| Box |
Person Named and Contents |
Date |
| 9 |
Faed, James, 1820-1902 (Engraver)
Letter: Edinburgh, to Mr. Grundy, Liverpool
1 item (2 p. on double sheet) ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm
ALS. Explains that, after some delay, he is now sending along the portrait
of Evangeline that he has been engraving for Mr. Keith.
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1855 Nov 26 |
| 9 |
Faed, Thomas, 1826-1900 (Painter)
Letter: St. John's Wood, to unknown correspondent
1 item (2 p. on double sheet) ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm
ALS. Takes exception to his correspondent's review of his work at the
Manchester Art Exhibition. The reviewer has commented that Faed's "School
Board in the Cottage" appears to be a variation on "When the
Children are Asleep." "Now sir you have fallen into the same
mistake, for no two pictures could be more unlike . . . I hope you will
do me the justice of putting this matter right."
|
1892 Sept 7 |
| 9 |
Fanshawe, Robert, Captain
Letter: H.M.S. Carysfort, to Lucy Torriano, Wells, Somerset
1 item (1 p. on double sheet)
ALS. Very brief note where the Fanshawe, commanding officer of Frederic
Torriano [the recipient's son], "take[s] the opportunity of sending
you a few lines to say that Frederic is quite well."
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1804 Feb 8 |
| 9 |
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Dame, 1847-1929 (British Suffragist)
Letters: St. Margaret's at Cliffs, Kent, to Dr. Williamson,
Guildford, Surrey
2 items (3 p. on 2 leaves) ; 17 x 22 cm and smaller
2 ALsS. States that her sister Agnes has recently obtained some information
concerning the Women's Press, and asks whether Williamson would
be interested in seeing it.
|
1925 Aug 6 - Aug 8 |
| 9 |
Faucit, Helen
Letter: to "My dear Miss Blanchard"
1 item (3 p. on double sheet) ; 19 x 22 cm folded to 19 x 11 cm
ALS. Expresses her "sincere thanks to your Papa for the compliment
he has paid me."
|
[18--] Dec 13 |
| 9 |
Fellows Van Andale and Cooper
Letter: New York, N.Y., to Miss Cornelius and Co., Philadelphia,
Pa.
1 item (1 p. on double sheet)
ALS. Asks the recipient to forward six lamps from her shop to their firm.
|
1845 Nov 1 |
| 9 |
Fessenden, William Pitt, 1806-1869 (Congressman from Maine)
Autograph
1 item (1 p.)
ANS.
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n.d. |
| 9 |
Field, Michael (Pseudonym: Bradley, Katharine Harris, 1846-1914 and Cooper,
Edith Emma, 1862-1913)
Letter: Reigate, to Thomas Bird Mosher, 1852-1923
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11 cm
ALS. Asks for sales information regarding The Bough. Goes on to
inquire about the publication of a book of their poems and states the
conditions for their printing.
|
1899 Mar 9 |
| 9 |
Fielding, Robert
Letter: Burlington, N.J., to Samuel Coates, Philadelphia, Pa.
1 item (2 p. on double leaf)
ALS. Fielding asks for aid for a friend of the family, John Ought, who
needs to be admitted to the local sanitarium.
|
1818 Jul 11 |
| 9 |
Fields, Annie, 1834-1915
Letters: Boston, Mass., to Fred
Holland Day, Esq., 1864-1933
3 items (together 6 p.) ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm
3 ALsS. Thanks him for photographs and a book, and makes several references
to John Keats.
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1889 Feb 26 -1892 Dec 17 |
| 9 |
Fields, Annie
Letters: Boston, Mass., to Fred
Holland Day, Esq., Boston, Mass.
4 items (together 4 p.) ; mostly 18 x 11 cm
4 ALsS. Short letters thank him for books sent (Wordsworth, Keats, Landor),
for his "exquisite memorial sheets," and arrange for her portrait
to be taken by Day.
|
1889 Jan 12-1892 Dec 15 |
| 9 |
Fields, Annie
Letters: Manchester, to Fred Holland
Day; to Mr. Burgess
2 items (together 2 p.)
