Sixteen autograph letters, signed, from Helen Hunt Jackson. The letters are written to a group of friends and are addressed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, dated 1868 November 15 to 1869 September 28. Also included is an autograph note, signed, explaining the letters, dated 1906 October 5.
Description:
Helen Hunt Jackson, American writer and activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. and In English.
Subject (Name):
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. and Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.
Autograph manuscript letter, signed, praising Ellen Sturgis Hooper's poetry. Enclosed with the letter are autograph manuscript copies of three recent poems of his own in return: "Forerunners", "The House", and "Loss and Gain". Also includes a manuscript poem in an unidentified hand, possibly Ellen Sturgis Hooper's, titled "Persephone". With envelope
Description:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American author., Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812-1848) was an American poet and transcendentalist., and In English.
Subject (Name):
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882., Hooper, Ellen Sturgis, 1812-1848., and Persephone (Greek deity)
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American, Poets, American, Transcendentalists (New England), and Women poets, American
Draft of essay on the topics of sex, self-expression, and literature, typescript carbon, corrected and signed. Inscribed: "For Ed Ricketts of Pacific Grove and realms without name--from his friend Henry Miller, Hollywood, 6/26/41."
Description:
Henry Miller (1891-1980), author and painter. and In English.
Subject (Name):
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. and Ricketts, Edward Flanders, 1897-1948.
Subject (Topic):
American literature, Authors, American, and Sex in literature
A portrait of the American academic and editor Norman Holmes Pearson by Deane Keller. The painting is oil on canvas, and is signed at the upper right: "Deane / Keller / 1976." Included in the portrait (hanging on the wall behind Pearson) is a painting titled "Arabella!" by D. H. Lawrence, which was in Pearson's personal collection of art works created by authors; the collection, called by him "Art for the Wrong Reason," is now at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library along with Pearson's papers
Description:
Deane Keller (1901-1992), American artist, academic, soldier, and preservationist. He earned a BA from Yale University in 1923 and a BFA from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1926. Keller taught for forty years at the Yale School of Fine Arts, and during World War II was an officer with the Allied Forces's Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section., Norman Holmes Pearson (1909-1975, Yale 1932, 1941 PhD), professor of English and American Studies at Yale University and officer in the United States Office of Strategic Services during World War II. Pearson collaborated with Yale University Library curator Donald Gallup to develop the Yale Collection of American Literature, playing an instrumental role in the library's acquisition of the papers of H. D. and Bryher., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Keller, Deane, 1901-1992., Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930. (David Herbert),, and Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975
