A Guide to the Frank Dempster Sherman Collection #8527

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Frank Dempster Sherman Collection, Accession 8527, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Deposit 1963 Dec 17 1967 Feb 20

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Item Listing

Manuscripts

Poem, " For my Father "
1882 Oct 23
AMsS, 1 p.

[On verso of a 1 p. ALS, 1882 Oct 23, Frank Dempster Sherman to his father; expresses love to his father in a birthday greeting.]
Poem, beginning "March, and the larch is bending . . ."
1888 Mar 16
AMsS, 1 p.
Poem, " The Poet's Joy "
1901 Oct 30
AMsS, 1 p.

[Includes ANS to "Dear Harry"; asks for $15 for the poem; hopes Harry will keep it.]
Poem, " Psyche "
n. d.
AMsS, 1 p.
Poem, " The First Snowfall "
n. d.
AMsS, 1 p.

Letters

Frank Dempster Sherman to Richard Watson Gilder
1891 Jan 26
ALS, 2 p.

[Expresses gratitude for Gilder's interest in the work of Charles Henry Luders , who recently died; speaks of his exquisite poems, " The Dead Nymph , " printed in Scribner's in 1888, and " The Four Winds "; submits a sonnet of his own, along with some of his friend's poems.]
Frank Dempster Sherman to [William] Bliss Carman
1891 Feb 13
ALS, 2 p.

[Requests copies of the Independent in which poems by [Thomas Bailey] Aldrich were published, starting 1884; thanks him for sending a copy of lyric which he has put in the Carman envelope.]
Frank Dempster Sherman to Howes Norris Jr.
1896 Sep 12
ALS, 1 p.

[Includes autographed card on verso, 1884 March 29, with a verse beginning "wishing you all success in your . . ."; regards his and Norris' postage stamp collections.]
Frank Dempster Sherman to Editor, Genealogical Department, The Transcript
1904 Aug 31
ALS, 1 p.

[Requests a copy of The Transcript in which an article about his grandfather James Sherman appeared; says a clipping of the article was sent to him by the late F. C. Pierce of Chicago . ]
Frank Dempster Sherman to David Pell Secor
1907 Apr 6
ALS, 1 p.

[Thanks him for the lock of hair, from the author of " America , " and for the charming sketch; recalls their visit a few days ago and the visit by Clinton Scollard . ]
Frank Dempster Sherman to Mary Brownson Church
1909 Apr 14
ALS, 1 p.

[Informs her that William Watson 's sonnet " To Thomas Bailey Aldrich " is included in Watson's volume " The Hope of the World , " John Lane , 1898; guesses that it appeared in print for the first time in The Academy ; says the Watson sonnet is also included in Aldrich's Songs and Sonnets . ]