Lola Ridge was an American poet born in Ireland and raised in Australia. Her published works include Ghetto and Other Poems (1918); Red Flag (1927); Firehead (1929); and Dance of Fire (1935). Despite frequent ill health, she was associated with Harold Loeb and others in editing the little magazine Broom (1921-24), and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934. and The nine letters contain thanks for positive reviews of Ridge's work by Jones, and praise of Evelyn Scott's novels, which Ridge hoped Jones would review. The 1930 letter solicits Jones's help for Leon Srabian Hearld, a young Armenian writer.
Subject (Name):
Hearld, Leon Srabian, Jones, Llewellyn,--1884-1961, Ridge, Lola,--1883-1941, and Scott, Evelyn,--1893-1963
Subject (Topic):
Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence, Women novelists, American--20th century, and Women poets, American--20th century
Lola Ridge was an American poet born in Ireland and raised in Australia. Her published works include Ghetto and Other Poems (1918); Red Flag (1927); Firehead (1929); and Dance of Fire (1935). Despite frequent ill health, she was associated with Harold Loeb and others in editing the little magazine Broom (1921-24), and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934. and The nine letters contain thanks for positive reviews of Ridge's work by Jones, and praise of Evelyn Scott's novels, which Ridge hoped Jones would review. The 1930 letter solicits Jones's help for Leon Srabian Hearld, a young Armenian writer.
Subject (Name):
Hearld, Leon Srabian, Jones, Llewellyn,--1884-1961, Ridge, Lola,--1883-1941, and Scott, Evelyn,--1893-1963
Subject (Topic):
Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence, Women novelists, American--20th century, and Women poets, American--20th century
Letters to Augustus Hall, 1847-1868 (bulk 1847-1857).
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2
Abstract:
12 ALS to Hall from various prominent Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah men, writing about politics, forwarding letters of introduction, asking for political favor. The letters include a description of the contested election in Nebraska in 1855, a copy of Samuel Ryan Curtis' military record, a note from Joseph E. Johnson about his desire to be Secretary of the Territory of Utah. Other correspondents include Thomas B. Cuming, William W. Drummond, Edwin Vose Sumner, and George W. Jones. With one seemingly unrelated letter from Maxwell & Chapman, Attorneys, Plattsmouth, Nebraska, dated Dec 21 1868 with cachet map showing railroads projected and completed in 1868 centering in Plattsmouth, 2 x 3 inches at the end of an orange envelope.
Description:
Augustus Hall was Representative from Iowa in 1855-1857, and the second chief justice in Nebraska Territory from 1858-1861.
Subject (Geographic):
Iowa--Politics and government and Nebraska--Politics and government
Subject (Name):
Drummond, William W and Hall, Augustus,--1814-1861
18 letters to Joseph Barrett, a goldsmith in Cheapside, 15 of which were written by his brother Richard Barrett between 1715 and 1720. The two earliest letters are from Tewkesbury, announcing riots in Worcester and Richard's intention of going to Scotland. The next letters, written from Paris between February and June of 1719, describe the sights of Paris and Versailles; clothing styles and customs of the French; High Mass at Notre Dame celebrated by the Cardinal de Noailles; and some political gossip, including the illness of the duchesse de Berry and the first reports of the marriage between the Young Pretender and Maria Clementina, Princess Sobieski, at which "the Jacobites here flatter themselves with...Hope." and Richard's letters from Leiden, written between October 1719 and April 1720, contain his impressions of the city; news of his health and financial situation; his desire to "take his degree" in medicine there; and his investment advice to his brother during the "prodigious rise in Stocks" on the London and Amsterdam exchanges in April 1720. The collection also contains two letters to Joseph Barrett from Anthony Bewly, describing Amsterdam and his business there, and one from Elizabeth Bostock, containing family news.
Subject (Geographic):
Leiden (Netherlands)--Description and travel and Paris (France)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Bewly, Anthony
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1715, Jacobites, and South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
