Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
Dates
- Existence: 1789 - 1851
Biography
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), American novelist and author
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Contract with George R. Graham & Co., Philadelphia, 1846 Jun 3
Manuscript contract for the serial publicaton of "a Nautical tale" in ten numbers of Graham's Magazine, signed by Cooper.
James Fenimore Cooper Collection
Draft fragment of "The Bravo", 1836 August 7
Autograph manuscript draft fragment, signed, of Cooper's poem "The Bravo".
Draft fragment of "The Headsman, or the Abbaye de Vignerons", 1833-1840
Draft fragments of "The Headsman", [1832]
Three autograph draft sheets, corrected, from Chapters of IX and XXIX of Cooper's novel The Headsman (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833). With envelope, inscribed: "Given to Cuyler Reynolds by James F. Cooper, Sunday, March 23, 1902."
Paul Leicester Ford papers
Letter : Paris, to Professor Fluegel, Leipzig, 1830 Nov 10
ALS, with address leaf, relating news of friends and briefly discussing political events in France.
Affixed to the letter is a printed reproduction of a portrait of Cooper.
Letter : to M. [Henry?] Brevoort, n.d.
ALS regarding a bookseller named M. Fournier who proposes to translate Westward Ho!
Morse Family Papers
The principal figures in this collection are Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) and his sons Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) and Richard Cary Morse (1795-1868). More than half of the collection is made up of correspondence (1779-1868) among members of the family. Also included are legal and financial papers, sermons by Jedidiah and Richard Cary Morse, travel journals, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, and photographs.
"Satanstoe", 1876 Jan 8, n.d.
AM fragment, corrected, of the novel Satanstoe.
Accompanied by an engraving of Cooper after a painting by C. P. Elliot, and an ALS from Henry T. Coates, the Philadelphia bookseller, to Joseph Knight, 1876 Jan 8, conveying the MS page and stating that the source for it was the stereotyper of the novel.
Signature, undated
Clipped signature of James Fenimore Cooper.