American Literature mss., 1806-1969

Collection of American Literature, 1806-1969, at the Lilly Library, Indiana University

Finding aid created by Mary McSparran

Title: American Literature mss.
Collection No.: LMC 1016
Dates: 1789-2000
Quantity:

Quantity: 7 Linear Feet

Quantity: 4 boxes, 76 volumes, 9 folios

Abstract: The American literature mss., 1789-2000, consists of an ongoing collection of individual items related to American literature.
Location: Lilly - Vault 2 (see inventory); Lilly - Stacks
Language: English .
Repository: Lilly Library
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500
Business Number: 812-855-2452
liblilly@iu.edu
URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library

Scope and Contents

The American literature mss., 1789-2000, consists of individual items acquired from time to time either as a gift or purchased from a variety of sources. Additions continue to be made.

Note on Indexing Term - "Antislavery movements": Of particular note are documents written by Lydia Maria Childs, antislavery writer, and John Greenleaf Whittier's 1881 letter to Moses Parker Hanson in regard to the end of slavery.

Note on Indexing Term - "Art": Of particular interest are an 1887 series of illustrated letters by Eugene Field; a 1946 pencil sketch of Theodore Dreiser; colored pencil drawings by Maud and Miska Petersham and a pen and ink drawing by James Whitcomb Riley.

Note on Indexing Term - "Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773": Of particular interest is Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1873 essay on the Boston Tea Party that was read on the Centennial anniversary in Faneuil Hall.

Note on Indexing Term - "Emancipation Proclamation": Of interest is Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1862 essay on the Emancipation Proclamation and the "John Brown Album Emancipation Evening 1863."

Note on Indexing Term - "Illustration of books--19th century": Of interest is a letter from John Pendleton Kennedy to George Palrmer Putnam pertaining to the illustration of Kennedy's book, Swallow Barn .

Note on Indexing Term - "North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775": Of particular interest is "Concord Fight, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Generally known as "Concord Hymn", this poem describes the battle of Concord and Lexington.

Note on Indexing Term - "Politics, society and culture in Turkey": Of particular note is James Noble Tyner's 1882 account of Lewis Wallace's appointment by President Garfield to Turkey.

Note on Indexing Term - "Popular music--Writing and Publishing": Of interest is John Howard Payne's transcrip of his song, "Home Sweet Home."

Note on Indexing Term - "Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916": Of particular interest is a Sept. 21, 1897 letter from James Whitcomb Riley to William Webster Ellsworth in which Riley remarks that he has "...not seen proof slip of "Doc's" proem [sic]...." This letter is bound in with the "Proem of the Rubiytt of Doc Siefers." Also included are the following undated Riley items: "The Flying Islands of the Night," a pen and ink drawing of two sailboats, a letter from Riley to George C. Shaw and "A Waste of Genius at Zeksbury."

Note on Indexing Term - "Radio": Of interest are two 1947 radio scripts written by Ernest Hemingway for the English section of the series Radioteatro de America.

Note on Indexing Term - "Travel": Of interest is Without My Gloves: I Find America , an account written by Maie E. Clements Perley, who traveled from Great Britain to the United States in 1940.

Note on Indexing Term - "Women": Many manuscripts authored by women are included in this collection. Some prominent names include Willa Cather, Louisa May Alcott, and Maie E. (Clements) Perley.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically at the item level, undated items are further arranged alphabetically.

Restrictions

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Indexed Terms

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

[Item], American Literature mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Collection Inventory

Series:

American Literature mss.
box 1
Melvill, Thomas , Copybook. , 1789, Mar. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph bound

Scope and Content:

  1. Includes Melvill family tree and biographical information

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

box 1
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843, lexicographer. New Haven, Connecticut. To Jedidiah Morse. Charleston, Massachusetts. Refers to the criticism of his dictionary. , 1806, July 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Webster's A compendious dictionary of the English language from Sidney's press. For Hudson & Goodwin, booksellers, Hartford, and Increase Cooke & Co., booksellers, New Haven, 1806. (Lilly PE1628 .W3 1806).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

box 1
David H. Shaw's Book. , 1815 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 55 p. 18.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. A commonplace book
  2. Sturdy paper covers with octagonal design in blue
  3. Contents: The Scolding Wife. Some women take delight in dress...[first line]; A Song. When Damon languished at my feet... Moore; Columbia. Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise... [By Timothy Dwight]; The Diverting History of John Gilpin [By William Cowper], dated Jan. 10, 1815; A Tragical Account of the Battle of the People of Wyoming and the Indians of Westmoreland in the year 1778...Kind heaven assist the trembling muse [first line], published in and attributed to Uriah Terry of Kingston, 1785, by Charles Miner, History of Wyoming ... 1845, pages 64-68 of Appendix (Lilly F157 .W9M6); Medical Epigram. With wig profound old Galen cries...; War with England. Come strike up the shrill fife...; The Complains of the Poor. Wherefore do the poor complain...;Paddy O Blubezum O Bunyan. From the county of Kelhana to Belfast I came...[an emigrant from Ireland visits the Museum in Philadelphia]. On page 54 the names of Jesse Shaw, John Shaw, Joseph Shaw, Charles Merrick, Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, July 1819.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1984 .

Bound Vault 2
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. Valedictory poem spoken at Concord. , 1815 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 31 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In dark red protective case
  2. Written at the age of twelve
  3. Two volumes
  4. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843, lawyer. Pipe Creek, Middleburg, Maryland. To "My Dear Aunt." Deals with his father's health. , 1820, Feb. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from National songster ... Hagerstown, Printed by John Gruber and Daniel May, 1814. (Lilly PS593 .L8N3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Coleman, William, 1766-1829, editor. Editor and proprietor of the New York Evening Post. To Thomas Philipps, care of James McCaskey, Custom House, Dublin. "I regret to find the unworthy conduct of the managers should have caused you to retire from your profession...Kean was here the day before yesterday & bids fain to do something extraordinary." , 1820, Nov. 26-1820, Dec. 4 -

Scope and Content:

  1. Red wax seal

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Holmann and Freeman. Shoreman, Sevenoaks, Kent. 1974 .

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Prescott, William Hicking, 1796-1859, historian. To ?. Notice of club meeting. , 1824, May 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph notice signed 1 p. 12 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Webster, Noah, 1758-1843, lexicographer. New Haven, Connecticut. To Joseph Story. Deals with his publications. , 1830, Jan. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by "Proof sheets written by Noah Webster while preparing his dictionary." Autograph document signed 4 p. 25 cm.
  2. Also accompanied by Advertisement of his dictionary. Printed.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Butler, Tryphena. North Branford, Connecticut. Poems. , 1828, Mar. 1-1828, Mar. 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 8 p. 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Rough paper cover
  2. In black and red ink
  3. Decorated with pen and ink scrolls and stylized heads
  4. Contents: A Friend, The Beauty of Spring, The Day of Life, Looking Upward, The Witty Peasant, The Way of the just is uprightness...On Life, Melancholy.
  5. Accompanied by two undated poems: Alas for me false hearts I've found, A.D.S. (signed as Tryphena Butler, Atwater [Ohio]), 1 p. 19.2 cm., and I saw upon thy breast at noon..., A.D., 2 p. 20.2 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1984.

Box Vault 2
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851, ornithologist. London, England. To E. Charnley, 77 Oxford Street, New Castle, Tyne, England. Mentions plans to visit America and refers to "Birds of America." , 1831, June 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Bound Vault 2
Empty case for "Audubon to Charnley" (materials rehoused)
box 1
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859, author. Washington, D.C. To Joseph F. Polk. Concerns election to the Lyceum. , 1833, Jan. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Webster, Noah, 1758-1843, lexicographer. New Haven, Connecticut. To Elijah Garfield, Middletwon, Connecticut. "I see a stron opposition to my Dictionary & to my Edition of the Bible, manifested in some of the New York papers." , 1835, Sept. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Holmes, Oliver wendell, 1809-1894, poet, physician. Boston, Massachusetts. To Thomas Hubbard, New Haven, Connecticut. Refers to his essay which was awarded the Boylston medical prize in 1836. , 1837, Jan. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. The last page is in another hand.
  2. Removed from Harvard University --Boylston medical society. Library of practical medicine. Published by order of the Massachusetts Medical Society for the use of its Fellows, Vol. VII. Containing the Boylston prize dissertation for 1836, by Oliver W. Holmes, M.D.; ... Boston, printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1836. (Lilly R111 .H3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley), 1791-1865, author. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To Sarah Yarnall. Refers to her latest publication and hopes to promote its circulation. , 1838, Sept. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source of purchase by Lathrop C. Harper, 8 West 40th Street, New York, New York, 10018, unknown. 1968.

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Woodworth, Samuel, 1784-1842, poet, dramatist, novelist. New York. To George Roberts, Editor Boston Notion, Boston, Massachusetts. He will be glad to review the Notion. , 1840, Jan. 16 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a picture of Woodworth.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Bound Vault 2
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, author. The best criticism. , 1840, Dec. 13 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 4 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by an autographed picture of Thoreau
  2. Bound in a dark green morocco volume
  3. In a dark blue protective case
  4. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, poet. New York. To Elias, Warner, Leavenworth. Introducing W. S. Solomons, agent of the Apollo association for the improvement of the fine arts. , 1842, July 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover addressed to William Cullen Bryant from Samuel, Thomas, Pickard, Portland, Maine.
  2. Removed from Lilly Library copy of O. A. Morse's A vindication of the claim of Alexander M.W. Ball ... N.Y., M.W. Dscopecontent, 1867 i.e. 1870? (Lilly PS 1029 .A7 Z7 1870). 1957

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown

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Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870, clergyman. Oxford, Georgia. To James Barton, Longacre. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Deals with his Georgia Scenes. , 1842, Sept. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon, 1793-1870, Unitarian clergyman. To Abigail Langdon (Frothingham), Wales. Giving her a book. , 1842, Dec. 31 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 15 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on inside of front cover of Samuel Gilman's Memoirs of a New England village choir ... 2d ed. Boston, Benjamin H. Greene, 1834 (Lilly ML3925 .G4). 1960
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, author. Concord. To Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "O'Sullivan ... expressed a great deal of interest in your poems, and wished me to give him a list of them... He is a rather puny looking man, and did not strike me... He expects to see you in N.Y." , 1843, Jan. 24 -, 1972, 1972.

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Mrs. Arthur R. Hogue, Bloomington, Indiana, and Mrs. John T. Windle, Madison, Indiana. 1972.

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Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879, editor. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To Theodore Ledyard, Cuyler. Hopes he will like the Opal "well enough to give it a notice in some of the Presbyterian papers or periodicals." , 1844, Nov. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Hale's Poems for our children. Boston, Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1830. (Lilly PS1774 .H2P6).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Bound Vault 2
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1862, novelist. Earth's holocaust. , 1844 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 21 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. First printed in Graham's Magazine, May 1844, XXV, p. 193-200. Also printed in Mosses from an old manse. New York. Wiley and Putman, 1846, Part II, p. 133-155. (Lilly PS1863 .A1 1846).
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Jackson, Charles Davis, 1811-1871, clergyman. Roseville, New York. To Susan Arrowsmith. Sends her a copy of George Barrell Cheever's Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress and comments on the book as well as the author. , 1845, Dec. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Cheever's Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress 4th ed. New York, E. Walker, 1845. (PR3330 .A9C52). 1969
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Barratt, Joseph, fl. 1846. Note on conversation with Noah Webster. Refers to Captain Dermer's journey along the coast of New England to Chesapeake Bay and the yellow fever in that area. , 1846, Jan. -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Lilly copy of Noah Webster's A brief history of epidemic and pestilential disease ... Hartford, Connecticut, printed by Hudson & Goodson, 1779, vol. I (Lilly RA649 .W3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Bruce, Albert W., 1812-1871, clergyman. Old Time Sermons in the Collection of William Charles Ball. , 1846, Jan.-1871, Feb. 26 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 437 p. 19.5-24.2 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Title from slip, dated Feb. 1936, which accompanies the sermons
  2. Twenty-one sermons with dates and places of delivery in Ravenna, Ohio, Gibson, Pa., Binghamton, [New York], Provincetwon, [Mass.], Columbus, [Ohio], and Lafayette, [Indiana], among many others
  3. Sermons express the tenets of Universalism
  4. Some relate specifically t the Universalist Church, especially "Centenary" delivered Dec. 29, 1869, with the promotion for the $200,000 Murray Centenary Fund, presumably at Lafayette, Indiana
  5. Last recorded sermon date, Feb. 26, 1871, for "The More Abundant Life" was first delivered on Apr. 29, 1861
  6. Clergyman's name determined from comparison of sermon schedule with pastorates as reported in The Universal Register and Almanac for the years 1843-1872 (Lilly AY256 .U89U58)
  7. Inventory of sermons, schedules, and pastorates in vertical file
  8. 2 folders

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1984.

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Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851, novelist. Ostego Hall, Cooperstown, New York. To Kate, Mary, and Lucy Hosmer, Avon Springs, New York. Refers to the names of certain characters in his books. , 1847, Jan. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. To "Dear sir," regrets cannot accept invitation. , 1847, Apr. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Howard S. Mott, dealer, Sheffield, Massachusetts. 1959.

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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859, author. To I. Harrison Hedges. Answers request for an autograph. , 1848, Jan. 22 -

Physical Description: Typescript 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858, author. The Cedars. To Abraham Hart. "On my return from the country this morning I received yrs. of the 11th inst. as also copy of [Valeni?] &c. I accept your offer..." , 1848, Dec. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Address on integral leaf: Messrs Carey & Hart, Publishers Philadelphia, Pa.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. Transferred from Lilly LIbrary Administrative Office. 1975.

Bound Vault 2
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, poet. Fordham. To Anson Gleason Chester, Esq., Saratoga Springs, N.Y. In reply to Chester's request for an "autograph poem," Poe has the "honor of copying...the subjoined lines just written." He asks that Chester not let them out of his possession until published. , 1849, Apr. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Address leaf bears postmark in red for Apr 2 and trace of wax seal
  2. The "subjoined lines": For Annie [poem of 102 lines]. Autograph document 3 p. 25 cm.
  3. One of five known manuscript copies, two of which are lost
  4. Varies slightly from published versions in Flag of Our Union and Home Journal for April 28, 1849
  5. Formerly in the collection of Elizur Kirke Hart, 1841-1893, of Albion, New York, newspaper owner and member of the 45th Congress, and mounted in his autograph album as described in The Post-Express, supplement, Rochester, New York, April 2, 1887, in which the letter portion of the manuscript was published; accompanied by a copy of the newspaper in an oversize folder
  6. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. George S. MacManus Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from the heirs of the Hart family. 1984.

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Moore, Clement Clarke, 1779-1863, professor. To L. B. Woodruff, Esquire. "I send you the $50. which I promised some time ago; with my respects." , 1849, May 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. J & S Graphics, Chicago, Illinois. 1975.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, poet. Cambridge. To James Thomas Fields. Requests ten copies of Kavanagh and relates an anecdote concerning a stranger's inquiry about Kavanagh. , 1849, May 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Longfellow, Kavanagh, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1849. (Lilly PS2264 .K2 copy 3). 1976
Bound Vault 2
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852, actor, playwright. Washington, D.C. Home Sweet Home. , 1849, June 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Transcript of the song by Payne.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852, actor, playwright. Washington, D.C. To Hiram Fuller. Has been waiting "since the 3rd of March and can get no decision... upon my matters ... I am ever as ready to perform kindnesses, as to receive them." , 1849, July 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Pitman, Robert Carter, 1825-1891, judge. To "My Dear friend." Apologizes for sending Season's greetings to one "in the House of Mourning." Will always remember her as "Maria's sister." Is sending along a volume of Longfellow's new poems. Sends greetings to her mother and Aunt Hannah. , 1849, Dec. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 17.2 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Dated: Christmas, 1849
  2. Volume of poems not present

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1984.

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Jones, William Alfred, 1817-1900, author. To Fitz Greene Halleck. Invites Halleck to tea on Friday evening; also invited are Ralph Hoyt, Mr. Elliott, Henry Joseph Tuckerman, and Dr. John Wakefield Francis. , 1850?, Nov. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 17.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In ink
  2. Removed from Jones, Essays upon Authors and Books. New York, Stanford and Swords, 1849 (Lilly PS2151 .J8E78). 1980
Bound Vault 2
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852, actor, playwright. Washington. Home Sweet Home. , 1851, Mar. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Transcript of the song by Payne.
  2. Newspaper clipping picture of the song mounted in center of page.
  3. Accompanied by an autographed manuscript of The cat, the foreigner and the abbe. 2 p. 24 cm.
  4. Picture of John Howard Payne
  5. Program of the reinterment of the remains of John Howard Payne in Oak Hill cemetery Washington, D.C., June 9, 1883.
  6. Invitation to the ceremonies for the reinterment of the remains of John Howard Payne, June 9, 1883.
  7. Bound in dark red cloth volume
  8. In dark blue protective case
  9. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870, novelist, congressman. Baltimore, Maryland. To George Palmer Putnam. Apparently relating to illustrations for a republication of Kennedy's book, Swallow Barn. , 1851, May 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, poet. To ?, "Extract from the 'Medical Journal' touching 'Evangeline.'" , 1852, Feb. 19 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted in Longfellow's Evangeline ... Boston, William D. Ticknor & company, 1847. (Lilly PS2263 .A1 1847 copy 1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1965.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author. Concord, Massachusetts. To George M. Towle, Washington, D.C. In answer to a request for "autographs of distinguished individuals." , 1853, Apr. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Maury A. Bromson, Associates, Inc., 195 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. 1965.

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Mirabaud, Js., Geneva. To Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe. Desires an autograph. , 1853, July 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In French
  2. Appended to this note is a quotation from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Autograph document signed

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

folio Folio
Porter, Noah, 1781-1866, clergyman. Farmington. To John Bartlett. Comments on the fact that Martha (Stone) Hubbell has been refused a letter of commendation and dismissal by the East Avon church because of disapproval of her book by the older ministers which he [Porter] thinks was "written with great ability." , 1853, Aug. 2 -

Physical Description: Copy of autograph letter signed 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Note: per M.J.C.
  2. Accompanied by 1) Annotated volume, formerly owned by William Z. Cowles, of The Shady Side by A Pastor's Wife [Martha Stone Hubbell], Boston, John P. Jewett & Co., 1853, with notes "given by Bela Kellogg"; 2) News clipping of a letter dated April 21st, 1853, by A Pastor's Wife; 3) Note in ink by E.W.K., n.d., 7 cm., regarding identity of Noah Porter and John Bartlett

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Book Department, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1981.

Bound Vault 2
Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, 1830-1886, poet. Amherst, Massachusetts. To Edwart Everett Hale. Asks if B.F. Newton's "last hours were cheerful." Tells of her friendship wtih Newton. , 1854, Jan. 13 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878, author. New York. To James Thomas Fields. "Is the book sufficiently advanced for me to have four or five copies by Friday?....Your portrait with Longfellow, Holmes, and Sargent is capital." , 1854, Oct. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Refers to Taylor's Poems of the Orient, Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1855.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1975.

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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, author. Concord. To Charles Sumner. Expresses thanks for three speeches. "I am quite greedy for the information they contain. These faithful reports with their admirable maps and plates, are some atonement for the misdeeds of our Government." , 1854, Oct. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Mrs. Arthur R. Hogue, Bloomington, Indiana, and Mrs. John T. Windle, Madison, Indiana. 1972.

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Sargent, Epes, 1813-1880, journalist. Boston, Massachusetts. To Benson John Lossing, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. His readers. , 1855, Feb. 26 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Sargent's The standard speaker ... Philadelphia, Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1852. (Lilly PS2159 .K3 S7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1961.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, novelist. Consular certificate. Refers to merchandise landed at Liverpool by the ship "Empire" of New York. , 1855, Nov. 2 -

Physical Description: Document signed 2 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Partly printed

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Wallace, Lewis, 1827-1905, lawyer, soldier, diplomat, author. The fair god. , 1855, Dec. 10-1857, Aug. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph document (2) 1-36, 36-54 l., 57-89 p., 41 p. 41 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Ends with Book 5, chap. V.
  2. Dated Dec. 10, 1855, on l. 45; Mar. 9, 1856 on l. 54; Aug. 27, 1857 on p. 76
  3. On cover: Lewis Wallace. Common place book. Mrs. Wallace
  4. Piece cut off bottom of l. 18.
  5. Has stubs of 19 l. cut from front of volume and 17 l. cut from end of volume.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. King V. Hostick, dealer. 55 East Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. 1956.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist et al. Concord. To Henry Joseph Gardner "Governor of our Commonwealth." Petition soliciting protection of Massachusetts citizens in Missouri. , 1856, July 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Henry David Thoreau and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn also signed the petition
  2. In dark red cloth protective folder
  3. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, author. Concord. To B. B. Wiley, Providence, Rhode Island. "When I went to the White Mts. I carried a gun to kill game with, but finally left it at Concord, N.H." , 1856, Sept. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Mrs. Arthur R. Hogue, Bloomington, Indiana, and Mrs. John T. Windle, Madison, Indiana. 1972.

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Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, 1830-1886, poet. Amherst, Massachusetts. To Edward Everett Hale. "Perhaps you forgot a Stranger Maid, who several Springs ago--asked of a Friend's Eternity ... she still remembers you, and calls for you ..." , 1856 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Facsimile of letter in "Mapping American Literature" Lilly exhibition, June-July 1986 LD2514.5 .I394 section I 1986b
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Carnegie Book Shop, 140 E. 59th Street, New York, New York, 10022. 1956.

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Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878, poet, novelist. New York. To Miss Stearns. Accepts her kind invitation, but his wife will be unable to come. , 1858, Dec. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, poet. Nahant, Massachusetts. To William Davis Ticknor. Requests a copy of Hiawatha be sent to E.T. Gale of Albany. , 1859, Aug. 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Curtis, George William, 1824-1892, essayist. Newport, Rhode Island. To J. Harper. Refers to an article in the September issue of Putnam's. , 1859, Aug. 26 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on leaf before half title in Orations and addresses of George William Curtis edited by Charles Eliot Norton. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1894, Vol. I. (Lilly PS1488 .A1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

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Emmett, Daniel Decatur, 1815-1904, minstrel, songwriter. I wish I was in Dixie's land. , 1859 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 34 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by numerous editions of the sheet music of Dixie.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, poet. New York. To John Worth Edmonds. Hesitant about publishing a letter on spiritualism. , 1860, Feb. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902, novelist. Sermons, lectures, and notes. Negative microfilm of Eggleston papers in John M. Olin Research Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. , 1860, Apr.-1865, Dec. -

Quantity: 2 Reels

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Donor anonymous. 1965.

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Sears, Edmund Hamilton, 1810-1876, clergyman. Old John Brown. , 1860, Nov. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in black morocco lettered "John Brown Album, Emancipation Evening 1863" which contains other manuscripts of prominent authors
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867, journalist. Idlewild. To Henry Coppee. Refers to the force and eloquence of Coppee's "Address." , 1861, Apr. 3 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888, illustrator. Bar Harbor Mt. Desert Island. To Thomas Gold Appleton. "We have been at Bar Harbor for a week and find it very pleasant ... I have made some sketches since I arrived which will give you a slight idea of the character of this place." , 1861, Aug. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrill & Son, Inc., 25 Kingston st., Boston Massachusetts. 1973.

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Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, poet. To Bradford Kingman. Not born in North Bridgewater; dates of his principal works. , 1861, Aug. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on front fly-leaf of Lilly Library copy of North American review and miscellaneous journal, vol. V, no. 8, Sept. 1817 (Lilly PS1166 .A1 1817).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1958.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. Emancipation proclamation speech. , 1862, Sept. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 71 p. 23-25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in brown morocco
  2. In dark red protective case
  3. Address delivered at the Music Hall, Boston
  4. Accompanied by five typewritten pages of changes and corrections in the published versions. It was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly, November, 1862, X, pp. 638-642.
  5. 2 volumes
  6. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. Concord, Massachusetts. To Mary Elizabeth Preston Stearns. Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Regrets his inability to accept her invitation. , 1862, Dec. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover
  2. On the verso of the envelope Stearns has written "He did get his Poem, came to our gathering, and read his Poem to us all--"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin, 1831-1917, author. John Brown. , 1863, Jan. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in black morocco volume lettered "John Brown Album Emancipation Evening 1863" and contains other manuscripts by prominent authors.
  2. Two earlier drafts of this poem were enclosed with a letter from Sanborn to George Luther Stearn, Jan. 6, 1863.
  3. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin, 1831-1917, author. Concord, Massachusetts. To George Luther Stearns. Medford, Massachusetts. Refers to emancipation celebration at the Stearns home. , 1863, Jan. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by 1) list of guests at the celebration, Jan. 1, 1863; 2) clipping from the Boston Journal, Feb. 3, 1863, about the event; 3) Sanborn, To John Brown, in ink with holograph corrections in pencil, A.D. 4 p. 20 cm.; 4) Sanborn, To John Brown, another copy in ink, A.D. 4 p. 16 cm. Both drafts dated Medford January 1 1863

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. Concord, Massachusetts. To Mary Elizabeth Preston Stearns. Refers to the holograph manuscript of the Boston Hymn sent to his correspondent for inclusion in the John Brown Album. , 1863, Jan. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. Boston hymn. , 1863 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 8 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in black morocco volume lettered "John Brown Album, Emancipation Evening 1863" and contains other manuscripts by prominent authors
  2. Printed in Emerson's May-day ... Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1867, p. 75-80. (Lilly PS1624 .M4).
  3. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

bound Bound
Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888, transcendentalist. Concord. The hero. , 1864, Jan. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 10 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in black morocco volume lettered "John Brown Album, Emancipation Evening 1863" and contains manuscripts by other prominent authors.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Osgood, Lucy, -1872. To Child, Lydia Maria (Francis). Gives an account of the New Year's Eve gathering in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Luther Stearns. , 1864, Jan. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter 2 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in black morocco volume lettered "John Brown Album, Emancipation Evening 1863" and contains manuscripts by other prominent authors.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Johnson, Samuel, 1822-1882, hymnologist. Salem, Massachusetts. To Mary Elizabeth Preston Stearns. Refers to the reunion at the Stearns home in honor of John Brown. , 1864, Jan. 26 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by extracts from sermons both before and after John Brown's martyrdom. A.D. 18 p. 24 cm.
  2. Bound in black morocco volume lettered "John Brown Album, Emancipation Evening 1863" and contains other manuscripts by prominent authors.
  3. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888, novelist. Concord. With a rose. , 1864, Feb. 5 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 3 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in black morocco volume lettered "John Brown Album, Emancipation Evening 1863" and contains other manuscripts by prominent authors.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888, transcendentalist. Concord, Massachusetts. To Mary Elizabeth (Preston) Stearns, Medford, Massachusetts. The letter deals with the holograph manuscript forwarded to his correspondent for inclusion in the John Brown Album. , 1864, Feb. 7 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, 1811-1896, novelist, humanitarian. To Howard M. Ticknor. First manuscript she sent was incomplete. Hopes he received second installment "which makes it perfect." , 1865, Jan. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Wallace, William Ross, 1819-1881, poet, lawyer. New York. To Lewis Jacob Cist. Mentions Mr. Dawes, Messrs Aldrich and Palmer, Mr. English, Mrs. Smith, and says "Mrs. Howe resides in Boston, and she is a splendid genius." , 1865, May 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Acquired in 1964 from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York City. 1975.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, poet, physician. "In vain is the strife!..." [first line of a poem]. , 1866, Jan. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Fair copy of poem written at the beginning of the Civil War, March 24, 1861
  2. Removed from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Oration...on the fourth of July, 1863, ... Boston, J. E. Farwell and Company, 1863. (Lilly PS 1972 .O63).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased from John Fleming, 322 E. 57th St., New York, who obtained it from Frederic R. Kirkland, Philadelphia, PA. 1966.

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Allen, Elizabeth Ann (Chase) Akers, 1832-1911, author. Washington City. To Mr. Ticknor. Her pseudonym. , 1866, Feb. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Seven Gables Bookshop, 3 West 46th Street, New York, New York. 10036. 1964.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. Office of the Atlantic Monthly, 124 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts. To Benjamin Strattan Parker. Sends advice on publishing poetry. , 1866, May 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, novelist. 60 E. 26th, New York, New York. To Richard Lathers. "I called to see you yesterday, but was too early for you. Accept my sincere thanks for your friendly and successful effort on my behalf." , 1866, Dec. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. See correspondence with Lynn Horth in Apps. American literature mss. for dating of letter
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. John Howell Books. San Francisco Calif. 1971.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, poet, physician. Boston, Massachusetts. To "My dear Sir." Declines to contribute to The Independent. , 1866, Dec. 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. Remarks on the character of George L. Stearns. , 1867, Apr. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 37 p. 24-25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Delivered at the Unitarian Church, Medford, Massachusetts.
  2. Bound in black cloth.
  3. Dark red protective case.
  4. Printed as a four page leaflet.
  5. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. Concord, Massachusetts. To Mrs. Parkman. Invitation to a literary gathering. "The conversation will probably take a religious direction." , 1867, Nov. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Emerson's Essays: second series. Boston, James Monroe and Company, 1844. (Lilly PS1608 .A3 1844).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, poet, physician. Boston, Massachusetts. The chambered nautilus. , 1868, Mar. 31 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by an autographed photograph.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908, poet. 75 East Tenth Street, New York. To Henry Theodore Tuckerman. "Thanks for your cordial & appreciative review of my volume, in The Times. , 1869, Mar. 21 -

Physical Description: Typescript 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, poet. "Truth crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are here." , 1869, Mar. -

Physical Description: Autograph transcript signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. First two lines from the ninth stanza of "The Battle-field." Printed in Poems by William Cullen Bryant. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1839, p. 269. (Lilly PS1150 .E39).
  2. Removed from Bryant, Poems. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1839. (Lilly PS1150 .E39).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1967.

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Howells, william Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. 124 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts. To Albert Deane Richardson. "I was obliged to cut about a page out of your article of which I was very sorry to lose anything." , 1869, Nov. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Seven Gables Book Shop, 3 West 46th Street, New York, New York, 10036. 1967.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, poet. In School-days. , 1869 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 3 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Attached is a letter to Lucy Larcomm, an editor of Our Young Folks, from Whittier in which he submits the poem for publication.
  2. Published in Our Young Folks, VI (January, 1870), 13-14. (AP 200 .09).
  3. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, poet. To Lucy Larcom. Offers his poem "In School-days" to her for publication in Our Young Folks. , 1869 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Attached to Whittier, John Greenleaf, "In School-Days."
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. Check made payable to N.B. Bicknell & Co. or bearer, seventeen dollars. , 186-, Apr. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 6 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Conduct of Life. Boston, 1860. (Lilly PS 1606 .A1 1860).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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English, Thomas Dunn, 1819-1902, poet. Check made payable to W.H. Putnam or bearer, $25.50 , 1870, Jan. 11 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 6 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from the New Mirror, I, Sept. 2, 1843. (Lilly PS2433 .M5 N53).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, poet. To "My dear friend." Introducing Samuel Thomas Pickard who has the ms. of Elizabeth Ann Allen's poem "Rock me to sleep." , 1871, Apr. 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from O. A. Morse's A vindication of the claim of Alexander M.W. Ball ... N.Y., M.W. Dscopecontent, 1867 i.e. 1870? (Lilly PS1029 .A7 Z7 1870).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1957.

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Allibone, Samuel Austin, 1816-1889, lexicographer, librarian. 1816 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To George William Childs. "Thanks for Longfellow's letter." Because of severe headaches doctor has advised him to go to Europe as the only hope for him. , 1871, May 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Samuel Austin Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors ... Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1871, Vol. I (Lilly Z2010 .A43).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1965.

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Miller, Cincinnatus Heine, 1841-1913, author. San Francisco, Cal. Newspaper criticism; plans. , 1871, Oct. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed: Joaquim Miller
  2. Removed from Miller's Specimens. Canyon City, Oregon, Apr. 1, 1963. (Lilly PS2397 .S7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891, poet. Elmwood. To "Dear Sir." Encloses check for twenty dollars to cover assessments until 1874. , 1871, Nov. 7 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902, novelist. Brooklyn, New York. The Hoosier school master. , 1871, Nov. 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 360 p. 24-34 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In ink with holography corrections in ink and pencil.
  2. On the last page of manuscript is the date it was completed.
  3. Preface of six pages and the dedication to the Reverend Williamson Terrell, Columbus, Indiana, one page dated December 1871, Brooklyn.
  4. Chapters 16, 17, and 18 are missing.
  5. Printed version. New York, Orange Judd and Company, 1871. (Lilly PS1582 .H78 1871).
  6. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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[Commonplace book]. Canandaigua, [New York]. , 1871, Mar. 3-1871, Sept. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 35 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Combed marbleized paper covers
  2. Contents include: Rules for correcting faults such as temperance, silence; The Savages of North America [the response of the Susquehana Indians to a sermon]; Receipts for Catching game; Tanning; Punctuation (the comma); Gems from "Self Help"
  3. Accompanied by loose sheet inside back cover: The Boy of the Cumberland. A.D. 1 p. 19.5 cm. Updated poem commemorating the sinking of the Cumberland, commanded by George Upham Morris, by the Merrimack on March 8, 1862. Poem on verso appears to commemorate another Civil War battle
  4. In 1872 Frank Clayton Ball and Edmund Burke Ball lived with their parents in Canandaigua and attended the Academy (F.C. Ball, Memoirs. Privately printed, Muncie, Indiana, 1937, page 43. Lilly Library)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1984.

