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A Guide to the Robert Grant Collection Grant, Robert. 7634-a

A Guide to the Robert Grant Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7634


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

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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
7634
Title
Robert Grant Collection 1892-1925
Extent
17 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

Robert Grant Collection, Accession 7634-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Deposit [ 17 Dec 1963 ] 26 Jul 1964

Funding Note

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

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Abbie Farwell Brown
  • David Teller Fleisher
  • Edith Wharton
  • Henri Corbiere
  • Robert Grant
  • Robert [Underwood] Johnson
  • Robley Durham Stevens
  • S. F. McCleary
  • Samuel Sidney McClure
  • [Abbie Farwell] Brown
  • [Charles] Scribner
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Item Listing

Letters
  • Robert Grant to Samuel Sidney McClure
    1892 Jul 16
    TLS, 1 p.

    [Sends 2 chapters of The Sixshooter sent to publisher.]

  • Robert Grant to Miss Farrell
    1892 Jul 16
    ALS, 1 p.

    [Responds to request for autograph.]

  • Robert Grant to S. F. McCleary
    1893 Jul 12
    ALS, 3 p.

    [Thanks him for congratulatory letter on Grant's appointment as Judge of Probate Court.]

  • Robert Grant to David Teller Fleisher
    1896 Oct 1
    ANS, 1 p.

    [Responds to request for autograph.]

  • Robert Grant to [Charles] Scribner
    1900 Mar 6
    ANS, 1 p.

    [Responds to suggestion for title of [ Unleavened Bread ].]

  • Robert Grant to Mr. Johnson
    1904 Jun 10
    ALS, 2 p.

    [Sends manuscript of The Orchid ; requests it be read promptly and response sent to Charles Scribner's Sons.]

  • Robert Grant to [Abbie Farwell] Brown
    1914 May 18
    ALS, 2 p.

    [Comments on controversy concerning The Club and women's attitudes toward it.]

  • Robert Grant to Abbie Farwell Brown
    1914 Nov 10
    TNS, 1 p.

    [Accepts invitation to a meeting.]

  • Robert Grant to [Abbie Farwell] Brown
    [1915] Nov 4
    ALS, 2 p.

    [Indicates intention to attend meeting.]

  • Robert Grant to Robert [Underwood] Johnson
    1923 May 17
    TLS, 1 p.

    [Seeks guidance on how to respond to a request from Henri Corbiere of the Societe de Gens de Lettre de France for his "maxim of life."]

  • Robert Grant to [Abbie Farwell] Brown
    1925 Feb 11
    ANS, 2 p.

    [Apologizes that illness prevented his attending her poetry reading.]

  • Robert Grant to Robley Durham Stevens
    1938 May 9
    TLS, 1 p.

    [Responds to request for photograph.]

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Manuscripts
  • "Summary of the Remaining Chapters of Novel"
    ca. 1909
    AMsS, 8 p.

    [ The Chippendales . ]

  • "Change in Summary of Concluding Chapters"
    ca. 1904
    AMs

    [ The Chippendales . ]

  • Poem, " A Message "
    n. d.
    AMsS, 2 p.

    [Contributed to Edith Wharton 's Book of the Homeless . ]

  • Quotation beginning "Even as frost in the silent night ...."
    n. d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Quotation beginning, "Even as frost in the silent night . . ."
    n. d.
    AMsS
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