Authors, American -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
James Fenimore Cooper Collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 415
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...
Dates:
1792-1976, bulk 1792-1894
Ralph Waldo Emerson collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 212
Abstract:
The Emerson collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and prints documenting the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Dates:
1793-1937
Eugene Field collection
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 508
Abstract:
Contains autograph manuscript drafts of poems by Eugene Field and autograph letters signed from Field to various individuals.
Dates:
1880-1894
James R. Mellow papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 297
Abstract:
The collection consists of research material, writings, correspondence, audiocassettes, printed material, personal papers, financial papers, photographs, and other papers, documenting the work of James R. Mellow as an art critic, a book reviewer, and a literary biographer, shedding particular light on his biographies of Gertrude Stein, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Walker Evans.
Dates:
1940-1999