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A Guide to the James Whitcomb Riley Collection Riley, James Whitcomb. 7133-r

A Guide to the James Whitcomb Riley Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7133-r


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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
7133-r
Title
James Whitcomb Riley Collection 1876-1913
Extent
ca. 150 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

James Whitcomb Riley Collection, Accession 7133-r, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Deposit

Funding Note

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

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Amos Walker
  • Benjamin Johnson
  • Benjamin Leggett
  • Catherine Beveridge
  • George [Smith]
  • J. L. Thompson
  • James Whitcomb Riley
  • James Whitcomb Riley
  • Lesley Payne
  • Mary Riley
  • [George] Smith
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Centreville, Indiana
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Item Listing

Manuscripts
  • Poem, "After Death"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Poem beginning, "And I have come through life..."
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "The Arrow and the Song" filed w/ "The Empty Song"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "The Assassin"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Back From a Two-Years' Sentence"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Poem, "The Ballad of the Coming of the Rain"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Poem, "Being His Mother"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Poem beginning, "Belike a hundred bards..." filed w/"To Meredith Nicholson, Jr."
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem beginning, " 'Cause Herbert Graham's a only child..."
    n.d.
    AMs, 2 p.
  • Story, "The Champion Checker-Player" by [ Benjamin Johnson ]
    n.d.
    AMs, 2 p.
  • Poem, "A Change"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Story, "Child's Version of Red Riding Hood"
    n.d.
    AMs, 6 p.
  • Poem beginning, "The cricket's call..."
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Cuored O'Skeerin"
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 1 p.
  • Poem, "Down on Wriggle Creek"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 4 p.
  • Poem, "Dream"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Early and later versions of poem, "The Drum"
    n.d.
    2 AMsS, 3 p. and 2 p.
  • Poem, "The Drum"
    n.d.
    TMs, 2 p.
  • Poem, "A Dubious 'Old Kriss' "
    n.d.
    AMs, 3 p.
  • Poem beginning, "D was a dandyfied dog..."
    n.d.
    AMs, w/drawing, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Ef I Had My Druthers"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "The Empty Song"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Even As a Child"
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 1 p.
  • From "The Flying Islands of the Night"
    n.d.
    AMs (quotation), 1 p.
  • Poem, "The Flying Islands of the Night"
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 10 p.
  • Poem beginning, "For he had riz,..."
    n.d.
    AMsS (incom.), 2 p.
  • Poem beginning, "'Fore he went to Floridy.."
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 3 p.
  • Poem, "For November"
    1896 Nov 2
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Poem, "Friday Afternoon" w/AMs draft of last stanza
    n.d.
    AMsS, 6 p.
  • Poem, "Friday Afternoon" w/auto. corr.
    n.d.
    TMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Give Me the Baby To Hold"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Glamour"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Going To the Fair"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem beginning, "He hath small store...." filed w/"To Meredith Nicholson, Jr."
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Beginning, "Heart of Mankind..."
    1877 Easter
    AMsS (quotation), 1 p.
  • Poem, "The Hired Man Speaks"
    n.d.
    AMs, 5 p.
  • Poem beginning, "Home' Home' O beckoning hands..."
    n.d.
    AMs on envelope
  • Poem beginning, "I dream that God..." filed w/"Judith"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Poem, "An Idiot"
    n.d.
    AMs, 2 p.
  • Poem, "An Idyl of the Orient"
    n.d.
    AMs, 5 p.
  • Poem, [''Impossible Sixth Takes Me West"]
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Poem beginning, "In days to come.."
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 1 p.
  • Poem, "Judith"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Poem, "Just a Fiddler"
    n.d.
    AMsS (photostats), 4 p.
  • Early draft of poem, "Knee-Deep in June..."
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 1 p.
  • Poem, "Kriss Kringle"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Poem, "Leedle Dutch Baby"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "The Legend Glorified"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "The Lesson of a Life"
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 3 p.
  • Poem beginning, "Let me come in..." [trans. made by Lesley Payne ]
    n.d.
    AMs (trans.), 3 p.
  • Poem, "Marthy Ellen"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem beginning, "Martin and Jim..."
    n.d.
    AMs on verso of envelope
  • Poem beginning, "Mellow hazes lowly trailing..."
    n.d.
    AMs, 3 p.
