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Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879

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Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879), American author and editor

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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Fowler & Wells Portrait Posters for Physiognomy Lectures

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1000
Abstract:

A set of nineteen posters with 112 bust portraits depicting identified men and women, primarily authors, artists, scientists, monarchs, and religious and political leaders from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a group of idealized heads illustrating characteristics identified by phrenologists.

Dates: circa 1860
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fowler & Wells Portrait Posters for Physiognomy Lectures
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Letter : Philadelphia, to [John Denison Baldwin]
Letter : Philadelphia, to [John Denison Baldwin]

Letter : Philadelphia, to [John Denison Baldwin], 1847 May 4

 Part of Collection — Box 34: [Barcode: 39002137170438], Folder: GROUP 556, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS praising his "The Story of Raymond Hill, and Other Poems," commenting in detail on the title poem and promising to review it favorably in Godey's Lady's Book. She mentions his "The Dark Room" and says she received a story by his protegée Martha Russel but cannot use it. She explains why his article "on the Northmen" was not published in Godey's, but suggests including it in "The Opal; a Pure Gift for the Holy Days", which she is to edit for 1848, and discusses the price she could offer...
Dates: 1847 May 4
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL, 1788-1879
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Letter : Phila[delphia], to Miss Lynch
Letter : Phila[delphia], to Miss Lynch

Letter : Phila[delphia], to Miss Lynch, 1851 March 6

 Part of Collection — Box 34: [Barcode: 39002137170438], Folder: GROUP 556, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS proposing to have a portrait engraving done by B. J. Lossing and congratulating her on the success of her "application to Congress." With clipping.

Dates: 1851 March 6
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL, 1788-1879
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Letter : to J. R. Simpson
Letter : to J. R. Simpson

Letter : to J. R. Simpson, 1835 March [3?]

 Part of Collection — Box 34: [Barcode: 39002137170438], Folder: GROUP 556, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS inquiring on behalf of her son about the "Academy at New Hampton."

Dates: 1835 March [3?]
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL, 1788-1879

Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection of American children's literature

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 764
Abstract: Collection consists of manuscripts (correspondence and drafts of writings), illustration material (drawings in all media, photographs, book dummies, and printing blocks and plates), and publication proofs by various authors and artists including Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Anderson, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Gelett Burgess, Harrison Cady, Palmer Cox, F. O. C. Darley, W. W. Denslow, Jo Mora, Peter Newell, and Symeon Shimin, as well as work produced for the McLoughlin Brothers...
Dates: 1640-2001
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection of American children's literature