 August, 1890. 
 
 Autograph copy of the concluding ten lines of his poem "The 
 ride of Collins Graves ; an incident of the flood in Massachusetts, 
 16 May, 1874," published in his volume Songs, Legends and 
 Ballads [821.1 066.s]. 
 
 Ossoli, Sarah Margaret Fuller, American author, for some time editor 
 of the Dial, born at Cambridgeport, Mass., 23 May, 1810, mar- 
 ried December, 1847, to Giovanni Angelo Marchese Ossoli, ship- 
 wrecked near Fire Island, 19 July, 1850. 
 
 Letter, dated Rome, 514 Corso, 8th March, 1848 : 
 
 My dear Miss Stirling : 
 
 That I have not written as you wish impute to my very bad health during the 
 winter. You are often present to my thoughts. The same cause has pre- 
 vented my cultivating the acquaintances to whom you introduced me and who 
 promised to be very agreeable. Let me on my side present Mr. Hedge one of 
 the most cultivated and refined minds of my country and a friend of Emerson's 
 no less than mine. What great and stirring times are these of Paris. I should 
 like much to receive a few lines from you about what you have known of them. 
 
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 Had I but been in Paris this 14th of February as I was last year ; it was on tl 
 day I went with you to hear Chopin and afterwards the dear kind Chevali 
 Time permits today no word more except, dear Miss Stirling, in hope of son 
 time meeting again yours affectionately g_ jy. FULLER, 
 
 Portraits : 1, engraved by H. B. Hall, Jr. ; 2, engraved 
 F. T. Stuart. 
 
 Overbury, Sir Thomas, English poet and courtier, born at Compto 
 Scorpion, in Warwickshire, 18 June, 1581, died in the Tower, : 
 September, 1613. 
 
 A very early manuscript copy of ' ' Sir Thomas Ouerburye \ 
 obseruations in trayuelle upon ye state of the 17 prouinces as th 
 stood Anno Domini 1609 the treaty of peace being then on footej 
 from the Osterley Park library, the original being at Lambeth. 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving published in 1796 by Harding, from r 
 drawing of the original by C. Jansen in the Bodleian gallery, Oxfor 
 
 Parker, Elizabeth Lowber Chandler, Mrs. Leroy Parker, Americ; 
 author, known as Bessie Chandler, born in Batavia, N. Y., 1856. 
 
 Manuscript of "My rival," a poem published in the Century i 
 October, 1885, volume 8, page 976. 
 
 Parker, The Rev. Theodore, American clergyman, born in Lexingto 
 Mass., 24 August, 1810, died in Florence, Italy, 10 May, 1860. 
 
 Manuscript sermon for Thanksgiving Day, preached at W« 
 Roxbury, Mass., November 25, 1841, from the text Job xn : 8. 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving by H. Adlard, from a photograph taki 
 in 1846. 
 
 Parkman, Francis, American historian, born at Boston, 16 Septembe 
 1823, died at Boston, 8 November, 1893. 
 
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MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 Manuscript of Count Frontenac and New France under Louis 
 XIV [976 60], the fifth part of the great series, France and Eng- 
 land in North America. The preface and the notes, of which 
 there are many, are in Mr. Parkman's handwriting, but the body 
 of the manuscript is made by an amanuensis, according to the 
 author's constant practice. 
 
 Parton, James, American author, born at Canterbury, England, 9 Feb- 
 ruary, 1822, died at Newburyport, Mass., 17 October, 1891. 
 
 Letter, dated Newburyport, Mass., December 13, 1885, to 
 Mr. Gluck, expressing Mr. Parton's regret that he could not 
 give one of his manuscripts to the Library, as he possessed none 
 of them. 
 
 Portrait, wood-cut from a photograph. 
 
 Parton, Sarah Payson Willis, Mrs. James Parton, sister of Nathaniel 
 Parker Willis, American author known by her pen-name, "Fanny 
 Fern," born at Portland, Me., 7 July, 1811, died in New York, 10 
 October, 1872. 
 
 Personal letter dated 27 February, 1863, to Theodore Tilton : 
 
 Dear Tilton : 
 
 When I receive letters from friends or strangers signifying pleasure at anything 
 I may have written, — well — I like it ! Thinking that this may also be true of 
 you I must tell you that I read aloud " The one true Church " the other evening 
 with great delight quite ignorant that you were the author. Do you suppose I 
 liked it the less when Perkins informed me of this fact last evening ? Not a 
 
 blt of ll ! Yours truly FANNY FERN. 
 
 Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Dighton, English poet, born at Wood- 
 ford, Essex, 23 July, 1823, died at Lymington, 26 November, 
 1896. 
 
 Letter written in the third person, dated Library, British 
 Museum, December 29, 1847, to Mr. J. B. Nichols. The letter 
 
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 offers a paper on William Browne for the Gentleman' s Magazh 
 Mr. Patmore was assistant librarian in the Library of the Briti 
 Museum from 1846 to 1865. 
 
 Payne, John Howard, American dramatist, born in New York City, 
 June, 1792, American consul from 1841 to 1852 in Tunis, Afric 
 where he died, 10 April, 1852. 
 
 Autograph, being a copy of the two stanzas by Aaron Hill : 
 
 " Tender-handed stroke a nettle," etc. 
 
 Facsimile of " Home sweet home." 
 
 Portraits : 1, steel-engraving nameless ; 2, steel-engraving 1 
 G. R. Hall, from a daguerreotype by Brady, made for Gabri 
 Harrison's "Life of Payne." 
 
 Percival, James Gates, American poet and geologist, born in Kensin 
 ton, Conn., 15 September, 1795, died in Hazel Green, Wis., 
 May, 1856. 
 
 Letter dated New Haven, March 29th, 1841, to D. H. William 
 with signed manuscripts of three songs: "Evening; Awake ir 
 Lyre ; and Hunting song. ' ' 
 
 Portrait, engraved by H. W. Smith from a painting by Franc 
 Alexander. 
 
 Perry, Miss Nora, American author, born in Dudley, Mass., in 184 
 died in the same place 13 May, 1896. 
 
 Manuscript of "The children's cherry feast," a poem concen 
 ing the siege of the city of Naumberg by the Hussites undi 
 Prokopius in 1432. The poem was first published, with illustn 
 tions, in the Wide Awake for May, 1886, volume 22, page 347, ar 
 is included in the volume New Songs and Ballads [821.1 P4642.n" 
 
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 Manuscript of "Tyrant Tacy," a story first published in St. 
 Nicholas for February, 1885, volume 12, pt. 1, page 260, and is 
 included in her book of stories A Flock of Girls [P4642— 2] . 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Autograph hunting and autographs," an 
 article published in Wide Awake for February, 1886, volume 22, 
 page 191. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Cressid," a poem first published in the 
 Atlantic Monthly for April, 1885, volume 55, page 476, afterward 
 reprinted in her volume New Songs and Ballads [821.1 P4642.n]. 
 
 Autograph copy of the first stanza of her poem "Some day of 
 days," published in her volume After the Ball and Her Lover' s 
 Friend, etc. [821.1 P4642.a]. 
 
 Phillips, Wendell, American orator and lecturer, born in Boston, 29 
 November, 1811, died in the same city, 2 February, 1884. 
 
 Letter, dated September 10 [1862], probably to Theodore Til- 
 ton, written just before the preliminary warning of the proclama- 
 tion of emancipation. 
 
 Dear friend : 
 
 Congratulate you on the baby — lucky baby. Wish I could see you an hour 
 before you go to Washington — too lazy to write what I would like to say. No, 
 I don't care much to talk before that event. Your private talks with cabinet 
 will have no good effect except on you — they have no time, if they had the 
 ability, to exercise foresight — they only meet the hour as it comes, often too late. 
 Presses and public speakers are what we need to tell the people what ought to be 
 done & so teach and mould the cabinet and enable them to do it. I should like 
 to write an article & may. Why did not add to her grand his- 
 tory some concluding hint to the people what to do. Persevere he [she] says — 
 good — but persevere in what direction how what step shall the Govt take to 
 cower John Bull & checkmate France ? 
 
 Tell us wise men & we'll demand it and our demand will enable the Govt 
 to do it. 
 
 Goodbye 
 
 faithfully 
 
 WENDELL PHILLIPS 
 
 Two personal letters to Theodore Tilton, the first dated 12 No- 
 vember, 1860, the second 15 November, 1861. 
 
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 Piatt, John James, American poet, consul at Cork from 1882 to 1893, 
 born at Milton, Ind., 1 March, 1835. 
 
 Autograph copy of "A song of content," an eight line stanza 
 published in his Poems of House and Home page 35 [821.1 
 P5835.p]. 
 
 Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan, Mrs. John James Piatt, American poet, 
 born in Lexington, Ky., 11 August, 1836. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "In primrose time," a poem first pub- 
 lished in St. Nicholas for May, 1885, volume 12, pt. 2, page 497, 
 afterward used as the introductory poem and title to her collection 
 In Primrose Time [821.1 P5836.i]. 
 
 Autograph copy of "Making peace," a poem of two four line 
 stanzas first published in Scribner's Monthly for November, 1874, 
 volume 9, page 31, afterward reprinted in her volume That New 
 World, and other poems, page 90 [821.1 P5836.t]. 
 
 Picard, George Henry, American physician and novelist, born in 
 Berea, Ohio, 3 August, 1850. 
 
 Manuscript of A Mission Flower; an American novel, pub- 
 lished in 1885 [P5863— 1] . 
 
 Pierpont, The Rev. John, American clergyman, poet, lawyer and 
 reformer, born at Litchfield, Conn., 6 April, 1785, died in Med- 
 ford, Mass., 26 August, 1866. 
 
 Letter, dated West Medford, Mass., 11 December, 1854, to 
 Norman C. Perkins. 
 
 Mr. Pierpont, who was the author of the famous " Airs of Pales- 
 
MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 tine," was pastor of the Congregational Church of Medford at the 
 time of this letter : 
 
 " I send you these lines on the marvelous and fearful science of 
 
 PSYCHOMETRY. 
 We stamp ourselves on every page we write : 
 That page shall bring our hidden things to light. 
 
 Send you a note to China or the pole, 
 
 Where'er the winds blow or the waters roll, 
 
 That note shall bear the impress of your soul. 
 
 We must, therefore, be a little careful what we commit to paper by way of 
 complying with the requests of our friends that we would favor them with our 
 autograph." 
 
 Portrait, engraved by H. S. Sadd from a daguerreotype by 
 Whipple. 
 
 Pillsbury, Parker, American anti-slavery reformer, born in Hamilton, 
 Mass., 22 September, 1809, died at Concord, N. H., 7 July, 1898. 
 
 Letter, dated Concord, N. H., 22 June, 1863, to Theodore Til- 
 ton. The letter represents the most radical anti-slavery opinion at 
 this time of excited feeling. The following extract from a descrip- 
 tion by James Russell Lowell of the abolitionists at the Anti- 
 Slavery Bazaar at Faneuil Hall, 22 December, 1846, is, a younger 
 contemporary says, "a wonderfully graphic sketch of Pillsbury, 
 who was always at a white heat in any case, ' ' 
 
 " Beyond, a crater in each eye, 
 Sways brown, broad-shouldered Pillsbury, 
 Who tears up words like trees by roots, 
 A Theseus in stout cowhide boots, 
 The wager of eternal war 
 Against that loathsome Minotaur 
 To whom we sacrifice each year 
 The best blood of our Athens here — 
 ***** 
 
 A terrible denouncer he, 
 Old Sinai burns unquenchably 
 Upon his lips ; he well might be a 
 Hot-blazing soul from fierce Judea, 
 Habakkuk, Ezra, or Hosea." 
 
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 The letter, omitting some slight personalities, is as follows : 
 
 Dear Friend : 
 
 I am forbidden to write or speak, unless there be more than ordinary reason. 
 But reading the apology for Charles Sumner's part in the Stevenson Brigadier- 
 ship by your (and our) Washington correspondent "Avon" moved to say that 
 though the offence was most ineffably mean, the explanation seems to me (to me, 
 understand) worse indescribably. And Avon is Seward's man also of late. 
 What has got into him ? And now Hunter is bidden to bite the dust. What is 
 the apology for that ? Freemont (thus) and Butler, Hamilton and Hunter, Siegel 
 and Stringham — all shelved ! ! Well. 
 
 Did you read about our grand gathering, here in Concord, the other day ? Do 
 not overlook Blair's speech in it (or to it, or at it) as you please. And remember 
 he spoke for Washington ; especially for Lincoln. And let me tell you that ten 
 thousand people came here to meet " Freemont and Jessie" who were advertized 
 and re-advertized and cross advertized when the getters up of the affair knew that 
 in detailing Blair, they inevitably excluded Freemont ! "Freemont and Jessie" 
 were only "decoy ducks "; and I hope somebody will tell them so — and tell them 
 also how little the regency here seemed to regret their abscence ! Dry eyes had they. 
 
 I hope we shall hear less about ' ' Honest Abe " in some quarters, now that 
 Blair has blared so loud for his re-election, and on a basis as damnably negro hating 
 as hell and Hunkerdom can desire. And the colored population are to come 
 and fight our battles for us on such terms as these ; on part pay and all white 
 officers, at that ! ! And Garrisonian abolitionists have left their proper work to 
 assist in this adding new insults to old injuries by aiding to enlist them. Dear me ! 
 May I never recover my health, if it cannot be used to better purpose. Rather 
 this night let me die. Does the Independent thunder like Patmos and Mount 
 Horeb in Mr. Beecher's abscence? I threw the Tribune to the dogs when you 
 took Greeley so well in hand. It comes every day yet but I send it no more 
 dollars. And Gerrit Smith too must bow the knee. His excuses wont do. 
 Men like him have no right to talk in that way to the delight of all Hunkers at 
 a time like this. He meant well enough no doubt — but that doesn't help the case 
 at all. He misleads thousands who would be true as the polar star only that he 
 and Greeley bewilder them and cause them to fall. I hear such men talk every 
 day good men at heart too. Don't this letter (so badly written withal) make 
 you glad I am disabled ? A good many I understand are glad enough that my 
 powers are paralyzed. It may be for the best. 
 
 Your ever faithful friend, 
 
 PARKER PILLSBURY. 
 
 Poe, Edgar Allan, American poet, born in Boston, 19 January, 1809, 
 died in Baltimore, 7 October, 1849. 
 
MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 Letter, dated Philadelphia, 22 April, 1843, to Thomas G. 
 Mackenzie as follows : 
 
 My Dear Thomas : 
 
 About a fortnight ago I wrote to Peter D. Bernard, who married one of T. W. 
 White's daughters, and made inquiry about "The Southern Literary Messenger" 
 but have received no reply. I am very anxious to ascertain if it is for sale, and if 
 it is, I wish to purchase it (through my friends here). You wrote me, some time 
 ago, that the heirs had not made up their minds respecting it. Would you do 
 me the favor, now, to call upon Bernard, or upon some one of the other heirs, 
 and inquire about it? 
 
 I can't imagine why Bernard did not reply to my letter. If the list is for sale 
 I would make arrangements for its immediate purchase upon terms which would 
 be fully satisfactory to the heirs. But do not let them suppose I am too anxious. 
 By the bye, there may be some prejudice, on the part of the heirs, against me 
 individually, on account of my quitting White — suppose, then, you get some 
 one of your friends to negotiate for you and don't let me be known in the 
 business at all. Merely ascertain if the list is for sale and upon what terms. 
 Please oblige me in this matter as soon as possible, as I am exceedingly anxious 
 about it. Tell Rose that Virginia is much better, toe and all, and that she has 
 been out lately, several times, taking long walks. She sends a great deal of love 
 to all. Remember me kindly to the whole family and believe me 
 
 Yours most truly 
 
 EDGAR A. POE. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by F. T. Stuart. 
 
 Pope, Alexander, English poet, born in London, 21 May, 1688, died 
 at Twickenham, 30 May, 1744. 
 
 Letter, dated Twickenham, 17 January, 1740-1, to John Brins- 
 den, secretary to Lord Bolingbroke, of interest only as a specimen 
 of the poet's handwriting. 
 
 Portraits : 1, engraving by J. A. J. Wilcox ; 2, engraving, 
 nameless. 
 
 Porter, Miss Rose, American author, born in New York City in 1845. 
 
 Signed manuscript of Honoria, or the Gospel of a Life, a novel 
 published in New York, 1885 [P8477— 1] . 
 
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 Preston, Miss Harriet Waters, American author, well known as a 
 translator, especially from the French and Provencal, born in Dan- 
 vers, Mass., about 1843. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Miss Ingelow and Mrs. Walford," an 
 article published in the Atlantic Monthly for August, 1885, volume 
 56, page 230. 
 
 Prime, The Rev. Samuel Irenaeus, American author and clergyman, 
 editor of the New York Observer from 1840 to 1885, born at 
 Ballston, N. Y., 6 November, 1812, died at Manchester, Vt., 18 
 July, 1885. 
 
 Letter, dated 2 October, 1855, to Theodore Tilton, congratulat- 
 ing him upon his marriage. Mr. Tilton was, during this year, a 
 member of the staff of the New York Observer. 
 
 Portrait, engraving. 
 
 Procter, Miss Adelaide Anne, eldest child of Bryan Waller Procter, 
 English poet, born in London, 30 October, 1825, died at Malvern, 
 2 February, 1864. 
 
 Manuscript of a sonnet, 
 
 "CALVUS. 
 
 Bald mortal thou dost ape the skeleton 
 
 That satirizes man and all his doings 
 
 From every open'd grave, and shouldst seem one, 
 
 But for the glowworm which is in thine eyes, 
 
 And certain airs that from thy lips arise. 
 
 Why now to see thee at thine amorous wooings 
 
 Or gravely preaching immortality, 
 
 To which thy living death's head gives the lie, 
 
 Would make the shadow that all life receiveth 
 
 Shake his dim sides with horrible derision. 
 
 Tell us, old Calvus ! what about thee cleaveth, 
 
 To make distinction still between the vision 
 
 Of a death's head and thine? Get thee false hair 
 
 For thy sole privilege to upper air. " 
 
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 Procter, Bryan Waller, English poet, writing chiefly under the pen- 
 name "Barry Cornwall," born at Leeds, 21 November, 1787, died 
 in London, 5 October, 1874. 
 
 Manuscript of " The blood horse," a poem printed in his col- 
 lection English songs, and other small poems [821.2 P9631.e]. 
 Portrait, engraved. 
 
 Pugh, Sarah, American reformer, friend and co-laborer of Lucretia 
 Mott. 
 
 Postscript to letter from Lucretia Mott to Theodore Tilton, 18 
 March, 1870. 
 
 Rame, Louise de la, English author, known by her pen-name " Ouida," 
 who has lived for many years in Italy, born at Bury St. Edmunds 
 in 1840. 
 
 Proofsheets, with author's emendations, of an article on 
 "Female suffrage," published in the North American Review for 
 September, 1886, volume 143, page 190. 
 
 Read, Thomas Buchanan, American poet and painter, born in Chester 
 Co., Pa., 12 March, 1822, died' in New York, 11 May, 1872. 
 
 Signed autograph copy of the first five lines of the second 
 stanza of his poem ' ' The flag of the constellation, ' ' published in 
 his Poetical Works, volume 3, page 290 [821.1 R2846— 1]. 
 
