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A Guide to the Sara Josepha Hale Collection Hale, Sara Josepha. 7639-b

A Guide to the Sara Josepha Hale Collection

A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7639-b


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Repository
University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Collection Number
7639-b
Title
Sara Josepha Hale Collection 1857 Jun 21
Extent
1 item
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

Sara Josepha Hale Collection, Accession 7639-b, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Purchase 1994 March 18

Funding Note

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

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Francis De Haes Janvier
  • Sara Josepha Hale
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Kentucky
  • Rome
  • Virginia
  • Washington, D.C.
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Item Listing

Letter
  • Francis De Haes Janvier , Washington, D.C. , to Sara Josepha Hale
    1857 Jun 21
    ALS, 4 p.

    [Thanks her for her kind words about his verses on the Inauguration; tells her about his new poem of two or three hundred lines which he has been working on in spite of pressing official duties; the poem is a ghost story set at an old convent in the vicinity of Rome and entitled The Skeleton Monk , "It contains several scenes which might be effectively illustrated -and although it is rather brief, for such a purpose, if it were possible for me to have it handsomely printed in clear large type - interspersed with such illustrations as could be prepared by Darley -I think it might be made an attractive little book"; and asks "Have you any acquaintance with Senator Hunter of Virginia or Crittenden of Kentucky ? If it were possible for me to gain an influence over either of those gentlemen at this time, it would probably be almost equivalent to obtaining a fortune."]

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