The Charles Wendell Colson autograph collection, 1827-1895.
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 93 items; 1 containerSubject(s): - Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891
- Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
- Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
- Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
- Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
- Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869
- Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
- Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
- Abolitionists -- Autographs
- Authors -- Autographs
- Autographs -- Collections
- New England -- Intellectual life
- Collectors, Autograph
Open to research.
Single letters or notes of 19th century persons, primarily abolitionists or literary figures of New England. Includes holograph fragment of a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson; signatures of P. T. Barnum, William Cullen Bryant, Jefferson Davis, Franklin Pierce, and Gideon Welles; and photographs, lithographs, and facsimiles. Other persons represented include Cyrus W. Field, Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Theodore Parker, William H. Prescott, Daniel Webster, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Autograph collector. Full name: Charles Wendell Colson; born 1931.
Collection material in English.
Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.
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