  • Poem, "My Ghoul"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Poem, "Night"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "A Nightmare"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Nonsense Jingles"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Poem, "Noon"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem beginning, "Now, I tell you.."
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 1 p.
  • Beginning, "Oh,-taken from a Cychological standpoint..."
    n.d.
    AMs, w/drawing, 1 p.
  • Last 2 leaves of poem, "Old Man" [first 3 leaves of poem in 7133-p]
    n.d.
    AMsS (incom.), 2 p.
  • Poem, "Old Man and Jim"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 4 p.
  • Poem, "The Old Man and Jim"
    n.d.
    AMs, 4 p.
  • Poem, "Only"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Poem, "The Opium Eater"
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 2 p.
  • Poem, ["Proem"]
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Puck"
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 1 p.
  • Poem, "A Quiet Lodger" with 1 discarded stanza
    n.d.
    AMsS, 3 p.
  • Poem, "Rest"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "A Rose in October"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • From "Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers"
    n.d.
    AMs (quotation), 1 p.
  • "Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers"
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 6 p.
  • Poem, "Say Farewell and Let Me Go"
    n.d.
    AMs, 2 p.
  • Poem, "Say Something"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Scotty"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Poem beginning, "Settin' round the stove.."
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem beginning, "She said so much..."
    [1887]
    AMs on verso of envelope
  • Poem, "Some of Bub's Scattering Remarks" filed w/"'Cause Herbert Graham's a only child..."
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Song"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem beginning, "Sorrowfully, yet the sweeter..."
    n.d.
    AMs (incom.), 1 p.
  • Poem, "The Stepmother"
    [1888]
    AMs on verso of envelope
  • Poem, "Tailholt"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "T. C. Philips"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 1 p.
  • Poem, beginning, "T was a turtle..." filed w/"D was a dandyfied dog..."
    n.d.
    AMs, w/drawing, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Thanksgiving Day at Hunchley's"
    n.d.
    AMs, 4 p.
  • Poem, "Them Old Cheery Words'
    n.d.
    TMs (carbon), 1 p.
  • Poem, "This Man Jones"
    n.d.
    AMs, 4 p.
  • Poems, "To Meredith Nicholson, Jr." and "To Miss 'Sitto Nickouson' " on verso of subpoena
    [1904]
    2AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "To - R.H.S."
    1897 May 25
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "A Treat Ode"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Uncle Sidney"
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "Up and Down Old Brandywine"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 5 p.
  • Drafts of poem, "The Wandering Jew"
    n.d.
    2 AMsS, 2 p. each
  • Poem, "What a Dead Man Said"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Poem, "When Dickey First Dawned on Us"
    n.d.
    AMs on envelope
  • Poem beginning, "When Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs entered on high..."
    n.d.
    AMs on envelope
  • Poem beginning, "When she comes home again' "
    n.d.
    AMs, 1 p.
  • Poem, "When the Autumn Comes"
    n.d.
    AMs, 4 p.
  • Poem, "Where Shall We Land?"
    n.d.
    AMsS, 2 p.
  • Notes re: speech by James Whitcomb Riley
    n.d.
    AMs on envelope
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Letters
  • James Whitcomb Riley to Editor of the Dispatch
    1877 Jul 23
    Photostat of ALS, 2 p.
  • James Whitcomb Riley to Parker
    1882 Jun 6
    Photostat of ALS, 1 p.
  • James Whitcomb Riley to Mary Riley
    1885 Jan 9
    ALS, 2 p. w/env
  • James Whitcomb Riley to Mary Riley
    1886 Jan 14
    Telegram
  • [ James Whitcomb Riley ] to [George] Smith
    1887 Sep 10
    Photostat of ALS (incom.), w/drawing, 1 p.
  • James Whitcomb Riley to George [Smith]
    1891 Aug 25
    Photostat of ALS, 1 p.
  • Benjamin Leggett to James Whitcomb Riley
    1892 Sep 28
    ALS, 1 p. w/env
  • J. L. Thompson to James Whitcomb Riley , w/draft of ALS reply on verso of envelope
    1900 Jan 2
    ALS, 1 p. w/env
  • J. L. Thompson to James Whitcomb Riley
    1900 Jan 6
    ALS, 1 p. w/env
  • Catherine Beveridge to James Whitcomb Riley
    [1913] Jan 3
    ALS, 3 p. w/env
  • James Whitcomb Riley to Mary Riley
    n.d.
    ALS, 1 p. w/env
  • Catherine Beveridge to James Whitcomb Riley
    n.d.
    ALS, 3 p. w/env
  • James Whitcomb Riley to [ Lesley Payne ]
    n.d.
    Photostats of ALS, 2 p.
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Photographs
  • James Whitcomb Riley , seated
    n.d.
    3 copies of photo
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Miscellaneous
  • For James Whitcomb Riley 's speeches
    1876-1890, n.d.
    7 advertising circulars, broadsides
  • Excerpt from the Boston Evening Star, "General Burnside"
    [1880]
    Broadside
  • Between Amos Walker and Centreville, Indiana , for a speech by James Whitcomb Riley
    1888 Aug 7
    Contract
  • Chiefly addressed by James Whitcomb Riley
    1899-1891, n.d.
    9 envelopes
  • "Sing To Me, Robin'" by [ James Whitcomb Riley ]
    n.d.
    Pencil drawing
  • Lists of people and poems
    n.d.
    12 AMs
  • Signed, "Barrett Eastman"
    n.d.
    Card
  • Printed calling cards with author's name
    n.d.
    Calling cards
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