Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

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Manuscript contract for the serial publicaton of "a Nautical tale" in ten numbers of Graham's Magazine, signed by Cooper.

Abstract: The collection provides evidence of the personal and professional life of James Fenimore Cooper, and to a lesser degree, the Cooper family, between 1792 and 1976. The collection documents Cooper's writing career, service in the United States Navy, and travels through Europe, and consists of correspondence, writings, personal papers, legal and financial documents, clippings, artwork, and objects. As an author who was engaged in the process of printing and publishing his works, and who was...

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Autograph manuscript draft fragment, signed, of Cooper's poem "The Bravo".

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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."

Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, writings, and personal papers of the American historian and author Paul Leicester Ford. The correspondence is largely professional and documents Ford's work as an editor, historian, bibliographer, novelist and playwright. Ford's correspondents include John Kendrick Bangs, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Rudyard Kipling, and S. Weir Mitchell; earlier letters written to others by James Fennimore Cooper and Jared...

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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.

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ALS regarding a bookseller named M. Fournier who proposes to translate Westward Ho!

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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.

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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.

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Clipped signature of James Fenimore Cooper.

Abstract: The James Watson Webb papers consist of correspondence, letterbooks, newspapers, diaries, and miscellanea documenting the personal life and professional career of James Watson Webb and his family, including his second wife, Laura Virginia Cram Webb. The papers document Webb's journalistic and political careers, his personal life, and the activities and observations of his second wife, Laura Virginia Cram Webb, a close confidante to her husband. Major topics of interest include New York...