 Reade, Charles, English novelist, born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, 8 June, 
 1814, died in London, 11 April, 1884. 
 
 A series of letters, dated Knightsbridge, May 21-26th [1869], to 
 Benjamin Webster, manager of the Adelphi theater, concerning 
 the play " Dora," founded on Tennyson's poem of the same name, 
 
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 with manuscript directions concerning the play. Also, printed 
 text of the play, and copies of various songs used as incidental 
 music in connection with the play. 
 
 Portrait, engraved from a photograph, anonymous. 
 
 Reid, Whitelaw, American journalist, editor and principal owner of 
 the New York Tribune since 1872, born near Xenia, Ohio, 27 
 October, 1837. 
 
 Letter, dated Washington, 6th July, 1864, to Theodore Tilton. 
 Mr. Reid was at this time the correspondent of the Cincinnati 
 Gazette in Washington and this was also the period of strained 
 relations between President Lincoln and Secretary Chase, to which 
 the letter alludes. 
 
 Portrait, wood-cut from an early photograph by Sarony. 
 
 Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, German author writing under the name 
 Jean Paul, born in Bayreuth, 21 March, 1763, died in the same 
 place, 14 November, 1825. 
 
 Personal letter, dated Baireut, 29 July, 1809, to Hofrath Haug 
 at Stuttgart. 
 
 Collection of newspaper cuttings of biographical notices, trans- 
 lations and criticisms. 
 
 Portraits : 1, engraved by Adrian Sleich from the painting by 
 Friedrich Meyer in 1811 ; 2, engraved by C. A. Schwerdge- 
 burth from a painting by C. Vogel ; 3, engraved by J. Sartain 
 from a painting by Fiirster ; 4, wood-engraving, nameless. 
 
 Robertson, William, Scotch historian, born at Borthwick, Midlothian, 
 19 September, 1721, died near Edinburgh, 11 June, 1793. 
 
 Letter dated " College of Edinburgh, May 6th, 1773" to William 
 Smith, chief justice of the provinces of New York, 1763, and 
 
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 author of " History of the province of New York from its discov- 
 ery to 1762 " [973 14,v4,5] ; together with a series of "Queries 
 relating to the manners of the Indians. ' ' 
 
 The letter and queries were preparatory for the writer's famous 
 History of America [970 9] published in 1777. In the preface 
 he acknowledges his indebtedness for help from William Smith. 
 
 The letter, omitting some personalities, is as follows : 
 
 Sir: 
 
 I have already collected most of the books relating to the history of the Colo- 
 nies, together with their various Codes of laws, and what I still want I shall be 
 able to pick up here or in London, so that I need not give you any trouble with 
 respect to these. I am fully sensible of what you say concerning the importance 
 and utility of a full representation of the present state of our Colonies and the 
 difficulty of procuring such accurate information as may preserve one from mis- 
 takes and even from gross blunders. When I have looked into this branch of my 
 subject with some more attention, and have formed my own ideas with regard to 
 it, I shall then be able to propose queries with greater discernment, and I hope 
 then to derive great advantage from the correspondence to which you invite me. 
 
 My first object has been the progress of the Spanish discoveries, and the state 
 and manners of the aboriginal inhabitants of America. By the interposition of 
 Lord Grantham, our ambassador at Madrid, to whom I have the honour to be 
 known personally, I have procured much information from Spain, and by the 
 good offices of Mr. Waddilove, chaplain to the Ambassy I have obtained the 
 most compleat collection of Spanish books relative to America that ever was in 
 Britain. I flatter myself that I have been able to give a more accurate account 
 of the manners of the natives and more authentic representation of the state of 
 the country than any that has hitherto been published. A view of the human 
 species in the rudeness of its early and infant state is a curious and instructive 
 article in the history of man and has never been exhibited by any but persons 
 blinded or deceived by some favourite system which they had formed. As I 
 wish to obtain all the information possible concerning the condition and charac- 
 ter of man in this stage of his 'existence I have taken the liberty to inclose a 
 set of Queries relating to the manners of the Indians. You (as I learn from your 
 History) have already given some attention to inquiries of this kind, and I sup- 
 pose that you can procure me some intelligence with respect to the points I 
 mention in the Queries. Many of them, I am aware, will appear to you trifling 
 and uninteresting and perhaps they are so. But they have all some refer- 
 ence either to ideas of my own, or to some of those systems concerning rude 
 Nations, particularly the Americans, which have been published by M. Buffon, 
 the Author of Recherches PhUosophiques sur les Americains, by Rousseau etc. I 
 flatter myself that you will be so good as to obtain for me any elucidation of 
 ■ these points which you think may be useful to me as soon as you can. I accom- 
 pany this request with no apology, your friendly offer leaves me no room to doubt 
 
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 that you will not grudge the labour of executing such a commission. The book 
 to which you allude, viz. Political Essays concerning the British Empire is not 
 written by Lord Kaims. I know not the author but it is a work of merit. I 
 shall flatter myself with the hopes of hearing from you soon, and I have the 
 honour to be with great respect 
 Sir 
 
 Your most obedient and obliged 
 humble Servant 
 
 WILLIAM ROBERTSON. 
 
 QUERIES. 
 
 Is the bodily constitution of the Indians as vigorous and robust as that of people 
 of similar climates on the ancient continent ? 
 
 Is the beardless countenance and want of hair upon every part of the body but 
 the head natural to the Indians ? 
 
 N. B. The most accurate Spanish and French travellers, who have viewed the 
 Indians in every climate of America, represent this defect as universal and con- 
 sider it as a natural distinction of the Americans. I observe that in a note p. 37 
 of your history of N. York you seem to think it is not natural, but it appears to 
 me more strange that all the tribes scattered over America from Cape Horn to 
 the river St. Lawrence should agree in one custom of plucking out their hair, than 
 that they should naturally want it. Lawson in his New Voyage to Carolina 
 Lond. 1709. 4 to p. 52 mentions his having seen Indians with beards. A well 
 attested fact will destroy at once any reasoning and theory. But is this fact well 
 attested ? 
 
 Are the Indians defective in animal passion for their females and does their 
 constitutional vigour seem to be less in this respect than that of the people of 
 the ancient continent ? 
 
 The Spanish and French Missionaries describe, with astonishment, the cold- 
 ness and chastity of the Indians, not only in temperate and northern climates but 
 in the torrid zone. Lawson and Brickell in their accounts of Carolina represent 
 their manners in a very different light. You as I see p. 37 have received informa- 
 tion which confirms this. I should wish to have this more fully explained ; par- 
 ticularly 
 
 Have their Songs and Dances any reference to love and gallantry, or are they 
 rather martial and formal ? 
 
 Does their common discourse turn often upon love and the animal passion 
 between the sexes ? 
 
 Is the appetite of Indians for food greater or less than that of Europeans ? 
 
 Is the period of human life among them longer or shorter than in the other 
 continent ? 
 
 What are the diseases to which they are most subject ? 
 
 Does Polygamy take place among the Indians of North America ? 
 
 Are their marriages permanent, or when dissolved, how are the children dis- 
 posed of? 
 
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 What is the character of their women with regard to chastity both before and 
 after marriage ? 
 
 How are the women treated by their husbands ? 
 
 Whether are the Indian women prolifick ? 
 
 Do many of their children die in nonage ? 
 
 What is the state of parental tenderness and affection among them and what 
 the returns of filial duty and respect when compared with what takes place in 
 other nations ? 
 
 What are their ideas of property ? 
 
 Whether does the product of their agriculture and the game taken in hunting 
 belong to the community or to the individual ? 
 
 What degree of authority do their Sachems or Chiefs possess? Is it confined 
 solely to military command or is it exercised likewise during peace ? 
 
 Is the authority of their chiefs hereditary or elective or does it result tacitly 
 from their merit and eminent qualities ? 
 
 Do they exercise any criminal jurisdiction by punishing such as are guilty of 
 acts of violence or is the right of revenge left wholly in the hands of private 
 persons ? 
 
 What are the motives and objects of their wars ? 
 
 Whether are many of their prisoners spared and adopted or are they mostly put 
 to death ? 
 
 Whether is their fortitude under torture general or do many of them shrink or 
 lose spirit under their sufferings ? 
 
 Do they in their works of art discover any considerable degree of contrivance 
 and ingenuity ? 
 
 When they settle among Europeans, or have much intercourse with them, do 
 they discover any talents for mechanical arts or acquire habits of industry ? 
 
 Have they any Songs or Poems comprising any traditional history of their 
 country or relating the actions of their great warriors? 
 
 Could a literal translation be procured of some of those poetical compositions 
 if any such there be ? 
 
 Have they any idea of a Deity whom they suppose to be the Creator and 
 Governour of the world ? 
 
 Have they rites which may be denominated religious or are any of them 
 singular and remarkable ? 
 
 What are their ideas concerning a future state ? 
 
 Whether is the language of each tribe distinct or may all the dialects of North 
 America be referred (as the French Missionaries assert) to two or three mother 
 languages ? 
 
 The short account of the Iroquois language which you have published p. 39 is 
 curious, but if you can apply for information to any person who has had a liberal 
 education I should wish to have his ideas concerning the genius and structure 
 of their language. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by Ridley and published by J. Sewell in 
 1802. 
 
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 Rogers, Samuel, English poet, born at Stoke Newington, 30 July, 1763, 
 died at Hornsey, 18 December, 1855. 
 
 Note without place or date to Miss Mary Sharpe, and brief auto- 
 biographical notes. 
 
 Rohlfs, Anna Katharine Green, Mrs. Charles Rohlfs, American novel- 
 ist, born on Long Island, N. Y., in 1846. 
 
 Manuscripts of three poems: "Through the trees; In farewell; 
 Ode to Grant." The first two poems are included in her volume 
 The Defence of the Bride, and other poems [821.1 G975.d]. 
 
 Rossetti, Dante Charles Gabriel, English poet and painter, born in 
 London, 12 May, 1828, died at Birchington, near Margate, 10 
 April, 1882. 
 
 Manuscript of a sonnet on Coleridge, written in 1880, printed 
 as one of a set of sonnets on five English poets, Chatterton, Blake, 
 Coleridge, Keats and Shelley, in his Ballads and Sonnets [821.2 
 R8292.b]. 
 
 The lines vary somewhat from the printed form and are printed 
 in full : 
 
 "COLERIDGE. 
 
 His soul fared forth even as the Father-dove 
 
 Through hidden places plies his hour-long quest, 
 
 To feed his soul-brood hungering in the nest ; 
 But his warm Heart, the mother-bird, above 
 Their callow fledgling progeny still hove 
 
 With tented roof of wings and fostering breast 
 
 Till the Soul fed the soul-brood. Richly blest 
 From Heaven their growth, whose food was human love. 
 
 Yet ah ! Like desart pools that show the stars 
 
 Once in long leagues, — even such the scarce-snatched hours 
 
 Which deepening pain left to his lordliest powers, — 
 Heaven lost through spider-trammelled prison-bars ! 
 
 Five years from seventy saved ! Yet kindling skies 
 
 Own them a beacon to our centuries." 
 
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 Letter dated Wednesday [13 April, 1881] to Mr. F. S. Ellis, of 
 the firm of Ellis and White, his publishers. 
 
 My dear Ellis : 
 
 Thanks for your note. Is it likely that there will now be a break in the print- 
 ing owing to the Easter week? I have a friend coming to town to whom I 
 should like to show the "King's Tragedy" on some historical grounds and 
 should thus like to have the M. S. by Saturday morning, if not likely to be in 
 use for some days. Of course I suppose they could not get it all in type by then. 
 
 Yours ever 
 
 D. G. ROSSETTI 
 
 P. S. Pray pardon trouble. Thanks for the descriptive papers safe to hand. 
 I have received this evening sheet 1 of the "King's Tragedy." 
 
 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, French author, born in Geneva, 28 June, 
 1712, died at Ermenonville, near Paris, 3 July, 1778. 
 
 Letter, dated Montmorency, 18 February, 1758, to M. Jacob 
 Vernes, a Swiss protestant theologian, who later attacked Rous- 
 seau's opinions in his book Lettres et Dialogues sur le Christianisme 
 de J. J. Rousseau. The letter is long and characteristic, dwelling 
 on his isolation and ill-health and discussing at some length his 
 religious philosophy. It is published in Rousseau's CEuvres com- 
 pletes, 1793, volume 1, page 179 [840 296], also in his CEuvres, 
 1817, volume 1, page 448 [840 102]. 
 
 Portrait, engraving, nameless. 
 
 Ruskin, John, English art critic and author, born in London, 8 Febru- 
 ary, 1819. 
 
 Letter, dated Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 14 February, 
 1876, to Sir John Gilbert, at Vanbrugh Park, Blackheath, Lon- 
 don. Mr. Ruskin was Slade Professor of Fine Art in Oxford at 
 the time of this letter, which is as follows : 
 
 My dear Sir jfohn : 
 
 Indeed I am most grateful for your letter, and proud of its kind expression of 
 wish that I should have some part in the honour of the dear old room. 
 
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 But I had nothing by me but what I was ashamed to send. I can only draw 
 in black & white just now, for engraving, or else natural history detail not im- 
 portant enough for exhibition. 
 
 I have more writing to do and more business every day and what little skill my 
 fingers had must soon leave them : but I hope yet to send a sketch or two of 
 skies, some day, if ever we see the sky again. I wish my St. George's company 
 were gaining ground fast enough for us to hope to have Sir John Gilbert draw 
 some of our battles for us. But believe me Ever my dear Sir John faithfully 
 and heartily yours 
 
 J. RUSKIN. 
 
 Manuscript of passages from the essay, " Qui judicatis terram," 
 from Unto This Last, Wiley edition, 1869, p. 70, 77 [330 58] . 
 
 Portraits : 1, steel-engraving, anonymous, from drawing ; 2, 
 process reproduction of a drawing by B. Lander from a photo- 
 graph from life. 
 
 Saint Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de, French author, born at 
 Havre, 19 January, 1737, died at Eragny, near Pontoise, 21 
 January, 1814. 
 
 Part of a personal letter, without place, date or address, giving a 
 very good specimen of the author's handwriting and signature. 
 
 Portrait, engraving, nameless. 
 
 Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, French critic and poet, born at 
 Boulogne-sur-Mer, 23 December, 1804, died in Paris, 13 October, 
 1869. 
 
 Short note without place or date, giving a specimen of M. Sainte- 
 Beuve's handwriting and signature. 
 
 Sala, George Augustus Henry, English journalist and author, born in 
 London, 24 November, 1828, died at Brighton, 8 December, 
 1895. 
 
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 Manuscript of an article called "On a certain team of horses," 
 seven pages of the very clear, microscopic handwriting of the 
 famous journalist. 
 
 Sanborn, The Rev. Franklin Benjamin, American journalist and author, 
 born in Hampton Falls, N. H., 15 December, 1831. 
 
 Manuscript of a sermon on " Immortality," Luke xvn : 21, and 
 xxi : 38, preached at Elmira, 19 April, 1885. 
 
 Savage, The Rev. Minot Judson, American clergyman and author, 
 pastor of the Church of the Unity, Boston, since 1874, born at 
 Norridgewock, Me., 10 June, 1841. 
 
 Original manuscript of a sermon preached at the twenty-fifth 
 anniversary of the dedication of the Church of the Unity, Boston, 
 1884. 
 
 Autograph copy of poem "Where is God?" dated Boston, 16 
 April, 1886. 
 
 Portrait, wood-engraving by A. C. Russell from photograph. 
 
 Saxe, John Godfrey, American lawyer and poet, born in Highgate, Vt. , 
 2 June, 1816, died in Albany, 31 March, 1887. 
 
 Letter, dated Albany, N. Y., 15 April, 1872, to James R. 
 Osgood concerning the selection of Augustus Hoppin as the 
 illustrator for a holiday edition of Saxe's poem "The proud Miss 
 MacBride." The edition, as discussed, was issued in 1873. 
 
 Scott, Sir Walter, Scotch novelist and poet, born in Edinburgh, 15 
 August, 1771, died at Abbotsford, 21 September, 1832. 
 
 Manuscript of part of an essay on "Chivalry," written in 
 1814, for the Supplement to the fourth and fifth editions of the 
 
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, of which the first part was published in 
 December, 1815. The essay was incorporated into the body of 
 the seventh edition and retained its place in the eighth, but was 
 omitted in the ninth. Scott received one hundred pounds for the 
 essay. It has been reprinted together with the essays on "Drama " 
 and on "Romance" which were written for the same work 
 [940.1 19]. 
 
 The manuscript is accompanied by the following note from Scott : 
 
 Sir: 
 
 I am obliged with your flattering letter and readily send you the specimen you 
 wish to possess of my handwriting. I am sorry to say neither my hand or eyes 
 are so good as when I was younger. 
 I am sir 
 
 Your obedient servant 
 
 WALTER SCOTT. 
 
 Edinburgh 
 25 Feby 1826. 
 
 Scudder, Horace Elisha, American author, born in Boston, 16 October, 
 1838. 
 
 Manuscript of the first draft of "The golden egg and cock of 
 gold," a story written in 1861 or 1862 and first published in Dream 
 Children [j S4364.d] in Cambridge, 1864. The story was trans- 
 lated into Latin by J. H. Allen and published in Allen 's Latin 
 Primer in 1870. 
 
 Portrait, wood -cut, from a photograph. 
 
 Sedgwick, Miss Catherine Maria, American author and teacher, born 
 at Stockbridge, Mass., 28 December, 1789, died near Roxbury 
 Mass., 31 July, 1867. 
 
 Letter, dated 9 January, 1856, to Miss Peabody, concerning 
 some private charity in which both were interested. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by P. Halpin from a painting by Ingham. 
 
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 Seward, William Henry, American statesman, secretary of state during 
 President Lincoln's administration, born at Florida, Orange Co., 
 N. Y., 16 May, 1801, died at Auburn, N. Y., 10 October' 
 1872. 
 
 Note, without place or date, to the President, as follows : 
 
 "Mr. Everett consents that you see the inclosed correspondence. It reveals 
 the coldness, almost the ill will, of the British Government from the first. I 
 wonder at its short sightedness." 
 
 Portrait, engraved by A. H. Ritchie from a photograph. 
 
 Shaw, Henry Wheeler, American humorist, better known as "Josh 
 Billings," born in Lanesborough, Mass. 21 April, 1818, died in 
 Monterey, Cal., 14 October, 1885. 
 
 Manuscript of forty-two aphorisms published from month to 
 month during the year 1885 in the Century under the title " Uncle 
 Esek's Wisdom." 
 
 Portrait, etched by H. B. Hall from a photograph by Sarony. 
 
 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, English poet, born at Field Place, Warnham, 
 4 August, 1792, drowned near Leghorn, Italy, 8 July, 1822. 
 
 Letter, dated Marlow, 13 July, 1817, probably to C. & J. Oilier, 
 Shelley's publishers at this time, ordering a copy of Coleridge's 
 Sibylline Leaves, which had recently been published. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by W. Finden from Miss Curran's painting, 
 1819. 
 
 Shenstone, William, English poet, born at Halesowen, Worcestershire, 
 13 November, 1714, died at Leasowes, 11 February, 1763. 
 
 Autograph endorsement on a manuscript written by Mr. Dal- 
 rymple, dated 18 March, 1760. Also copy by Mr. Shenstone of a 
 
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 letter written by Mr. Spence to the Rev rd Mr. W , Septem- 
 ber 9, 1751. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by W. Ridley from a drawing. 
 