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Miller, Cincinnatus Heine, 1841-1913, author. Boston, Massachusetts. To "Dear Brown." "Am still wrestling with my Amazons and if I can escape them long enough to write the desired poem you shall have it." , 1872, Aug. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Miller's Songs of the sun-lands. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1873. (Lilly PS2397 .S67 1873).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, 1811-1896, novelist, humanitarian. To Miss Gilman. Sends thanks for flowers. , 1872, Oct. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Hay, John Milton, 1838-1905, diplomat. 111 East 25th Street. To Professor Vincenzo Botta. Hay recently enjoyed seeing a performance by Tommaso Salvini; will meet Botta on Friday. , 1873, Oct. 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Offices. 1983.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. Boston. , 1873, Dec. 16 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 7 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Read in Faneuil Hall on the Centennial anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
  2. Accompanied by a picture of Emerson
  3. Printed in the Atlantic Monthly, February 1876, xxxvii, pp. 195-197
  4. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, poet. Note recommending Prof Gannisey as "an able scientist and a remarkably interesting lecturer..." , 1874, Jan. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 9.7 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In black ink on lined paper
  2. Dated: 12th 1st mo 1874

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Victor Fields, Columbus, IN. 1995.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, poet. Cambridge, Massachusetts. To Samuel Crocker, Cobb. Declines appointment on Sumner memorial committee. , 1874, Mar. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. The Atlantic Monthly, Cambridge, Massachusetts. To Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. "Can you write me a notice of Frothingham's Live of Theodore Parker? I suppose he isn't so interesting doctrinally as intellectually and politically." , 1874, Apr. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Seven Gables Book Shop, 3 West 46th Street, New York, New York. 1967.

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Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, poet. Roslyn, Long Island. To James Cephas Derby. Refers to proof of Thanatopsis. , 1874, Jun. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Winter, William, 1836-1917, drama critic. New Brighton, Staten Island. To Edwin Stafford Doolittle. "I have received...your verses in praise of my book, and I am conscious of the kind spirit beneath them." , 1874, Jun. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 12.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Winter, William, A wreath of laurel... New York: The Dunlap Society, 1898 (Lilly PS3341 .W94)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1989.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. The Atlantic Monthly, Cambridge, Mass. To Edmund Clarence, Stedman. "Glad you think you can do something for me." , 1874, Sept. 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by engraving of Howells

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Argosy Book Stores, 114 East 59th Street, New York, New York. 1964.

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Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power), 1803-1878, poet. Providence, R.I. To John Owen. Concerns changes in Whitman's poem on Proserpine which Owen wishes to reprint. , 1874, Sept. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 18.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Responds to Owen's letter to Whitman of Sept. 22, 1874 in the Whitman mss.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Catherine Barnes. Philadelphia, Pa. 1987.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. The Atlantic Monthly, Cambridge, Massachusetts. To Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Refers to an article for the The Atlantic Monthly which needs to be condensed. , 1874, Dec. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Seven Gables Book Shop. 3 West 46th Street, New York, New York. 1967.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. The Atlantic Monthly, Cambridge, Massachusetts. To Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Plans to print an elaborate review of the Channing correspondence. , 1875, Jan. 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Seven Gables Book Shop, 3 West 46th Street, New York, New York. 1967.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809, 1894, poet, physician. Boston, Massachusetts Old ironsides. , 1875, Jan. 15 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a photograph
  2. Copied for George W. Childs by Holmes
  3. In blue protective case
  4. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. The Atlantic Monthly, Cambridge, Massachusetts. To Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Refers to material for two more papers which he will be unable to use "this year." , 1875, Mar. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Seven Gables Book Shop, 3 West 46th Street, New York, New York. 1967.

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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, poet. 431 Stevens Street, corner West, Camden, New Jersey, U.S. America. To Edward Dowden. Refers to Two rivulets and Leaves of grass. , 1875, May 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, humorist, poet. 45 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York. To Charles Godfrey Leland, London, England. Concerns a story improperly attributed to him. , 1876, Feb. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 13 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, poet. Cambridge Massachusetts. To William Henry Milburn. Sends "best wishes for the success of your Lecturing Tour in England." Regrets he cannot send the desired letter as he has never heard him lecture. , 1876, Apr. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 4 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, poet. 431 Stevens Street, Camden, New Jersey. To John Swinton, 134 East 38th Street, New York City. "Forwarded by Adams' Express ... my new Edition. Complete Works." , 1876, May 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph postcard signed 8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Year based on information provided by letter dated 9 October 1980 in VF.
  2. Removed from Whitman's Leaves of grass. Camden, New Jersey, 1876. (Lilly PS3201 .L4 1876).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, poet. Oak Knoll, Danners, Massachusetts. To Elizabeth W. (Weld) Sargent. Invites correspondent to Danners to "see how the beautiful Spring looks." , 1876, May 26 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. To Thomas Sergeant Perry. "Many thanks for the Rundschau review. Hamberger is a man to be cherished...[He] says many of the thingsthat I could myself have said of the book if it had been decent to do so." , 1877, Aug. 29 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Stationery of the Editorial Office of The Atlantic Monthly
  2. Corner torn from last page

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. Transferred from Lilly Administrative Office. 1975.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. Editorial office of The Atlantic Monthly, The Riverside Press, Cambridge Massachusetts. To Thomas Stephens Collier. Refers to poem to be published in February issue. Wants more Captain Smith stories. Also refers to Clemens. , 1877, Dec. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Note in pencil by Merle Johnson
  2. Mounted in William Dean Howells, My Mark Twain ... New York and London, Harper Brothers, 1910 (Lilly PS2029 .M88).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1965.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, poet. Oak Knoll, Danners, Massachusetts. To Ellen S. Blackmer, 45 Pearl Street, Springfield, Massachusetts. Sends thanks for kind letter. , 1877, Dec. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Miller, [Cincinnatus Heine], 1841-1913, author. Atheneum Club, London, [England]. To "My dear Miss Mary". Thanks her for poems. " ... am now at work on my book which may be out in a month or less time. May be I shall be back in America in Sept. I shall go out West if I do ..." Sends regards to her family. , 1878, Jun. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Letter signed "Joaquin Miller"
  2. Has transcription in pencil between lines
  3. Removed from Joaquin Miller, The Baroness of New York, New York, G. W. Carleton, 1877 (Lilly PS2397 .B3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1976.

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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902, novelist. Near Glen's Falls, New York. To Scribner [firm, publishers, New York]. Is sending "by this mail all that remains of the copy of Roxy." Wants to put a quotation on the title page. The matter of the written contract can be taken care of later. , 1878, July 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17.7 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Addressed to: Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons
  2. In upper right hand corner in another hand: 7/29th J.B.G.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1984.

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Brooks, Phillip, 1835-1893, bishop. Sermon on the Disciples of Christ. , 1878, Nov. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 32 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Sermon preached again in Boston, November 30, 1884.
  2. In a half brown levant morocco slip case.
  3. 2 volumes

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, poet. Indiana. , 1878, Dec. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 7 p. 8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil with holograph corrections
  2. Accompanied by a Christmas greeting from David Randall. A.D.S. 6 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882, poet. Cambridge, Massachusetts. To "Dear Sir". Refers to the Skeleton in Armor. , 1880, Mar. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925, novelist. New Orleans, Louisiana. To Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. States he has abandoned his commercial pursuits to devote his time to literature. , 1880, July 26 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 8 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, poet. Amesbury, Massachusetts. To Clara Sprague. National Norman School, Lebanon, Ohio. Gives short biographical sketch and identity of "Stranger Guest." , 1880, Oct. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Lowell, James russell, 1819-1891, poet. 37 Lowndes Street, S.W., London, England. To "Sir". Censures correspondent for publishing "a purely private note of thanks." , 1880, Nov. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 15 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

folio Folio
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, poet. Oak Knott, Danvers, Massachusetts. To Moses Parker Hanson. Glad to hear from an anti-slavery friend; sees William Chote and Richard Palmer Waters frequently and they rejoice to "have lived to see the end of slavery." , 1881, July 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 16.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Dated: 7 Mo 6 1881
  2. Addressee supplied by donor of letter
  3. In wooden frame, 27x31 cm.
  4. Accompanied by transcript

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Mrs. Donald Parker Hanson, Wellfleet, Massachusetts. 1980.

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Tyner, James Noble, 1826-1904, congressman. Account of Lewis Wallace's appointment by President Garfield as minister to Turkey. , 1882, Feb. 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Appended to the account is an undated presentation note by Wallace
  2. Removed from Wallace's Ben-Hur; ...New York, Harper, 1880. (Lilly PS3134 .B41880a).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902, novelist. Queensbury, Warren Co., N.Y. (Lake George). To Judge Mellen Chamberlain. Inquires about the correct publication date of "State of Trade in the Northern Colonies...London 1648 reprinted 1649". "A young gentleman [at the library]...offered to answer any query I might send through the mail." , 1882, Apr. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Priscilla Juvelis, Boston, Mass., in honor of Mildred Hipskind of Wabash, Indiana, by George P. Smith of Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 1983.

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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902, novelist. Queensbury, Warren Co., N.Y. To Lindsay Swift. Inquires whether the Boston Public Library has "The exercise of Armes for Calivers, Muskettes and Pikes...", 1607, and Colonel Elton's "Complete Body of the Art Military," 1668. Needs permission for a "trustworthy photographer" to copy certain prints. , 1882, Apr. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Notes about the books in pencil and ink on last page

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Priscilla Juvelis, Boston, Mass., in honor of Mildred Hipskind of Wabash, Indiana, by George P. Smith of Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 1983.

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Matthews, James Brander, 1852-1929, novelist. New York. To Robert Ellis Thompson, Philadelphia. Concerns Matthews' article on the drama in America for the supplementary American volumes of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. , 1882, Jun. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

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Riddle, Albert Gallatin, 1816-1902, congressman, author. Washington. To Editor of The Nation. He has mailed "the Hunter of the Shagreen" to The Nation. "The author has personal reasons for not caring to be known as the writer..." , 1882, Sept. 7 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Riddle, A.G. The Hunter of the Shagreen: a descriptive poem. Cleveland: W. W. Williams, 1882 (Lilly PS2699 .R6H8).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1988.

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Fosdick, Charles Austin, 1842-1915, juvenile writer. Westfield, New York. To Messrs Porter & Coates, Cor 9" and Chestnut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "I have ... been laid up ... with something that threatened to end in pen paralysis ... In regard to writing for you exclusively, nothing would suit me better." Regrets they were not notified of his illness. He will need six weeks to complete the book. , 1882, Oct. 19 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Fosdick, Charles Austin, 1842-1915, juvenile writer. Westfield, New York. To Messrs Porter & Coates, Cor 9" & Chestnut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Refers to an arrangement for publishing his stories in a reputable paper before they appear in book form. , 1882, Oct. 26 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Fosdick, Charles Austin, 1842-1915, juvenile writer. Westfield, New York. To Messrs Porter & Coates, Cor 9" & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "I admire your open-and-above-board way of stating both sides of the contract - a thing none of my publishers ever did before." , 1882, Oct. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909, minister. 39 Highland Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts. To Warren Cheney editor of "The Californian." Californian is well and favorably known to him. "Here is a little sketch which is at your service." , 1882, Nov. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Fosdick, Charles Austin, 1842-1915, juvenile writer. Westfield, New York. To Messrs Porter & Coates, Cor. 9" & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Deals with the manuscript of "Don Gordon's Shooting-Box," and a title for a series of three books. , 1882, Dec. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Fosdick, Charles Austin, 1842-1915, juvenile writer. Westfield, New York. To Messrs Porter & Coates, Cor. 9" & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "I thank you for your promptness, and feel flattered by your confidence, which I hope you will find, when you examine the Ms." , 1882, Dec. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a receipt for $1,000

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922, author. To Conway. "I trust you will be able to make use of these tickets this evening." , 1883, Apr. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 14 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from The Chap-book, May 15-Nov. 1, 1896. (Lilly AP2 .C4 v.5).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1956.

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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891, poet. 10 Lowndes Square, S.W., London, England. To Mr. Paul. Sends thanks for "your very kind note with its too partial enclosure." , 1883, May 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 15 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Trowbridge, John Townsend, 1827-1916, author. Arlington, Massachusetts. To Will Carleton. Explains criticisms of sketch. states he is happy father of boy two weeks old. , 1883, Sept. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Carleton, Will, 1845-1912, poet. Brooklyn, New York. To Charles Bowen. Information on his lectures. , 1883, Sept. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by photograph of Will Carleton, on verso of which is a verse in Carleton's hand and signed by, beginnin "And still with loftiest courate toil we on."
  2. Removed from Carleton's Farm ballads ... New York, Harper, 1873. (Lilly PS1257 .F2 1873).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1957.

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Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908, author. The Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia. To James Ripley Osgood. States he is sending copy of "Teague Poteet". Wants to have it set up with "Mingo". Gives instructions concerning type. , 1883, Dec. 26 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Letter is signed "Uncle Remus"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, poet. Danners, Massachusetts. To "Dear Friend." Refers to Moll Pitcher and some other writings by him. , 1884, Apr. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Whittier's Moll Pitcher ... Boston, Carter and Hendee, 1832. (Lilly PS3263 .M8 1832).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Burdette, Robert Jones, 1844-1914, humorist. Ardmore, Pennsylvania. To Charles E. Wilson, Melrose, Massachusetts. "The lessons I have learned as I gleaned in the broad fields of experience ... followed close after the reapers ... you do not loll in a steamer chair when you attend lectures ... you stand up and face the hardest." , 1884, May 13 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrill & Son, Boston, Massachusetts. 1974.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. To George Parsons Lathrop. Unable to give support. , 1884, Jun. 13 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from William Dean Howells, The Garroters, New York, Harper, 1886. (Lilly PS 2027 .G2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1965.

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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902, novelist. Lake George, New York. To William Carey. "I'm afraid it will hardly do to schedule me for January. I suppose I could furnish an article but not such as you and I would wish it to be ..." , 1884, Sept. 5 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1845-1916, editor. The Christian Union, N.Y. and Brooklyn Publishing Co., Limited, New York. To Mr. Niles. Refers to Ramona by Helen Jackson. , 1884, Sept. 23 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 2 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Williams, John D., publisher. New York, N.Y. To Charles Scribner's sons, New York, N.Y. Facts in regard to his former ownership of plates of Edward Eggleston's The schoolmaster's stories. , 1884, Sept. 24 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 4 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Donor anonymous. 1957.

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Jackson, Helen Maria (Fiske) Hunt, 1830-1885, novelist, poet. Ramona. , 1884 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 230 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Chapters X-XIV. Pages 1-16 of chapter X missing.
  2. Pagination for chapter XII irregular. Last few pages of chapter XIV missing. Differs slightly from printed version.
  3. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1884. (Lilly PS2107 .R2)
  4. 6 volumes
  5. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Hale, Edwart Everett, 1822-1909, minister. 39 Highland Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts. To "Dear Sir." Expresses thanks for use of lists. , 1885, Sept. 13 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908, poet, journalist. Maryland, my Maryland. , 1885, Sept. 13 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 3 p. 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Transcript of the original written in the parish of Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, April 1861.
  2. Accompanied by a letter from James Ryder, Randall, Augusta, Georgia, Sept. 13, 1885, to Julius L. Brown. ALS 1 p. 30 cm.
  3. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925, novelist. Simsbury, Connecticut. To Mr. Bridgeman. Deals with financial matters. , 1885, Sept. 15 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Cable's Old creole days... New York, Scribner's, 1879. (Lilly PS1244 .O6 1879).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Nye, Edgar Wilson, 1850-1896, journalist. Hudson, Wisconsin. To Samuel Sidney McClure. "I send you an article herewith and will keep you supplied...I will do the very best possible work for you..." , 1885, Sept. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrill & Son, Inc. 25 Kingston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111. 1970.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, poet, physician. Boston, Massachusetts. To Augusta Packard DuBois. Bloomington, Illinois. Criticizes poems she had sent to him. , 1886, Feb. 13 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover.
  2. Removed from The mariner's library or voyager's companion... Boston, Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1833. (Lilly PS 1959 .O44).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, poet, physician. Boston, Massachusetts. To Augusta Packard DuBois. Bloomington, Illinois. Finds it impossible to do justice to his correspondents, some of whom overtax him, but would not want to offend an unknown friend. "Please think no more about my 'cry from the study'." , 1886, Feb. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover.
  2. Removed from The mariner's library or voyager's companion... Boston, Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1833. (Lilly PS 1959 .O44).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, poet, physician. Boston, Massachusetts. To "My dear sir." "I have only a few words to say to you about Longfellow, but those few words mean a great deal." , 1886, Feb. 19 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrill & Son, 25 Kingston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111. 1970.

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Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908, poet. 45 East 30th St., New York. To [William] Winter. "However little the contents of the book, which I send you, may belong to present thoughts like yours, I yet send it--.... It is my extra copy of the rare limited edition of Songs & Ballads, edited by me for the Bookfellows Club, & privately printed at much expense--the Japanese paper having been brought from Paris for this book alone." , 1886, Mar. 31 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Also refers to George Arnold, "the friend of our youth"
  2. Removed from Stedman, Songs and ballads. New York: Printed for the Book Fellow's Club, 1884 (Lilly PS2914 .S7 1884).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

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Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910, poet, reformer. Battle hymn of the republic last stanza. , 1886, Jun. 15 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 13 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a transcript made by Julia Ward Howe, November 1905, autograph transcript signed 1 p. 14 cm..
  2. Accompanied by an engraved picture

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Thorpe, Rose (Hartwick), 1850-1939, poet, novelist. Pentwater, Michigan. Six lines from "Curfew must not ring tonight." , 1886, Jul. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Fair copy
  2. Accompanied by newspaper clipping
  3. Removed from Thorpe's Curfew must not ring tonight. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1833. (Lilly PS3061 .T5C7 1883).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, poet. Amesbury, Massachusetts. To "Dear Friend." Refers to Moll Pitcher. , 1886, Nov. 13 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Whittier's Moll Pitcher... Boston, Carter and Hendee, 1832. (Lilly PS3263 .M8 1832).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Wallace, Lewis, 1827-1905, lawyer, soldier, diplomat, author. Tremont House, Boston, Massachusetts. To Messrs Harper & Brothers. Refers to the "contract for the publication of The Boyhood of Christ " and the "resetting of Ben Hur. " , 1886, Dec. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Walter R. Benjamin, 790 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10021. 1969.

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Stockbridge, John Calvin, 1818-1896, clergyman. Providence, Rhode Island. To S. Victor Constant. "I have tried to get the autograph of Judge Greene, but have failed." , 1886, Dec. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Appended to the letter is a C. F. Harris autograph and the H. B. Anthony frank.
  2. Removed from The Anthony Memorial. Providence, Providence Press Company, printers. 1886 (Lilly Z1231 .P7 B78).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from Brown University Library. 1968.

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Cooke, Rose (Terry), 1837-1892, poet. Winsted, Connecticut. To Samuel Sidney McClure. "I really cannot promise to write a serial for you... Not only is my health too precarious... I am sure you will understand that earning bread for my family...I am forced to write where I shall have more and prompter payment..." , 1887, Feb. 19 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrill & Son, Inc., 25 Kingston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111. 1970.

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Thompson, James Maurice, 1844-1901, Indiana poet and author. To Mr. Hoyt. Places Shelley among the greatest poets of the world but detests his character; "We must keep our admiration of a man's genius quite separate from our estimate of his moral character;" his definition of genius. , 1887, Mar. 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 12 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Portrait of James Maurice Thompson included in folder.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Provenance and date unknown.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. Declines to discuss any poetic proposition, but calls attention to his short stories which he should like to see in book form. , 1887, Apr. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors. Partly printed in Ticknor's Glimpses of authors. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922, p. 225-226.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908, poet. Office of E.C. Stedman, broker, No. 66 Broadway, New York. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. Urges Ticknor to take a book from Eugene Field. "Some publisher will seize upon and develop his selling-potentiality." , 1887, Apr. 5 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Burdette, Robert Jones, 1844-1914, humorist. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Now dang the gleuch that caaed the dyke-side kail [first line]. , 1887, Apr. 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 17.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Burdette, The rise and fall of the mustache and other "Hawk-eyetems." Burlington, Iowa: Burlington Publishing Company, 1877 (Lilly PS1205 .R5 1877).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1990.

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King, Grace Elizabeth, 1852-1932, author. Charlotte, North Carolina. To Elizabeth G. Dickinson "Your ... letter ... gives me great pleasure to know that my little stories have pleased you." , 1887, May 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from King, Monsieur Motte. New York, A.C. Armstrong, 1888. (Lilly PS2177 .M7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. Destroyed the original plates. Anxious to know what Stedman "decided to do in the way of a preface...does not mention me among his Victorious Poets." , 1887, Jun. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In upper left hand corner was drawn in red and green ink a facetious design of a coat and pig with the inscription "coat-of-arms."
  2. In the center of the letterhead is written in green ink "Dante Sale" underlined three times in red. The letter is written in black ink. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. Since Stedman did not consent to write preface for culture's garland, Hawthorne was approached. Field suggests that he be hired to travel over the country to collect old manuscript verse. , 1887, Jun. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In left hand corner of letter was drawn in red and black ink a thermometer which registered 110. The letter is written in green ink
  2. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.
  3. Printed in Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922, p. 229-230.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. "The trouble with most Eastern publishers is that they imagine that Western litterateurs can't do anything but weigh and kill hogs. Mr. Stedman need not be ashamed to write a preface for me." , 1887, Jun. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In the upper left hand corner of the letter is drawn in purple ink a sawhorse with the caption "A Pegasus out West."
  2. The first page is penned in imitation Greek lettering written in blue, red, green, and purple ink. The second page is written in purple ink.
  3. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors. Printed except for two sentences in Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922, p. 230-231.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. Hawthorne has consented to write the preface for Culture's Garland. Stedman has been expunged "from the tablets of my memory." , 1887, Jun. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.
  2. Printed except for two sentences in Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922, p. 231.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Bolton, Sarah Knowles, 1841-1916, poet and reformer. 521 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. To Edmund Clarence Stedman. Requests permission to include some of his poems in her book. , 1887, Jun. 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted in Bolton's Famous American authors. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1887. (Lilly PS121 .B69).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. "My artist has rallied and come to the front." Sent proofs back with several poems "to stop up the 'holes.'" , 1887, Jun. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934, novelist. Preface to Eugene Field's Culture's garland. , 1887, Jun. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.
  2. Differs slightly from printed version in Field's Culture's garland. Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1887, p. vii-ix. (Lilly PS1667 .C9).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. Refers to an old English ballad entitled "Madge: ye hoyden" discovered by an eminent Chicago archaeologist. , 1887, Jul. 7 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.
  2. Printed in Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922, p. 234.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. Tribune gave Culture's Garland "a good notice on the editorial page." Hopes that the story Opie Read sent in will be accepted. , 1887, Aug. 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. Refers to reviews of Culture's Garland. Sends another story which he considers "the best of the lot." , 1887, Sept. 11 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. Refers to Culture's Garland. "I am tickled to death to hear that you are going to bring out Opie Read's story." , 1887, Nov. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. The letter was written in black ink except for the salutation which was in red ink.
  2. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.
  3. Printed with a few omissions in Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922, p. 237-238.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925, author. Paradise Road, Northampton, Massachusetts. To Samuel Sidney McClure. "The 'Contemporary' speaks of printing my essay in its March No...I see you write of placing the essay for me. Please notice, the price I mentioned is intended to be understood as net to me." , 1888, Jan. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrill & Son, Inc., 25 Kingston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111. 1970.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. Chicago, Illinois. Three boys had scarlet fever and he took down with tonsilitis. Plans to leave for Boston the middle of February. , 1888, Jan. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Allegorical chart of Mr. Field's pleasant time in Boston. , 1888, Feb. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Riggs, Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, 1856-1923, author. San Francisco. To Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro. Seeking donation for the National Education Association. , 1888, Jul. 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Provenance unknown. 1962.

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Riley, James Whitcomg, 1849-1916, poet. The New Denison, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Elbert Hubbard. "As to fixing date of readings with you--That I must refer to my manager--Mr. Pond." , 1888, Aug. 18 -

Physical Description: Facsimile of autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by four entries from a diary, Jan. 31, Oct. 22, 23 and 24, 1888, in the hand of Hubbard. Facsimile of AD 2 p. 18 cm.
  2. The originals are in a copy of Riley's Afterwhiles. Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill Co., 1888, which is in Their call number is RA811 R573AF.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library, Dayton, Ohio. 1967.

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Tyler, Mary Elizabeth (Sawyer), 1806-1889. 29 Central Street, Somerville, Massachusetts. To William E. Ambler. Requests for the "story of the little Lamb" so frequent she must abstain from writing about it. , 1888, Oct. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920, poet. Auburndale. To Edmund Clarence Stedman. Apologizes for not having done something "and I thank you for jogging my memory..." , 1888, Nov. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Guiney, The White sail and other poems. Boston: Tichnor & Co., 1887 (Lilly PS1767 .W58 1887).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1994.

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Riggs, Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, 1856-1923, author. San Francisco. To Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro. Thanking him for contribution. , 1888 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Provenance unknown. 1962.

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Riggs, Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, 1856-1923, author. San Francisco. To Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro. Breakfast appointment. , 1888 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 15 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Provenance unknown. 1962.

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Pool, Maria Louise, 1841-1898, author. Sheldonville, Massachusetts. To Editor "A Library of American Literature." "It gives me pleasure to permit you to make such selections from my writings as you may choose. I was born in Rockland, Massachusetts in 1845." , 1889, Feb. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from The Chap-book, May 15-Nov. 1, 1895. (Lilly AP2 .C4 v.3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. "Please send me ... that bundle of stories you have been keeping for me so long." , 1889, Mar. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a newspaper clipping of a poem, Norse lullaby, dedicated to Mrs. William Harrison Bradley.
  2. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Stockbridge, John Calvin, 1818-1896, clergyman. Providence, Rhode Island. To S. Victor Constant, 55 Liberty Street, New York. Concerns Senator Anthony's "coat of arms" and the Harris collection of American poetry. , 1889, Apr. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Brown University Library. The Anthony Memorial. Providence, Providence Press Company, printers. 1886 (Lilly Z1231 .P7B78).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

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Seilhamer, George Overcash, 1839-1916, author. The Philadelphia Times. To "My dear Mr. Moreau." "Although I am younger in this sketch than when I peddled 'The Interviewer's Album' it will have to suffice as it is from the only photograph ever made of me." , 1889, Oct. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted in Seilhamer, An Interviewer's Album, New York, Alvin Perry & Co., 1881-1882 (Lilly PN2205 .S5).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1973.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. To Emma Abbott. , 1891, Jan. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph verse signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Printed in The writings in prose and verse of Eugene Field. Ne York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911, 12 vols., Vol. 9 Songs and other verse, p. 26-27 (PS1665 .A2 1911 v.9).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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English, Thomas S Dunn, 1819-1902, poet. Ben Bolt. Transcription of the first stanza of the song as it appeared in The New Mirror I, Sept. 2, 1843. Copied for H.P.R. Holt. , 1891, Jan. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 13 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from The New Mirror, I, Sept. 2, 1843. (Lilly PS 2433 .M5 N53).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

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Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, poet. To the Mother of my old friend, Edgar Wilson Nye: an inscription. , 1891, Mar. 5 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Written on leaf following front flyleaf of Riley's Rhymes of childhood... Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill Co., 1891.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1956.

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Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921, journalist. Courier-Journal Office, Editorial Department, Louisville, Kentucky. To John Clark Ridpath. Concerns inability to attend Western Writers Association meeting at Warsaw, Indiana. , 1881, Jul. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. Memorandum. Expresses himself freely in reference to a "personal item" which appeared in the New York Tribune in which his brother Rosewell M. Field and he were mentioned. , 1891, Sept. 16 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by press clipping which is tipped above his remarks.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947, author. To Parker, Benjamin Strattan, 1833-1911, author. Thanks Parker for "Hoosier Bards" and comments on the quality of Parker's writings: "...your work has a high place in my heart as well as my thought." , 1891, Nov. 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 23.6 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Written on letterhead: The Indianapolis News. Editorial Department

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Joe Mayberry, Bloomington, Indiana. 1991.

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Waters, Robert. Linden, Mass. The Bell Buoy and Other Poems. Written at the village of Linden, Mass. , 1891, Dec.-1892 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 71 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Paper cover with wrapper and wording: MSS. Original Poems by Robert Waters. Linden, Mass. U.S.A.
  2. Dedicated to his father "across the ocean" for Christmas, 1891
  3. Contents list 27 poems
  4. Poems illustrated by printed pictures include: The Book Worm (torn half sheet with note laid in); Lachine Rapids, a memory (2 illus.); and Independence Hymn (2 illus.) written for St. Luke's Choir
  5. Printed version of Independence Hymn, dated 1891 and signed by Waters, pasted in front of volume
  6. Laid inside back cover: A second compilation of poems, beginning Easter Song, ADS, 32 p. 20 cm. Poems, 1891-1892, include those honoring his children Elaine, Ethel, Harold, Susan and his wife, and memorializing the death of Albert Victor Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, 14 Jan 1892

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1984.

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Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. The Chicago Daily News, Editorial Rooms. To Benjamin Holt Ticknor. "Wilson is printing but 100 copies of this first edition of Horace... My own edition of 500 numbered copies will be out in about six weeks." , 1892, Jan. 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Traubel, Horace Logo, 1858-1919, author. Camden, New Jersey. To Karl Knortz, 540/140th St., New York. Sending a copy of '92 edition of Leaves of Grass at Whitman's request. "He is sick nigh to death." , 1892, Jan. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph postcard signed 1 p. 7.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Whitman, Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia, D. McKay. 1891-2 (Lilly PS3201 .L4 1891 vault).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1983.

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Smith, Samuel Francis, 1808-1895, clergyman. America. , 1892, Feb. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Transcript from the original "written in 1832."
  2. Accompanied by a picture.
  3. Bound in red morocco volume.
  4. In protective red cloth case.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914, poet. Louisville, Kentucky. To Henry Mills Alden. "I have Endeavored a ballad of the famous John Davis who sacked & burned St. Augustine, Fla., in 1665 ... If you do not think you can use the piece ... return it to me." , 1892, Mar. 16 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from the Chap-book, IV. (Lilly AP2 .C4 v.4).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, poet, physician. 296 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. To "My young friend." Quotes first autograph he ever saw: "Be good and do good." , 1892, May 2 -

Physical Description: Typescript 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Fosdick, Charles Austin, 1842-1915, juvenile writer. Westfield, New York. To Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C. Requests renewal of copyright for two of his books. , 1887, May 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911, novelist. The World, Editorial Rooms, Pulitzer Building, Park Row, New York, New York. To George Haven Putnam. Refers to a misunderstanding about the ownership of the copyright of Boker's poems. Hopes Lippincott will pardon any possible wrong done them. , 1892, Jun. 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 5 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Written on stationery of The World, Editorial Rooms, Pulitzer Building, Park Row, New York, New York. To George Haven Putnam.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Lippincott, J.B., & Co., firm, publishers. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To G. P. Putnam's sons. Suggest ways to handle acknwoledgements and protect their rights. , 1892, Jun. 7 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Lippincott, J.B., & Co., firm, publishers. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To G. P. Putnam's sons. The proposed notices are satisfactory. , 1892, Jun. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Bound Vault 2
Carney, Julia A. Fletcher, 1823-1908, poet. Galesburg, Illinois. To William E. Ambler, Cleveland, Ohio. States she is sending copy of her youthful poem "Little drops of water." , 1892, Jul. 9 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Shelved in Vault
  2. Also in Box 5

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. 40 West 59th Street, New York, New York. To Henry Burden McDowell. Confident his play would not succeed and if it did, "I should be more ashamed than if it failed; it is rot. , 1892, Oct. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 15 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frederic Carter Marston, 1500 Hinesburg Road, South Burlington, Vermont. 1966.

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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900, author. To Hamlin Garland. It is inevitable that you be greatly shocked by this book...that the reader...may consider the Author to be a bad man...a matter of small consequence to The Author. , 1892, Oct. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscribed in ink on cover of Crane, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets by Johnston Smith. New York, printed for the author, 1893 (Lilly PS1449 .C85M3 1893 Vault)
  2. Date and addressee derived from undated note by Hamlin Garland, 1860-1940, author, on accompanying sheet of paper, 20.5 cm., which says that Crane sent the book to him about Oct. 1892
  3. Xeroxed copies of the holograph material and typed transcription included

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the Lilly Library Book Department. 1982.

Bound Vault 2
Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929, novelist. The cliff-dwellers. Famous story of Chicago business. , 1893, Jan. 11-1893, Feb. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 196 p. 31 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Differs considerably from printed version, New York, Harper & Brothers publishers, 1893. (Lilly PS1727 .C6 1893).
  2. 2 volumes
  3. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909, minister. 39 Highland Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts. The "Dear Mr. CAnfield." Had copies made from an old journal. , 1893, Jan. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, poet, physician. To the Editor of the Transcript. Discusses the development of the stereoscope and his attempt to market it. , 1893, Mar. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Estate of Ruth Halls. Santa Barbara, California. 1991.

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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902, novelist. Madison, Indiana. To Benjamin Strattan Parker. Refers to literary matters and the Western association of writers. , 1893, May 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Frederic, Harold, 1856-1898, novelist. 8 Furnivals Inn, London, England. To William Henry Rideing. Refers to two new chapters and the "altered ending of the fifth chapter" for The Deserter. , 1893, May 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrill & Son, Inc., 25 Kingston Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 1967.

