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A Guide to the Richard Harding Davis Collection 1887-1917, n.d. Davis, Richard Harding, Collection of 6109-g

A Guide to the Richard Harding Davis Collection 1887-1917, n.d.

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the Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6109-g


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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Accession number
6109-g
Title
Richard Harding Davis Collection 1887-1917, n.d.
Physical Characteristics
This holding consists of 77 items.
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Richard Harding Davis Collection, Accession # 6109-g, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This holding was purchased on November 1, 1964.

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • J[oseph]
  • S[hrewsbury]
  • S[omers]
  • T[inney]

Contents List

Edwin Booth to Lemuel Clarke Davis January 20, 1887
Box 15
ALS, 1 p. with envelope
Grover Cleveland to Lemuel Clarke Davis July 5, 1891
Box 15
ALS, 4 pp. with envelope
Rebecca Harding Davis to [Richard Harding Davis] [1892]
Box 15
ALS, 8 pp.
Grover Cleveland to Lemuel Clarke Davis May 4, 1893
Box 15
ALS, 3 pp. with envelope and a note [by LCD] signed "Dad"
Henry Arthur Jones to Lemuel Clarke Davis April 7, 1896
Box 15
ALS, 3 pp. with envelope
Grover Cleveland to Lemuel Clarke Davis May 5, 1896
Box 15
ALS, 2 pp. with envelope
Anthony Hope Hawkins to Richard Harding Davis July 6, 1896
Box 15
APCS
Augustin Daly to Lemuel Clarke Davis November 26, 1896
Box 15
ALS, 3 pp. with envelope
Justin Huntley McCarthy to Charles Belmont Davis March 31, 1897
Box 15
ALS, 4 pp.
Grover Cleveland to Lemuel Clarke Davis July 26, 1897
Box 15
ALS, 4 pp. with envelope
Grover Cleveland to Lemuel Clarke Davis (signature excised) December 25, 1900
Box 15
AL, 4 pp.
Frances Cleveland to [Rebecca Harding] Davis May 4, 1904
Box 15
ALS, 4 pp.
Ellen Terry to L.C.D. [November 26, 1901]
Box 15
ALS, 2 pp. with envelope

Encloses Ellen Terry to Charles Belmont Davis, ANS, n.d.

[Walter Appleton] Clark to [Richard Harding] Davis February 16, 1902
Box 15
ALS, 1 p.

With an in-text illustration

Joseph Jefferson to Lemuel Clarke Davis July 14, 1902
Box 15
ALS, 3 pp. with envelope
Owen Wister to [Richard Harding] Davis November 6, 1902
Box 15
ALS, 8 pp.
Grover Cleveland to [Lemuel Clarke] Davis August 23, 1903
Box 15
ALS, 1 p.
John Hay to Lemuel Clarke Davis October 23, 1903
Box 15
TLS, 2 pp. with envelope
John Hay to Lemuel Clarke Davis June 24, 1904
Box 15
TLS, 1 p., with envelope
Sarah G. LeMoyne to [Richard Harding] Davis and the Directors of the "Forest Home" [July 26, 1904]
Box 15
ALS, 2 pp. with envelope

Endorsed by J[oseph] Jefferson

Grover Cleveland to Lemuel Clarke Davis November 22, 1904
Box 15
ALS, 4 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] January 18, 1908
Box 15
ALS, 8 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] [1908]
Box 15
ALS, 6 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] [1909]
Box 16
ALS, 6 pp.
Brand Whitlock to Richard [Harding Davis] March 5, 1915
Box 16
ALS, 8 pp.
[Jean Jules] Jusserand to Richard Harding Davis April 1, 1915
Box 16
TLS, 2 pp. with envelope

Enclosed card of Raymond Poincare, marked "thanks," addressed to Richard Harding Davis

Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Harding Davis May 24, 1915
Box 16
TLS, 1 p.
Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Harding Davis October 15, 1915
Box 16
TLS, 1 p.
Anthony Hope Hawkins to Richard Harding Davis February 22, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 1 p.
Winfield S. Moody to Charles Belmont Davis April 12 [1916]
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp.
Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Belmont Davis April 12, 1916
Box 16
Telegram
Rupert Hughes to Charles Belmont Davis April 13, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp.
James B[rendan] Connolly to [Charles Belmont Davis] April 13 [1916]
Box 16
ALS, 1 p.
H.J. Whigham to Charles Belmont Davis April 15, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp.
Margaret Jenkins to Charles [Belmont Davis] April 16 [1916]
Box 16
ALS, 1 p.
Richard Washburn Child to Charles Belmont Davis April 17, [1916]
Box 16
ALS, 1 p.
C.P. Connolly to Charles Belmont Davis April 17, 1916
Box 16
TLS, 1 p.
Mary P. Starr to Charles [Belmont Davis] April 19, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp.
Edmund D. Barron to Charles Belmont Davis April 20, 1916
Box 16
TLS, 1 p.
Arthur S[omers] Roche to Charles Belmont Davis April 20, 1916
Box 16
TLS, 1 p.
Gouverneur Morris to Charles Belmont Davis April 20, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 4 pp. with envelope
May Webster to Charles [Belmont Davis] April 22, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp.
John Fox, Jr. to Charles [Belmont Davis] April 23, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp.
Elizabeth Wall Tripp to Charles Belmont Davis April 24, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 5 pp. with envelope
Gouverneur Morris to Charles Belmont Davis April 24, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 8 pp. with envelope
Jane Rosetta Slade to [Charles Belmont] Davis May 19 [1916]
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp.
Ronald Simmons to Charles Belmont Davis May 22, 1916
Box 16
TLS, 1 p. with envelope
Lizzie S. Watts to [Charles Belmont] Davis May 25 [1916]
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp.
Winston Churchill to Charles Belmont Davis June 1, 1916
Box 16
TLS, 1 p.
Irvin S[hrewsbury] Cobb to Charles Belmont Davis June 2 [1916]
Box 16
ALS, 1 p.
John Drew to Charles [Belmont Davis] June 5, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp.
Charles Dana Gibson to Charles Belmont Davis [June 9, 1916]
Box 16
ALS, 4 pp. with envelope
Anthony Hope Hawkins ot Charles Belmont Davis June 20, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp. with envelope
John T[inney] McCutcheon to Charles Belmont Davis [June 28, 1916]
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp. w/ envelope
Seymour Hicks to Charles Belmont Davis July 14, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp. with envelope
Booth Tarkington to Charles Belmont Davis August 9, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp. with envelope
F.W.B. Pile to Charles Belmont Davis August 11, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp. with envelope
Anthony Hope Hawkins to Charles Belmont Davis September 9, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp. with envelope
Charles Scribner to [Elizabeth McEvoy] Davis December 1, 1916
Box 16
ALS, 1 p.
Guy T. Viskniskki to [Charles Belmont] Davis [1916]
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp.
Samuel Hopkins Adams to Charles [Belmont Davis] March 1, 1917
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp.
Samuel Hopkins Adams to Charles [Belmont Davis] March 21, 1917
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp.
Samuel Hopkins Adams to Charles [Belmont Davis] June 18, 1917
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp.
Arthur Scribner to Elizabeth McEvoy Davis November 13, 1917
Box 16
TLS, 2 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] January 28, n.y.
Box 16
ALS, 6 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] June 12, n.y.
Box 16
ALS, 4 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Charles Belmont] Davis July 19, n.y.
Box 16
AL (frag), 4 pp.
Grover Cleveland to Lemuel Clarke Davis July 24, n.y.
Box 16
Telegram, 1 p. (copy)
Eugenie Paul Jefferson to [Richard Harding] Davis August 22, n.y.
Box 16
ALS, 2 pp.
Margaret Deland to [Richard Harding] Davis n.d.
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] n.d.
Box 16
ALS, 6 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] n.d.
Box 16
ALS, 4 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] n.d.
Box 16
ALS, 4 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] n.d.
Box 16
ALS, 4 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] n.d.
Box 16
ALS, 4 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] n.d.
Box 16
ALS, 4 pp.
[Rebecca Harding Davis] to [Richard Harding Davis] n.d.
Box 16
ALS, 4 pp.
[Charles] Dana [Gibson] to Richard [Harding Davis] n.d.
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp.

With a drawing of "Clay's shirt front"

[Charles] Dana [Gibson] to Charles [Belmont Davis] n.d.
Box 16
ALS, 3 pp.

With a [self-portrait] drawing, "the way we are feeling..."; an inserted slip reads, "Written February 1897.."