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ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY
Works
Hospital Sketches (1863)
Moods (1865)
Work: A Story of Experience (1873)Manuscript Materials
Document: Copyright transfer for Moods (August 19, 1881)
Document: Copy of Publishing Agreement (May 31, 1875)
Letter: James Redpath to Louisa May Alcott (December 1, 1863)
Letter: James Redpath to Louisa May Alcott (January 23, 1864)
Letter: A. K. Loring to Louisa May Alcott (September 30, 1864)
Letter: A. K. Loring to Louisa May Alcott (1864)
Letter: Louisa May Alcott to A. B. Alcott (December 8, 1872)
Letter: L. M. Child to Louisa May Alcott (June 19, 1878)
Photo: Louisa May Alcott, seated
ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY
Works
Marjorie Daw, and Other People (1873)
Prudence Palfrey: A Novel (1874)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Aldrich to Stedman (October 20, 1873)
Letter: Aldrich to "Mr. B" (January 17, 1874)
Letter: Aldrich to Scollard (October 27, 1901)
Letter: Aldrich to Miss Gilder (September 7, 1902)
Photo: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Engraving: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, after a photograph
AUSTIN, JANE (GOODWIN)
Works
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Austin to Dickinson (October 10, 1889)
Letter: Austin to Sanders (April 6, 1892)
BENNETT, EMERSON
Works
The League of the Miami (1851)
BIERCE, AMBROSE
Works
The Fiend's Delight by Dod Grile [pseud]. (1873)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Ambrose Bierce to S. G. Blythe (November 27, 1899)
Engraving: Ambrose Bierce
Portrait: Ambrose Bierce
Photo: Ambrose Bierce [1]
Photo: Ambrose Bierce [2]
Photo: Ambrose Bierce [3]
Photo: Ambrose Bierce [4]
BIRD, ROBERT MONTGOMERY
Works
The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow (1835) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
Sheppard Lee (1836) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
BRAINARD, JOHN GARDINER CALKINS
Works
Letters Found in the Ruins of Fort Braddock (1824) web | ebook | palm
BRIGGS, CHARLES FREDERICK
Works
The Adventures of Harry Franco (1839) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
BROWNE, CHARLES FARRAR
Works
Artemus Ward, His Book (1862)
Artemus Ward, His Travels (1865)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) to Girs (October 10, 1858)
Letter: Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) to Stein (April 28, 186?)
Letter: Browne to "Dear Sir" (October 26, 1861)
Letter: Browne to Fletcher (November 19, 1861)
Letter: Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) to "Dear Ned" (November 17, 1866)
Photo: Artemus Ward
Engraving: Charles F. Browne
BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN [editor]
Works
The Skeleton's Cave web | ebook | palm
CARY, ALICE
Works
Clovernook; or, Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West [Volume 1](1852) [Volume 2] (1853)
Manuscript Materials
Documents: Selections from a scrapbook about Alice & Phoebe Cary
Letter: Cary to Gallagher (April 26, 1852)
Photo: Alice Cary
CATHERWOOD, MARY (HARTWELL)
Works
A Woman in Armor (1875)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Catherwood to "My Dear Chap-Book" (December 3, 1897).
CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (FRANCIS)
Works
Hobomok (1824) web | ebook | palm | Adobe Reader
Philothea (1836) web | ebook | palmA Romance of the Republic (1867)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Child to Purvis (August 14, 1868)
Letter: Child to "Girl-friend" (January 2, 1877)
Portrait: Lydia Maria Child
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN)
Works
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867)
The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (1873)
The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrim's Progress (1869)
Roughing It (1872)
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Corrections to Roughing It
Manuscript: Notes on illustrations for Roughing It
Manuscript: Autobiographical Sketch
Manuscript: Pages from The Gilded Age
Document: Contract for The Innocents Abroad (October 16, 1868)
Document: List of words in Twain's works
Letter: Clemens to Elisha Bliss (no date)
Letter: Clemens to Rudolph Lindau ("Sunday," no date)
Letter: Mark Twain to Fuller (June 7, 1867)
Letter: Clemens to Webb (November 26, no year)
Letter: Twain to James Redpath (April 20, no year)
Letter: Clemens to Elisha Bliss (March 4, 1873)
Letter: Twain to James Redpath (December 21 1873)
Letter: Clemens to Mrs. Fairchild (March 8, 1892)
Letter: Clemens to Chatto & Windus (May 23, 1893)
Letter: Clemens to Mr. Harper (September 11-12, 1894)
Letter: Clemens to Mr. Horne (June 19, 1895)
Letter: H. H. Rogers to Clemens (March 6, 1896)
Letter: Clemens to John Hay (March 11, no year)
Letter: J. T. Trowbridge to Society of American Authors about Twain (November 14, 1900)
Letter: Clemens to George Bernard Shaw (July 4, 1907)
Letter: Clemens to Champ Clark (June 5, 1909)
Letter: Clemens to Bishop (October 11, 1909)
Letter: from Mark Twain (April 21, 1910)
Photo: Mark Twain, in bed.
