A Guide to Manuscript Poems by Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes, Thoreau, Whittier Bryant, Aldrich and Other Famous American Poets Commonplace Book of Early American Poems. 6329-a

A Guide to Manuscript Poems by Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes, Thoreau, Whittier Bryant, Aldrich and Other Famous American Poets

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Special Collections
The University of Virginia Library
Accession number 6329-a


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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Collection Number
6329-a
Title
Manuscript Poems by Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes, Thoreau, Whittier Bryant, Aldrich and Other Famous American Poets 1845-1889
Physical Characteristics
1 bound volume
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Manuscript Poems by Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes, Thoreau, Whittier Bryant, Aldrich and Other Famous American Poets, Accession #6329-a, Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

Gift, December 1974

Scope and Content

A collection of American poems and songs bound in a volume, including manuscripts and portraits of authors.

Contents List

Manuscripts

Bound folio of ca. 120 pages; items listed in order of appearance in the volume

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : "All are architects of fate ...." quatrain
    1851 Aug 30
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • James Russell Lowell : "For humanity sweeps onwards ..." 5-line stanza from "The crisis"
    1886 Mar 4
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Francis Hodgson Burnett : "The status." [on verso of Lowell]
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson : "As sings the pine in the wind ...." quatrain
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes : "Old Ironsides," first stanza
    1889 May 24
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • William Cullen Bryant : "Throw it aside in thy weary hour ...." quatrain
    1875 Mar 23
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Henry David Thoreau : "Fog" [published version is called "Mist"]
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • John Greenleaf Whittier : 20 lines from "The prisoner for debt"
    1860 n.m. 6
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich : "An untimely thought"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Julia Ward Howe : "Oh lordly, velvet-coated Hig-"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Lucy Larcom : "The beckoning west"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Richard Henry Stoddard : "Buried in songs that never yet were sung"
    [18]76 Feb 8
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • John Boyle O'Reilly : "To-day"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Celia Thaxter : "To *****" ["Seaward"]
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Paul Hamilton Hayne : "The renegade"
    [1884]
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • James T. Fields : "Our good-night kiss"
    1845 May 6
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Edith M. Thomas : "The interpreter"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • William Dean Howells : "Thanksgiving"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Thomas William Parsons : "To a magnolia flower"
    [ca. 1860]
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • George H. Boker : "Dirge for a soldier"
    1889 Jan 21
    AMsS, 4 p.
  • Edgar Fawcett : "The punishment"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson :"Sixty and six" or "The fountain of youth"
    n.d.
    AMs, 3 p.
  • William Winter : "Orgis: the song of a ruined man"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 5 p.
  • Edmund C. Stedman : "Guests at Yule"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 3 p.
Portraits

listed in order of appearance in the volume

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, signed
    [1807]
    Portrait
  • James Russell Lowell, signed; also signed by Oliver Wendell Holmes
    [1865]
    Portrait
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • William Cullen Bryant
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • John Greenleaf Whittier
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Julia Ward Howe, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Lucy Larcom, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Richard Henry Stoddard, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Celia Thaxter, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Paul Hamilton Hayne
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • James T. Fields, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Ripley Osgood
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Edith M. Thomas, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • William Dean Howells, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • George H. Boker, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Edgar Fawcett, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson, signed
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • William Winter
    n.d.
    Portrait
  • Edmund C. Stedman
    n.d.
    Portrait