A Guide to the Josiah Gilbert Holland Collection Holland, Josiah Gilbert. 7729

A Guide to the Josiah Gilbert Holland Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7729

University of Virginia Library

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

Processed by: Special Collections Department Staff

Repository

University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA

Collection Number

7729

Title

Josiah Gilbert Holland Collection 1860-1881

Extent

ca. 20 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

Josiah Gilbert Holland Collection, Accession 7729, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Deposit, 1964 Nov 11

Funding Note

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

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

C. C. Shackford
Clemens Petersen
Edward DeForest
George E. Waring, Jr.
Henry Howard
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Thomas Dana
Walt Whitman
Will C. Pershing
William B[uell] Sprague
[Bret] Harte
[George Henry] Preble
[Richard Watson] Gilder
[Richard Watson] Gilder
[Thomas Wentworth] Higginson

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

Rhode Island
Springfield

Item Listing

Letters

Josiah Gilbert Holland to C. C. Shackford
1860 Oct 19
ALS, 1 p.

[Will give lecture if his schedule permits.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to "My Dear Sir"
1865 Oct 22
ALS, 1 p.

[Declines invitation to lecture because of prior commitment.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Edward DeForest
1867 Sep 18
ALS, 1 p.

[Gives lecture schedule.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Mr. Rich
1867 Oct 1
ALS, 1 p.

[Proposes the title "The Woman Question" for an upcoming lecture.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Thomas Dana
1870 Jun 7
ALS, 1 p.

[Has no plans to lecture this season; may change his mind.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Henry Howard
1873 Mar 5
ALS, 1 p.

[Congratulates him on election as governor of Rhode Island ; appreciates Howard's remarks on his novel, Arthur Bonnicastle . ]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
1875 Aug 12
ALS, 1 p.

[Regrets he has no photograph to send; promises to send one later.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Col. George E. Waring, Jr.
1876 Feb 2
ALS, 2 p.

[Says lost gloves not his; may belong to Col. [Thomas Wentworth] Higginson or Mr. Ayer; does not believe [Bret] Harte 's book sold for $10,000.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
1876 May 26
ALS, 1 p.

[Declines to send an old poem for publication; does not have the strength to write a new one.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
1876 Oct 16
ALS, 1 p.

[Will send letter from [Richard Watson] Gilder regarding stories submitted by Boyesen.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to "Dear Sir"
1877 Mar 27
ALS, 1 p.

[Declines invitation to lecture.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
1877 Apr 20
ALS, 1 p.

[Says Clemens Petersen wishes to write a paper on Bjornsen; asks if this will interfere with his plans.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
1878 Jan 30
ALS, 1 p.

[Suggests an illustrated article on the educational life of European universities.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Will C. Pershing
1878 Feb 11
ALS, 1 p. w/env

[Declines an invitation to write for Pershing's magazine because of his own duties to his own magazine.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
1878 Feb 25
ALS, 1 p.

[Says Scribner's Monthly is interested in [Boyesen's] "A Daughter of the Philistines."]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to "Dear Sir"
1879 Jan 24
ALS, 1 p.

[Remarks that he and [Richard Watson] Gilder cannot understand the last lines of material submitted; asks him to look it over again.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to "Dear Sir"
1880 Feb 21
ALS, 2 p.

[Has seen Mrs. Conyer; praises her hard work and successful experiment.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Williams
1880 May 4
ALS, 1 p.

[Congratulates him on his article entitled "The Government of Large Cities"; praises its moral insight and moral earnestness.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to [Richard Watson] Gilder
1880 Jun 12
ALS, 2 p.

[Gives his opinion of Walt Whitman ; belittles him and his talent as a poet; comments that Mrs. Thaxter's fever is strong.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to [Richard Watson] Gilder
1880 Sep 19
ALS, 3 p.

[Likes Stedman's work on Walt Whitman because of its critical view of the subject; calls Whitman's art a "monster" and a "bastard"; does not believe he made a contribution to American literature; compares him unfavorably to other American literary figures such as Poe, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, and Stedman.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Admiral [George Henry] Preble
1881 Oct 10
ALS, 1 p.

[Politely refuses to publish his book.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to William B[uell] Sprague
n.y. Sep 4
ALS, 2 p.

[Will print his pamphlet; insists it be done in Springfield ; dislikes having a local print job done at a firm a hundred miles away.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Mrs. Foote
n.d.
ALS, 1 p.

[Declines invitation to visit because his wife is sick.]
Josiah Gilbert Holland to Mr. Marvin
n.d.
ANS, 1 p.

[Reports that his own story, "Mistress of the Manse," is now ready to be printed.]