2 ALsS. Day letter thanks him for "your delightful note and the package."
Note to Burgess is an invitation to come visit.
|
n.y. Jul 26 - Aug 25 |
| 9 |
Finnie, John, 1829-1907 (Artist)
Letter: Tywyn near Conway, to "My Dear Grundy"
1 item (2 p. on double sheet) ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm
ALS. Mentions having read Grundy's "admirable article on the pictures,
although I do not agree with you in your remarks on Holman Hunt."
Also discusses the weather and the west coast of Anglesea.
|
n.d. |
| 9 |
Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893
Assignment of lease: New York, N.Y.
1 item (1 p. on double sheet) ; 41 x 48 cm folded to 41 x 24 cm
DS. Lease for plot of land in New York City. Fish, acting as attorney
for Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, transfers the lease of a plot of Stuyvesant's
land from Smith Ely to Caleb Barnett.
|
1839 Sep 9 |
| 9 |
Fisher, Perrin, & Co.
Invoice: London, to Henry Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa.
1 item (3 p. on double sheet) ; 27 x 42 cm folded to 27 x 21 cm
ADS. Invoice for goods shipped to Cohen, a dry goods importer.
|
1847 Oct 8 |
| 9 |
Fitch, John, 1743-1798
Receipt: Philadelphia, Pa.
1 item (1 p.) ; 9 x 20 cm
DS. At bottom of a draft signed by Benjamin W. Morris and countersigned
by Dr. Benjamin Say, Fitch acknowledges receipt of "Twenty One Pounds
Fifteen Shillings on Acc. Steam Boat."
|
1787 Mar 14 |
| 9 |
FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 (Author)
Letter: to "Dear Milnes" [Richard Monckton Milnes,
1809-1885 ]
1 item (4 p. on double sheet) ; 18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11 cm
ALS. Because his old friend Bernard Barton has died and left a daughter
"very slenderly provided for," he writes that her friends have
"persuaded her to make a selection of his letters and poems - and
to publish them by subscription . . . I beg of you to help us as well
as you can" by sending his letter on to Lord Northampton, and by
soliciting subscriptions among his acquaintances.
|
[1849] |
| 9 |
FitzGerald, Edward
Letter: Lowestoft, to "My dear Sir"
1 item (4 p. on double sheet) ; 19 x 23 cm folded to 19 x 12 cm
ALS. Refers to an auction and an item for which he is bidding; his liking
for Lowestoft and sailing; provisions sent by his correspondent. Fitzgerald
asks him to send him several classical texts from his own house and goes
on to recount the incident of a sick captain restricted to his brig in
the harbor because of cholera.
|
1866 Aug 20 |
| 9 |
FitzGerald, Edward
Letter: Woodbridge, to "Dear Sir" [Bernard Quaritch,
1819-1899]
1 item (4 p. on double sheet) 18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11 cm
ALS. Comments on the interest the Rubaiyat has received: "a
good deal of People's interest in this little Poem rises from its breathing,
from so far back, a Voice which is in nearly every educated Man's heart
now . . . People take a liking to it as an old Song." Goes on to
reflect that "the World does not seem to have mended since Omar's
Days - the same Game played - under the same Eye," and points to
Germany and Russia.
|
[1870] Dec 8 |
| 9 |
FitzGerald, Edward
Letters: Woodbridge, to Messrs. Smith and Elder, London
2 items (together 2 p. on double sheets) ; 18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11
cm
2 ALsS. Requests that past issues of Cornhill Magazine be sent
to him "which tell anything" of William M. Thackeray after his
death, and that recipients recommend "some good and fair-dealing
Printer in London, or elsewhere."
|
1872 Dec 19 - 1878 Nov 12 |
| 9 |
Fitzwilliam, _
Letter:Wentworth Woodhouse, to J. W. Fletcher
1 item (3 p. on double sheet)
ALS. Responds to an earlier letter of Fletcher's.
|
1857 Dec 2 |
| 9 |
Flecker, James Elroy, 1884-1915 (Poet)
Letter: Montana-Sur-Sierre, Switzerland, to Max Goschen
1 item (2 p. on double sheet) ; 21 x 27 cm folded to 21 x 14 cm
ALS. Written to the publisher of the Golden Journey to Samarkand.
