Lyrics to White Winged Columbia Song

US-RPB-ms78.13 Guide to the Oscar Wegelin papers1899-1966 Finding aid prepared by Finding aid prepared by S.T. Joshi and Marc A. Michaud, Student Interns, under the direction of Clifton H. Jones, Manuscripts Curator, May 1978. Brown University Library

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English 2.75 Linear feet 1899-1966 Oscar Wegelin, bookseller and author, was one of the leading bibliographers in the field of early American writings. The Oscar Wegelin papers (1899-1966) contain correspondence with important scholars, litterateurs, and bibliographers. In addition, the papers contain poems, plays, and prose written by Wegelin. Wegelin, Oscar, 1876-1970 Wegelin (Oscar) papers Biographical note

Oscar Wegelin, bookseller and author, was one of the leading bibliographers in the field of early American writings. His papers consist of about 500 items, and include correspondence to and from Wegelin; his own fiction, including manuscripts of articles, poetry, and plays; bibliographical notes; receipts for material purchased from or by Wegelin; and various printed items including publications by Wegelin, play programs, and reviews of Wegelin's books.

Approximately half the collection is correspondence, which chiefly discusses routine matters relating to Wegelin's bookshop. Several letters discuss bibliographical details of early American poetry and plays.

As for manuscript material written by Wegelin, the collection includes a few of his articles on bibliography, one tale of fiction, many poems, and several unpublished plays and skits. The bibliographic notes consist of hand-written copies, mostly in Wegelin's hand, of entries in his bibliographies.

1876 Sep 29 Born in New York City 1890 Begins working in bookshop with John E. Anderson, Jr. 1895 Begins compilation of his bibliography of early American plays 1899 First published verse: Lyrics to White Winged Columbia Song 1900 Publishes Early American Plays 1714-1830 1901 Begins his own bookselling business in Stamford, Connecticut; soon moves to New York city 1902 Publishes Early American Fiction 1774-1830 1903 Publishes Early American Poetry 1905 Revised edition of Early American Plays 1906 Publishes bibliography of William Gilmore Simms 1907 Publishes Early American Poetry 1800-1820 1908 First volume of verse: When Conscience Sleeps and Other Poems 1911 Publishes Books Relating to the History of Georgia in the Library of Wymberley Jones De Renne 1913 Revised edition of Early American Fiction 1774-1830 1915 Publishes Jupiter Hammon, American Negro Poet 1916 Publishes bibliography of William Dunlap 1917 Publishes Micah Hawkins and the Saw-Mill 1923 The Fanatic's Prayer and Other Verse 1929 Third edition of Early American Fiction 1774-1830 1930 Second edition of Early American Poetry 1938-1954 Bibliographer of the New York Historical Society 1941 Second edition of the Simms (1906) bibliography 1953 Publishes bibliography of Samuel Woodworth 1970 Dies

Collection information

There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested.

Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them.

Oscar Wegelin papers, Ms. 78.13, Brown University Library.

The correspondence to Wegelin (circa 150 items) consists of letters from such scholars, littérateurs, and bibliographers as Robert F. Roden, A. Furman, Alfred Goldsmith, Charles F. Heartman, Harry Lyman Koopman, and others. There is much correspondence with institutions concerning the purchase of books from Wegelin's bookshop. A number of letters discuss the early American poetry and plays, as well as such writers as W.G. Simms, Samuel Miller Hageman, Jupiter Hammon, and others. There is also some discussion of Lincolniana. The Mabbott correspondence in general covers the period from 1900 to 1945, though some of it is dated after that time.

Wegelin's own correspondence (circa 100 items) extends from 1900 to 1966 and deals largely with routine business matters concerning the book trade. There is some correspondence following 1910 discussing a possible position in the John Carter Brown Library for Wegelin. Other letters discuss donations by Wegelin to Brown University.

Wegelin's prose manuscripts (25 items) include some apparently unpublished bibliographical essays; also included is a "Foreword" by Wegelin to A Letter of a '49er, the entire book having been copied by Mrs. Adele Wegelin.

Poetry manuscripts (circa 50 items) include a number of poems dedicated to Wegelin's friends and associates, e.g., Arthur B. Carlson, Elizabeth J. Wendell, Mendoza's Book Store, Susan E. Lyman, Vincent Portonova, and others.

