Word: thackeray
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are many original editions and manuscripts in the collection, among which are Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1632, a letter from Dickens to Thackeray and the latter's reply, Robert Louis Stevenson's autobiography in handwriting, and manuscripts of Robert Burns, Illuminated books of the fifteenth century, and the first edition of the Decameron novels of Boccaccio are also a part of the collection...
...wish that his library should be installed in the Sanctum, and his father sent the entire collection, with an additional set of reference and other books, early this winter. Among the volumes are complete sets of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Stevenson, Tolstoi, Turgenieff, Austen, Pol, Kipling, Hugo, Warner, Lowell, Holmes, Smollett, Fielding, Chaucer, de Maupassant, O. Henry, Pope, Burns, Spenser, Eliot, Hawthorne, Bulwer, Lever, Harte, and Voltaire...
...many of Meeker's own books, but also many other volumes by American and foreign authors. A particular attempt was made to secure publications dealing with the University, its history and its graduates, and many other books of reference were included. Among the volumes are complete sets of Dickens, Thackeray, Scott, Stevenson, Tolstoi, Turgenieff, Austen, Poe, Kipling, Hugo, Warner, Lowell, Holmes, Smollett, Fielding, Chaucer, de Maupassant, O. Henry, Newton, Pope, Burns, Spenser, Eliot, Hawthorne, Bulwer, Lever, Harte, Voltaire and Mulhbach. The Encyclopedia Britannica and complete editions of the "Spectator" and "Tatler" are also included...
...method of literary composition when he was having the greatest difficulty in phrasing the narrative to suit him. From Whittier came the manuscript of several poems, together with a letter suggesting that one of them is of a class of poems of mine which are rather un-Quakerish.' Thackeray is represented by a bit of the 'Roundabout Papers,' Sydney Smith by his 'Letter to the Pennsylvanians' who had repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha.' Charles Reade's first draft of 'The Box Tunnel' is accompanied by two letters, expressing his appreciation of the fact that the Boston...
...gift comprises the original manuscripts of several of the most famous works in the history of American literature, works by Hawthorne, Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Whittier, and others, and manuscripts by such English authors as Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Charles Reade and various others as notable. It includes such books as Byron's own "Don Juan," a copy of Wordsworth with the poet's own annotations, and many other books owned, handled, and marked by writers of fame. In the collection also there are more than 200 portraits and holograph letters, many of which are of exceptional value...