Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

Abstract: The George Warren Arms collection consists of letters, manuscripts and subject files documenting research on 19th and early 20th century American authors.Series I, Correspondence, is organized into two subseries for General and Third-Party Correspondence. General Correspondence consists of correspondence between Arms and writers, scholars, booksellers, autograph dealers and others. The Third-Party Correspondence consists of letters by 19th and early 20th century American authors...

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AMS poem written on an album leaf, with a further inscription stating that he is a "Coldwater man" and an Abolitionist.

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Three autograph letters addressed to Lowell from unidentified senders. Letters inquire about social matters, including an event at a French hospital.

Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, writings, legal and financial material, congressional papers, family memorabilia, and other papers of various members of the Evarts family of Vermont, Boston, and New York. The principal figures, however, are Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831), author, editor, lawyer, and philanthropist, and his son, William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901), lawyer and statesman. The papers of Jeremiah Evarts relate to his work and writings on Congregational orthodoxy, his travels...

Abstract: 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...

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ALS inviting Mrs. Cheney, her daughter, and Miss Lobdell to breakfast the following day.

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ALS originally conveying letters of [Edward] Fitzgerald, for publication in Wright's Letters of Edward FitzGerald. Expresses regret over his failure to respond to a particular letter of 1878.

Accompanied by two lines of poetry, autographed, dated 1891 Jan 10, and by a portrait of Lowell engraved by A. B. Hall.

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ALS concerning a literary project.

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ALS recommending Miss Langley and Mrs. Sedgwick as "bedswomen."

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ALS discussing the death of his second wife. With undated ALS to Townsend from Mabel L. Burnett.

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ALS saying that he does not know of any source besides the latest Census for the statistics Williams wants.

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ALS on mourning stationery, promising to send her copies of his poems when he returns to Southborough.

From the collection of Estelle Doheny.

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ALS concerning political events in Ireland. With a printed reproduction of a portrait photograph of Lowell.

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ALS declining an invitation to speak to an unidentified club.

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ALS informing Houghton that an unspecified favor requested by Mrs. Houghton conflicts with a previous engagement and requesting a chronological arrangement for a volume of addresses.

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ALS listing his requirements for attending an unidentified event, including not making a speech and only delivering introductory remarks.

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Autograph letter, signed, discussing an unidentified book, possibly written by an author named Tracy. With envelope.

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ALS, dated 22 Dec 1875 and with envelope, from Lowell to W. G. Hale concerning an unidentified book. With a printed calling card containing manuscript notes citing Clemencin's "Don Quixote".

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ALS to George Henderson, concerning a lecture in Philadelphia, and black-and-white portrait photograph of Lowell.

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Autograph letter, signed, discussing a land title for Lowell's daughter, Mabel Lowell. Letter also includes Putnam's reply on the same sheet saying that he will confirm the land title for Lowell.