Wegelin's plays (circa 60 items) are apparently unpublished, though some may have seen public performance. Almost all are short humorous skits or dialogues; some are in verse. Included with the plays are song lyrics by Wegelin.

In the collection are receipts (circa 80 items) which mainly record the sale of some of Wegelin's papers to Brown University. Some receipts record book sales from Wegelin's bookshop.

A few letters (5 items) are neither to or from Wegelin but discuss him. Of particular note is correspondence from H. L. Koopman to W. H .P. Faunce about Wegelin's possible position as a librarian at the John Carter Brown Library.

Printed materials (circa 50 items) include programs of short plays in which Wegelin is credited as actor or playwright. Most are programs from a theater group called the Nutmeg Club. There are a number of publications by Wegelin, including obituaries by him published in various book journals, clippings of his printed poetry, and articles on bibliographical matters. There are a few reviews of Wegelin's books, including those of Early American Plays 1714-1830 and the Simms bibliography. Also in the collection are miscellaneous prints, articles, and photostats of editions of the works of early American writers.

The papers are arranged in four series: Series 1. Correspondence Series 2. Manuscript material by Oscar Wegelin Series 3. Miscellaneous manuscript material Series 4. Printed material

The arrangement of the collection begins with correspondence to and from Wegelin, arranged alphabetically by the correspondent. In those instances where letters were written by institutions about routine book business, the letters have been filed under the name of the institution, e.g., American Antiquarian Society. All correspondence, including Wegelin's, is arranged chronologically within the alphabetical sequence.

Bibliographical notes by Wegelin follow arranged alphabetically by the title of the work being catalogued. Similarly, manuscripts of prose, poetry and plays by Wegelin are arranged alphabetically by title and, where no title exists, by the first line. Miscellaneous unidentified notes by Wegelin and others follow.

Receipts for book orders and for purchase of manuscripts are organized by date of receipt. The one folder of letters to or from but concerning Wegelin follows.

As for printed matter, the programs for plays in which Wegelin had a role are filed alphabetically by the organization staging the play, e.g., the Nutmeg Club. There follows printed matter written by Wegelin which is grouped under the categories of orbituaries, articles, concludes with printed matter not directly concerning Wegelin, and includes articles, prints, photostats, and the like.

Additional Information

Brown University Library catalog record for this collection: Oscar Wegelin papers

Administrative information

The Oscar Wegelin papers were compiled piecemeal either through purchase from Wegelin himself (compare receipts) or through the compilation by a staff member of the Brown University Library of correspondence found within the University.

Correspondence Series 1 2 20 2.0 box(es) Abbatt, William 1 1 1930 Feb 22 Scope and Contents note

Bibliographic queries.

Allen, Lois 1 1 1917 Nov 14 Scope and Contents note

Queries about Androboros.

American Antiquarian Society 1 1 3.0 letters 1916 Dec 2-1948 Dec 13 Scope and Contents note

Bibliographic information and request for gifts.

Anderson, Jonathan 1 1 1899 Aug 31 Scope and Contents note

Regarding possible publishers for Wegelin's bibliography

Andrews, Loring 1 2 1901 Apr 27 Scope and Contents note

Purchase of prints.

Armstrong, A.J. 1 2 1918 Apr 13 Scope and Contents note

Bibliographic queries about Androboros

Atkinson, Fred W. 1 2 2.0 letters 1917 Dec 11-1929 Jan 7 Scope and Contents note

Bibliographic information on American plays.

Batdorf, Franklin P. 1 3 1952 Jan 28 Bennett, Whitman 1 3 1951 Aug 17 Blanck, Jacob 1 3 1951 Oct 25 Blanck, Jacob 1 3 1951 Nov 30 Blanck, Jacob 1 3 1951 Dec 4 Blanck, Jacob 1 3 1952 Jan 15 Blanck, Jacob 1 3 1961 Sep 18 Scope and Contents note

Query on Tecumseh, by W.H.Hosmer.

Briggs, Morris H. 1 3 1942 Feb 16 Scope and Contents note

Purchases of items.

