Research Catalog

Title

Harriet Beecher Stowe collection of papers, 1847-1895.

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Argyll, Elizabeth Georgiana (Granville), duchess of, 1824-1878.
• Beecher, Charles, 1815-1900.
• Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887.
• Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863.
• Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879.
• Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness, 1792-1860.
• Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1802-1864.
• Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903.
• Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
• Howard, Georgiana, Countess of Carlisle, 1783-1858.
• Lawrence, Amos, 1786-1852.
• Lightfoot, J. B. (Joseph Barber), 1828-1889.
• Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
• Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892.
• Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.
• Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919.
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
• Stowe, C. E. (Calvin Ellis), 1802-1886.
• Wetherill, Rebecca, 1819-1908.
• Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954.

Description

65 items.

Subjects

• Correspondence
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

Genre/Form

Correspondence.

Biography (note)

• Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American novelist and short-story writer.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

• This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. Previous owners include W. T. H. Howe, Bliss Perry, and Owen D. Young.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Stowe

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Title

Harriet Beecher Stowe collection of papers, 1847-1895.

Summary

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence. The manuscript materials include autograph drafts of stories, novels, and essays, and autograph transcriptions of poems. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1847 to 1880, to Cassius Clay, George Eliot, James R. Osgood, Rebecca Wetherill, and others. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from 1853 to [1869], between various correspondents including Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Charles Beecher, Elihu Burritt, Calvin Ellis Stowe, Lady Georgiana Cavendish Howard Carlisle, W. M. Rossetti, and others. There are letters to Stowe from Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman Beecher, Lady Anna Isabella Milbanke Byron, George William Carlisle, Joseph Durham, Amos Lawrence, James Russell Lowell, Wendell Phillips, John Ruskin, and others, dating from [1851?] to 1860.

Biography

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American novelist and short-story writer.

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local Note

Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Argyll, Elizabeth Georgiana (Granville), duchess of, 1824-1878.

Beecher, Charles, 1815-1900.

Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887.

Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863.

Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879.

Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness, 1792-1860.

Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1802-1864.

Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Howard, Georgiana, Countess of Carlisle, 1783-1858.

Lawrence, Amos, 1786-1852.

Lightfoot, J. B. (Joseph Barber), 1828-1889.

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.

Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892.

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884.

Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919.

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.

Stowe, C. E. (Calvin Ellis), 1802-1886.

Wetherill, Rebecca, 1819-1908.

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner

Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954.

Young, Owen D., 1874- Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Stowe