Box 1
Contains 173 Results:
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 15 July 1873
Brought little Esther Albee back from Newcastle with her. Finds Julius Eichberg a continual suprise. 1 s. (4 p.) With transcription.
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 10 September 1873
Feels she must remain until her mother is persuaded to go with her. Hears Whittier has made a poem about "that lovely time he was here with us all." (Whittier poem for Atlantic.) 1 s. (4 p.) With transcription.
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to [Annie Fields]; [Shoals, N.H.], 18 September [1873]
Considers [William Ellery, 1818-1901] Channing "a drivelling idiot almost." Suggests she take Esther Albee this winter. Recommends Mr. Eichberg to her care while his wife and daughter are in Europe. Is doubtful about moving her mother. 1 s. (4 p.)
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 7 October 1873
Was five hours yesterday "slopping between here and Portsmouth on the edge of this tremendous storm." Thinks Channing not worthy to write of Thoreau, his style is bit "an aping of Emerson." Refers to William Ellery Channing and Thoreau, The Poet Naturalist, Boston, 1873. 1 s, (4 p.) With transcription.
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to [Annie Fields]; [Shoals, N.H., ca. 7 October 1873]
About her difference of opinion with Emerson concerning Channing, Shelley and Whitman. 2 s. (2 p.) With transcription.
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 16 October [18]73
Her mother has been very ill; does not know when she herself will return. (3 p.)
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 17 & [18] October 1873
Her mother's hold on life is precarious; fears we pay a price for all "passionate living". Encloses two sonnets. Is delighted to hear about the Manchester place. Hopes to get home with Karl and back. (4 p.)
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 20 October 1873
Found her mother better. Conveys her thanks for the "nectar." 1 s. (2 p.) With transcription.
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 21 & [22] October 1873
Her mother seems to have an attack of ague; is often completely delirious. [Tuesday night.] Thanks her for a Harper's. Has had a tremendous storm. Is bound to Boston to get medicines for her mother. (4 p.)
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 1 November 1873
Has finished ["In Kittery Churchyard"]. Howells returned her "Secret." Must look forward to "twenty weeks of living hurricanes." Describes the sunny plant-room and the laughing parrot. (4 p.) v. Atlantic Monthly, January 1874, p. 58.
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.N. to Annie [Fields]; [Shoals, N.H.], 3 November [1873]
Enjoyed Howells' poems. Does not know whether she will ever see Boston again. 1 s. (2 p.)
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to [Annie Fields]; [Shoals, N.H.], 6 November 1873
Hopes to come and have a "little music." St. Nicholas has paid for "Jack Frost" and "Under the Lighthouse." Is going by and bye "into a pile of extravagance for her dear mother. v. St. Nicholas, Nov. 1873, p. 37; Dec. 1873. 1 s. (4 p.) With transcription.
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.N.S. [incomplete] to Annie Fields; n.p., n.d.
Thanking her for her kind words of comfort regarding "poor Karl." 2 s. (2 p.) With transcription.
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. [incomplete] to unknown; n.p., n.d.
1 S. (1 p.) With transcription.
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Isles of Shoals, N.H.], 24 February 1869
Expects to be moored there wihile Mr. Thaxter and the younger boys are tramping in Florida. Praises the "Bee and Rose"; asks who wrote "Sea-Gulls" in the November Atlantic. Verso: Note in Mrs. Fields' hand assigning authorship to W.L. Fawcett. For Mrs. Fields' poem v. The Singing Shepherd and Other Poems, p. 51 1 s. (3 p.) With transcription.
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.N. to [Annie Fields]; [n.p., 1874?]
Has tried her hand at hexameters. Is "in despair at Howells". (1 p.) Incomplete. With transcription.
