Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922

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Scrapbooks, manuscripts, diaries. letters, and personal papers documenting the lives and careers of American humorist John Kendrick Bangs and his son, Francis Hyde Bangs.

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 thanking her for her hospitality at Hazleton.

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ALS acknowledging Winship's compliments on a recent lecture, perhaps to the "Boston Chapter of the Amalgamated [Salubrities?] of America," of which Winship is Civic Secretary.

Mounted to cardstock.

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ALS requesting a cash advance from Harpers on the publication of his Olympian Nights.

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ALS concerning a speaking engegement. With receipt to Parker Morse Hooper, dated March 14, 1938, from Gabriel Engel Rare Books.

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ALS scheduling a time for Davies to meet with him at Harper & Brothers.

With a pencil sketch by an unidentified illustrator for the cover of Bangs's Mollie and the Unwiseman, on which Bangs wrote a note regarding the sketch.

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ALS to "My dear sir" responding to a request for a piece of writing.

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ALS regarding his recent trip to California and his summer Chautauqua lecture schedule.

With typed transcript.

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Typescript letter, signed, saying that while Harper's Weekly has ceased publication, he sees possibility in The Independent.

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ALS on letterhead of Harper & Brothers publishers, Franklin Square, New York, requesting a proof of an unidentified work.

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Condolence letter, autograph, signed, to Mrs. James B. (Burton) Pond following the death of her husband.

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TLS thanking Marshall for a clipping and promising to visit when next in London.

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TLS to the editor of The Dial replying to an apology for a negative review.

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TLS declining an invitation.