Bryan, T.S 1 3 1906 Mar 5 Scope and Contents note

Regarding inability to supply rare volume

Chicago Public Library ( Henry E. Legler ) 1 4 1916 Aug 3 Scope and Contents note

Regarding bibliographic discovery.

Clap, Percy E. 1 4 1945 May 15 Scope and Contents note

Requests information about Robert F. Roden.

Connecticut Historical Society. 1 4 1916 Jan 3 Cromwell, J. W. 1 4 1915 Dec 29 Scope and Contents note

Acknowledges gift of Wegelin.

Courtenay, William 1 4 2.0 letters 1906 Feb 2- 19 Scope and Contents note

Regarding purchase of books from Wegelin.

Damon, S. Foster 1 5 1931 Aug 10 De Vinne, Theodore L. 1 5 1900 Mar 29 Dodd, Mead and Company 1 5 1907 Jul 2 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Wegelin's own published works; routine book business.

Ford, Paul Leiceister 1 6 1901 Oct 16 Furman, Alfred A. 1 6 2.0 letters 1913 May 14 - 1917 Dec 9 Scope and Contents note

Regarding forthcoming plays; religion; routine book business.

Goldsmith, Alfred 1 7 8.0 letters 1941 Jun 22 - 1947 Mar 20 Scope and Contents note

Regarding bibliographic queries; routine book business. Includes a poem by Goldsmith, "Ode to the Screech Owl."

Goodspeed's Book Shop 1 7 1952 Jan 18 Griswold , Daniel P. 1 8 1903 Mar 12 Harper, Lothrop C. 1 8 1932 Nov 19 Harvard College 1 8 2.0 letters 1909 Jun 28 - 1920 Oct 7 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Routine book business; bibliographic queries; an article in Publishers' Weekly

Heartman, Charles F. 1 9 2.0 letters 1940 Sep 23 - 1953 Apr 21 Heartman, Martha E. 1 9 4.0 letters 1953 Sep 11 - 1955 Jul 16 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Printing matters; proofs of Wegelin's bibliography; Richard Pickersgill; the Heartman estate

Hemphill, John M. 1 9 1953 Nov 9 Hibert, R. 1 10 1919 Apr 25 Hill, Frank P. 1 10 1932 May 3 Historical Commission of South Carolina 1 10 1943 Nov 29 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Routine book business; bibliographic matters

Hundley, W. S. 1 11 9.0 letters 1949 May 18 - 1950 Aug 18 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Routine book business; Samuel Miller Hageman.

Hutchinson, Elmer T. 1 11 1952 Jan 6 Hutchinson, Elmer T. 1 11 1952 Jan 16 Hutchinson, Elmer T. 1 11 1952 Jan 21 Hutchinson, Elmer T. 1 11 1952 Feb 23 Hutchinson, Elmer T. 1 11 1952 Feb 27 Hutchinson, Elmer T. 1 11 1952 Dec 12 Hutchinson, Elmer T. 1 11 1953 Feb 24 Hutchinson, Elmer T. 1 11 1953 Mar 5 Hutchinson, Elmer T. 1 11 1953 Mar 9 Hutchinson, Elmer T. 1 11 1953 Apr 10 Henry E. Huntington Library 1 12 1932 Dec 14 Illinois State Historical Library 1 12 1942 Jul 22 Jewish Theological Seminary 1 12 1925 Sep 4 Jonah David 1 12 1965 Jul 14 Koopman, H. L 1 12 3.0 letters 1906 Feb 1 - 1923 May 19 Scope and Contents note

Regarding The Simms bibliography; Lincolniana; Wegelin manuscripts; routine book business; bibliographical information.

Lanemon, Thomas A. 1 13 1948 Dec 6 Literary Collector Press 1 13 1904 Dec 28 - 1905 Mar 31 Loche, Lillie D. 1 13 1904 Mar 3 Locke, Robinson 1 13 1904 May 12 Lowens, Irving 1 13 1960 Jan 5 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Bibliographical queries; proofs of Wegelin's books; musical Americana.

Mabbot, T. O. 1 14 5.0 letters 1938 Dec 3 - 1940 Jan 31 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Poe bibliography; "negro entertainment programs"; routine book business.

