Fragments of a draft of Poe's review of The Literati of New York by S. Anna Lewis (published in The United States Democratic Review, 23.122, August 1848, pp. 158-60).
French pension, signed by Napoleon Bonaparte, Lazare Carnot, and Secretary of State Maret and dated 'quinze Vendemiaire de l'an neuf de la Republique francaise' (7 October 1800). The pension provides 100 francs annually to Marie Gaignard, widow of...
Letter from Charles Russel to Frank Linderman, dated 5 November 1917 with envelope from the Lewis Glacier Hotel (Lake McDonald Lodge) in Glacier National Park.
Letter from Longfellow to Newhall recommending a particular Portuguese dictionary, 29 July 1847. Newhall had never met Longfellow, and in the letter that occasioned this one--Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Am 1340.2 (4103)--he asks...
Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to his publisher, James Augustus Hessey. The watermark of the paper reads 'Cowan 1822'. The letter discusses the publication of Coleridge's Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, which was...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 24 February 1837. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 9, p. 157. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 24 January 1838. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 10, pp. 10-11. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 3 November 1840. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 12, p. 312. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 3[?] February 1837. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 9, pp. 137-8. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 4 December 1837. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 12, pp. 393–94 (but see note in the Carlyle Letters Online edition)....
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 5 February 1838. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 10, pp. 22-3. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Jane Wilson, 7 January 1843. See The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1970-, v. 16, pp. 9-10. Transcription and more information available online at...
Letter sheet letter from Alexander Carlyle to his brother, Thomas Carlyle, 30 January 1827. Compare Thomas' letter to Alexander of 3 February, reprinted in The Letters of Thomas Carlyle to His Brother Alexander, Ed. Edwin Marrs, Cambridge: Harvard...