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Frederic, Harold, 1856-1898, novelist. National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place S.W., London, England. To "My dear Mr. Henderson." Refers to an enclosure which did not accompany letter and "I only wish I heard oftener from you all." , 1893, Jun. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 14 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935, actor. The Broadway Theatre. To Eugene Field. Refers to Field's health, his contemplated trip to California, mentions books, and suggests name for the Book Club. , 1893, Nov. 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. 40 West 59th Street, New York. To Hart, J. Wilson. Proof; payment. , 1894, Dec. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Argosy Book Stores, 114 East 59th Street, New York, New York. 1964.

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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900, author. 143 East 23rd, New York City. To Copeland and Day. 69 Cornhill, Boston, Massachusetts. Directs that his book The Black riders carry a dedication to Hamlin Garland. , 1895, Jan. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Stockbridge, John Calvin, 1818-1896, clergyman. 257 Benefit Street, Providence, Rhode Island. Deals with the Harris Collection of American Poetry. , 1895, Apr. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Brown University Library. The Anthony Memorial. Providence, Providence Press Company, printers. 1886. (Lilly Z1231 .P7B78).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

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Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, poet. Indianapolis, IN. To Elizabeth Mitchell (Loring) Nye, Moorhead, Minn. Assures her that all is well with her son, Edgar Wilson Nye. , 1895, Nov. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on inside of back cover of Riley's Rhymes of childhood... Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill Co., 1891.
  2. Cover mounted on back flyleaf of same volume. (Lilly PS2704 .R4 1891a).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1962.

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Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940, author. Hotel Albert, New York. To Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin Riggs. "I am afraid of the tea on Friday. I'm an old farmer you know and any sort of social ceremony is quite out-side my handy management." , 1895, Dec. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from The Chap-book, May 15-Nov. 1, 1895. (Lilly AP2 .C4 v.3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1956.

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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900, author. Hartwood, New York. "What says the sea, little shell?" (first line of poem). "To my friend Dr. A. L. Mitchell." , 1895, Dec. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph poem signed 2 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Crane's Red badge of courage. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1895.
  2. Printed in A souvenir and a medley: seven poems and a sketch by Stephen Crane, East Aurora, New York, Roycroft printing shop, 1896. ( The Roycroft Quarterly, no. 1). (Lilly PS1449 .C85 S7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1965.

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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900, author. Lantern Club, 126 Williams St., New York City. To Messrs Copeland and Day. Refers to Maggie, Black riders , and other works. , 1895 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900, author. Hartwood, New York. To Dr. A. L. Mitchell. Appreciates kind things said about him now. Did not bend under the ridicule once upon his shoulders. , 1896, Jan. 29 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On the verso of photograph. Removed from Crane's The red badge of courage. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1895. (Lilly PS1449 .C85 R4 1895).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900, author. Hartwood, Sullivan County, New York. To William Heinemann. A literary letter containing self-appraisals of his first three books and significant references to two major writers and a British politician. , 1896, Feb. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. John Howell, 434 Post Street, San Francisco, California, 94102. 1971.

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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902, novelist. Joshua's Rock on Lake George, New York. To Lindsay Swift. Asks confirmation of Swift's position at the Boston Public Library in order to acknowledge his permission for citing his work on election sermons in Eggleston's "The Beginners of a Nation." , 1896, Sept. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Priscilla Juvelis, Boston, Mass., in honor of Mildred Hipskind of Wabash, Indiana, by George P. Smith of Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 1983.

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Miller, cincinnatus Heine, 1841-1913, author. Hights, Oakland, California. To DeWitt Wilson. Refers to his books. , 1896, Nov. 3 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Joaquin et al... Portland, Oregon, S. J. McCormick, 1869. (Lilly PS2397 .J5 1869).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Fosdick, Charles Austin, 1842-1915, juvenile writer. Westfield, New York. To "Miss Griswold." "I was away from home enjoying a much needed rest after finishing three new volumes for Porter & Coates." , 1897, Jan. 22 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Letter signed Harry Castlemon

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940, author. The Regents, Washington, D.C. To "Dear Mr. Day." "You make a mistake in not letting my musical friend Mr Wm Schuyler of St Louis set as many of Crane's words to music as he can." , 1897, Feb. 7 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Riley, James Whitcomg, 1849-1916, poet. Indianapolis, Ind. To Elizabeth Mitchell (Loring) Nye, Moorehead, Minn. Sorry not to have seen her; death. , 1897, Mar. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on inside of front cover of Riley's ... Neghborly poems... Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill, 1891
  2. Cover mounted on inside of back cover of same volume. (Lilly PS2704 .N3 copy 4).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1962.

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Dodge, Mary Elizabeth (Mapes), 1830-1905, editor, author. 175 W. 58th Street, New York City. To Leonard Charles Van Noppen. Enclosing a card and a letter of introduction to Col. John Milton Hay, but does not include in the letter the extracts from "Lucifer." Feels obliged to return "The Old Timepiece" as unsuitable for children and "rather gruesome too." , 1897, Mar. 31 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 17.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Blue stationery
  2. Enclosures not present
  3. Pasted to front free endpaper in Dodge, Hans Brinker... New York, James O'Kane, 1866. (Lilly Pz7 .D645 H2 1866).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1985.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. 115 East 16th Street, New York, New York. To Mr. Nelson. "Let Miss Wilkins use what she wants of your rich experience there will be wealth enough left for me." , 1897, Apr. 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Mrs. Frederic Carter Marston, 1500 Hinesburg Road, South Burlington, Vermont. 1966.

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Fox, John, 1863-1919, novelist. Big Stone Gap, Virginia. To John Clark Ridpath, Esquire, Boston, Massachusetts. Expresses thanks for invitation to Warsaw and "half promised Mr. Riley to be present." , 1897, Jun. 3 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, poet. To William Webster Ellsworth. "As yet I've not seen proof slip of "Doc's" proem which you promised long since to promptly give me sight of... Anyway, at your earliest, send revise, and [line?] of the great success of Relyea..." , 1897, Sept. 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound with this is the [Proem of the Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers], 1897 in maroon binding by Bennett of New York
  2. Letterhead of James Whitcomb Riley, Indianapolis, embossed on stationery

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Kenneth Rendell, Newton, Massachusetts. 1975.

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Wallace, Susan Arnold (Elston), 1830-1907, poet. Crawfordsville, Indiana. To Dear Sir. Speaks of selling the manuscripts for "Ben-Hur," "Commodus," and "The Fair God." , 1897, Oct. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed: H. Wallace, Sec.; Address Mrs. Gen. Lew Wallace

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office. 1978.

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Emmett, Daniel Decatur, 1815-1904, minstrel, songwriter. Mt. Vernon, Ohio. To Sumner Archibald Cunningham. Refers to his financial status and asks for help by sponsoring a benefit in Nashville. , 1897, Nov. 5 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911, novelist. World Office, New York, New York. To George Haven Putnam. Does not think any of Mrs. Holmes Conrad's poems are worth including in American War Ballads. , 1897, Dec. 30 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 2 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

bound Bound
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, poet. Proem to the Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers. , 1897 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound with Riley to William Webster Ellsworth, Sept. 21, 1897, in red binding by Bennett of New York
  2. Letterhead of James Whitcomb Riley, Indianapolis, embossed on stationery
  3. Bears note to printer
  4. Pasted on the last leaf is a sketch by Riley of Doc Sifers intended as a model for artist Charles M. Relyea
  5. Proem and sketch vary somewhat from the published version by The Century Company, New York, 1897 (Lilly PS2704 .R89)
  6. Proem also varies from another manuscript version in the Riley mss. which does not compare favorably to the published work
  7. For date of manuscript see the letter of Ellsworth to Riley, Aug. 9, 1897, in Riley mss.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Kenneth Rendell, Newton, Massachusetts. 1975.

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Trowbridge, John Townsend, 1827-1916, author. Arlington, Massachusetts. To Allen Herbert Bent. Comments regarding poem, "Darius Green and his Flying Machine." , 1898, Mar. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On verso of this letter appear some pencil notes written in a strange hand

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915, painter, author. To Lillie Hamilton French. "Anything of worth between these covers ... is due to the helpful sympathy and masterful advice of the dear friend whose name graces these pages." , 1898, Apr. 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On the flyleaf of Smith's Caleb West... Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898. (Lilly PS2864 .C3 1898).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

folio Folio
Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908, author. To Frank Lebby Stanton. "Arrange matters so there will be no bobble." , 1898, Apr. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 42 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Scott, Harriett F. To Francis Hopkinson Smith. Expresses thanks for autographed copy of Caleb West. , 1898, May 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Smith's Caleb West... Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898. (Lilly PS2864 .C3 1898).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

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Aylesworth, Barton Orville, 1860-1933, college president. Denver, Colorado. To Francis Hopkinson Smith. Expresses thanks for the copy of Caleb West. "You have preached the humanities better than I have ever been able to do from my pulpit." , 1898, Nov. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Smith's Caleb West... Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898. (Lilly PS2864 .C3 1898).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

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Lauriat, Charles E. To Evans, S. G. , 1899, Mar. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

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Forbes, Edith Emerson, 1844?-1929, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. To Ashley Horace Thorndike. Deals with the original manuscript of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Valedictory Poem." , 1899, Jun. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 15 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Rowan, Andrew Summers, 1857-1943, army officer. Camp Meade, Pennsylvania. To Elbert Hubbard. Acknowledges express package of the Garcias and the horseshoe and tells of his early departure for the Philippines. , 1899, Jun. 29 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 15 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on flyleaf of Hubbard, A message to Garcia... East Aurora, New York, Roycroft Shop 1899. (Lilly PS2042 .M58). A typescript of the letter has been filed by date in American Literature mss.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Land, William Mangrum. "A Voyage to Waterloo and Other Poems." Bound volume of poetry. , 1899 -

Physical Description: Autograph volume

Scope and Content:

  1. Includes biographical information by Land's great-grandson, John M. Aschieris

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. John M. Aschieris. Date unknown.

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London, Jack, 1876-1916, writer. 962 East 16th Street, Oakland, California. To Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Biographical data. , 1900, Jan. 31 -

Physical Description: Facsimile of typescript letter signed 4 p. 33 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. 1966.

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Ade, George. To Robert Howard Russell. , 1900, Feb. 11 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter 1 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

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Smith, Harry Bache, 1860-1936, author. No. 252 W. 102d Street, New York City. To Frank Jenners Willstach [i.e., Wilstach]. Refers to Wilstach's letter with its enclosure about Eugene Field; notes his "lament" regarding a libretto joke that misfired. , 1900, Jun. 11 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 26.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Smith, Lyrics and Sonnets. Chicago, The Dial Press, 1894 (Lilly PS2869 .S2 L992).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1981.

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Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911, novelist. 188 West 135th Street, New York City. To John Denison Champlin. at the request of Champlin, Eggleston gives a short resume of his books. , 1900, Oct. 19 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 10 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915, author. Fragment of an original manuscript. , 1901, Oct. 5 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 2 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil
  2. Tipped in between limitation notice and index of Hubbard, A message to Garcia... East Aurora, New York, Roycrofters, 1901. (Lilly PS2042 .M58 1901). The following statement was written on the lower half of the limitation notice. "This book contains sheets of my original mss. Fra Elbertus, October 5th 1901"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, novelist. Bedford City, Virginia. To Richard Duffy, 238 William Street, New York City. Biographical sketch of Dreiser. , 1901, Nov. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 9 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Sinclair, Upton Beall, 1878-1968, novelist. 201 West 88th Street, New York. To "Dear Sir." Introduces himself as the author of King Midas, and offers his services as a reviewer of fiction, giving in some detail his qualifications. , 1901, Dec. 20 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrill & Son, Inc. 25 Kingston St., Boston, Massachusetts, 02111. 1970.

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Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911, novelist. The Authors Club, Seventh Avenue and 56th Street, Carnegie Building, New York, New York. To Messrs. G.P. Putnam's Sons. Pleased with beauty of American Immortals. Calls their attention to the fact that the color rubs off of the cover. Asks if it is a subscription or trade edition, and what the cost of publication is. , 1902, Jan. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Scollard, Clinton, 1860-1932, poet. Clinton, New York. To "My dear Clemens." "I've done a little Golf epic. Do you care to try it ..., or are you tired of attempting to do anything with my stuff." , 1902, Feb. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from The Chap-book, May 15-Nov. 1, 1897. (Lilly AP2 .C4 v.7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

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Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908, author. Cambridge, Massachusetts. To Patrick Kevin Foley, Boston, Massachusetts. Refers to the publication of Il Pesceballo. , 1902, Apr. 4 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by notes on Il Pesceballo, July 24, Aug. 9, 1902. Autograph notes 2 p. 19-20 cm.
  2. Also accompanied by a note on Emily Elizabeth Parsons, Nov. 1, 1902. Autograph notes 1 p. 19 cm.
  3. Removed from Il Pesceballo... Cambridge, Massachusetts, printed at the Riverside Press, 1862. (Lilly PS1292 .C85 I5 1862).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

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Burroughs, John, 1837-1921, essayist. West Park, New York. To Richard Watson Gilder. Refers to famous lines in Poe's "To Helen." , 1902, Oct. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, novelist. Diary. , 1902, Oct. 22-1903, Feb. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 170 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil
  2. Accompanied by thirteen pharmaceutical prescriptions, 1899-1904
  3. Discussion of the Diary appears in "Medical Diary reveals first Dreiser visit to the University of Pennsylvania" by Richard W. Dowell in The Library Chronicle 38: 92-96 (Winter, 1972)
  4. Diary published in its entirety in Dreiser, Theodore. The American Diaries, 1902-1926. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982 (Lilly PS3507 .R55 Z467 1982).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall. Bloomington, IN. 1966.

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Gilder, Richard Watson, poet. New York. Portrait. , 1902, Dec. 17 -

Physical Description: Document signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Provenance and date unknown.

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Carney, Julia A. (Fletcher), 1823-1908, poet. To H.M.D. Erisman. Discusses authorship of "Little drops of water." , 1903, Jan. 15 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Thorpe, Rose (Hartwick), 1850-1939, poet, novelist. Curfew Cottage, La Jolla, California. Curfew must not ring tonight. , 1903, Feb. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 5 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Fair copy of printed version except for one and one-half pages. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1883. (Lilly PS3061 .T5 C7 1883).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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De Koven, Henry Louis Reginald, 1859-1920, composer. 1239 Vermont Avenue, Washington, D.C. To Carolyn Wells, 1543 15th Street, City. "Your story lends itself admirably to the now popular musical comedy of rather a better class..." , 1903, May 13 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from The Chap-book, Nov. 15, 1896-May 1, 1897. (Lilly AP2 .C4 v.6).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1956.

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Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922, author. York Harbor, Maine. To Edgett, Edwin Francis, "Boston Evening Transcript." "I shall be very glad to have you dramatize my novel, 'Gordon Keith' if we can come to an agreement about it...my conditions are that the work shall be sufficiently well done to be accepted and acted by a first rate actor who shall bring it out in first rate style..." , 1903, Aug. 24 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morill & Son, Inc., 25 Kingston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111. 1970.

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Mansfield, Richard, 1857-1907, actor. New London, Connecticut. To John Lane. Thanks Lane for the copy of Torrence's play. , 1903, Sept. 29 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Jabez Elliott, 105 Southampton Road, Ringwood, Hants, England. 1969.

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Skinner, Otis, 1858-1942, actor. New York City. To John Lane, New York. "I shall take the greatest pleasure in perusing El Dorado and beg to thank you for your courtesy and the compliment of the copy." , 1903, Oct. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Jabez Elliott, 105 Southampton Road, Ringwood, Hants, England. 1969.

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Ade, George. To Robert Howard Russell , 1903? -

Physical Description: Autograph letter 1 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

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Wilcox, Ella (Wheeler), 1855-1919, author. Everett House, New York, New York. To John Lane. Praises The Literary Guillotine "a book of delicious wit--absolutely free from malice. It is a collection of literary cartoons--of high order." , 1904, Feb. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Jabez Elliott, 105 Southampton Road, Ringwood, Hants, England. 1969.

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Emmett, Daniel Decatur, 1815-1904, minstrel, songwriter. Mt. Vernon, Ohio. To Sumner Archibald Cunningham. States "I am in need of all monies of mine that you may have in your possession." , 1904, Jun. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 15 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

bound Bound
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The college widow. Original manuscript. , 1904, Jul. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 61 p. + title page 32-48 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a letter from George Ade to Paul M. Godehn, Jan. 2, 1928. Typescript letter signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Herbert West, Box 82, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755. 1971.

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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909, author. South Berwick, Maine. To Doctor Jackson. Refers to books she is sending and personal matters. , 1904, Sept. 29 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover.
  2. Removed from Sarah Orne Jewett, The life of Nancy. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1895. (Lilly PS2132 .L5 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Bond, Elizabeth (Powell), 1841-1926, educator. To Harry L. Stearns. Had Emersons, Alcotts, and Hawthornes in her class. , 1905, Jan. 11 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1856-1915, educational leader. The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. To John Lane, Publisher, 67 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Expresses thanks for a copy of Before the Crisis. , 1905, Mar. 3 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Jabez Elliott, 105 Southampton Road, Ringwood, Hants, England. 1969.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. 340 West 57th Street. To Carolyn Wells. "I think there are some satires among 'Stops of Various Quills,' of which I gladly make your choice free..." , 1905, May 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from The Chap-book, May 15-Nov. 1, 1894. (Lilly AP2 .C4 v.1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1956.

Box 2
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946, author. Wyndy Goul, Cos Cob, Connecticut. To J. Ray Peck. "I have inscribed the books you send and now return them, express collect." , 1905, Jun. 1 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Ernest Thompson Seton, How to play Indian. Philadelphia, The Curtis publishing company, 1903. (Lilly PS2801 .H5).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1965.

Box 2
London, Jack, 1876-1916, writer. Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California. To "Dear friend." Responds to praise received for fight description. Mentions 40-foot yawl and future sail around the world. In P.S. lists books published in England earlier than The Call of the Wild. , 1905, Aug. 30 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office. 1975.

Box 2
Read, Opie, 1852-1939, author. New York. To Wallace Bruce Amsbary. Hears Amsbary is going to settle in Chicago; going South for winter. , 1905 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Read's Toothpick tales... Chicago, F. J. Schulte & Co., publishers c. 1891, 1892. (Lilly PS2679 .R6 T5).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1964.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. Presentation inscription to Henry Hutt. "With the happiest recollections of our 'Miss Betty.'" , 1905 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On recto of frontispiece of Tarkington's In the Arena... New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. (Lilly PS3539 .A7 135 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1971.

Box 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. Hotel Regent, Sherman Square, Broadway and Seventieth Street, New York City. To David Alexander Munro. "I hope you received the proof of my 'Oxford.'" , 1906, Mar. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. Hotel Regent. To Agathe Schurz. "It is one of the highest consolations of my later life to have known your father...I never talked with him but I felt cheered and helped by him, and came away loving him the more." , 1906, May 16 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office. 1975.

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Howard, Bronson, 1842-1908, dramatist. The Players, Sixteen Gramercy Park. To Francis Wilson. "I sent the volume, 'Kate,' this afternoon. My delay has come from the illness of Mrs. Howard..." , 1906, Dec. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on front free endpaper
  2. Inscription by Howard to Wilson, Dec. 12, 1906, on integral blank preceding half-title
  3. Half-title page carries note: "Howard was written out. He needed a word of praise & encouragement. I gave it to him. He was grateful. Francis Wilson"
  4. In Howard, Kate; a comedy in four acts. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

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Photograph of Paul Gormley as a child, by Arthur J. White, Schenectady, N.Y. , 1906 -

Physical Description: Brown print. 15.5 x 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Imprinted on sheet 27 x 17.5 cm
  2. Written in lower right hand corner of brown border in pencil: White 1906
  3. Identified in ink in unknown hand: Paul Gormley Tillie's son nephew of Paul Dresser
  4. Dressed in white suit, shoes, stockings, and cap

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Book Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1981.

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Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910, poet. 241 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. To Norman Hapgood. "It does not appear to me possible to use the stanza of the Battle Hymn in writing of Genl Lee. I am willing to try some thing in another metre." , 1907, Jan. 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

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Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929, novelist. 681 West End Avenue, N.W. Corner 93rd Street, New York. To Mr. Davidson. Refers to a short story the editor of the Woman's Home Companion might be interested in. , 1907, Mar. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910, poet. Robert E. Lee. , 1907 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Poem complete in three stanzas of four lines each

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Evans, Charles, 1850-1935, librarian, bibliographer. 1045 Pratt Avenue, Rogers Park, Chicago. To M. Ray Sanborn, New Haven, Connecticut. "I am indeed much obliged for the opportunity of adding this precious New Hampshire broadside to my next volume. To me it appears a rare treasure..." , 1908, May 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope addressed to Sanborn at the Yale University Library

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office. 1975.

Box 2
Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934, novelist. Cambridge Building, Fifth Avenue, Corner 33rd Street, New York. To Edward Sprague Marsh, Brandon, Vermont. "For the time being I have given up literature and am devoting my attention to Temagami." , 1908, Oct. 21 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. (Lilly PS1856 .A1 1883).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

Box 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. 65 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. To Francis Hopkinson Smith, New York City. "What wonders you have accomplished in literature since you first talked to me in Boston twenty-five years ago." , 1908 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Seven Gables Book Shop, 3 West 46th Street, New York, New York. 1967.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. Refers to the novelization of The man from home. , 1908 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Twain, Mark to Marjorie Breckinridge , 1908-1909

Scope and Contents: See Vertical File for bookseller's description

Box 2
Kennedy, Charles Rann, 1871-1950, playwright. 257 West 86th Street, New York. To R. Harold Paget. "I am so sorry you missed me at the Regent. I am now living at the above address, and am generally in of afternoons." , 1909, Feb. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Jabez Elliott, 105 Southampton Road, Ringwood, Hants, England. 1969.

Box 2
Kennedy, Charles rann, 1871-1950, playwright. 257 West 86th Street, New York. To R. Harold Paget, 2 Rector Street, New York. "A thousand thanks for the beautiful book; but oh, why didn't you get it published for this week, instead of last?" , 1909, Apr. 7 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Jabez Elliott, 105 Southampton Road, Ringwood, Hants, England. 1969.

Box 2
Evans, Charles, 1850-1935, librarian, bibliographer. 1045 Pratt Avenue, Rogers Park, Chicago. To M. Ray Sanborn. "...I have called attention in the preface to the New Hampshire Oath. If it were mine, I would not consider disposing of it, until another copy turns up...". , 1909, Apr. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office. 1975.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. Wrote Doubleday and hopes his answer will be favorable. , 1998, Jun. 5 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Duneka, Frederick Atherton, ?-1919, publisher. To Booth Tarkington. 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. No "strong objection to your titles, but we simply feel that you can do better." , 1909, Jul. 16 -

Physical Description: Typescript carbon 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Duneka, Frederick Atherton, ?-1919, publisher. To Newton Booth Tarkington. 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. Deals with the title for Beasley's Christmas Party. , 1909, Jul. 19 -

Physical Description: Typescript carbon 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, novelist. 439 W. 123rd Street, New York City. To Fremont Rider. Sends check for option on lot at Grand View. , 1909, Sept. 29 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. "My choice is: 'Among Those Not Invited. A Christmas Story.'" , 1909 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. "Titles are always a sweat with me." , 1909 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. Hotel Irving, 26 Gramercy Park, New York. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. "You've made a really charming book of 'Beasley.'" , 1909 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. Concerns "stories that would make a little book." , 1910, Jan. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940, poet. West New Brighton, New York. To Perriton Maxwell. Expresses thanks for considering him "in connection with the Cosmopolitan magazine." , 1910, Sept. 17 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Photograph of John McClutchen and George Ade. , 1910 -

Quantity: 1 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 2
Widener, Harry Elkins, 1885-1912, book collector. To Chew, Beverly. Has sent him "through the Rosenbach Company a copy of my Catalogue which is at last finished." , 1911, Feb. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 17.8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Widener, A Catalogue of some of the more important books, manuscripts and drawings in the library of Harry Elkins Widener. Philadelphia, 1910 (Lilly Z997 .W58).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1993.

Box 2
Tarkington, Laurel Louisa Fletcher. 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Robert Bridges. States she is enclosing Booth's National Institute dues. Asks if her poem "The Convalescent" had been hidden away permanently among unpublished archives of "Scribner's." , 1911, Mar. 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Scribner, firm, publishers, New York. To Laurel Louisa (Fletcher) Tarkington. States her poem "The Convalescent" will appear in the May number. , 1911, Mar. 11 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Carbon copy

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. Refers to a contract with Doubleday. , 1911, Mar. 31 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Price, William Thompson, 1845-1920, author. 1440 Broadway, N.Y. To Francis Wilson. Extends thanks for the personally inscribed copy of "Joseph Jefferson" and his friendship. , 1911, Nov. 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Price, The Analysis of Play Construction and Dramatic Principle. New York, W.T. Price, 1908 (Lilly PN1661 .P7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1983.

Box 2
Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914, poet. To Miss Eitel. Autograph in book. , 1911, Dec. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Cawein's Poems... New York, Macmillan, 1911. (Lilly PS1277 .A2 1911).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1964.

Box 2
Lincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944, novelist, humorist. Summit Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey. To Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe, Succasunna, New Jersey. Suggests a trade of their books. , 1912, Mar. 11 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963, poet. Poem with first line: "'Last knock' I say and take the silent hive." , 1912? -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 14.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Framed
  2. Carries note in Frost's hand: "Another that came to nothing. The paper looks like some I used in England ** I mean 45 years ago in 1912. Robert Frost.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Arthur Bowes, Chicago, Illinois, who purchased it at the private auction of the Modern Poetry Association in Chicago in 1957. 1959.

bound Bound
Gilmer, Albert Hatton, 1878-1950, professor. Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts. How the Emancipation Proclamation was received in Boston, January 1, 1863. , 1913, Jan. 1 -

Physical Description: Typescript document 17 p. 29 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Pictures of John Brown, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel Johnson, and Major George Luther Stearns are mounted in the bound volume.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Porter, Gene (Stratton), 1863-1924, novelist. Limberlost Cabin, Geneva, Indiana. To Mrs. Arthur R. Iliff. Thanks for offer of coccoons which may well be used by Mrs. Edith B. DeCoster of Buckfield, Maine, who is "making as plucky a fight against tuberculosis as God ever put into the heart of woman to make." , 1913, Feb. 20-1918, Mar. 18 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed: Gene Stratton-Porter
  2. Accompanied by three undated cards from Porter to Iliff, autograph cards signed 5 p. 9 cm. Each refers to a contribution of cocoons from Iliff to Porter; the card with the GSP says she is "dead tired from proofing a book" and that a letter from Mrs. DeCoster indicates conditions there were not as stressful as she had "fancied."
  3. Also accompanied by an empty envelope postmarked Mar. 18, 1918, from Geneva, Indiana, addressed to Mrs. Arthur R. Iliff, 5527 Pulaski Ave., Germantown, Pennsylvania. The envelope may or may not have contained one of the above undated cards.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. George Smith, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., in honor of Mrs. Edward Kemp Jones, Wabash, Indiana; purchased from Back Tracts, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1983.

Box 2
Matthews, James Brander, 1852-1925, novelist. 681 West End Avenue, New York, New York. To Clayton Meeker Hamilton, 140 East 18th Street, New York, New York. Review of Matthews' Shakespere as a playwright; Robert Louis Stevenson's "statement of the limitations of the play as compared with the novel." , 1913, Feb. 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by Matthews, James Brander, to Hamilton, Clayton Meeker, Feb. 18, 1914, as well as publications of the Dramatic museum of Columbia University. Autograph letter signed 4 p. 16 cm.
  2. Removed from Indiana University Library copy of Arthur Wing Pinero's Robert Louis Stevenson as a Dramatist... New York. Printed for the Dramatic museum of Columbia University, 1914. (Publications of the Dramatic museum of Columbia University...1st series. Papers on playmaking IV) (PN1621 .C7 ser. 1 v.4).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1955.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. "I'm working slowly into the bunch of short stories 'under contract.'" , 1913, Apr. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Bixby, William Keeney, 1857-1931, manufacturer. 508 Century Building, St. Louis, Missouri. To Elmer Bragg Adams, City. "...I permitted the Bibliophile Society of Boston to print facsimiles of some Swinburne manuscripts belonging to me...one of which (no. 125) I am sending you to-day." , 1913, May 24 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Swinburne, Mr. Whistler's lecture on art. Boston, The Bibliophile Society, 1914 (Lilly PR5510 .M5 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1975.

Box 2
Dewey, John, 1859-1952, philosopher. Check for $4.30 issued to Bureau of Publications [Teachers College] on The Corn Exchange Bank University Branch. , 1913, Dec. 15 -

Physical Description: Printed form, filled in and signed, 1 p. 7 x 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Verso: stamped Paid Jan. 14, 1914

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office in May, 1975. 1989.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. "I am sweating over the 'material' for the novel." , 1913, Dec. 26 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, poet. Whitman series, 1-6. Copyright 1913, by Horace Traubel and Albert Boni. , 1913 -

Physical Description: Facsimiles 6 p. 11-19 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Facsimiles of poetry and prose by Walt Whitman in his hand.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Charles E. Feinberg, 872 West Boston Blvd., Detroit, Michigan. 1956.

Box 2
Rexford, Eben Eugene, 1848-1916, poet. Shiocton, Wisconsin. Silver threads among the gold. , 1914, Mar. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 3 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Transcript of the song as it first appeared in 1873 when issued by C.W. Harris, owner of the copyright.
  2. Accompanied by a copy of the printed song.
  3. Appended to the song is a statement about Howard Pease Danks who composed the music for Silver threads among the gold.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

folio Folio
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. Deals with The Turmoil. , 1914, Mar. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 33 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. 1100 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. Comments on his appointments with the dentist. , 1914, Apr. 26 -

Physical Description: Autograph card signed 8 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. "I am startled and distressed by your bad news." , 1914, Nov. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 33 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Parrish, Randall. To unknown. , 1915, Jan. 11 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter 1 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 2
Burroughs, John, 1837-1921, essayist. Experiment, Georgia. To Grace D. Rockwell, Public Library, Goshen, Indiana. Refers to copy of the Ulster County Gazette which he treasures. , 1915, Feb. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. Hotel Bellevue, Boston, Massachusetts. To Mr. Fay. Sorry he cannot arrange to come to the Phi Beta Kappa exercises at Tufts College. , 1915, May 3 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Mrs. Frederic Carter Marston, 1500 Hinesburg Road, South Burlington, Vermont. 1966.

Box 2
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951, novelist. To Edwin Francis Edgett. "Thanks many times for your promise to find out what sort of a book 'The Trail of the Hawk' will be..." , 1915, Jul. 1 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Letterhead of George H. Doran Company Publishers, Thirty-eight West Thirty-second Street, New York

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrill, 25 Kingston Street, Boston, Massachusetts. 1972.

Box 2
Gomme, Laurence James, 1882-1974, bibliographer. 2 East Twenty-ninth Street, New York. To Rosalie Heaton Goodyear. Sends a copy of the book Notes on religion about which they had talked earlier. , 1915, Aug. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from John Jay Chapman, Notes on religion. New York: L.J. Gomme, 1915. (Lilly BR85 .C5).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

Box 2
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. York Harbor. To Mr. Goldstein. "I am willing to say that I do not believe there will be any lasting peace for our race until there is absolute economical equality, the only source of social equality." , 1918, Sept. 18 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Seven Gables Book Shop, 3 West 46th Street, New York, New York. 1967.

Box 2
Coolbrith, Ina [Donna], 1842-1928, poet. 1067 Presidio Ave., San Francisco, California. To Mr. Healy. "You must have loads of catalogues. Is there no life of Jim Beckwourth to be found? I had one before I lost my all in the fire." , 1915, Oct. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Coolbrith, Songs from the Golden Gate, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895 (Lilly PS1397 .C5 S68).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1975.

Box 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, novelist. 165 West 10 Street, New York City. To William Griffith. "I find myself compelled to fall back on my book readers, for the average editor considers me much too serious and unconventional." , 1915, Nov. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Harris, Frank, 1856-1931, author. 3 Washington Square, N. New York, New York. To Edwin Francis Edgett Literary Editor, The Boston Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts. Sending him a copy of his Life of Oscar Wilde for review in the Transcript and requests a copy of The Transcript dealing with the book. , 1916, Jun. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 15 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrell & Son, Inc., 25 Kingston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111. 1969.

Box 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, novelist. 165 West Tenth Street, New York City. To Frank Harris. "...cannot recall the contents of the original letter." Reviews his feelings concerning Harris' book on Oscar Wilde. , 1917, Jan. 14 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 2 p. 26.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed in ink
  2. Marked: Duplicate, in Dreiser's hand
  3. Published in Vol. 1, pages 247-248, of Letters of Theodore Dreiser, edited by Robert H. Elias, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959 (Lilly PS3507 .R55 Z24)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Joseph the Provider, Santa Barbara, California. 1984.

Box 2
Chapman, Arthur, 1873-1935, author. Denver. Out Where the West Begins. , 1917, Apr. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 22 x 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Transcript of poem to Harry N. Burhans, "with sincere personal regards."
  2. The following note by recipient in lower right hand corner: "With all good wishes for 1918. Cordially yours Harry N Burhans."
  3. Published in Chapman, Out Where the West Begins and Other Poems, Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1917 (Lilly PS3503 .H3208)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Warren R. Howell, John Howell Books, 434 Post Street, San Francisco, California. 94102. 1970.

Box 2
Bacheller, Irving Addison, 1859-1950, novelist. To Thomas Perkins. Box 50, Boston, Massachusetts. "To my great regret your books seem to have been destroyed in the fire that burned my home." , 1917, May 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph postcard signed 8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Bacheller's Verilius, New York and London, Harper and Brothers, 1904. (Lilly PS1054 .B3 V4).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1965.

