A Guide to the Bret Harte Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 5310-ag
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Date Completed: 1997
Encoded by: Elizabeth Slomba
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Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open to research.
Publication Rights
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Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1994 August 9
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Item Listing
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Bret Harte, 15 Upper Hamilton Terrace, London, England, to a Mr. Louis C. Vicary, 25 Mecklenburgh Square1892 June 5ALS, 3 p.
[Offering to give him as much of his time as possible; discussing the character "Luke" and describing him as "a good-natured, simple-minded frontiersman"; and detailing the structuring of a poem and how it may be recited as rhyme and rhythm are two great aids to the memory..."]