Mabbot, T. O. 1 15 5.0 letters 1940 Mar 24 - 1940 Nov 22 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Poe bibliography; Tamerlane; routine book business.

Mabbot, T. O. 1 16 5.0 letters 1940 Dec 9 - 1941 Sep Scope and Contents note

Regarding Poe bibliograpy; Tamerlane; routine book business.

Mabbot, T. O. 1 17 5.0 letters 1941 Sep - 1941 Oct 18 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Poe bibliography; routine book business.

Mabbot, T. O. 1 18 5.0 letters 1941 Nov 27 - 1943 Jul 30 Scope and Contents note

Regarding E.A. Poe ( bibliography and forgeries ); routine book business.

Mabbot, T. O. 1 19 5.0 letters 1943 Aug 19 - 1946 Sep 17 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Poe; professorships; routine book business.

Mabbot, T. O. 1 20 4.0 letters 1951 Oct 11 - 1965 May 10 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Poe; retirement; Mabbott's fear of crossing busy streets; routine book business.

Mcgee, J. B. 1 21 1915 Jun 25 Massachusetts Historical Society 1 21 1904 Mar 2 Mendoza, Isaac 1 21 1944 Oct 10 Moravian Music Foundation 1 21 1961 Jan 9 Scope and Contents note

Regarding W. G. Simms; bibliographic queries; routine book business; on poem by Wegelin.

New England Historic Genealogical Society 1 22 1916 Feb 18 New England Telephone and Telegraph Company 1 22 1917 April 28 New York Genealogical and Biographical Society 1 22 1916 Feb 15 New York Historical Society 1 22 2.0 letters 1915 Sep 4 - 1915 Dec 22 Scope and Contents note

Regarding Routine book business; Charles F. Heartman; New Hampshire history; bibliographic notes.

New York Public Library 1 23 2.0 letters 1916 Feb 23 - 1933 Feb 8, 1952 Jan 16 New York Times 1 23 1904 Oct 7 New York University 1 23 1917 Jan 5 Scope and Contents note

Regarding book business, bibliographic queries.

Pallsits, Victor H. 1 24 1929 May 21 Pickersgill, O. H. 1 24 undated Public Ledger ( Philadelphia ) 1 24 3.0 letters 1905 Mar 28 - 1905 May 23 Public Library of Cincinnati 1 24 1916 Jun 17 Scope and Contents note

Regarding printing; routine book business; John Dunlap.

Publisher's Weekly 1 24 1907 Nov 18 Scope and Contents note

Included is December 14, 1907 issue of Publisher's Weekly.

Rockefeller, George C. 1 25 1953 Apr 25 Rockefeller, George C. 1 25 1954 Jan 8 Roden, Robert F. 1 25 3.0 letters 1902 Jan 4 - 1903 Apr 3 Sargent, Scott 1 25 2.0 letters 1905 Jun 17 - 1916 Jan 17 Scope and Contents note

Regarding bibliography; early American printing and poetry; Jupiter Hammon; routine book business.

Sinclair, Donald A. 1 25 1951 Sep 27 Sinclair, Donald A. 1 25 1951 Jan 3 Sinclair, Donald A. 1 25 1951 Oct 4 Sinclair, Donald A. 1 25 1951 Nov 7 Sinclair, Donald A. 1 25 1951 Nov 27 Sinclair, Donald A. 1 25 1951 Dec 26 Skinner, John 1 25 1952 Aug 8 Skinner, John 1 25 1952 Sep 14 Streeter, Thomas W. 1 25 1953 Jan 22 Swann, Arthur 1 25 1947 Aug 4 Taylor, Douglas 1 26 6.0 letters 1900 Apr 3 - 1919 Jun 2 Thomas, Charles R. 1 26 1910 Feb 21 Scope and Contents note

Regarding indexing offer; printing bills; William G. Simms.

Turnbull, Dorothy 1 26 1951 Dec 2 Turnbull, Dorothy 1 26 1952 Oct 23 University of Oklahoma 1 27 1938 Nov 29 Scope and Contents note

Regarding possible acceptance of Wegelin's book collection.

University of Pennsylvania 1 27 3.0 letters 1915 Jun 19 - 1924 Jan 17 Scope and Contents note

Regarding bibliographic notes.

