A Guide to the Amelie (Rives) Troubetzkoy Collection Troubetzkoy, Amelie Rives. 7208-b

A Guide to the Amelie (Rives) Troubetzkoy Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7208-b

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

Processed by: Special Collections Department Staff

Repository

University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA

Collection Number

7208-b

Title

Amelie (Rives) Troubetzkoy Collection

Extent

4 items

Creator

Location

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Amelie (Rives) Troubetzkoy Collection, Accession 7208-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Deposit [1963 Dec 17] 1971 Jan 7

Funding Note

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

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

Amelie Rives
Amelie Troubetzkoy
John Armstrong Chanler
William Hogan
[Julia?] Magruder
[Peter Fenelon] Collier

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

Great Britain
Paris, France

Item Listing

Manuscripts

Poem, "To Anne"
1903 Feb 27
AMsS, 1 p.

[Quotes line from Hamlet ; signs "To my dear Anne from her loving friend Amelie Troubetzkoy . ] (Page is torn in half)
Poem, " Great Britain : October 1940"
1941 Sep 5
AMsS, 1 p.

[Note in Rives' hand says the copy was written for William Hogan . ]

Letters

Amelie Rives , Paris, France , to [Peter Fenelon] Collier
1890 Nov 18
ALS, 7 p.

[Discusses A Flower of the Pavement (published as According to St. John ), her reasons for offering it to him, and giving [Julia?] Magruder some photographs for her paper Once A Week ; mentions her health affecting her writing, the success of Once A Week , Fortnightly Review , her books The Witness of the Sun and The Quick or the Dead , John Armstrong Chanler , and the Hotel de Pompadour . ]
Amelie Rives to Mr. Devoll
n. d.
ALS, 2 p.

[Encloses photograph; discusses appreciation of his singing; mentions Devoll's sister.]

Engraving

Amelie Rives profile by Wellington
n. d.
Print of engraving (signed)