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3.
"A Shakespeare Hoax" + "Opinions of the Press" [loose in volume]

Creator:
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889.
Call Number:
GEN MSS 12
Collection Title:
James Halliwell-Phillipps letters, 1870-1889.
Container / Volume:
Folder 20
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
Two bound volumes containing: 164 letters to Halliwell-Phillips' nephew, Ernest Edward Baker; 18 letters to his niece, Mildred Baker; 12 letters to his sister, "Lorry" [Mrs. S. E. Baker?], one letter to Sir Edward Augustus Bond, secretary of the British Museum; one letter to [Mr. Friend]; and one letter to Thomas Morgan. Accompanying these letters are several clippings, a holograph speech dated Dec. 29, 1870; proof sheets of "A Shakespeare Hoax" and "Opinions of the Press" concerning Halliwell-Phillipps' pamphlet "The Stratford Records and the Shakspere Autotypes"; and several other enclosures.
Description:
James Halliwell-Phillipps, English author and biographer of Shakespeare. and Loose items have been removed from volumes and placed in folders.
Subject (Name):
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O.--(James Orchard),--1820-1889.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "A Shakespeare Hoax" + "Opinions of the Press" [loose in volume]

7.
"An Ode, to General."

Creator:
Lascelles, Robert
Call Number:
GEN MSS 1264
Collection Title:
John Hall-Stevenson letters and manuscripts
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 4
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Correspondence, autograph manuscripts, and one printed broadside song documenting aspects of the social and creative life of the poet John Hall-Stevenson. Contents include manuscripts of verses by John Hall-Stevenson and Robert Lascelles; letters by members of his club and social circle, including a lengthy letter by Jean-Baptiste Tollot discussing Laurence Sterne's character and good nature (1762 April 4) and another describing events in Geneva immediately after the expulsion of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1764 January 8); and related correspondence, including a letter of advice from Hall-Stevenson to his grandson John Wharton and several business letters received by Wharton. The printed broadside song, "Trout Hall," is extensively annotated in Hall-Stevenson's hand.
Description:
Formerly owned by William Durrant Cooper. Purchased from Paul Grinke on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1972., John Hall-Stevenson (1718-1785), was a poet, a country gentleman, and a close friend of Laurence Sterne, whom he met at Cambridge and who based the character of Eugenius in Tristram Shandy on him. Hall-Stevenson founded a club of "Demoniacks," which met at "Crazy Castle," his country seat, and was loosely modeled on Sir Francis Dashwood's Monks of Medmenham. His published works included Crazy Tales and Fables for Grown Gentlemen, both of which were reprinted several times during his lifetime. He died at home in March, 1785., and The collection also contains a photocopy of W. Durrant Cooper's "Seven Letters Written by Sterne and His Friends;" a copy of the bookseller's catalogue; and a handwritten finding aid for the collection.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, English--18th century and English literature--18th century
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "An Ode, to General."

8.
"An inventory of the Library of Mr. Nathnl. Chauncy, Min: of Hatfield."

Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
GEN MSS 488
Collection Title:
Chauncy family sermons, book inventory and commonplace book
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 2
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The sermons consist of three bound volumes of holograph sermons by Charles Chauncy (volumes 1-3), one of them also carrying sermons by Israel Chauncy. A fourth bound volume (volume 4) contains holograph outlines of sermons delivered between 1690 and 1695 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a variety of ministers, including Nathaniel Gookin, Cotton Mather, William Brattle, John Emerson, Jonathan Mitchel, Jonathan Pierpont, and Samuel Willard. The recorder of these sermons is thought to be Isaac Chauncey, Harvard class of 1693, the only member of the Chauncy family in Cambridge during the years the sermons were recorded. A holograph sermon in sewn paper wrappers is by Israel Chauncy, given on the occasion of the death of Zachary Brinsmade of Stratford in August, 1667 (box 1). The sermons are accompanied by two folio sheets recording the inventory of the library of Nathaniel Chauncy, a holograph list of 160 books in short-title form, possibly created when Israel Chauncy assumed guardianship of his nephew (box 1); and a bound commonplace book kept by Elnathan Chauncy (Harvard Class of 1661), begun in his senior year at Harvard (volume 5).
Description:
Charles Chauncy, non-conformist minister originally from England, second Harvard president, and father of Isaac, Ichabod, Barnabas, Nathaniel, Elnathan, and Israel Chauncy., Israel Chauncy was a minister in Bridgeport (then Stratford), Connecticut. When his brother Nathaniel died, Israel agreed to raise his nephew Nathaniel in exchange for the use of books from their father's library which had passed to his brother. Israel Chauncy was one of the founders of Yale College, and his nephew Nathaniel was the first graduate of Yale College., and Purchased from The Owl at the Bridge on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2001.
Subject (Name):
Chauncey family, Chauncy, Nathaniel, approximately 1639-1685, and Harvard College (1636-1780)--Students
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "An inventory of the Library of Mr. Nathnl. Chauncy, Min: of Hatfield."

10.
"Chapter One" (p. 1-6)

Published / Created:
n.d.
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2499
Collection Title:
John N. E. Brown papers concerning Faith Fenton
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 1
Image Count:
7
Abstract:
4 undated typescript documents (13 p.), apparently drafts written by John N. E. Brown for an unpublished biography of his wife, Faith Fenton, after her death in 1936: an annotated draft of Chapter One, titled "Memories of Faith Fenton", describes Brown's 1898 journey to the Yukon in the company of William Ogilvie, the Territory's first commissioner, and of Ogilvie's 1897 interview with Fenton for the Toronto Globe; a draft of Chapter Two, describing Fenton's journey with the Yukon Field Force and her arrival in Dawson; a draft relating Brown's first glimpse of Fenton on the streets of Dawson; and an annotated draft tracing Fenton's family history and early youth. Also includes a TLS on Toronto Globe stationary from A. A. McIntosh to Dr. John N. E. Brown, encouraging a proposed biography of Fenton and permitting Brown's use of Fenton's Globe columns. A cabinet card photograph of Faith Fenton accompanies the papers, taken by J. Bruce of Bruce's Photographic Art Studio, Toronto.
Description:
Faith Fenton was the pen name of Alice Freeman, a Toronto school teacher who wrote newspaper columns for the Toronto Globe and the Toronto Empire in the 1890s. In 1898, she became the Globe's special correspondent in the Yukon Territory, and accompanied the Yukon Field Force to Dawson to cover the Klondike gold rush. On January 1, 1900, she married Dr. John N. E. Brown, the secretary of the Yukon Territory and physician to the commissioner, William Ogilvie. The couple remained in Dawson for several years, returning to Toronto in 1905. Fenton died on January 10, 1936. and Purchased from Sindell and Company on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 2004.
Subject (Geographic):
Dawson (Yukon)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Brown, John N. E. (Nelson Elliot), Canada. Canadian Army. Yukon Field Force, Fenton, Faith, 1857-1936, Globe and Mail (Firm), McIntosh, A. A, and Ogilvie, William, 1846-1912
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--Yukon--Klondike River Valley, Women journalists--Canada, Women pioneers--Yukon--Klondike River Valley, and Women--West (U.S.)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Chapter One" (p. 1-6)

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