A Guide to the Eugene Field Collection , 1891, 1892 #6493-k

A Guide to the Eugene Field Collection 1891, 1892

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6493-k

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Preferred Citation

Eugene Field Collection, Accession # 6493-k, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased from Swann Galleries on 21 October 1996.

Scope and Content Information

In this collection, Eugene Field, Chicago, Illinois, writes to Professor Child of Harvard, regarding the publication of his book, co-authored with his brother, Echoes from the Sabine Farm , and other literary projects. He also comments about an obituary he wrote for James Russell Lowell, his ideas about Lowell, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Greenleaf Whittier; and invites Child to the Chicago's World Fair.

Contents List

Eugene Field to Francis James Child 21 August 1891

ALS, 4 pages on 1 l.

Discusses the University Press publication of a little volume of Horace's prose, Echoes from the Sabine Farm , paraphrased and translated into English by Field and his brother, Roswell Martin Field. He comments on his abandonment of the idea of including his life on the "dear old Venusian" [Horace] in this volume and on his desire for a beautiful volume. He mentions an obituary written for the Daily News on [James Russell] Lowell and requests a copy of one of "Mr. Lowell's Horace's" from his daughter. He also comments on future literary projects concerning the prose of Horace and his delight in working with on Horace.

Eugene Field to Francis James Child 27 May 1892

ALS, 2 pages on 2 l.

Comments on various literary projects including his Virgil eclogue and his upcoming translation of the death of Dido. He mentions having Lowell's Horace handsomely bound. He expresses his ideas on [James Russell] Lowell, [Oliver Wendell] Holmes, [John Greenleaf] Whittier, and [Walt] Whitman and their works. He invites Child to visit him in Chicago and to attend the "world's fair...a glorious exposition of all delectable things."