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Formal title:: Cortazzo autograph collection
Extent:: 0.83 linear feet (2 document cases)
Date range:: 1656-1916 and undated (bulk 1880-1900)
Abstract:: Autographs, letters and letter fragments, postcards, notes, calling cards, poems, military orders, and other official documents collected by Emma Cullum Cortazzo and her daughter, Katherine Cortazzo, from various literary, historical, and royal figures.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.027

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

Fales (Fanny) poems

Formal title:: Fanny Fales poems
Extent:: 0.25 linear feet
Date range:: 1844-2002
Abstract:: The collection contains manuscript leaves of the poet Fanny Fales, also known as Frances Elizabeth Swift.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2017.012

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

Formal title:: Margaret Stillwell papers
Extent:: 10 linear feet
Date range:: 1827-1984 (bulk 1907-1984)
Abstract:: The Margaret B. Stillwell papers consist of personal papers, personal and professional correspondence, research materials related to her writings, especially those used in preparing Incunabula in American Libraries: A Second Census of Fifteenth-century Books Owned in the United States, Mexico, and Canada; notes and essays on topics ranging from the Annmary Brown Memorial to the women’s movement, examples of typefaces used by printers in Europe and the United States, and subject files.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS-1UF-S3

Formal title:: Edith Wharton letters
Extent:: 0.2 linear feet (2 folders)
Date range:: 1883-1937 (bulk 1917-1925)
Abstract:: Letters and photocopies of letters written by renowned American author, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) to various members of Newport, Rhode Island society.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.569

Formal title:: Sarah Helen Whitman papers
Extent:: 4.5 linear ft. (5 legal size clamshell boxes)
Date range:: 1816-1878
Abstract:: Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman (1803-1878) was a Rhode Island poet and essayist best known for her brief engagement to Edgar Allan Poe in 1848. Whitman hosted a salon in Providence that attracted many (including George William Curtis, John Neal, and John Hay) and corresponded with a number of literary luminaries. While living in Boston, Whitman became interested in Transcendentalism and other movements of the period, including woman's rights, spiritualism, mesmerism, Fourierism, and the progressive educational methods of Bronson Alcott. The papers include correspondence, poetry, genealogical information, and legal documents.
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 79.11

Formal title:: Thornton Wilder letters
Extent:: 0.05 linear feet (3 folders)
Date range:: 1948-1975 (bulk 1969-1975)
Abstract:: Letters written by Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), the successful American writer, to Roy S. and Margaret H. Anderson of Newport, Rhode Island.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.562

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