A Guide to the Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7104-a
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection, Accession 7104-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Deposit [ 1963 December 17 ] 1964 July 23
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edwin Percy Whipple
- Elilu Burritt
- George B. Leiber
- George Roberts
- James Kirke Paulding
- Mary Hewitt
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold
- William Hewitts
- [Francis] Bowen
- [Joel Tyler] Headley
- [Orestes] Brownson
- [Spencer Fullerton] Baird
- [William Gilmore] Simms
Item Listing
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold to James Kirke Paulding1841 October 1ALS, 2 p.
[Requests additional poems and biographical information to be included in a proposed new collection to be titled The Poets and Poetry of America . ]
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold to George Roberts1841 November 1ALS, 1 p.
[Recommends that George B. Leiber become the new agent in Philadelphia for the [Boston] Notion . ]
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold to Edwin Percy Whipple[ca. 1846] November 15ALS, 3 p.
[Discusses current literary projects and requests assistance in obtaining pamphlet by [Orestes] Brownson and in writing a brief sketch on [Francis] Bowen including Coleridgism, Emersonism, transcendentalism--"a retrospect of philosophy in the United States . " Also mentions [William Gilmore] Simms , Edgar Allan Poe and [Joel Tyler] Headley . ]
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Rufus Wilmot Griswold to [Spencer Fullerton] Bairdn.d.ALS, 1 p.
[Concerns summer travels of friends and himself. Writes scathingly of "the learned Blacksmith" ( Elilu Burritt ), William Hewitts and Mary Hewitt . ]