Papers of Epes Sargent, Accession #7920, -a, -b, Special
Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library,
Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
7920 was purchased from Robert K. Black, 1965 March 15;
7920-a was a gift of Clifton Waller Barrett, 1963 December
16; 7920-b was purchased from Lawrence B. Romains, 1951
April 24.
The papers contain an autograph draft and corrected
manuscript of "The London Belle, Or Events of a Season," a
manuscript poem, and a quotation.
Most of the letters pertain to Sargent's work as editor of
the
Boston Daily Evening
Transcript. He regrets the lack of an esprit de corps
among editors, praises William A. Wheeler's new edition of
Webster's Dictionary and Robert Dale Owen's book on slavery.
Spiritualism is a frequent topic and he refers to John
Tyndall's attack on it and his own defense.
With these is a letter from Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd to
Wiley, Long and Putnam discussing the potential for publishing
Sargent's play "Velasco" in England and an engraving of
Sargent.
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