 Sherman, Frank Dempster, American poet, born at Peekskill, N. Y., 
 6 May, 1860. 
 
 Signed manuscript of " A betrothal, " a poem first published in 
 the Century, for May, 1886, volume 10, page 61, and reprinted in 
 his volume Madrigals and Catches [821.1 S553.m]. 
 
 Sigoumey, Lydia Huntley, American author and philanthropist, born 
 in Norwich, Conn., 1 September, 1791, died in Hartford, Conn., 
 10 June, 1865. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "The butterfly," a poem of two stanzas 
 published in her collection called Pocahontas, and other poems 
 [821.1 S578.p]. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by Burt from a painting by Francis Alexander 
 in 1828. 
 
 Sill, Edward Rowland, American poet and scholar, born in Windsor, 
 Conn., 29 April, 1841, died in Cleveland, 27 February, 1887. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "The crazy-quilt memory," an article 
 published in the "Contributors' Club" of the Atlantic Monthly 
 for April, 1886, volume 57, page 570. 
 
 Simms, William Gilmore, American novelist, born at Charleston, 
 S. C, 17 April, 1806, died in the same city, 11 June, 1870. 
 
 Letter, dated Charleston, December 18, 1867, interesting simply 
 as a specimen of Mr. Simms' s handwriting. 
 
 Portrait, engraved, nameless. 
 
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 Smalley, George Washburne, American journalist, English corre- 
 spondent for the New York Tribune from 1867 to 1895, since 1895 
 the American correspondent of the London Times, born at Frank- 
 lin, Mass., 2 June, 1833. 
 
 Letter, dated 31 December, 1867, from the London offices of the 
 New York Tribune, 17 Henrietta St., Covent Garden, to Theodore 
 Tilton. The following extracts from the letter give some interesting 
 details of the impressions and feelings of the American in London : 
 
 " I should like to write to somebody every day, if I could, for I hunger and 
 thirst after letters from home — and home means all America. You wont know 
 till you come out here how to long for letters. And from a man who lives inside 
 the newspaper world and has the entree of the Tribune office a letter, a note, a 
 
 line is a treasure for which I am grateful Over here everybody 
 
 thinks you are all in the same boat — all Republican and Radical people I mean 
 — and would be amazed to hear that W. P. and H. G. were not bosom friends. 
 .... I wonder if you would like my quiet life over here. You may bury 
 yourself in London so many fathoms deep that nobody will know of your 
 existence, or you may swim the stream in company with lots of pleasant fellows. 
 I made last year a good many acquaintances and when all that is done you may 
 see all of London people and life you care to. The « season ' here you know is 
 over in July and from August to December nobody stays in town. About this 
 time they begin to come back and dinner invitations come thick upon you. I 
 have been to four or five within a fortnight — am to dine on Thursday with King- 
 lake. All summer we spent at Norwood within a few minutes of the Crystal 
 Palace which was Fairy Land for the children. .... 
 
 Do you remember the old grandees in the Newcomes that formerly lived in 
 Harley St. and all had the same plate and servants and had the same dinners ? 
 We are in the next street, close to Cavendish square. As for these offices I 
 believe they are part of the property which Henry VIII confiscated away from 
 the monks and gave to the Duke of Bedford, or an ancestor of the Duke not a 
 Duke in those days, as to which I am not learned. But this is a real delight, 
 and perhaps almost the best in London next to the living men, to find yourself 
 every day and ten times a day passing through streets and by buildings which are 
 famous for the very events and people that are dearest to us in English history. 
 . . . . Climate excepted we all like London, but the climate is awful, and I 
 for one can do nothing without constant open air exercise " 
 
 Portrait, process-cut from a photograph by W. & D. Downey, 
 London. 
 
 Smith, Gerrit, American philanthropist, born at Utica, N. Y. , 6 March, 
 1797, died in New York, 28 December, 1874. 
 
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 Letter, dated Peterboro, Oct. 25, 1863, to Theodore Tilton, 
 approving a speech of Mr. Tilton 's on the negro, saying : 
 
 "I am very glad to get your letter and the second edition of your speech on 
 the Negro. I read it when it first appeared, and liked it much. I have read it 
 again today, and I like it more. Nothing in it pleases so much as the Irish- 
 man's and the Negro's side-by-side ride toward the Millenium." 
 
 Smith, Horatio, better known as Horace Smith, English poet, born in 
 London, in 1779, died at Tunbridge Wells, 12 July, 1849. 
 
 Signed autograph copy, dated Brighton, 24th August, 1828, of 
 the last four lines of "The poet and the alchemist. " The poem 
 is included in Rejected addresses and other poems, page 172 [821.2 
 S651— 1]. 
 
 Smith, The Rev. Samuel Francis, American clergyman, born in Boston, 
 21 October, 1808, died in Boston, 16 November, 1895. 
 
 Manuscript copy of "America," written in 1832, copied Dec. 
 11, 1885, at Newton Centre, Mass. 
 
 Portrait, wood-engraving. 
 
 Southey, Caroline Anne Bowles, English poet, second wife of Robert 
 Southey, born at Lymington, Hampshire, 7 October, 1786, died 
 at the same place, 20 July, 1854. 
 
 Manuscript of "Patience and toasted cheese," a poem of 
 twenty-four six-line stanzas. 
 
 Southey, Robert, English poet and historian, born at Bristol, 12 Aug- 
 ust, 1774, died at Keswick, 21 March, 1843. 
 
 Manuscript of chapter 173 of The Doctor. Southey published 
 The Doctor anonymously, the first two volumes in January, 1834, 
 
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 volume 3 in 1835, volumes 4 and 5 in 1837, and volumes 6 and 7 
 in 1847, edited by John Wood Warter, his son-in-law. The book 
 made a great stir in literary circles and was extensively reviewed 
 with various guesses at the authorship. The curious may trace 
 contemporary opinion by examining Preiser's Magazine for Decem- 
 ber, 1837, January and March, 1838, volume 16, page 657, volume 
 17, page 106, 310 ; Blackwood's Magazine for August and Octo- 
 ber, 1835, volume 38, page 269, 547; Quarterly Review for 
 March, 1834, volume 51, page 68; Knickerbocker Magazine for 
 November, 1836, volume 8, page 605. The book is a most 
 curious medley and the longer one examines it the more just seems 
 the comment of the Quarterly Review that " The Doctor is the 
 work of a man who stands more in need of physic than of criti- 
 cism" : and the more obvious it appears that it gives many indi- 
 cations of the decay of Southey's clear and brilliant mind which 
 was first observed by his friends in 1839, and which ended in death 
 four years later. 
 
 Sparks, The Rev. Jared, American historian, born at Willington, 
 Conn., 10 May, 1789, died at Cambridge, Mass., 14 March, 
 1866. 
 
 Letter, dated Cambridge, April 10, 1854, to Norman C. Perkins. 
 
 The letter simply says that he cannot give to Mr. Perkins an 
 autograph of Franklin as collectors have exhausted his stock. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by S. A. Schoff from the painting by T. 
 Sully. 
 
 Spinner, Francis Elias, American financier, treasurer of the United 
 States from 16 March, 1861, to 30 June, 1875, born at German 
 Flats (now Mohawk), N. Y., 21 January, 1802, died at Jackson- 
 ville, Fla., 31 January, 1890. 
 
 Signature on United States treasury warrant for twenty-four cents, 
 issued 12 June, 1873, to F. C. Harris. 
 
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 Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, Mrs. Richard S. Spofford, 
 American author, born in Calais, Maine, 3 April, 1835. 
 
 Signed manuscript of " A girl and a jewel," a story first pub- 
 lished in the Wide Awake for December, 1885, to May, 1886, 
 volume 22, afterward reprinted as a separate book in 1891 under 
 the title A Lost Jewel [JS762— 1]. 
 
 Autograph copy of two stanzas from her poem ' ' My own song, ' ' 
 included in her Poems, 1882 [821.1 S7625.p]. 
 
 Autograph copy. of " Measure for measure," two four-line stanzas 
 published in her Poems, 1882 [821.1 S7625.p]. 
 
 Stael-Holstein, Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne de, French 
 author, born at Paris, 22 April, 1766, died in the same city, 14 
 July, 1817. 
 
 Letter, without place, date or address, written from Switzerland 
 and probably addressed to Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino. 
 
 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Mrs. Henry B. Stanton, American reformer, 
 born at Johnstown, N. Y., 12 November, 1815. 
 
 Letter, dated Louisville, Kansas, Sept. 15th, [1867], to Theodore 
 Tilton. The letter was written during the campaign of four weeks 
 which Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony and others made in behalf of 
 woman suffrage in Kansas in the autumn of 1867. 
 
 Portraits : 1, engraved by H. B. Hall ; 2, process-cut from a 
 photograph by Rockwood, 1895. 
 
 Stirling, James Hutchison, Scotch philosopher, born in Glasgow, 22 
 June, 1820. 
 
 Manuscript of " Criticism of Kant's Main Principles," an article 
 published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy for July and 
 October, 1880, volume 14, page 257, 353. 
 
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 Stockton, Francis Richard, American humorist, born in Philadelphia, 
 5 April, 1834. 
 
 Letter, dated Philadelphia, 30 December, 1885, to Mr. Gluck, 
 expressing Mr. Stockton's regret that he is unable to give to the 
 library one of his manuscripts, as for many years all his work has 
 been dictated to an amanuensis. 
 
 Stoddard, Charles Warren, American author, born in Rochester, N. Y. , 
 7 August, 1843. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Premonition," a poem first published in 
 the Century for March, 1886, volume 9, page 729. 
 
 Stoddard, Richard Henry, American poet and journalist, literary 
 reviewer of the New York World from 1860 to 1870, after 1880 
 for many years literary editor of the New York Mail and Express, 
 born at Hingham, Mass., 2 July, 1825. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "The Brahman's son," a poem first pub- 
 lished in Harper's Magazine for October, 1886, volume 73, page 
 738, afterward included in his The Lion's Cub, with other verse, 
 page 132 [821.1 S8688.1]. 
 
 Stoddard, William Osborn, American author, private secretary to 
 President Lincoln from 1861 to 1864, born in Homer, N. Y., 24 
 September, 1835. 
 
 Signed manuscript of Abraham Lincoln, the true story of a great 
 life, 1884 [923.1 L.63.st]. 
 
 Stone, Lucy, Mrs. Henry B. Blackwell, American reformer and jour- 
 nalist, editor of the Boston Woman' s Journal from 1870 until her 
 
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 death, born at West Brookfield, Mass., 13 August, 1818, died at 
 Dorchester, Mass., 18 October, 1893. 
 
 Personal letter, dated Montclair, 31 December, 1862, to Theo- 
 dore Tilton, of no interest except as an autograph. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by J. C. Buttre from a photograph by J. 
 Notman. 
 
 Story, William Wetmore, American sculptor and poet, son of Judge 
 Joseph Story, born in Salem, Mass., 12 February, 1819, died in 
 Rome, 7 October, 1895. 
 
 Signed manuscript, dated Palazzo Barberini, Rome, June, 1885, 
 of the preface to the collection of his Poems, 1886 [821.1 
 S8888— 1]. 
 
 Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Lyman 
 Beecher, American author, born in Litchfield, Conn., 14 June, 
 1812, died in Hartford, Conn., 1 July, 1896. 
 
 Signed manuscript of " A day at Tivoli." 
 
 Two letters, the first dated Andover, March 12, [1861], the sec- 
 ond written later in the same year, both to Theodore Tilton and 
 both concerned with the publication of her story The Pearl of 
 Orr's Island [S892 — 8] in the Independent. The later part of the 
 story was delayed and the letters detail the causes and plan arrange- 
 ments for the publication of the second part. 
 
 Portraits : 1, engraved by H. W. Smith from the portrait by 
 G. Richmond ; 2, engraved by R. Young in 1853 from an original 
 portrait in the possession of Sampson Low & Co., London; 3, 
 engraved from the original painting by Chappel ; 4, a photograph ; 
 5, a wood-cut from a photograph. 
 
 Strickland, Miss Agnes, English historian, born in London, 19 August, 
 1796, died at Southwold, 13 July, 1874. 
 
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 Manuscript of " Rufus Impey and the Sporting Party," a child's 
 moral tale. 
 
 Sumner, Charles, American statesman, born in Boston, 6 January, 
 1811, died at Washington, D. C, 11 March, 1874. 
 
 Letter, dated Senate Chamber, 20th April, 1867, to Theodore 
 Tilton. This is the original manuscript of the letter, alluded to in 
 the tenth of the succeeding series, written at Mr. Tilton' s request 
 and published in the Independent ; afterward republished, under the 
 title "Equal Suffrage at once by an act of Congress rather than 
 constitutional amendment," in Sumner's Works, volume 11, page 
 35& [329.1 126]. 
 
 A series of twelve letters, all but one unpublished and per- 
 sonal, on public affairs, the first dated 22 June, 1860, the last 
 25 March, 1871, all to Theodore Tilton as editor of the New York 
 Independent. 
 
 First, dated 22 June, 1860, from the Senate Chamber, Washing- 
 ton, expresses to the Independent Mr. Sumner's thanks for its appre- 
 ciation of his speech in the Senate, 4 June, 1860, on the bill for 
 the admission of Kansas as a free state. The speech referred to 
 was published with the title " The barbarism of slavery," in Sum- 
 ner's Works, volume 5, page 1 [329.1 120]. In the course of 
 the letter Mr. Sumner speaks of Burke's two speeches, " On con- 
 ciliation with America " and "On economical reform," published 
 in his Works, volumes 1, 2 [820.2 B959], as "the two greatest 
 speeches in the English language." 
 
 Second, dated Boston, 21 July, 1860, replies to a criticism in the 
 Independent of Sumner's speech before the Young Men's Repub- 
 lican Union, at Cooper Institute, New York, 11 June, 1860, pub- 
 lished with the title, "The Republican party, its origin, necessity 
 and permanence," in Sumner's Works, volume 5, page 191 
 [329.1 120]. 
 
 Third, dated Boston, 29 October, 1865, was published in the 
 Independent and republished with the title " Equal rights versus the 
 
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 presidential policy in reconstruction," in Sumner's Works, volume 
 9, page 500 [329.1 124]. 
 
 Fourth, dated Boston, 2 November, 1865, details the safeguards 
 and guarantees necessary in the plans for reconstruction, and urges 
 that they be demanded. 
 
 Fifth, dated Washington, D. C, 3 December, 1865, describes 
 an interview with President Johnson during the evening of 2 
 December, 1865, and comments upon the president's position as to 
 reconstruction. 
 
 Sixth, dated Senate Chamber, 12 April, 1866, objects to the 
 phrases " rhetorical " and " elaborating sentences before delivery," 
 as applied by the Independent to Mr. Sumner's speech-making 
 methods. 
 
 Seventh, dated Senate Chamber, 6th June, 1866, gives the argu- 
 ment for the validity and constitutionality of the Political Rights 
 bill. 
 
 Eighth, dated Washington, D. C, 23 December, 1866, was 
 written directly after the postponement, because of the constitu- 
 tional limitation of the right of suffrage to ' ' white ' ' persons, of the 
 bill for the admission of Nebraska as a state. 
 
 Ninth, dated Senate Chamber, 18 April, 1867, gives the argu- 
 ment against a constitutional amendment as the means of establish- 
 ing equal suffrage and in favor of the attainment of the same end 
 by act of Congress. 
 
 Tenth, dated Senate Chamber, 20 April, 1867, is a private letter 
 accompanying a letter written for publication in the Independent on 
 the same subject as the Ninth letter. The public letter is the one 
 referred to in the first entry under Sumner. 
 
 Eleventh, dated Washington, 9 May, 1869, is as follows : 
 
 "The question of Cuba is vast, containing not merely the fate of that island 
 but the question of war with Spain and also our question with England. I hesi- 
 tate how to treat it : not that I have doubts, but I am not sure that it is advisable 
 for me to enter upon it. 
 
 Never before was statesmanship more needed to guide our country. May God 
 send us a good deliverance ! " 
 
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 Twelfth, dated Senate Chamber, 25 March, 1871, expresses Mr. 
 Sumner's thanks to the Independent for its treatment of him and 
 explains his feeling with regard to his removal, on account of his 
 personal relations with the President and the Secretary of State, 
 from the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations. 
 
 Taney, Roger Brooke, American jurist, born in Calvert Co., Md., 17 
 March, 1777, died in Washington, 12 October, 1864. 
 
 Signature as Secretary of the Treasury, dated 28 April, 1834, to 
 the commission of Samuel Swartwout as Collector of customs of the 
 district of New York. 
 
 Taylor, Bayard, American author, born in Kennett Square, Chester 
 Co., Pa., 11 January, 1825, died in Berlin, 19 December, 1878. 
 
 Manuscript of the Notes to the second part of Faust, published 
 by James R. Osgood & Co., 25 March, 1871 [832 35]. 
 
 The manuscript is one hundred and twenty-five pages, letter-size, 
 and is very clear and beautiful. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by H. B. Hall & Sons from a photograph. 
 
 Taylor, The Right Rev. Jeremy, English bishop and author, born at 
 Cambridge, 1613, died at Lisburn, August, 1667. 
 
 Letter, dated Hilsborough, November 11, 1661, "To the most 
 Reverend Father in God John [Bramhall] Lord ArchBp. of Ard- 
 magh primate of all Ireland and Metropolitan : his Grace at his 
 house in Dublin or Droghedah." 
 
 Taylor was at this time Bishop of Down and Connor and the 
 letter is mainly concerned with ecclesiastical forfeitures. The fol- 
 lowing passage is on the new sect, the Society of Friends, whose 
 
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 mild doctrines seem to have alarmed ecclesiastical circles in Great 
 Britain much as they did Puritan authorities in New England : 
 
 "My Lord I againe renew my suit about the Quakers that some secular course 
 may be taken to scatter their meetings ; fr, fr anything else they are inconsid- 
 erable ; save only that they abuse many weake, phantastic and hypochondriacal 
 people ; and under a cover of simplicity teach the people principles of disobedi- 
 ence to all Governement. I know your Grace is a better player at Tennis than I 
 am, but if I strike first and turne the Quakers over ye Ban into Ardmagh, they 
 will as hardly remoove as a Spaniard from his garrison." 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving, anonymous. 
 
 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet, born at Somersby, 
 6 August, 1809, died at Aldworth, 6 October, 1892. 
 
 Letter, dated Farringford, 4 April, 1867, to James R. Osgood, 
 Tavistock Hotel, Covent Garden, W. C. 
 
 Note to Martin Farquhar Tupper at Albury, containing Tenny- 
 son's autograph for Brantz Mayer, of Baltimore, endorsed to this 
 effect by Mr. Tupper, 10 February, 1869. 
 
 Proof-sheets, with author's corrections and additions, of A 
 Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson, published in Moxon's 
 Series of Miniature Poets. London. 1865. 
 
 In Alfred Tennyson, a Memoir, by his son, volume 2, page 19 
 [928.2 T.25], in an extract from Mrs. Tennyson's journal, is given 
 the text of a preface said to have been written for this volume, 
 which was issued first in three-penny numbers. This preface does 
 not, however, appear in the volume. Mrs. Tennyson also notes 
 that six poems, "The captain; On a mourner; Home they 
 brought him slain with spears; and Three sonnets to a coquette," 
 are new. 
 