Van Hoesen, H. B. 1 28 1930 Jul 2 - 1942 Mar 31 Vassar College Library 1 28 1905 Mar 28 Scope and Contents note

Regarding routine book business.

Wall, Alexander J. 1 28 1953 May 22 Wall, Alexander J. 1 28 1952 Jun 3 Wegelin, Oscar 2 1 6.0 letters undated Scope and Contents note

To Harris Collection; Miss Litchfield; David Jonah; Professor Damon; unknown Regarding routine book business; change of address.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 2 4.0 letters 1900 Dec 3 - 1902 Mar 29 Scope and Contents note

To Harry Lyman Koopman. Regarding bibliography and routine book business.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 3 6.0 letters 1902 May 10 - 1914 Feb 2 Scope and Contents note

To Harry Lyman Koopman; Helen C. Webster. Regarding bibliography; routine book business; discusses with Webster, "The Toilet", book of poems, to which is attached a typescript history of "The Toilet."

Wegelin, Oscar 2 4 6.0 letters 1914 Mar 5 - 1915 Dec 31 Scope and Contents note

To Harry Lyman Koopman; William H. P. Faunce. Regarding routine book business; Wegelin requests vacant librarian position in letter to Faunce.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 5 5.0 letters 1916 Jun 26 - 1917 Jun 2 Scope and Contents note

To Harry Lyman Koopman. Regarding routine book business.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 6 5.0 letters 1917 Jul 14 -1919 Mar 13 Scope and Contents note

To Harry Lyman Koopman; Purchasing Department, Brown University. Regarding routine book business.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 7 5.0 letters 1919 Dec 5 - 1922 Jun 22 Scope and Contents note

To Harry Lyman Koopman. Regarding routine book business.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 8 3.0 letters 1922 Nov 15 -1922 Nov 23 Scope and Contents note

To Harry Lyman Koopman. Regarding routine book business.

Wegelin., O. 2 9 5.0 letters 1923 Jul 17 - 1925 Jan 19 Scope and Contents note

To Harry Lyman Koopman; Brown university Library. Regarding routine book business.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 10 5.0 letters 1925 Feb 13 - 1925 Mar 30 Scope and Contents note

To F. K. W. Drury of Brown University Library; Brown University Library; Hope B. Litchfield of Brown University Library. Regarding routine book business.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 11 5.0 letters 1925 Apr 17 - 1925 May 25 Scope and Contents note

To Hope P. Litchfield of Brown University Library; Brown University Library. Regarding routine book business.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 12 5.0 letters 1925 Oct 1 - 1930 May 1 Scope and Contents note

To Harry Lyman Koopman; Treasure of Brown University Library, Regarding routine book business.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 13 3.0 letters 1931 Apr 22 - 1933 Jan 25 Scope and Contents note

To H.B. Van Hoesen; S. Foster Damon. Regarding routine book business.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 14 6.0 letters 1933 Jan 27 -1937 Jan 13 Scope and Contents note

To S. Foster Damon; Mr. Zorn; H. B. Van Hoesen; Benjamin C. Clough of Brown University Library. Regarding routine book business; bibliography.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 14a 1951 Sep 20 - 1951 Dec 26 Wegelin, Oscar 2 14b 1952 Jan 8 - 1952 Dec 17 Wegelin, Oscar 2 14c 1953 Jan 20 - 1953 May 26 Wegelin, Oscar 2 14d 1954 Jan 6 - 1954 Jan 12 Wegelin, Oscar 2 15 5.0 letters 1964 Dec 14 - 1965 Apr 14 Scope and Contents note

To David Jonah. Regarding routine book business; donations to Brown University.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 16 5.0 letters 1965 Apr 29 - Jul 14 Scope and Contents note

To David Jonah.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 17 5.0 letters 1965 Aug 4 - 1966 Jun 21 Scope and Contents note

To David Jonah. Regarding routine library business; donations to Brown University.

Wegelin, Oscar 2 18 4.0 letters 1966 Jul 23 - 1966 Dec 4 Scope and Contents note

To David Jonah. Regarding routine book business.

Wesen, Ernest J. 2 19 5.0 letters 1938 Jul 30 - 1954 Mar 8 Scope and Contents note

Regarding routine book business; Lincolniana.

