Box 7
Contains 70 Results:
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 21 November 1846
New York. Sends some notes on Emerson and suggests that Griswold consult [Henry David] Thoreau for further information.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 16 December 1846
New York. Asks why [George Rex] Graham has failed to publish Thoreau's article on Carlyle and a notice of [Dionysius?] Lardner by Griswold. Inquires about a lost manuscript lecture of his.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 12 January 1847
New York. Asks for the manuscript of his lecture, in Griswold's possession. Recommends Emerson's Poems [Boston 1847].
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 1 March 1847
New York. Suggests that Griswold write a literary column for the New York Advertiser. Asks for a brief collection of epigrams.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 13 March 1847
New York. Has already written his notice of Griswold's book [The Prose Writers of America].
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 7 December 1848
Washington, D.C. Recommends the work of H. E. G. Avery, known to Greeley as Harriet E. Groussis, for The Female Poets of America.
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 7 January 1849
Washington, D.C. Sends a paragraph about "Bayard's book" [Bayard Taylor's Rhymes of Travel, New York 1848?].
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 21 January 1849
Washington, D.C. Criticizes The Female Poets of America - "a good collection, although your style is stiff"; especially admires the format. Disapproves of [Sarah Helen] Whitman's marriage to [Edgar Allan] Poe. Describes his struggle over the mileage question [in the House of Representatives].
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 30 October 1851
Tribune Office. Cancels an engagement.
Greeley & McElrath. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 25 May 1843
Tribune Office. Ask for complete copy for Curiosities of American Literature [in Isaac D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, New York 1843].
Greeley & McElrath. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 11 August 1843
Office of the Tribune. Suggestions for the title and format of Curiosities of American Literature.
Green, H. A.L.S. to Horatio Greenough, 7 April 1852
N.p. [Boston?] Disapproves of the size of a colossal statue to be made by Greenough [the James Fenimore Cooper memorial?].
Greene, Albert Gorton, 1802-1808. Ms. poem, 6 August 1845
"While strains, to every heart that speak."
Greenough, Horatio, 1806-1852. A.L.S. to R. W. Griswold, 19 November 1851
Washington, D.C. Offers $50 to help pay any debts left by [James Fenimore] Cooper. Approves of bronze for Cooper's statue, but objects to placing it in Washington, where "there is neither respect for such objects as public property nor interest in them as works of art."
Griswold, Rufus L. S. to R. W. Griswold, 9 January [1843?]
New York. Entitled "An Incident of Mortality." Describes the funeral of the Duke of Orleans, 1842.
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 1815-1857. Ms. draft, October 1841
New York. Biographical sketch of Arthur Cleveland Coxe [for The Poets of America?].
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 1815-1857. A.L.S. to Edgar Allan Poe, 14 January 1845
New York. Wishes to include Poe in The Prose Writers of America in spite of their personal quarrel.
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 1815-1857. A.L.S.to Edwin P. Whipple, [25 November 1848?]
N.p. Saturday. Encloses a note from [Elizabeth (Lummis)] Ellet. Protests against [Francis] Bowen's permitting her to review The Female Poets of America, because of her ignorance and contentious disposition. Asks Whipple to dissuade him.
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 1815-1857. A.L.S. to Elizabeth (Lummis) Ellet, 25 November [1848]
No. 7, N.Y. University. Declines to furnish Mrs. Ellet with proofs of The Female Poets of America, and questions the propriety of her reviewing the book on several grounds.
Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, 1815-1857. A.L.S. to Elizabeth (Lummis) Ellet, 30 December [1848?]
University. Demands immediate disavowel of an enclosed article from Neal's Gazett, allegedly written by Mrs. Ellet [attacking The Female Poets of America].