 Portrait, engraved, nameless. 
 
 Thaxter, Celia Laighton, Mrs. Levi Lincoln Thaxter, born at Ports- 
 mouth, N. H., 29 June, 1836, died on the island of Appledore, 
 Isles of Shoals, 26 August, 1894. 
 
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 Letter dated Boston, 24 March, 1886, to Mr. Gluck, transmitting 
 autograph copies of two poems. The first, called " A tryst, ' ' was 
 published in her collection of Poems, 1881 [821.1 T369.p], and 
 was read over and over again by Lieut. Greely to his men during 
 their Arctic imprisonment; the second, called "Questions" was 
 published in her collection The Cruise of the Mystery, and other 
 poems [821.1 T369.c]. 
 
 Thomas, Miss Edith Matilda, American poet, born in Chatham, Ohio, 
 12 August, 1854. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Flake white," an essay on snow, pub- 
 lished in the Atlantic Monthly for March, 1885, volume 55, page 
 344, and reprinted in her volume of essays The Round Year [824. 1 
 T455.p]. 
 
 Thompson, Maurice, American author, born at Fairfield, Ind., 9 Sep- 
 tember, 1844. 
 
 Manuscript of " A song of the mockingbird, dedicated to an 
 English sky-lark," published in his Poems, 1892 [821.1 T474.p], 
 as "To an English skylark." 
 
 Thoreau, Henry David, American author, born at Concord, Mass., 12 
 July, 1817, died in the same place, 6 May, 1862. 
 
 Autograph of extracts from the writings of the poet Francis 
 Quarles. 
 
 Thorpe, Rose Hartwick, Mrs. Edmund C. Thorpe, American poet, born 
 at Mishawaka, Ind., 18 July, 1850. 
 
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 Autograph copy, dated Pacific Beach, California, of the follow- 
 ing poem : 
 
 "THE CHRISTMAS LOVE. 
 
 Glimmer of gold in the morning mist ; 
 Haze of amber and amethyst ; 
 Spices blown o'er a shining strand ; 
 Christmas day in the south-west land. 
 
 Garlands of flowers, or drifts of snow, 
 The whole world shares in the Christmas glow 
 Of that love which prompts the heart to make 
 Gifts of love for the dear Christ's sake.'' 
 
 Ticknor, George, American author, born in Boston, 1 August, 1791, 
 died in the same city, 26 January, 1871. 
 
 Letter, dated London, June 4, 1838, to Robert Southey, intro- 
 ducing Charles Sumner. The letter was written just at the close of 
 Mr. Ticknor' s second visit in Europe, which was made immediately 
 after the close of his fifteen years of most distinguished service as 
 professor of modern languages at Harvard. He had begun the col- 
 lection of his library of Spanish and Portuguese literature during 
 his first visit in 1819, and now, in preparation for writing his 
 famous History of Spanish Literature [860 1] , had increased it. 
 The Ticknor Library in the Boston Public Library is the beautiful 
 memorial not only of Mr. Ticknor' s learning, but also of his interest 
 in and love for the great institution of which he was one of the 
 founders. 
 
 Such is the man who introduces Charles Sumner, then but 
 twenty-seven and in the midst of the enjoyment of his first Euro- 
 pean trip, to the great poet Southey. It is disappointing to learn 
 from Sumner's interesting letters to George S. Hillard, published in 
 Pierce's Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, volume 1, page 
 355-359 [923.1 Su.6.p], that he missed Southey, who was on the 
 continent. He however met "a young and lovely daughter of 
 Southey's " at Wordsworth's, where his visitwas one of " unmingled 
 pleasure. ' ' 
 
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 The letter is as follows : 
 
 My dear Sir, 
 
 Before I leave London let me introduce to you, my friend Mr. Charles Sumner 
 of Boston, who is likely soon to visit your part of England. He is a young man of 
 a very lofty moral purity of character and of attainments in the science of the Law, 
 which, for his age, are extraordinary and accounted so, not only in the United 
 States, but in Europe, where his reputation had, in some instances, preceded him. 
 I commend him to you, as one with whom you will be pleased to talk, for it is 
 rare, in one so young, to find a mind so fair and so wise. 
 
 We all remember your kindness to us at Keswick and hope we may be kindly 
 
 remembered by you, when we shall be on the other side of the Atlantic, to which 
 
 we are hastening. ,. , . t , - „ 
 
 Yrs. very faithfully GEQ TICKN0R . 
 
 Portraits : 1, of Ticknor, steel-engraving by H. W. Smith from 
 a photograph by Black in 1867 ; 2, of Southey, steel-engraving by 
 S. A. Schoff; 3, of Sumner, steel-engraving by Augustus Robin 
 from a photograph. 
 
 Tilton, Theodore, American journalist, born in New York, 2 October, 
 1835, on the staff of the New York Independent from 1856 to 1863, 
 its editor-in-chief from 1863 to 1872. 
 
 Signed autograph copy of "The cloud of witnesses," a poem 
 published in his volume The Sexton's Tale, and other poems, page 
 65 [821.1 T5815.s]. 
 
 Portrait, wood-cut from a photograph. 
 
 Trollope, Anthony, English novelist, born in London, in 1815, died 
 in the same city, 6 December, 1882. 
 
 Letter, dated 39 Montagu Square, London, 2 December, 1878. 
 
 The letter is written to the publisher of one of his latest stories 
 and is an interesting instance of the care which the novelist used 
 to make the details of his work correct. 
 
 My dear Mr. Ireland : 
 
 I shall have finished my story in about a week. I find that there arise in it 
 various legal points,— not legal questions with which I should not dabble,— but 
 
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 matters of phraseology and form. I suppose it would be out of the question for 
 you to have it printed at once in slips so as to enable me to get a barrister to read 
 it? I could not ask a friend to do this in Mss. I have had this done be- 
 fore, but I can understand that it would be out of the question to do it where 
 the types are so constantly required as in a newspaper establishment. It is how- 
 ever as well to ask the question. 
 
 Yours always 
 
 faithfully 
 
 ANTHONY TROLLOPE. 
 
 Trowbridge, John Townsend, American author, born in Ogden, N. Y. , 
 18 September, 1827. 
 
 Manuscript of the poems the " Rhyme of John Paul Jones " and 
 "The battle of the Serapis and the Poor Richard." 
 
 Manuscript of The Kelp- Gatherers, a story first published in the 
 St. Nicholas for June to October, 1886, volume 13, pt. 2, page 
 584, afterward republished in book form [JT8634 — 13]. 
 
 Portrait, photograph by Warren. 
 
 Tupper, Martin Farquhar, English poet, born in London, 17 July, 
 1810, died at Albury House, near Guildford, 29 November, 1889. 
 
 Letter, dated April 2, [1850], to W. N. L., i. e. William Nan- 
 son Lettsom. The stupendous work alluded to in the letter is 
 probably Lettsom' s translation of the Nibelungenlied, which was 
 published in 1850. 
 
 Worthy W. N. L.: 
 
 Here's one of my last, thrown to you by way of excuse for a how dye-do. 
 Know also that I've eased my conscience of a verum dictum anent your stu- 
 pendous work and that I've sent off the vengeful critique in question to a friendly 
 editor. If and when it appears in print you shall have it forthwith. I heartily 
 applaud you as a genuine wonder : why, there are hardly half a dozen Latin 
 words in the whole 10,000 lines : and you have done your work admirably. 
 Suffer this buttering : but I wouldn't say it if I didn't think it. 
 
 Very sincerely yours 
 
 MARTIN F. TUPPER. 
 Portrait, engraved from a drawing. 
 
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 Turner, John Mallord William, English landscape painter, born 23 
 April, 1775, died in Chelsea, 19 December, 1851. 
 
 Manuscript note to a fellow artist, of no interest except as giving 
 a very good signature. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by W. Hall. 
 
 Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, French philosopher and author, 
 born in Paris, 24 November, 1694, died in the same city, 30 May, 
 1778. 
 
 Signature on an official certificate of identification, dated 3 
 November, 1767, given in the town of Gex in which the Chateau 
 of Ferney was situated. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by J. Romney from a drawing by G. M. 
 Brighty, from the painting by La Tour, published in 1817 by 
 C. G. Dyer. 
 
 Wallace, Gen. Lew., American lawyer, soldier and author, United 
 States minister to Turkey from 1881 to 1885, born at Brookville, 
 Ind., 10 April, 1827. 
 
 Letter, dated Crawfordsville, Ind., 14 December, 1885, to Mr. 
 Gluck, a specimen of Gen. Wallace's handwriting, otherwise of no 
 interest. 
 
 Portrait, half-tone engraving from a photograph. 
 
 Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mrs. Herbert Dickinson Ward, 
 American author, born in Boston, 31 August, 1844. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "The tenement-house fire," a poem first 
 published, with illustrations, in the Wide Awake for March, 1886, 
 volume 22, page 250. 
 
 Portrait, half-tone engraving from a photograph. 
 
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 Warner, Charles Dudley, American author, born in Plainfield, Mass., 
 12 September, 1829. 
 
 Letter, dated Hartford, Conn., 10 January, 1886, to Mr. Gluck, 
 accompanying the signed manuscript of "Society in the new 
 South ' ' an essay first published in the New Princeton Review for 
 January, 1886, volume 1, page 1, afterward reprinted in his Studies 
 in the South and West, page 18 [917.4 65]. 
 
 Warner, Miss Susan, American author, known also by her pen-name 
 "Elizabeth Wetherell," born in New York City, 11 July, 1819, 
 died at Highland Falls, N. Y., 17 March, 1885. 
 
 Letter, dated The Island, Sept. 7, 1853, probably to Mr. Samuel 
 Carter, the publisher of her book The law and the Testimony, report- 
 ing a missing signature in her copy of this book, which was pub- 
 lished during 1853 [220.0 30]. 
 
 Washington, George, first president of the United States, born at 
 Pope's Creek, Va., 22 February, 1732, died at Mount Vernon, 14 
 December, 1799. 
 
 Letter, dated Head Qrs., New York, Sept. 12, 1776, to the 
 President of Congress. The date, September 12, is the day of 
 that consultation of Washington with his generals which decided 
 the evacuation of New York. The anxiety of the great general is 
 evident throughout the letter. The manuscript is from Sir William 
 Hamilton's collection and is apparently unpublished. It is there- 
 fore reprinted with the spelling, punctuation and capitalization of 
 the original : 
 
 Sir 
 
 I yesterday received the favor of your letter of the 9th with Its several Inci- 
 sures and am extremely happy that your Hon'bl Body had anticipated my recom- 
 mendation by resolving on an Augmentation of six hundred men to the Garrisons 
 in the Highlands — the importance of those posts demands the utmost attention, 
 and every exertion to maintain them. 
 
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 The vessels for the removal of the sick are not yet arrived. Their present situa- 
 tion gives me great anxiety. As the wind is now favourable I would fain hope 
 that a sufficient number will come down to day to take in the whole. If they do 
 not my distress will be much increased. 
 
 Gen'l Clinton in a letter of the 8th transmitted me a list of artillery and ord- 
 nance stores wanted at Forts Montgomery and Constitution, which Included the 
 several articles you have determined to procure, Except those mentioned below. — 
 I directed that they should be sent up, but as the situation of our Affairs at this 
 Time may not perhaps admit of It I think It will be prudent for Mr. Schenk whom 
 you have appointed an agent in this Instance to get all he can — Should he be 
 able to obtain the supply you have voted necessary — and Gen'l Clinton's demand 
 be complied with also, no damage will be done — our stores will not be too large. 
 I have the Honor to be 
 
 with great respect 
 Sir 
 Your Most Obed. Sevt. 
 
 G° WASHINGTON 
 Intrenching Tools 
 Iron Carriages 
 Cannon Harness 
 Armourer with his Tools. 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving by H. W. Smith from G. Stuart's 
 Athenaeum painting. 
 
 Watterson, Henry, American journalist, born in Washington, D. C, 
 16 February, 1840, editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal since 
 1868. 
 
 Letter, dated Louisville, Nov. 16th, [1873], to Theodore Til- 
 ton, interesting only as a specimen of Mr. Watterson' s hand- 
 writing. 
 
 Watts, The Rev. Isaac, English clergyman and poet, born at South- 
 ampton, 17 July, 1674, died at Theobald's, Newington, 25 
 November, 1748. 
 
 Manuscript of " Diuine Miscellanies, or A mixture of matter, 
 being the exercise of solitary thoughts on occasionall meditations, 
 
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 various observations and serious contemplations digested into poems 
 and epigrams." 
 
 Portrait, engraving, nameless. 
 
 Webster, Daniel, American statesman, born in Salisbury, now Frank- 
 lin, N. H., 18 January, 1782, died in Marshfield, Mass., 24 Octo- 
 ber, 1852. 
 
 Letter, dated Brunswick Hotel, Hanover Square, July 27, 1839, 
 to John H. Tredgold, Esq., making an appointment to meet Mr. 
 Tredgold and his friends at the end of August. 
 
 Whipple, Edwin Percy, American author, born in Gloucester, Mass., 
 8 March, 1819, died in Boston, 16 June, 1886. 
 
 Signed manuscript of " Domestic service," an article first pub- 
 lished in the Forum for March, 1886, volume 1, page 25, after- 
 wards included in Outlooks on Society, Literature and Politics, page 
 99 [824.1 W573.o]. 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving by J. A. J. Wilcox from a photograph. 
 
 White, Horace, American journalist, born at Colebrook, N. H., 10 
 August, 1834, joint editor, with E. L. Godkin, of the New York 
 Evening Post since 1883. 
 
 Private letter, dated Chicago, October 28th, 1872, to Theodore 
 Tilton, making an inquiry on behalf of the Liberal Republicans 
 concerning the policy of the New York Tribune in case of Grant's 
 election. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by Samuel Sartain. 
 
 White, Richard Grant, American author and Shakespearean scholar, 
 born in New York City, 22 May, 1821, died in the same city, 8 
 April, 1885. 
 
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 Manuscript of "Stage Rosalinds," an article first published in 
 the Atlantic Monthly, for February, 1883, volume 51, page 248, 
 afterward republished in his volume Studies in Shakespeare, 1886 
 [822.3 321]. 
 
 Portrait, wood-engraving from a photograph. 
 
 Whitman, Walt, American poet, born in West Hills, Long Island, 31 
 May, 1819, died in Camden, N. J., 23 March, 1892. 
 
 Manuscript of the essay " Robert Burns as poet and person." 
 
 A peculiar manuscript written on scraps of paper of all sorts and 
 kinds and embodying in it printed extracts from an earlier article. 
 The essay in its present form was published in his collection 
 November Boughs [824.1 W615.n]. 
 
 Portrait, engraving by S. A. Schoff. 
 
 Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train, Mrs. Seth D. Whitney, American 
 author, born in Boston, 15 September, 1824. 
 
 Signed, autograph copy of "A violet," a poem of three four- 
 line stanzas, published in her volume Pansies [821.1 W617.p]. 
 
 Portrait, wood-cut by A. L. L. from a photograph. 
 
 Whittier, John Greenleaf, American poet, born in East Haverhill, 
 Mass., 17 December, 1807, died at Hampton Falls, N. H., 7 Sep- 
 tember, 1892. 
 
 Manuscript of "The King's missive, 1661," a poem originally 
 written for the Memorial History of Boston, volume 1, page xxv 
 [972 B— 8]. 
 
 The ballad celebrates the release by Governor Endicott of the 
 Quakers confined in Boston jail. "The King's missive" was 
 brought to Governor Endicott by Samuel Shattuck, a banished 
 
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 Quaker. The poem gives its title to a volume of Whittier's poems 
 The King' s Missive, and other poems , 1881 [821.1 W625.k]. 
 
 Letter, dated Amesbury, 10th 9th month, 1864, to Theodore 
 Tilton, written just after the death of Miss Elizabeth Hussey 
 Whittier, 3 September, 1864. 
 
 My dearfd Tilton : 
 
 I thank thee for thy kind letter. I fully believe that a great good has befallen 
 my dear sister — whose years of pain and trial and weariness terminated so recently 
 — • but the loss is heavy to me. Always in delicate health there was a constant 
 solicitude on my part — a constant watchfulness over her — and for this perhaps I 
 loved her all the more. I pray to be preserved from selfish sorrow and repining. 
 For I know it is all in mercy that she has been called away into rest and peace. 
 I cannot now write anything worthy of her memory. But I would be glad to see 
 a brief notice of her departure in the Independent. She has written but few 
 poems but these show that she had real poetic feeling. Such pieces as her " Dr. 
 Kane in Cuba" and "Lady Franklin" show what she might have done had she 
 cherished any ambition for literary reputation. She loved home, quiet and all 
 beautiful things — enjoying as well as suffering much from her delicately sensi- 
 tive temperament. No one ever had warmer friends. She esteemed any one 
 better than herself and while full of charity for others she was inexorable in 
 regard to what she looked upon as her own short-comings. Since the death of 
 our mother she has had little inclination to go abroad and rarely left home except 
 on some errand of charity or kindness. All the strength of her last days was 
 expended in efforts to relieve the sick and wounded soldiers and the poor freed- 
 men. 
 
 Thanking thee for thy kindness I am most truly thy friend. 
 
 JOHN G. WHITTIER 
 
 I am glad to see all loyal men rallying in favor of Lincoln. He is not the man 
 of my choice but between him and that traitor platform who could hesitate ! I 
 wish Fremont were in a better position. 
 
 I enclose two or three little poems of my sister's. There is a beautiful little 
 thing of hers in the Hymns of the Ages 2d series page 53. If thee does not 
 print them in the Independent please return the enclosed. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by Schoff from a photograph. 
 
 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, American poet, born at Portland, Me., 20 
 January, 1806, died at Idlewild, 20 January, 1867. 
 
 Letter, without place or date, to James T. Fields, conveying the 
 regrets of Mr. Willis at not being able to accept an invitation to 
 
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MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 deliver a poem in Boston. The letter is quoted, in part, in 
 Nathaniel Parker Willis, by Henry A. Beers, page 271 [928.1 
 W677-b]. 
 
 Portrait, engraved without signature. 
 
 Wilson, Henry, American statesman, senator from Massachusetts for 
 eighteen years, vice-president of the United States from March, 
 1873, until his death, born at Farmington, N. H., 16 February, 
 1812, died in Washington, 22 November, 1875. 
 
 Letter, dated Natick, September 8, 1866, to Theodore Tilton. 
 
 The letter is a complaint of injustice on Mr. Tilton' s part against 
 Mr. Wilson in charging him with defeating an expression by the 
 southern convention in favor of suffrage with a refutation of the 
 charge. 
 
 Portrait, steel-engraving from a photograph. 
 
 Wilson, Gen. James Grant, American soldier and author, born in Edin- 
 burgh, Scotland, 28 April, 1832. 
 
 Manuscript of the chapters on Fitz-Greene Halleck and Nathaniel 
 Parker Willis from his book Bryant and his Friends [928.1 
 B.84.w]. 
 
 Winsor, Justin, American librarian and author, born in Boston, 2 Jan- 
 uary, 1831, died in Cambridge, Mass., 22 October, 1897. 
 