Box 2
Harris, Frank, 1856-1931, author. 29 Waverly Place, New York. To Samuel Nathaniel Behrman. "I have read your story 'Hope Macomber' and like it. I could use it I think but the main difficulty is a financial one. Pearson's is not rich...I wonder if you would care to let us print your story without payment." , 1918, Aug. 22 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Morrill & Son, Inc., 25 Kingston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111. 1970.

Box 2
Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947, author. 1505 Merchants Bank Building, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Robert Cortes Holliday. Comments on Holliday's Walking Stick Papers. , 1918, Oct. 19 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Nicholson's The valley of democracy. New York, Charles Scibner's Sons, 1918. (Lilly PS3527 .I35 V18).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977, author. To George Frisbie Wicher. Claims he is criticized because he treats of poets whose names are unknown to reviewers. , 1919, May 19 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Mrs. Harriet (Fox) Whicher, 272 Amity, Amherst, Massachusetts. 1967.

Box 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, novelist. American Critical Society or Society for Critical Examination and Endorsement. , 1919, Jul. 20 -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 4 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from residence halls library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1969.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. Kennebunkport, Maine. To Charles Romer?. Explanatory note about a presentation inscription to Henry Hutt written about 1905. , 1919, Jul. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Below presentation inscription on recto of frontispiece of Tarkington's In the Arena, New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1971.

Box 2
Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939, author. Chicago, Illinois. To Mr. Van Nosdall. Willis George Emerson. , 1919, Sept. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on inside of front cover of Read's ... My young master... Chicago, Laird & Lee, c. 1896. (Lilly PS2679 .R6 M9).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1961.

Box 2
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944, humorist, playwright. Rebel Ridge, Ossining, New York. To Charles Romm. States he is autographing and returning the books sent. Will send a photograph when he gets a fresh stock. , 1919, Oct. 7 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936, poet. Chicago, Illinois. To Mrs. Proudfoot. A book of poems by Mrs. Proudfoot. , 1919, Nov. 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Received by the book division with a shipment of volumes of Poetry: a magazine of verse. 1963.

Box 2
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944, humorist, playwright. New York, New York. To Charles Romm. States he will be glad to inscribe and autograph the books if Romm will return them to Doran publishing company. , 1919, Nov. 5 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977, poet. To George Frisbie Whicher. "The limitations of the book made ... the task doubly difficult." , 1920, Jan. 20 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Mrs. Harriet (Fox) Whicher, 272 Amity, Amherst, Massachusetts. 1967.

Box 2
Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-1954, novelist. To Ray Shields, Indianapolis, Indiana. Concerned with struggle in his books. "For that reason ... I find my books are happy in the end." , 1920, Feb. 9 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by an undated letter from Roy Shields to Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., autograph letter signed 1 p. 24 cm.
  2. Removed from Hergesheimer's From an old house. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. (Lilly PS 3515 .E63 F93 1926).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977, poet. 310 West 100th Street, New York City. To George Frisbie Whicher. Concerns a possible lecture by Sassoon at Amherst. , 1920, Feb. 16 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Mrs. Harriet (Fox) Whicher, 272 Amity, Amherst, Massachusetts. 1967.

Box 2
Lindsay, Vachel to Grace Conkling
Box 2
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977, poet. 310 West 100th Street, New York City. To George Frisbie Whicher. "Sassoon...most anxious to go to Amherst." , 1920, Feb. 23 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Mrs. Harriet (Fox) Whicher, 272 Amity, Amherst, Massachusetts. 1967.

Box 2
Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel, 1879-1931, poet. Hotel Brevoort, New York, New York. To Mrs. Holbrook. "It is midnight of my last night in New York and I have just autographed your books." , 1920, Mar. 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. House of Books, Ltd., 667 Madison Ave., New York. 10021. 1969.

Box 2
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940, poet. Staten Island, New York. Outwitted. , 1920, Apr. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscribed at top of page: "For my friend, Dr. H. B. Taylor"
  2. Printed in Edwin Markham's The Shoes of Happiness and other poems... Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran, 1915 (Lilly PS2362 .S5), page 1

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. The Modern Poetry Association, Chicago. 1957.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. "Gentlemen." Concerns the party of the Lotus Club honoring George Harvey. , 1921, Apr. 30 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 3 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. With holograph corrections
  2. Accompanied by one page of an earlier draft; and The fable of truthful George and the subsequent George who was even more so. Carbon of typescript document 2 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Sinclair, Upton Beall, 1878-1968, novelist. Pasadena, California. To Charles Henry Taylor, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts. "If you have not read 'The Brass Check,' I offer to send you a copy." , 1921, May 31 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 14 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Enclosure mentioned in letter may be found in Sinclair mss., May 28, 1921, Sinclair to Frederick Roy Martin of the Associated Press (carbon)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Removed from an unidentified book acquired by the Lilly Library about August, 1975.

Box 2
Loveman, Robert, 1864-1923, author. "It isn't raining rain to me..." , 1921, Aug. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Loveman's The gates of silence... New York, Knickerbocker Press, 1903. (Lilly PS3523 .O85 G25).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1957.

Box 2
Mencken, Henry Louis, 1880-1956, author, editor. 1524 Hollins St., Baltimore. To George Sterling, Bohemian Club, San Francisco, California. "Your silence on the Arbuckle case fills me with wonder. I hope you have not joined the cabal against the poor fellow." , 1921, Sept. 28 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 13 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope
  2. Removed from Heliogabalus... by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. (Lilly PS3525 .E43 H44).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 2
Rice, Alonzo Leora, 1767-1946, poet. Shelbyville, Indiana. To George S. Billman, Manilla, Indiana. Criticizes some poetry which has been sent to him. , 1921, Oct. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. A cover which acocmpanied the letter was post marked "Indianapolis, Ind. Oct. 17 6:30 p.m., 1921."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. George S. Billman, Route 5, Rushville, Indiana. 1967.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. Advertisers' Club of Lose Angeles. , 1921, Nov. 21 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 2 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

folio Folio
Kastor, Robert, illustrator. Pen and ink drawing of Upton Sinclair. , 1921, Nov. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 30.5 x 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Date on verso: Novembre 1921
  2. Signed and inscribed by Sinclair: "With very best wishes"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Doris Harris Autographs, Los Angeles, California, 90036. 1985.

Box 2
Eastman, Max, 1883-1969, author. 138 West 13th Street, New York City. To Frederick Allen King. "I asked Scribners' to send you a copy of my book just published - 'The Sense of Humor.'" , 1921 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 21.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On The Liberator letterhead
  2. Addressed to "Dear Brother King"
  3. Pencil note in unknown hand identifies recipient as Frederick Allen King

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Catherine Barnes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1986.

Box 2
Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel, 1879-1931, poet. Hotel Youree, Shreveport, Louisiana. To William Lyon Phelps, "By Sept. 1923 I will be through any kind of a conventional lecture-ppresentation of myself and you do not know how glad I will be to be free of being done up in uniform packages, with red covers...If I cannot secure for all my fellows such little publicity as I have had in this weltering world of millions of people- I am certainly a poor creature and a failure. I am particularly anxious for Sandburg and Frost and Robinson to get to England with high honors--and car fare paid by the English... We have had enough of international adventurers." , 1922, May 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 19 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Warren R. Howell, 434 Post Street, San Francisco, California, 94102. 1969.

Box 2
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key, 1896-1940, author. 626 Goodrich Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota. To John Van Alstyne Weaver. Was "tickled to write the review." Is using a new style of letter writing to make it easier for his biographer. Will read the story "Enamel" in the Metropolitan when it arrives. , 1922, May -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in The Letters of F. Scott Firzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnbull. The Bodley Head, London, 1963 (lilly PS3511 .I9 Z498 1964), page 474

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Black Sun Books, P.O. Box 459, Brooklyn, New York, 11202. 1973.

Box 2
Winters, Janet Lewis, 1899-?, author. To Monroe Wheeler. Refers to poems intended for publication in Manikin No. 1. , 1922 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Note accompanying the letter indicates it was written from Neebish, Michigan, to Wheeler who was in Bonn am/Rheim, Germany

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Modern Poetry Association, 1018 North State Street, Chicago, Illinois. 1964.

Box 2
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, author. To Monroe Wheeler. Refers to the publication of Manikin No. 2. , 1923, Feb. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Note accompanying the letter indicate it was written from Rutherford, New Jersey, to Wheeler in New York

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Modern Poetry Association, 1018 North State Street, Chicago, Illinois. 1964.

Box 2
Doubleday, Frank Nelson, 1862-1934, publisher. Garden City, N.Y. To Anna Faith Taylor. Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, Fifth Avenue at 48th Street, New York City. "Mr. Conrad has taken great pleasure in writing in a copy of VICTORY which I am sending you today." , 1923, May 14 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed

Scope and Content:

  1. On Doubleday, Page & Co letterhead
  2. Removed from Joseph Conrad, Victory. Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Page, 1923 (Lilly PR6005 .O4 V6 1923a).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1982.

Box 2
Pyle, Ernest Taylor, 1900-1945, journalist. Washington Daily News, Washington, D.C. To Forrest Dale Cox, [?]3 East 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana. Rooms with Abe Martin, the city editor, and has free passes to the theatre; considers whether to return to school for a degree or to stay in Washington in order to cover Congress. , 1923, Oct. 4 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 3 p. 35 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed in pencil: Ernie
  2. Postscript in pencil
  3. Page 2 present only in a fragment of 4 cm.
  4. Accompanied by envelope from which date, place, and name of recipient are derived
  5. Letter and envelope mutilated

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Journalism Library, Indinaa University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1979.

Box 2
Fowler, Alfred, 1889-?, editor, publisher. 17 Board of Trade, Kansas City, MO. To Arthur F. Gray, Esq. 53 State Street, Boston, Mass. Sending a copy of The Galleon magazine in hope that Gray will subscribe. , 1924, Jan. 17 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 24.6 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from The Galleon, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Lilly AP2 .G624).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1981.

Box 2
Williams, Oscar. To Stahl. , 1924, Feb. 16 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter 1 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 2
Hubbard, Frank McKinney, 1868-1930, humorist. Kilauea Volcano House, Hawaii National Park, Post Office Volcano House, Hawaii. To James Arthur Stuart. "My trip has been a revelation." , 1924, May 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From Pauline Marshall, Retail Food Advertising Dept., The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1967.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of guarding little Estrella. , 1924, Jul. 18 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 4 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in the Indianapolis Star, July 18, 1924.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
De Forest, Henry Pelouze, 1864-1948, physician. Seventy-One Central Park West, New York City, New York. To Jules Eckert Goodman. Has reread Goodman's play Chains. "Mrs. Anson...writes that at Eastbourne...it is being played under the name 'Morals.' , 1924, Aug. 9 -

Physical Description: Typescript carbon letter 1 p. 13 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Tipped-in before half title of Goodman's Chains. New York: Brentano's, 1924 (lilly PS3513 .O523 C43).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of the girl who warmed up. , 1924, Aug. 17 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 4 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Rewritten from Fable of girl who wanted to warm up. Carbon of typescript document 4 p. 33 cm.
  2. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Aug. 17, 1924.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of the true friend. , 1924, Sept. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 14 p. 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil
  2. Published in the Indianapolis Journal, Feb. 15, 1903, under the title "The modern fable of the man who had a true friend--People you know." Published under the title "The man who had a true friend to steer him along" and illustrated by Harry Smith in Ade's People you know. New York, R. H. Russell, 1903, p. 107-109. (Lilly PS1006 .A6 P4 1903).
  3. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Sept. 28, 1924.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Wylie, Elinor to Grace Hazard Conkling , 5 November 1924
Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of meeting our cousins. , 1924, Dec. 7 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 4 p. 36 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Dec. 7, 1924.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of the satiated globe-trotter. , 1924, Dec. 14 -

Physical Description: Typescript document 4 p. 36 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Dec. 14, 1924.
  2. Published in the Indinaapolis Journal, Dec. 23, 1900, under the title "The modern fable of the satiated globe trotter."
  3. Published under the title of "The fable of the satiated globe-trotter who found a new kind of nerve twister waiting for him at home," in Ade's Forty modern fables. New York, R. H. Russell, 1901, p. 283-292. (Lilly PS1006 .A6 F7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of Mr. Crabb's Christmas. , 1924, Dec. 21 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 4 p. 36 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Dec. 21, 1924 revision of Mr. Payson's satirical Christmas

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Goodman, Jules Eckert, 1876-1948, physician. Inscription to Henry Pelouze de Forest. "Who knows more about Everything than most of us know about Anything." , 1924 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In black ink
  2. On front flyleaf of Goodman's Chains. New York: Brentano's, 1924 (Lilly PS3513 .O523 C43).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

Box 2
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author. Vorarlberg, Austria. To George Horace Lorimer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hopes he likes story on bull fighting. , 1925, Jan. 21 -

Physical Description: Facsimile of autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Box 2
White, George Derby, 1870-1939, editor, publisher. James T. White & Co., 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. To Richard John Ernst Scott. 494 Fourth Street, Brooklyn, New York. Sends information on a "little known parody of Tom Hood" derived from a poem by John Hamilton Reynolds. , 1925, Apr. 21 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Enclosure 1: Go, where the water glideth gently ever, by John Hamilton Reynolds, typescript document 1 p. 25.3 cm.
  2. Enclosure 2: Lines To A Lady, by Thomas Hood, typescript document 1 p. 27.7 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Book Department PN6110 .P3 Box 20, No. 11. 1983.

Box 2
Mencken, Henry Louis, 1880-1956, author, editor. The American Mercury 730 Fifth Avenue, New York. To George sterling, Bohemian Club, San Francisco, California. "Bierce article is excellent stuff..." , 1925, Apr. 22 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Warren Howell, 434 Post Street, San Francisco, California, 94102. 1972.

Box 2
Mencken, Henry Louis, 1880-1956, author, editor. New York. To Edna Johnson, Sapphire, North Carolina. Thanking her for note on his In defense of women. , 1925, Aug. 25 -

Physical Description: Letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Edna Johnson. 309 East 6th Street, Bloomington, Indiana. 1957.

Box 2
Guiterman, Alfred, 1871-1943, poet. 121 Madison Avenue, New York City. To George Frisbie Whicher. "I think that I shall put those pioneer ballads into a book next fall ... with a series of animal fables ... and a ... section relating to early American customs and scenes." , 1925, Oct. 20 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover and two valentines, 1827, 1936

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Harriet (Fox) Whicher. 272 Amity Street, Amherst, Massachusetts. 1967.

Box 2
Merrick, Leonard, 1864-1939, novelist. Hotel Marie Antoinette, Broadway & 67th Street, New York. To Minna Neuer, 160 Riverside Drive, New York City. "My daughter and I would be delighted to accept your extremely kind invitation, but we are dining with friends...your postscript was quite superfluous - I remembered perfectly." , 1925, Dec. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover
  2. Removed from Merrick, The Quaint Companions, New York, E. P. Dutton and Company, 1924 (Lilly PR6025 .E7 Q1 1924).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1975.

Box 2
Merrick, Leonard, 1864-1939, novelist. The American Mercury, 730 Fifth Avenue, New York. To George Sterling. "I suppose you have heard of my combat with the Comstocks in Boston ... Judge...has signed a permanent injunction ... from molesting The American Mercury." , 1926, Apr. 15 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Warren Howell, 434 Post Street, San Francisco, California, 94102. 1972.

Box 2
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958, author. Richmond, VA. To Mr. Colman. Reprint of The silver stallion. , 1926, May 1-

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Cabell's The silver stallion; a comedy of redemption... New York, Robert M. McBride & Co., 1926. (Lilly PS3505 .A14 S4).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1960.

Box 2
Kelly, George Edward, 1887-1974, playwright. To Dorothy De Jagers, 275 Madison Ave., New York City. Thanks her for "your very generous note regarding the character of Jennie Drake in 'The Weak Spot'" and briefly identifies his source. , 1926, May 27 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Kelly's The flattering word and other one act plays, Boston: Little, Brown, 1925. (Lilly PS3521 .E4192 F5).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1976.

Box 2
Rorty, James, 1890-1973, editor. New York City. To Powers Hapgood. c/o Alice Page Comverse, 109 East 56th Street, New York City. Is sending Roger Dataller's From a pitman's note book and requests a review for New Masses. , 1926, Jun. 8 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On New Masses letterhead
  2. Removed from Dataller's From a pitman's note book. New York: Lincoln Macveagh/The Dial Press, 1925 (Lilly HE3089 .M62 G75).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1990.

Box 2
Wylie, Elinor (Hoyt), 1887-1928, author. Dysart Hotel, Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, London, W., England. To Mrs. A. Hugh Fisher, Market Cottage, Prince's Risborough, Bucks, England. "I am sure you & your husband know how much Bill & I loved our week-end with you in Prince's Risborough, & how happy we both are to really know you at last." , 1926, Jun. 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover
  2. The letter is signed "Elinor Benet."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Herbert West, Box 82, Hanover, New Hampshire. 1967.

Box 2
Rorty, James, 1890-1973, editor. New York City. To Powers Hapgood. Gallitzen, Pa. Requests a review of RogerDataller's From a pitman's note book for New Masses and a general article about miners "somewhat along the line of Slim Martin's story of the iron workers..." , 1926, Jun. 17 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On New Masses letterhead
  2. Removed from Dataller's From a pitman's note book. New York: Lincoln Macveagh/The Dial Press, 1925 (Lilly HE3089 .M62 G75).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1990.

bound Bound
Grider, John McGavock, 1892-1918, aviator. Diary of the Unknown Aviator. , 1926, Jul. 6 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 305 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In light green binder
  2. Date derived from note below title: Corrected July 6
  3. Notes on cover read in part: File Copy; Copied in MGM Script Dept. 10/2/26; property of LOEW'S INCORPORATED
  4. Varies from published work in some details: e.g., omission of 5 lines on page 200 of ms. from page 175 of printed work; substitution of 2 lines on pages 176/7 of printed work for 2 other lines on page 201 of ms.
  5. Published as War Birds, Diary of an Unknown Aviator, edited by Elliott White Springs, New York, George H. Doran Company, 1926.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Collectors Book Store, Hollywood, Calif. 1981.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of the R. F. D. comeback. , 1926, Aug. 1 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 5 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Aug. 1, 1926.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of discovering the homeland. , 1926, Aug. 8 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 4 p. 36 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Aug. 8, 1926, under the title of "Discovering the homeland"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Harris, Frank, 1855-1931, author. American Express Co., 2, Rue du Congres, Nice (A.M.), France. To R.A. Caton, Hotel du Mont Revard, Mont Revard. "I had to wire to London for your address because you didn't put it on any letter or wire." , 1926, Aug. 17 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. G.F. Sims, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, England. 1974.

Box 2
Harris, Frank, 1855-1931, author. American Express Co., 2, Rue du Congres, Nice, A.M., France. To R. A. Caton, Hotel de Paris, Sallanchet, Haute Savoie, France. "The volume III or 'My Life' is finished...My novel 'Pantopia' is placed on an unknown island in the South Atlantic and contains statements of all the latest religious and scientific theories on life." , 1926, Aug. 24 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. G.F. Sims, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, England. 1974.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of the fresh fish. , 1926, Dec. 6 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 4 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Purchased in the Indianapolis Star, Sept. 12, 1926, under the title "Who's Who and Why?"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Ade. George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of talk about things in general. , 1926, Sept. 26 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 5 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Sept. 26, 1926, under the title "Talking about things in general."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Harris, Frank, 1855-1931, author. American Expres Co., 2, Rue du Congres, Nice A.M., France. To R.A. Caton Hotel Cloche, Dijon, France. "You ask me to deal with Gladstone 'properly'...What do you mean? Do you mean that I am...to leave the question of Gladstone's looseness untouched." , 1926, Oct. 8 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. G.F. Sims, Hurst, Reading, Berkshire, England. Date unknown.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of passing the buck. , 1926, Oct. 17 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 5 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Oct. 17, 1926, under the title "Just Why Couldn't Skid win?"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of soaring to the altitudes. , 1926, Dec. 5 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 5 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Dec. 5, 1926

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Christmas greeting from Edward Arlington Robinson , 1926
Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of finding out what's wrong. , 1927, Jan. 9 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 5 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by the first two pages of an earlier draft in pencil. A.D. 2 p. 28 cm.
  2. Published in the Indianapolis Star, Jan. 9, 1927, under the title "Finding out what's wrong."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Koch, Theodore Wesley, 1871-1941, librarian, author. Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois. To Ernest William Winkler, Librarian, University of Texas Library, Austin, Texas. Sending a copy of "Paroles d'Amerique" by Henry Berenger in accordance with the wishes of Edouard Champion that it be distributed to libraries. Champion plans to visit the United States in the summer of 1928. , 1927, Mar. 23 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Berenger, Paroles d'Amerique. Abbeville: Paillart, 1926 (Lilly E183.8 .F8 B48).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

Box 2
Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949, novelist. To Henry Belleman. "Returning the volume signed." , 1927, Apr. 2 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Allen's Wampum and old gold of younger poets. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1921. (Lilly PS3501 .L44 W3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1964.

Box 2
Howells, Mildred, 1872-1966, artist, writer. 46 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. To "Dear Mr. Hale." Requests permission to use a letter from his father to Mrs. Hale about a meeting with her father in the New York Central Station. , 1927, May 15 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 2 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Professor Ronald Gottesman, English Department, Livingston College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 08903. 1969.

bound Bound
Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958, author. The Theatre ... O'Neill's Finest Play. , 1927 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 32 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Enclosed in quarter green morocco slip-case
  2. Heavily corrected manuscript of Nathan's article about Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude for The Theatre in The American Mercury, Vol. XI, No. 44 (August 1927), pages 499-506
  3. Accompanied by the printed version in the above periodical

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Heritage Bookshop, Los Angeles, California. 1975.

Box 2
Crosby, Harry, 1898-1929, poet, publisher. Paris, XIX Rue de Lille. To "Dear sirs." "This little edition...is printed for a few friends and a few critics." , 1928, Jan. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 15.6 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Crosby, Harry, Chariot of the Sun. Paris, At the Sign of the Sundial, Cour du Soleil d'Or, 1928 (Lilly PS3505 .R87 C4 1928).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 2
Starrett, Vincent. To McDonald, Edward David. , 1928, Feb. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter 1 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 2
Manning, Rebecca Burnham, f. 1928, cousin of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Note on copy of Hawthorne's Fanshawe which bears the autograph of "R. Manning" in pencil. , 1928, Feb. -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a letter from George T. Goodspeed to Josiah Kirby Lilly, Aug. 24, 1928. Typescript letter signed 2 p. 28 cm.
  2. Removed from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe. Boston. March & Capen; Press of Putnam and Hunt, 1828. (Lilly PS1872 .F18).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Howells, Mildred, 1872-1966, artist, writer. 50 East 58th Street, New York. To "Dear Mr. Hale." Refers to her father's opinion of Emerson's poetry. , 1928, Mar. 2 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Professor Ronald Gottesman, English Department, Livingston College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 08903. 1969.

Box 2
Powel, Harford Willing Hare, 1887-1956, author. The Youth's Companion, Boston, Mass. To John Calvin Mellett, 213 Hume Mansur Bldg., Indianapolis, Indiana. Congratulates Mellett on his story "Soldier! Soldier!". Comments on his recent efforts to procure advertising for the periodical. , 1928, Apr. 27 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Pencilled note by Mellett: ans'd 4/30/28

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Edwin Cady, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1981.

Box 2
Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956, novelist. Socoa, B. P. France. "For Hugh Walpole. With the gratitude and long existing admiration of Bromfield." , 1928, Sept. -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Bromfield's The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg. London, Jonathan Cape, 30 Bedford Square, 1928. (Lilly PS3503 .R68 S8).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1971.

Box 2
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935, poet. 30 Ipswich Street, Boston, Massachusetts. To James R. Wells. Deals with royalties on Fortunatus. , 1928, Nov. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Robinson's Modred... New York... E. B. Hackett, The Brick Row Bookshop, Inc., 1929. (Lilly PS3535 .O2 M5 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Ade, George. Letters to Al Green. , 1928 -

Quantity: 15 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase.

box 22
Ade, George. Oversize menu inscribed to Al Green. , 1928 -

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author, and Harry Leon Wilson, 1867-1939, novelist. "Cameo Kirby." , 1929, Jan. 25 -

Physical Description: Typescript carbon document 169 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Play in four acts with directions for lighting and properties
  2. In faded blue paper cover, dated 1-25-29 and stamped: ...Return to 20th Century-Fox Story Dept. Files...
  3. For further information about other manuscripts of this unpublished play see: Russo and Sullivan, A Bibliography of Booth Tarkington, Indiana Historical Society, 1949 *Lilly PS3539 .Z47) pages 150, 153, and Currie, Booth Tarkington, A Bibliography, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1932 (Lilly PS3539 .A7 Z42) page 142

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Maury Neville. Santa Barbara, California. 1982.

Box 2
Mackaye, Percy, 1875-1956, dramatist, poet. Winter Park, Florida. To "Dear Mr. Peck." Refers to a request for a few copies of The Gobbler of God and Kentucky Mountain Fantasies. , 1929, Feb. 11 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from MacKaye's Uriel ... Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. (Lilly PS3525 .A25 U8).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

Box 2
Basshe, Emanuel Jo, 1899-1939, playwright. Rock Tavern, New York. To Montgomery Evans. 35 W. 9th Street, New York City. "Up here for good - at least until I finish my play." , 1929, Mar. 29 -

Physical Description: Autograph postcard signed 8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Emanuel Jo Basshe, Earth, New York: Macaulay Company, c1927 (Lilly PS3503 .A842 E12).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 2
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, poet. Harbert, Michigan. To Emanuel Hertz. States that the marked passages from the Du Bose Yancey are being copied and the book will be returned in a week or so along with a photograph. , 1929, Jun. 15 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil
  2. Accompanied by a page, 21.5 cm., which carries instructions in pencil by Sandburg for copying the passages
  3. Compare letter of Sandburg to Hertz, May 18, 1929, in The Letters of Carl Sandburg, ed. by Herbert Mitgang. (Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1968. PS3537 .A6 Z49 Main Library)
  4. Removed from John Witherspoon Du Bose, The life and times of William Lowndes Yancey... Birmingham, Ala., Roberts & Son, 1892 (Lilly E415.9 .Y2 D81).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1979.

Box 2
Basshe, Emanuel Jo, 1899-1939, playwright. To Montgomery Evans. "You're elected godfather. Bring the spoon when you come back...Will review your book at last in Nov. issue of New Masses." , 1928, Sept. 4 -

Physical Description: typescript letter 1 p. 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Addressed to "monty Utilitarian"
  2. Typed on blue paper with typed signature
  3. Mounted in Basshe, Earth, New York: Macaulay Company, c1927 (Lilly PS3503 .A842 E12 copy 1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 2
Rohlfs, Anna Katharine (Green), (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs), 1846-1935, author. Buffalo, N.Y. To Mr. Savage. Glad that he likes Agatha Webb. , 1929, Oct. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Rohlfs's The golden slipper... New York, G. P. Putnam, 1915. (Lilly PS2732 .G6).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1958.

Box 2
Mellett, John Calvin, 1888-1976, author. Bell Avenue at the Canal, Indianapolis. To Emma Norman, R.F.D. 1, Hartwell, Georgia. Appreciates her interest. Will send her a copy of his book "Jimmy Makes the Varsity." Comments on the writing of further Jimmy Byers stories. , 1929, Dec. 2 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frank N. Young, Biology Dept., Indiana University, Indiana. 1981.

Box 2
Norman, Emma, 1882-1981. Hartwell, Georgia, R.F.D.1. To John Calvin Mellett, Indianapolis. Expresses thanks for his letter and for the gift of the book. Suggests that he continue writing more of the Jimmy Byers stories; that she can "see that Jimmy's fine qualities...are but faint reflections of the author's own." , 1929, Dec. 5 -

Physical Description: Signed carbon 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Written verso of a form letter from a Georgia County Agent

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frank N. Young, Biology Dept., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1981.

Box 2
Moore, Merrill, 1903-1957, psychiatrist. The Boston City Hospital, Boston Massachusetts. To Charles A. Pearce. Speaks of his book TNTM (The Noise That Time Makes) and comments on the arrival of Allen Tate from Paris. , 1929, Dec. 29 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. The enclosures spoken of in the P. S. are not included

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. joseph the Provider, 1247 Chestnut Street, San Francisco. 1974.

Box 2
Photograph of Nicholas Vachel Lindsay with his wife, Elizabeth (Conner) Lindsay, and children Susan Doniphan and Nicholas Cave Lindsay. , 1929 -

Quantity: 20 x 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Made at the Herbert Georg Studio, Springfield, Illinois
  2. Accompanied by a printed Christmas card for 1929 and an enclosure card for Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Book Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University. 1978.

Box 2
Jeffers, Robinson to Mr. Hale , 1 February 1930
Box 2
Mellett, John Calvin, 1888-1976, author. Bell Avenue at the Canal, Indianapolis. To James William Norman, Dean, Teachers College, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Comments on the letter he had received from Norman's sister Emma, and mentions his new novel, INK. , 1930, May 21 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frank N. Young, Biology Dept., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1981.

Box 2
Norris, Charles Gilman, 1881-1945, author. 1247 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, California. To Harvey Taylor. "Let me congratulate you on the compilation of what seems to me to be the best bibliography of my brother's writings that has been made." , 1930, Oct. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Frank Norris. Frank Norris: two poems and "Kim" reviewed. With a bibliography by Harvey Taylor. Harvey Taylor, San Francisco, 1930 (Lilly PS2472 .F83).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1975.

Box 2
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, 1876-1963, philologist. 847 Memorial Quadrangle, New Haven, Connecticut. To Mr. Murdock. Refers to Heath's engraving of Reynolds Johnson and a portrait of Boswell. , 1930, Nov. 9 -

Physical Description: Typescript 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962, author. To Edith Rachelle Greenberg [i.e. (Greenburg) Albee]. "Enclosed are the sheets which contained major errors. The proof was quite clean..." , 1930 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Refers to the proof of As I Lay Dying
  2. Albee was copy editor at Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith for the book
  3. Published in Selected Letters of William Faulkner, Joseph Blotner, ed. New York: Random House, 1976, p. 48 (Main PS3511 .A9 Z5113 1977)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Edith (Greenburg) Albee, Bloomington, Indiana, 47401. 1986.

Box 2
Johnson, Malcolm, 1902-1958, publisher. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Incorporated, Garden City, N.Y. To John Calvin Mellett, Bell Avenue and the Canal, Indianapolis, Ind. Johnson remembers "SOLDIER! SOLDIER! - the football story with the lump in the throat," but does not know how well it would sell. Says that the advertising firm that Hartford [Powel] was with has merged with a Boston agency. , 1931, Mar. 16 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Pencilled note by Mellett: Mailed with letter to Miss Massee 3/18/31

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Edwin Cady, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1981.

Box 2
Angle, Paul McClelland, 1900-?, historian. Springfield, Ill. To George Philip, Hambrecht, Madison, Wisconsin. His opinion of Edgar Lee Masters' Lincoln the man. , 1931, Mar. 24 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Edgar Lee Masters' Lincoln the man. New York, Dscopecontent Mead, 1931. (Lilly E457 .M41).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1957.

bound Bound
O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone, 1888-1953, playwright. To Carlotta: inscription to final longhand script, "Mourning becomes Electra." , 1931, Apr. 23 -

Physical Description: Facsimile autograph document signed 1 p. 42 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Framed
  2. No. 42 of 50 copies reproduced in facsimile. Inscription on verso: "To...Keith Baker from 'Carlotta'" Mrs. Carlotta (Monterey) O'Neill

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Keith Baker, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1957.

Box 2
Photograph of Waldo Hilary Dunn, inscribed: Waldo H. Dunn April 25, 1931 to Paul S. Seybolt 5 March 1949. , 1931, Apr. 25 -

Physical Description: Photograph signed 11.6 x 8.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Dunn, The Vanished Empire, Cincinnati, The R. Clarke Company, 1904 (Lilly PS3507 .U645 V25).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1983.

Box 2
Prince, Clara Catherine. To Melvin, Harold Wesley. , 1931, Jul. 14 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter 1 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Lilly PN2 .A58 v. 13 no. 6

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 2
Jackson, Charles Bcon, 1876-1934, cartoonist. Story about the Roger Bean family. , 1931, Aug. 3 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 16 p. 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover
  2. In pencil

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From Pauline Marshall, Retail Food Advertising Dept., The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1967.

Box 2
DuBois, Mrs. Augusta Packard, author. Pasadena Star-News, Corner Colorado Street and Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, California. To Goodspeed's Book Shop, no. 7 Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachusetts. Refers to letters she had received from Oliver Wendell Holmes and the influence they had on her work. , 1932, Feb. 25 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In the lower left hand corner of the letter is another address "86 N. Catalina Ave. Pasadena, California."
  2. Removed from The mariner's library or voyager's companion... Boston, Lilly, Wait, Colman and Holden, 1833. (Lilly PS1959 .O44).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Laughlin, Clara Elizabeth, 1873-1941, novelist. The Clara Laughlin Travel Service, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. To Harriet Day (Eitel) Johnson, 1232 North Alabama Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. Concerns personal matters. , 1932, Oct. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Laughlin's The death of Lincoln. New York, Doubleday Page & Company, 1909. (Lilly E457.5 .L374).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1967.

