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Papers of Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, Accession #8010-a , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was given to the Library on September 10, 1966.
The collection contains two manuscripts: "To Harry Munroe," and an untitled essay on Greek and Italian brigandage.
Letters discuss her health, the weather, her writing including "Fairy Fingers" and "Mimic Life," Elizabeth H. Appleton, Thomas Crawford, Catherine Hayes, Mary Morris Hamilton Schuyler and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, Ion Perdicaris, William Foushee Ritchie, Randolph Rogers, Frank Slayton, Julia G. O. Smyth, and Henry Alexander Wise.
Poem
Essay
Discusses in detail: her desire for his help in publishing "a moral tale for the young" under a pseudonym. Mentions: Edwin Percy Whipple, Boston, William Davis Ticknor, and New World .
Discusses in detail: Julia Gabriella Ogden and her fiance Joseph Kennedy Smyth. Mentions: Samuel Gouverneur Ogden, Julia Fairlie Ogden, Typee by Herman Melville, and Lizzy.
Discusses briefly Mr. Campbell's having most of her published works.
Discusses Elizabeth Haven Appleton, on whose behalf she is submitting a manuscript. Mentions Cincinnati, OH, and Harper's New Monthly Magazine .
Discusses in detail support for Mary Morris Hamilton Schuyler's organization for fund-raising for Mount Vernon Discusses briefly: Louise Ingersoll Greenough; her desire to see Ruggles; Mary Rutledge Fogg; Octavia Walton LeVert; the coincidence of the landing of the transatlantic telegraph cable and the first use of steam towage on a canal being on the same day. Mentions: Boston, Enquirer , Samuel Gouverneur Ogden, New York, Tennessee, Alabama, and Edward Everett.