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Authors, American -- 19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

John Burroughs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0412
Content Description

First edition of "The Light of Day", signed copy of Burroughs' poem entitled "Waiting", and a letter from Dr. Clara Barrus, Burroughs' secretary and companion, addressed to Harriet.

Dates: 1900 - 1919

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Typescript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0409
Content Description This collection consists of a one page typescript of one of Wilcox's most widely reprinted poems entitled "Interlude." The poem begins with: "The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer; The head-stones thicken, along the way..." The typescript is titled and signed by Wilcox, in ink, and has a one-word revision and some corrections. The collection also contains a one page, undated handwritten letter by Wilcox which says: ...
Dates: circa 1909