The Colson, Charles W. creator mixed material monographic eng 93 1 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. Open to research. Autograph collector. Full name: Charles Wendell Colson; born 1931. Collection material in English. Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection. 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 mm 75000551 Open to research. DLC 750930 20260227111615.0 mm 75000551