Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

Abstract: Correspondence, writings, speeches, diaries, clippings, printed matter, sermons, and other papers of two centuries of Beecher family members. The papers relate principally to Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), popular 19th century clergyman and orator, and members of his family. Among those represented are his father, the Reverend Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), clergyman; his brothers, Edward Beecher (1803-1895), educator and antislavery leader, and Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824-1900) and Charles...

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Clipped signature. Dated below.

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ALS on business matters.

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ALS declining an invitation.

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ALS to "Dear Friend" thanking her for her hospitality and recommending a book.

Abstract: The Donald Grant Mitchell papers contain original correspondence and manuscripts by the prominent nineteenth-century New Haven-area author. Correspondents include Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Augustin Beers, George Washington Cable, William Maxwell Evarts, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Noah Porter, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Scribner, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others. Writings include drafts for...

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Autograph manuscript page of an unidentified work by Stowe relating to Florida. The page is numbered “30”. Title from first line of page.

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Bust-length portrait of the author wearing a dark dress or cloak with large collar and a corsage. Heavily retouched.

Photographer unidentified.

Printed caption on mount "Mrs H. B. Stowe."

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Color postcard of "Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Hartford, Conn. Author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'." Autograph note, signed, on verso from unidentified to Miss M. E. Whippple, 22 Fairfield Hall, Danbury, Conn.

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Correspondence, autographs, playbills, notebooks, and writings relating to the American theater and the history of theater in New Haven, Connecticut, as collected by Jack Crawford, Mary Hamlin and others.

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Letters from personal friends and famous people concerning Twombly's work as minister, author, president of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston.

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Draft, autograph, signed, of poem. Accompanied by portrait engraving of Stowe by A. H. Ritchie.

Abstract: Portraits primarily depicting prominent nineteenth and twentieth century American writers, artists, and photographers, as well as scientists, educators, social reformers, and statesmen. Included are images of Joel Barlow, William Cullen Bryant, Hart Crane, James Dwight Dana, T. S. Eliot, Max Ewing, Robert Frost, H. D., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Wendell Phillips, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert Penn Warren, Noah Webster, and John Greenleaf Whittier....