Box 2
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935, poet. Room 411, 30 Ipswich Street, Boston, Massachusetts. To E. E. Ennequist. Relates to the printing of The Torrent. , 1932, Oct. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Robinson's The Torrent... Gardiner, Maine, Printed for the author, 1896. (Lilly PS3535 .O2 T6).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Warfel, Harry Redclay, 1899-?, educator. Bucknell University, Department of English, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. To Carroll Atwood Wilson, Esq., Room 3515, 120 Broadway, New York, New York. Letter of appreciation for the privilege of copying the manuscripts of Noah Webster. Comments on the dictionaries of Webster and Samuel Johnson and the contents of the Webster letters. , 1933, Apr. 26 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 4 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Noah Webster, An American dictionary of the English language... New York, published by S. Converse, printed by Hezekiah Howe-New Haven, 1828 (Lilly PE1625 .W38).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1971.

Box 2
Lee, Lawrence, 1903-?, poet. University, Virginia. To David Anton Randall. Two copies of A hawk from Cuckoo tavern available. , 1933, Jul. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on front fly-leaf of Lee's Summer goes on... New York, Scribner's, 1933. (Lilly PS3523 .E334 S9).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1957.

Box 2
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962, author. Oxford, Mississippi. To Sam Marx, M.G.M. Studio, Culver City, California. Contracts for Honor and War Story; will studio pay for rights to use Honor, Ad astra and All the dead pilots; how Tod is coming with Louisian Lou. , 1933, Jul. 19 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed: Bill Faulkner

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Keith Baker, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1957.

Box 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963, poet. South Shaftsbury, Vt. To David Anton Randall, New York, N.Y. Frost's Twilight. , 1933, Aug. 22 -

Physical Description: Photostat autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Original in possession of Daniel Maggin, Jan. 12, 1962
  2. Accompanied by Maggin, Daniel. To David Anton RAndall, Jan. 8, 1962. Typescript letter signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

bound Bound
Lee, Lawrence, 1903-?, poet. Summer goes on. , 1933 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 57 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In slipcase
  2. Lacks half-title, copyright notice and dedication
  3. "The Vassar walks" contains in pencil an additional stanza omitted in printed version
  4. Notes in pencil in Lee's hand on "For a poet growing old" and "Lines to a dead lady."
  5. Published under same title: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. (Lilly PS3523 .E334 S9).
  6. Accompanied by copies in pencil of the poems, "Green stockings," (A.D.S. 1 p. 20 cm.), and "To a native state," (A.D.S. 1 p. 20 cm.).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1962.

Box 2
Long, Haniel, 1888-1956, author. Atlantides... poems by Haniel Long. , 1933 -

Physical Description: Typescript document (carbon) 51 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published under same title, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Writers' editions, c. 1933.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Haniel Long, Box 952, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1954.

Box 2
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1869-1950, author. "And the rigamarole of turning bread into flesh" [first line]. , 1933? -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil
  2. Draft of p.69, line 20 through p.70, line 20 of the published version of "The Serpent in the wilderness"
  3. Pasted in before title page of Masters, The Serpent in the wilderness. New York: Sheldon Dick, 1933.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

Box 2
Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968, author. New York, N.Y. To David Anton Randall, New York, N.Y. Sending a "Willa Cather paragraph;" thanks for copy of William McFee's The reflections of Marsyas (Gaylordsville, James Ray Wells, 1933). , 1934, Feb. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. 1957.

Box 2
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935, poet. New York, N.Y. To David Anton Randall, New York, N.Y. Thanks for copy of William McFee's The reflections of Marsyas (Gaylordsville, James Ray Wells, 1933); returning copy of Captain Craig. , 1934, Mar. 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. 1957.

Box 2
Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937, bibliographer. The New York Public Library, ... New York. To David Anton Randall, 480 Lexington Avenue, New York City. Refers to variations in some copies of Franklin's Works. , 1934, Sept. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin... New York, Printed by Tiebout & Obriam ... 1794. (Lilly PS745 .A2 1794).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

Box 2
Lincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944, novelist, humorist. Ashwood Road, Villa Nova, Pennsylvania. To Harry H. Lichtig, Lichtig & Englander, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California. Deals with movie rights of Lincoln's novels. , 1934, Dec. 14 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Nathan, Robert, 1894-1985, novelist. 1111 Park Avenue, New York City. To Mr. Cohen. "Apropos of the final colophon on Road of Ages--my own copy ... has the four line colophon crediting the paper to Glatfelter." , 1935, Jan. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Lincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944, novelist, humorist. Virginia Inn, Winter Park, Florida. To Harry H. Lichtig, Lichtig & Englander, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California. Deals with movie rights of Lincoln's novels. , 1935, Feb. 6 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Allen, Hervey, 1889-1949, writer. "Bonfield," Oxford, Talbot Co., MD. To Colonel Nathan N. Wallack, Washington, D.C. First edition of Israfel; printings of "The blindman." , 1935, Jul. 28 -

Physical Description: Letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Provenance unknown. 1949.

Box 2
Marquis, Don, 1878-1937, author. Point Loma, Cal. To Fritz Leiber, Hollywood, Cal. Texas; will return poems; wedding. , 1935, Aug. 28 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 3 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Mrs. Fritz Leiber, 542 Frontera Drive, Pacific Palisades, California. 1961.

Box 2
Laughlin, Clara Elizabeth, 1873-1941, novelist. The Clara Laughlin Travel Service, 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. To Harriet Day (Eitel) Johnson, 1232 North Alabama Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. Refers to personal matters. , 1935, Oct. 31 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Laughlin's The death of Lincoln. New York, Doubleday Page & Company, 1909. (Lilly E457.5 .L374).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1967.

bound Bound
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1869-1950, poet. New York, New York. To A.B. Shiffin. History of the original ms. of Spoon River Anthology. , 1935, Dec. 10 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by the ms. of Spoon River Anthology; and a bill of sale for the ms. dated Dec. 10, 1935.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Bound Vault 2
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1869-1950, poet. Spoon River Anthology. , 1935 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 278 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Except for one poem, "Mary Jane," page 75 of the ms., published, Masters, Edgar Lee, Spoon River Anthology, New York, Macmillan, 1915. (Lilly PS 3525 .A83 S69).
  2. Accompanied by a letter from Edgar Lee Masters to A.B. Shiffin, Dec. 10, 1935; and a bill of sale for this ms. dated Dec. 10, 1935.
  3. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Ballard, Ellis Ames, 1861-1938, lawyer. Boca-Raton-Club, Boca Raton, Florida. To Carroll Atwood Wilson. Thanks Wilson for a nice letter, and states "...as for the Times it thrills me especially as it comes from you." , 1936, Jan. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Letter in Ballard's hand, but signature indecipherable. Compare Ballard's hand to presentation page of Catalogue intimate..., copy no. 26
  2. Removed from Ballard, Catalogue intimate... Philadelphia, Priv. Print., 1935 (Lilly PR4856 .A4 B18).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

Box 2
Zanft, John, 1883?-1960, theater manager. 9792 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California. To Arthur Freed, 717 North Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif. "This is the story that you wanted. Let me know what you think of it." , 1936, Mar. 31 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by The Fair Co-Ed by George Ade, 1866-1944, author. Typescript document 93 p. 28 cm.
  2. Paper cover
  3. File copy No. 4027x of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, California
  4. Copied in Scripts Dept. June 25, 1926
  5. Cover pages for Acts II and III bear the note: Revised Dialogue, March 9, 1909
  6. Book was copyrighted November 16, 1908, and produced by the Harlequin Club at Purdue University in 1908 (Russo, pages 73-76)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. International Bookfinders, Inc., Pacific Palisades, California. 1976.

Box 2
Lincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944, novelist, humorist. "The Crosstrees," Chatham, Massachusetts. To Lichtig & Englander, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California. Refers to the motion picture of Doctor Nye. , 1936, Jul. 3 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, poet. Songs after sunset. , 1936, Jul. 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 20 p. 18.6 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In blue wrappers tied with red strings
  2. Inside front cover inscribed: Hope you like them, Ima Twin, Despite their slightness! -- Gwendolyn --
  3. Illustrated title page in blue ink
  4. Dedicated: For Lemuel H. Randolph...
  5. Contents: Another girl; Continuity; Braver than they think; Nothing matters; Past; People; Relief; Province; This present dark; Always; Do not pull her hands away; Eternal; We; Lesson; All of my works will die; It is the same; Need; Crippled; For Lemuel H. Randolph; Not in the face of failure; Now every hour; Let them laugh at me!; Darling; Alteration; "Keep faith"; Mouse; You say, I am in love; Change; Cat and Poplar; Familiar
  6. Each poem dated with day of the week and date of composition.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Joseph the Provider. 903 State St. Santa Barbara, California. 93101. Date unknown.

Box 2
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972, author. Brooklyn, N.Y. To James Laughlin. New directions in prose and poetry; "The white mule." , 1936, Nov. 11 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by Laughlin James. To Henry Rago, Oct. 15, 1961. Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.
  2. Removed from New directions in prose and poetry... Norfolk, Connecticut, New directions, 1936. (Lilly PS536 .N37).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1962.

Box 2
Tarkington, Susanah (Keifer) Robinson, 1871-1966. 4270 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. To Robley Stevens. A photograph will be sent "within the next few days." , 1937, Apr. 5 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by an autographed photograph of Booth Tarkington

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947, author, diplomat. Caracas, Venezuela. To David Laurance Chambers. Refers to recent activities in Venezuela during Nicholson's Ministry; mentions copies of Old Familiar Faces... "I'd like to put a copy in the Crawfordsville Indiana City Library and one in the Wabash College Library." , 1937, May 31 -

Physical Description: Autograph leter signed 3 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Addressed "Dear Larry"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office. 1975.

Box 2
Still, James, 1906-2001, author. Blowing Rock, North Carolina. To Harry W. Zollars, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania. Tells him he will be glad to inscribe a copy of Hounds on the mountain. One of his stories has been chosen for the O. Henry Memorial Prize Stories, 1937. , 1937, Jul. 7 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover
  2. Removed from Still's River of earth. New York: the Viking Press, 1940. (Lilly PS3537 .T537 R62).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

Box 2
Still, James, 1906-2001, author. Hindeman Settlement School, Hindeman, Kentucky. To Harry W. Zollars, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania."Books being returned by this mail." Thanks him for the picture of himself. , 1937, Sept. 15 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 8.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover
  2. Removed from Still's River of earth. New York: The Viking Press, 1940. (Lilly PS3537 .T537 R62).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

Box 2
Sullivan, Reginald Hall, 1876-1980, mayor of Indianapolis. To Arthur C. Downing, Greenfield, Indiana. Comments on the friendship of James Whitcomb Riley with Harry Kahn of the National Furniture Company of Indianapolis and of Noblesville. , 1937, Oct. 5 -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope from Sullivan to Harry Kohn, Oct. 5, 1937.
  2. Removed from Riley Sings of Friendship (Lilly PS2704 .S2 1915 copy 2)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1995.

Box 2
Tarkington, Susanah (Keifer) Robinson, 1871-1966. Seawood, Kennebunkport, Maine. To Harold C. Holmes. 320 Pershing Drive, El Mirador, Oakland, California. Refers to memorial volume issued by Booth Tarkington's mother. , 1937, Oct. 29 -

Physical Description: Document 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Elizabeth (Booth) Tarkington, Newton Booth. San Francisco. Privately printed, 1892. (Lilly PS3539 .A7 N56).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963, poet. Amherst, Mass. To John Hall, Wheelock. Preface for Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome. , 1937, Nov. 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. 1962.

Box 2
Sinclair, Upton Beall, 1878-1968, novelist. Station A, Pasadena, California. To Raginald [sic] Arthur Reynolds, 15 Cranleigh Houses, Cranleigh Street, London N.W. 1. "I am busy on a book of my own...and I cannot offer to do any for your book...my impression is that Giovanniti's poem was written in prison...". , 1938, Mar. 2 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bears additional notes concerning correspondence by Reynolds

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. G.F. Sims, Alicante, Spain. 1977.

Box 2
McCloy, Elizabeth J. To Tinker, Edward L. About Robinson Jeffers. , 1938, Apr. 6 -

Quantity: 1 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Lawrence Clark Powell, Robinson Jeffers... Los Angeles, Primavera Press, 1934 (Lilly PS3519 .E27 Z76 1934)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1981.

Box 2
Sinclair, Upton Beall, 1878-1968, novelist. Station A, Pasadena, California. To Reginald Arthur Reynolds, Esq., London. "I have a poem called "The Menagerie"...which was actually written in prison." , 1938, May 4 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 14 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. G.F. Sims, Alicante, Spain. 1977.

Box 2
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. [Inscription to Herbert L. jones in which he notes that] "this was my first attempt at writing for the stage" [and other production details of 1902 and later]. , 1938, Jul. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 17.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In ink
  2. Removed from Ade, The Sultan of Sulu. New York, R. H. Russell, 1903 (Lilly PS1006 .A6 S9 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1981.

bound Bound
Odets, Clifford. Rocket to the Moon, first draft of play script. , 1938, Jul. 27 -

Physical Description: Typescript with holograph revisions 80 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Includes autograh letter signed from Odets to Mr. Roeder dated January 3, 1939

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. Robert Casel. 2000.

Box 2
O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone, 1888-1953, playwright. Danville, California. To Keith Baker, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Does not inscribe any books but his own "or, rarely, books written about my work." , 1938, Dec. 16 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Keith Baker, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1957.

bound Bound
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961, editor. The classic life of Thoreau. , 1938 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 606 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. This is the first revision of a rough first draft, destroyed in rewriting.
  2. In pencil and ink
  3. Differs considerably from the first typewritten draft
  4. In blue protective case
  5. Accompanied by first typewritten draft with corrections and additions in the author's hand. Typescript document 715 p. 28 cm.
  6. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984, auhtor. [Inscription] To Grover Burgess. "'All decisions in this court will be made by me--.'" Spoon River Anthology. , 1939, May 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 20.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In black ink
  2. On front flyleaf of Shaw, The Gentle people: A Brooklyn fable. New York: Random House, 1939. (Lilly PS3537 .H58 G33).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

Box 2
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, author. 9 Ridge Road, Rutherford, New Jersey. To Max Eastman. "...your letter asking permission to use my poem 'Flowers by the Sea' in your new anthology ... I shall expect to be recompensed on the same basis - the same minimal basis! ..." , 1939, May 30 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Williams, The Complete Collected Poems, 1906-1938, Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, 1938 (Lilly PS3545 .I525 A17 1938).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1975.

Box 2
Dreiser, Theodore. To Heinl, Robert Debs. About J. K. Lilly. , 1939, Jun. 30-Jul. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph and typescript letters signed 2 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1981

Box 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, novelist. 1426 North Hayworth, Hollywood, California. To Josiah Kirby Lilly, The Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, Inc., 71 East 57th Street, New York, New York. Concerns the Boris Chaliapin portrait. "I learn of your plan for a gallery of Indiana writers at Indianapolis...It is a note in connection with the history and devleopment of Indiana which is important as well as artistic." , 1939, Aug. 15 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961, editor. The Saturday Review of Literature, 420 Madison Avenue, New York City. To Louis Bromfield, Spanish Intellectual Aid, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City. "I shall be very glad to donate the manuscript of my THOREAU." , 1939, Nov. 1 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961, editor. Clinton. To "Dear Mr. Brooks" "I am sending the long hand ms. of Thoreau today by express." , 1939, Nov. 4 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, novelist. 1426 North Hayworth, Hollywood, California. To G. R. Gabriel, Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, Inc., 71 East 57th Street, New York, New York. Refers to a portrait of Dreiser by Chaliapin. , 1939, Nov. 8 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Still, James, 1906-?, author. Littcarr, Kentucky. To Harry W. Zollars, 523 Broad Avenue, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania. "Yes, I shall be glad to autograph your R.O.E. [ River of Earth. ] , 1940, Mar. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph postcard signed 1 p. 8.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Still's River of Earth. New York: The Viking Press, 1940. (Lilly PS3537 .T537 R62).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

folio Folio
Perley, Maie E. (Clements), 1901-?, author. Without my Gloves. , 1940 -

Physical Description: Typescript document 287 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Typescript with holograph corrections
  2. Printer's copy with slight variations from the published version, Philadelphia, Dorrance and Company, 1940. (Lilly E168 .P45).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Maie E. (Clements) Perley, 507 Country Lane, Louisville, Kentucky. 1965.

Box 2
Terrell, Mary Eliza (Church), 1863-1954, lecturer, author. 1615 S St. N.W., Washington, D.C. To Clarence Augustus Vincent. "Thank you a thousand times for the order for my book...It hardly seems possible that you have worked fifty-three years...I have not been able to keep in touch with the classmates..." , 1941, Apr. 25 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Terrell, A Colored Woman in a White World. Ransdell Inc., Washington, D.C., 1940 (E185.97 .T37 Main Library) inscribed to the Rev. Clarence Augustus Vincent "with happy recollections of the Class of '84."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 2
Adams, Franklin Pierce, 1881-1960, journalist, poet. R.D.2, Westport, Connecticut. To Jacob Nathaniel Blanck. Refers to his introduction to Blanck's bibliography of Harry Castlemon's stories. , 1941, Nov. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Envelope missing
  2. Accompanied by Adams' holograph introduction to the Castlemon bibliography. Autograph document signed 4 p. 28 cm.
  3. Also accompanied by Adams' final typed draft of the introduction with the title "Et Ego..." Typescript document signed 2 p. 28 cm.
  4. Also accompanied by letter of Jacob Nathaniel Blanck, The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., to Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana, December 1, 1941. Enclosed a copy of the Adams' letter of Nov. 30, 1941, and a copy of the Adams' introduction.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Stout, Rex Todhunter, 1886-1975, author. High Meadow, Brewster, New York. To Vincent Starrett. "Here's that list of ten. Naturally nobody on earth would agree with it, which is what makes democracy the only possible way for men and women to get along." , 1942, Mar. 31 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Stout, The Silent Speaker, New York, The Viking Press, 1946 (Lilly PS3537 .T733 S58).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 2
Nin, Anais, 1903-1977, author. To Herbert Faulkner, West, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. ..."the Winter of Artifice...is a revised edition, all hand set by myself." , 1942, Apr. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph card signed 8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Anais Nin, Under a Glass Bell, New York, Gemor Press, 1944 (Lilly PS3527 .I56 U5 1944).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1973.

Box 2
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972, critic. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. To Peggy Wood. "Thank you very much for the Scott Fitzgerald letter, which I...am returning...It was a pleasure to see you in Blithe Spirit... " , 1942, May 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. The Fitzgerald letter is catalogued in American Literature mss., no date

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Black Sun Books, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1973.

Box 2
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982, poet, librarian of Congress, asst. sec. of state. Washington, D.C. To Cecil Kash Byrd, Indiana University library, Bloomington, Ind. Acknowledging receipt by the Library of Congress of a copy of Dr. Byrd's "Lincolniana" (1942). , 1943, Apr. 17 -

Physical Description: Postcard signed 1 p. 8 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Cecil K. Byrd, Indiana University Library, Bloomington, Indiana. 1947.

Box 2
Stout, Rex Todhunter, 1886-1975, author. Writers' War Board, 122 East 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. To Vincent Starrett, c/o The Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill. "You certainly did me proud in your piece in the June 13th Tribune. I am going around smirking from ear to ear." , 1943, Jun. 25 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Stout, The Silent Speaker, New York, The Viking Press, 1946 (Lilly PS3537 .T733 S58).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. Statement in regard to the publication of his "In the borderland." , 1943, Jul. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil
  2. "In the borderland" was published anonymously in Life, XXV:213, April 4, 1895.
  3. Removed from Life, XXV, no. 640, Apr. 4, 1895. (Lilly PS3539 .A7 I5).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1961.

Box 2
Frost, Robert. "The Pasture." To Joyce Moore Gouwens. , 1943 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by "Robert Frost at Indiana University in 1943" by Joyce Moore Gouwens
  2. Also accompanied by biographical information on Joyce's father, John Robert Moore, a Professor of English at Indiana University

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Joyce Moore Gouwens. Date unknown.

Box 2
Miller, Arthur. "The Diary of Arthur Miller" screenplay. , 1943-

Physical Description: Typescript 139 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 2
Werfel, Franz V., 1890-1945, writer. "Jacobowsky and the colonel." Original play by Franz Werfel; American play based on the same by S.N. Behrman. , 1944, Feb. 26 -

Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) document 130 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. With red wrapper: "From Brandt & Brandt Dramatic Dept., Inc., 101 Park Avenue, New York"
  2. Original play titled Jacobowsky und der Oberst; Komodie einer Tragodie in drei Akten. Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1944 (Lilly PT2647 .E77 J17).
  3. Behrman version published by Random House, 1944
  4. Two typescripts of Behrman version, one dated Feb. 26, 1944, held by New York Public Library

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Serendipity Books, Berkeley, California. 1982.

Box 2
Tarkington, Susanah (Keifer) Robinson, 1871-1966. Seawood, Kennebunkport, Maine. To PFC Robert Alfred Jump Wilson. Co. A., 271st Infantry, APO 417, Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Mr. Tarkington has asked her to say that since the book "Clare Ambler" was sent to Indianapolis, it may not have been delivered because the house has been closed all summer. , 1944, Aug. 31 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17.8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope
  2. Also accompanied by picture postcard of the Tarkington home at Kennebunkport with the further message: We shall be here (D.V.) until November
  3. Also accompanied by Wilson letter to William rea Cagle, Mar. 29, 1983, typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm., giving the background of the Tarkington letter

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Robert Wilson, Phoenix Book Shop, Inc., 22 Jones Street, New York, New York, 10014. 1983.

Box 2
Hickey, Elmer J., head of monotype composition department, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, Illinois. To Dorothy R. Russo: a poem. , 1944, Nov. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 3 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Wilder, Thornton Niven, 1897-1975, author. HQ MAAF APO 650 U.S. Army. To John Stevens Sweet. HQ Det G-3 ETOUSA APO 887 U.S. Army. Sweet has appeared in a production of Our Town. "...it appears that you have an authentic endowment for the stage...I look forward to writing a number of plays calling for resolute strong and large-minded men and I don't see where I'll find them..." , 1945, Jan. 16 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope and a letter from John Stevens Sweet to Josiah Quincy Bennett, 1913-1991, bookman, 24 Nov 1974 about the presentation of the Wilder letter to the Lilly Library

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. John Stevens Sweet, 134 Granite Springs, Yorktown, New York, 10598. 1974.

Box 2
McCutcheon, John Tinney, 1870-1949, cartoonist. Treasure Island, Nassau, Bahamas. To Dorothy Russo. Related to McCutcheon's book, The Island Song Book. , 1945, Mar. 31 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 13 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 2
Johnson, Malcolm M. et al. To Mrs. Ernie Pyle. Offers sympathy from "Seventh Division on Okinawa." , 1945, Apr. 19 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signatories include Malcolm M. Johnson, Richard R. Beck, Alvin S. McCoy, W. Eugene Smith, George Burns Yank, [illegible], Bill Reed, Paige Abbott, Gene Sherman, Harold B. Smith, and Bob Mitchell

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer. Journalism Library. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47401. Date unknown.

Box 2
Cain, James Mallahan, 1892-1977, novelist. The 49'ers. , 1945, May 16-1946, May 6 -

Physical Description: Typescript carbon document 341 p. (3 drafts) 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. A play in three acts, centered around '49, a smart restaurant in mid-town New York
  2. Contents: 1) n.d. 111 p. in brown paper cover, with rpovenance note in pencil: James M. Cain's apt via Larry McMurray. 2) 1945, May 16. Revised version, 115 p. in yellow paper cover. 3) 1946, May 6. Revised version, 115 p. in blue paper cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Serendipity Books. Berkeley, California. 1982.

Box 3
Tate, Allen, 1899-1979, poet. To Robert Lowell. "I have so much poetry on hand that I am in a terrible jam with it... but I admire them very much, particularly WINTER IN DUNBARTON, THE EXILE'S RETURN, and MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER." , 1945, Aug. 1 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Letter addressed to Cal on letterhead of The Sewanee Review
  2. Enclosures lacking
  3. Removed from Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle. New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Co. (Lilly PS3523 .O92 L8 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1975.

box 10
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950, poet. Envelope addressed to Dorothy Dow, 232 East [Walter?] Place, Chicago, Illinois. , 1945, Sept. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph envelope 9.2 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil
  2. Return address: Selwyn Hotel, Charlotte, N.C.
  3. Three cent "Win the war" stmap
  4. No letter
  5. Removed from Edgar Lee Masters, The New Star Chamber, 1904 (Lilly E713 .M42)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1980.

Box 3
Tudor, Tasha, 1915-?, illustrator, author. Route 1, Contoocook, New Hampshire. To Lieutenant Bernard M. Meeks, U.S.N.R., 2814 Key Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia. "As soon as the drawing from 'Snow Before Christmas' is returned I will send it to you...you evidently do not see my work as I do, full of flaws which I long to overcome." , 1945, Nov. 15 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Gray paper by Cranes
  2. Accompanied by envelope for above letter
  3. Also accompanied by printed Christmas card by and from Tasha Tudor, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Meeks, 1016 North Jefferson Street, Arlington, Virginia, with envelope dated Dec. 21, 1949

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Justin G. Schiller, New York City. 1973.

Box 3
Thayer, Tiffany Ellsworth, 1902-1959, author, actor. The Forteen Society, Box 192, Grand Central Annex, New York City, 17. Notice to Members. To Nathan N. Wallack, 409 Eleventh Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. "Please visit Ezra Pound, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C." , 1946, Jan. 13 -

Physical Description: Typescript card, partly printed 1 p. 9 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Lustra of Ezra Pound, privately printed, No. 153 1916 (Lilly PS5351 .O82 L9 1916).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1970.

Box 3
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965, poet. Ezra Pound. , 1946, Apr. 16 -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 8 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in Poetry: a magazine of verse, LXVIII: 326-338, September 1946

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Arthur S. Bowes, 209 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois. 1961.

Box 3
Hillyer, Robert Silliman, 1895-1961, poet. Old Greenwich, Connecticut. To Geneva Hitchcock Warner, Bloomington, Indiana. Thanks for photographs. , 1946, Aug. 19 -

Physical Description: Letter signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by the following explanatory letters: 1) Reed, Doris Mary. To Frederick Hill Meserve, July 19, 1946 (copy); 2&3) Meserve, Frederick Hill. To Doris Mary Reed, July 23, 29, 1946; 4) Warner, Geneva Hitchcock. To Robert Silliman Hillyer, Aug. 9, 1946 (copy).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from the correspondence file of the Rare Book Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1958.

Box 3
Wyne, Ruth Geraldine, 1927-?, student at Indiana University. Pencil sketch of Theodore Dreiser. , 1946, Sept. -

Physical Description: Document signed 1 p. 29 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Based on portrait in True Confessions, May 1946, p. 25

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Ruth Geraldine Wyne, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1946.

Box 3
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965, poet. 41 Kirkland Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. To Professor Horst Frenz, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Regrets that he cannot speak at Indiana University and Notre Dame since this is a time of personal bereavement and his "attention will be fully occupied by private affairs." , 1947, May 15 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 26.6 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Evenlyn Frenz, Bloomington, Indiana. 1983.

Box 3
Farrell, James Thomas, 1904-1979, author. To Albert Votew. Appointment in Chicago. , 1947, Jun. 26 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Farrell's A world I never made. New York, Vanguard Press, c. 1936. (lilly PS3511 .A73 W92).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1964.

bound Bound
Hemingway, Ernes, 1899-1961, author. My old man: radio script for the English section of the series, Radioteatro de America. , 1947, Jul. 3 -

Physical Description: Multigraphed 27 i.e. 28 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Extra page numbered 194

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Philip C. Duschnes, 757 Madison Avenue, New York, New York. 1959.

bound Bound
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author. The undefeated: radio script for the series, Radioteatro de America. , 1947, Jul. 15 -

Physical Description: Multigraphed 26 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Philip C. Duschnes, 757 Madison Avenue, New York, New York. 1959.

Box 3
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, poet, biographer, Bloomington, Ind. To Charles Ray Wilson, Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. Pencil draft of telegram reading: "arriving Utica New York Central train 38 due eleven Thursday morning." , 1947, Aug. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph telegram signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Written in Department of Special Collections, Indiana University. Mr. Sandburg had come to Bloomington to deliver a Convocation Address at the University on the evening of Aug. 5, 1947.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Department of Special Collections, Indiana University. 1947.

Box 3
Pond, James B. (b. 1889). Drafts, notes, and timelines for a biography of Mark Twain by James B. Pond , 1947

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2007. Howard S. Mott.

Box 3
Pond, James B. "Mark Twain's Other Profession." , 1947 -

Physical Description: Typescript

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 3
Dunn, Waldo Hilary, 1882-1959, professor, author. Department of English, Scripps College, Claremont, California. To Paul Spencer Seybolt, West Medford, Massachusetts. Will try to find a copy of his book The Vanished Empire for Seybolt, "published just forty-four years ago this month: on the 28th, to be exact." , 1948, Apr. 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Note at top: Always address me at 825 College Avenue
  2. Accompanied by envelope
  3. Removed from Dunn, The Vanished Empire, Cincinnati, The R. Clarke Company, 1904 (lilly PS3507 .U645 V25).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1983.

Box 3
Dunn, Waldo Hilary, 1882-1969, professor, author. 825 College Avneue, Claremont, California. To Paul Spencer Seybolt. Has read with "great interest" the notice of Seybolt's First Books. Comments on the work of Frank A. Hildebrand as an "inspiring trainer of prospective teachers" at the College of Wooster and gives his widow's address at Washington, Pennsylvania. Inquires about a copy of Walter Blackburn Harte's Meditations in Motley. , 1948, Jul. 13 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 18.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a clipping about The Vanished Empire by Dunn from "Scroll" of Phi Delta Theta, June 1955
  2. Removed from Dunn, The Vanished Empire, Cincinnati, The R. Clarke Company, 1904 (Lilly PS3507 .U645 V25).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1983.

Box 3
Hitz, Benjamin Dickson, 1890-1949, businessman. 120 South Alabama Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. To "Dear John." Quotes from E. K. Brown's letter concerning the Wieners of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Brown stated the Rosens in "Old Mrs. Harris" were from the Wiener model. , 1949, Feb. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Willa Sibert Cather's The troll garden, New York, McClure, Phillips, 1905. (Lilly PS3505 .A8 T8).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. , Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 3
Stuart, Jesse, 1907-1984, author. Riverton, Kentucky. To Harold D. Trevillian. Stuart's Tales from the Plum Grove Hills. , 1949, Mar. 5 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscription on front flyleaf of Stuart's Tales from the Plum Grove Hills. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1946. (Lilly PS3537 .T88 T3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1963.

Box 3
Stuart, Jesse, 1907-1984, author. Riverton, Kentucky. To Harold D. Trevillian. Stuart's Album of Destiny. , 1949, Mar. 31 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscription on front flyleaf of Stuart's Album of Destiny ... New York, E. P. Dutton, 1944.(Lilly PS3537 .T88 A7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1963.

Box 3
Stuart, Jesse, 1907-1984, author. Riverton, Kentucky. To Harold D. Trevillian. Stuart's Taps for Private Tussie. , 1949, May 23 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscription on front flyleaf of Stuart's Taps for Private Tussie. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1943. (Lilly PS3537 .T88 T35).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1963.

Box 3
Rugenstein, John C., 1889-1970, credit manager, Indianapolis News. Indianapolis, Indiana. To Albert G. Feeney. Asking for recollections of Kin Hubbard. , 1949, Aug. 27 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Holograph unsigned draft of Feeney's reply appended
  2. Accompanied by carbon copy of Feeney's reply. Typescript letter 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. William Henry Smith Memorial Library, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1965.

Box 3
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962, author. Oxford, Mississippi. To Sam Marx. For twenty years has felt that his accounts with M.G.M. were not at balance; since seeing "Intruder in the dust" "qualms have abated some." , 1949, Oct. 12 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed: Bill

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Keith Baker, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1957.

Box 3
Odets, Clifford. To Goldbert, L. Explains his idea of who "the hero in America is." , 1949, Nov. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter 1 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Richard Hoffman. 1995.

Box 3
Stuart, Jesse, 1907-1984, author. Riverton, Kentucky. To Harold D. Trevillian. Stuart's The thread that runs so true. , 1950, Jan. 13 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscription on front flyleaf of Stuart's The thread that runs so true... New York, Scribner's, 1949. (Lilly PS3537 .T88 Z4).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1963.

Box 3
Stuart, Jesse, 1907-1984, author. Riverton, Kentucky. To Harold D. Trevillian. Stuart's Mongrel Mettle. , 1950, Mar. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscription on front flyleaf of Stuart's Mongrel Mettle... New York, E. P. Dutton, 1944. (Lilly PS3537 .T88 M5).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1963.

Box 3
Gordan, John Dozier, 1907-1968, librarian. The New York Public Library, Fifth Avneue & 42nd Street, New York 18, N.Y. To Martin P. Klingel, 805 East Darby Road, Llanerch, Haverton P. O., Pennsylvania. "The Berg copy of Kipling's Recessional and Other Poems London, 1899, 'Limited to 25 Numbered and Reserved Copies,' carries no number." , 1950, Aug. 7 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Kipling, Recessional and Other Poems, London, 1899 (Lilly 4854 .R290)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1975.

folio Folio
Guest, Edgar Albert, 1881-1959, poet. Detroit, Michigan. To Joseph R. Bell, Bloomington, Indiana. Enclosing copy of Guest's poem "The Rainbow division." , 1950, Dec. 18 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by enclosure: Guest, Edgar Albert. The Rainbow division: a poem, December 1950. Typescript document signed 1 p. 21 cm.
  2. Framed

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Joseph R. Bell, Bloomington, Indiana. 1959.