Whitty, J. H. 2 20 1906 Nov 19 Wisconsin Free Library Commission 2 20 3.0 letters 1904 May 25 - 1905 Nov 24 Wright, Lyle H. 2 20 1953 Mar 20 Wright, Lyle H. 2 20 1953 Mar 30 Wright, Lyle H. 2 20 1953 Apr 16 Wright, Lyle H. 2 20 1953 May 7 Yale University Library 2 20 3.0 letters 1916 Dec 26 - 1932 Dec 24 Scope and Contents note

Regarding bibliographic queries; Wisconsin poets and imprints; routine book business; William Dunlap; William G. Simms.

Manuscript material by Oscar Wegelin Series 2 1.0 box(es) undated Bibliographical notes 2 21 - 24 undated Scope and Contents note

Title-page descriptions and printing information of early American plays.

Prose Manusripts: A- First 2 25 undated Scope and Contents note

"The First American Epic (A Forgotten Book)"

Prose manuscrips: Foreword 2 26 undated Scope and Contents note

"Foreword" to "The Letter of a '49er." Copied by Mrs. Oscar Wegelin.

Prose manuscrips: From - Q 2 27 undated Scope and Contents note

"From the appearence in print of....".

Prose manuscripts: R - V 2 28 undated Scope and Contents note

"The River Monster, A Tale of the Mississippi."

Prose manuscripts: W-Z 2 29 undated Scope and Contents note

"What's in a Name?" and "When was the art of printing introduced into the province of Maryland?"

Poetry manuscripts: A - C 2 30 undated Scope and Contents note

"Arthur B. Carlson: 1889 - 1965." and "The Bookmen of Nassau."

Poetry manuscrips: D 2 31 undated Scope and Contents note

"The Dutchman's Tale."

Poetry manuscripts: E - L 2 32 undated Scope and Contents note

"Each to Another's Language"> "Elizabeth J. Wendell" "Fishin' pals" ">Law Observors"

Poetry manuscrips: M - N 2 33 undated Scope and Contents note

"Man's Best Friends" "Mendoza's Old Book Store" "My Boys"

Poetry manuscrips: O - Ta 2 34 undated Scope and Contents note

"Ode to the Forensic Club" "The Old Book Man's Lament" "The poets of 'The World' are good...." "Take me back to dear Old Dixie...." "Take me back to Dixie...."

Poetry manuscrips: To 2 35 undated Scope and Contents note

"To Arthur B. Carlson at the Three Score" "to Arthur B. Carlson Upon the 60th Anniversary of his Birth" "To Oscar Wegelin"

Prose manuscripts: To 2 36 undated Scope and Contents note

"To Susan E. Lyman" "To Vincent Portonova" "Vincent Portonova"

Poetry manuscripts: Tw - We 2 37 undated Scope and Contents note

"Two Guys" "We call it 'Justice'" "A Welcome"

Poetry manuscrips: Wh - Z 2 38 undated Scope and Contents note

"When Mother Folds her hands in Prayer...." "Where I Have Dwelt" "Willie Gee"

Play manuscripts: A - C 2 39 undated Scope and Contents note

"Captain Kidd"

Play manuscripts: D - L 2 40 undated Scope and Contents note

"Ladies and Gentlemen, the management Begs us to Announce"

Play manuscrips: M - R 2 41 undated Scope and Contents note

"Mr. Johnsing, Am yo married?..." and ">An Old man's Sweetheart."

Play manuscrips: S 2 42 undated Scope and Contents note

"A Secret Rehearsal."

Play manuscripts: S 2 43 undated Scope and Contents note

A Secret Rehearsal

Play manuscrips: S 2 44 undated Scope and Contents note

"Some Rehearsals."

Play manuscrips: W - Z 2 45 undated Scope and Contents note

"The Two Rays."

Play manuscripts: W - Z 2 46 undated Scope and Contents note

"Watch Me Cure Him."

Miscellaneous manuscripts 2 47 undated Scope and Contents note

Miscellaneous notes, bibliographic and poetic. Includes "List of catalogues, N.Y. Historical Society, on hand and missing here."