Photo: Postcard image of Twain.
COOKE, JOHN ESTEN
Works
Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War (1867)
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Draft pages from Mohun
Photo: John Esten Cooke
Engraving: John Esten Cooke
COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE
Works
Precaution (1820) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
The Spy (1821) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
The Pilot (1823) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
The Pioneers (1823) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm | Adobe Reader] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm | Adobe Reader]
The Last of the Mohicans (1826) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm | Adobe Reader] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm | Adobe Reader]
The Prairie (1827) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
The Water-Witch (1831) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
The Deerslayer (1841) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm | Adobe Reader] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm] | Adobe Reader]
Wyandotte; or, the Hutted Knoll (1843) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
Jack Tier (1848) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Page from The Prairie
Manuscript: Pages from The Water-Witch
Manuscript: Pages from The Chainbearer
Manuscript: Pages from The Oak Openings
Manuscript: Page from The Sea Lions
Document: Publishing agreement for The Water-Witch
Document: Publisher's notice for Last of the Mohicans
Letter: Cooper to William Gilmore Simms (January 5, 1844)
Engraving: James F. Cooper
Engraving: James F. Cooper(2)
Engraving: Cooper, from an Article
Photo: Oil painting of Cooper
COZZENS, FREDERICK SWARTWOUT
Works
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Cozzens to Childs & Peterson (April 19, 1858)
Letter: Cozzens to McLaughlin (December 11, 1863)
Portrait: Frederick S. Cozzens
CUMMINS, MARIA SUSANNA
Works
The Lamplighter (1854)
Mabel Vaughan (1857)
Manuscript Materials
CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM
Works
Prue and I (1856)
Trumps: A Novel (1861)
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Signed excerpt from Prue & I
Document: Contract for Trumps (December 31, 1860)
Letter: Curtis to Furlong (February 26, 1855)
Letter: Curtis to Bayard Taylor (July 30, 1855)
Letter: Curtis to "Dr." (November 15, 1857)
Letter: Curtis to Parkman (October 17, 1865)
Letter: W. R. G. Mellon to Curtis (June 12, 1874)
Letter: Curtis to Epes Sargent (November 26, 1878)
Letter: Curtis to "Dear Sir" (February 28, 1891)
Sketch: Young Curtis
Sketch: Curtis, in profile
Engraving: George William Curtis
Photo: Curtis, seated
DAWES, RUFUS
Works
Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America (1839) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
DE FOREST, JOHN WILLIAM
Manuscript Materials
DODGE, MARY ABIGAIL
Works
The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties by Gail Hamilton [pseud] in Atlantic Tales (1866)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Dodge to Wood (March 21, 1861)
DUGANNE, AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY
Manuscript Materials
EGGLESTON, EDWARD
Works
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Preface to English Edition of The End of the World
Letter: Eggleston to Sanborn (September 5, 1872)
Letter: Eggleston to Wilkinson (January 2, 1888)
Letter: Eggleston to Johnson (December 28, 1890)
Photo: Edward Eggleston
ENGLISH, THOMAS DUNN
Manuscript Materials
Letter: English to "My Dear Young Lady" (July 29, 1896)
Engraving: Young English
Engraving: English, older
Portrait: Thomas Dunn English (signed)
FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Fields to Longfellow (no date)
Letter: Fields to "Dear Sir" (April 27, 1843)
Letter: Fields to "Virsafute" [Bayard Taylor] (December 3, 1848)
Letter: Fields to Emerson Bennett (November 24, 1852)
Letter: Fields to John Greenleaf Whittier (August 24, 1863)
Letter: Fields to Lorring (January 15, 1868)
Letter: Fields to Lounsbury (November 18, 1873)
Photo: James T. Fields
Portrait: James T. Fields (signed)
HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA (BUELL)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Hale to "Dear Sir" (November 6, 1851)
Letter: Hale to "Dear Sir" (June 13, 1852)
