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Christopher Coover collection of literary & historical letters manuscripts and documents, 1589-1923
6 linear feetRalph Waldo Emerson papers, 1814-1867
25 boxesPhotostatic copies of letters by Ralph Waldo Emerson gathered by Professor Ralph L. Rusk for his edition of THE LETTERS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON (New York, 1939). Also, twenty-six volumes of typescript journals in nine boxes.
Ralph L. Rusk papers, 1913-1956
10 boxesCorrespondence, manuscripts, notes, course related materials, photographs, photostats, and printed materials of Rusk. Included are two small files of correspondence, approximately 100 items, relating to Rusk's editing of THE LETTERS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1939) and to his study of occasional poetry in Colonial America for the Colonial Project in American Literature. The manuscripts include several miscellaneous items by Rusk, and five Columbia University masters essays submitted to him in connection with the Colonial American poetry study. Also, 12,000 note cards relating to this study as well as 150 photostatic copies of books of Colonial American poetry. For the Emerson edition there are 14,000 note cards on Emerson's life and letters. There are also 1,000 note cards for Rusk's edition of THE LETTERS OF EMMA LAZARUS (1939). The Columbia course related materials consist of notes, syllabi, reading lists, bibliographies, examination questions, lists of students and a few letters from them for Rusk's American literature course, 1931-1951. The printed materials are mainly reprints of articles on R.W. Emerson, inscribed to Rusk and containing annotations by him. In addition there are 23 photographs taken by Rusk in 1913, of a Passion Play which was performed in the Philippines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson letters, 1814-1882
1 boxOriginal letters by Ralph Waldo Emerson to various correspondents. One box of letters to and about Emerson. Correspondents include Henry Thoreau, Ellen Tucker Emerson, F.B. Sanborn, and Cyrus Augustus Bartol.
Richard Poirier Collection, 1945-2007, bulk 1986-2007
4 linear feetWilliam Wetmore Story letters, 1848-1858
1 VolumesFour letters to Story from Leigh Hunt, and one from Ralph Waldo Emerson; and one letter to Emelyn Story from Margaret Fuller. The Hunt letters are friendly notes touching on a variety of subjects including his health and Mrs. Hunt's, publication of selections of his work, etc. The Emmerson letter, 1851, is in connection with Browning's reminiscences of Margaret Fuller which had been sent to Story. He speaks also of Carlyle and Tennyson. Margaret Fuller's letter to Mrs. Story is a friendly one in which she writes chiefly of her love for Rome and her life there.
Quentin Anderson papers, 1935-2003, bulk 1960-2000
19 linear feetHoughton Mifflin Company letters, 1859-1860
1 volumeSeven letters: two from Ralph Waldo Emerson, and one each from James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Charles W. Eliot, Charles E. Norton, and Charles Scribner. They are concerned with publishing matters such as returning proofs and forwarding manuscripts.
Moncure Daniel Conway papers, 1847-1907
21 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, documents, memorabilia, pictures, portraits, and printed material. Included are about 800 letters from outstanding literary figures of Mr. Conway's lifetime, manuscripts of his sermons, lectures and other writings and photostats of Conway material in Dickinson College Library. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Thomas Carlyle, S.L. Clemens, Arthur Conan Doyle, R.W. Emerson, O.W. Holmes, and Walt Whitman
Emma Lazarus letters, 1868-1929, bulk 1868-1887
1 boxCorrespondence of Emma Lazarus. While the letters are primarily of a personal nature, they also reflect both her literary career and, after the traumatic effect on her of the perssecution of Russian Jews, 1879-1883, her role as American champion of Jews. There are original autograph letters from John Burroughs, Ralph W. Emerson, Henry James, William Morris, Tommaso Salvini, and Ivan Turgenev, and twenty other prominent figures. Also, one letter from Lazarus to William Wetmore Story and the letter of her sister, Annie Johnstone, presenting this collection to Columbia University.