A Guide to the Thomas Bird Mosher Collection Mosher, Thomas Bird. 8011

A Guide to the Thomas Bird Mosher Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 8011


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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
8011
Title
Thomas Bird Mosher Collection 1900-1920
Extent
4 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

Thomas Bird Mosher Collection, Accession 8011, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Deposit [17 Dec 1963] 13 Aug 1965

Funding Note

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

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Bernard Quaritch
  • Christopher Morley
  • Edith Wharton
  • Edward Clodd
  • Edwin Barber
  • Elbert Hubbard
  • F. G. Guold
  • Hilaire Belloc
  • Jane Sonntag
  • John Bell
  • Joyce Kilmer
  • Lyman Abbott
  • Robert Lewis Stevenson
  • Stephen Butler Leacock
  • Thomas Bird Mosher
  • William Marion Reedy
  • William Morris

Item Listing

Letters
  • Thomas Bird Mosher to Edwin Barber
    1900 May 11
    ALS, 3 p.

    [Discusses private presses (Kelmscott and Vale), and collectors of books published by these presses; mentions William Morris , Elbert Hubbard , Mr. Kelly, F. G. Guold , and Bernard Quaritch . ]

  • Thomas Bird Mosher to Mrs. O'Donnell
    1909 Feb 15
    TLS, 1 p.

    [Discusses his correspondence with Dr. Lyman Abbott concerning Robert Lewis Stevenson 's "Letter addressed to Dr. Hyde"; asks to see Mrs. Stevenson's reply to Mrs. O'Donnell and for permission to publish it in his edition of Father Damien . ]

  • Thomas Bird Mosher to Christopher Morley
    1918 Jun 4
    TLS, 3 p.

    [Acknowledges his friendship with Edward Clodd ; lists works by Clodd which he owns; mentions that he is sending Morley a Loder portrait of Clodd which is available to purchasers of Aftermath ; mentions Morley's editorials for the Evening Ledger , Shandygaff , Verses , Child's Book of Lyrics , and Parnassus on Wheels ; mentions Edith Wharton , Hilaire Belloc and Stephen Butler Leacock ; discusses edition of Joyce Kilmer 's Verses published by Vaughan; mentions his acquisition of John Bell 's British Theatre containing the autographs of Jane Sonntag ; gives reasons for not writing his reminiscences as suggested by Morley and William Marion Reedy . ]

  • Thomas Bird Mosher to Christopher Morley
    1920 Jul 20
    ALS, 1 p.

    [Informs Morley of William Marion Reedy 's death and includes a memorial poem.]