Photo: Sarah J. Hale, young
Photo: Sarah J. Hale, older
HALPINE, CHARLES GRAHAM
Works
The Life and Adventures, Songs, Services, and Speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly (1864)
Manuscript Materials
HARTE, BRET
Works
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Review of The Gates Ajar
Letter: Harte to J. S. Clark (September 27, 1872)
Letter: Harte to James R. Osgood (May 8, 1875)
Photo: Bret Harte
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
Works
Fanshawe (1828) web | ebook | palm
Twice-Told Tales (1837) web | ebook | palm | Adobe Reader
The Gentle Boy (1839) web | ebook | palm
"The Canterbury Pilgrims" from Moral Tales (1840) web | ebook | palm
"David Swan" from Moral Tales (1840) web | ebook | palm
"The Haunted Mind" from Moral Tales (1840) web | ebook | palm
"Night Sketches beneath an Umbrella" from Moral Tales (1840) web | ebook | palm
"Night Sketches beneath an Umbrella" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"Sights from a Steeple" from Moral Tales (1840) web | ebook | palm
"Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe" from Tales for the Times (1840) web | ebook | palm
"A Rill from the Town Pump" from Tales for the Times (1840) web | ebook | palm
"The Haunted Quack" from Tales of Humor (1840) web | ebook | palm
Mrs. Bullfrog from Tales of Humor (1840) web | ebook | palm
"The Threefold Destiny: A Fairy Legend," by Ashley Allen Royce [pseud.] from Tales for You (1841) web | ebook | palm
"The Threefold Destiny" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
The Celestial Rail-road (1843) web | ebook | palm
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
The Scarlet Letter (1850) web | ebook | palm
"The Toll-Gatherer's Day" from Twice-Told Tales, First Series (1837) web | ebook | palm
"The Haunted Mind" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"The Village Uncle" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"The Ambitious Guest" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"The Sister Years" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"Snow Flakes" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"The Seven Vagabonds" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"The White Old Maid" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"Chippings with a Chisel" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"The Shaker Bridal" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"Endicott and the Red Cross" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"The Lily's Quest" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
"Foot-Prints on the Sea-Shore" from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
Edward Fane's Rosebud from Twice-Told Tales, Second Series (1842?) web | ebook | palm
The Blithedale Romance (1852)
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Pages of Septimius Felton
Letter: Hawthorne to Uncle Manning (December 9, 1813)
Letter: Hawthorne to James T. Fields (May 3, 1852)
Engraving: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Photo: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Photo: Nathaniel Hawthorne, reading
HAY, JOHN
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Questionnaire with autobiographical data
Document: Proclamation by Theodore Roosevelt upon Hay's death
Letter: Hay to Cunningham (June 20, 1876)
Photo: Hay as Ambassador to Great Britain
Photo: Hay as Secretary of State
HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH
Manuscript Materials
Document: Petition to Congress
Letter: Higginson to Miss Brown (November 5, 1877)
Photo: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Photo: Higginson, in uniform
HOLLAND, J. G. (JOSIAH GILBERT)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Holland to Gilder (June 12, 1880)
Letter: Holland to Gilder (September 19, 1880)
Portrait: Josiah Gilbert Holland
HOLMES, MARY J. (MARY JANE HAWES)
Works
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Holmes 1884 to Mr. Derby (March 20, no year)
Letter: Holmes to Mrs. Halloway (March 20, 1888)
Photo: Mary J. Holmes, profile
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Holmes to "Dear Sir" (no date)
Letter: Holmes to Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (February 9, 1859)
Letter: Holmes to "Dear Sir" (July 4, 1881)
Letter: Holmes to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [Ward] (November 4, 1883)
