A Guide to the Correspondence with Carroll A. Wilson, 1931-1943
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Clifton Waller Barrett Library
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Accession Number 6221-ap
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Correspondence with Carroll A. Wilson, Accession #6221-ap, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
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This collection was transferred from Rare Books on 5 June 1989.
Scope and Content Information
This collection of Carroll A. Wilson's correspondence discusses purchase of Longfellow editions, variant copies, Lawrance Thompson's proposed biography of Longfellow and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana's opposition to Thompson's project. Correspondents include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, Manning Hawthorne, Parkman D. Howe, and Lawrance Thompson.
Contents List
Dana writes in great detail about arrangements to purchase a copy of Poems on Slavery inscribed by the author and several diaries and notebooks, and also about his research concerning a photograph of a dancer of the sixties and seventies.
Originally laid in Barrett PS2268.A1 1843b
Thompson writes concerning his research at the Craigie house on the early life of Longfellow and his intention of doing a more complete biography than that of Samuel L[ongfellow] (published as Young Longfellow ), which he claims is opposed by [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Dana; his article on two letters concerning an unpublished book by Longfellow; an article concerning the publication of the Spanish Student ; and other Longfellow scholarship.
Originally laid in Barrett PS2268.A1 1842
Wilson reports that he has the first two issues of Voices [of the Night] and asks Howe to describe his copy to establish if there might not be three variants of Voices instead of two, and also asks about his copy of the 1845 edition of Poems .
Originally laid in Barrett PS2270.A1 1839 copy 1
Howe compares various editions of Longfellow's Voices [of the Night] and editions of Poems in his possession and asks Wilson what he makes out of it all.
Originally laid in Barrett PS2270.A1 1839 copy 1
Manning Hawthorne to Carroll A. Wilson, offers to sell Wilson two more Longfellow items to include in his Longfellow Collection.
Originally laid in Barrett PS2270.A1 1839 copy 1
Manning Hawthorne to Carroll A. Wilson, thanks Wilson for his payment for the Longfellow items and the names of other collectors.
Originally laid in Barrett PS2270.A1 1839 copy 1
Manning Hawthorne to Carroll A. Wilson, offers Wilson his copies of two other Longfellow books, The Seaside and Fireside and Voices of the Night , both inscribed by Longfellow.