Box 3
Stuart, Jesse, 1907-1984, author. Riverton, Kentucky. To Harold D. Trevillian. Pleasure to sign books for him. , 1951, Jan. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscription on front flyleaf of Stuart's Clearing in the sky... New York, McGraw-Hill, c. 1950. (Lilly PS3537 .T88 C6).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1963.

Box 3
Roberts, Kenneth Lewis, 1885-1957, author. Water Unlimited, Inc., Kennebunkport, Maine. To C. J. Wageman, 1080 Stein Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Replies to inquiry concerning water veins, "all...originating in a dome about half a mile from the north-east corner of your property." , 1951, Mar. 31 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope
  2. Removed from Roberts, Water Unlimited. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, 1957 (Lilly PS3535 .O172 W32).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1983.

Box 3
Sarton, May, 1912-?, author. 18 Ave. Lequime, Rhodes St. Genese, Brahant France. To K. Expresses appreciation for the week spent at Stonington House in Connecticut and encloses a poem written while there. Now in France she spends many hours with "Poet-friend Jean Dominique. She is, we think, dying...but she is just like a little bird, chirping happily..." , 1951, Jul. 14 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Poem enclosed: The Captain's House In Memoriam E.M.S. Typescript document signed 5 p. 27 cm. Written in memory of her mother, dated April 1951
  2. Removed from Sarton, The Leaves of the Tree, Mount Vernon, Iowa, The English Club of Cornell College, 1950 (Lilly PS3537 .A83 L43).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 3
Sinclair, Upton Beall, 1878-1968, novelist. 114 Consul Street, Corona, California. To Dscopecontent Mead & Company, 432 Fourth Avenue, New York 16, New York. Refers to letters he has received from George Bernard Shaw and will be glad to send copies. , 1952, Jan. 10 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter sgned 1 p. 14 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Dan H. Laurence, Apt. 722, 8607 Jones-Maltsberger Road, San Antonio, Texas, 78216. 1970.

Box 3
Cohn, Marguerite (Arnold), 1897-1984, bookseller. House of Books, Ltd., 2 West 56th Street, New York, New York. To Keith Baker, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Does he want galleys of Hemingway's The old man and the sea? , 1952, Aug. 26 -

Physical Description: Typescript postcard signed 1 p. 8 x 14 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Keith Baker, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1957.

Box 3
Stuart, Jesse, 1907-1984, author. Riverton, Kentucky. To Harold D. Trevillian. Stuart's Kentucky is my land. , 1952, Nov. 5 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscription on front flyleaf of Stuart's Kentucky is my land... New York, E. P. Dutton, 1952. (Lilly PS3537 .T88 K3 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1963.

Box 3
Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012, author. To Jean Paul Getty. "Paul from Gore: One of the few books I have written that I could continue to like--." , 1952 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. On half-title of Vidal, The Judgement of Paris. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1952 (Lilly PS3543 .I2 J92 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

Box 3
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author. Monterey, California. To Hans Stefan Santesson. 780 Riverside Dr., New York, N.Y. "Greetings from the Far West!" , 1953, May 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph postcard signed 1 p. 9 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from William Grant Still, Troubled Island. New York: Leeds Music, 1949 (Lilly ML50 .S85 T85 1949).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1986.

Box 3
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author. Safari. , 1953, Dec. 8 -

Physical Description: Cablegram 64 contiguous pages 529 x 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Cablegram via RCA Communications, Inc. of article sent from Nairobi to Look Magazine which was published in the January 26, 1954, issue
  2. Has a few pencilled notes
  3. Cabled signature, E. Hemingway

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Hoffman & Freeman, Kent, England. 1976.

Box 3
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author. "GOOD LEOPARD KILLED HIGH NOON FIFTEENTH STOP HAVE BOOKS LOVE MERRY CHRISTMAS." , 1953, Dec. 17 -

Physical Description: Cablegram 12 x 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Cablegram via RCA Communications, Inc., from Nairobi
  2. Cabled signature, Papa Mary

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Hoffman & Freeman, Kent, England. 1976.

Box 3
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, poet. Resume. , 1953 -

Physical Description: Typescript (mimeo) document signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer. Book Departmnet, Lilly Library. 1987.

Box 3
Rice, Craig [Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig], 1908-1957, author. Carbon typescript for "Quiet Day in the County Jail" , [1953?]

Creator: Rice, Craig, 1908-1957

Physical Description: 8.5 x 11 inches. 20 leaves, recto only.

Scope and Contents: Carbon typescript of the short story "Quiet Day in the County Jail" by Georgianna Ann Randolph Craig, writing as Craig Rice, originally published in "Manhunt" in July 1953.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase: 2023. Barry Zeman.

Indexed Terms:

  • Subjects:
    • Detective and mystery stories

Box 3
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958, author. To David Anton Randall. Acknowledging letter of February 5th. , 1954, Feb. 12 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 17.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. 1957.

Box 3
Rinehart, Mary (Roberts), (Mrs. Stanley Marshall Rinehart), 1876-1958, novelist. New York, New York. To Grace Elizabeth (Mitchell) Collins, Bloomington, Indiana. Authorship of novelized version of The bat; relation of Stephen Vincent Benet to it. , 1954, Nov. 6 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by: Grace Elizabeth (Mitchell) Collins to Mary (Roberts) Rinehart, Oct. 30, 1954 (carbon copy).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Grace Elizabeth (Mitchell) Collins, 620 South Woodlawn, Bloomington, Indiana. 1958.

Box 3
Carter, John Waynflete, 1905-1975, bibliographer. 2808 N Street NW, Washington, D.C. To Frances Joan Brewer. Congratulatory letter on Whitman catalog. , 1955, May 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Charles Evan Feinberg, An exhibition of the works of Walt Whitman... Detroit, Detroit Public Library, 1955. (Lilly PS3228 .F3 copy 3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

Box 3
Farsace, Larry B. To Vincent Starrett. With three enclosed copied letters. , 1955, Oct. 7 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 4 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Golden Atom, 1954/1955 (Lilly AP2 .G62)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1981.

Box 3
Poggioli, Renato, 1907-1963, professor. Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. To Babette Deutsch, Columbia University, School of General Studies, New York 27, Nwe York. Extends thanks for her "kind words concerning [his] Italian translation of...Wallace Stevens' poems" and sends her a copy of the book. , 1955, Oct. 20 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 21.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Wallace Stevens, Poems... A cura di Renato Poggioli, Torino, Einaudi, 1953 (Lilly PS3537 .T47 A1716 1954).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1983.

Box 3
Larsson, Raymond Edward Francis, 1901-?, poet. To Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), a poem. , 1956, Feb. 19 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by typescript.
  2. "I regret I cannot afford you the first drafts of the poem: these are I think, already in Firestone Library, Princeton." Raymond E. F. Larsson, Poughkeepsie, New York. To David A. Randall, Bloomington, Indiana, Dec. 2, 1956.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Raymond E. F. Larsson, Inwood Station B., Poughkeepsie, New York. 1957.

Box 3
Burroughs, William Seward, 1914-1997, author. 2 Mansfield Street, London, West 1, Flat 47. To Gregory Corso. "Everything worked out right. Stern and I left Dent's place together..." , 1956? Oct. -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed "Bill"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 18 Cornelia Street, New York, New York, 10014. 1964.

Box 3
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984, author. Seventy Willow Street, Brooklyn, New York. To Blair Fuller. Replies to the editor's questions in relation to an interview by Capote on the art of fiction. , 1957, Feb. 28 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 6 p. 25.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In ink
  2. Partially published in The Paris Review 16: Spring-Summer, 1957, on pages 37, 38, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48 (Lilly)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. House of Books New York, N.Y. 1980.

Box 3
Patterson, Samuel White, 1883-1975, educator. 713 Washington St. N., New York 3, N.Y. To Vincent Starrett. "The Chicago Tribune." Chicago, Illinois. "I want you to know how much I value your brief but kindly review of my recent book The Poet of Christmas Eve. , 1957, Apr. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Patterson, The poet of Christmas eve... N.Y.: Morehouse-Gorham, 1956 (Lilly PS2429 .M5 Z76).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1986.

Box 3
Patterson, Samuel White, 1883-1975, educator. 713 Washington St. N., New York, 3, N.Y. To Vincent Starrett. 3749 North Fremont Street (The Chicago Tribune), Chicago 13, Illinois. "My cordial thanks for your good words repeated about my friend The Poet of Christmas Eve." , 1957, May 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph postcard signed 14 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Patterson's The Poet of Christmas Eve. N.Y., Morehouse-Gorham, 1956 (Lilly PS2429 .M5 Z76).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 3
Feinstein, Herbert. Upton Sinclair's novel, 100%, and the Tom Mooney molders defense committee. , 1957, May 9 -

Physical Description: Typescript document 40 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Typescript of copy on deposit with Bancroft library, University of California, Berkeley, California. Written for Prof. James Hart's English 230B. Delivered 17 Mar. 1957, revised 27 Apr. 1957, 9 May 1957.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Herbert Feinstein, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, California. 1957.

Box 3
Cummings, Marion (Morehouse), 1906-1969, photographer. Silver Lake, New Hampshire. To Merle Armitage, Yucca Valley, California. Will look forward to the Cummings dummy; has a number of Armitage's books. , 1957, Sept. 15 -

Physical Description: Autograph postcard signed 1 p. 9 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from E.E. Cummings, Tom. Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Rydal Press, c. 1935. (Lilly PS3505 .U44 T5).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1964.

bound Bound
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974, professor. A handful of domestic poems. , 1957, Nov. 9 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 10 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound and filed in slipcase

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Arthur Bowes, Chicago, Illinois, who purchased it at the private auction of the Modern Poetry Association in Chicago in 1957. Date of gift unknown.

folio Folio
Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982, poet. 140 syllables. , 1957? -

Physical Description: Document 1 p. 46 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Note on verso: "Broadside number sixty-two reprinted by permission from Ark II. Moby I, 1957, but refused reproduction by normal broadside means in Pasadena, January 1958."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Bern Porter, 677 East Colorado Street, Pasadena, California. 1958.

Box 3
Norris, Edward, fl. 1958. 984 Memorial Drive, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. To Helen McGlade. Reports the comments of Thomas Stearns Eliot on his visit to the home of Miss McGlade. , 1958, May 3 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Filed with this a letter of William Kastanotis of the Boston Public Library identifying Edward Norris, Apr. 25, 1974
  2. Removed from Virginia Woolf, The Mark on the Wall, Richmond, England, The Hogarth Press, 1919 (Lilly PR6045 .O7 M34).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 3
Eliot, Theresa Garrett, (Mrs. Henry Ware Eliot, Jr.) 1884-?, artist. 84 Prescott St., Cambridge, Massachusetts. To Helen McGlade. "I want to tell you how much I appreciate your kindness. The Eliots were glad to find their great friends books on your shelves." , 1958, May 16 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Virginia (Stephen) Woolf, The Mark on the Wall, second edition, Richmond, England, The Hogarth Press, 1919 (Lilly PR6045 .O7 M34).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

bound Bound
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982, poet. J.B.: a play in verse. , 1958, Aug. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 2, 124 i.e. 131 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. "Master Copy" of an intermediate draft of an acting version
  2. Carries holograph revisions
  3. No. 26 in A catalogue of the books and manuscripts to be sold at private auction on November 9, 1958 for the benefit of The Modern Poetry Association following a dinner in honor of Archibald MacLeish... The Arts Club...Chicago.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Modern Poetry Association, Chicago, Illinois. 1958.

Box 3
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author. Ketchum, Idaho. To Christopher G. Janus, Chicago, Illinois. Regrets will not be able to attend Poetry Day in Chicago. , 1958, Oct. 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by cover
  2. Also accompanied by ribbon copy and carbon copy of telegram, Janus, Christopher G., Chicago, Illinois to Ernest Hemingway, Havana, Cuba. Invitation to Poetry Day, Chicago, November 8, 1958, Typewritten 1 p. 18 cm.
  3. No. 61 in A catalogue of the books and manuscripts to be sold at private auction on November 9, 1958 for the benefit of The Modern Poetry Association following a dinner in honor of Archibald MacLeish... The Arts Club...Chicago.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Modern Poetry Association. Chicago, Illinois. 1958.

Box 3
Feinberg, Charles E., 1899-1988, book collector. 872 W. Boston Boulevard, Detroit 2, Michigan. To "Dear Friend." , 1958, Oct. 24 -

Physical Description: Copy of typescript letter signed 1 p. 22 x 18.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Facsimile signature in blue
  2. Concerns a Horace Traubel exhibit and the Walt Whitman Review
  3. Accompanied by four offprints: "Before the Good Gray Poet" by F. Dewolfe Miller; "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" by Harry R. Warfel; "Whitman's Salut au Monde..." by Harry R. Warfel; and "Kentucky" by Walt Whitman, edited by William White

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1996.

Box 3
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, author. 9 Ridge Road, Rutherford, New Jersey. To Clarence Major. Advice to young writers. , 1959, Mar. 23 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. The Americanist, Shenkel Road, R.F.D. 2, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. 1965.

Box 3
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, author. 9 Ridge Road, Rutherford, New Jersey. To Clarence Major. Makes suggestions for success in writing. , 1959, Apr. 1 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. The Americanist, Shenkel Road, R.F.D. 2, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. 1965.

Box 3
Collins, Grace Elizabeth (Mitchell), 1896-1983, librarian. Bloomington, Indiana. To Ruth Goyne, Monticello, Arkansas. Identity of Henri Faust. , 1960, Aug. 8 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter (carbon) 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by Ruth Goyne, Monticello, Arkansas, to Grace Elizabeth (Mitchell) Collins, Bloomington, Indiana. Answer to above letter. Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Grace Elizabeth (Mitchell) Collins, 620 South Woodlawn, Bloomington, Indiana. 1960.

Box 3
Andrews, Wayne, 1913-?, author. 161 Henry Street, Brooklyn 1, New York. Statement on his Pianos of sympathy and his other writings. Gives origin of his pseudonym Montagu O'Reilly. , 1960, Sept. 25 -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 2 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 888 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10021. 1961.

Box 3
Laughlin, James, 1914-?, author. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn. Statement on New Directions and Andrews' Pianos of Sympathy. , 1960, Nov. 2 -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 3 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 888 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10021. 1961.

Box 3
Kupferberg, Tuli, 1923-?, writer, cartoonist. 381 E 10, NY 9 NY. Your young men shall see visions. A drama in 11 scenes. , 1960 -

Physical Description: Typescript document i, 24 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On blue paper with pencilled annotations throughout

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer. Book Dept., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. 1993.

Box 3
Randall, David Anton, 1905-1975, bookman. To Allen Ginsberg, Apartment 16, 170 East Second Street, New York, New York. "Sorry we got our wires crossed." , 1961, Jan. 18 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Carbon copy.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Box 3
Randall, David Anton, 1905-1975, bookman. To Allen Ginsberg, 170 East 2nd Street, New York, New York. "It may interest you to know that I am still collecting modern poets." , 1961, Feb. 20 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Carbon copy

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Box 3
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, poet. 170 E. 2 Street, New York City. To David Anton Randall. Refers to Howl mss and Kaddish mss. , 1961, Feb. 24 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Box 3
Randall, David Anton, 1905-1975, bookman. To Allen Ginsberg, 170 East 2nd Street, New York, New York. Refers to Howl mss. , 1961, Mar. 7 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Carbon copy

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Box 3
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, poet. To David Anton Randall. Giving Kaddish mss. to Julan Beck for an auction. Comments on his TV appearance. , 1961, Mar. 9 -

Physical Description: Typescript postcard signed 8 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Box 3
Untermeyer, Jean (Starr), 1886-1970, poet. To John Sicher Van Eisen Kohn. 10 Soundview Circle, White Plains, NY. Acknowledges receipt of Kohn's message and expresses appreciation for her visit to Gratwick Highlands: "...it was in a sense a Shavian way of honoring the dead..." , 1961, June 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 12 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In green ink
  2. Accompanied by envelope

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative files. 1981.

Box 3
MacGregor, Robert Mercer, 1911-1974, editor. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn. To Russell Leonard, 20 Shawmut Street, Boston 16, Massachusetts. "...a copy of the Tennessee Williams limited editions that you were asking about...far more interesting to you might be a copy of the enclosed which you can't buy any place." , 1962, Mar. 23 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Tennessee Williams, The Kingdom of Earth, New York, New Directions, 1954 (Lilly PS3545 .L524 K54).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 3
Stuart, Jesse, 1907-1984, author. Greenup, Kentucky. To John Wilson Townsend. Stuart's God's scopecontentling. , 1962, Apr. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscription on front flyleaf of Stuart's God's scopecontentling... New York, McGraw-Hill, c. 1960 (Lilly PS3537 .T88 G6).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1963.

Box 3
Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901-1979, actress, author. 22 East 60th Street, New York 22. To Goebel, William R. Denver, Colorado. Expresses delight that he "found my current book immensely stimulating." , 1962, Nov. 26 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by signed carbon copy of Goebel's letter to Skinner, Nov. 16, 1962
  2. Removed from Skinner, Elegan wits and grand horizontals. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1962 (Lilly PS3537 .K533 E38).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1993.

Box 3
Bliss, Anthony Stillman, 1946-?, librarian. The story of The Jungle (school term paper). , 1963, Apr. 5 -

Physical Description: Typescript document 15 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Carey S. Bliss, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California 91108. 1964.

Box 3
Stuart, Jesse, 1907-1984, author. Greenup, Kentucky. To Joh nWilson Townsend. Stuart's The year of my rebirth. , 1963, Jul. 5 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscription on front flyleaf of Stuart's The year of my rebirth... New York, McGraw-Hill, c. 1956. (Lilly PS3537 .T88 Z42).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1963.

Box 3
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author. Haifa-Tel Aviv, Israel. To Edith Rachelle Greenburg Albee, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana. "The Jordan Valley is so green and lovely...Happy summer to you!" , 1963, Jul. 25 -

Physical Description: Autograph postcard signed 1 p. 10.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Day of the month from postmark
  2. Written in green ink
  3. Color postcard of Tomb of King David at Mt. Zion, Jerusalem

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Edith (Greenburg) Albee. 1993.

Box 3
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, poet. Vancouver, B.C. To John Wieners, New York, New York. "Drugs." , 1963, Aug. 16 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter sign 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Appended notes from Arthur Ray Heisermann, Robert Creeley, Philip Whalin, Charles Olson and Donald Merriam Allen.
  2. Accompanied by cover.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 18 Cornelia Street, New York, New York 10014. 1964.

Box 3
Blinderman, Abraham, 1916-?, professor. Upton Sinclair's criticism of higher education in America: a study of The goose-step its sources, critical history, and relationship to subsequent criticisms of higher education...submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The School of Education of New York University. , 1963 -

Physical Description: Reproduction. 453 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Abraham Blinderman, 47 Tanager Lane, Levittown, New York. 1964.

bound Bound
McClure, Michael, 1932- , poet. Ghost tantras 1st proofs with holograph corrections. , 1963 -

Physical Description: Document signed 106 p. 21-25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a facsimile holograph poem, which was not used in the published version of the book
  2. The title page is set up showing the original, rejected title of "The beast sound." McClure signed the title page with a fifteen-word explanation of the change.
  3. Differs slightly from printed version. San Francisco, City Lights Books, 1964. (Lilly PS3525 .A18 G4).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 18 Cornelia Street, New York, New York, 10014. 1966.

bound Bound
McCullers, Carson (Smith), 1917-1967, author. Carson McCullers novella, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, adapted to the stage by Edward Albee. , 1963 -

Physical Description: Mimeographed. 3, 1-54, 54-97, 136-163, 167-185, i.e.5, 218 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Actors copy
  2. Carries holograph changes and notes
  3. Name, address, and telephone number of David Clarke on title-page
  4. Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York in the fall of 1963 and closed February 15, 1964

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 18 Cornelia Street, New York, New York 10014. 1964.

Box 3
Bartlett, Elizabeth, 1911-2008, poet. 672 Sabado Tarde, Goleta, California. To Oscar Williams. Concerns her new book of poems. "Kindly keep me in mind for your next anthology." , 1964, Jun. 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 14 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Elizabeth Bartlett, It takes practice not to die. Santa Barbara, California, Van Riper & Thompson, Inc., 1964. (Lilly PS3503 .A72 I7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1967.

Box 3
MacClintock, Lander, 1889-1980, professor. 1026 South Mitchell Street, Bloomington, Indiana. To John Albert Robbins. "I don't have any of the J. Gordon Coogler's works. Perhaps what Phil had in mind is a volume of Love Among the Mistletoe by the Bard of Alamo." , 1964, Oct. 30 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from James B. Elmore's Love among the mistletoe and poems. Alamo, Indiana, published by the author, 1899. (Lilly PS3509 .L8 L58).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

Box 3
Dawson, Fielding, author, artist. 49 E 19 New York, 10003. To Robert Alfred Jump Wilson, Phoenix Book Shop, 18 Cornelia Street, New York City, 10014. Makes reference to the London Times and Louis Zukofsky concerning his Essay on American Fiction and to Ed Dorn on Thread. , 1964, Nov. 10 -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope with return address of Shortstop

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 18 Cornelia Street, New York City. 1973.

Box 3
Spear, Thelma, 1903?-1968. New York. To John Van Etten Kohn, Seven gables bookshop, New York. Christmas card. , 1964, Dec. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 13 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. John Van Etten Kohn Seven Gables Bookshop, 3 West 46th Street, New York, New York. 1965.

Box 3
Clark, Thomas, 1941- , editor, poet. To John Ashbery. "I'd be grateful to have works from you for Future -ice's or for Paris Review. " , 1965, Mar. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from SLICE, vol. 1, No. 1-2 (Lilly PS3553 .L29 S63).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 3
Hawley, Robert L, editor. To Marshall Clements. "Please give one of these to someone you feel would be interested." , 1965, Apr. 18 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 15 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Michael McClure, Poisoned wheat. San Francisco [privately printed], 1965. (Lilly PS3525 .A18 P6 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

Box 3
Patchen, Miriam Oikemus. Palo Alto, California. To David Anton Randall, Bloomington, Indiana. Her husband is offering his manuscripts, letters, etc. for sale. , 1965, Aug. 6 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 41 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. 1966.

Box 3
Michener, James Albert, 1907-1997, author. Box 125, Pipersville, Pennsylvania. To Vivian L. Gardner. 1057 W. Berwyn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Thanks her for bringing to his attention an error of character description in his The Source. Admits it was his "carelessness" and not an error on the part of the publisher. , 1965, Aug. 17 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 22.8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Secretary signed: "by no"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 3
Patchen, Miriam (Oikemus). To David Anton Randall. Pleased to hear of his interest in her husband's material. , 1965, Aug. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph card signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. 1966.

Box 3
Di Prima, Diane, 1934- , poet, editor. The Poets Press, 54 East Fourth Street, New York City. To William Rea Cagle, University of Indiana [sic] Library, Bloomington, Indiana. "The Poets Press is publishing a series of books by young writers" and she hopes that "the university will take a subscription to the limited editions...". , 1965, Nov. 14 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. William Rea Cagle, Indiana University Library, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Script of The Ice Queen by Rosalyn Drexler, reproduced from typescript , 1965

Scope and Contents: This copy belonged to Zachary Scott, who played Pointer, and includes his or the authors's manuscript annotations

Box 3
Blair, Naomi Barnett, 1906-1967, librarian. Indiana University, The University Libraries, Bloomington, Indiana. To Jonathan C. Williams. Highland, North Carolina. , 1966, Jan. 26 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Louis Zukofsky, A test of poetry. New York, Jargon/Corinth Books, 1964. (Lilly PS536 .J37 no. 12).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

Box 3
Williams, Jonathan, 1929- . 2 Well Walk, Hampstead, London, N.W.B. To Naomi Barnett Blair. Refers to the Jargon number for A test of poetry. , 1966, Feb. 17 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Appended to Blair to Williams, Jan. 26, 1966. Removed from Louis Zukofsky, A test of poetry. Nwe York, Jargon/Corinth Books, 1964. (Lilly PS536 .J37 no. 12).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

Box 3
Markson, David Merrill, 1927- , author. 201 W. 11th St. NY 14 NY. To Helen (Morgan) Rainsford. 166 E 63 St., NYC. "Thank you for the...invitation, but...we cannot make it...teaching schedule conflicts...I appreciate your buying Dingus Magee, and...sending the Maugham article...the writer, Lieber, is a friend of mine." , 1966, Mar. 30 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 15 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mailing and return address clipped from envelope
  2. Piece is trimmed at top and bottom
  3. Removed from David Markson, The Ballad of Dingus Magee. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1965 (Lilly PS3563 .A66 B18 copy 1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 3
Wickenden, Leonard Daniel, 1913- , novelist. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 757 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10017. To U. Grant Roman, Roman Books, Suite 320, 2701 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33304. Gives printing statistics on the works of Edward Lewis Wallant which must now be sought in the second-hand market. , 1966, Jul. 29 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed as Editor

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Book Department. 1980.

Box 3
Bratman, Donald Jay, playwright. The Two Fools. , 1966, Aug. -

Physical Description: Typescript carbon document 16 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Noted as: August 1966 revision
  2. Blue carbon with additional title page in original typescript
  3. On title page: copyright April 1966 by Donald Jay Bratman, 534 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer from Lilly Library Book Department, following purchase from Phoenix Book Shop, NY, in 1970. 1983.

Box 3
Bratman, Donald Jay, playwright. The Torpedo--a comic melodrama. , 1966, Dec. -

Physical Description: Typescript carbon document 10 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Noted as: December 1966 Revision
  2. Four corrections in ink
  3. On title page: Copyright 1966 by Donald Jay Bratman, 534 W. 42nd Street, NY 10036

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer from Lilly Library Book Department, following purchase from Phoenix Book Shop, NY, in 1970. 1983.

Box 3
Untermeyer, Jean (Starr), 1886-1970, author. 235 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021. To Morris Bishop. Expresses appreciation for fine review but "I feel, just for the record...I ought to correct one or two surmises. At eighty, I will confess that in youth I suffered agonies of shyness." , 1967, Jan. 27 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Untermeyer, Private Collection, New York, Knopf, 1965 (Lilly PS3541 .N71 Z49 1965).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 3
Strouse, Norman Hulbert, 1906- , advertising executive. J. Walter Thompson Company, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York. To David A. Randall, Indiana University Library, Bloomington, Indiana. Relates to his book, The silverado episode. , 1967, Feb. 27 -

Physical Description: typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Strouse's The silverado episode, St. Helena, California, 1966. (Lilly PR5495 .S925).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1967.

Box 3
Nin, Anais, 1903-1977, author. To Jack Micheline, 7 St. Mark's Place, New York City. "I regret I will not be in New York for the exhibition of your paintings." , 1967, Nov. 7 -

Physical Description: Autograph card signed 11 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 18 Cornelia Street, New York City. 1972.

Box 3
Humphries, Rolfe, 1894-1969, author. 112 Alta Mesa Road, Woodside, California. To John Kohn. Refers to his booklet "Limericks of Bradford County..." , 1968, Mar. 1 -

Physical Description: Autograph card signed 8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Humphries, Limericks of Bradford County (Penna) and vicinity, n.p., n.d. (Lilly PS3515 .U48 L7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of John Kohn, Seven Gables Book Shop, New York City. 1973.

Box 3
Micheline, Jack, 1929- , poet. Skinny Dynamite. , 1968, Jun. 13 -

Physical Description: Xerox of typescript document signed 4 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Address given as: Baptistown, N.J.
  2. Published in 1968 in Renaissance, the literary section of Open City (Lilly PS3053 .U5: Charles Bukowski, miscellaneous uncataloged)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. John Howell Books, San Francisco, California. 1980.

Box 3
Clark, Thomas Willard, 1941- , editor, poet; and Ron Padgett, 1942- , poet. "Why must we" [first line]. , 1968 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Holograph draft of p. 16 of Bun, by Tom Clark and Ron Padgett, New York: Angel Hair Books, 1968
  2. On graph paper
  3. Text in red felt-tipped pen
  4. Clark signature in pencil
  5. Padgett signature in blue pen
  6. Mounted on last blank leaf of Bun. (Lilly PS3553 .L29 B94).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1986.

Box 3
Corbett, Elizabeth Frances, 1887-?, novelist. One Day. , 1968 -

Physical Description: Typescript document 294 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Printer's copy with holograph corrections in pencil. Accompanied by galley proofs.
  2. Printed as Ladies' Day. New York, Meredith Press, 1968. (Lilly PS3505 .O64 L15).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Elizabeth Frances Corbett, 20 Commerce Street, New York, New York. 1969.

Box 3
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, poet. R.D.2 Cherry Valley, NY 13320. To Jack Micheline, c/o Wain, 1154 No. Gover, Hollywood, California 90028 and John Bryan, Open City. Comments favorably on the story Skinny Dynamite and encloses copy of his letter to Stanley Fleishman. , 1969, Feb. 24 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In ink
  2. Accompanied by envelope
  3. Written on verso on leaflet: VD Day, Nov. 25, Washington Square Park
  4. Enclosure: Allen Ginsberg to Stanley Flieschmann [i.e. Fleishman], Hollywood, California, Feb. 23, 1969; signed carbon of typescript letter, 1 p. 35.5 cm.; last 3 lines, original typing; written on verso of Peace Illumination Walk, Washington Square, Dec. 23; concerns Micheline's obscenity trial and Ginsberg's own literary qualifications

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. John Howell Books, San Francisco, California. 1980.

Box 3
Bradbury, Ray Douglas, 1920-2012, writer. Kensington Palace Hotel, De Vere Gardens, London. To Mr. Mummery. Will sign some personal gummed labels for pasting in the front of the books for his customer. , 1969, Jul. 10 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 25.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Receipt date: Jul. 14 1969
  2. Mummery identified by the donor as a manager at the Doubleday Book Shop, NYC

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David Warrington, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1983.

Box 3
Creeley, Robert, 1926- , poet. Box 55, Riverdale Station, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 01930. To Alison Lurie. "Thank you very much for your book--which very much moves me...the way you run real and fictional together works very well indeed." , 1969, Jul. 24 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed "Bob"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 18 Cornelia Street, New York City. 1972.

Box 3
Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph, 1931- , professor. University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. To Mark Doren. Falls Village, Connecticut. Requests a donation for a benefit auction to be held in December. , 1969, Sept. 2 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Appended autograph note from Van Doren to "MJB," 9/8/69: "I hope these will help."
  2. Accompanied by envelope: Van Doren to Bruccoli

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 3
Duncan, Robert Edward, 1919-1988, poet. San Francisco, California. The Child from Rilke's Neuen [sic] gedichte anderer teil 31 July 1 August 1907. , 1969, Dec. 16 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 12 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Designed as a Christmas greeting with cover addressed to Henry and Adele Wenning, 282 York Street, New Haven, Connecticut from Robert Duncan and Jess Collins

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. Phoenix Book Shop, New York, New York. 1972.

Box 3
Ames, Elizabeth (Knappen), 1884-1977, executive director, Yaddo. Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. To William Cecil Knott. "Yaddo is a 'working community'...with the group so small each member of it must be willing to do her or his share..." , 1969, Dec. 17 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope addressed to William Knott

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Dorcas Brookfield, AMF, O'Hare, Ill. 60666. Date unknown.

Box 3
Brilliant, Alan, 1936- , poet. To Kenneth Patchen. , 1969 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Headed: "1969 TO KEN -- ON HIS BIRTHDAY"
  2. Concerns a previously unpublished poem by William Carlos Williams as printed by Igal Roodenko in 1959 at the behest of James Laughlin and here presented to Kenneth Patchen
  3. Removed from William Carlos Williams, To Be Recited to Flossie on her Birthday. New York, Igal Roodenko, 1959 (Lilly PS3545 .I525 T627 copy 1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 3
West, Jessamyn, 1902-1984, author. To "Jack and Marge...What the book really says is love to Jack and Marge for years of friendship." , 1969 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 7.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Written on a presentation card: With the Compliments of the Author.
  2. Removed from West, Jessamyn, Except for Me and Thee. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969 (Lilly PS3545 .E8315 E96).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1995.

Box 3
Roth, Philip, 1933- , author. [Inscription] "To Keith Baker - Who keeps me in paper so I may--hopefully--keep him in books." , 1970, May -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 20.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In black felt-tip
  2. On front flyleaf of Roth, Goodbye, Columbus; traduit de l'anglais par Celine Zins. Paris: Gallimard, 1962. (Lilly PS3568 .O855 G643).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

Box 3
Rechy, John, 1934- , author. 4101-B La Luz, El Paso, Texas 79903. To Peter Howard, Serendipity Bookstore, 1790 Shattuck, Berkeley, California. Concerning the sale of Rechy's manuscripts of City of Night, Numbers, and This Day's Death. , 1970, Jul. 2 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope
  2. Removed from John Rechy's This Day's Death, New York, Grove Press, 1969. (Lilly PS3568 .E28 T44).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1979.

Box 3
Mailer, Normna, 1923-2007, author. 629 Commercial Street, Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657. To Bob Blackman. Submits drawings for publication. , 1971, Jan. 21 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. P.S. in ink: and good luck
  2. Blackman is an editor of the Harrison Street Review

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Christopher P. Stephens, bookseller. 325 West 38th Street, New York, NY 10018. 1979.

