Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1812 - 1897
W. J. Linton (1812-1897), British wood engraver, author, historian, printer, publisher, and political activist.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
J. B. Carrington papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 666
Overview:
The J. B. Carrington Papers hold correspondence, literary manuscripts, photographs, and research files related to his career as an editor and writer at Scribner's Magazine. Correspondents include authors and artists who contributed work to the magazine, such as Frederick S. Church, James B. Connolly, Kenyon Cox, Andrew Lang, Maxfield Parrish, Frederick Waugh, and N. C. Wyeth, who are represented by letters and literary manuscripts. In addition, Carrington kept financial records on the company's...
Dates:
1886-1934
Grace Linton Cook Papers about W. J. Linton
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1406
Scope and Contents:
The collection primarily consists of material by or about W. J. Linton, including some of his writings and examples of his engravings which were inherited or collected by his granddaughter Grace Linton Cook. Also present is a small group of personal papers of Cook, her father Edmund Wade Linton, and her aunt Ellen (“Nellie”) Linton.Series I, Family Papers, contains three family letters and a group of family papers that include a Linton biography and a scrapbook of Linton’s...
Dates:
1840-1936
Ralph Waldo Emerson collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 212
Overview:
The Emerson collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and prints documenting the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Dates:
1793-1937
W. J. Linton Collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1387
Overview:
The collection consists of the papers of author and wood engraver W. J. Linton, including personal and professional correspondence, writings by and about Linton, drawings and prints, personal papers, and other papers covering Linton's life and work in England and the United States. The papers are primarily those inherited by his daughters Ellen Wade Linton and Margaret Linton Mather, with additions from family friends.
Dates:
1797-1937, bulk 1838-1897
Walt Whitman collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 202
Overview:
The Whitman collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Walt Whitman. There is personal and business correspondence from Whitman to family, friends, editors, and publishers, including Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, Julius Chambers, Moncure Conway, Nathan Hale, James R. Osgood and Company, George Routledge & Sons, William Sloane Kennedy, William Michael Rossetti, John Swinton, and Louisa Whitman. There are...
Dates:
1842-1949