 Signed manuscript of "Americana in libraries and bibliog- 
 raphies," from his Narrative and Critical History of America, 
 volume 1, page i-xvm [970 B — 15]. 
 
 Letter, dated 21 January, 1887, to Mr. J. N. Larned concerning 
 the manuscript described above. 
 
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 Winter, William, American journalist and dramatic critic, born at 
 Gloucester, Mass., 15 July, 1836. 
 
 Original manuscript of " Lester Wallack; his ancestry, training 
 and career," an article published in the New York Tribune, May, 
 1886. A part of the article is reprinted in Actors and Actresses of 
 the Present Time, volume 5 [927 M.43v5]. 
 
 Wood, The Rev. John George, English naturalist and author, born in 
 London, 1827, died in Coventry, 4 March, 1889. 
 
 Original manuscript of " Dime museums, from a naturalist's point 
 of view, ' ' an article published in the Atlantic Monthly for June, 
 1885, volume 55, page 759. 
 
 Woolsey, Miss Sarah Chauncey, American author known by her pen- 
 name "Susan Coolidge," niece of Theodore Dwight Woolsey, 
 born at Cleveland, Ohio, about 1845. 
 
 Letter dated Newport, 11 May, 1886, to James Fraser Gluck, 
 accompanying autograph copies of seven poems: "The Cradle 
 tomb in Westminster Abbey; November; Eighteen; Savoir c'est 
 pardonner ; Till the day dawn ; Ebb-tide ; Tokens," all published 
 in her volume called Verses [821.1 C774.v]. 
 
 Manuscript of "The Marble Queen," the poem which describes 
 Rausch's recumbent statue at Charlottenburg of Queen Louise of 
 Prussia and the influence of the memory of the much loved queen 
 in uniting Germany. 
 
 Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, American educator, president of Yale 
 college from 1846 to 1871, born in New York City, 31 October, 
 1801, died in New Haven, Conn., 1 July, 1889. 
 
 Manuscript of an article "On the imperfect knowledge of the 
 moral statistics of the United States," read Thursday, 8 September, 
 1881, before the general meeting of the American Social Science 
 
 124 
 
MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS 
 
 Association, at Saratoga, and published in the American Journal of 
 Social Science for November, 1881, volume 14, page 129. 
 
 Portrait, engraved by A. H. Ritchie from a daguerreotype by 
 Moulthrop. 
 
 Wordsworth, William, English poet, born at Cockermouth, Cumber- 
 land, 17 April, 1770, died at Rydal Mount, 23 April, 1850. 
 
 Autograph copy of the poem " If this great world of joy and 
 pain." The poem was written in 1833 and first published in 1835. 
 The copy is dated Rydal Mount, 29 July, 1840, and was made for 
 an American, the Rev. Charles Edwards Lester, who was in Eng- 
 land at this time. The autograph is accompanied by a letter, dated 
 Kendal, July 29, 1840, to Mr. Lester from Mary Caroline Braith- 
 waite from which such parts as refer to Wordsworth are as follows : 
 
 Dear Sir ■ Kendal July 29, 1840 
 
 You are indeed honored ! I never knew Wordsworth write so much before. 
 It is unusual for him, as his eyesight is very defective, and the exertion is painful 
 to him. No doubt you will justly appreciate the favour. I rejoice to send you so 
 gratifying an autograph as it is just what you wished but which I did not dare to 
 hope for. 
 
 Dear Robin wishes me to say that by tonight's mail, he will forward for your 
 acceptance, two views of the Lakes Rydall and Winandermere. The view of the 
 latter is taken from Low Wood, the Inn where flags in honor of the Queen 
 Dowager were waving. 
 
 I think it would gratify Wordsworth if you were to acknowledge the receipt of 
 the Autograph and if you like you might say you had ventured to take a piece of 
 the Stone he has celebrated. My Conscience rather smites me for being accessory 
 to it. 
 
 The poem, although accessible in most editions of Wordsworth's 
 
 poems, is also reproduced : 
 
 " If this great world of joy and pain 
 Revolves in one sure track ; 
 If freedom, set, will rise again, 
 And virtue, flown, come back, 
 Woe to the purblind crew who fill 
 The heart with each day's care ; 
 Nor gain, from past or future, skill 
 To bear, and to forbear." 
 
 Portrait, engraved by F. T. Stuart. 
 
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GLUCK COLLECTION 
 
 Young, John Russell, American journalist, United States minister to 
 China from 1882 to 1885, librarian of the Congressional Library 
 from 30 June, 1897 to his death, born in Dowington, Pa., 20 
 November, 1841, died in Washington, 17 January, 1899. 
 
 Personal letter, dated New York, 2 July, 1874, to Theodore 
 Tilton, Mr. Young being at that date on the staff of the New York 
 Herald. 
 
 126 
 
LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS IN THE 
 BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY NOT BELONGING 
 TO THE GLUCK COLLECTION, ARRANGED 
 UNDER THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS WHO 
 GAVE THEM TO THE LIBRARY. 
 
 Adam, Robert B. 
 
 Letters from Gen. Charles George Gordon, from his sister, A. 
 Gordon, and from his brother, H. W. Gordon. 
 
 Letters from Sir Rowland Hill, and from his nephew, George 
 Birkbeck Hill, all the gift of George Birkbeck Hill to Mr. Adam 
 for the library. 
 
 Barry, Gen. William F. 
 
 Autograph letters addressed to Gen. Barry, presented by his 
 daughters, comprising letters from Lord Abinger, Gen. Adelbert 
 Ames, Mr. Lars Anderson, Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Maj.-Gen. N. P. 
 Banks, Gen. J. G. Barnard, Gen. W. W. Belknap, Gov. John Lee 
 Carroll, Maj.-Gen. George A. Custer, Admiral Chas. H. Davis, 
 ex-Pres. Millard Fillmore, Gov. Hamilton Fish, Gen. W. B. 
 Franklin, Gen. U. S. Grant, Col. E. B. Hamley, Vice-Pres. Han- 
 nibal Hamlin, Rear-Adm. H. K. Hoff, Gov. John T. Hoffman, 
 Mr. James Barron Hope, Capt. de Horsey, Rt. Rev. John Johns, 
 Prince de Joinville, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Lord Lyons, Maj.-Gen. 
 George B. McClellan, Gen. Irwin McDowell, Gen. George G. 
 Meade, Gen. Geo. W. Morell, Gen. Albert J. Myer, Maj.-Gen. 
 Napier, H. B. M. A., Lieut. -Col. Edward Neville, Scots Fusilier 
 
 127 
 
MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS IN 
 
 Guards, Comte de Paris, Maj.-Gen. Robert Patterson, Col. Peter 
 A. Porter, Capt. S. Ringgold, Admiral C. R. P. Rodgers, Gen. 
 T. J. Rodman, Rear-Adm. J. R. Sands, Maj.-Gen. J. M. Scho- 
 field, Senator Carl Schurz, Gen. John Sedgwick, Lieut. -Gen. 
 Philip Sheridan, Hon. John Sherman, Gen. W. T. Sherman, 
 Mrs. W. T. Sherman, Gen. H. W. Slocum, Hon. Edwin M. Stan- 
 ton, Admiral S. D. Trenchard, Gen. Emory Upton, Maj.-Gen. 
 W. J. Worth. 
 
 Corning, The Rev. J. Leonard. 
 
 Manuscript of a sermon by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, 
 preached at the installation of Mr. Corning in 1863. 
 
 Cothran, George W. 
 
 Manuscript of Assessors and Collectors : a full and complete state- 
 ment of the law defining their powers, duties and liabilities, 
 and the remedies against them ; with all needful forms. Gift of 
 the author. 
 
 De Vere, Aubrey. 
 
 Letters to Mr. John Charles Earle. 
 
 Fryer, T. T. 
 
 Manuscript of part of an Editor's Introduction by David Gray. 
 
 Gibbons, Mrs. Charles W. 
 
 A volume containing autographs, letters, documents, etc., in the 
 handwriting of Sir Christopher Wren, Sir Francis Chantrey, Mme. 
 
 128 
 
THE BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 
 D'Arblay, the Duke of Kent, Mme. Vestris, James McAdam, the 
 Princess Elizabeth, and others. 
 
 Harrison, Gabriel. 
 
 Letter from John Howard Payne to R. W. Elliston, Esq. 
 
 Howland, Henry R. 
 
 Manuscript by John James Audubon of the first draft of the 
 introduction to The Birds of America. 
 
 Johnston, James N. 
 
 Manuscript of a lecture by David Gray, on Robert Burns, deliv- 
 ered in Buffalo, 25 January, 1865. 
 
 Keene, Miss Mary V. 
 
 Letter from Miss Charlotte Cushman, to Miss Keene. 
 
 Meech, Henry. 
 
 Letter from Edwin Booth, to Meech Bros. 
 
 Norton Collection. 
 
 Gathered and preserved for the Young Men's Association by 
 Charles D. Norton and others. Autograph letters of John Quincy 
 Adams, V. G. Audubon, Henry Ward Beecher, Thomas H. Ben- 
 ton, Lewis Cass, Salmon P. Chase, Myron H. Clark, Henry Clay, 
 DeWitt Clinton, Thomas Corwin, George William Curtis, John A. 
 Dix, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, Millard Fillmore, 
 
 129 
 
MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS IN 
 
 Hamilton Fish, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Philip Livingston, Benson 
 J. Lossing, Robert Morris, Oliver Hazard Perry, William H. 
 Seward, Horatio Seymour, Charles Sumner, Henry David Thoreau, 
 Daniel D. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Elihu B. Washburne, 
 Daniel Webster, Fletcher Webster, Nathaniel Parker Willis. 
 
 Parke, Mrs. James B. 
 
 Letter from James Anthony Froude, to Mrs. Parke. 
 
 Smith, T. Guilford. 
 
 Letter from Sir Henry Bessemer, to Mr. Smith. 
 
 Southworth, M. M. 
 
 Letter from Levi Woodbury, to P. D. A. Parks and M. M. 
 
 Southworth. Letter from Henry Clay, to P. D. A. Parks and 
 
 M. M. Southworth. [Catalogued with Gluck collection also, by 
 mistake.] 
 
 Thwaites, Reuben Gold. 
 
 Manuscript of the Introduction to his edition of The Jesuit Rela- 
 tions. Gift of the author. 
 
 Warren, Joseph. 
 
 Autograph copy of a poem by John G. Saxe, "A reflective 
 retrospect." 
 
 130 
 
THE BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 Weil, Dr. Charles. 
 
 Manuscript poem by Eugene Field "To mistress Bessie," with 
 portrait of Field, the gift of De Witt Miller. 
 
 Wilkeson, John. 
 
 Letter from Gov. De Witt Clinton to Judge Wilkeson of Buffalo. 
 Promissory note made by Brigham Young to Milton Sheldon, 16 
 March, 1830. 
 
 Wilson, Francis. 
 
 First page of the manuscript of Eugene Field as I Knew Him, 
 with signature and portrait. Gift of the author. 
 
 131 
 
INDEX. 
 
 AbINGER, Lord, Letter to Barry, 
 Gen. William F 
 
 Adam, Robert B., Gift of mss., 
 
 Adams, John Quincy, Letter from, 
 see Norton collection 
 
 Address to certain golden fishes, 
 see Coleridge, Hartley, .... 
 
 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, see 
 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 
 
 After-life, see Cranch, Christopher 
 Pearse 
 
 Aikin, Dr. John, Letter to, from 
 Montgomery, James, .... 
 
 Alcott, Amos Bronson, .... 
 
 Poem on his 86th birthday, see 
 
 Alcott, Louisa May, .... 
 
 Alcott, Louisa May, 
 
 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, .... 
 
 Letter to, from Davis, Rebecca 
 
 Blaine Harding 
 
 Allison, John, 
 
 America, see Smith, The Rev. Sam- 
 uel Francis, 
 
 American lordship, An, see Lathrop, 
 George Parsons, 
 
 American midshipmen at the tomb 
 of Napoleon, see Fremont, Jessie 
 Ann Benton 
 
 American Missionary Association, 
 Report on, see Cable, George 
 Washington, 
 
 Americana in libraries and bibliog- 
 raphies, see Winsor, Justin, . . 
 
 Ames, Gen. Adelbert, Letter to 
 Barry, Gen. William F., . . . 
 
 127 
 127 
 
 129 
 
 24 
 
 22 
 
 29 
 
 77 
 1 
 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 31 
 2 
 
 104 
 
 70 
 
 43 
 
 18 
 123 
 
 127 
 
 Ames, Mrs. Daniel, see Ames, Mary 
 Clemmer, 2 
 
 Ames, Mary Clemmer, .... 2 
 
 Anderson, Lars, Letter to Barry, 
 Gen. William F. 127 
 
 Angel of charity, see Moore, 
 Thomas, 77 
 
 Another new song to Cloris, see Dor- 
 set, Earl of, 34 
 
 Anthony, Susan Brownell, ... 2 
 
 Ardmagh, John, Archbishop of, 
 Letter to, from Taylor, The Rev. 
 Jeremy, Ill 
 
 Armstrong, Gen. Samuel C, Letter 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 127 
 
 Arnim, Bettina von, see Arnim, 
 Elisabeth von, 3 
 
 Arnim, Elisabeth von, .... 3 
 
 Assessors and collectors, see Coth- 
 ran, George W 128 
 
 Atlantis, see Lytton, Earl of, . . 73 
 
 Audubon, John James, Introduction 
 to The birds of America, see How- 
 land, Henry R., 129 
 
 Audubon, V. G., Letter from, see 
 Norton collection, 129 
 
 Autograph hunting and autographs, 
 see Perry, Nora, 85 
 
 Awake my lyre, see Percival, James 
 Gates 84 
 
 DABY Bell, see Aldrich, Thomas 
 
 Bailey, 2 
 
 Bacon, Sir Francis, 3 
 
 133 
 
INDEX 
 
 Bailey, Philip James 
 
 Balzac, Honor6 de 
 
 Band of bluebirds — in autumn, A, 
 
 see Hayne, William Hamilton, . 
 Banks, Gen. Nathaniel Prentiss, 
 
 Letter to Barry, Gen. William F. , 
 Banks of Nith, The, see Burns, 
 
 Robert, 
 
 Barbara's history, The author of, 
 
 see Edwards, Amelia Blandford, 
 Barnard, Gen. John Gross, Letter 
 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 
 Barry, Gen. William F., Letters to, 
 Barthelemy, M. M., Letter to, from 
 
 Montalembert, 
 
 Barton, Bernard, Letter to, from 
 
 Woodthorpe Collett, see Hogg, 
 
 James 
 
 Barye, Antoine Louis, Article on, 
 
 see De Kay, Charles, .... 
 Bates, Charlotte Fiske, .... 
 Battle of the Serapis and the Poor 
 
 Richard, The, see Trowbridge, 
 
 John Townsend, 
 
 Beaconsfield, Earl of, 
 
 Beecher, The Rev. Henry Ward, 
 Letter from, see Norton collec- 
 tion 
 
 Sermon, see Corning, The Rev. 
 
 J. Leonard 
 
 Belknap, Gen. William Worth, Let- 
 ter to Barry, Gen. William F., . 
 
 Bentham, Jeremy, 
 
 Benton, Thomas Hart, Letter from, 
 
 see Norton collection, .... 
 Beranger, Pierre Jean de, . . . . 
 Bessemer, Sir Henry, Letter to 
 
 Smith, T. Guilford, 
 
 Betrothal, A, see Sherman, Frank 
 
 Dempster 
 
 Bigelow, John, 
 
 Billings, Josh, see Shaw, Henry 
 
 Wheeler 
 
 Blackmore, Richard Doddridge, 
 Blackwell, Mrs. Henry B., see Stone, 
 
 Lucy 
 
 PAGE 
 
 3 
 3 
 
 53 
 
 127 
 
 16 
 
 38 
 
 127 
 127 
 
 76 
 
 56 
 
 31 
 3 
 
 116 
 4 
 
 129 
 
 128 
 
 127 
 4 
 
 129 
 4 
 
 130 
 
 102 
 5 
 
 101 
 5 
 
 107 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Blaine, James Gillespie, .... 5 
 
 Blake, William, 6 
 
 Blessington, Countess of, ... . 6 
 Bloede, Gertrude, Letter to, from 
 
 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, . 72 
 Blood horse, The, see Procter, Bryan 
 
 Waller, 91 
 
 Boker, George Henry, 7 
 
 Bonaparte, Napoleon, Reference to, 
 
 see Cockburn, Sir George, ... 24 
 Book of the flood, The, see Haw- 
 thorne, Julian, 51 
 
 Booth, Edwin, Letter to Meech 
 
 Bros., see Meech, Henry, . . . 
 Bouck, William C, Commission 
 
 signed by, see New York State, . 
 Bowen, Henry Chandler, .... 
 Bowles, Caroline Anne, see Southey, 
 
 Caroline Anne Bowles, .... 
 Bowles, The Rev. William Lisle, . 
 Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, . . . 
 Brahman's son, The, see Stoddard, 
 
 Richard Henry, 107 
 
 Braithwaite, Mary Caroline, Letter 
 
 to the Rev. Charles E. Lester, see 
 
 Wordsworth, William, .... 125 
 Bramhall, John, Archbishop of 
 
 Ardmagh, Letter to, from Taylor, 
 
 The Rev. Jeremy, Ill 
 
 Bright, John, 8 
 
 Brightly hast thou fled, see Hemans, 
 
 Felicia Dorothea, 54 
 
 Brinsden, John, Letter to, from 
 
 Pope, Alexander, 89 
 
 Bronte, Charlotte, 8 
 
 Brooks, The Rev. Phillips, ... 9 
 
 Brown, Dr. John, 9 
 
 Browne, Charles Farrar 10 
 
 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, . . 10 
 
 Browning, Robert, 14 
 
 Bryant, William Cullen 16 
 
 William Cullen Bryant, and his 
 friends, see Wilson, James 
 
 Grant, 123 
 
 Buccaneer, Introduction to the, see 
 
 Dana, Richard Henry, .... 30 
 
 129 
 
 80 
 
 7 
 
 104 
 
 7 
 7 
 
 134 
 
INDEX 
 
 Buonarroti, Michelangelo, Epitaphs 
 by, see Cheney, Ednah Dow Little- 
 hale, 21 
 
 Burdick, F. N., Letter to, from 
 
 Greeley, Horace 48 
 
 Burke, Edmund, 16 
 
 Burns, Robert, 16 
 
 Robert Burns as poet and person, 
 
 see Whitman, Walt 121 
 
 Burr, Aaron 17 
 
 Burroughs, John 17 
 
 Butterfly, The, see Sigourney, Lydia 
 
 Huntley 102 
 
 By a mountain stream, see Hemans, 
 
 Felicia Dorothea 54 
 
 Byron, Lord, ... . . . 17 
 
 LABLE, George Washington, . . 18 
 Calvus, see Procter, Adelaide Anne, 90 
 
 Campbell, Thomas 18 
 
 Carleton, William 19 
 
 Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, ... 19 
 Carlyle, Thomas, Notice of his lec- 
 tures on German literature, see 
 Hunt, James Henry Leigh, . . 60 
 Carlyle, Mrs. Thomas, see Carlyle, 
 
