Guide to the Gelett Burgess papers, [ca. 1873-1951]

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Guide to the Gelett Burgess Papers, [ca. 1873-1951]

Collection number: BANC MSS C-H 52

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Gelett Burgess Papers,

Date (inclusive): [ca. 1873-1951]

Collection Number: BANC MSS C-H 52

Creator: Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951

Extent: Number of containers: 6 boxes, 6 cartons, 4 oversize folders (Pt I & II) Microfilm reel: 2 (Pt III)

Repository: The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract: Pt. I: Correspondence; MSS of novels, stories, poems, articles, plays, etc.; MS of incomplete autobiography; notebooks; genealogical and biographical data; personalia; bibliographies; scrapbooks; clippings. A few papers of his wife, Estelle (Loomis) Burgess also included.

Pt. II: 29 letters from Burgess to Oliver Onions, 1948-1951; obituary for Burgess written by Onions; a report on an interview with Onions and Berta Ruck by Prof. James J. Lynch; other related items.

Pt. III: On film only (2 reels) Miscellaneous Burgess items including his M.A. thesis for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Languages Represented: English

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Gelett Burgess papers, BANC MSS C-H 52, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Material Cataloged Separately

Diaries removed to
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 81/115c
(Gelett Burgess diaries)
Pictorial material transferred to the Bancroft Pictorial Collections
Identifier/Call Number: (BANC PIC 1953.005
--PIC,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1953.006--A,

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1954.010--A,

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1959.069-.071,

Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 1961.014--ALB)

Scope and Content

The bulk of the Burgess papers were acquired by purchase from Gabriel Engel and Ruth Morissey in 1953 and from Edward Morrill in 1958. The rest of the collection came as gifts from Mrs. Will Irwin, Mrs. William H. Haan, Oliver Onions, Anthony Boucher, Theodore M. Lilienthal, Mrs. Juliet W. T. Pottle, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Waybur, Mrs. Elsie W. Martinez, Homer Croy and Joseph Bransten. Sources of gift items are noted on the folders or on the verso of the manuscripts. The letters given by Oliver Onions, with other related material, have been kept separately as Part II of the collection.

The papers cover the period from 1873-1951, but most of them date from the period after 1900. They consist mainly of correspondence; manuscripts of novels, stories, poems, articles, plays and scenarios, musical comedies, radio programs and lectures, some with related notes; autobiographical and biographical data; diaries; notebooks; scrapbooks; clippings; personalia; bibliographies. The collection, which also includes papers of his wife, Estelle Loomis Burgess, is described in greater detail in the Key to Arrangement which follows.

Sketches, drawings, paintings, and photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections.

For list of contents of microfilm, see also microfilm notebooks at Reference Desk, Bancroft Library.

Biography

Gelett Burgess was born on Jan. 30, 1866, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1887 as a civil engineer. After serving a number of years as a draughtsman on survey work for the Southern Pacific Railway and as an instructor of topographical engineering at the University of California, he turned to writing.

His literary career began in 1894 in San Francisco as associate editor of The Wave. During the period 1895-97 he not only served as editor of The Lark but, with Porter Garnett, published Le Petit Journal des Refusées and Phyllida. All three were radical departures from conventional magazines and The Lark, with its originality and the famous Purple Cow verse which appeared in its first issue, gained him considerable fame.

With the demise of The Lark in 1897, Burgess left California for New York to pursue a literary career. By the time of his death in 1951, he had written some 30 books, illustrating many of them also, and had been a frequent contributor to magazines with his short stories, poems and essays. Despite the variety and quantity of his literary output, his name was generally associated with humorous, satirical writing. Included among his most famous works are the Burgess Nonsense Book (1901), Are You A Bromide? (1907), The Heart Line (1907), the satirical Maxims of Methuselah (1907), and Maxims of Noah (1913), Two O' Clock Courage (1934), and Look Eleven Years Younger (1937). His manuals of manners in rhyme for children, the Goop books, have become nursery classics.

Although Burgess traveled widely and lived in New York, Boston, San Francisco, London and Paris, in the public mind he has been identified with San Francisco. In 1950 he returned to California and settled in Carmel, and it was there he died in 1951.

Key to Arrangement

Part I

Correspondence, 1876-1951

Boxes 1-2

Letters written to Burgess, arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Scope and Content Note

Many of the letters from well known authors, refer to Burgess' editorship of My Maiden Effort. Single letters are placed in alphabetical miscellanies; several letters from one correspondent, in separate folders.

