Manuscript copy of Browning's 'Human Life's Mysteries', here entitled 'Life'. The poem was first published in the 1850 London edition of Browning's Poems.
Manuscript poem by Thomas Love Peacock from a letter to Lord Broughton, Nov. 13, 1862, on mourning paper. Cf. Nicholas A. Joukovsky, Letters of Thomas Love Peacock, v. 2, 1828-1866, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Letter no. 327.
Translation by Thomas Love Peacock of the last five lines of Euripides' Alcestis. An addendum by 'R. Garnett' (presumably Richard Garnett) notes this. A pencilled note on the verso suggests that the manuscript was given by Garnett to 'J. Everson'...
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.
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...
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).
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...
Manuscript of de Quincey's essay 'Anecdotage', which was first published in The London Magazine, March 1823. Available online at: http://books.google.com/books?id=gtcYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA244.
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...
1910 Fire--Pulaski Tunnel; Great Fire of . . . ; Tunnels
A woman standing at the mouth of the tunnel in which Pulaski and his party took refuge at the time of the Great Fire of August, 1910. Outside of Wallace, Idaho.