 Jane Baillie Welsh 19 
 
 Carmen auguratum auspicans, see 
 
 Alcott, Amos Bronson 1 
 
 Carroll, John Lee, Letter to Barry, 
 
 Gen. William F 127 
 
 Cary, Phoebe 19 
 
 Cass, Lewis, Letter from, see Norton 
 
 collection, 129 
 
 Chandler, Bessie, see Parker, Eliza- 
 beth Lowber Chandler, ... 82 
 Channing, The Rev. William Ellery, 20 
 Chapin, The Rev. Edwin Hubbell, 20 
 
 Chase, Salmon Portland 20 
 
 Letter from, see Norton collec- 
 tion, 129 
 
 Chautauqua Literary and Scientific 
 Circle, Article on, see Hale, The 
 
 Rev. Edward Everett 49 
 
 Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, . 21 
 
 Cheney, John Vance 21 
 
 Cheney, Mrs. Seth Wells, see 
 
 Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, . 21 
 Child, Mrs. David Lee, see Child, 
 
 Lydia Maria Francis 21 
 
 Child, Lydia Maria Francis, ... 21 
 Child of the age, A, see Boyesen, 
 
 Hjalmar Hjorth 8 
 
 Children's cherry feast, The, see 
 
 Perry, Nora, 84 
 
 Chivalry, see Scott, Sir Walter, . . 99 
 Christmas love, The, see Thorpe, 
 
 Rose Hartwick 113 
 
 Circling fancies, see Gosse, Edmund 
 
 William 46 
 
 Clark, Myron Holley, Letter from, 
 
 see Norton collection, .... 129 
 Clarke, The Rev. James Freeman, . 21 
 Clay, Henry 22 
 
 Letter from, see Norton collection, 129 
 Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, . . 22 
 Clemmer, Mary, see Ames, Mary 
 
 Clemmer, 2 
 
 Cleveland, Grover 22 
 
 Clinton, De Witt, Commission 
 
 signed by, see New York State, 80 
 
 Letter from, see Norton collec- 
 tion 129 
 
 Letter to Judge Wilkeson, see 
 
 Wilkeson, John, 131 
 
 Clinton, George, Commission signed 
 
 by, see New York State, ... 80 
 Cloud of witnesses, The, see Tilton, 
 
 Theodore, 115 
 
 Cloud on the mountain, A, see Foote, 
 
 Mary Anna Hallock 42 
 
 Cobbe, Frances Power, .... 23 
 Cockburn, Sir George, . . .24 
 
 Coleridge, Hartley 24 
 
 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ... 25 
 
 Letter to, from Lamb, Charles, . 67 
 
 Sonnet on, see Rossetti, Dante 
 
 Charles Gabriel, 96 
 
 Collett, Woodthorpe, Letter to Ber- 
 nard Barton, see Hogg, James, . 56 
 Collins, William Wilkie 25 
 
 135 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Collyer, The Rev. Robert, ... 26 
 Come to me, Sleep ! see Hemans, 
 
 Felicia Dorothea, 54 
 
 Cone, Helen Gray, 26 
 
 Congreve, William, 26 
 
 Epistle to, see Dryden, John, . . 37 
 Connery, The Rev. Father, Letter 
 to, from Newman, John Henry, 
 
 Cardinal, 80 
 
 Conway, The Rev. Moncure Daniel, 27 
 Cook, Clarence Chatham, ... 27 
 
 Coolbrith, Ina Donna 28 
 
 Coolidge, Susan, see Woolsey, Sarah 
 
 Chauncey, 124 
 
 Cooper, James Fenimore, ... 28 
 Cooper, Paul F., Letter to L. B. 
 Proctor, see Cooper, James Feni- 
 more, 28 
 
 Cooper, Peter, On the death of, see 
 
 Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner, . . 76 
 Corning, The Rev. J. Leonard, Gift 
 
 of ms 128 
 
 Cornwall, Barry, see Procter, Bryan 
 
 Waller 91 
 
 Corwin, Thomas, Letter from, see 
 
 Norton collection, 129 
 
 Cothran, George W., 128 
 
 Count Frontenac and New France 
 under Louis XIV, see Parkman, 
 
 Francis, 83 
 
 Country doctor, A, see Jewett, Sarah 
 
 Orne 64 
 
 Cowper, William, 29 
 
 Crabbe, The Rev. George, ... 29 
 Letter to, from Bowles, The Rev. 
 
 William Lisle, 7 
 
 Craddock, Charles Egbert, see Mur- 
 
 free, Mary Noailles 79 
 
 Cradle tomb in Westminster Abbey, 
 The, see Woolsey, Sarah Chaun- 
 cey 124 
 
 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, . . 29 
 Craik, Mrs. George Lillie, see Craik, 
 
 Dinah Maria Mulock 29 
 
 Cranch, Christopher Pearse, ... 29 
 Crawford, Francis Marion, . . 30 
 
 Crazy-quilt memory, The, see Sill, 
 Edward Rowland, 102 
 
 Cressid, see Perry, Nora, .... 85 
 
 Cross, Mrs. John William, see Eliot, 
 George 38 
 
 Cross, Marian, see Eliot, George, . 38 
 
 Crown of life, The, see Chapin, The 
 Rev. Edwin Hubbell, .... 20 
 
 Curtis, George William, .... 30 
 Letter from, see Norton collec- 
 tion 129 
 
 Cushman, Charlotte, Letter to 
 Keene, Mary V 129 
 
 Custer, Gen. George Armstrong, 
 Letter to Barry, Gen. Wil- 
 liam F 127 
 
 L/ANA, Charles Anderson, Letter 
 to, from Cook, Clarence Chat- 
 ham 27 
 
 Dana, Richard Henry, 30 
 
 Davis, Admiral Charles Henry, 
 Letter to Barry, Gen. William F., 127 
 
 Davis, Jefferson 31 
 
 Davis, Mrs. Lemuel Clark, see Da- 
 vis, Rebecca Blaine Harding, . 31 
 Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding, . 31 
 Day at Tivoli, A, see Stowe, Har- 
 riet Elizabeth Beecher 108 
 
 De Kay, Charles 31 
 
 De Quincey, Thomas, 31 
 
 DeVere, Aubrey 128 
 
 Dickens, Charles, 32 
 
 Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth, ... 32 
 Dime museums, see Wood, The Rev. 
 
 John George, 124 
 
 Dirge for a soldier, see Boker, 
 
 George Henry, 7 
 
 Discovery of America, The first, 
 
 see Kingsley, The Rev. Charles, 66 
 Disinterested report, A, see Cable, 
 
 George Washington 18 
 
 Disraeli, Benjamin, see Beaconsfield, 
 
 Earl of, 4 
 
 Disraeli, Isaac, . 33 
 
 136 
 
INDEX 
 
 Diuine miscellanies, see Watts, The 
 
 Rev. Isaac, 119 
 
 Dix, John Adams, Letter from, see 
 
 Norton collection, 129 
 
 Doctor, The, see Southey, Robert, . 104 
 
 Dodge, Mary Abby, 33 
 
 Dodge, Mary Mapes 34 
 
 Dodge, Mrs. William, see Dodge, 
 
 Mary Mapes, 34 
 
 Domestic service, see Whipple, Ed- 
 win Percy, 120 
 
 Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley, ... 34 
 Dorr, Mrs. Seneca R., see Dorr, 
 
 Julia Caroline Ripley, .... 34 
 
 Dorset, Earl of, 34 
 
 Douglass, Frederick, 34 
 
 Dream of songs unsung, A, see Dorr, 
 
 Julia Caroline Ripley, .... 34 
 Drifting down Lost Creek, see Mur- 
 
 free, Mary Noailles, .... 79 
 
 Dryden, John, 37 
 
 Lecture on, see Hazlitt, William, 53 
 
 Dumas, Alexandre, 37 
 
 Earl Walter, see Hogg, James, . . 56 
 Earle, John Charles, Letters to, 
 
 from De Vere, Aubrey, . . . 128 
 Eastman, Elaine Goodale, ... 37 
 Easy Chair, see Curtis, George Wil- 
 liam 30 
 
 Ebb-tide, see Woolsey, Sarah Chaun- 
 
 cey 124 
 
 Eckford, Henry, see De Kay, 
 
 Charles, 31 
 
 Edgeworth, Maria 38 
 
 Edwards, Amelia Blandford, . . 38 
 
 Eggleston, Edward, 38 
 
 Eighteen, see Woolsey, Sarah 
 
 Chauncey, 124 
 
 Eliot, George 38 
 
 Ellis, F. S., Letter to, from Ros- 
 
 setti, Dante Charles Gabriel, . . 97 
 Elliston, R. W., Letter to, from 
 John Howard Payne, see Harri- 
 son, Gabriel 129 
 
 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, .... 39 
 
 Letter from, see Norton collection, 129 
 
 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Poem on, 
 
 see Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 29 
 
 Sonnet on, see Moulton, Ellen 
 
 Louise Chandler 79 
 
 Emigrant, The, see Campbell, 
 
 Thomas 18 
 
 Ettrick Shepherd, The, see Hogg, 
 
 James, 5C 
 
 Evans, Marian, or Mary Ann, see 
 
 Eliot, George 38 
 
 Even so, see Miller, Cincinnatus 
 
 Hiner 76 
 
 Evening, see Percival, James Gates, 84 
 Everett, Edward, Letter from, see 
 
 Norton collection, 129 
 
 .FACE to face, see Hayne, Paul 
 
 Hamilton 53 
 
 Failure and success, see Gilder, 
 
 Richard Watson, 45 
 
 Faith healing and fear killing, see 
 
 Cobbe, Frances Power, ... 23 
 Father Junipero and his work, see 
 
 Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske, . . 62 
 Faust, Notes to part 2, see Taylor, 
 
 Bayard, Ill 
 
 Fawcett, Edgar, 40 
 
 Female characters of Scott, see 
 
 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, . . 69 
 Fern, Fanny, see Parton, Sarah Pay- 
 son Willis, 83 
 
 Festus Birth-day Book, see Bailey, 
 
 Philip James, 3 
 
 Field, Eugene, To mistress Bessie, 
 
 see Weil, Dr. Charles, ... 131 
 
 Eugene Field as I knew him, see 
 
 Wilson, Francis, 131 
 
 Field, Kate, see Field, Mary Kathe- 
 
 rine Kemble 40 
 
 Field, Mary Katherine Kemble, . 40 
 
 Fields, Annie Adams, 40 
 
 Fields, James Thomas, .... 40 
 
 Letters to, from 
 
 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, ... 52 
 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, . . 122 
 
 137 
 
INDEX 
 
 Fields, J. T., Review of Biograph- 
 ical notes on, see Fiske, John, 
 Fields, Mrs. James Thomas, see 
 
 Fields, Annie Adams, . . • . 
 Fields, Osgood & Co., Letters to, 
 
 from 
 
 Dickens, Charles, 
 
 Forster, John 
 
 Fillmore, Millard, Letter from, see 
 Norton collection 
 
 Letter to Barry, Gen. William F., 
 
 Fish, Hamilton, Letter from, see 
 
 Norton collection 
 
 Letter to Barry, Gen. William F., 
 
 Fiske, John 
 
 Flag of the constellation, The, see 
 
 Read, Thomas Buchanan, . . . 
 Flake white, see Thomas, Edith 
 
 Matilda, 
 
 Foote, Mrs. Arthur De Wint, see 
 
 Foote, Mary Anna Hallock, . . 
 Foote, Mary Anna Hallock, . . . 
 For the king, see Harte, Bret, . . 
 Foregone conclusion, A, see Howells, 
 
 William Dean 
 
 Forster, John, 
 
 Franklin, Benjamin, 
 
 Franklin, Gen. William Buel, Letter 
 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 
 Fremont, Jessie Ann Benton, . . 
 Frothingham, The Rev. Octavius 
 
 Brooks 
 
 Froude, James Anthony, Letter to 
 
 Parke, Mrs. James B., . . . . 
 
 Fryer, T. T, Gift of ms 
 
 Fuller, Sarah Margaret, see Ossoli, 
 
 Sarah Margaret Fuller, .... 
 
 UARDINER, Marguerite, ««Bless- 
 ington, Countess of, . ■. . . 
 
 Garfield, James Abram, Poem on his 
 death, see Alcott, Amos Bronson, 
 
 Gibbons, Mrs. Charles W., Gift of 
 mss., 
 
 Gifts, see Lazarus, Emma, . . . 
 
 42 
 40 
 
 32 
 42 
 
 129 
 127 
 
 130 
 
 127 
 
 42 
 
 91 
 
 113 
 
 42 
 42 
 51 
 
 57 
 42 
 42 
 
 127 
 43 
 
 43 
 
 130 
 
 128 
 
 81 
 
 128 
 70 
 
 Gilbert, Sir John, Letter to, from 
 
 Ru'skin, John 97 
 
 Gilder, Richard Watson, .... 44 
 Letter to, from Gosse, Edmund 
 
 William 46 
 
 Gladstone, William Ewart, ... 45 
 Gluck, James Fraser, Letters to, 
 from 
 
 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, . . 1 
 Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley, . 34 
 Eastman, Elaine Goodale, . . 37 
 McMaster, John Bach, ... 75 
 
 Parton, James, 83 
 
 Proctor, Lewis B., see Cooper, 
 
 James Fenimore, .... 28 
 Stockton, Francis Richard, . 107 
 Thaxter, Celia Laighton, . . 113 
 Warner, Charles Dudley, . . 118 
 Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, . . 124 
 
 Godwin, Parke, 46 
 
 Godwin, William 46 
 
 Golden egg and cock of gold, The, 
 
 see Scudder, Horace Elisha, . . 100 
 Goodale, Elaine, see Eastman, 
 
 Elaine Goodale 37 
 
 Goodwin, Col., Letter to, from 
 
 James, George Payne Rainsford, 62 
 Gordon, A., Letter to George Birk- 
 
 beck Hill, see Adam, Robert B., 127 
 Gordon, Gen. Charles George, Let- 
 ter to H. W. Gordon, see Adam, 
 
 Robert B., 127 
 
 Gordon, Henry W. , Letter to George 
 Birkbeck Hill, see Adam, Robert 
 
 B., 127 
 
 Gosse, Edmund William, .... 46 
 Grant, Gen. Ulysses Simpson, . . 47 
 Letter to Barry, Gen. William F., 127 
 Ode to, see Rohlfs, Anna Kath- 
 arine Green, 96 
 
 Grass of Parnassus, see Lang, An- 
 drew, 69 
 
 Gray, David, Editor's introduction, 
 
 see Fryer, T. T. 128 
 
 Lecture on Robert Burns, see 
 Johnston, James N., . . . . 129 
 
 138 
 
INDEX 
 
 Gray, Thomas 
 
 Great international walking match, 
 
 The, see Dickens, Charles, 
 
 Greeley, Horace 
 
 Green, Anna Katharine, see Rohlfs, 
 
 Anna Katharine Green, . . 
 Greenwood, Grace, see Lippincott 
 
 Sarah Jane Clarke 
 
 Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 47 
 
 32 
 
 48 
 
 71 
 49 
 
 H. 
 
 . , H., see Jackson, Helen Maria 
 
 Fiske 62 
 
 Hahn, Hon. Michael, Letter to, 
 
 from Lincoln, Abraham, ... 70 
 Hale, Mrs. David, see Hale, Sarah 
 
 Josepha Buell 49 
 
 Hale, The Rev. Edward Everett, . 49 
 Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, ... 49 
 Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, . . 50 
 Hall, S. C, Letter to, from He- 
 
 mans, Felicia Dorothea, ... 54 
 Halleck, Fitz-Greene, see Wilson, 
 
 Gen. James Grant, 123 
 
 Hamilton, Alexander, 50 
 
 Hamilton, Gail, see Dodge, Mary 
 
 Abby, 33 
 
 Hamilton, James Alexander, Letter 
 
 to Ticknor & Fields, see Hamil- 
 ton, Alexander 50 
 
 Hamilton, Sir William, .... 50 
 Hamley, Col. Edward Bruce, Letter 
 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 127 
 Hamlin, Hannibal, Letter to Barry, 
 
 Gen. WiUiam F., 127 
 
 Handsome is as handsome does, by 
 
 Ch — s R — de, see Harte, Bret, . 51 
 
 Harris, Joel Chandler 51 
 
 Harris, William Torrey, .... 51 
 Harrison, Gabriel, Gift of ms., . . 129 
 Hart & Wilkens, Letter to, from 
 
 Hamilton, Sir William, ... 50 
 
 Harte, Bret 51 
 
 Haug, Hofrath, Letter to, from 
 
 Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, . . 92 
 Hawthorne, Julian, 51 
 
 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 
 Hay, Col. John, . . . 
 Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 
 Hayne, William Hamilton, 
 
 52 
 52 
 53 
 53 
 
 Hazlitt, William 53 
 
 Headsman, The, see Cooper, James 
 
 Fenimore, 28 
 
 Heart-oracles, see Dodge, Mary 
 
 Mapes 34 
 
 Heine, Heinrich, 54 
 
 Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, ... 54 
 Hesketh, Lady, Letter to, from 
 
 Cowper, William, 29 
 
 Higginson, The Rev. Thomas 
 
 Wentworth 55 
 
 Hill, Aaron, see Payne, John How- 
 ard 84 
 
 Hill, George Birkbeck, Letters to, 
 
 and from, see Adam, Robert B. , . 127 
 Hill, John G. H., Letter to Lord 
 
 Shaftesbury, see Cockburn, Sir 
 
 George, 24 
 
 Hill, Sir Rowland, Letter from, see 
 
 Adam, Robert B 127 
 
 Hillard, George Stillman, ... 56 
 
 Letter to, from Dana, Richard 
 
 Henry 30 
 
 Hoff, Rear-Adm. Henry Kuhn, 
 
 Letter to Barry, Gen. William F, 127 
 Hoffman, John Thompson, Letter 
 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 127 
 
 Hogg, James 56 
 
 Holland, Josiah Gilbert, Letter from, 
 
 see Norton collection 130 
 
 Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, . . 57 
 Home sweet home, see Payne, John 
 
 Howard, 84 
 
 Honoria, see Porter, Rose, ... 89 
 
 Hood, Thomas, 57 
 
 Hooker, Isabella Beecher, ... 57 
 Hooker, Mrs. John, see Hooker, 
 
 Isabella Beecher 57 
 
 Hope, James Barron, Letter to 
 
 Barry, Gen. William F, . . . 127 
 Hoppner, John William Rizzo, 
 
 Lines on, see Byron, Lord, . . 17 
 
 139 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Hoppner, Th. B., Letter to, from 
 
 Byron, Lord 17 
 
 Horsey, Algernon, F. R. de, Let- 
 ter to Barry, Gen. William F., . 127 
 How I was educated, see Higginson, 
 
 Thomas Wentworth 55 
 
 Howells, William Dean 57 
 
 Howland, Henry R., Gift of ms., . 129 
 Huckleberry Finn, Adventures 
 of, see Clemens, Samuel Lang- 
 home 22 
 