Box 3

Letters written by Burgess, arranged chronologically.

Scope and Content Note

Undated letters at the beginning of the file. See also Oversize Folder 2.

Photocopies of Burgess letters from other institutions, unarranged.

Letters about Gelett Burgess.

Ctn. 1

Manuscripts of novels and stories, and, occasionally, related synopses and notes. Arranged alphabetically by title.

Manuscripts of poems, arranged alphabetically by title.

Scope and Content Note

Special folders for the following: untitled poems; notebooks of poems written 1895-1900; notebook of poems written 1889-1892; Goop verses; poems written for Helen Browning Hawes; "Lost Magic: A Sonnet Cycle".

See also oversize portfolio.

Prints and reprints of published poems:

Scope and Content Note

"Ballad of the Hyde Street Grip'; "To Puck: on her Acting More Magic than was in the Play''; "The Sun Dial".

Ctn. 2

Manuscripts of articles and essays, arranged alphabetically by title.

Manuscripts of plays and scenarios, arranged alphabetically by title.

Manuscripts of "mimeologues"

Manuscripts of musical comedies

Manuscripts of radio talks and interviews

Manuscripts of lectures with related lecture notes

Ctn. 3

MS of incomplete, unpublished autobiography, "Escape from Reality," with related notes

The Clipper (nos. 1 & 2), July 25 & Aug. 25, 1880, and other items printed by Burgess, when fourteen years old, on his printing press in Boston

"The Agnes Magazine," Dec. 1898, No. 2

Two stories, "The Ambitious Shepherd" and "The Rivals", written by Burgess and dedicated to Annie Grant Sheppard [Kellogg]. Covers decorated by Burgess

Scrapbook dedicated to Robin Weber, with illustrated poems, and an untitled holograph poem, dated Oct. 16, 1894

Material relating to Shakespeare - Earl of Oxford question, including Burgess articles, letter to editors, etc.

Notes on grammar, figures of speech, rhetorical terms, etc.

Study notebook for Look Eleven Years Younger

Miscellaneous notes - fiction and non-fiction

Genealogical and biographical data

Material re Burgess' youth in Massachusetts

Photocopy of transcript from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Birth and death records

Diaries, July 1885; 1888; 1917-1941, 1942-1951: removed to 87/115 c

Notebooks, 1891-1949

Scope and Content Note

Numbered serially, 1 -77. Missing. 12, 40, 53, 59, 63-65, 72

Address books

Card index to "Early Works"

Ctn. 4

Clippings of published stories and poems

Clippings of published articles, letters to editors, book reviews, etc.

"Imaginotions" clippings pasted in copybook

Clippings of his columns for the New York American pasted in two copybooks

Clippings of "Goops" cartoons

Clippings of interviews with Burgess and about Burgess

Miscellaneous clippings

Ctn. 5

Two scrapbooks of clippings kept by Burgess, 1895-1899, many of which refer to The Lark

Advance proofs of Goops and of Social Sinners

Burgess' passport

Photograph of inscription plate for tomb of Robert Louis Stevenson, lettered by Burgess in 1895. Note by Burgess on verso.

Cross word puzzles designed by Burgess

Copies of songs with lyrics by Burgess

A remembrance of Burgess written by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins Pottle

Silhouettes of "Les Jeunes", 1896

''Gelett Burgess and His Times" - talk by Edgar M. Kahn before Pacific PoetryForum, Feb. 1957

The Lark stationery and publication ad for Seen and Unseen by Yone Noguchi

Stationery designed for Le Petit Journal des Refusées

Bibliographies of Burgess writings

Photocopy of "Who Killed the Lark" - poem published in S. F. Call, 1897 and photocopy of sketch of Burgess by Richard L. Partington from the Call

Photocopy of "Conversation with Gelett Burgess'. Original in Beinecke Library.

Photocopy of proclamation written by Burgess for University of California Class Day, May 12, 1894. Original in Humanities Research Center, University of Texas.

Burgess Christmas cards

Photocopy of records for the administration of Burgess' estate

Postal card views of Les Baux, Provence, France, the area in which Burgess and Oliver Onions excavated in Roman ruins

Mss. of Charles Hinton's ''The Travels of an Idea" and "Parables''

Ma. of Charles Keppel's "Come All Ye Faithless"

Journals of Burgess' parents

Verses written by Clinton B. Burgess

Folder of unsorted material

Miscellany

Box 4

Papers of Estelle (Loomis) Burgess

Mss. of stories with related notes and clippings

box Misc. box

Six printing plates

oversize 1.