Box 3
Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012, author. Klosters. [Inscription to Jean] Paul Getty. Book finished on "a perfect day" having not written a novel "for nearly a decade - Just as I had begun to hit...my stride!" , 1971, Apr. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 20.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In blue ink
  2. On front flyleaf of Vidal, Messiah. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1954. (Lilly PS3543 .I2 M58 1954).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

Box 3
Simpson, Louis, 1923- , poet. 21 Chalcot Crescent, London, N.W.1, England. To Eugene O'Neil, In Our Time, P.O. Box 386, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139. "...my first book was printed in Paris...published by the Fine Editions Press, New York...a man named Gustav Davidson...secretary of the Poetry Society of America..." , 1971, May 17 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope
  2. Removed from Simpson, The arrivistes... New York, The Fine Editions Press, 1949 (Lilly PS3537 .I33 A77).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 3
Bukowski, Charles, 1920-1994, poet, author. To John Arnoldy. Extends thanks for copy of Harrison Street Review with his drawings in it and asks for another copy. Reports on the sad story of Wayne Philpott. , 1971, Jun. 2 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 12 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Torn from presumably full page of 28 cm.
  2. Stamped: JUN 4 recd
  3. Arnoldy is an editor of Harrison Street Review

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Christopher P. Stephens, bookseller, 325 West 38th Street, New York, NY. 1979.

Box 3
Bukowski, Charles, 1920-1994, poet, author. To editors, Harrison Street Review. Extends his thanks for an extra copy of the Review and says that he has been having more than his "usual run of trouble." Comments on Lawrence Alton. , 1971, Jun. 29 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Added phrase in ink: Your Review, for instance

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Christopher P. Stephens, bookseller, 325 West 38th Street, New York, NY. 1979.

Box 3
Sarton, May, 1912- , author. Nelson Village, Munsonville, New Hampshire. To Robinson, Walter. She "will be available in the week of July 10th for a reading and maybe a discussion afterward." , 1972, Jan. 8 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 17.7 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a photograph of the author
  2. Removed from Sarton, Plant dreaming deep. New York, W.W. Norton, 1968 (Lilly PS3537 .A832 P55).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1993.

Box 3
Koch, Kenneth, 1925- , poet. Columbia University in the City of New York. To Erje Ayden. States that he is pleased to be in the Turkish Anthology. "Why don't you and Ted select the poems..." , 1972, Feb. 17 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In black ink

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Christopher P. Stephens, bookseller, 325 West 38th Street, New York, NY 10018. 1979.

Box 3
Bukowski, Charles, 1920-1994, poet. To Jack Micheline. "bonnie white been looking for you, she took one of your poems for a song...wants to write you for o.k. and your royalty cut if it goes over..." , 1972, Sept. 25 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Joseph the Provider, 1247 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, Calif. 1973.

Box 3
Koch, Kenneth, 1925- , poet. Columbia University in the City of New York. To Erje Ayden. Extends thanks for the "book and for the magazine with the translation." Proposes a suitable time to talk about his poetry. , 1972, Dec. 8 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 21.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In blue ink

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Christopher P. Stephens, bookseller. 325 West 38th Street, New York, NY 10018. 1979.

Box 3
Major, Eric, publisher. Hscopecontenter and Stoughton Limited, Saint Paul's House, Warwick Lane, London. To Dear Margaret. Sends review copy of the American edition of Marilyn by Norman Mailer. Has changed British publication date because of "clash between Marilyn and the nuptials of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips." , 1973, Oct. 9 -

Physical Description: Signed copy of typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Norman Mailer, Marilyn: a biography, London: Hscopecontenter and Stoughton, 1973. (Lilly PS3525 .A4 M33 1973 copy 1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1976.

Box 3
Yerby, Frank Garvin, 1916-1992, novelist. General Mola, 103, Madrid-6, Spain. To Margaret Elizabeth Wiggs. c/o The News Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46208. Writes that she is the only reviewer who mentioned the poems in his novel; encloses three sonnets, "autographed," that he had to leave out of the novel. , 1974, May 27 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope with note about Yerby in the hand of Margaret Elizabeth Wiggs
  2. Yerby's novel was The Voyage Unplanned, New York, Dial Press, 1974
  3. Enclosures: Sonnet III, Nor can you accuse me of such stuff [first line]; Sonnet IV, As for man's fate, the old Greeks got it right [first line]; Sonnet VI, Thus Pindar wrote, but I hav enever sought [first line]. Each one page, 29.5 cm, photocopy, with appended notes in blue ink about Dalton Ross as author and signed by Frank Yerby

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Margaret E. Wiggs, 2529 Poinsette Dr., Fort Wayne, Ind. 46808. 1980.

folio Folio
Waldman, Anne [Lesley], 1945- , poet; and Mayer, Bernadette, 1945- , poet. Photographs: Heed Your Needs... , 1974, Nov. 10 -

Quantity: 16 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Poem in green, blue, red, and black inks
  2. Written on pages of photograph album
  3. Further notatiosn inside back cover
  4. Inscribed to Ted Berrigan

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, New York, New York. 1981.

Box 3
Corman, Sidney, 1924-2004, editor. Fukuoji-cho 82, Utano Ukyo-ku, Kyoto 616 Japan. To Dora M. Pettinella, 29 Washington Sq. West, New York, N.Y. 10011. "...feel free to translate any of my work that attracts you...kindly send me a copy or two of whatever work does get published." , 1975, Jan. 8 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Address panels on verso.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 22 Jones Street, New York City. 1976.

Box 3
Berrigan, Ted, 1934-1983, poet. Four Poems. , 1977, Oct. 3-1979, Jul. 21 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 10 p. 14 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In ink
  2. Poems: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, 17 June 79; Allen Ginsberg's "Shining City," 13 Dec 78; Reykjavik, 27 June 79; Turkeys, 3 Oct 77
  3. Last page with signature dated 7.21.79 NYC
  4. Covered with blue denim and illustrated with collages
  5. Note: (with Alice Notley)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 22 Jones Street, New York, New York. 1981.

Box 3
Eshleman, Clayton, 1935- , poet. Out of itself. , 1978, Jul. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. "for Nora Jaffe" inscribed at end of poem
  2. Inscribed in Eshleman's What She Means... Santa Barbara, California, Black Sparrow Press, 1978. (Lilly PS3555 .S5 W55 copy 1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1979.

Box 3
Sanchez, Juanita M. To Jose Armas. , 1979, Jan. 16 -

Physical Description: Typescript 1 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Sanchez's The Hourglass, 1978 (Lilly PS3569 .A463 H3 1978)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 2006.

Box 3
Eshleman, Clayton, 1935- , poet. Clarksville. "Fasten me, autumn into the binding heart": first two lines of poem. , 1979, Oct. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 21.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Blue initial F for "Fasten"
  2. Poem of tne lines over drawing of yellow basin, red fire and brown logs
  3. Bound in, but not printed in, Eshleman's Nights We Put the Rock Together. Santa Barbara, California, Cadmus Editions, 1980 (Lilly PS3555 .S5 N68), Copy T.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1982.

Box 3
Photograph of author Harold Bloom. , 1979 -

Physical Description: Document 17.8 x 13 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Publicity photo for Bloom's THE FLIGHT TO LUCIFER, New York, Farrar Straus, Giroux, 1979
  2. Photograph by Jeanne Bloom

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer. Book Dept., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405. 1994.

Box 3
Bowles, Paul, 1910- , writer, composer. 2117 Tanger Socco, Tangier, Morocco. To Andreas Le Brown. Gotham Book Mart, 41 West 47, New York. Thanks him for his note and reports that "Dan Halpern was here three weeks ago and took away...several items of mine for publication." , 1980, Feb. 3 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Barry Scott. Chicago, Illinois. 1994.

Box 3
Bowles, Paul, 1910- , writer, composer. 2117 Tanger Socco, Tangier, Morocco. To Andreas Le Brown. Thanks him for sending the Thesiger book... "one I'm delighted to have." , 1980, Jul. 29 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by envelope

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Barry Scott. Chicago, Illinois. 1994.

Box 3
Creeley, Robert, 1926- , poet. Death. , 1981 -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In black ink, on final leaf
  2. Fair copy of poem printed on leaf 13
  3. In Creeley, Mother's voice. Am Here Books/Immediate Editions, 1981.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

Box 3
Bly, Robert, 1926- , editor, poet. 308 First Street, Moose Lake, Minnesota 55767. To David Warrington. Gives permission to photograph "Her Visit During Sleep." , 1982, Feb. 22 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 21.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In blue ink

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Book Department files, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1982.

Box 3
Oswald, Paul Henry, 1907- , telegrapher. 1603 E. Fairwood Dr., Bloomington, Ind. 47401. Presents enclosed letter from Edgar Albert Guest and Oswald's poem which he had sent to Guest. , 1983, Jun. 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Free Press, Detroit 11, Michigan, August 14, 1944, to Paul Henry Oswald, Western Union Telegraph Company, French Lick, Indiana. Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm. Green paper. Returns Oswald's poem to him since he has no way of having it published.
  2. Also accompanied by Paul Henry Oswald, 420 College St., French Lick, Ind. "Dad Answers." Aug. 4, 1944. Typescript carbon document, 1 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Paul H. Oswald, Bloomington, Indiana. 1983.

Box 3
Windham, Donald MacArthur. "Footnote to a Friendship," a memoir of Truman Capote and others. Printer's copy and corrected proofs. , 1983 -

Physical Description: Typescript (2 folders)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Sandy M. Campbell, 230 Central Park South, New York, New York. 10010. Via Bob Wilson, Phoenix Book Shop. Date unknown.

Box 3
Brossard, Chandler, 1922- , author. 333 West End Avenue. New York, NY 10023. To Rob Alfred Jump Wilson. Sends a copy of his last book, "A Chimney Sweep Comes Clean" and hopes he likes it. , 1985, Apr. 5 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 22.6 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Brossard, A Chimney Sweep Comes Clean. San Jose, California. Realities Library, 1985. (Lilly PS3552 .R67 C53)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1994.

Box 3
Pickard, Ruth (Gormley), Walnut Hill Farm, Morgantown, Indiana, grand-niece of Theodore Dreiser. To Virginia [Lowell] Mauck, Manuscript Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. , 1985, Jun. 29 -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 2 p. 27.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On yellow paper
  2. Includes birth and death data for her father, Paul Gormley, nephew of Theodore Dreiser, and details concerning two letters (xeroxes) of Theodore Dreiser which are filed with Pickard's letter: 1) T.D. to Sara Osborne (White) Dreiser, Jan. 23, 1898, and 2) to Paul Gormley, Oct. 23, 1923.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Ruth (Gormley) Pickard, Morgantown, Ill. 1985.

Box 3
Autograph note and manuscript page re: Racing Through Paradise by William F. Buckley , 1987 -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer. Removed from Buckley, Racing Through Paradise. New York; Random House, 1987. (Lilly G530 .B9 1987). 1995.

Box 3
Thomas, Ross. Correspondence between Ross Thomas and Lord John Press publisher Herb Yellin. Includes material related to the Lord John Press publication of the signed, limited edition of Thomas's Spies, Thumbsuckers, etc. , 1989, Jan. 17-Jul. 12 -

Physical Description: Typescript note signed and 3 typescript letters signed 5 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Also included: 3 checks from Lord John Press to Thomas with his endorsement; photograph of both men during signing of sheets; Yellin's file copy of his letter of introduction/book proposal to Thomas; contract signed by both men; and hand-corrected galley proof (11 p.)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. Quill & Brush. 2015.

Box 4
Schaefer, Jack. Manuscript of unpublished book One Man's West. , 1990 -

Physical Description: Typescript 200 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Includes typed inserts

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 4
Dorn, Dolores. To "Carlin." , 1993, May 20 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Includes signed copy of "The Country Girl" script by Clifford Odets, 1949

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 4
Wikoff, Lynne. Morrie's Gold. Draft of unpublished novel for young adults. , 2004 -

Physical Description: Typescript 175 p.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Breon Mitchell. 2005

bound Bound
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The College Widow. Music plot and directions for off-stage effects. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 24 p. 24 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. Comparisons. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in Cosmopolitan, November 1921.
  2. Published in Ade's Single blessedness and other observations. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922, p. 178-181.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. Dignity. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 2 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in The Lambs' all-star gambol, 1916. New York, The Lambs, 1916.
  2. Printed as a broadside 8" x 12", undated.
  3. Also printed on a card 3 1/2" x 5 1/2", undated.
  4. Later appeared in Wallace Winner, Sept. 27, 1917; and in Cosmopolitan, March 1921.
  5. Collected in Ade's Single blessedness and other observations. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922, p. 42-44.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of Napoleon and the Bumps. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph and typescript document 10 p. 28-35 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Two holograph pages with holograph corrections and insertions in pencil

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. The fable of those most likely to bat one thousand. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document 5 p. 28-31 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Holograph corrections in pencil

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. "It is an old-fashioned and appalling reflection..." first line of an article. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 4 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. Jazz. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 2 p. 36 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. "Jazzmania" was published in Cosmopolitan, January 1925.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. Our cousin -- the Englishman. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 5 p. 36 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. Small towns ahoy! Golf is coming. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 16 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Incomplete
  2. Published in American Magazine, July 1920, under title "Look out for your husbands! Golf's coming."
  3. Published as "Golf" in Ade's Single blessedness and other observations. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922, p. 148-168.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. Society. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 3 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by Optional full line readings for society. Carbon of typescript document 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Ade, George, 1866-1944, author. To the naval academy men of 1923. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 2 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Alacque, O. A. To Henry Cuyler Bunner. Sending him book containing lines by Bunner. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from E. C. Stedman's Songs and ballads... New York, printed for the Book Fellows' Club, 1884, which contains a poem by Bunner on leaf following title page. (Lilly PS2914 .S7 1884).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1965.

Box 4
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888, novelist. Boston, Massachusetts. To Mrs. Graham. Thinking of a new book like Old Fashioned Girl. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 4 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907, writer, editor. Autograph. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On verso: "God save the Commonwealth of Mo Oliver Warner, Secr. 1871."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Provenance unknown. 1949.

bound Bound
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907, writer, editor. Sonnet. First line reads: I vex me not with brooding on the years... , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 leaf 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Fourteen lines in ink
  2. Paper watermarked: Rand Avery & Co. Boston
  3. Inlaid on leaf in volume (34 cm.) bound in blue with blank pages
  4. With corrections and variations in lines 9, 11, and 13 as published in Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy... Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891 (Lilly PS1024 .S4) page 39

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. The Scholars' Windmill, Brooklyn, New York. 1976.

bound Bound
Anderson, Poul, 1926- , writer. Brain Wave. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 200 leaves 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In box
  2. Alternate titles on first page: The Wierd of the Gods and The Escape
  3. Pen, pencil, and typed corrections
  4. Inscribed to Kent Kimes
  5. Published with minor variations by Ballantine, New York, in 1954 (Lilly PS3551 .N378 B81)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. M. Hime, Idyllwild, California. 1980.

Box Vault 2
Andrews, V. C. Flowers in the Attic annotated typescript draft , before 1980

Physical Description: 534 unbound leaves with proofreader's marks and editing changes

Scope and Contents: "While the novel Flowers in the Attic is the brainchild of Virginia Andrews alone, the phenomenon, the legend, and the immediate publishing success of the book owe as much or more to the far-reaching vision of her editor. Praised with genial condescension as a "clever young woman" (Stephen Rubin, "Blooms of Darkness") in an early article, it was the then-27-year-old Patty who saw "something special" in what was then a mere 98-page manuscript, acquiring it for Pocket Books in 1978; Patty who defended its dialogue to the Pocket sales director ("It's her style – it may be awful, but it is a style"); Patty whose editorial letters guided Andrews in expanding her visionary but sparse text to a 600-page epic and thence to its somewhat reduced published form. Patty, who convinced Pocket Books to put its full force behind it, moved with "a feverish combination of in-house enthusiasm and an aggressive hard-sell marketing campaign." And when this third and final typed manuscript was returned from the printer, it was to Ann Patty that Andrews gave it, in gratitude and appreciation.

The manuscript includes a considerable amount of unpublished material lined out by Patty, along with her (and at least one copyeditor's) editorial queries and lengthy, detailed notes: a gentle challenge to the existence of the word "hereforetowith," an extensive effort at deciphering the Flowers chronology and enforcing consistency upon the Dollenganger children's ages and length of captivity, and a genuinely heroic effort to reduce redundancy and eliminate blatant contradictions and physical impossibilities. A few of the inserted slips retain Andrews's own responses in a neat cursive, clarifying "confusing" sentences and agreeing to certain deletions. In later pages, battered by relentless leaps of time and logic, the editorial notes come near the brink of exasperation; "Why don't [the children] just take off & run to the police?" one note wonders. Another: "You begin to lose sympathy for them for being almost stupid." And later: "She [Cathy] can't be that naïve." Patty's strong-minded editorial discipline only heightened the power of Andrews's "lasciviously fertile imagination" (Rubin), and she remains a champion of both Flowers and her own work on it: "I'm very proud of it, because I think without me it never would have been published. I did a lot of editorial work on the novel. I did even more on all her subsequent novels. In some ways, I was more a collaborator than an editor.""

-Bookseller's description, Type Punch Matrix

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. Type Punch Matrix, 2023.

bound Bound
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Horn), 1857-1948, novelist. Geographical Fiction. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 16 leaves 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Written in ink on lined paper with corrections in pen and blue pencil
  2. Note on verse of leaf 15 reads: "I am afraid I have not spelled the Russian gentleman's name aright. Mrs. McCreery will know!"
  3. In brown slip case
  4. Accompanied by typescript

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. The Scholars' Windmill, Brooklyn, New York. 1976.

Box 4
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Horn), 1857-1948, novelist. 606 W. 116th Street, New York. To Miss Comstock. Refers to an application for service with the Red Cross in France. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Basshe, Emanuel Jo, 1899-1939, playwright. Rock Tavern, New York. To Montgomery Evans. Mentions that he has been ill and that "This was a hell of a summer for me but I feel better now and am rushing to finish a play before I am forced to come back to NY to look for some sort of a job." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Letter dated Aug. 23 and addressed to Monts [sic]
  2. Removed from One Act Plays for Stage and Study, Fourth Series, New York: Samuel French, 1928 (Lilly PR1245 .O5 ser. 4).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 4
Basshe, Emanuel Jo, 1899-1939, playwright. 311 West 85th Street, New York City, New York. To Montgomery Evans. Writes that he has been sick and needs some money. "The play novel: TALL WORLD BROKEN is in the hands of the publisher..." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 12 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Letter dated Dec. 9 and addressed to Monts [sic]
  2. Removed from Emanuel Jo Basshe, Earth, New York: Macaulay Company, c1927 (Lilly PS3503 .A842 E12 copy 1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 4
Beers, Ethelinda (Eliot), 1827-1879, poet. The picket guard. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph poem signed 2 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On verso of page 2 "From Mrs. DePost NY Nov. 29, 1865."
  2. Signed the poem Ethel Lynn Beers

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943, author. To Mr. Kadlec. Lost book. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Provenance unknown. 1963.

Box 4
Bly, Robert, 1926- , editor, poet. The Seventies, Odin House, Madison, Minnesota. To Charles Plymell. "I like much of this - especially the second page - strong images in there..." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph card signed 10 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Verso has printed text of The Walnut Tree Orchard by Wang Wei and P'ei Ti, adaptations by Robert Bly
  2. Removed from Two Poems by Rotert Bly, pages from a forthcoming book by Bly and Hui-Ming, The Massachusetts Review, 1969.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1972.

Box 4
Bowen, Catherine (Drinker), 1897-1973, author. My Friends the Librarians. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 16 leaves 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Numerous holograph corrections
  2. Accompanied by seven sheets of galley proof with holograph corrections
  3. Published in Atlantic Monthly, March 1958

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Modern Poetry Association, 1018 North State Street, Chicago, Illinois. 1964.

Box 4
Bratman, Donald Jay, playwright. Freddy's Coming. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 15 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Noted as: tentative title
  2. In Pica and Elite typefaces with corrections in ink throughout

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transfer from Lilly Library Book Department, following purchase from Phoenix Book Shop, NY, in 1970. 1983.

Box 4
Brougham, John, 1814-1880, actor, dramatist. Astor House, Committee Room of American Dramatic Fund. To Fitz Greene Halleck. Invitation to speak at first benefit of American Dramatic Fund Association. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Letter dated January 26th

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased in 1962 from Sidney C. Woodward, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts. 1975.

Box 4
Burnett, Frances Eliza (Hodgson), 1849-1924, novelist. 44 Lexham Gardens, South Kensington, S.W. To Lady Dorothy. Concerning the reading of Little Ford Fauntleroy, Editha's Burglar and The Grand Little Grain of Wheat to the William Thackery clan. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted in Burnett's Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories... London, Frederick Warne, 1890 (Lilly PZ7 .B964 L7 1890).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1979.

Bound Vault 2
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, poet. Thanatopsis. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 4 p. 29 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in green morocco volume. Protection case.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Burroughs, William Seward, 1914-1997, author. Literary Autobiography or Key File/Guide to Folio Time. Beginning "of this trip became the Yage letters" and ending "Here too I disgraced myself by". , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript carbon signed 1 leaf 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published on p. 76-77 of Miles Associates, London, A Descriptive catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive, Covent Garden Press Limited, 1973
  2. Removed from the above title (Lilly PS3503 .U78 Z48).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 4
Cain, James Mallahan, 1892-1977, novelist. At the Galloping Domino. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document 142 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. No page 74
  2. In black binder
  3. On title page note reading "Subject magazine release date from H.N. Swanson, Inc., West Hollywood, Calif."
  4. Published in 1946 as Sinful Woman by Avon Editions

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Joseph the Provider, 1247 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA. 1974.

bound Bound
Cain, James Mallahan, 1892-1977, novelist. Calling card with signature. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 4x8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signature written on both sides.
  2. Removed from Cain's Past All Dishonor, New York, Knopf, 1946 (Lilly PS3505 .A28 P28).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1976.

Box 4
Caleb West: a criticism of Francis Hopkinson Smith's manuscript Caleb West, by an unidentified writer. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 14 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil
  2. Pages 1 and 2 missing
  3. Removed from Francis Hopkinson Smith's Caleb West... Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1898. (Lilly PS2864 .C3 1898).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1966.

Box 4
Caroline Maria Hewins and sister Anna: photograph. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Document 1 p. 15.5 x 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Glossy print, faded
  2. Caroline Maria seated with book in hand and sister Anna at her knee, both dressed in clothing of Civil War period
  3. Removed from Hewins, A Mid-Century Child and Her Books, New York, Macmillan Company, 1926 (Lilly Z720 .H59).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1984.

Box 4
Cather, Willa Sibert, 1873-1947, novelist. Autograph. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 10.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In ink
  2. Attached to cardboard mounting

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Indiana University Music Library. 1982.

Box 4
Child, Francis James, 1825-1896, philologist. Cambridge, Massachusetts. To Patrick Kevin Foley. Refers to the opera Il Pesceballo which was "performed for patriotic objects." , n.d. Mar. 12 -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by another letter from Child to Foley dated Mar. 25 which also deals with the performances of the opera. Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.
  2. Removed from Il Pesceballo... Cambridge, Massachusetts printed at the Riverside Press, 1862. (Lilly PS1292 .C85 I5 1862).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

bound Bound
Child, Lydia Maria (Francis), 1802-1880, antislavery writer. Brackett's bust of John Brown. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in black morocco volume lettered "John Brown Album, Emancipation Evening 1863" and contains other manuscripts by prominent authors.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

bound Bound
Child, Lydia Maria (Francis), 1802-1880, antislavery writer. The hero's heart. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in black morocco volume lettered "John Brown Album, Emancipation Evening 1863" and contains other manuscripts by prominent authors.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

bound Bound
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910, humorist, novelist. Double sginature on card: Yours Truly/Saml L. Clemens/Mark Twain. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 leaf 5.5 x 8.6 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Card is mounted on paper with a partial watermark bearing the number 1887 and attached to an undated, unsigned black and tan printed representation of Mark Twain, somewhat in the style of the twenties
  2. Compare double signature to that on card mounted inside cover of Twain, A Tramp Abroad (Lilly PS1321 .A1)
  3. Compare signature with that on page 81 in Great Forgers and Famous Fakes by Charles Hamilton, 1980 (Lilly Z41 .H217 G78).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office in May, 1975. 1989.

bound Bound
Connell, Evan S. To Mr. Ricker, dated Feb. 3. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter 1 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Connell, Mrs. Bridge, New York, Viking Press, 1959 (Lilly PS3553 .O5 M67)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1980.

Box 4
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900, author. The O'Ruddy. Negative microfilm from the original manuscript in the possession of Donald Klopfer, vice-president of Random House. , n.d. -

Quantity: 1 Reel

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Reproduction made by the Central Microfilm Service, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47401. 1968.

Box 4
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900, author. Ravensbrook, Oxted, Surrey. To "My dear Frank." Please ask the Journal if they owe me anything for the Portsmouth fluke. Explain your advance and ask them, please, if there is any more up their sleeves. Au revoir." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed "Your uncle Stephen"

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Seven Gables Bookshop, 3 W. 46th Street, New York. 10036. 1971.

Box 4
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900, author. 33 East 22nd Street. To "My dear Miss Hill." "I have ben wondering if you are not making game of me. And yet I suppose the egotism of the average man is large enough to make it all appear perfectly sincere." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 6 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Carnegie Book Shop, 140 E. 59th Street, New York, New York, 10022. 1968.

Box 5
Dahlberg, Edward. Correspondence, reviews, autograph, and related clippings
Box 4
Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916, novelist, playwright. "Cause I beat the town." Gallagher. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 11 x 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscription mounted on inside front cover of David's Gallagher... New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. (Lilly PS1522 .G3, 1891).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Derleth, August William, 1909-1971, author. Miss Esperon, by Stephen Grendon. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 11 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Carries holograph revisions
  2. Signed: August Stephen Grendon Derleth

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Keith Baker, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1958.

Box 4
Di Prima, Diane, 1934- , poet, editor. To Robert Alfred Jump Wilson. Hopes he can use "this book full of my annotations." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph note 1 p. 26.8 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Addressed to: Dear Bob
  2. Refers to the book from which the note was removed
  3. Accompanied by address label
  4. Removed from Mark Schorer, William Blake... New York, Vintage Books, 1959 (Lilly PR4147 .S39 1959).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1983.

Box 4
"Doubtless the editor endures" first line of manuscript. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 10 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Unidentified manuscript in defense of James Whitcomb Riley

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, novelist. The Carnegie works at Pittsburgh, leaf 27 of 28 numbered leaves. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 29 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Written in pencil with corrections in ink
  2. Removed from Theodore Dreiser, The Carnegie works at Pittsburgh. Chelsea, New York. Privately printed, 1929. No. 27 of 27 printed copies. (Lilly TN755 .C3 D7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1967.

bound Bound
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, author. The day of the coon-song. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 15 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Carnegie Book Shop, 140 East 59th Street, New York, New York 10022. 1958.

bound Bound
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945, author. New York fifty years ago and today. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed p. 1-15, 21-24, 28-36. 22-25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. End lacking

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Carnegie Book Shop, 140 East 59th Street, New York, New York 10022. 1958.

bound Bound
Dunne, Finley Peter, 1867-1936, satirist. Mr. Dooley Discusses War. "Well sir" said Mr. Dooley, "it's wonderful what that man Andrew Carnaygie can do." "What's he been up to uv' late?" "He's been abolishin' war." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 21 leaves 24 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in green leather
  2. Written in ink on stationery of Congress Hotel in Chicago

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Carnegie Book Shop, New York City. 1974.

Box 4
Elmslie Kenward, 1929- , poet, playwright. No demise for furtive Edna [play]. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) document 14 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Red carbon with holograph corrections in pencil

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 18 Cornelia Street, New York 14, New York. 1966.

Bound Vault 2
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, essayist. Concord fight. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Generally known as Concord hymn
  2. Accompanied by an explanatory typewritten sheet, two pictures of Emerson, and a picture of Emerson's residence
  3. Bound in green morocco volume. In dark blue protective case
  4. Published in Emerson, Poems. London, Chapman, Brothers, 1847, p. 200. (Lilly PS1624 .A17 1847).
  5. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Eshleman, Clayton, 1935- , poet. The Atlanteans. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Poem/drawing in colored felt-tip ink
  2. Publication history unknown
  3. Inserted after title page of Eshleman, Hades in manganese. Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. (Lilly PS3555 .S5 H12 copy 3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

Box 4
Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968, novelist. "To greet you with every good wish for Christmas and the New Year." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Card signed 10 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Edna Ferber's Mother knows best, Garden City, New York, New York, Doubleday Page & Co., 1927. (Lilly PS3511 .E5 M9).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1969.

Box 4
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. "Allegorical tableaux representing Ticknor & Co." first line of drawing text: drawing in pen and ink with water colorings. , n.d. -

Quantity: 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Enclosed with Field to Ticknor, June 22, 1887
  2. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. A Chicago Literary Circle: in the similitude of a laurel wreath drawing in pen and ink. , n.d. -

Quantity: 19 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.
  2. Printed in Eugene Field's Culture's garland. Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1887, p. xv. (Lilly PS1667 .C9).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. The end, drawing in pen and ink. , n.d. -

Quantity: 10 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from reprint of chapter XVIII, "Eugene Field's First Book," of Caroline Ticknor's Glimpses of authors.
  2. Printed in Eugene Field's Culture's garland. Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1887, p. 236. (Lilly PS1667 .C9).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

bound Bound
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, poet. With Trumpet and Drum and Other Poems by Eugene Field. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 42 leaves 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Hand attributed to Eugene Field but doubtful
  2. Bound in brown and red suede
  3. Fieldiana on cover
  4. Accompanied by clipping reproducing one of the poems and referring to its former owner

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Bishop Tarkington Dowden, Beverly Hills, California. 1974.

Box 4
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, poet. To Gregory Corso Castro: US relations with Castro and with Latin America; situation in Congo; death. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph and typescript document signed 4 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 18 Cornelia Street, New York, New York 10014. 1963.

Box 4
Gottlieb, Robert. To Updike, John. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Lilly PT2681 .U74 P313 1986a)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of Breon Mitchell. 2002.

Box 4
Gover, Robert, 1929- , writer. Jack's and Bobby's. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document 6 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Manuscript for printer
  2. First page marked out

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. Serendipity Books, 1790 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, California 94709. 1979.

Box 4
Hall, Donald, 1928- , poet. Runway. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In ink; on recto of final blank
  2. Fair copy of poem printed on p. 8
  3. First published in the New Yorker, vol. 52, no. 3 (March 1976), p. 104
  4. In Hall, The toy bone. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1979. (Lilly PS3515 .A328 T75 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

Box 4
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author. "To Frank Joseph Hogan this pamphlet, the mss. of which I sent to the publisher with a letter asking him to return it...and later found the mss. and the letter asking him to return it for sale..." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscribed on p. 2 of wrappers of Hemingway, Today is Friday. Englewood, NJ: The As Stable Publications, 1926 (Lilly PS3515 .E53 T58).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1985.

Box 4
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, novelist. A poet. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Eight lines of verse in purple ink
  2. In lower left hand corner: "Columbus, 1859/Boston 1882"
  3. Published in Poems of W.D. Howells, Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1873 (Lilly PS2030 .A2 1873), page 170.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. The Jenkins Company, Box 2085, Austinn, Texas, 78767. 1976.

Box 4
Hubbard, Frank McKinney, 1868-1930, humorist. The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana. To James Arthur Stuart. Refers to Abe fakes. "There is only one Abe & one Jim Stuart." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From Pauline Marshall, Retail Food Advertising Department, The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1967.

Box 4
Hubbard, Frank McKinney, 1858-1930, humorist. The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana. To James Arthur Stuart. Refers to "book page with review" and hopes he will be "coming into the Rotary Club again." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From Pauline Marshall, Retail Food Advertising Dept., The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1967.

Box 4
Hubbard, Frank McKinney, 1858-1930, humorist. The Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana. To James Arthur Stuart. "Thank you for the fine book notice." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 19 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From Pauline Marshall, Retail Food Advertising Dept., The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1967.

Box 4
Hudson, Mary (Clemmer), 1839-1884, author. To ?. Copy of a letter written about a colored school in Washington, D.C. , n.d. -

Quantity: 4 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Holograph copy

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Lathrop C. Harper, 8 West 40th Street, New York, New York, 10018, unknown. 1968.

Box 4
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859, author. Essay about women in German. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 4 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In ink
  2. Signature of Irving may be a copy
  3. Verso of 4th page has only the words: An Auguste [sic]

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Book Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1974.

Box 4
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859, author. Life of Washington. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. One page
  2. Presented by his publisher G.P. Putham to L.E. Brigham, April 11, 1872.
  3. Printed version differs slightly. New York, G.P. Putham & Co., 1855-1859, 5 vols., IV, p. 38-39. (Lilly E312 .I6).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859, author. Note on Iraq. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Irving's A history of New York...by Diedrich Knickerbocker. New York, 1809. (Lilly F122 .I7 v.1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1963.

Box 4
Jackson, Helen Maria (Fiske) Hunt, 1830-1885, novelist, poet. Fragment from a manuscript of one of her books. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from her book, Ramona. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1884.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Jackson, Helen Maria (Fiske) Hunt, 1830-1885, novelist, poet. To Mrs. Roberts. Personal letter. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 7 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Jacobi, Lotte, photographer. Photograph of profile view of Louis Untermeyer. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Photograph signed 33 x 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscribed by Louis Untermeyer to "Irma & Mordy" [Bauman], 1965

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Mordecai Bauman, Stockbridge, Mass. 1981.

