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

A Guide to the Ambrose Bierce Collection

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


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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
5992-q
Title
Ambrose Bierce Collection 1911 and n.d.
Extent
3 items
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-q, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Aquisition Information

This collection was purchased on December 20, 1994.

Funding Note

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

Item Listing

Letters
  • Ambrose Bierce , Washington, D.C., to "Dear Neale" [ Walter Neale ]
    1911 Jan 29
    ALS , 3 p. on 1 l.

    [returns the proofs of volume seven of The Devil's Dictionary , approves of Neale's announcement of books undertaken in 1910, "A pretty ambitious project. They go a long way toward making my dream come true, namely, that you are to be `the foremost publisher in America,'" and rejoices that he has only three and a half volumes of page proofs yet to read, with a newsclipping about the growth of thin paper used in bookmaking glued on the third page below Bierce's signature], formerly tipped in along with a typed transcript in the front of a copy of In the Midst of Life by Ambrose Bierce (1898)

  • Ambrose Bierce , Washington, D.C., to "Dear Neale" [ Walter Neale ]
    1911 Jan 29
    TL

    [Typed transcript of the letter described above], 1 p., formerly typed in along with the original letter in the front of a copy of In the Midst of Life by Ambrose Bierce (1898)

Photograph
  • Small black & white (sepia) Photograph of Ambrose Bierce , head and shoulders
    n.d.
    sepia