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Formal title:: Morris Abner Barr papers
Extent:: 1.0 linear foot
Date range:: 1939-1968
Abstract:: Morris Abner Barr was an author, lyricist, and poet whose poems tended towards nature, love, God, friendship, and Barr's own life. A craftsman, Barr wrote about his experience creating stools, gavels, and letter openers from the wood of the Sentry Tree in "Immortalizing the Sentry Tree of George Washington." The collection contains his writings, a scrapbook related to the George Washington Sentry Tree, and correspondence with friends and mentors.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.97.1

Formal title:: Henry Howard Brownell Papers
Extent:: 0.25 linear feet (22 folders)
Date range:: 1828-1871
Abstract:: The Henry Howard Brownell Papers, dating from 1827-1871, include short prose articles and stories in manuscript, poetry manuscripts, verse translations from Homer's
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.78.8

Formal title:: Maud Howe Elliott Papers
Extent:: 7.5 linear feet
Date range:: 1872-1948
Abstract:: Maude Howe Elliott was an American author and wife of English artist John Elliott (1859-1925). Elliott was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe (abolitionist, suffragist, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic") and Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe (founder of Perkins Institute for the Blind and activist in the struggle for Greek independence). In 1917 Elliott and her sister, Laura E. Richards, were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the biography of their mother,
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 89.13

Hay (John) papers

Formal title:: John Hay papers
Extent:: 28 linear feet
Date range:: 1829-1916
Abstract:: The John Hay papers consists of Hay's correspondence with his family and with literary, diplomatic, and political contemporaries; diaries kept by Hay as Lincoln's White House aide and as Secretary of the Legations in Paris, Vienna, and Madrid, 1866-1870; manuscript poems; galley proofs; personal letterpress copy books; photographs of Hay, his family, and various political figures; political cartoons; sound recordings; and a small collection of objects. Subjects include: Civil War; Lincoln and his administration; Reconstruction; court life in Paris; the bi-metal monetary standard; the Canadian boundary settlement; the fur seal question; Japanese naval activity; Chinese-American relations; the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars; British and American politics.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.Hay

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