Box BW 27

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This collection contains a draft of Hugh McCulloch's poem "Sonnet." It is a single letter-sized sheet of laid paper of watermarked Alex Firie & Sons, Stonewood and written on one side only. It contains one major change in the first line and a lesser change in the penultimate line.

The poem was originally published in The Chap-Book, Vol. 2, May 1, 1895 p.467.

Content Description This collection contains materials that document the evolution of the writing slate from stone book slate to native slate blackboards. This includes a slate book with 8 quartz paint pages with attached pencil holder,and another book with pencil holder and 6 quartz painted "slates". The cover of one is stamped in black and gold with a school scene and applied litho of two girls playing stick and ball. There is also a 1940 salesman kit with five loose photos of the National School Slate Co....

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This collection contains thirty-two freight receipts for agricultural goods shipped by John Dickinson from Liberty Depot, Virginia.

Content Description This collection contains forty-one letters and manuscripts by American authors and publishers from the files of James R. Osgood & Co. and its successor Ticknor & Co assembled by Caroline Ticknor (1866-1937), daughter of Benjamin Holt Ticknor (1842-1914) and granddaughter of William Davis Ticknor (1810-1864). Many of the authors represented in this collection have related collections in the Small Library. Authors represented in this collection of letters and manuscripts...

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This collection contains five miniature illustrated letters from "Emma Birdwhistle," a doll and fictitious character created by children's author Tasha Tudor. These letters were sent to a Miss Annabelle Greinor of Richmond, Virginia. They appear to be responses to fan mail sent to Emma.

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This collection contains one original typed humerous in a handmade book. The book is bound with a faded silk tie at the spine, and made up of clippings, magazine pages, typed pages, and illustrations. A humorous epistolary story, it is told by a soldier stationed at Camp Lee outside Petersburg, Va., who falls in love with the voice of a woman who sells him a book over the phone from the longtime local booksellers T. S. Beckwith & Co.

Content Description This is an autographed letter signed from M. McKennie at the University of Virginia to "Gen. T.W. Dillard" on 30 May 1859. This is likely Dr. Marcellus McKennie (1824-1890) to General Terisha Washington Dillard (1817-1863). In the letter, McKennie urges Dillard to not assemble his regiments at Charlottesville next year. McKennie fears that the young men will be greatly excited by the great number of places selling alcohol with and without licenses in Charlottesville, and that they will...

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Benjamin Ticknor note to Alfred Lord Tennyson 1889 August 6 wishing Tennyson a happy anniversary and remarking it as also being his grandfather's birthday, William Davis Ticknor.

William Ticknor published Tennyson's first poems, and established the principle of international copyright forty seven years earlier. Ticknor was the first American publisher to pay foreign authors for the rights to their works, beginning with a check to Alfred Tennyson in 1842.

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John Townsend Trowbridge manuscript poem, "When We Came from the War: Song of the Poorhouse Veterans." It was first collected in Trowbridge's The Lost Earl with Other Poems and Tales in Verse before 1888. Townsend writes that many of the veterans ended up in the almshouse with the poor people in the town.

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Lewis Wallace letter to his acquaintance from serving in the American Civil War, Benjamin Ticknor 1882 January 1 about a play Wallace was writing on Maternus, a slave who lead an uprising against the Roman emperor Commodus. He also mentions Ben Hur and The Fair God.

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Susan Wallace (wife of Lewis Wallace) letter to Benjamin Ticknor 1884 December 29 about the possibility of publishing her Christmas story "Ginevra or the Old Oak Chest". She mentions how "Ben Hur" is selling well. Her story was published by Worthington in New York in 1887.

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John Greenleaf Whittier letter to Benjamin Ticknor 1886 February 15 about selecting his biographer and publisher. He mentions Samuel T. Pickard, [Horace E.] Scudder, and [Edwin P.] Whipple. Samuel T. Pickard wrote the biography Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier which was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1894.

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John Hay note to James R. Osgood asking him about the original photographs of engravings from (Ward Hill) Lamon's "The Life Of Abraham Lincoln." On the next page of the note, is a question from James Osgood to Benjamin Ticknor asking about the plates (engravings) and requesting a copy of Longfellow's book.

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Samuel Adams Drake note to Benjamin Ticknor about his health, the weather, and no plans to make a trip to Boston.

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Wendell Phillips to his cousin Miss Wainwright about the burial and resting place of John Brown.

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Annie Fields note to Caroline Ticknor responding to her about her passport.

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson note to Caroline Ticknor on 1903 May 29, about his address on the centenary of Ralph Waldo Emerson's birth, published in June 1903.He mentions that Samuel Taylor Coleridge can help at the museum and he is the man who is deeply interested in American Literature.

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William Dean Howells note to Benjamin Ticknor on 1887 July 24, about a reprint of Howells edition of his novels and the financial terms of their contract.