Photo: O. W. Holmes (signed)
Photo: Holmes, standing
HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Howells to Francis E. Bliss (October 7, 1898)
Engraving: Howells, with signature
Photo: W. D. Howells, profile
INGRAHAM, JOSEPH HOLT
Works
The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage (1859)
The Prince of the House of David; or, Three Years in the Holy City (1855)
Manuscript Materials
IRVING, WASHINGTON
Works
Tales of a Traveller (1824):
[Volume 1: web | ebook | palm]
[Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
[Volume 3: web | ebook | palm]
[Volume 4: web | ebook | palm]
A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. By Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseud] (1809):
[Volume 1: web | ebook | palm]
[Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Pages from "Abbotsford" and "Newstead Abbey"
Manuscript: from Bracebridge Hall, Volume 1: "The Hall"
Manuscript: Page from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Manuscript: Pages from A History of New York
Drawing: Sketchbook picture of Washington Irving
Drawing: Portrait of Irving
Engraving: "Washington Irving and Friends"
Engraving: Irving, seated
JACKSON, MRS. HELEN MARIA (FISKE) HUNT
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Jackson to Niles (April 30, 1879)
Photo: Helen Hunt Jackson
JAMES, HENRY
Works
Manuscript Materials
Photo: Henry James, reading
Drawing: Sketch of James
Portrait: James, profile
JOHNSTON, RICHARD MALCOLM
Works
Dukesborough Tales by Philmon Perch [pseud] (1871)
Manuscript Materials
JUDD, SYLVESTER
Works
Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi (revised edition, 1851) [Volume 1] [Volume 2]
Manuscript Materials
Drawing: Illustration for Margaret
KIRKLAND, CAROLINE MATILDA
Works
A New Home -- Who'll Follow? Or, Glimpses of Western Life. By Mrs. Mary Clavers [pseud] (1839) web | ebook | palm
Forest Life(1842) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
Manuscript Materials
Portrait: Caroline Kirkland
LANDON, MELVILLE DE LANCEY
Works
Manuscript Materials
Lecture ticket: front, back, with "Opinions of the Press"
Photo: Melville D. Landon
Drawing: Melville D. Landon
LANIER, SIDNEY
Works
Tiger-Lilies: A Novel (1867)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Lanier to George Haeckel (March 29, 1899)
Engraving: Sidney Lanier, profile
Photo: Young Lanier
Photo: Sidney Lanier
LIPPARD, GEORGE
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Lippard to Few Society, Emory College (November 18, 1846)
Letter: Lippard to Horace Greeley (November 15, 1848)
Portrait:George Lippard, profile
LOCKE, DAVID ROSS
Works
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
Works
Outre-Mer [Volume 1 (1833): web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2 (1834): web | ebook | palm]
Hyperion (1839) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
"The Bald Eagle" from Tales of Humor (1840) web | ebook | palm
Kavanagh (1849) web | ebook | palm
LOWELL, ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE
Manuscript Materials
MELVILLE, HERMAN
Works
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)
The Piazza Tales (1856)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Melville to George W. Laughlin (December 15, 1863)
Letter: Melville to Havelock Ellis (August 10, 1890)
Photo: Herman Melville
Photo: Melville's children
MILLER, JOAQUIN
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Miller to President Grant (October 28, no year)
Letter: Miller to Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (August 24, 1871)
Engraving: Joaquin Miller
Engraving: Young Miller
Photo: Old Miller, in bed
MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Mitchell to Harper (no date)
Letter: Mitchell to Charles Scribner (April 1851)
Letter: Mitchell to James Thomas Fields (December 27 1864)
Document: Cancelled check
Photo: Donald Grant Mitchell
MOULTON, LOUISE CHANDLER
Works
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Paragraphs on Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Letter: Moulton to Herbert (April 14, no year)
Letter: Moulton to A. G. Constable (October 13, no year)
Photo: Louise Chandler Moulton
Photo: Louise Chandler Moulton (2)
Photos: Louise Chandler Moulton: "from an early miniature" & at age 41
Photos: Louise Chandler Moulton: at age 45 & "at the present time"
O'BRIEN, FITZ-JAMES
Works
"Bob O'Link" from Tales of the Time (1861)
