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Harriet Beecher Stowe collection


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    Harriet Beecher Stowe collection

    Manuscripts

    A collection of short stories, poems, and letters. The majority of the collection are stories written for children including Little Pussy Willow, Parts I-XVI; Queer Little People; and Uncle Abel and Little Edward. There is also a small number of letters written to Stowe's publisher, James Ripley Osgood.

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  • Portraits of Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher

    Portraits of Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher

    Manuscripts

    Eight black and white printed portraits, one frontispiece of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and one portrait of Henry Ward Beecher.

    mssHM 24162-24166

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    Frost, Robert. [Collection of poems presented to Susan Hayes Ward at Christmas, 1911]

    Manuscripts

    24 leaves (22 written pages including note of presentation), 4 7/8 x 6 3/8 in. Autograph manuscript signed. Contents: My Giving Reluctance To a Moth Seen in Winter Unchastened On the Sale of My Farm Wind and Window-Flower Pussy-Willow Time Pursuit of the Word Death Tutelary Elves The Rain Bath To the Loud Southwester The Little Things of War Determent Pan Desponds New Grief Winter Winds

    HM 7237

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    James Russell Lowell collection

    Manuscripts

    A collection of correspondence and manuscripts written by James Russell Lowell, including essays, poems, and short stories; included is an essay on Herbert Spencer, the poems "In Far Japan" and "At the Exhibition," and a short story, "Uncle Cobus's Story." The collection also includes two forgeries, the poems "And again to the child..." and "Zekle crep' up quite unknown." The correspondence includes letters to and from James T. Fields, John Fiske, William Leonard Gage, Arthur Gilman, George W. Smalley, George Ticknor, and John Greenleaf Whittier. A number of the manuscripts and letters are window mounted on pages removed from albums, some letters with envelopes.

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    James Russell Lowell collection

    Manuscripts

    A collection of correspondence and manuscripts written by James Russell Lowell, including essays, poems, and short stories; included is an essay on Herbert Spencer, the poems "In Far Japan" and "At the Exhibition," and a short story, "Uncle Cobus's Story." The collection also includes two forgeries, the poems "And again to the child..." and "Zekle crep' up quite unknown." The correspondence includes letters to and from James T. Fields, John Fiske, William Leonard Gage, Arthur Gilman, George W. Smalley, George Ticknor, and John Greenleaf Whittier. A number of the manuscripts and letters are window mounted on pages removed from albums, some letters with envelopes.

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