| Box |
Person Named and Contents |
Date |
| 19 |
O'Brien, William
Letter: Dublin, to "My Dear Mrs. Moss"
1 item (1 p.)
ALS. "I am greatly distressed to have to give an unfavorable answer
again, but I am utterly unable for one tenth of the work that is pressing
upon me, and I am afraid of breaking down altogether if I were to attempt
to enlarge my engagements for the present. It seems a terrible pity that
there canot be a better division of labor, but we are doing our best,
and so, I am sure, are you."
|
1888 Nov 10 |
| 19 |
Odle, Alan (Illustrator
Letter: London, to Mr. [Grant] Richards, 1872-1948
1 item (1 p.) ; 16 x 11 cm
ALS. "I have some drawings (as yet in the initial stages) which I
should like you to see and approve before completion."
|
1911 Feb 4 |
| 19 |
Ollier, Edmund, 1827-1886 (Author)
Letter: London, to Joseph Durham, 1814-1877
1 item (1 p.) ; 18 x 12 cm
ALS. "I am much obliged by your promise of a cast of the Leigh Hunt
bust . . . as a memorial at once of the man and of a very beautiful work
of art." Also mentions sending notice to all "the members of
the Committee" about the deficit.
|
1869 Oct 27 |
| 19 |
Orn, Robert
Letter: Kittanning, Pa., to Pres. James K. Polk, 1795-1849,
Washington, D.C.
1 item (2 p.) ; 25 x 40 cm folded to 25 x 20 cm
ALS. Writes to recommend the appointment of Findley Patterson as Quarter
Master in the 2nd Regiment of Pa. Volunteers rendezvousing at Pittsburgh.
"Mr. Patterson is rather celebrated for his military talents and
he would make an excellent officer of almost any grade."
|
1846 Dec 29 |
| 19 |
Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Comte d', 1801-1852
Letter: Paris, to Mr. [Peter Steven] DuPonceau, 1760-1844, Philadelphia,
Pa.
1 item (2 p. on double sheet) ; 21 x 27 cm folded to 21 x 14 cm
ALS. D'Orsay writes that he has consulted with a voice specialist on a
problem that DuPonceau's young daughter is having with her voice. The
doctor advises that the difficulty should clear up in a year or two and
that the girl might take one raw egg each morning to give her voice more
flexibility. D'Orsay also reports on small matters of business that DuPonceau
has asked him to conduct in France. He writes that he has been unable
to speak to Gen. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis
de Lafayette, 1757-1834, on DuPonceau's behalf as the government is not
yet in session.
|
1833 Nov 15 |
| 19 |
Ouida (Pseudonym, Marie Louise de la Ramée, 1839-1908) (Novelist)
Letters: to unknown correspondents
2 items (together 13 p.) ; 18 x 23 cm folded to 18 x 12 cm
2 ALsS. In the first letter, Ouida firmly declines a magazine editor's
request to include her in a group of portraits of women authors. "Now
that George Sand and George Eliot are dead there is no author of my own
day living whose rank in literature I could admit to be equal to my own."
She also chastises the editor for using the words "Lady novelist":
"No one says 'gentleman novelist'; it is as bad as the word authoress."
In the second letter, to another editor, she writes, "You may reprint
these articles of mine in aid of the cause but return me the ms."
|
1881 Sept 8 |
| 19 |
Oulmann, Nathan
Letter: New Orleans, La., to Mr. John Night, Hopkinsville, Ky.
1 item (1 p. on double sheet) ; 27 x 42 cm folded to 27 x 21 cm
ALS. In broken English, Oulmann asks to be sent his naturalization papers
so that he may vote in the next election. "I lick were murch to vot
for the first Election for president."
|
1847 Oct 14 |
| 19 |
Owen, Mr. (recipient)
Letter: to Mr. Owen, Baltimore Library
1 item (1 p.)
ALS. Unknown correspondant returns two books that he has recently finished,
"I will let you have the other as soon as I can get through with
it."
|
1838 Aug 23 |
| 19 |
Owen, Anne and Owen, Jane Dale
Letters: Braxfield, Scotland, to Robert Owen, Esq., 1771-1858,
London
2 item (4 p. on double sheet) ; 23 x 38 cm folded to 23 x 19 cm
ALS. Two young daughters of the social reformer Robert Owen write him,
while he is away from home, about affairs of the household.
|
1814 Apr 21 |
| 19 |
Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877 (Social Reformer)
Letter: Annfield, Scotland, to Mrs. Owen, Braxfield, Scotland
1 item (3 p. on double sheet) ; 23 x 37 cm folded to 23 x 19 cm
ALS. Writing to his mother while on a restorative trip to the seaside,
Owen tells her of the recommendations made by his doctor and of the places
he has visited. He concludes "I shall always be an advocate for the
sea bathing. It has done us so much good."
|
1816 Jul 22 |
| 19 |
Owen, Robert, 1771-1858 (Congressman from Indiana, 1843-47)
Letter: Bristol, to "The Owen Family," New Harmony,
Ind.
1 item (8 p.) ; 32 x 40 cm folded to 32 x 20 cm
ALS. Long letter scolds his sons for having "erred in the principle
of your mode of life. You should have been producers . . . of wealth,
and merchants to no greater extent than would effect . . . the sale of
your surplus productions." Goes on to inveigh against capitalism
and encourages them to become honest agriculturalists instead of speculative
merchants. Counsels them on bringing up their children: "They will
be much . . . better brought up together than separately," and enjoins
them to live "as one family cordially united in affection."
Expounds on the political and economic conditions in Europe and predicts
governmental collapse.
|
1841 Jan 11 |
