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William H. Hornblower notebooks, circa 1849 -- 1852
0.25 linear feetWilliam Channing Gannett sermons, 1872 -- 1921
5 linear feetWilliam Adams papers, 1830 -- 1909
14.25 linear feetThomas Samuel Hastings papers, 1845 -- 1911
3 linear feetThomas Jesse Jones papers, circa 1870s-1982, bulk circa 1900-1950
7 linear feetSydney Howard Gay papers, 1748-1931
43 linear feetLetters written to Gay from political and literary contemporaries such as Horace Greeley, Charles Sumner, and William Bryant; reports in letter form from his reporters at the front during the Civil War; and personal correspondence including many letters from his wife, Elizabeth Neall Gay. Letters written to Mrs. Gay from family friends and business associates including many from her husband. Correspondence of other members of the Gay family including Walter Gay, Sarah Gay, and Allan Gay. Diaries, notebooks, and journals of Sydney Howard Gay.
Solton and Julia Engel collection of literary letters manuscripts and drawings, 1832-1935
4.5 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscript, and drawings relating to English and American literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries collected by Solton (1896-1961) and Julia (-1984) Engel. Ten letters and four manuscripts of poems by Rudyard Kipling form the largest unit within the collection. Prominent among the other items are the manuscript of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Mock Trial" and two Walt Whitman letters, a copy of R. W. Emerson's famous "Leaves of Grass" letter in Whitman's hand and Whitman's letter to Conway regarding the Emerson letter. Also included is a letter from James Fenimore Cooper to Mary Rutherfurd Clarkson Jay, wife of Peter Augustus Jay. Thirty-one of the drawings in the collection are by William Wallace Denslow and John Rae Neill and represent illustrations done for various works by L. Frank Baum. There are also two drawings of Gelett Burgess, one ot "The Goop" and the other of "The Purple Cow." Castings of the obverse and reverse of the bronze Kipling medallion commissioned by Engel in 1953 from Julio Kilenyi are stored in 2 oversize boxes. Most of the items in this collection relate to a collection of first editions which was also presented to the Libraries by Mr. and Mrs. Engel.
Samuel Smith papers, circa 1772 -- 1817
0.5 linear feetSamuel Miles Hopkins Papers, 1878-1901
3 boxesManuscript notes of lectures on church history made by Stephen Grosvenor Hopkins (Hopkins' oldest son); testimonial letters in commemoration of Dr. Hopkins' jubilee, 1897; sermons; notebook; A GENERAL LITURGY AND BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, prepared by Hopkins, 1883; MANUAL OF CHURCH POLITY, 1878; and SAMUEL MILES HOPKINS TRIBUTES, 1901.