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Preferred Citation

Richard Harding Davis Papers, Accession #6109 through #6109-e, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was deposited in the Library by Clifton Waller Barrett 1959 December 30 (#6109); 1959 December 31 (#6109-a), 1960 April 16 (#6109-c); 1963 February 25 (#6109-d); and, 1963 July 16 (#6109-e). The entire collection was converted to a gift 1991 July 1.

Scope and Content Information

The collection consists of correspondence; pieces from the diary (1865-1879) of Davis' mother, Rebecca Harding Davis; MSS of Davis' plays and dramatizations by others from Davis' stories; agreements between Davis and various publishers; copyrights; clippings concerning Davis' father's death in 1904; notebooks, address books, accounts, notes; Lehigh College scrapbook (1880-1884), photographs, and other papers. Includes draft of article on Joseph Pulitzer, notes on the life of Philo Norton McGiffen, preface to an unpublished story on South America, correspondence, clippings, tracts, etc. (1907-1909) relating to Sebastian H.L. de Magali's Brazil filibuster incident, and correspondence of Davis' father, Lemuel Clarke Davis, his brother, Charles Belmont Davis, and his mother, Rebecca Harding Davis.

Correspondents include Louisa May Alcott, Henry Mills Alden, Robert Bacon, James Gillespie Blaine, Edward William Bok, John Griffin Carlisle, Warwick Stevens Carpenter, Wilbur John Carr, Arthur W. Carswell, George William Childs, Grover Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. William Collier, Edward Fales Coward, George William Curtis, Augustin Daly, Pierre Paul Demers, Mary Dillon, Irving Bedell Dudley, Bernard Morris Lee Ernst, Ernst & Cane, Adam Everly, John Fox, Jr., Charles Frohman, Daniel Frohman, F.E. Fyles, Franklin Fyles, Edward James Garner, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, J. Henry Harper, Harper & Bros., O. Harrington, George Harvey, John Hay, Rutherford B. Hayes, Henry Hayns, Hilary Abner Herbert, Laura Hoffmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Carl Hovey, Henry Irving, Helen Jackson, Joseph Jefferson, William B.B. King, Frederick Leslie, Llewellyn Legge, Will H. Lewis, Jr., William Loeb, André de Lorde, Henry Ronald Douglass MacIver, Sebastien H.L. de Magali, John Hudson Merrill, Nelson Appleton Miles, Levi Parsons Morton, George Parker, Jr. and Sr., J.C. Pegram, Jr., Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Henry Codman Potter, Thomas Brackett Reed, William Charles Reick, Paul Revere Reynolds, Elihu Root, Arthur Hawley Scribner, Charles Scribner, John Sherman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tarleton B. Taylor, Ellen Terry, Arthur Turner Vance, Frank H. Warner, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Francis Wilson, Huntington Wilson, and George E. Wood.