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A Guide to the Ambrose Bierce Collection Bierce, Ambrose. 5992-p

A Guide to the Ambrose Bierce Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 5992-p


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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
5992-p
Title
Ambrose Bierce Collection 1898
Extent
1 item
Creator
Location
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Ambrose Bierce Collection, Accession 5992-p, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Aquisition Information

Purchased, June 8, 1994.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Ambrose Bierce
  • Belle Hershberg
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Silver Lake
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Item List

Letter
  • Ambrose Bierce , Wright's, California, to Belle Hershberg , Oakland, California
    1898 Aug 30
    ALS , 4 p. on 1 l., with envelope

    [Bierce declines a guided tour of Silver Lake due to his poor health and continues by teasing Belle about her younger sister, "I'm thinking seriously of transferring my love from Hattie to you. You don't move away without notice, and -well, your mother's right in worrying about Hattie. That girl needs a convent worse than Selma -a convent with more austere 'sisters' and higher walls, topped with broken glass. A sentinel with a repeating rifle might be added."]

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