Box 61
Container
Contains 37 Results:
George Whyte-Melville, Late 19th century
File — Box: 61, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
A collection of five letters in the hand of Scottish novelist George Whyte-Melville. One letter of condolence to “my dear Chapman” dated only March 15th (though the paper is watermarked “1865”) and sent from Northampton. This is almost certainly Whyte-Melville’s publisher Edward Chapman (1804-1880) of Chapman & Hall. Four letters, two on mourning paper, to a P. Rose, Esquire – evidently Whyte-Melville’s solicitor – concerning various financial and family matters, including a legacy from...
Dates:
Late 19th century
Samuel Wilberforce, 1847 - 1856
File — Box: 61, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents
Five pieces of correspondence in the hand of English churchman Samuel Wilberforce during his tenure as Bishop of Oxford. Three undated, one on Cuddesdon Palace letterhead addressed “my dear Mr Murray”, one on mourning paper, and one partial envelope addressed to J. Walter Esquire, MP, most likely the publisher and Liberal politician John Walter III (1818-1894). The envelope is mounted on a piece of thick paper. The remaining two letters are dated: one sent from Oxford on October 24th, 1847...
Dates:
1847 - 1856
Bookplate of Rudolph Valentino, 1920s
File — Box: 61, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Three copies of the bookplate of silent film star Rudolph Valentino. The plate was designed in the 1920s by noted filmmaker and designer William Cameron Menzies (1896-1957) and shows a knight on a horse surrounded by other knights.
Dates:
1920s
USSR Travel Diary, 1936
File — Box: 61, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
A small black notebook containing what appears to be a diary of travel by sea to the USSR by an unnamed British writer in the summer of 1936. The contents are a mix of the usual tourist chatter regarding the sights, the food, and the difference between Russian and British culture, as well as a records of conversations with fellow-travelers, including noted pro-Soviet Labour MP Denis Nowell Pritt (1887-1972) who speaks about having witnessed a trial of “Trotskyites.” The writer provides only...
Dates:
1936
Edgar Wallace, 1898
File — Box: 61, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
A collection of materials related to British writer Edgar Wallace, mostly from his early career. Three exercise books containing a variety of historical notes, poems, songs, and short prose pieces alongside doodles and sketches: one titled “Odds and Ends” (34 pages, dated 1898), one marked “Private” (36 pages, dated 1898), and one titled “Private/Rough Thoughts” (52 pages, undated but likely contemporaneous with the other two). References to Cape Town, Africa, and the Muizenberg Camp suggest...
Dates:
1898
Jacobus & Moses VanGordon, 1778 - 1796
File — Box: 61, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
Four small manuscript documents related to Jacobus VanGordon and his son Moses dated between the 1770s and 1790s. The earliest document, dated July 23rd, 1781, compels the elder VanGordon to appear as a witness in the court martial of Colonel Jacob Stroud (1735-1806), who was being tried for insubordination. The remaining three documents concern Moses’ time as a soldier in the Revolutionary War: one (undated) allows him passage home, a second dated 1778 is a common loyalty certificate...
Dates:
1778 - 1796
William Winter, 1878 - 1911
File — Box: 61, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents
Five notes and letters in the hand of American author William Winter dated between 1878 and 1911. Three are to unknown recipients (one 1878, one undated but likely 1888 or 1889, and one dated 1911); contents general. One is dated 1902 and addressed to a Mrs. W.S. Edgar regarding the writer Edwina Booth Grossman (1861-1938), daughter of Shakeapearean actor Edwin Booth (1833-1893) and niece of John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865), the stage actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. The final letter is...
Dates:
1878 - 1911
"Willie Weaver", 19th century
File — Box: 61, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
A manuscript poem, undated but likely from the 19th century, 3 pages on a single large sheet of folded paper, titled “Willie Weaver”. The contents are a variant of the Anglo-American folksong most commonly known as Will the Weaver or Bill the Weaver, which tells the comic tale of a newly married man who regrets a hasty marriage to a domineering wife, ultimately surprising her and her lover Will the Weaver in their home. Will hides up the chimney and is smoked out by the husband, beaten, and...