 Hudson, Mrs. Edmund, see Ames, 
 
 Mary Clemmer, 2 
 
 Hughes, Anne Frances Ford, . . 58 
 
 Hughes, Margaret L., 59 
 
 Hughes, Thomas, 58 
 
 Hughes, Mrs. Thomas, see Hughes, 
 
 Anne Frances Ford, 58 
 
 Hugo, Victor Marie, 59 
 
 Hunt, Mrs. Edward B., see Jackson, 
 
 Helen Maria Fiske, 62 
 
 Hunt, Helen, see Jackson, Helen 
 
 Maria Fiske, 62 
 
 Hunt, James Henry Leigh, ... 59 
 Hunting song, see Percival, James 
 
 Gates, 84 
 
 Hutton, Laurence, Letter to, from 
 
 Jefferson, Joseph 63 
 
 Huxley, Thomas Henry, .... 61 
 
 IF this great world of joy and pain, 
 see Wordsworth, William, . . . 125 
 
 In farewell, see Rohlfs, Anna Kath- 
 arine Green, 96 
 
 In primrose time, see Piatt, Sarah 
 Morgan Bryan, 86 
 
 In the Happy Valley, see Craik, Di- 
 nah Maria Mulock 29 
 
 Indian summer, The, see Lover, 
 Samuel 72 
 
 Ingelow, Jean, 61 
 
 Ireland, Mr., Letter to, from Trol- 
 lope, Anthony, H5 
 
 Irony, see Fawcett, Edgar, ... 40 
 
 Irving, Washington, 61 
 
 J PAGE 
 
 ACKSON, Andrew 61 
 
 Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske, . . 62 
 Jackson, Mrs. William S., see Jack- 
 son, Helen Maria Fiske, ... 62 
 James, George Payne Rainsford, . 62 
 
 James, Henry, 62 
 
 Jameson, Anna Brownell Murphy, . 63 
 Jameson, Mrs. Robert, see Jameson, 
 
 Anna Brownell Murphy, ... 63 
 Janvier, Thomas Allibone, ... 63 
 Jay, John, Commission signed by, 
 
 see New York State 80 
 
 Jean Paul, see Richter, Jean Paul 
 
 Friedrich, 92 
 
 Jefferson, Joseph, 63 
 
 Jefferson, Thomas, 63 
 
 Jenner, The Rev. G. C, Letter to, 
 
 from Jefferson, Thomas, ... 64 
 Jerdan, William, Letter to, from 
 
 Lytton, Baroness 73 
 
 Jewett, Sarah Orne, 64 
 
 John Halifax, gentleman, The author 
 of, see Craik, Dinah Maria Mu- 
 lock, 29 
 
 Johns, The Rev. John, Letter to 
 Barry, Gen. William F., . . . 127 
 
 Johnson, Dr. Samuel 64 
 
 Johnston, James N., Gift of ms., . 129 
 Joinville, Prince de, Letter to Barry, 
 
 Gen. William F 127 
 
 Jones, John Paul, Rhyme of, see 
 
 Trowbridge, John Townsend, . 116 
 Jones, Noble Wimberley, Letter to, 
 
 from Franklin, Benjamin, ... 43 
 Julian, George W., Review of his 
 Political recollections, see Lodge, 
 Henry Cabot, 71 
 
 IvANT, Immanuel, Criticism of 
 his Main principles, see Stirling, 
 James Hutchison, 106 
 
 Kearney, Gen. Philip, Dirge for, see 
 Boker, George Henry, .... 7 
 
 Keats, John, 65 
 
 Keene, Mary V., Gift of ms., 129 
 
 140 
 
INDEX 
 
 Kelp-gatherers, The, see Trowbridge 
 
 John Townsend 
 
 Kent, James 
 
 King, The Rev. Thomas Starr, . 
 King's missive, The, see Whittier. 
 
 John Greenleaf, 
 
 Kingsley, The Rev. Charles, 
 Kingsley, Rose Georgina, . . 
 Kit Carson's ride, see Miller, Cin 
 
 cinnatus Hiner, 
 
 Kotzebue, August Friedrich Ferdi 
 
 nand von 
 
 116 
 66 
 66 
 
 121 
 66 
 66 
 
 76 
 
 66 
 
 L/ADY'S sonnet : Twilight, The, 
 
 see Cranch, Christopher Pearse, . 29 
 Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis 
 
 de Prat de 67 
 
 Lamb, Charles, 67 
 
 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, ... 69 
 
 Lang, Andrew, 69 
 
 Lamed, Josephus Nelson, Letters 
 to, from 
 
 Cleveland, Grover 23 
 
 Winsor, Justin, 123 
 
 Lass Lurline, see Cheney, John 
 
 Vance, 21 
 
 Lathrop, George Parsons, ... 70 
 
 Lazarus, Emma, 70 
 
 Leave me not yet ! see Hemans, 
 
 Felicia Dorothea, 54 
 
 Lee, Gen. Robert Edward, Letter to 
 
 Barry, Gen. William F., . . . 127 
 Lehmann, Dr., Letter to, from Ar- 
 
 nim, Elisabeth von, 3 
 
 Leissring, Herr, Letter to, from 
 Kotzebue, August Friedrich Fer- 
 dinand von, 67 
 
 Lester, The Rev. Charles Edwards, 
 Letter to, from Mary Caroline 
 Braithwaite, see Wordsworth, Wil- 
 liam, 125 
 
 Lettsom, William Nanson, Letter to, 
 
 from Tupper, Martin Farquhar, . 116 
 Lewes, Mrs. George Henry, see 
 Eliot, George 38 
 
 Lewes, Marian, see Eliot, George, . 38 
 Lewis, Morgan, Commission signed 
 
 by, see New York State, ... 80 
 Lightning flash, A, see Montgomery, 
 
 George Edgar, 76 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham 70 
 
 Abraham Lincoln, the true story 
 of a great life, see Stoddard, 
 
 William Osborn 107 
 
 Lincoln, Mrs. Abraham, Letter to, 
 
 from Lincoln, Abraham, ... 70 
 Linley, William, Sonnet to, see Col- 
 eridge, Samuel Taylor, ... 25 
 Lippincott, Mrs. Leander K., see 
 
 Lippincott, Sarah Jane Clarke, . 71 
 Lippincott, Sarah Jane Clarke, . . 71 
 Litchfield, Grace Denio, .... 71 
 Livingston, Philip, Letter from, see 
 
 Norton collection 130 
 
 Lodge, Henry Cabot, 71 
 
 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, . 72 
 Lecture on, see Fields, James 
 
 Thomas 41 
 
 Loose thoughts relative to the Two 
 Sicilies and its present situa- 
 tion, 1799, see Hamilton, Sir 
 
 William, 50 
 
 Lossing, Benson John, Letter from, 
 
 see Norton collection 130 
 
 Louise, Queen of Prussia, Poem on 
 her statue, see Woolsey, Sarah 
 
 Chauncey, 124 
 
 Love at first sight, see Matthews, 
 
 Brander, 75 
 
 Lovell, Col. Joseph, Letters to, 
 
 from Clay, Henry, 22 
 
 Lover, Samuel, 72 
 
 Lover's sonnet : Midnight, see 
 
 Cranch, Christopher Pearse, . . 29 
 Love's resurrection day, see Moul- 
 ton, Ellen Louise Chandler, . . 79 
 
 Lowell, James Russell 72 
 
 Lucas, S., Letter to, from Beacons- 
 field, Earl of, 4 
 
 Lyons, Lord, Letter to Barry, Gen. 
 William F 127 
 
 141 
 
INDEX 
 
 Lyric of action, see Hayne, Paul 
 
 Hamilton, 53 
 
 Lytton, Baron, 73 
 
 Lytton, Baroness, . .... 73 
 
 Lytton, Earl of, 73 
 
 MaCAULAY, Thomas Babing- 
 
 ton 74 
 
 McClellan, Gen. George Brinton, 
 
 Letter to Barry, Gen. William 
 
 F., 127 
 
 McDowell, Gen. Irwin, Letter to 
 
 Barry, Gen. William F., . . . 127 
 Machine in politics and religion, 
 
 The, see Clarke, James Freeman, 21 
 
 McKay, James T 75 
 
 Mackenzie, Thomas G., Letter to, 
 
 from Poe, Edgar Allan, ... 89 
 Maclean, Mrs. George, see Landon, 
 
 Letitia Elizabeth 69 
 
 McMahon, I. C, Letter to, from 
 
 Davis, Jefferson 31 
 
 McMaster, John Bach, .... 75 
 Making peace, see Piatt, Sarah Mor- 
 gan Bryan 86 
 
 Mann, Horace, Letter to, from Mot- 
 ley, John Lothrop 77 
 
 Marble, Manton, 75 
 
 Marble queen, The, see Woolsey, 
 
 Sarah Chauncey 124 
 
 Marcy, William L., Commission 
 
 signed by, see New York State, . 80 
 Mark Twain, see Clemens, Samuel 
 
 Langhorne, 22 
 
 Matthews, Brander, 75 
 
 Meade, Gen. George Gordon, Letter 
 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 127 
 Meech, Henry, Gift of ms., . . . 129 
 Meech Bros., Letter to, from Edwin 
 
 Booth, see Meech, Henry, . . . 129 
 Melanchthon, Philipp, .... 75 
 Meredith, Owen, see Lytton, Earl 
 
 of, 73 
 
 Merlin, M., Letter to, from Balzac, 
 
 Honore de, 3 
 
 Meyer, Gen. Albert James, Letter 
 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 127 
 Michelangelo Buonarroti, Epitaphs 
 by, see Cheney, Ednah Dow Little- 
 hale 21 
 
 Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner, ... 76 
 Miller, De Witt, Gift of portrait of 
 
 , Eugene Field, 131 
 
 Miller, Joaquin, see Miller, Cincin- 
 natus Hiner 76 
 
 Milton, John, Sonnet on, see Long- 
 fellow, Henry Wadsworth, . . 72 
 Miss Ingelow and Mrs. Walford, see 
 
 Preston, Harriet Waters, ... 90 
 Mission flower, A, see Picard, 
 
 George Henry, 86 
 
 Mrs. Berty's tea, At, see Janvier, 
 
 Thomas Allibone, 63 
 
 Mrs. Reynolds' cat, Sonnet to, see 
 
 Keats, John, 65 
 
 Mitford, Mary Russell 76 
 
 Monitions of the unseen, The, see 
 
 Ingelow, Jean, 61 
 
 Monsieur Maurice, see Edwards, 
 
 Amelia Blandford, 38 
 
 Montalembert, Comte de, ... 76 
 Montgomery, George Edgar, . . 76 
 
 Montgomery, James 77 
 
 Moore, Thomas, 77 
 
 Moral mechanics and dynamics, see 
 
 Clarke, James Freeman, ... 21 
 Moral statistics of the United States, 
 On the imperfect knowledge of 
 the, see Woolsey, Theodore 
 
 Dwight 124 
 
 Morell, Gen. George Webb, Letter 
 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 127 
 Morris, Robert, Letter from, see 
 
 Norton collection 130 
 
 Motley, John Lothrop, .... 77 
 Mott, Mrs. James, see Mott, Lucretia 
 
 Coffin, 78 
 
 Mott, Lucretia Coffin, 78 
 
 Moulton, Ellen Louise Chandler, . 79 
 Moulton, Mrs. William A., see 
 Moulton, Ellen Louise Chandler, 79 
 
 142 
 
INDEX 
 
 MUhlbach, Luise, see Mundt, Klara 
 Mtiller, 
 
 Muhlenberg, Gen. John Peter Ga- 
 briel 
 
 Mulock, Dinah Maria, see Craik, 
 Dinah Maria Mulock, .... 
 
 Mundt, Klara Mtiller 
 
 Mundt, Frau Theodor, see Mundt, 
 Klara Mtiller, 
 
 Murfree, Mary Noailles, .... 
 
 My echo, see Fawcett, Edgar, . . 
 
 My rival, see Parker, Elizabeth Low- 
 ber Chandler, 
 
 JNaPIER, Gen., Letter to Barry, 
 Gen. William F., 
 
 Napoleon I, Reference to, see Cock- 
 burn, Sir George, 
 
 Narrative and critical history of 
 America, see Winsor, Justin, . . 
 
 Negro problem, see 
 Cable, George Washington, . . 
 Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding, . 
 
 Pillsbury, Parker, 
 
 Sumner, Charles, 
 
 Neville, Lieut. -Col. Edward, Letter 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 
 
 New England two centuries ago, see 
 Lowell, James Russell, ... * 
 
 New portfolio, The, see Holmes, Dr. 
 Oliver Wendell, 
 
 New York State, Governors of, . . 
 
 Newman, John Henry, Cardinal, . 
 
 Niagara Falls, see Carleton, Wil- 
 liam, 
 
 Nicholls, Charlotte, see Bronte', 
 Charlotte, 
 
 Nichols, J. B., Letter to, from 
 Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Digh- 
 ton, 
 
 North and South, see Lytton, Earl 
 of, 
 
 Norton collection of manuscripts, . 
 
 November, see Woolsey, Sarah 
 Chauncey 
 
 79 
 79 
 
 29 
 
 79 
 
 79 
 79 
 40 
 
 82 
 
 127 
 
 24 
 
 123 
 
 18 
 
 31 
 
 88 
 
 109 
 
 127 
 
 72 
 
 57 
 80 
 80 
 
 19 
 
 83 
 
 73 
 129 
 
 124 
 
 ~ PAGE 
 
 UbERON, see Cone, Helen Gray, 26 
 Obseruations in trayuelle, see Over- 
 bury, Sir Thomas, 82 
 
 Odyssey, Preface to translation of, 
 
 see Bryant, William Cullen, . . 16 
 Oh ! how sweet to think hereafter, 
 
 see Moore, Thomas, 77 
 
 Oilier, C. & J., Letter to (?), from 
 
 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 101 
 
 One thirty-six hours on the Denver 
 and Rio Grande Railroad, see 
 
 Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske, . . 62 
 Orange-bough, The, see Hemans, 
 
 Felicia Dorothea, 54 
 
 O'Reilly, John Boyle, 81 
 
 Osgood, James R., Letters to, from 
 
 Dickens, Charles 32 
 
 Harris, Joel Chandler 51 
 
 Hay, Col. John 52 
 
 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 72 
 
 Saxe, John Godfrey, .... 99 
 
 Tennyson, Alfred, ..... 112 
 
 Ossoli, Sarah Margaret Fuller, . . 81 
 
 Ouida, see Rame, Louise de la, . . 91 
 
 Overbury, Sir Thomas, .... 82 
 
 F ARIS, Comte de, Letter to Barry, 
 
 Gen. William F 128 
 
 Parke, Mrs. James B., Gift of ms., 130 
 Parker, Elizabeth Lowber Chand- 
 ler 82 
 
 Parker, Mrs. Leroy, see Parker, Eliz- 
 abeth Lowber Chandler, ... 82 
 Parker, The Rev. Theodore, . . 82 
 Parkes, Mrs. Joseph, Letter to, from 
 Jameson, Anna Brownell Murphy, 63 
 
 Parkman, Francis, 82 
 
 Parks, P. D. A., Letters to, from 
 
 Clay, Henry, 22, 130 
 
 Woodbury, Levi, see Southworth, 
 
 M. M 130 
 
 Parton, James 83 
 
 Parton, Mrs. James, see Parton, 
 
 Sarah Payson Willis, .... 83 
 
 Parton, Sarah Payson Willis, . . 83 
 
 143 
 
INDEX 
 
 Patience and toasted cheese, see 
 
 Southey, Caroline Anne Bowles, 104 
 Patmore, Coventry Kearsey Digh- 
 
 ton, 83 
 
 Patterson, Gen. Robert, Letter to 
 
 Barry, Gen. William F 128 
 
 Paul, John, see Jones, John Paul, . 116 
 
 Payne, John Howard, 84 
 
 Letter to R. W. Elliston, see Har- 
 rison, Gabriel 129 
 
 Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, Letters 
 to, from 
 
 Hughes, Anne Frances Ford, . 58 
 
 Hughes, Thomas, ..... 58 
 
 Sedgwick, Catherine Maria, . . 100 
 
 Percival, James Gates 84 
 
 Perkins, Norman C, Letters to, 
 from 
 
 Pierpont, The Rev. John, ... 86 
 
 Sparks, The Rev. Jared, ... 105 
 
 Perry, Nora, 84 
 
 Perry, Oliver Hazard, Letter from, 
 
 see Norton collection, .... 130 
 
 Phillips, Wendell 85 
 
 Piatt, John James 86 
 
 Piatt, Mrs. John James, see Piatt, 
 
 Sarah Morgan Bryan 86 
 
 Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan, ... 86 
 
 Picard, George Henry, .... 86 
 
 Pierpont, The Rev. John, .... 86 
 
 Pillsbury, Parker 87 
 
 Pitcher, Nathaniel, Commission 
 
 signed by, see New York State, 80 
 
 Poe, Edgar Allan, 88 
 
 Poet and the alchemist, The, see 
 
 Smith, Horatio, 104 
 
 Pope, Alexander, 89 
 
 Lecture on, see Hazlitt, William, 53 
 Por el rey, see Harte, Bret, ... 51 
 Porter, Col. Peter Augustus, Let- 
 ter to Barry, Gen. William F., . 128 
 
 Porter, Rose 89 
 
 Powell, Thomas, The English Muse 
 
 to, see Disraeli, Isaac, .... 33 
 Premonition, see Stoddard, Charles 
 
 Warren, 107 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Preston, Harriet Waters 90 
 
 Prime, The Rev. Samuel Irenaeus, . 90 
 Prince Yousuf and the Alcayde, see 
 
 Cranch, Christopher Pearse, . . 29 
 
 Procter, Adelaide Anne, .... 90 
 
 Procter, Bryan Waller 91 
 
 Proctor, Lewis B., Letter from, see 
 
 Burr, Aaron, 17 
 
 Letter to James F. Gluck, see 
 
 Cooper, James Fenimore, . . 28 
 Psychometry, see Pierpont, The Rev. 
 
 John 87 
 
 Puck, see Cone, Helen Gray, . . 26 
 
 Pugh, Sarah, 91 
 
 yUARLES, Francis, Extracts from 
 his writings, see Thoreau, Henry 
 David 113 
 
 Queen's wake, The, see Hogg, 
 James, 56 
 
 Questions, see Thaxter, Celia Laigh- 
 ton, 113 
 
 Qui judicatis terram, see Ruskin, 
 John, 98 
 
 Kam£, Louise de la, .... 91 
 Read, Thomas Buchanan, ... 91 
 
 Reade, Charles, 91 
 
 Recognition, see Gilder, Richard 
 
 Watson, 44 
 
 Reconstruction, Letters on, see Sum- 
 ner, Charles 110 
 
 Reflective retrospect, A, by John G. 
 
 Saxe, see Warren, Joseph, . . . 130 
 
 Reid, Whitelaw, 92 
 
 Representative men, see Emerson, 
 
 Ralph Waldo 39 
 
 Retrospect, see Coolbrith, Ina Donna, 28 
 Rhyme of John Paul Jones, see 
 
 Trowbridge, John Townsend, . 116 
 Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, . . 92 
 Ride of Collins Graves, The, see 
 
 O'Reilly, John Boyle 81 
 
 Ringgold, Captain Samuel, Letter 
 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 128 
 
 144 
 
INDEX 
 
 :son, William 
 
 shure in hairst, see Burns, 
 
 ert, 
 
 ion, T., and Sons, Letter to, 
 idgeworth, Maria, . . . 
 
 beside the sea, The, see 
 lans, Felicia Dorothea, . 
 rs, Admiral Christopher Ray 
 d Perry, Letter to Barry 
 
 . William F 
 
 an, Gen. Thomas Jefferson 
 :er to Barry, Gen. William F. 
 