Flecker thanks him for raising his royalty and informs him of his next
work, a translation of Virgil's Aeneid VI. He says he hopes to
translate it as well as FitzGerald translated Omar, and states his preface
will be as combative as Bernard Shaw's.
|
[ca. 1914 Jan] |
| 9 |
Flecker, James Elroy
Letter and cards: Beirut (Lebanon), Leysin, Locarno, and Montana-Sur-Sierre
(Switzerland), to Harold Monro, London, 1879-1932
7 items (together 9 p.); 20 x 25 cm and smaller
1 ALS and 6 APcS. Letter and cards contain his caustic comments on the
state of poetry, and individual poets: "The state of poetry, poetic
criticism & public taste is so depressing, not to say disgusting .
. . I have such a savage hatred of all contemporary work except that of
Yeats & Housman . . . I have a particular loathing for the works of
William Watson." "Send me a copy of Chesterton's ballad please
. . . I think he is the only man alive who can write a line of decent
poetry now that Yeats, Kipling, & Housman are silent." "May
I have Francis Thomsom [sic] - in 3 vols. - to review . . . as I want
to damn his reputation forever."
|
1912 Jul 8 - 1914 Mar 27 |
| 9 |
Flecker, James Elroy
Letters: Montana-Sur-Sierre, Switzerland, and Davos Platz,
Switzerland, to Sir [John Collings] Squire, 1884-1958
2 items (together 7 p.) ; 17 x 26 cm folded to 17 x 13 cm
2 ALsS. Writes that even magazines "with the best contributors in
the world . . . can't get one good or even fairly good poem to publish
every week." Adds that he would like to receive a rate increase for
his poetry, then goes on to explain his troubles with the Nation
and states he would contribute to the New Statesman at prevailing
rates. "I cannot call it not a sacrifice as my pen is now my only
means of existence." His second letter concerns recent submissions
of his to his publisher as well as several projects for poems and translations.
|
[1913] Dec 24 - [1914] Nov 1 |
| 9 |
Flecker, James Elroy
Letters: London and Bonn, to Elkin Mathews Publisher, London
2 items (2 p.)
2 ALsS. Two letters discussing publication of poems.
|
1907 Feb 21 - Aug 3 |
| 10 |
Floyd, Charles Albert, 1791-1873 (U. S. Congressman)
Letter: New York, N.Y., to Hon. G.C. Bronson
1 item (1 p.) ; 26 x 20 cm
ALS. To the Collector of the Port of New York, Floyd recommends his neighbor
James Walters for the position of weigher in the custom house.
|
1853 Apr 30 |
| 10 |
Floyd, John, 1783-1837 (Governor of Virginia)
Commission: for Thomas S. Haymond
1 item (1 p.) ; 20 x 16 cm
DS. Extends Haymond's term as sheriff of Monongaha County (Virginia) for
another year.
|
1833 Dec 3 |
| 10 |
Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917
Letter: London, to Elkin Matthews, 1851-1921
1 item (2 p.) ; 18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11 cm
ALS. Concerns the physical transfer of copies of John Keats's Three
Essays.
|
1890 Jun 12 |
| 10 |
Forman, H. Buxton
Letter: London, to J. Nettleship, Esq.
1 item (3 p.) ; 18 x 22 cm folded to 18 x 11 cm
ALS. Defends in detail his textual emendations in John Keats's Endymion.
|
1913 Jul 27 |
| 10 |
Forman, H. Buxton
Letter: London, to E.C. Stedman, Esq., 1833-1908, New York,
N.Y.
1 item (2 p. on double sheet) ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm
ALS. Thanks Stedman for a volume of lectures and praises the program he
has chosen for his Memorial Lectures. The work in question is Stedman's
The Nature and Elements of Poetry, a published collection of the
Percy Turnbull Memorial Lectures at Johns Hopkins University.
|
1892 Nov 19 |
| 10 |
Forman, H. Buxton
Letter: London, to H.S. Sotheran & Co
1 item (1 p)
ALS. Thanks the recipients for some "Keats notes" they have
recently sent him. Also notes that he is thinking of writing a letter
to the author about a "disputed reading in Sonnet XII."
|
1903 Dec 15 |
| 10 |
Forman, Maurice Buxton (Author)
Letters : London and Pretoria, South Africa, to Seymour
Adelman, 1906-1985, Chester, Pa.
