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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box 18

 Container

Contains 34 Results:

Walt Mason Letters and Manuscripts, circa 1912-1927, undated

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 30-40
Scope and Contents The Walt Mason materials include: Folder 30: A signed short poem beginning "If days were always sunny" on the back of a postcard in color with a picture of Walt's home in Emporia, Kansas (undated)Folder 31: A signed typewritten one page manuscript of the poem, "Bix" (undated)Folder 32: Typed letter signed, 1 page, from Walt Mason to Will Owen Jones, "The State Journal" (1912 June 20) with envelope; Mason sent a check for the sum he thought he owed Jones,...
Dates: circa 1912-1927, undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

Frederic Massor to unidentified correspondents, two signed autograph note cards, 1895 January 7 and 1895 January 21

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 41-42
Scope and Contents

Both cards from Massor are arranging a time to visit him at his home in Paris. He warns that his English is very bad but he understands the language and that his residence is usually closed, so he will need to know the time of his visit.

Dates: 1895 January 7 and 1895 January 21
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

Poem “Veni Creator,” 1 page, by Lucy Lyttleton Masterman with a signed autograph letter, 2 pages, from Lucy Lyttleton Masterman to Mr. O’Donnell, 1913 October 4

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents

She sends her poem and a letter to O'Donnell in answer to his request for her autograph. She also mentions that her poems are available in an American edition published by Mr. Mosher of Portland, Maine, under her maiden name.

Dates: 1913 October 4
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

Fannie Aymar Mathews to Samuel Sidney McClure, Signed Autograph Letter, 3 pages, and a printed newspaper clipping with a photograph and biographical sketch about Mathews, 1893 March 2 and undated

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 44-45
Scope and Contents

Mathews thanks McClure for his quick response and promises to write some short stories for him providing the price is high enough. She is currently writing a short story of an encounter with the son of Napoleon III in an out of the way spot in Europe and could do more along that line, as well as other settings in Canada or other foreign lands.

Dates: 1893 March 2 and undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

Engraving of the Reverend Charles Robert Maturin drawn by W. Brocas and engraved by H. Meyer, with the signature of Maturin mounted on the same card, undated

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 46
Dates: undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

Fontaine Maury to Major Milo Mason, Signed Autograph Letter, 1 page, 1820 March 7

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents

Maury wrote to Mason requesting the full details of his testimony regarding General David B. Mitchell (1766-1837), agent to the Creek Indians, and others, being involved in the smuggling of African enslaved persons at the Creek Agency. He also asked for information about Mitchell's unauthorized payment to the Creek nation for their services during the Creek War.

Dates: 1820 March 7
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

W.B Maxwell to Will Orton Tewson, Signed Typed Letter, 1 page, 1924 August 11

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents

Maxwell congratulated Tewson upon his appointment to the editorship of the "Evening Post Literary Review." He also offers a series of twelve articles to him for publication provided they could be published after the date of their publication in "The Evening Standard" which has first publication rights. He sends three articles, "Condemned to Death," "Why Cannot We Still Be Young?" and "The Undying Past."

Dates: 1924 August 11
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

Printed article about the Samuel Joseph May library of "books and pamphlets relating to Slavery and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States," which he bequeathed to Cornell University. The article was written to urge others to augment this collection with their own materials. Also present is an undated print copy of a photograph of Samuel Joseph May., 1874 October 1, undated

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 49-50
Dates: 1874 October 1, undated
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

August Mayer to an unidentified correspondent in Chicago, requesting the address of Charles Mayer, a close relative and chariot maker, who lived with the correspondent in 1866, 1878 January 5 or 1878 May 1

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 51
Dates: 1878 January 5 or 1878 May 1
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

Katherine Mayo to Glen Walton Blodgett, signed autograph letter, 1 page, 1928 February 29

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents

Expressing gladness that Blodgett was interested in her book "Mother India," Mayo writes that "American public opinion focussed on the shackles that are killing Hindu India, is the most powerful weapon for India's rescue that this world, under God, contains today."

Dates: 1928 February 29
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

Alexander McDonell to Messrs. LeRoy, Bayard and McEwers, Merchants, New York, 1802 November 8

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

McDonell asks the merchants to forward his enclosed letters (not present) to Lord Selkirk and two to New York.

Dates: 1802 November 8
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

Mrs. Edward MacDowell (Marian Griswold Nevins]) to Mrs. Will Owen Jones (Edith M. Doolittle), 1918 July 22 and 1922 December 27

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 2-3
Scope and Contents Congratulates Mrs. Owens upon her daughter’s success in playing the MacDowell concerto (July 22, 1918). Marian MacDowell apologizes for not responding to the receipt of Owen's fine program due to circumstances and overwork, since it always pleases her to see the "Keltic"on a program and she admired the way she divided the songs from the piano numbers (1922 December 27). The later letter is accompanied by a pamphlet, "The Peterborough Colony" by Hermann Hagedorn. Both letters have...
Dates: 1918 July 22 and 1922 December 27
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

William O. McDowell to Samuel Sidney McClure, Signed Typed Letter, 1893 March 31

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

McDowell writes to McClure about his work on the production of the Columbian Liberty Bell Committee and his address before the National Peace Congress at Mystic, Connecticut, "American Liberty and the World's Destiny."

Dates: 1893 March 31
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection

Rt. Rev. John McGill to “Dear Friend,” Signed Autograph Letter, 1851 December 16

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

McGill sends a letter of sympathy upon the death of the recipient's mother, mentioning her exemplary life, her virtues, and her fidelity in service of God.

Dates: 1851 December 16
Found in: Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library / Barrett Minor Literary collection