Letters to Harry Elkins Widener from Collectors and Libraries

Letters to Harry Elkins Widener from Collectors and Libraries
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Release: 1911
Genre: Book collecting
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The letters concern Widener's book A catalogue of some of the more important books, manuscripts and drawings in the library of Harry Elkins Widener. Most of the letters thank Widener for the gift of a copy.

Letters to Harry Elkins Widener

Letters to Harry Elkins Widener
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Release: 1911
Genre: Privately printed books
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Widener published a private edition of 45 copies of R.L. Stevenson's Memoir of himself from a manuscript in his collection. Fourteen letters are from collectors and libraries acknowledging copies. There are three unrelated letters to Widener from Edmund Gosse and W.K. Bixby and from Widener to Luther S. Livingston.

Letters to Luther S. Livingston

Letters to Luther S. Livingston
Author: Eleanor Elkins Widener
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Release: 1912
Genre: Book collecting
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The letters concern Harry Elkins Widener's book collection, and Livingston's prospective appointment (made just before his death in 1914) to be librarian of the Widener collection at Harvard.

Letters to Flora Livingston

Letters to Flora Livingston
Author: Eleanor Elkins Widener
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Release: 1914
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Flora Livingston was the wife of Luther S. Livingston, the first librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener collection at Harvard. She became assistant librarian after her husband's death in 1914; then librarian in 1926. The letters mostly concern library business.

Harry Elkins Widener Manuscript File

Harry Elkins Widener Manuscript File
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Release: 1861
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Includes letters from Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Edmund Gosse, Kate Greenaway, and others; notes by Thomas Carlyle; and letters concerning publications of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Widener

Widener
Author: Matthew Battles
Publisher: Widener Library
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
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Since 1915, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library has led a spirited life as Harvard's physical and, in a sense, its spiritual heart. With copious illustrations and wide-ranging narrative, this book is not only a record of benefactors and collections; it is the tale of the students, scholars, and staff who give a great library its life.

The Art of the Brontës

The Art of the Brontës
Author: Christine Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 550
Release: 1995-02-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521438414

The first full-scale study of the drawings and paintings of the Brontë sisters and their brother, Branwell.