3 items (together 5 p.) ; varying sizes
2 ALsS and 1 TLS. Letters concern Seymour Adelman's purchase of a John
Keats letter, and contain Forman's extended comments on Keats' letters
in general. Also mentions Maurice Forman's father, H. Buxton Forman.
|
1936 Aug 6 -1950 Feb 17 |
| 10 |
Forth, Frederick, b. 1808
Letter: Hong Kong, to "My dear Sir"
1 item (7 p. on 2 double sheets) ; 21 x 27 cm folded to 21 x 14 cm
ALS. Detailed letter, perhaps written to Forth's superior during the Second
Opium War, addresses the current state of affairs in Hong Kong. "Since
I last wrote matters at Canton and Hong Kong have assumed so alarming
an aspect that it is difficult to foresee the consequences that may follow
unless Lord Elgin, brought to a sense of his duty and of the perilous
position in which his shortcomings have thrown this Community will hasten
here and retrieve the ground he has lost." In a postscript, Forth
writes of learning of an impending raid on "the town who fired on
the flag of truce . . . So much for the Treaty of Peace."
|
1858 Aug 9 |
| 10 |
Foster, John, 1770-1843
Letter: to W. Thatcher
1 item (1 p.)
ALS. Writting in the third person, Foster describes the various problems
he is having related to editing books.
|
n.d. |
| 10 |
Foulkes, Longdill, and Beckitt
Notice: London, to Mr. Crowdy,
Highworth, Wilts
1 item (1 p.)
TLS. Printed anouncement informing the reader that the firm of Foulkes
and Longdill has taken on a new partner (Beckitt) and hopes to maintain
the same high level of customer satisfaction.
|
1810 Jan 20 |
| 10 |
Fowler, Robert (Painter and Watercolorist)
Letters: Liverpool, to "Dear Grundy"
5 items (13 p. on 5 double sheets) ; 21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm and
smaller
5 ALsS. Fowler writes about pictures he is working on, Grundy's notice
of his work in the Mercury ("I am especially pleased that
you selected to praise the little picture 'Idle'"), an upcoming show
("I shall have the biggest show of any-body in Liverpool. My time
is surely come at last"), and the work of a friend of his named Sparrow.
Each letter is illustrated with sketches by Fowler.
|
1887 Mar 25- n.y. Dec 12 |
| 10 |
Fox, Charles
Legal Document: "Bill on Equity"
1 item (5 p.)
ADS. Signed by Isaac Norris. Complains of Fox's debt.
|
1836 Dec 4 |
| 10 |
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Statesman, Inventor, and Printer)
Ticket: Philadelphia lottery, numb. 6425
1 item (1 p.) ; 4 x 8 cm
Printed ticket. Benjamin Franklin donated the paper and printing of tickets
for this lottery, the purpose of which was to raise funds for the construction
of shore batteries along the Delaware River Ticket bears the signature
of William Coleman.
|
1747 |
| 10 |
Franklin, Benjamin
Sheet of tickets: Second Academy lottery, [Philadelphia, Pa.]
1 item (1 p.) ; 23 x 19 cm
Printed fragment. Sheet contains lottery tickets, printed by Benjamin
Franklin, to be sold for the benefit of the present-day University of
Pennsylvania.
|
1755 |
| 10 |
Franklin, Benjamin
Authorization: Chester, Pa., to James Marshall
1 item (1 p.) ; 34 x 21 cm
Printed document. Benjamin Chew, as "Register-General for the Probate
of Wills, and granting Letters of Administration in and for the Province
of Pennsylvania", appoints James Marshall executor of the estate
of William Baldwin. Signed by W.H. Graham: "June 4th 1768 This Estate
is Settled in my Office this day and Balanced." This document was
printed by Benjamin Franklin, who was official printer for the Pennsylvania
Assembly from 1730 to 1766.
|
1766 Jul 1 |
| 10 |
Franklin, Benjamin
Receipt: [Philadelphia, Pa.], to Nathaniel Moore, 1687-1759,
Hopewell, N.J.