Miscellaneous manuscript material Series 3 6.0 folder(s) 1915-1939 Miscellaneous manuscript material not authored by Oscar Wegelin 3 1 undated Scope and Contents note

Items not by Wegelin but copied by him or items by other writers, including Charles Richard Williams, Micah Hawkins, and Gabriel Furman.

Receipts 3 2 - 5 undated Scope and Contents note

Receipts for Book orders or purchases of manuscripts to and from Brown University, Douglas Taylor & Co., Oscar Wegelin, and Adele Wegelin.

Letters not to or by Wegelin 3 6 1915-1939 Scope and Contents note

American Art Association to Brown University, 1925 Mar 26 Faunce, William H. P., to Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1915 Feb 16 Van Hoesen, H. B., to Wegelin, Adele, 1939 Nov 15 - 1942 Mar 31. Regarding routine book business; Wegelin's possible position as librarian at Brown University.

Printed material Series 4 7.0 folder(s) undated Play programs 3 7 undated Scope and Contents note

Play programs in which Wegelin is credited as actor or playwright.

Obituaries 3 8 undated Scope and Contents note

Obituaries by Wegelin of William Courtenay, John Malone, Harry Lyman Koopman, Daniel Parish, Jr., Francis Perego Harper, Evert Jansen Wendell, and S. Miller Hageman.

Article 3 9 undated Scope and Contents note

"An Interesting Discovery" by Oscar Wegelin, in "The New York Dramatic Mirror", May 1, 1909; also printed notices from Wegelin's bookshop.

Poetry clippings 3 10 undated Scope and Contents note

Includes "Willie Gee", "The Fanatic's Prayer", "A Stay at Home", "Easter, A. D 1918", and "My Closest Friends."

Book reviews 3 11 undated Scope and Contents note

Reviews of Early American Plays 1714 - 1830 and the Simms bibliography; catalog offering Wegelin's Jupiter Hammon for sale.

Printed material not concerning Oscar Wegelin 3 12 undated Scope and Contents note

Items by or about Douglas Taylor, Alfred Goldsmith, Isaac Mendoza Book Shop, and Walter Littlefield.

Prints and photostats not concerning Oscar Wegelin 3 13 undated Scope and Contents note

Title pages of plays and photographs and drawings of Edward S. Courtenay, Wiliam A. Courtenay, and Micah Hawkins.

Names Atkinson, Fred W. (Fred Washington), 1865-1941 Blanck, Jacob, 1865-1941 Carlson, Arthur B. Clough, Benjamin C., 1888- Courtenay, Edward S. Courtenay, William Ashmead, 1831-1908 Damon, S. Foster (Samuel Foster), 1893-1971 Drury, Francis K.W. (Francis Keese Wynkoop), 1978-1954 Dunlap, John,1747-1812 Dunlap, William, 1766-1839 Faunce, William Herbert Perry, 1859-1930 Furman, Gabriel Goldsmith, Alfred Hageman, S. Miller (Samuel Miller), 1848-1905 Hageman, S. Miller (Samuel Miller),1848-1905 Hammon, Jupiter, 1711-ca. 1800 Harper, Francis P. (Francis Perego), 1856?-1932 Hawkins, Micah Heartman, Charles F., 1883- Hosmer, William H.C. (William Howe Cuyler),1814-1877 Jonah, David Alonzo, 1909-1981 Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937 Litchfield, Hope P. Littlefield, Walter Lowens, Irving, 1916-1983 Lyman, Susan Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, 1898-1968 Malone, John Mendoza, Isaac Parish, Daniel J. Pickersgill, Richard Poe, Edgar, Allan, 1809-1849 Portonova, Vincent Roden, Robert F., d. 1934 Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 Taylor, Douglas Van Hoesen, Henry Bartlett, 1885-1965 Wegelin, Adele Wendell, Elizabeth J. Wendell, Evert Jansen, 1860-1917 Whitty, J.H. (James Howard), 1859-1937 Williams, Charles Richard, 1853-1927 Zorn, Mr. Subjects American drama, American--Bio-bibliography American literature--Bibliography American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 American poetry--History and criticism New Hampshire--History Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--In literature Occupations Authors Booksellers and bookselling Types of Materials Letters (Correspondence) Poems RIAMCO Browsing Term Language and Literature