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    <title>Owen Wister papers, 1829-1966</title>
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    <namePart>Wister, Owen</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1860-1938</namePart>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>26,130</extent>
    <extent>102</extent>
    <extent>41</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries and journals, family papers, drafts of articles, poems, novels, short stories, speeches, and other writings, scrapbooks, financial papers, printed matter, and other papers.  Includes partial manuscript and dramatizations of Wister's best-known work, The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains (1902) and his libretto for "Villon; a Romantic Opera in Four Acts."  Family correspondents include Fanny Kemble (Wister's grandmother), Sarah Butler Wister (his mother), Mary Channing Wister (his wife), and his cousins, S. Weir Mitchell and Langdon Elwyn Mitchell.</abstract>
  <abstract>Other correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams, Edward William Bok, Nicholas Murray Butler, John Jay Chapman, Joseph H. Coit, Richard Harding Davis, Charles W. Eliot, John Watson Foster, Hamlin Garland, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Lee Higginson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., M. A. De Wolfe Howe, Henry James, William James, J. J. Jusserand, Rudyard Kipling, Kirke La Shelle, Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles Eliot Norton, Walter Hines Page, Frederic Remington, Alice Repplier, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Upton Sinclair, Sir Campbell Stuart, William Howard Taft, Barrett Wendell, Edith Wharton, William Allen White, and Caspar Whitney.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of scrapbooks available, no. 22,325.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 2002.</note>
  <note>Musical compositions transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.</note>
  <note>Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Author and writer of western novels.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Adams, Charles Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1915</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Adams, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1918</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bok, Edward William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Butler, Nicholas Murray</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chapman, John Jay</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1933</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Coit, Joseph H. (Joseph Howland)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1831-1906</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Davis, Richard Harding</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eliot, Charles William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1926</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Foster, John Watson</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1836-1917</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garland, Hamlin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hemingway, Ernest</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1961</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Higginson, Henry Lee</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Holmes, Oliver Wendell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1841-1935</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1960</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>James, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1843-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>James, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1932</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kemble, Fanny</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kipling, Rudyard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1936</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>La Shelle, Kirke</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lodge, Henry Cabot</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1935</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1914</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Norton, Charles Eliot</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1827-1908</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Page, Walter Hines</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1918</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Remington, Frederic</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-1909</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Repplier, Agnes</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1950</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sedgwick, Henry Dwight</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-1957</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sinclair, Upton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1968</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Stuart, Campbell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taft, William H. (William Howard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wendell, Barrett</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1921</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wharton, Edith</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1937</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, William Allen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1944</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Whitney, Caspar</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1929</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wister, Mary Channing</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1913</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Wister, Sarah Butler</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1908</namePart>
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    <topic>Operas</topic>
    <topic>Librettos</topic>
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