"Nonsense Verses and Drawings - sample illustrations

oversize 2.

Scrapbook, “Such Stuff," made for Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin, with sketches, poems clippings and a letter, Aug. 2, 1895, to Mrs. Gillmore

oversize 3.

Burgess sketches for a cottage

Facsimile of an old caricature of the Latrobe R. R. drawn by Burgess

Broadsides advertising Burgess books

oversize 4.

Proclamation written for Class Day Exercises Class of 1894, University of California, by Burgess, with his notation; certificate of honorary membership in Class of 1894, presented to Burgess

Part II: Portfolio

portfolio Portfolio

29 letters from Burgess to Oliver Onions, 1948-1951

Obituary for Burgess written for The Times by Onions

Illustration drawn by Berta (Ruck) Onions

Clippings re Burgess

Letters from R. Ellis Roberts to Onions re Burgess

Dr. James Lynch's report to Dr. James D. Hart on his visit to Wales to see Onions and Berta Ruck

Sketches made by Onions of artifacts discovered in a Roman grave in Provence in 1908

Photograph of Onions and a Provence shepherd peering into an excavated Roman ruin in Provence

Part III: List of Microfilm

reel Reel 1:

Statement and receipt, Jan. 5, 1892, from Burgess for expenses of Christmas Festival of the Pilgrim Sunday School, San Francisco; Robin Weber scrapbook and letters from Burgess to Robin and Arnold Weber (vi originals now in BL); two notes, 1936-1938 and a Goop sketch sent to Amy Vanderbilt; letters from Burgess to Burges Johnson, 1904-1950 and pages from MS of Maxims of Methuselah; letters to Annie Sheppard Kellogg (originals now in BL); Burgess letters in the Huntington Library and Arnold Weber scrapbook; selections from The Criterion containing chapters of The Lively City O'Ligg.

reel Reel 2:

Burgess' M.A. thesis, 1881, for Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Location and Estimate for a Narrow Gauge Railway from Davis Mine to Claremont, Mass.

Partial List of Correspondents

A Miscellany (single letters)

Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-

Letter, Aug. 11, 1945

Arliss, George, 1868-1946

Letter, Apr. 15, 1921

Ade, George, 1866-1944

5 letters, 1902-1920. Also, cartoon, drawn and signed by Ade, "Brief - History of War", dated Oct. 1917

Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925

2 letters, 1921

The American Magazine

2 letters, 1922-1923. Signed by John MacAlplne Siddall

Association des Escrivains Combattants de 1914 à 1918

3 letters, 1931. In French. Signed by Claude Farrere and Paul Strozzi. Enclosure to letter of May 16: copy of letter written by Farrere and Strozzi to Henry Champly

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Horn), 1857-1948

6 letters, 1918-1945. Several undated

Austin, Mary (Hunter), 1868-1934

3 letters, 1921, n.d.

B Miscellany (single letters)

Bartlett, Frederic Charles, 1887-

Letter, Nov. 12, 1932

Beach, Rex Ellingwood, 1877-1949

Letter, n.d.

Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931

Letter, July 2, 1914

Black, Alexander, 1859-1940

Letter, Apr. 17, 1923

Block, Rudolph Edgar, 1870-

Letter, Jan. 15, 1921

Boyle, Virginia (Frazer), d. 1938

Letter, Dec. 8, 1920

Branch, Anna Hempstead, 1874-1937

Letter, Feb. 2, 1920

[Bright, Mary Chavelita (Dunne)]

Letter, July 1, 1899. Signed George Edgarton

Brown, Alice, 1857-

Letter, Feb. 3, [1920?]?

Butler, Ellis Parker, 1869-1937

Letter, Mar. 18, 1922

Bacon, Josephine Dodge (Daskam), 1872-

2 letters, 1902-1921. One letter signed: Josephine Daskam

Barrell, Charlea Wisner

2 letters, 1951

Beerbohm, Max, 1872-

2 letters, 1898 & n.d.

Boucher, Tony

see White, Wllliam Anthony Parker

C Miscellany (single letters)

Cabell, James Branch, 1879-

Letter, Sept. 21, 1922

Carpenter, Edward Childs, 1872-

Letter, Feb. 14, 1921

Case, Frank

Letter, n.d.