Box 4
Kelly, Robert, 1935- , poet. Thor's hammer & Woden's eye...(first line). , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed at end of poem in ink
  2. With illustration of ace of hearts in red ink
  3. Inscribed in Kelly's Sonnets (1967)... Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1968. (Lilly PS3521 .E4195 S64 copy 3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1979.

bound Bound
Keppel, Charles William, 1906- , poet. Simplexities - A Selection [poems]. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 202 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound in figured gold and blue cloth
  2. Personal note about contents on page 42
  3. Illustrated by mounted clippings of views and objects
  4. Accompanied by letter of Keppel to Librarian, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, dated Nov. 13, 1983. Typescript letter signed 1 p. 28 cm.
  5. Other papers of Keppel located at Butler Library, Columbia University: NUCMUC 73-87

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Charles Keppel, Albany, California. 1984.

Bound Vault 2
Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918, poet. Trees. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published in Poetry, August, 1913.
  2. Set to music by Phyllis Fergus in 1919
  3. In dark red cloth protective case
  4. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Kimbrough, Emily, 1899- , author. Inscription "For Betty [i.e. Elisabeth Woodworth Ball] - My very first friend and 'chum'?. Apologizes "if my memory has not always been accurate...it has been colored only by affection." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 20.2 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscribed on front free endpaper of Kimbrough, How dear to my heart, New York, Dscopecontent, Mead, 1944

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1985.

Box 4
Krout, Mary Hannah, 1851-1927, feminist, journalist. 238 S. Third Avenue, Mt. Vernon, Georgia. Opportunity. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 14 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Kubly, Herbert, 1915- , author. Punch and Judy. A play in three acts. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 145 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Carbon copy with holograph corrections

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. David Christopher Lievesley Stock. From the library of his father, Keith Lievesley Stock, 18 Morpeth Mansions, Morpeth Terrace, London, England. 1970.

Box 4
Lee, Albert, 1868-1946, editor. Observations on "Tommy Tscopecontentles": its first appearance serially in Harper's Young People in 1895; and that the story was written to make it of interest to children "with occasional wise-cracks that would appeal to their elders. But the word 'wise-crack' was not known then..." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 18.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscribed in pencil on blank preceding the frontispiece of Lee, Tommy Tscopecontentles, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1896

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1986.

bound Bound
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977, poet. Journal of poems by Robert Lowell, law notes of Frank S. Parker, and passages from a novel by Jean Stafford. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 430 p. 21 x 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by Robert Lowell, "Almost of islands a perse" first line, p. 12-13; An analysis of Novum Organum, p. 104-105; Autumn, p. 24; The bachelor's wealthy apartment, p. 20-21, 400; A body on the beach, p. 50; "But wherefore do not you a mightier way" first line, p. 308-310; The cloister, p. 47; Colored dream, p. 31; An elegy on the maturity of our age, p. 35-37; "Father, after six days of condolence" first line, p. 150; The flame-colored satin of lust, p. 14-19; Funeral at Dunbarton, p. 51; "Girls whom O'Darrow loved somehow," first line, p. 30; "God of our fathers, what is man," first line, p. 46; Greek notes p. 314; Meeting house hill, p. 430; Milleniums, p. 42; Narcissus, p. 25; Notes and lines (fragments) of verse, p. 106-107; Notes for an article on the World's Body, p. 250; An oil-painted entombment, p. 33; "Over rustic intrenchments, enclosures, bogs" first line, p. 12 and 15; "Perched on a prominent," p. 49; A prayer for my grandfather, p. 151; The psychological tower, p. 22-23; Purgatory, p. 52; The ravages of remorse, p. 26; Sea holly, p. 38-39; "She is older than the rocks among which she sits" first line, p. 428; Star-lit water, p. 45; Venus' estranged devotee, p. 28-29; Verdancy, p. 40-41, 43; Verse exercises, with accented syllables, p. 300-305; Verses in Latin and Latin vocabulary with English, p. 100-102; Voids, p. 44.
  2. Also accompanied by Frank S. Parker, law notes, p. 1-6, 9, and 11.
  3. Also accompanied by Jean Stafford, "Domestic quarrels," p. 61; "The encounter: but I then withdrew my hand," p. 113; "He was a gentle, pious old man whose paintings people bought," p. 85; "I have said that," p. 417; "I sit, an old woman...", p. 87; Long passages from novel in progress, p. 335-343, 361, 421-422; "Mr. ______, the Bellevue grocer...", p. 259; "My godmother..." p. 149; Notes for novel, p. 245; p. 245, 323; "On the feast of Saint _________...", p. 121; The suicide, p. 159; The wedding (chapter titles and notes), p. 185; When after his wife's death, p. 153; "to here," p. 380; writing on one line (group of letters), p. 321.
  4. Also accompanied by one hundred eighty blank pages, 7, 8, 10, 27, 32, 34, 48, 62, 75-82, 88-90, 99, 103, 108, 114, 119-120, 122-130, 133-138, 152, 154, 160-170, 177-178, 186, 189-190, 193-200, 217-218, 221-236, 246-249, 256-258, 268-284, 295-299, 306-307, 311-313, 322, 324-328, 331-332, 344-358, 362, 365-379, 381-399, 401-404, 418-420, 423-427, 429.
  5. Also accompanied by one hundred twenty-six pages missing, 53-60, 63-74, 83-84, 91-98, 109-112, 115-118, 131-132, 137-148, 155-158, 171-176, 179-184, 187-188, 191-192, 201-216, 219-220, 237-244, 285-294, 315-320, 329-330, 333-334, 359-360, 363-364, 405-416. On the spine of the volume "Law Notes, 6-L, Coop."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. House of Books, Ltd, 18 E. 60th Street, New York, New York, 10022. 1969.

Box 4
Mencken, Henry Louis, 1880-1956, author, editor. 1524 Hollins St., Baltimore, Maryland. To Michael von [sic] Monahan. "Unluckily I have no copies of my Convention stuff. Monday I am off for San Francisco. George Sterling promises a full-length bath in vin rouge." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript letter signed 1 leaf 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Dated June 17
  2. Mounted in The Gist of Nietzsche, arranged by Henry L. Mencken, Boston, Jon W. Luce & Co., 1910 (Lilly B3312 .E5 M4).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 4
Miller, Cincinnatus Heine, 1841-1913, author. The Hights, Dimond, California. To Burns. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 14 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Written at the grave of Burns, 1870
  2. Printed in Joaquin Miller's Poems, San Francisco, Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1917, in vol. 2 p. 173 under the heading "Byron" (Lilly PS2395 .B3).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Miller, Cincinnatus Heine, 1841-1913, author. To Abbie Leland Miller. A friendly letter about social engagements, and plays. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908, author. Edgewood, [illegible], Connecticut. To ______ Marvin and _______ Front. "Respecting Out-of-Town Places ... I have indicated only 3 slight changes ... I observe however with some regret that you have not changed the numerals (pagination) to the antique form belonging to new Editions ... Proofs by same mail." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. The stationery is watermarked 1883.
  2. Removed from Donald G. Mitchel's Bound Together. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. (Lilly PS2404 .B7).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

Box 4
Nathan, Robert, 1894-1985, novelist. Messer Marco Polo; play from Donn Byrne's novel. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) document signed 85 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Text of play only
  2. Cover label: Sam Jaffe Agency, 119 West 57th Street, New York, 19, N.Y.
  3. Book by Robert Nathan, Lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Music by Robert Emmett Dolan

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchase. Joseph the Provider. Santa Barbara, California 93101. 1983.

Box 4
Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947, author. Righteous wrath. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph poem signed 1 p. 21 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

bound Bound
Norris, Frank, 1870-1902, novelist. Original manuscript page of McTeague from the Argonaut Edition of the Works of Frank Norris. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 40 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Slight variation from its publication on pages 175-177 in Norris, McTeague, a story of San Francisco, New York, Doubleday and McClure Co., 1899 (Lilly PS2472 .M2)
  2. Page formerly included in Vol. 1 of a set of The Argonaut Manuscript Limited Edition of Frank Norris's Works, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. See page 19 of Lohf & Sheehy, Frank Norris, A Bibliography, Los Gatos, California, The Talisman Press, 1959 (Lilly PS2473 .A35 L83).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift of John Carter. Transferred from Lilly Library Director's office. 1975.

bound Bound
Norris, Frank, 1870-1902, novelist. To Mr. Page. Miss Rayner's novel. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 14 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on inside of front cover of Norris ... The pit ... New York, Doubleday, Page, 1903. (Lilly PS2472 .P6 1903).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1964.

bound Bound
Padgett, Ron, 1942- , poet. Ubu Bound. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 51 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Drama in five acts
  2. Bound in red
  3. Heavily corrected in pencil
  4. Three preliminary pages; two corrections laid in following numbered pages 27 and 45
  5. Full page of revisions dated May 4-5, 1966, bound in following page 45

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Phoenix Book Shop, 22 Jones Street, New York, New York, 10014. 1981.

Box 4
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852, actor, playwright. Hayward, No. 22 Lancaster Street, Burton Crescent. To Robert William Elliston. "I have two pieces in the rough ... one a ... serious prose play, and the other a comedy." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Petersham, Maud (Fuller), 1890-1971, author, illustrator; and Petersham, Miska, 1888-1960, author, illustrator. Jesus as a young boy, surrounded by birds and animals. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Colored pencil drawing 1 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Printed as the frontispiece of Maud and Miska Petersham, Jesus' Story. New York, Macmillan Company, 1942. (Lilly BT302 .P44).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Justin G. Schiller Ltd., P.O. Box 1667, F. D. R. Station, New York, New York 10022. 1975.

Box 4
Petersham, Maud (Fuller), 1890-1971, author, illustrator; and Petersham, Miska, 1888-1960, author, illustrator. The Silver Mace, A Story of Williamsburg. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Carbon of typescript document 40 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. A bound paste up copy of Maud and Miska Petersham, The Silver Mace. New York, Macmillan Company, 1956 (Lilly PZ9 .P485 S5)
  2. Holograph pencil corrections and notes of the authors
  3. Pencil illustrations, some colored with crayon and water colors
  4. Three illustrations found in the printed work on pages 12, 20 and 26 not included in the manuscript copy
  5. Front end sheets illustrated
  6. Two black and white proof sheets for illustrations on pages 22 and 30

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Justin G. Schiller Ltd., P.O. Box 1667, F. D. R. Station, New York, New York 10022. 1975.

Box 4
Photograph of Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes. , n.d. -

Quantity: 13 x 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Black and white photograph
  2. Photographer: Griffith J. Davis
  3. Published on verso of half-title in Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters (1925-1967). New York: Dscopecontent, Mead, 1980
  4. Accompanied by mimeo of "News from Dscopecontent, Mead"
  5. Removed from copy of above book (Lilly PS3503 .O474 Z5 1980).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1980.

Box 4
Photograph of Claire Clotilde (Dreiser) with her husband Harry Victor Gormley and their son Paul, sitting in an open-top touring automobile. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Photograph 9 x 14.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Claire Clotilde (Dreiser) Gormley, 1869-1918, was the sister of novelist Theodore Dreiser
  2. Harry Victor (whose birth name was Harry Vincent) Gormley, 1861-1936, was a letter carrier, machinist, realtor, and map publisher
  3. Paul Gormley, 1902-1976, who sometimes used the initial D for Dreiser, became a news reporter
  4. Car model is comparable to those of 1918
  5. Removed from miscellaneous uncataloged Dreiser material (Lilly PS3507 .R55)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1980.

Box 4
Photograph of Emanuel Jo Basshe by Sherril Schell. , n.d. -

Quantity: 12 x 9.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On verso: Em Jo Basshe. New Playwrights Theatre (author of The Centuries)
  2. Removed from Basshe, Earth. New York: Macaulay Company, c1927 (Lilly PS3503 .A842 E12 copy 1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 4
Photograph of Harriette Louisa (Simpson) Arnow, 1908-1986, author, issued by The Macmillan Company. , n.d. -

Quantity: 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by Fact Sheet issued by The Macmillan Company for the publication of Arnow's "Flowering of the Cumberland"; publication date: Oct. 28, 1963
  2. Removed from Arnow, The Flowering of the Cumberland. New York, Macmillan Co., 1963 (Lilly F442.2 A76 F64)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1981.

Box 4
Photograph of Horace Traubel, 1858-1919, author. , n.d. -

Quantity: 9 x 11.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Black and white print; chipped at top corners
  2. Removed from Traubel, Chants communal. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1904 (Lilly PS3089 .T7 C45).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

Box 4
Photograph of Isaac Rosenfeld, 1918-1956, literary critic, playing his clarinet. , n.d. -

Quantity: 10 x 13 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Rosenfeld, The Age of Enormity. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1962 (Lilly PN710 .R813).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 4
Photograph of Jerome Charyn, 1937- , author of the new novel, THE TAR BABY, a ribald parody of a literary quarterly, including ads and letters to the editor. , n.d. -

Quantity: 14 x 12 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston on February 5, 1972.
  2. Photo credit: Marie Ringwald

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Book Department, Lilly Library. 1979.

Box 4
Photograph of Katherine Anne Porter, 1890-1980, author. , n.d. -

Quantity: 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Framed
  2. Inscribed to Henry Schuman, Spring 1937 by Katherine Anne Porter

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Henry Schuman, 2211 Broadway, New York, New York. 1960.

Box 4
Photograph of Peter Soyer Beagle, 1939- , whose new colection, THE FANTASY WORLD OF PETER BEAGLE will be published by Viking Press November 13, 1978. , n.d. -

Quantity: 14.5 x 11.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Credit: Michael E. Bry.
  2. Size indicates photograph only without wording

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Book Department, Lilly Library. 1979.

Box 4
Photograph of Rudy Vallee by Hal Phyfe, inscribed: "Most sincerely Rudy Vallee." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Photo signed 13.5 x 10 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Signed by Vallee in green ink
  2. Full size of board on which photo is printed: 20 x 12.5 cm.
  3. Board punctured by triangular holes around edge
  4. Verso in pencil: Property of Cornelius Blanks
  5. Verso in print: Copyright Camera Portrait By Hal Phyfe 50 W 56 1508 Circle
  6. Removed from Vallee, Vagabond Dreams Come True, E.P. Dutton & Co., N.Y., 1930 (Lilly ML419 .V2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1983.

Box 4
Photograph of Vachel Lindsay, 1879-1931, poet. , n.d. -

Quantity: 23 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Taken by Roy Rushburg at Crawfordsville, Indiana.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. John Nixon, Centerville, Indiana. 1961.

Box 4
Photograph of William Goyen, author of THE HOUSE OF BREATH. Random House/Bookworks. , n.d. -

Quantity: 15.5 x 11.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Credit: Michael Robert Cannata.
  2. Removed from Goyen, The House of Breath. New York, Random House, 1975 (Lilly PS3557 .O95 H84).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1979.

Box 4
Piatt, John James, 1835-1917, journalist, poet. Rose and root. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph poem signature 1 p. 25 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, author. The raven. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 4 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Facsimile reprint (2 copies)
  2. Inscription at end: "Inscribed to Dr. S. A. Whittaker of Phoenixville."
  3. Printed on attached half-leaf: "Exhibited for the first time at Yale University Library in honor of the 150th birthday celebration of Edgar Allan Poe. Courtesy of Richard Gimbel."

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana. 1959.

Box 4
Poe, Edgar Allen, 1809-1849, author. Signature cut from letter: "Most Respy/ Gentlemen,/ Yr Obt. Sr./ Edgar A. Poe" , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 7 x 11 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from lithograph of Poe by S.J. Woolf, n.d. (Lilly Prints, 1957).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1976.

Box 4
Poems by various persons. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document p. 3-64 33 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. 2nd copy of p. 32-50
  2. All poems in the same hand
  3. Gift of Olivant
  4. Contents: Lock called demon, by James Boyer May; A not-so-Chinese purport, by James Boyer May; Poems on a late September night, by Christopher Waters; Park snow melting, by Emilie Carolyn Glen; Brock lead winner, by Judson Crews; A long story, by Frederick Eckman; Cat: hit-and-run, by David Lyttle; A measure of all things, by Sam Bradley; The painted signs, by Guy Owen; When we dropped the bomb, by Guy Owen; I too Elpenor, by Guy Owen; Outside, by Dolores Hammond; Lesson, by Christopher Waters; Hymn of the citizens' council, by Robert E. Anderson, Jr.; Passion is perception, by Fivos Delfis; On the hundred-voiced deserted shore, by Fivos Delfis; We always looked..., by Fivos Delfis; A green megaphone at noon, by Charles Bukowski; Invierno (a season of rain), by K. P. A. Taylor; I think God is dead, by Richard Kelly (2 copies); Caprice Floridane, by Kenneth L. Beaudoin (2 copies); Inner-office memo, by Robert Vaughan (2 copies); Compound interest, by Marion Montgomery (2 copies); The uninvited, by Marion Montgomery (2 copies); Poor J. T., by Marion Montgomery (2 copies); Mr. Wilson: an A. B. C., by Marion Montgomery (2 copies); Most poems bleed biography awhile, by Marion Montgomery (2 copies); The partisan, by Ruth Forbes Sherry (2 copies); The thinker, by Ruth Forbes Sherry (2 copies); Autumn, by Jack Crawford, Jr. (2 copies); Rumor, by Maude Rubin (2 copies); The listener by Zack Walsh (2 copies); Tribute to Laura, by William Corrington (2 copies); The grandfather cycle, by David Rafael Wang.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Olivant. D.V. Smith, P.O. Box 1653, Coral Gables, Florida. 1963.

Box 4
Porter, Gene (Stratton), 1863-1924, novelist. Limberlost Cabin, Rome City, Indiana. To Hannah Ida Curry. Has just been moving into her new cabin and is too busy "to add public appearances to [her] work as a writer..." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 11.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Recipient of letter identified by donor of letter

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Elizabeth J. Yoder, University Park, Maryland. 1981.

Box 4
Postcard view of Truman Capote mailing a letter, published by Fotog. F. Galifi Crupi, Taormina. , n.d. -

Quantity: 8.5 x 14 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Addressed to G.H.P. Williams, 360 E. 55th Street, New York City, by A.A.M.
  2. Bears 5 cent stamp, U.S. Postage

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Keith Baker, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1980.

bound Bound
Randall, James Ryder, 1839-1908, poet, journalist. Eighth verse of Maryland, My Maryland. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Begins: Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll...
  2. Varies from the transcript made by Randall on Sept. 13, 1885, by the use of a comma following the word roll instead of a dash
  3. Paper watermarked Keystone Linen with the keystone symbol and the initials JCB
  4. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office. 1975.

Box 4
Reeve, Arthur Benjamin, 1880-1936, author. To Charles T. Scott. Fragment reading "With the best wishes of 'Craig Kennedy' Arthur B Reeve. To Charles T. Scott. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Reeve's Craig Kennedy on the farm... New York, Harper, 1925. (Lilly PS3535 .E31 C84).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1958.

Box 4
Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982, poet. Past midnight, In the dark, Under the winter stars, Tendrils of ice, Creep through the duckweed. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 leaf 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Enclosed in front pocket and also published in Kenneth Rexroth, Sky, sea, bird, trees, earth, house, beasts, flowers. Santa Barbara, California, Unicorn Press, 1971. (Lilly PS3535 .E85 S621 copy 1).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 4
Riggs, Kate Douglas (Smith) Wiggin, 1856-1923, author. Fragment. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter

Scope and Content:

  1. Mutilated
  2. Removed from The Chap-book, May 15-July 15, 1898. (Lilly AP2 .C4 v.9).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1956.

bound Bound
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, poet. The flying islands of the night. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 66 p. 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil
  2. Later draft on lined paper except p. 60
  3. Page 20 missing. Published with considerable variation. Indianapolis, The Bowen-Merrill co., 1892. (Lilly PS2704 .F6 1892 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Maurice Westfall, West Newton, Indiana. 1967.

Box 4
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, poet. Pen and ink drawing of two sailboats with inscription: "God's hand's on the helm and His breath in the sails. Yours always loving son, James Whitcomb Riley." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 7 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on front flyleaf of Riley's Neghborly poems... Indianapolis, Ind., Bowen-Merrill, co., 1891. This copy inscribed by Riley to Elizabeth Mitchell (Loring) Nye. (Lilly PS2704 .N3 1891a).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1962.

Box 4
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, poet. Indianapolis, Indiana. To George C. Shaw, publisher. 53 Pickering Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. Inquired about his order for Piatt's The Hesperian Tree. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Embossed letterhead of James Whitcomb Riley
  2. Dated: Christmas Day
  3. Mounted on heavy paper

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Lilly Library Administrative Office. 1978.

Box 4
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, poet. A Waste of Genius at Zekesbury. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 22 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Written in pencil
  2. Last 35 lines missing as published in Riley, Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury, Indianapolis, Bowen-Merrill Co., 1889 (Lilly 2704 .P6) under the title of At Zekesbury
  3. First published in Current (Chicago) in April, 1886
  4. Accompanied by two letters about the manuscript: Wiggs, George Washington, 1852-1938, publisher. Chicago, Illinois. To Linnaeus Neal Hines, president, Indiana State Normal College, Terre Haute, Indiana. Two letters dated Feb. 10, 1931, Typescript letters signed 1 p. each 26 cm. about how Riley came to write A Waste of Genius...

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Neal O. Hines, Chevy Chase, Maryland. 1975.

Box 4
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935, poet. Too much coffee. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph poem signed 10 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Robinson's Collected poems. The Macmillan Company, 1921. (Lilly PS3535 .O2 A17 1921).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1968.

Box 4
Rorty, James, 1890-1973, author. 383 Madison Ave., New York. To Rosalie Heaton Goodyear. "Thanks for your letter. It is of course delightful to me to have my work heartily liked." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 26.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. On Barton, Durstine & Osborn letterhead
  2. Removed from Rorty, Children of the sun: and other poems. New York: Macmillan, 1926 (Lilly PS3535 .O64 C53).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

Box 4
Rosenfeld, Isaac, 1918-1956, literary critic. Untitled article published as The Two Gides. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 7 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Draft of article published in New Leader, January 3, 1948, and in Rosenfeld, The Age of Enormity. Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1962.
  2. Removed from Rosenfeld, The Age of Enormity. Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1962 (Lilly PN710 .R813).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1974.

Box 4
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, poet. To "Dear Charlie." "Use these anyway." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1958.

bound Bound
Schorer, Mark, 1908-1977, university professor. Sinclair Lewis: an American life. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Multilithed copy 3 volumes 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. "Corrections and deletions made before the book went to the printer are written in and indicated... Typographical errors and errors of fact discovered after publication are also corrected." Letter from Mark Schorer to William R. Cagle, January 7, 1963.
  2. Published under this title: New York, McGraw-Hill, 1961 (Lilly PS3523 .E95 Z825).
  3. Contents: vol. I, 1885-1920; vol. II, 1920-1930; vol. III, 1930-1951
  4. Restricted

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Schorer, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, California. 1963.

Box 4
Sherwood, Robert Emmet, 1896-1955, dramatist. Idiot's Delight. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document 118 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Corrections in blue, red, and pencil on pages 2-1-19 and 2-1-20-21
  2. Cast includes the names of Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Sydney Greenstreet
  3. Noted as: Copyright, 1935
  4. In red paper cover: From Brandt & Brandt Dramatic Dept, Inc., 101 Park Avenue, New York
  5. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1936 (Lilly PS3537 .H67 I18)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Serendipity Books. Berkeley, California. 1982.

Box 4
Smith, Clark Ashton, 1893-1961, poet. Resurrection [poem]. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Contains holograph corrections of typographical errors.
  2. Published in Smith, Selected poems. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971 (Lilly PS3537 .M335 A17 1971)
  3. Removed from Smith, Ebony and crystal: Poems in verse and prose. Auburn, California: Auburn Journal, 1922 (Lilly PS3537 .M335 E15 1922).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1990.

Box 4
Smith, Harry Bache, 1860-1936, author. To Mr. Mac. "Here is the copy for the Printer. Will you have it rushed and let me have proofs." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 12.5 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil on yellow paper
  2. Removed from Smith, Lyrics and Sonnets. Chicago, The Dial Press, 1894 (Lilly PS2869 .S2 L992).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1981.

Box 4
Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza (Nevitte), 1819-1899, novelist. Between two fires: publishers and plagiarists. "The above notes contain the ideas upon which I intended to enlarge and illustrate with examples..." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 2 leaves 26 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Minor corrections
  2. Signature in black ink

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Josiah Kirby Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth (Prescott), 1835-1921, author. 323 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. To William Henry Rideing. Refers to an article for the Youth's Companion. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 18 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from her book, The ambur gods and other stories. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. (Lilly PS2897 .A6 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Steal not this book...I'm afraid you would/ Have something more than/the gout. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 1 p. 16.6 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil
  2. Complete text: Steal not this book/For fear of strife/For here you see/My kitchen knife. Do not steal this book/My friend/Neither borrow it to lend/For if you should be found out/I'm afraid you would/Have something more than/the gout.
  3. On dedication page of book in the center margin the name Maggie Doyle in pencil
  4. In the margin of page 21 the initials A.J.D., in pencil
  5. Inscribed on front pastedown endpaper of Aunt Maggie, A budget of fun for little folks, Boston, Loring, 1863

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. Frances and George Ball Foundation, from the estate of Elisabeth W. Ball, Muncie, Indiana. 1985.

Box 4
Steinbeck, John Ernst, 1902-1968, novelist. London. To Sgt. Morton. "The articles are too hurriedly written to be much good." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 18 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Keith Baker, Baker Paper Company, 36 Broad Street, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1967.

Box 4
Sterling, George, 1869-1926, poet. The fog-sea: a poem. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on front flyleaf of Sterling's Yosemite: an ode... San Francisco, A.M. Robertson, 1916. (Lilly PS3537 .T465 Y6 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1964.

Box 4
Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902, novelist. To "My dear good Josephine." "There was some talk of another palm fern which was to fit the beautiful brass jar you gave me last year ... so I waited ... with my thanks." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 3 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Stockton's Rudder Grange. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. (Lilly PS2927 .R9 1879).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1972.

Box 4
Stryker, Melancthon Woolsey, 1851-1929, college president. 369 Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. To Eugene Field. Regrets that he cannot accept "your invitation for Monday next." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 13 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Tabb, John Bannister, 1845-1909, poet. St. Charles College, Elliott City, Maryland. Star-Jessamine. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph poem signed 1 p. 12 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from The Chap-book, Nov. 15, 1894-May 1, 1895. (Lilly AP2 .C4 v.2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1956.

Bound Vault 2
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. Bimbo the pirate. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 73 + 3 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pencil with many holograph corrections. Printed as No. 11 of The Appleton Little Theatre Plays, edited by Grace Adams. New York and London, D. Appleton and Company, 1926. (Lilly PS3539 .A7 B61).
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. A free camp in the land of the free. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript document signed 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. To Robert Bridges, Scribner & Co., publishers, New York. Is having a luncheon for Arnold Bennett at Princeton Club. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph telegram signed 13 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Not signed in the hand of Booth Tarkington

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. Kennebunkport, Maine. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. "Can you let me remain anonymous for a while as to the serial?" , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 20 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. Hotel Touraine, Boston, Massachusetts. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. "Hope my little expression about Mark Twain arrived in time." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. The Players, 16 Grammercy Park, New York, New York. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. Requests that he give Robert Sloss, an old friend and classmate at Princeton, an interview. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 17 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. To Frederick Atherton Duneka. Sends manuscript for six chapters and hopes to "polish on proofs." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 16 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 5
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946, author. Annotated typescript for "Peeping Wizards"
Box 4
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, author. "After whatever revolutions in my moods & experiences" first line. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Typescript 1 p. 28 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Incomplete

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907, editor. She died--yet is not dead. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 21 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Music by E. Ives, Jr.
  2. Alternate titles "The death of a Christian female" and "Drying and yet living."
  3. Words of 4 verses in manuscript.
  4. Printed music with words of first verse mounted on manuscript.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Provenance and date unknown.

Box 4
"To you I give the flowers..." [poem, punctuation, and style.] , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document 4 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In pen and pencil
  2. Poem (one-third page): To you I give the flowers, Tomorrow, now then, Life cannot die, no never - Who oh! who.
  3. Punctuation (two and two-third pages): The comma, semacolon [sic], colon...
  4. Style (one page): twelve carefully inscribed names, e.g. Nellie B. Grisard, Clarice Carter Mead, etc.
  5. Removed from The Free Enquirer. New Harmony, Ind., 1825-1828, New York, Wright & Owen, 1829-1932 (Lilly HX1 .A12 Ser. 2, Vol. 2)

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1980.

Box 4
Vidal, Gore, 1925- , author. Inscription to Jean Paul Getty. "Begun in a hotel room...after a disastrous love affair...Continued & finished in Rome (and Cairo) 1948..." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 20.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In blue ink
  2. Full Vidal signature on title page in blue ink
  3. On half title of Vidal, A Search for the king. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1950. (Lilly PS3543 .I2 S43).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

Box 4
Vidal, Gore, 1925- , author. Inscription to Jean Paul Getty. "This book, begun compulsively on a train from New York to New Orleans in 1949, after an evening with Jackie Bouvier." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 1 p. 20.3 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. In blue ink
  2. Full Vidal signature on title page in blue ink
  3. On half title of Vidal, Dark green, bright red. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1950.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1987.

Box 4
Vidal, Gore, 1925- , author. Via di Torre Argentina, 21, Roma. To Jean Paul Getty. "Well, it was a Noel...& as I sat in various airports between Madrid & Dublin I thought longingly of those quiet days..." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 17 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Gore Vidal, Myra Breckenridge, Boston, Little, Brown, 1968 (Lilly PS3543 .I2 M99 1968a).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1975.

Box 5
Wakoski, Diane. Poetry typescripts, correspondence, and photographs
Box 4
Ware, Willie. Malaeska. The Indian Wife of the white Hunter. Dramatized... , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 75 leaves 32 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Seventy-five numbered leaves plus cover pages for each act and "Persons of the Drama" page
  2. Leaf 57 of "Act 4th" mended with thread
  3. Dramatization in four acts of Malaeska by Ann Sophia (Winterbotham) Stephens, 1813-1886, published as Bead Dime Novel No. 1 in 1860 (Lilly PS2919 .S2 M16)
  4. Accompanied by brief account in David A. Randall's hand of history of the prose work

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Transferred from Administrative Office, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. 1981.

Box 4
Wells, James Ray, publisher. To David Anton Randall. Thanking him for check; Frost going to White Mountains; needs money to print McFee book. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 2 p. 20 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Mounted on back fly-leaf of William McFee's The reflections of Marsyas... Gaylordsville, Jame Ray Wells, 1933. (Lilly PR6025 .A21 R4 copy 2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1957.

Box 4
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, poet. O'Captain! My Captain! , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document (facsimile) 1 p. 13 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. From the original in the collection of Charles E. Feinberg
  2. A keepsake to celebrate the small exhibition of Walt Whitman materials from the collection of Mr. Charles E. Feinberg held at the Grolier Club, February 5-March 30, 1964. First draft manuscript of O'Captain! My Captain! written by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln and now printed in memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917-1963

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source and date unknown.

Box 4
Whitty, James Howard, 1859-1937, editor. To Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr. "I had a correspondence...with Mr. Woodberry for nearly half a century...I have all his letters written W.M. Griswold regarding Poe... , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph note signed 1 p. 22 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Inscribed in pencil on verso of photograph of George Edward Woodberry, 1902 (Lilly PS2635 .Z9 No. 6).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1977.

Box 4
Wigglesworth, Michael, 1631-1705, clergyman. The day of doom, or a description of the great & last judg'ment, with a short discourse about eternity... , n.d. -

Physical Description: Document 108 p. 16 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Editions were published in 1662?, 1666, 1673, 1701, 1711, etc., under the title: The Day of Doom. Sabin, Joseph... A dictionary of books relating to America. New York, 1886-1936. XXVIII (1936): 342-343.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Carnegie Book Shop, 140 East 59th Street, New York, New York. 10022. 1963.

Box 4
Wilcox, Ella (Wheeler), 1855-1919, author. The Worlds Need. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph poem signed 1 p. 27 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Removed from Wheeler, Poems of Passion. Chicago, Belford, Clarke & Co., 1883 (Lilly PS3312 .P6).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Source unknown. 1973.

Box 4
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867, journalist. To Nathaniel Willis. Boston, Massachusetts. "We shall be delighted to see you, & I shall meet you at the wharf on the arrival of the boat." , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph letter signed 1 p. 12 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

Box 4
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938, novelist. Chronology. His birth and the death of his father. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Facsimile of autograph document 4 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Box 4
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938, novelist. Confessio Amoris. Fragment of an essay on love. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Facsimile of autograph document 2 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Box 4
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938, novelist. Money spent for painting house. List of material used. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Facsimile of autograph document 1 p. 28 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Box 4
Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938, novelist. To Mrs. Margaret Roberts. Recalls early years as her student; discusses his family. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Facsimile of autograph document 4 p. 22 cm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Gift. David A. Randall, 326 South Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965.

Bound Vault 2
Woodworth, Samuel, 1784-1842, poet, dramatist, novelist. The old oaken bucket. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph document signed 2 p. 25 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Accompanied by a picture of Woodworth.
  2. Shelved in Vault

Immediate Source of Acquisition: From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956.

bound Bound
Wright, Willard Huntington, 1888-1939, author. The scarab murder case: A Philo Vance story. , n.d. -

Physical Description: Autograph and typescript document signed 401 p. 30 cm.

Scope and Content:

  1. Bound
  2. Holograph parts are in pencil
  3. Varies from published text. New York, Scribner's Sons, 1930. (Lilly PS3543 .A3 S2).

Immediate Source of Acquisition: Purchased. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York. 1964.

Box 4
Wylie, Elinor to "Mr. Muley" (possibly Christopher Morley)