A Guide to the James Burton Pond Collection 1838-1903
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 11130
Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
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Preferred Citation
James Burton Pond Collection, Accession # 11130, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Scope and Content Information
This collection consists of ca. 210 items, 1899-1903, chiefly of holograph and typed drafts of biographical essays for the book, Eccentricities of Genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1900) by James B. Pond (1838-1903), noted American lecture manager.
Contents List
- Box 1
"Brains," n.d.TMs (carbon), 80 p.
an early unpublished draft of Eccentricities of Genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage, by James B. Pond, with autograph revisions.
- Box 1
"Introduction" n.d.TMs, 22 p.
- Box 1
"Emma Abbott" n.d.TMs, 4 p.
- B Box: 1
"Lyman Abbott," with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 16 p.
- Box 1
"Felix Adler" n.d.AMs, TMs, 2 p.
- Box 1
"Susan B. Anthony" and "Elizabeth Cady Stanton" n.d.TMs, 3 p.
- Box 1
"Sir Edwin Arnold," with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 106 p
- Box 1
"Matthew Arnold" n.d.TMs, 5 p.
- Box 1
"P. T. Barnum" n.d.2 TMs, 10 p.
- Box 1
"J. M. Barrie" n.d.TMs, 1 p.
- Box 1
TMs, 5 p.
- Box 1
["James Berry"] n.d.TMs, 3 p.
- Box 1
"Josh Billings" n.d.3 TMss, 20 p.
- Box 1
"Alexander Black" n.d.TMs, 1 p.
- Box 1
"Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth" n.d.TMs, 1 p.
- Box 1
"George W. Cable." First draft, with extensive autograph revisions and comments by George Washington Cable. n.d.TMs, 24 p.
- Box 1
"George W. Cable." Duplicate version not used n.d.TMs, 22 p.
- Box 1
"George W. Cable" n.d.AMs, TMs, 2 p
- Box 1
"Hall Caine" n.d.TMs, 17 p.
- Box 1
"Dr. Boyd Carpenter" n.d.TMs, 2 p.
- Box 1
["Chickering Hall"] n.d.TMs, 6 p.
- Box 1
"Dr. Frederick A. Cook" n.d.TMs, 5 p.
- Box 1
"F. Marion Crawford" n.d.2 TMss, 19 p.
- Box 1
"S. R. Crockett" n.d.TMs, 2 p.
- Box 1
"George William Curtis" n.d.3 TMss, 6 p.
- Box 1
"Charlotte Cushman" n.d.TMs, 6 p.
- Box 1
"George H. Daniels," one with extensive autograph revisions n.d.2 TMss, 10 p.
- Box 1
"Chauncey M. Depew" n.d.TMs, 10 p.
- Box 1
"Anna E. Dickinson" n.d.TMs, 2 p.
- Box 1
"Frederick Douglass," with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 3 p.
- Box 1
TMs, 1 p.
- Box 1
"Ralph Waldo Emerson" n.d.TMs, 5 p.
- Box 1
"John Fox, Jr." n.d.5 TMss, 17 p.
- Box 1
"William Lloyd Garrison," with autograph addition by author n.d.TMs, 1 p.
- Box 1
"Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore" n.d.TMs, 17 p.
- Box 1
"William E. Gladstone" n.d.TMs, 2 p.
- Box 1
"Annie Grey" n.d.TMs, 15 p.
- Box 1
"E. Heron-Allen," with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 13 p.
- Box 1
"Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis," with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 7 p.
- Box 1
"Dean Hole" [Rev. S. Reynolds Hole], with autograph revisions n.d.3 TMss, 27 p.
- Box 1
"Anthony Hope" n.d.4 TMss, 35 p.
- Box 1
"Julia Ward Howe," with autograph revisions n.d.2 TMss, 7 p.
- Box 1
"William Dean Howells," with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 11 p.
- Box 1
"Elbert Hubbard," with autograph revisions by Elbert Hubbard n.d.TMs, 12 p.
- Box 1
"Col. Robert G. Ingersoll," one with autograph revisions n.d.2 TMss, 3 p.
- Box 1
2 TMss
- Box 1
"Joseph Jefferson" n.d.2 TMss, 3 p.
- Box 1
"Clara Louise Kellogg," with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 3 p.
- Box 1
"George Kennan" n.d.TMs, 3 p.
