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Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1822 - 1908

Donald Grant Mitchell, essayist and novelist, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, graduated from Yale College in 1841 and, after serving abroad briefly as U.S. consul in Venice, Italy, from 1853 to 1854, settled near New Haven, Connecticut. Mitchell wrote literary criticism, travel literature, and volumes of essays on rural themes, including Reveries of a Bachelor (1850), My Farm of Edgewood: A Country Book (1863), and Rural Studies (1867). Other works include the novel Doctor Johns (1866), About Old Story Tellers (1878), and American Lands and Letters (1897–1899).
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Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Bowles papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 94
Overview: The papers include correspondence, legal documents, petitions, pamphlets, and printed material of Samuel Bowles, journalist and political activist. As editor of the influential Springfield Republican, Bowles was a prominent national voice on many public issues during the mid-nineteenth century and included in the papers is correspondence from a number of national political and business figures.
Dates: 1852-1893
Found in: Manuscripts and Archives > Samuel Bowles papers

Correspondence, 1852-1895

 Part of Collection — Box: 110, Folder: 6
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Five autograph manuscript letters, signed, to James T. Fields, Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Francis Hall, and unnamed recipients. The letters include thank you notes, responses to invitations, and a discussion of his health.
Dates: 1852-1895
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Harry H. Ensign autograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1228
Overview: Miscellaneous autographs and letters of American political and cultural figures, among them John and John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, Horace Greeley, and Lydia Sigourney. Also included are eleven letters to James F. Babcock, editor of the New Haven Weekly Palladium, on politics (1840-1866) and seven letters (1866-1872) to R. P. Cowles in New Haven from prospective lecturers.
Dates: 1818-1880
Found in: Manuscripts and Archives > Harry H. Ensign autograph collection

"Freeman's 'subject & neighbor lands of Venice'", [1881]

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-25
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Draft, autograrph, corrected, of review of Sketches from the Subject and Neighbor Lands of Venice by Edward Augustus Freemen (London: Macmillan anf Co., 1881).
Dates: [1881]
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 204
Overview: The Hawthorne collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Nathaniel Hawthorne.Series I, Owen Franklin Aldis Gift, is organized into three subseries: Correspondence, Writings, and Other Papers. Correspondence consists of letters from Hawthorne to others, including the reverend George Ripley and the publisher Ticknor and Fields, as well as a third party letter from Hawthorne's son Julian. There is one corrected and bound holograph...
Dates: 1800-1919
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection

Letter : Edgewood, [New Haven, Connecticut], to Mr. Gilman, n.y. Nov 30

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-12
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS stating that Mr. Coggeshall was not among those who wrote to him regarding his book Doctor Johns. Accompanied by reproduction of an engraving of Mitchell after a portrait by C. L. Elliott.
Dates: n.y. Nov 30
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, [New Haven], to John Van [Vaven?], 1882 Jun

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-14
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS explaining that letters from the recipient's sisters were misaddressed or lost and sending apologies.
Dates: 1882 Jun
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, New Haven, to Mr. Frederick E. Partington, 1893 February 20

 Part of Collection — Box: 110, Folder: 7
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Autograph manuscript letter, signed, declining an invitation to services commemorating a Mr. Curtis, and expressing his admiration for Curtis. Accompanied by an undated engraved portrait of Donald Grant Mitchell, engraved by Capewell & Kimmel after a painting by C. L. Elliott, printed by J. Kelly.
Dates: 1893 February 20
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to an unidentified recipient, 1864 Aug 6

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-15
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS to "My dear Sir" concerning an architectural topic.
Dates: 1864 Aug 6
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to Dan[ie]l Huntington, National Academy, n.y. May 30

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS asking Huntington to help him solicit loans of paintings from private owners for a Commencement exhibition at the N[ew] H[aven] Art School.
Dates: n.y. May 30
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to "Dear Sir", 1890 Oct

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-9
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking the recipient for "the London Lit[erar]y summing up of 'E.W.B.'," and mentioning his crippled right arm.
Dates: 1890 Oct
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to Dr. Metcalf, 1861 December 31

 Part of Collection — Box: 102, Folder: 33
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Autograph letter, signed, from Mitchell saying that he has been out of town and sick with a cold. Letter is inlaid to a larger sheet. Accompanied by a newspaper clipping featuring a biography of Mitchell pasted to verso of sheet.
Dates: 1861 December 31
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to H. Phillips Jr., 1898 Apr 6

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-19
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking Phillips for a copy of his "Translations".
Dates: 1898 Apr 6
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to Hamilton W[right] Mabie, 1883 Apr 13

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-21
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS concerning a past speaking event.
Dates: 1883 Apr 13
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to [Henry Mills] Alden, 1872 Jan 8

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS regarding an article Mitchell is to write to accompany some engravings.
Dates: 1872 Jan 8
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to Messrs. Appleton, 1889 Feb 9

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-6
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking the publishers for the sixth volume of the Cyclopedia of American Biography, and pointing out many errors in the entry for the Woodbridge family.

Accompanied by a reproduction of a photograph of Mitchell.
Dates: 1889 Feb 9
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to "Miss Bailey", 1894 Dec

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-18
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS concerning volume III of an unidentified work.
Dates: 1894 Dec
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to Miss Curtis, [18]85 April 23

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-24
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS concerning terms for a series of lectures in New Haven.
Dates: [18]85 April 23
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to Mr. Eon, 1890 May 1

 Part of Collection — Box: 110, Folder: 3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Autograph manuscript letter, signed, discussing the spelling of names in Mitchell's work English Lands, Letters, and Kings.
Dates: 1890 May 1
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908

Letter : Edgewood, to Mr. Gilder, [18]93 May 1

 Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 500, F-16
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS mentioning travel and plans.
Dates: [18]93 May 1
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > M > MITCHELL, DONALD GRANT, 1822-1908