Cather, Willa Sibert, 1876-1947

Letter, n.d.

Child, Richard Washburn, 1881-1935

Letter, Jan. 26, 1921

Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947

Letter, June 4, 1917

Cushman, Clarissa (Fairchild)

Letter, Feb. 27, 1941

Campbell, Vera

4 letters, 1898. One letter believed to be dated erroneously 1892

Chambers, Robert William, 1865-1933

2 letters, 1913-1920

Clifford, Lucy (Lane) (Mrs. W. K. Clifford)

4 letters, n.d.

Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury, 1876-1944

4 letters, 1918-1921

Cowles, Fleur (Fenton)

2 letters, 1949-1950. Written for Look and Flair magazines

Cutting, Mary Stewart, 1851-1924

2 letters, 1913-1921

D Miscellany (single letters)

Davis, Owen, 1874-

Letter, n. d.

Dawson, Coningsby [William], 1883-

Letter, Feb. 17, 1921

Dearmer, Mabel, 1872-1915

Letter, n.d.

de Mille, Cecil Blount, 1881-1959

Letter, Jan. 9, 1943

Dole, Nathan Haskell, 1852-1935

Letter, May 23, 1900

D'Arcy, Ella

2 letters & note, n.d

Dinkelspiel, Richard C.

2 letters, 1948-1949. Enclosing letters from Joseph P. Loeb and George Hugh Banning

Dodd, Lee Wilson, 1879-1933

3 letters, 1920 -1921

Eastman, Max, 1883-

3 letters, [ca. 1921]-1951

F Miscellany (single letters)

Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-

Letter, May 18, 1942

Fenollosa, Mary McNeil

Letter, Jan. 6, 1921

Field, [Isobel (Osbourne)]

Letter, Apr. 7, 1951. Signed: Teuila. With added note written by "At"

Fields, Annie Adams, 1834- 1915

Letter, Jan. 17, [1900?]

Fiske, John, 1842-1901

Letter, Apr. 13, 1892

Forbes, James, 1871-1938

Letter, Nov. 8, 1920

Fox, John, 1862-1919

Letter, May 19, 1902

Funk, Wilfred John, 1883-

Letter, Feb. 23, 1944

Feldman, Abraham

3 letters, 1948-1951

Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key, 1896-1940

4 letters, 1922 & n.d.

Fitzhugh, Robert Tyson, 1906-

2 letters, 1951. Enclosing reprint of his article, An Invasion of Privacy, published in the College English Association's Chap Book

Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-

3 letters, 1920-1941. One letter illustrated

Frederic, Harold, 1856-1898

2 letters, 1898

Freeman, Mary Eleanor (Wilkins), 1852-1930

2 letters, 1920

G Miscellany (single letters)

Gilder, Jeanette Leonard, 1849-1916

Letter, Apr. 7, 1899. Written as editor of The Critic

Gish, Lillian

Letter, n.d.

Gerould, Katherine (Fullerton), 1879-1944

3 letters, 1921

Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944

5 letters, 1920-1921

Grant, Robert, 1852-1940

2 letters, 1921

H Miscellany (single letters)

Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.

Letter, Aug. 3, 1949. Signed: S. Spencer Scott

Harris, Frank, 1856-1931

Letter, n.d. Mutilated; upper portion of letter cut off.

Harris, Kenneth

Letter, n.d.

Hein, Silvio, 1879-

Letter, n.d.

Herford, Oliver, 1863-1935

Letter, July 18, 1923

Heron, Flodden W.

Letter, May 29, 1948

Hewlett, Maurice Henry, 1861-1923

Letter, Jan. l, 1899

Hough, Emerson, 1857-1923

Letter, Nov. 12, 1920

Howard, John Tasker, 1890-

Letter, May 21, 1945

Howells, Mildred, 1872-

Letter, n.d.

Hungerford, Edward, 1875-1948

Letter, Feb. 5, 1921

Hamilton, Cosmo, d. 1942

4 letters, 1919 & n.d.

Harrison, Henry Sydnor

2 letters, 1920-1921

Hays, Will H., 1879-1954

2 letters, 1922-1923

Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-

6 letters, 1920-1923

Hinton, Charles Howard, 1853-1907

15 letters, 1903-1907

Hopwood, Avery, 1882-1928

2 letters, 1920-1921

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1919

4 letters, 1897-1900

Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956

3 letters, 1920-1951

Hurst, Fannie, 1889-

4 letters, 1918 & n.d.

