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Collection Title:
Creator:
Newman, F. W. (Francis William), 1805-1897.
Inclusive Dates:
1864-1905
Abstract:
Papers of the British scholar, man of letters. Seventy-six letters written between 1864 and 1897 to Moncure Daniel Conway on a variety of topics including politics, religion, and social reform.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Scholars.
Activism and social reform
Literature -- British
Civil War (U.S.)
Abolitionists -- Great Britain.
Capital punishment.
Free schools.
Free will and determinism.
Irish question.
Marriage law.
Prostitution.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Scholars -- Great Britain.
Antislavery movements.
Slavery -- United States.
Social reformers.
Temperance.

2.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958.
Inclusive Dates:
1900-1948
Abstract:
Papers of the British poet. Subject file contains a five-page holograph and a six-page typescript for 'A talk with Alfred Noyes,' a piece which appeared in the Book Window in 1932. Also, page proofs with Noyes' additions and corrections, and a portrait of Noyes dated 1915 by a photographer named Chickering. Outgoing correspondence of a business nature, in which Noyes thanks editors for favorable reviews or solicits critiques of his work. Many of the letters contain Noyes' discussion of his own work at the time of writing or in relation to his previous output. Letters to W.S. Braithwaite, Edward B. Osborn, Clement King Shorter, Arthur Waugh, and others. Writings include a holograph manuscript of 'The Touchstone series,' a selection of four poems, with corrections and annotations.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Galley proofs.
Manuscripts for publication.
Poems.
Subject:
Poets.
Literature -- British
English poetry -- 20th century.
Poets, English.