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Box 7

 Container

Contains 30 Results:

Letter, 1890

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 6 March 1890, and addressed to "Friend Tuttle." Bonner writes, "The church society meets here next Wensday, [sic] March 12th and we should be glad of the pleasure of your company."

Dates: 1890

Letter, a portrait, and an essay, 1889

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 3-4
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 18 Feb. 1889, and addressed to "Dear Sir." Bonsall writes that he has enclosed a "brief sketch of my interview with Whitman." Also with the collection is the handwritten "sketch." Bonsall describes his interview with Walt Whitman, the Americna poet. Also included is an etching portrait of Bonsall.

Dates: 1889

Letters and a portrait, 1866

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 5-6
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents Handwitten and signed letter, dated 21 Nov. 1866, and addressed to Henry Brokmayer, perhaps Henry Conrad Brokmayer, an American author. Botta accepts election a member of the "St. Louis Philosophical Society." Also included is a handwritten and unsigned noted dated 6 April of an unspecified year. The item states, "Mrs. Botta will be much pleased if her name can be of any use in promoting the work on the pedestal." With the collection is a portrait of "Mrs. Botta," an American poet, that...
Dates: 1866

Letter, 1932

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 7-8
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 20 March 1932, and addressed to "Dear Sir." Booth writes about submitting materials apparently for publication.

Dates: 1932

Autograph and a newspaper clipping, 1890

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 9-10
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents

Autograph clipped from a letter. The item is undated. Also included is a photocopy of a newspaper clipping. The item is a brief biography of Boothby.

Dates: 1890

Autograph, 1835

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 11-12
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents

Autograph clipped from a letter. A piece of paper is glued to the item. It states, "Peter Borthwick Esqre. of Claverton Park, in Somersetshire was defeated in 1832, by Sir Charles Cockerell and Thomas Hudson Esq. but returned in 1835, without a contest. The hon. gentleman, who was born in Midlothian (?), in 1804, is hostile to the Whig ministry, and had distinguished himself by his advocacy of a gradual Slave Emancipation."

Dates: 1835

Letter, 1898

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 13-14
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 15 March 1898, and addressed to "Dear Sir." Bosanquet writes to a publisher about the possibility of meeting him to discuss "some literary business."

Dates: 1898

Letter and portraits, 1851-1852

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 15-16
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signe letter and dated 18 Oct. 1852. Boucicault writes, "Will you be kind enough to have a dozen copies of The Prima Donna struck off on better paper & preped." Also included are etching protraits of Dion and W. D. Bouicault dated 1851.

Dates: 1851-1852

Letter, 1918

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 17-18
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 1 April 1918, and addressed to a bookseller. Bourdillon writes about the amount of money he has in his account.

Dates: 1918

Letter fragment and an autograph, 1800

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 19-20
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter fragment. Bowdler's autograph was clipped from a letter, and some of the writing was taken as well. The item is undated.

Dates: 1800