I Miscellany (single letters)

[Irwin, Wallace], 1875-1959

Letter, Jan. 28, 1921. Signed: Mich

Irwin, William Henry, 1873-1948

[Power of attorney granted to Gelett Burgess.], Nov. 5, 1919.To negotiate the sale, for moving picture and dramatic purposes, of The Picaroons and The Reign of Queen Isyl

J Miscellany (single letters)

Johnson, Burges, 1877-

Letter, Mar. 24, 1951

Jordan, Elizabeth Garner, 1867-1947

Letter, Jan. 8, 1921

James, Henry, 1843-1916

5 letters, 1898-1906

K Miscellany (single letters)

Kauffman, Reginald Wright, 1877-

Letter, Dec. 31, 1920

Kelland, Clarence Budington, 1881-

Letter, Dec. 28, 1950

Kernahan, Coulson, 1858-1943

Letter, n.d.

King, Basil, 1859-1928

Letter, Feb. 5, 1921

Klüver, Heinrich, 1897-

Letter, June 10, 1943

Kahn, Edgar M.

3 letters, 1939-1940. Among letters written by Burgess are 3 addressed to Kahn

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

2 letters, 1898-1921

L Miscellany (single letters)

Lane, John, 1854-1925

Letter, Nov. 28, 1898

Libbey, Laura Jean, 1862-1924

Letter, Feb. 1, 1921

Lilienthal, Theodore M.

Letter, Jan. 25, 1947. Unsigned carbon copy

Lincoln, Joseph Crosby, 1870-1944

Letter, Jan. 17, 1921

Litchfield, Grace Denio, 1849-1944

Letter, Nov. 17, 1920

Loftus, Cecilia, 1876-

[Verse written on program for Authors' League banquet, Nov. 1, 1923]

Long, John Luther, 1861-1927

Letter, n.d.

Lynch, Gertrude

Letter, n.d.

LeGallienne, Richard, 1866-1947

6 letters, 1898-ca. 1921. Several undated

Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

2 letters, ca. 1921

Lippincott (J. B.) Company

3 letters, 1945 & 1950. Two letters signed by Joseph W. Lippincott

London, Jack, 1876-1916

2 letters, 1901-1902

Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925

2 letters, 1921

M Miscellany (single letters)

McClure, Samuel Sidney, 1857-1949

Letter, Jan. 5, 1923

Macfarlane, Peter Clark, 1871-1924

Letter, Dec. 24, 1920

MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956

Letter, May 27, 1920

Masters, Edgar Lee, 1869-1950

Letter, Jan. 14, 1921

Maugham, William Somerset, 1874-

Letter, June 5, [1944]

Miriam Joseph, Sister, 1898-

Letter, Sept. 5, 1949

McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928

2 letters, 1918-1922

McIntyre, Oscar Odd, 1884-1938

3 letters, 1936

Martin, George (Madden) (Mrs. Atwood R. Martin), 1866-1946

2 letters, 1921

Meynell, Alice Christiana (Thompson), 1847-1922

2 letters, n.d.

N Miscellany (single letters)

Noguchi, Yone, 1875-1947

Letter, Feb. 7, 1920

Norris, Charles Gilman, 1881-1945

Letter, n.d.

Norris, Frank, 1070-1902

Letter, Dec. 17, [1901]

Norris, Kathleen, 1880-1966

Letter, Jan. 1921

Northcliffe, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st baron, 1865-1922

Letter, July 12, 1898. Signed: Alfred C. Harmsworth

Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947

2 letters, 1918

O Miscellany (single letters)

O'Brien, Eugene

Letter, n.d.

Onions, Oliver, pseud.

Letter, Nov. 8, 1950. Signed: "O"

Osbourne, Lloyd, 1868-1947

Letter, n.d.

O'Higgins, Harvey Jerrold, 1876-1929

2 letters, 1922-1923

P Miscellany (single letters)

Parker, Sir Gilbert, bars., 1862-1932

Letter, Sept. 16, 1920

Patterson, Joseph Medill, 1879-1946

Letter, Apr. 12, 1922

Petrova, Olga, 1886-

Letter, n.d

[Porter, Bruce,] 1865-1953

Letter, n.d. Signed with initials

Porter, Harold Everett, 1887-1936

Letter, Nov. 15, 1920

Porter, William Sydney, 1862-1910

Letter, n.d.