1 item (1 p.) ; 23 x 19 cm
Printed fragment. Sheet contains lottery tickets, printed by Benjamin
Franklin, to be sold for the benefit of the present-day University of
Pennsylvania.
|
1745 Jun 13 |
| 10 |
Franklin and Hall (Printers)
Receipts: for Pennsylvania Gazette (subscriptions and
advertisements)
5 items ; 12 x 24 cm and smaller
5 ADsS. Includes receipts, some partially printed. From Isaac Howell,
Dr. Benjamin Morris, and Ephraim Colver.
|
1748 Jul 20 - 1764 Dec 24 |
| 10 |
Freath, Chris
Letter: Chippm., to James Crowdy,
Esq., Highworth, Wilts; Highworth, Wilts, James Crowdy to Chris Freath
1 item (1 p. on double leaf)
2 ALS. "Sir, I was with Lord Folkestone at Lowington on Tuesday,
who much wishes to have the dispute between The Duke of Marlborough, and
Lord Radnor respecting the Trees immediately settled, & has desired
me to propose leaving it to the Reference of two indifferent persons to
be named by us. Should this proposal meet with your Approbation please
to write to me by return of Post." Written below the letter is a
brief reply by Crowdy.
|
1815 Dec 16 - Dec 20 |
| 10 |
Freeman, Enoch
Indenture: To Sylvanus Bramhal, Plymouth County, Mass.
1 item (1 pg.)
ADS. Indenture grants one half of the farm to be managed by Freeman, who
in turn will pay annually "Four Pounds Thirteen Shillings and four
pence."
|
1765 Apr 6 |
| 10 |
Freedman, Barnett, 1901-1958 (Painter)
Letter: London, to "Dear Bobby"
1 item (1 p.) ; 19 x 14 cm
ALS. "I do hope you will be able to make use of these--if so I shall
be glad to let you have carefully drawn units, of any that you might want.
These are only rough."
|
n.d. |
| 10 |
French, Alice
Letter: Cataumet, Mass., to Mr. Stoddard
1 item (3 p.)
ALS. First part of letter deals with French's confusion over some facsimiles
of her writings. Second part of letter invites Stoddard to come visit;
French offers her brother's piloting services to sail him over.
|
1891 Jul 29 |
| 10 |
Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909 (Painter)
Letter: Bayswater, to Harry Graves, 1806-1892
1 item (1 p. on 1 leaf) ;16 x 11 cm
ALS. Informs Graves of where he may be found "should your clients
entertain an idea of [purchasing] either of my pictures."
|
1885 Apr 30 |
| 10 |
Frith, William Powell
Letters: London, to J.C. Grundy, 1806-1867, [Liverpool]
2 items (4 p. on double sheets) ; 19 x 23 cm folded to 19 x 12 cm
2 ALsS. In the first letter, Frith asks Grundy to show the bearers of
this note "a sight of Mr. Naylor's pictures . . . I am told you have
some at your estblishment." In the second, Frith announces that his
finished picture the "Pliant Hour" is available for Grundy's
inspection.
|
1853 Aug 5 - 1856 May 27 |
| 10 |
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 (U. S. Poet Laureate)
Letter: Cambridge, Mass., to Gorham Bert Munson, 1896-1969
1 item (1 p.) ; 26 x 18 cm
ALS. "Of course dedicate your book to me, if you are sure I deserve
it. Haven't you asked me before and haven't I answered you as became me?
I think so. At any rate I shall be only too happy to have the honor."
|
1936 Mar 31 |
| 10 |
Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845 (Quaker Prison Reformer)
Letter: Plasket, to Jonas Stott, Dublin
1 item (2 p.) ; 23 x 36 cm folded to 23 x 18 cm
ALS. Explains her error in sending documents requested by her friend Henry
Hull via an American ship which will not arrive in New York City as she
expected.
|
1812 Apr 21 |
| 10 |
Fry, John S.
Letter: Boston, Mass., to "My dear Martin"
1 item (1 p.)
ALS. "I am very happy to write you a letter and hope you will make
a large collection."
|
1879 Dec 22 |
| 10 |
Fuller, H.
Letter: New York, N.Y., to Mrs. Allen, Providence R.I.
1 item (1 p. on double sheet)
ALS. In a short note, the writer discusses two forthcoming visitors
to her home.
|
1893 Nov 29 |
| 10 |
Furniss, Harry, 1854-1925 (Caricaturist, Author, Lecturer)
Letters: London, to various correspondents
7 items (together 16 p.) ; varying sizes
7 ALsS. Letters to various correspondents regarding a number of illustration
projects on which he is working. Several of the letters contain small
caricatures. In the last letter, to Gerald Christy, Furniss discusses
his upcoming lecture tour.
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1884 Feb 20 -1896 Mar 7
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