- Box 1
"Rudyard Kipling" n.d.TMs, 5 p.
- Box 1
"Mary A. Livermore," with autograph revisions n.d.AMs, 2 TMss, 15 p.
- Box 1
"The Lyceum" n.d.TMs, 49 p.
- Box 1
"Hamilton W. Mabie" n.d.2 TMss, 4 p.
- Box 1
TMs, 5 p.
- Box 1
"Nasby" n.d.2 TMss, 4 p.
- Box 1
"Thomas Nast" n.d.AMs, 2 TMss, 9 p.
- Box 1
"Bill Nye" n.d.2 TMss, 3 p.
- Box 1
"Nye and Riley" n.d.TMs, 5 p.
- Box 1
"John Boyle O'Reilly," one with autograph revisions n.d.2 TMss, 5 p.
- Box 1
"Max O'Rell" n.d.TMs, 2 p.
- Box 1
["Ozias"], with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 8 p.
- Box 2
"Thomas Nelson Page" n.d.TMs, 5 p.
- Box 2
"Dr. Joseph Parker" n.d.TMs, 7 p.
- Box 2
"William Parsons" n.d.3 TMss, 4 p.
- Box 2
"Mrs. Parthington/Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber" n.d.TMs, 1 p.
- Box 2
"Lieut. Peary" [Robert Edwin Peary] n.d.2 TMss, 7 p.
- Box 2
"Wendell Phillips," one with extensive autograph addition by author n.d.AMs, 4 TMss, 21 p.
- Box 2
"Gen. Horace Porter" n.d.TMs, 9 p.
- Box 2
"Bishop Potter" n.d.TMs, 2 p.
- Box 2
"Helen Potter" n.d.TMs, 1 p.
- Box 2
["Richard A. and Mary Proctor"], with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 16 p.
- Box 2
"James Redpath," with autograph revisions n.d.TMsS, 19 p.
- Box 2
"James Redpath" n.d.2 TMss, 28 p.
- Box 2
"James Whitcomb Riley" n.d.AMs, 2 TMss, 3 p.
- Box 2
"Charles H. Spurgeon" n.d.TMs, 18 p.
- Box 2
AMs, 4 p.
- Box 2
"John L. Stoddard" n.d.TMs, 2 p.
- Box 2
["Harriet Beecher Stowe"], with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 12 p.
- Box 2
"Charles William Stubbs," with autograph revisions n.d.TMs, 29 p.
- Box 2
["Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage"], with extensive autograph revisions and additions n.d.TMs, 35 p.
- Box 2
"With Dr. [T. DeWitt] Talmage" n.d.TMsS, 42 p.
- Box 2
"Miss Ellen Terry" n.d.AMs, 2 TMss, 7 p.
- Box 2
"Ernest Seaton Thompson" n.d.TMs, 8 p.
- Box 2
"Mark Twain" n.d.TMs, 46 p.
- Box 2
"Twain and Cable," with autograph comment by Mark Twain n.d.TMs, 5 p.
- Box 2
"Twain and Cable." Duplicate version not used. n.d.TMs, 4 p.
- Box 2
"Frederick Villiers" n.d.TMs, 2 p.
- Box 2
"Lew Wallace," with autograph revisions n.d.2 TMss, 5 p.
- Box 2
"Booker T. Washington," with autograph revisions n.d.2 TMss, 8 p.
- Box 2
TMs, 4 p.
- Box 2
"Walt Whitman" n.d.TMs, 9 p.
- Box 2
"William Winter," one with autograph revisions by William Winter n.d.2 TMss, 24 p.
- Box 2
"Sidney Wollett" n.d.TMs, 1 p.
- Box 2
"Women Lecturers" n.d.TMs, 36 p.
- Box 2
"Israel Zangwill" n.d.TMs, 18 p.
- Box 2
"Close" n.d.TMs, 3 p.
- Box 2
Photographs and Printed 1900-190364 items
Photographs and Printed removed from Scrapbooks containing articles and reviews on Eccentricities of Genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage [also contains three photographs of Pond; program for a lecture by Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, and Douglass Sherley at Chickering Hall; an account with publishers G. W. Dillingham Company; program for "The Scotsman War Fund"; and, two obituaries of Pond]
- Box 2
Scrapbook 1899-1900Bound Volume
Scrapbook containing articles and reviews on Eccentricities of Genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage by James B. Pond