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Page from "Bob-o-link"
PARKMAN, FRANCIS
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Parkman to Catherwood (June 8, 1888) [including envelope]
Photo: Francis Parkman
POE, EDGAR ALLAN
Works
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Page 23 of "Rationale of Verse" MSS mentioning "Al Aaraaf"
Letter: Letter fragment mentioning Poe's stories
Photo: Edgar Allan Poe
ROE, EDWARD PAYSON
Manuscript Materials
SARGENT, EPES
Works
Fleetwood; or, The Stain of Birth. A Novel of American Life (1845) web | ebook | palm
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Sargent to William A. Seaver (March 17, 1852)
Letter:Sargent to George Pope Morris (January 23, 1853)
Letter: Sargent to Bayard Taylor (January 7, 1876)
Letter: to Sargent from George D. Prentice (May 4, 1852)
Portrait: Epes Sargent
SEDGWICK, CATHARINE MARIA
Works
A New-England Tale (1822) web | ebook | palm
The Travellers: A Tale, Designed for Young People (1825)
Hope Leslie (1827) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm | Adobe Reader] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm | Adobe Reader]
Clarence; or, a Tale of Our Own Times (1830) [Volume 1] [Volume 2]
Le Bossu from Library of Select Novels, XXVII (1832)
Home (1835)
Tales and Sketches (1835)
Mary Hollis: An Original Tale (1822)
Redwood: A Tale (1824) [Volume 1] [Volume 2] [Volume 3]
"Romance in Real Life", from The Legendary, N. P. Willis, ed (1828)
The Linwoods (1835) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor Man (1836)
Live and Let Live; or, Domestic Service Illustrated (1837)
The Boy of Mount Rhigi (1848)
Tales of City Life (1850)
Married or Single? (1857) [Volume 1] [Volume 2]
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Sedgwick to "dear Madam" (March 18,1839)
Letter: Sedgwick to Mrs. Taylor (May 25,1842)
Engraving: C. M. Sedgwick
Engraving: Sedgwick Mansion
SHAW, HENRY WHEELER
Works
Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings (1866)
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Lecture ad with note
Letter: Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) to Ma (April 25, no year)
Photo: Henry Wheeler Shaw
Portrait: Henry W. Shaw, "Josh Billings"
SHILLABER, BENJAMIN PENHALLOW
Works
Knitting-Works: A Web of Many Textures, Wrought by Ruth Partington (1859)
Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family edited by B. P. Shillaber (1854)
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Quotation from Ruth Partington (April 6, 1859)
Manuscript: Quotation from Ruth Partington (April 5, 1890)
Letter: Shillaber to Frederick E. Partington (June 24, 1874)
Letter: Shillaber to Frederick E. Partington (October 20, 1874)
Letter: Shillaber to "my dear young friend" (September 17, 1887)
Letter: Shillaber to W. P. Young (January 28, 1889)
Letter: Shillaber to "My dear friend" (July 3, 1889)
Photo: B. P. Shillaber, standing
Photo: B. P. Shillaber, seated
SIGOURNEY, LYDIA HOWARD (HUNTLEY)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Sigourney to Samuel G. Goodrich (February 4,1831)
Letter: Sigourney to "Revd and dear sir" (September 23, 1854)
Engraving: Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Engraving: Lydia Huntley Sigourney (2)
Engraving: L. H. Sigourney (signed)
Photo: Lydia Huntley Sigourney
SIMMS, WILLIAM GILMORE
Works
Martin Faber (1833) web | ebook | palm
Richard Hurdis (1838) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
Beauchampe (1842) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
The Wigwam and the Cabin (1845) [Volume 1: web | ebook | palm] [Volume 2: web | ebook | palm]
As Good as a Comedy; or, The Tennessean's Story. By an Editor (1852)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Simms to Orville James Victor (no date)
Letter: Simms to James Thomas Fields (September 30, no year)
Letter: Simms to Sidney Babcock (August 18, 1842)
Letter: Simms to R. S. Chilton (April 3, 1854)
Letter: Simms to John Esten Cooke, with replies from Cooke and his publisher (July 4, 1867)
Letter: Simms to Eugene L. Didier (August 22, 1867)
Engraving: W. G. Simms, at a desk
Engraving: W. G. Simms, profile
SMITH, SEBA
Works
My Thirty Years Out of the Senate by Major Jack Downing [pseud] (1859)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Squire Downing (Seba Smith) to the Editor of the Leveller (February, 185?)
