Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1802 - 1885
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Noël J. Cortés Collection of French Manuscripts
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1173
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of manuscript letters, writings, and documents, mostly in French, by writers, artists, historians, and philosophers, including Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Paul Morand, and George Sand.
Dates:
1760-1927
Victor Hugo collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 412
Overview:
Collection contains letters to and from Victor Hugo, as well as holographs of writings by Hugo. Correspondence includes letters to Hugo from Juliette Drouet, Aleksandr Herzen, comte Léopold Hugo, Jules Janin, Jean Toussaint Merle, and Jules Michelet. Letters from Hugo include letters to Laure Junot, duchesse d'Abrantès, A. de Beauchesne, Alexandre Dumas, and Almire Gandonnière. Writings contain holograph drafts of fragments of several works, including poems from Châtiments and Toute la...
Dates:
1816-1876
Matthew Josephson papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 26
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, journals, subject files, and writings that document Josephson's life and provide information on the subjects of his research.
Dates:
1917-1979 (inclusive)
Frederick R. Koch collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 601
Overview:
The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures.Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and...
Dates:
1640-1983
Letter : Paris, to Madame Clement Hemery, Cambrai, France, 1833 Dec 23
Part of Collection — Box: 68, Folder: GROUP 2704, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS with address leaf.
In French.
In French.
Dates:
1833 Dec 23
Letter : to Paul Chenay, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 68, Folder: GROUP 2704, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Manuscript copy of a letter dated [1860] Mar 31, in an unidentfied hand, containing instructions to Chenay about a portrait he was to make of Hugo.
At head of letter: "Copiee par moi sur l'original appt. a M. Paul Waratte."
At head of letter: "Copiee par moi sur l'original appt. a M. Paul Waratte."
Dates:
n.d.
Letters : to Edouard Thierry, undated
Part of Collection — Box: 272, Folder: 9
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Two autograph manuscript letters, signed, to Edouard Thierry, discussing social and professional matters.
Dates:
undated
Norman Holmes Pearson Collection of “Art for the Wrong Reason”
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1031
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains sixty-three sketches, drawings, paintings, and prints acquired by Yale faculty member Norman Holmes Pearson not for their aesthetic or artistic merit, but because they were created by poets and other authors; he titled his collection “Art for the Wrong Reason.” The works were executed in crayon, gouache, graphite, ink, charcoal, oil, and watercolor on paper, board, canvas, and panel, by fifty-three writers including E. E. Cummings, George Du Maurier, Victor Hugo, D. H....
Dates:
1833-1979