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American poetry -- 19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Harriet Adeline Fowler Allen autograph book and poems

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230317866]
Identifier: MSS SC 1942
Scope and Contents

Volume containing handwritten autographs and poems. The autographs were written to Harriet Allen and usually include poems.

Dates: 1888

The Andersonville Prison

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348580]
Identifier: MSS 1380
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten poem. The item includes "chorus" sections probably meaning it was meant to be sung. The item relates to the conditions of the Andersonville prison during the American Civil War. The date of the item is unknown.

Dates: 1880

George B. Bailey papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244722]
Identifier: MSS SC 580
Scope and Contents

Holographs; typescript; printed forms (photocopy). The collection includes a journal (l p. by wife, Elizabeth) which describes life in Salt Lake Valley and related problems with the United States government in 1856-1857 and gives genealogical data on the Bailey and Young families. Also included are a letter fragment, poem by George, and 6 Latter-day Saint Church family group sheets of the George Smith Bailey and Victoria Price family.

Dates: 1800s

Battle hymn of the republic

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233292595]
Identifier: Vault MSS 537
Scope and Contents

Printed item commemorating the founding of the New England Women's Club. The item was hand addressed to Mrs. Mary J. Judah and signed by the president of the club, Julia Ward Howe, in November 1892. The item includes all five verses of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and an account by Mrs. Howe of how she came to write the poem.

Dates: 1892

Blarney Stone on Beech Hill

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330760]
Identifier: MSS SC 3111
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed poem. The date of the item is uncertain.

Dates: approximately 1900

Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 155
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries and poems. These journals were kept from 1885 to 1928 when Booth was in Alpine, Utah, at the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, and in Turkey and Armenia as a missionary and as mission president.

Dates: 1885-1916

The brave old cedars

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336700]
Identifier: MSS 917
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed poem by Zitella Cocke or Coche. The poem is on the beauty of cedar trees. The date of composition of the poem is uncertain.

Dates: 1900

By the temple they pass

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230319227]
Identifier: MSS SC 2095
Scope and Contents

Handwritten poem by an unknown author, probably a Mormon, dealing with the religious significance of temples.

Dates: approximately 1900

Robert H. Campbell sketchbook

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346204]
Identifier: MSS 382
Scope and Contents

Sketchbook with sketches and poems produced when Campbell was on vacation at Sebago Lake, Maine, in 1881. They were done in pencil and ink. The sketches are of scenes and persons Campbell saw or met. The poems largely reflect on life and the nature of Campbell's surroundings. A photocopy of the book is also available.

Dates: 1881

Robert James Coffey autobiography and poems

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1633
Scope and Contents

One bound volume and one loose volume of autobiographical notes, poems, and scrapbook materials along with photocopies of the collection. Coffey served in a Pennsylvania regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865). He participated in a large number of campaigns and gives detailed accounts of army life. There are also printed copies of many of the poems Coffey was able to publish.

Dates: 1861-1903