SPOFFORD, HARRIET ELIZABETH PRESCOTT
Works
New-England Legends (1871)
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Selections from "The Young Emigrants," showing edits
Letter: Spofford to James Ripley Osgood (March 9, 1871)
Engraving: Harriet Prescott Spofford
Engraving: Harriet Prescott Spofford
STOWE, HARRIET ELIZABETH BEECHER
Works
Agnes of Sorrento (1862)
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly (1852) [Volume 1] [Volume 2]
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Manuscript pages of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Manuscript: Signed excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin
Autograph: Josiah Henson, "Uncle Tom"
Letter: Stowe to Richard Bentley (December 1, 1852)
Letter: Stowe to "Sirs" (January 24, 1853)
Letter: Stowe to James Thomas Fields (January 18, 1862)
Letter: Stowe to Editor of Brooklyn Magazine (April 2, 1885)
Letter: Stowe to "Dear Madam" (January 13, 1889)
Engraving: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Portrait: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Photo: Harriet Beecher Stowe
TAYLOR, BAYARD
Works
John Godfrey's Fortunes; Related by Himself. A Story of American Life (1864)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Taylor to Epes Sargent (January 4, 1876)
Letter: Taylor to Miss Legget (January 26, 1877)
Letter: Taylor to Victor (October 18, 1855)
Photo: Bayard Taylor
THOMPSON, MAURICE
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Thompson to Editors of "Southern Society" (December 28, 1867)
THORPE, THOMAS BANGS
Works
Manuscript Materials
Drawing: Thomas Bangs Thorpe
TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND
Works
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Trowbridge to Mr. Smith (April 8, 1878)
Letter: Trowbridge to Mr. Ward (October 11, 1881)
Letter: Trowbridge to Mrs. Carr (March 29, 1882)
Letter: Trowbridge to Thomas Bailey Aldrich (October 16, 1882)
Letter: Trowbridge to Will Carleton (February 20, 1884)
Letter: Trowbridge to William H. Rideing (December 28, 1886)
Letter: Trowbridge to Mrs. Pratt (May 9, 1887)
Letter: Trowbridge to William J. Dornuff (March 28, 1898)
WALLACE, LEWIS
Works
The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins. A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico (1873)
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Pages from Lew Wallace: An Autobiography
Letter: Wallace to President Ulysses. S. Grant (August 13, 1873)
Letter: from Susan E. Wallace about book sales (February 28,1887)
Photo: Lew Wallace (signed)
Photo: Lew Wallace
WARD, ELIZABETH STUART (PHELPS)
Works
The Gates Ajar (1869)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Ward to "my dear Sir" (March 7,1870)
Letter: Ward to "My dear Madam" (February 14,1880)
Photo: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
WARNER, SUSAN BOGERT
Manuscript Materials
WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER
Works
Romance of Travel (1840) web | ebook | palm
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Willis to "Dear Sir" (November 19, 1846)
Letter: Willis to Epes Sargent (November 26, 1854)
Letter: Willis to Mrs. Warfield (December 3, 1854)
Letter: Willis to Epes Sargent (December 12, 1859)
Engraving: Nathaniel Parker Willis
Engraving: Nathaniel Parker Willis (signed)
Engraving: Nathaniel Parker Willis (signed) (2)
Engraving: Nathaniel Parker Willis, after photo
WILSON, AUGUSTA JANE (EVANS)
Works
St. Elmo: A Novel (1867)
Manuscript Materials
Letter: Wilson to Peck (October 31, no year)
Letter: Wilson to Seaver (November 8, 1875)
Letter: Wilson to Editors of the "American Cyclopaedia" (April 3, 1876)
Drawing: Cartoon by Augusta Wilson
Engraving: Augusta Wilson
Photo: Augusta Wilson
WINTHROP, THEODORE
Manuscript Materials
Manuscript: Manuscript Page
Portrait: Theodore Winthrop (signed)
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