Dates:
19th century
Art Young, 1900 - 1933
File — Box: 61, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
A collection of materials related to American cartoonist Art Young. One original pen drawing on board illustrating the short story “Uncle Ethan Ripley” by American author Hamlin Garland (1860-1940). Two matted photographs of Young taken by noted photographer Jacob Schloss in his Manhattan studio, one with an annotation on the back in Young’s hand: “about 32 yrs of age.” Three typed and signed letters to Young by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane (1864-1936): one dated April 9th, 1900...
Dates:
1900 - 1933
Julian LeRoy White, 1866 - 1886
File — Box: 61, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents
Two diaries belonging to Baltimore philanthropist Julian LeRoy White. The earlier diary is from 1866, when White was only 13 years old and documents daily life during a year spent abroad in Europe with his mother and stepfather the British physician Thomas H. Buckler (1812-1901). Decorative blue cloth binding and marbled edges; the front flyleaf contains two stamps bearing White’s name and a note in ink indicating that the diary was a Christmas gift from White’s aunt Mary in 1865. The second...
Dates:
1866 - 1886
Wesleyan Methodist Local Preachers' Mutual Aid Association, 1860
File — Box: 61, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
A small blue pamphlet whose front cover reads “Wesleyan Methodist Local Preachers’ Mutual-Aid Association. Contributions in Aid of the Great Bazaar to be Held in London, June, 1860.” The four leaves inside consist of lined paper with places to put the name of contributors and the items they have given. Half of the pages have been used.
Dates:
1860
A.R. Ubsdell, Circa 1934
File — Box: 61, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
A single leaf of paper containing a manuscript copy of the poem “Ordered Home” by A.R. Ubsdell, originally published in The Cornhill Magazine, September 1934. A note beneath the poem indicates that it was composed in Kidderpore, Kolkata, presumably when he was stationed there during the Second World War.
Dates:
Circa 1934
Alonzo Williams, 1868
File — Box: 61, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents
A commonplace book entitled “Scraps of Ideas” compiled by Brown University professor Alonzo Williams during his time as an undergraduate at the same school. The date November 18th, 1868 is found on the second page of the notebook and the contents were likely written around that time. Williams apparently kept this notebook throughout his life: he signs his name a number of times, including a later signature on the front cover reading “ Prof. Alonzo Williams.” The contents consist of notes,...
Dates:
1868
John Greenleaf Whittier, Circa 1830s
File — Box: 61, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
A 4-page manuscript in the hand of American poet John Greenleaf Whittier. The contents are the poem “The Demon’s Cave” with a brief introduction, followed by a portion of a prose piece entitled “Manufacturing Establishment.” This “The Demon’s Cave” is that published in the Boston Masonic Mirror in 1831, rather than the amended version usually published in Whittier’s complete works as “Lines, Written on visiting a singular cave in Chester, N.H., known in the vicinity by the name of ‘The...
Dates:
Circa 1830s
Francis Wilson, 1887 - 1929
File — Box: 61, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents
A collection of 14 letters sent by American actor and book collector Francis Wilson dated between 1887 and 1929. Recipients are largely American writers and book collectors including Arthur Macy (1842-1904) and Paul Lemperly (1858-1939). All handwritten except the latest letter. A photograph of Wilson is also included with a printed label on the back reading “FRANCIS WILSON, as Sir Guy De Vere in ‘When Knights Were Both’ at the” with a pencil note indicating this would have been in May...
Dates:
1887 - 1929
World War II Journal & Letters, 1940 - 1946
File — Box: 61, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents
A bound typescript containing what is essentially a diary written by a woman named Madeleine (“Mad”) documenting life in France between September 1940 and February 1945. An opening letter, dated April 10th, 1941 explains that the narrative was composed as a series of letters to Madeleine’s friends Polly, Alice, and Miss Franklin, with each of them receiving a third of the document, and she imagines that after the war, the three women will “have to join hands” in order to read the story in...
Dates:
1940 - 1946
Ronald N. Walpole, 1946 - 1955
File — Box: 61, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
A small collection of materials related to Berkeley historian Ronald N. Walpole. Three letters addressed to British academic J.M. Wallace-Hadrill (1916-1985) pertaining to their mutual interest in the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle and related materials, dated between 1946 and 1948. Along with the letters is an inscribed offprint of Walpole’s article “The Pèlerinage de Charlemagne: Poem, Legend, and Problem” originally published in Romance Philology in 1955.
Dates:
1946 - 1955