 Charlotte Fiske, see Bates, 
 
 rlotte Fiske 
 
 s, Samuel, 
 
 i, Anna Katharine Green, 
 ;, Mrs. Charles, see Rohlfs, 
 la Katharine Green, . . 
 a singer, A, see Crawford, 
 
 ucis Marion 
 
 tti, Dante Charles Gabriel, 
 eau, Jean Jacques, . . . 
 Impey and the sporting party, 
 Strickland, Agnes, . . . 
 
 a, John 
 
 i and England, see Gladstone, 
 Iiam Ewart , 
 
 StVILLE, Charles, see Dorset, 
 
 1 of, 
 
 Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernar- 
 
 de 
 
 -Beuve, Charles Augustin, 
 George Augustus Henry, . . 
 rn, The Rev. Franklin Benja- 
 
 i 
 
 Karl Ludwig, Newspaper 
 ings concerning, see Kotze- 
 , August Friedrich Ferdinand 
 
 , Rear- Admiral Joshua Ratoon, 
 :er to Barry, Gen. William F., 
 e, The Rev. Minot Judson, . 
 ■ c'est pardonner, see Woolsey, 
 ih Chauncey, 
 
 PAGE 
 
 92 
 16 
 
 38 
 54 
 
 128 
 
 128 
 
 3 
 96 
 96 
 
 96 
 
 30 
 96 
 97 
 
 109 
 97 
 
 45 
 
 34 
 
 98 
 98 
 98 
 
 99 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Saxe, John Godfrey 99 
 
 A reflective retrospect, see War- 
 ren, Joseph 130 
 
 Schofield, Gen. John McAllister, 
 
 Letter to Barry, Gen. William 
 
 F 128 
 
 School of long ago, A, see Eggles- 
 
 ton, Edward 38 
 
 Schurz, Carl, Letter to Barry, Gen. 
 
 William F 128 
 
 Scott, Sir Walter 99 
 
 Death of, see Lytton, Baron, . . 73 
 Scudder, Horace Elisha, .... 100 
 Sedgwick, Catherine Maria, . . . 100 
 Sedgwick, Gen. John, Letter to 
 
 Barry, Gen. William F 128 
 
 Sermons by 
 
 Beecher, The Rev. Henry Ward, 
 see Corning, The Rev. J. 
 
 Leonard, 128 
 
 9 
 
 128 
 99 
 
 124 
 
 Brooks, The Rev. Phillips, . . 
 Chapin, The Rev. Edwin Hub- 
 bell 
 
 Clarke, The Rev. James Freeman, 
 King, The Rev. Thomas Starr, . 
 Parker, The Rev. Theodore, . . 
 Sanborn, The Rev. Franklin Ben- 
 jamin 
 
 Savage, The Rev. Minot Judson, 
 
 Seward, William Henry 
 
 Commission signed by, see New 
 
 York State, 
 
 Letter from, see Norton collec- 
 tion, 
 
 Seymour, Horatio, Letter from, see 
 
 Norton collection 130 
 
 Sharpe, Mary, Letter to, from 
 
 Rogers, Samuel, 96 
 
 Shaw, Henry Wheeler 
 
 She is all heart, see Hood, Thomas, 
 
 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 
 
 Ariette for music, see Fields, 
 
 James Thomas 
 
 Lecture on, see Fields, James 
 
 Thomas 40 
 
 Shenstone, William 1°1 
 
 20 
 21 
 66 
 
 82 
 
 99 
 101 
 
 130 
 
 101 
 
 57 
 101 
 
 41 
 
 145 
 
INDEX 
 
 Sheridan, Gen. Philip, Letter to 
 
 Barry, Gen. William F 
 
 Sherman, Frank Dempster, . . . 
 Sherman, John, Letter to Barry, 
 
 Gen. William F., 
 
 Sherman, Gen. William Tecum- 
 
 seh, Letter to Barry, Gen. Wil- 
 liam F., 
 
 Sherman, Mrs. William Tecumseh, 
 
 Letter to Barry, Gen. William F. , 
 Shobert, William, Letter to, from 
 
 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, 
 Sigourney, Lydia Huntley, . . 
 Silent south, The, set Cable, George 
 
 Washington, ... . . 
 
 Sill, Edward Rowland, . . . 
 Simms, William Gilmore, 
 Sing, gondolier ! sit Hemans, Fell 
 
 cia Dorothea, .... 
 
 Sister Dorothy, see Fawcett, Edgar, 
 Skylark, To an English, see Thomp 
 
 son, Maurice 
 
 Slick, Sam, see Haliburton, Thomas 
 
 Chandler, 
 
 Slocum, Gen. Henry Warner, Letter 
 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . 
 Small ey, George Washburne, 
 
 Smith, Gerrit, 
 
 Smith, Horatio, 
 
 Smith, The Rev. Samuel Francis, 
 Smith, T. Guilford, Gift of ms., 
 Smith, William, Letter to, from 
 
 Robertson, William, . . . 
 Snowstorm, The, see Litchfield 
 
 Grace Denio, 
 
 Society in the new south, see 
 
 Warner, Charles Dudley, . . 
 Some day of days, see Perry, Nora. 
 Some testimony in the case, see 
 
 Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding, 
 Song of content, A, see Piatt, John 
 
 James, 
 
 Song of the mockingbird, A, see 
 
 Thompson, Maurice, . . . 
 Songs for evening music, see He 
 
 mans, Felicia Dorothea, . . 
 
 128 
 102 
 
 128 
 
 128 
 
 128 
 
 102 
 
 18 
 102 
 102 
 
 54 
 40 
 
 113 
 
 50 
 
 128 
 103 
 103 
 104 
 104 
 130 
 
 92 
 
 71 
 
 118 
 
 85 
 
 31 
 
 86 
 
 113 
 
 54 
 
 104 
 130 
 105 
 105 
 106 
 
 106 
 
 106 
 
 Songs of the sunland, see Miller, 
 Cincinnatus Hiner, 76 
 
 Sophie's secret, see Alcott, Louisa 
 May, 1 
 
 Southey, Caroline Anne Bowles, . 104 
 
 Southey, Robert 104 
 
 Letter to, from Ticknor, George, 114 
 
 Southey, Mrs. Robert, see Southey, 
 Caroline Anne Bowles, .... 
 
 Southworth, M. M., Gift of ms., . 
 
 Sparks, The Rev. Jared, .... 
 
 Spinner, Francis Elias 
 
 Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 
 
 Spofford, Mrs. Richard S., see Spof- 
 ford, Harriet Elizabeth Pres- 
 cott - . . 
 
 Stajel-Holstein, Anne Louise Ger- 
 maine Necker 
 
 Stage Rosalinds, see White, Richard 
 Grant, 121 
 
 Stanton, Edwin McMasters, Letter 
 to Barry, Gen. William F., . . 128 
 
 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, .... 106 
 
 Stanton, Mrs. Henry B. , see Stanton, 
 Elizabeth Cady 106 
 
 Stirling, Miss, Letter to, from Ossoli, 
 Sarah Margaret Fuller, ... 81 
 
 Stirling, James Hutchison, . . . 106 
 
 Stockton, Francis Richard, . . . 107 
 
 Stoddard, Charles Warren, ... 107 
 
 Stoddard, Richard Henry, ... 107 
 
 Stoddard, William Osborn, ... 107 
 
 Stone, Lucy 107 
 
 Stoned by a mountain, see Kingsley, 
 Rose Georgina, 
 
 Story, William Wetmore, .... 
 
 Story with a hero, A, see McKay, 
 James T., 
 
 Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, . 
 
 Strickland, Agnes, 
 
 Summer flies, see Gosse, Edmund 
 William 46 
 
 Sumner, Charles 109 
 
 Letter from, set Norton collection, 130 
 Letter introducing him to Robert 
 Southey, see Ticknor, George, .. 114 
 
 66 
 108 
 
 75 
 108 
 108 
 
 146 
 
INDEX 
 
 Sunset walk, A, see Charming, The 
 Rev. William Ellery, .... 20 
 
 Swartwout, Samuel, Commission as 
 Collector of the customs, see 
 
 Jackson, Andrew, 62 
 
 also Taney, Roger Brooke, . . Ill 
 
 1 ANEY, Roger Brooke, ... Ill 
 
 Taylor, Bayard, Ill 
 
 Letter to, from Fields, James 
 
 Thomas 40 
 
 Taylor, The Rev. Jeremy, . . . Ill 
 Taylor, The Rev. John, Letter to, 
 
 from Johnson, Dr. Samuel, . . 65 
 Tenement-house fire, The, see Ward, 
 
 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, ... 117 
 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 112 
 Thanksgiving Day proclamation, see 
 Cleveland, Grover, ...... 23 
 
 Thaxter, Celia Laighton, .... 112 
 
 Thaxter, Mrs. Levi Lincoln, see 
 
 Thaxter, Celia Laighton, ... 112 
 Theocritus, see Fields, Annie Adams, 40 
 Theory of insanity, A, see Harris, 
 
 William Torrey, 51 
 
 Theses qusedam theologicse, see 
 
 Lamb, Charles, 67 
 
 Thomas, Edith Matilda 113 
 
 Thompson, Maurice, . . . . 113 
 
 Thoreau, Henry David, .... 113 
 Letter from, see Norton collection, 130 
 Thorpe, Mrs. Edmund C, see 
 
 Thorpe, Rose Hartwick, . . . 113 
 Thorpe, Rose Hartwick, .... 113 
 Throop, Enos Thompson, Commis- 
 sion signed by, see New York 
 
 State, 80 
 
 Through the trees, see Rohlfs, Anna 
 
 Katharine Green, 96 
 
 Thwaites, Reuben Gold, .... 130 
 
 Ticknor, George 114 
 
 Ticknor & Fields, Letters to, from 
 
 Brown, Dr. John, 9. 
 
 Hamilton, James Alexander, see 
 Hamilton, Alexander, ... 50 
 
 PAGB 
 
 Till the day dawn, see Woolsey, 
 
 Sarah Chauncey, 124 
 
 Tilton, Theodore, 115 
 
 Letters to, from 
 
 Ames, Mary Clemmer, ... 2 
 
 Anthony, Susan Brownell, . . 2 
 
 Bigelow, John, ..... 5 
 
 Blaine, James Gillespie, . . 6 
 
 Bowen, Henry Chandler, . . 7 
 
 Bright, John 8 
 
 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, . 10 
 
 Browning, Robert 14 
 
 Cary, Phcebe 20 
 
 Chase, Salmon Portland,) . . 20 
 
 Child, Lydia Maria Francis, . 21 
 
 Collyer, The Rev. Robert, . . 26 
 Conway, The Rev. Moncure 
 
 Daniel, ....... 27 
 
 Cook, Clarence Chatham, . . 28 
 
 Curtis, George William, . . 30 
 
 Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth, . 33 
 
 Dodge, Mary Abby, .... 34 
 
 Douglass, Frederick, . . ■ 35 
 
 Field, Mary Katherine Kemble, 40 
 
 Fields, James Thomas, ... 40 
 Frothingham, The Rev. Oc- 
 
 tavius Brooks, 43 
 
 Godwin, Parke, . . . . 46 
 
 Greeley, Horace, 48 
 
 Hay, Col. John, 53 
 
 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 55 
 
 Hooker, Isabella Beecher, . . 57 
 
 Lippincott, Sarah Jane Clarke, 71 
 
 Marble, Manton, 75 
 
 Mott, Lucretia Coffin, ... 78 
 
 Parton, Sarah Payson Willis, . 83 
 
 Phillips, Wendell 85 
 
 Pillsbury, Parker 87 
 
 Prime, The Rev. Samuel Iren- 
 
 eeus 90 
 
 Reid, Whitelaw, 92 
 
 Smalley, George Washburne, . 103 
 
 Smith, Gerrit, . . ' . . . . 103 
 
 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, . . 106 
 
 Stone, Lucy 108 
 
 Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, 108 
 
 147 
 
INDEX 
 
 Tilton, Theodore, Letters to, from 
 
 Sumner, Charles 
 
 Watterson, Henry, .... 
 
 White, Horace, 
 
 Whittier, John Greenleaf, . . 
 
 Wilson, Henry, 
 
 Young, John Russell, . . . 
 Tivoli, A day at, see Stowe, Harriet 
 
 Elizabeth Beecher, 
 
 To an English skylark, see Thomp- 
 son, Maurice 
 
 To fame, see Blackmore, Richard 
 
 Doddridge, 
 
 To fame, see Hunt, James Henry 
 
 Leigh . 
 
 To mistress Bessie, by Eugene Field, 
 
 see Weil, Dr. Charles, .... 
 
 To spring, see Blessington, Countess 
 
 of, 
 
 To the poetess, see Fields, Annie 
 
 Adams 
 
 Tokens, see Woolsey, Sarah Chaun- 
 
 cey, 
 
 Tompkins, Daniel D., Commis- 
 sion signed by, see New York 
 
 State 
 
 Letter from, see Norton collec- 
 tion 
 
 Top of the ladder, The, see Litch- 
 field, Grace Denio 
 
 Tredgold, John H., Letter to, from 
 
 Webster, Daniel 
 
 Trenchard, Admiral Stephen Deca- 
 tur, Letter to Barry, Gen. William 
 
 F 
 
 Trollope, Anthony 
 
 Trouble on Lost Mountain, see Har- 
 ris, Joel Chandler, 
 
 Trowbridge, John Townsend, . . 
 
 Triibner, Mr., Letter to, from Eliot, 
 George 
 
 Tryst, A, see Thaxter, Celia Laigh- 
 ton, 
 
 Tupper, Martin Farquhar, . . . 
 Letter to, from Tennyson, Al- 
 fred, 
 
 109 
 119 
 120 
 122 
 123 
 126 
 
 108 
 
 113 
 
 5 
 
 60 
 
 131 
 
 6 
 
 40 
 
 124 
 
 130 
 
 71 
 
 120 
 
 128 
 115 
 
 51 
 116 
 
 39 
 
 113 
 116 
 
 112 
 
 Turgenieff, Ivan, Essay on, see 
 
 James, Henry, 62 
 
 Turner, John Mallord William, . 117 
 Twain, Mark, see Clemens, Samuel 
 
 Langhorne, 22 
 
 Two destinies, The, see Collins, 
 
 William Wilkie 26 
 
 Two heads better than one, see 
 
 Bates, Charlotte Fiske, .... 4 
 Two Sicilies, The, see Hamilton, Sir 
 
 William, 50 
 
 Tyrant Tacy, see Perry, Nora, . . 85 
 
 U NCLE Esek's wisdom, see Shaw, 
 Henry Wheeler, 101 
 
 Underwood, Francis H., Comment 
 on mss. of Representative men, 
 see Emerson, Ralph Waldo, . . 39 
 
 United States, History of the peo- 
 ple of the, see McMaster, John 
 Bach 75 
 
 Upton, Gen. Emory, Letter to 
 Barry, Gen. William F., . . . 128 
 
 VAN BUREN, Martin, Commis- 
 sion signed by, see New York 
 
 State 80 
 
 Letter from, see Norton collec- 
 tion 130 
 
 Vernes, Jacob, Letter to, from 
 
 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, ... 97 
 Violet, A, see Whitney, Adeline 
 Dutton Train, ...... 121 
 
 Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, 117 
 
 Wallace, Gen. Lew 117 
 
 Wallack, Lester, his ancestry, train- 
 ing and career, see Winter, Wil- 
 liam, 124 
 
 Ward, Artemus, see Browne, Charles 
 Farrar 10 
 
 Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, . . 117 
 
 148 
 
INDEX 
 
 Ward, Mrs. Herbert Dickinson, see 
 
 Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, . 117 
 
 Warner, Charles Dudley, .... 118 
 
 Warner, Susan, 118 
 
 Warren, Joseph, Gift of ms., . .. 130 
 Washburne, Elihu Benjamin, Letter 
 
 from, see Norton collection, . . 130 
 
 Washington, George, 118 
 
 Life of, see Irving, Washington, . 61 
 
 Wattersoh, Henry, . . . . V. . H9 
 
 Watts, The Rev. Isaac, . . \f. . 119 
 Webster, Benjamin, Letters to, see 
 
 Reade, Charles 91 
 
 Webster, Daniel 120 
 
 Letter from, see Norton collec- 
 tion 130 
 
 Webster, Fletcher, Letter from, see 
 
 Norton collection 130 
 
 Weil, Dr. Charles, Gift of ms., . . 131 
 Wetherell, Elizabeth, see Warner, 
 
 Susan, 118 
 
 Whipple, Edwin Percy 120 
 
 White, Horace, 120 
 
 White, Richard Grant 120 
 
 Whitman, Walt, 121 
 
 Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train, . 121 
 Whitney, Mrs. Seth D., see Whit- 
 ney, Adeline Dutton Train, . . 121 
 Whittier, John Greenleaf, ... 121 
 Wilkeson, John, Gift of mss., . . 131 
 Wilkeson, Judge Samuel, Letter to, 
 from De Witt Clinton, see Wilke- 
 son, John, 131 
 
 Williams, D. H., Letter to, from 
 
 Percival, James Gates 84 
 
 Williams, W. S., Letter to, from 
 
 Bronte, Charlotte 8 
 
 Willis, Nathaniel Parker, Letter 
 
 from, see Norton collection, . 130 
 Chapter on, see Wilson, Gen. 
 
 James Grant, 123 
 
 Willow song, see Hemans, Felicia 
 
 Dorothea, 54 
 
 Wilson, Effingham, Letter to, from 
 
 Godwin, William 46 
 
 Wilson, Francis, 131 
 
 Wilson, Henry 123 
 
 Wilson, Gen. James Grant, ... 123 
 Letter to, from Grant, Ulysses 
 
 Simpson, 4.7 
 
 Winsor, Justin, 123 
 
 Winter, William, 124 
 
 Winter neighbors, see Burroughs, 
 
 John 17 
 
 Winthrop papers, Review of, see 
 
 Lowell, James Russell, ... 72 
 Woman suffrage, see 
 
 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 55 
 
 Mott, Lucretia Coffin, .... 78 
 
 Rame, Louise de la, .... 91 
 
 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, ... 106 
 
 Wood, The Rev. John George, . . 124 
 Woodbury, Levi, Letter to P. D. A. 
 Parks and M. M. Southworth, see 
 
 South worth, M. M 130 
 
 Woodnotes from a cage, see Cone, 
 
 Helen Gray 26 
 
 Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, . . . 124 
 
 Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, . . . 124 
 
 Words, see Dodge, Mary Abby, . 33 
 
 Wordsworth, William, .... 125 
 World before the flood, The, see 
 
 Montgomery, James, .... 77 
 Worth, Gen. William Jenkins, Let- 
 ter to Barry, Gen. William F., . 128 
 Wright, Silas, Commission signed 
 
 by, see New York State, ... 80 
 Wycombe, Lord, Letter to, from 
 
 Bentham, Jeremy, 4 
 
 IATES, Joseph C, Commission 
 
 signed by, see New York State, . 80 
 Ye are not missed, fair flowers, see 
 
 Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, . . 54 
 Young, Brigham, Promissory note, 
 
 see Wilkeson, John, 131 
 
 Young, John, Commission signed 
 
 by, see New York State, ... 80 
 
 Young, John Russell, 126 
 
 Young love is lord, see Cheney, John 
 
 Vance 21 
 
 149 
 
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