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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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
Bound folio of ca. 120 pages; items listed in order of appearance in the volume
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : "All are architects of fate ...." quatrain1851 Aug 30AMsS, 1 p.
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James Russell Lowell : "For humanity sweeps onwards ..." 5-line stanza from "The crisis"1886 Mar 4AMsS, 1 p.
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Francis Hodgson Burnett : "The status." [on verso of Lowell]n.d.AMsS, 1 p.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson : "As sings the pine in the wind ...." quatrainn.d.AMsS, 1 p.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes : "Old Ironsides," first stanza1889 May 24AMsS, 1 p.
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William Cullen Bryant : "Throw it aside in thy weary hour ...." quatrain1875 Mar 23AMsS, 1 p.
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Henry David Thoreau : "Fog" [published version is called "Mist"]n.d.AMsS, 1 p.
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John Greenleaf Whittier : 20 lines from "The prisoner for debt"1860 n.m. 6AMsS, 1 p.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich : "An untimely thought"n.d.AMs, 1 p.
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Julia Ward Howe : "Oh lordly, velvet-coated Hig-"n.d.AMsS, 1 p.
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Lucy Larcom : "The beckoning west"n.d.AMsS, 1 p.
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Richard Henry Stoddard : "Buried in songs that never yet were sung"[18]76 Feb 8AMsS, 2 p.
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John Boyle O'Reilly : "To-day"n.d.AMsS, 1 p.
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Celia Thaxter : "To *****" ["Seaward"]n.d.AMsS, 2 p.
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Paul Hamilton Hayne : "The renegade"[1884]AMsS, 1 p.
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James T. Fields : "Our good-night kiss"1845 May 6AMsS, 1 p.
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Edith M. Thomas : "The interpreter"n.d.AMsS, 1 p.
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William Dean Howells : "Thanksgiving"n.d.AMsS, 1 p.
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Thomas William Parsons : "To a magnolia flower"[ca. 1860]AMsS, 1 p.
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George H. Boker : "Dirge for a soldier"1889 Jan 21AMsS, 4 p.
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Edgar Fawcett : "The punishment"n.d.AMsS, 1 p.
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson :"Sixty and six" or "The fountain of youth"n.d.AMs, 3 p.
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William Winter : "Orgis: the song of a ruined man"n.d.AMsS, 5 p.
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Edmund C. Stedman : "Guests at Yule"n.d.AMsS, 3 p.
listed in order of appearance in the volume
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, signedn.d.Portrait
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, signed[1807]Portrait
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James Russell Lowell, signed; also signed by Oliver Wendell Holmes[1865]Portrait
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Ralph Waldo Emersonn.d.Portrait
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Oliver Wendell Holmesn.d.Portrait
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William Cullen Bryantn.d.Portrait
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John Greenleaf Whittiern.d.Portrait
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich, signedn.d.Portrait
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Julia Ward Howe, signedn.d.Portrait
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Lucy Larcom, signedn.d.Portrait
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Richard Henry Stoddard, signedn.d.Portrait
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Celia Thaxter, signedn.d.Portrait
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Paul Hamilton Haynen.d.Portrait
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James T. Fields, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Ripley Osgoodn.d.Portrait
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Edith M. Thomas, signedn.d.Portrait
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William Dean Howells, signedn.d.Portrait
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George H. Boker, signedn.d.Portrait
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Edgar Fawcett, signedn.d.Portrait
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, signedn.d.Portrait
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William Wintern.d.Portrait
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Edmund C. Stedmann.d.Portrait