Pei, Mario Andrew, 1901-

2 letters, 1949

R Miscellany (single letters)

Raine, William MacLeod, 1871-

Letter, Feb. 6, 1921

Repplier, Agnes, 1858-

Letter, Feb. 6, 1921

Rice, Cale Young, 1872-1943

Letter, n.d.

Richards, Laura Elizabeth, 1850-1943

Letter, Feb. 14, 1921

Richmond, Grace Louise (Smith), 1866-

Letter, Feb. 3, 1921

Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860-1943

Letter, May 26, 1899

Roosevelt, Eleanor (Roosevelt), 1884-1962

Letter, Jan. 5, 1939

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, (Pres., U.S.), 1882-1945

Letter, Feb. 17, 1938

Rowland, Henry Cottrell, 1874-1933

Letter, Jan. 10, 1921

Ralph, Julian, 1853-1903

2 letters, 1898-1900

Read, Opie Percival, 1852-1939

2 letters, 1921

The Reader's Digest

3 letters, 1943-1948. Signed by De Witt Wallace. Also, letter from Wallace to George T. Bye, 1942

Rice, Alice Caldwell (Hogan), 1870-1942

2 letters, 1921

Rideout, Henry Milner, 1877-1927

2 letters, 1921

S Miscellany (single letters)

Salsbury, Nate, 1888-

Letter, Apr. 13, 1923

Sharp, Evelyn, 1869-

Letter, n.d.

Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926

Letter, n.d.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901-

Letter, n.d.

Sterling, George, 1869-1926

Letter, May 15, 1923

[Stevenson, Fanny (Van de Grift) Osbourne,] 1840-1914

Letter, Dec. 5, 1897. Signed: Aolele. Date supplied by Burgess

Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909

Letter, July 17, 1898

Street, Julian, 1879-1947

Letter, June 1, 1921

Strode, Muriel

Letter, Jan. 26, 1924

Sullivan, Mark, 1874-

Letter, Nov. 16, 1918

The Saturday Evening Post

4 letters, 1918-1923. Signed by George Horace Lorimer.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946

2 letters, 1921

Sholl, Anna McClure

2 letters, 1921

Smith, Sir Grafton Elliot, 1871-1937

2 letters, 1932. Enclosure: reprint Or his article, Right-and-Lett Handedness in Primitive Men, published in The British Medical Journal, Dec. 12, 1925

Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott, 1874-

2 letters, 1921

Stuart, Ruth (McEnery), 1849-1917

2 letters, 1900. Also, inscribed visiting card

T Miscellany (single letters)

Tassin, Algernon de Vivier, 1869-1941

Letter, July 21, 1922

Tupper, Tristram

Letter, Feb. 26, 1923

Tarbell, Ida Minerva, 1857-1944

2 letters, 1920

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

10 letters, 1918-1923. Several letters undated

Troubetzkoy, Amélie (Rives) Chanler, 1863-1945

2 letters, 1914-1921

Tully, Eleanor (Gates), 1875-

Letter, Feb. 3, 1921, and note written on an envelope

V Miscellany (single letters)

Van Doren, Mark, 1894-

Letter, Aug. 26, 1943

Vermilye, Kate (Jordan), d. 1926

Letter, n.d.

W Miscellany (single letters)

White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946

Letter, June 3, 1920

[White, William Anthony Parker], 1911-

Telegram. July 29, 1951. Written under pseudonym "Tony Boucher"

Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 1856-1923

Letter, n.d. Written on circular soliciting contributions for the planned book, My Maiden Effort

Williams, Ben Ames, 1889-

Letter, Jan. 11, 1920

Wilson, Francis, 1854-

Letter, n.d.

Wilson, John Fleming, 1877-1922

Letter, Jan. 22, 1921

Witwer, Harry Charles, 1890-1929

Letter, Dec. 6, 1920

Woodrow, Nancy Mann (Wadder), d. 1935

Letter, Jan. 18, 1920

Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943

Letter, Mar. 31, 1939

Wright, Harold Bell, 1872-1944

Letter, Nov. 22, 1920

Wharton, Edith Newbold (Jones), 1862-1937

2 letters, 1920 & n.d.

White, Gleeson, 1851-1898

2 letters, 1898

White, William Allen, 1868-1944

2 letters, 1920-1921

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938

3 letters, 1923 & n.d.

Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912

3 letters, 1908

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