Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916

"Going to the fair", undated

Part of Collection — Box: 23, Folder: GROUP 444, F-10

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Draft, autograph, corrected and signed, of verse.

Dates: undated

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > R > RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, 1849-1916

Anson Conger Goodyear Collection

Collection

Call Number: MS 244

Overview: Correspondence, diaries, proclamations, and drafts of letters chiefly relating to the Civil War, but also including letters from the Jacksonian period. The major portion of the collection concerns the siege of Fort Sumter with letters from both Major Robert Anderson and General P.G.T. Beauregard. Included also are a diary kept by General S. Wylie Crawford during the siege and two letters from Abraham Lincoln. Other portions of the collection concern Lincoln as a political figure; the relations...

Dates: 1813-1890

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives > Anson Conger Goodyear Collection

Letter : Bowen-Merrill Co., Publishers, 9 & 11 West Washington Street, Indianapolis, to William Henry Venable, Mount Tusculum, Station G., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1899 Aug 15

Part of Collection — Box: 23, Folder: GROUP 444, F-2

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: ALS explaining that he will not write a letter to The Century in support of Venable's new novel because he has fallen out of favor with the magazine and fears that a letter from him will do more harm than good. He assures Venable that he can gain access to [Richard Watson] Gilder on his own merits. With original envelope. Also accompanied by envelope printed with Venable's return address, with Riley's name written in pencil, and manuscript notes concerning Riley erased so that they are barely...

Dates: 1899 Aug 15

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > R > RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, 1849-1916

Letter : Indianapolis, to an unidentified recipient, 1904 Oct 7

Part of Collection — Box: 23, Folder: GROUP 444, F-9

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: One ALS to "Dear Editor" recommending an Irish volume by Moira O'Neill.

Dates: 1904 Oct 7

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > R > RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, 1849-1916

Letter : Indianapolis, to "Mrs. Riggs", 1897 Jan 4

Part of Collection — Box: 23, Folder: GROUP 444, F-5

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: ALS to Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin teasing her for not sending a copy of Marm Lisa as promised. With printed reproduction of a portrait painting of Riley.

Dates: 1897 Jan 4

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > R > RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, 1849-1916

Letter : Indianapolis, to Robert Underwood Johnson, 1901 Jul 1

Part of Collection — Box: 23, Folder: GROUP 444, F-8

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: One ALS responding to a solicitation for material, "Hoosier Child=rhymes," from the editor of Century Magazine.

Dates: 1901 Jul 1

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > R > RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, 1849-1916

Letter : The Portland, Portland, Oregon, to "Matthews", 1892 Dec 23

Part of Collection — Box: 23, Folder: GROUP 444, F-4

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: ALS discussing Joaquin Miller, on printed letterhead of The Portland Hotel.

Dates: 1892 Dec 23

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > R > RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, 1849-1916

Letter : to Mr. Blithe, 1899 Oct 17

Part of Collection — Box: 23, Folder: GROUP 444, F-1

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Brief ALS to the editor of The Cosmopolitan, declining a request for writing.

Dates: 1899 Oct 17

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > R > RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, 1849-1916

Letters and poems, 1886-1909

Part of Collection — Box: 23, Folder: GROUP 444, F-3

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Fifteen ALS to George A. Carr, Robert Underwood Johnson, H. G. Paine, Richard Watson Gilder, and others, and two holograph poems. Four ALS to George A. Carr, Mayor, Greenfield, Indiana, 1899-1909, concerning memories of their childhood escapades; sending a contribution for an unidentified cause; approving of an unidentified musical composition; and thanking Carr for condolences on the death of a family member. Six ALS to Robert [Underwood] Johnson, editor of Century Magazine, 1886-1903,...

Dates: 1886-1909

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > R > RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, 1849-1916

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"Old John Clevenger on buckeyes"

"Old John Clevenger on buckeyes", n.d.

Part of Collection — Box: 23, Folder: GROUP 444, F-6-7

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Poem, autograph manuscript, corrected and signed. With morocco case.

Dates: n.d.

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > R > RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, 1849-1916

Photograph of James Whitcomb Riley, undated

Part of Collection — Box: 98, Folder: 33

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Dates: undated

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > R > RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, 1849-1916