Skip to main content

Poets, American

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Will M. Carleton letters

 Collection — Folder S0219
Identifier: S0219
Scope and Contents This collection includes ten letters from Will Carleton in Brooklyn, New York to Horatio King in Washington, D.C. and to Reverend Frederick E. Hopkins in Hamstead, Long Island, New York and Bridgeport, Connecticut, and one letter from Chauncey M. DePew to Rev. Hopkins ranging from 1883 to 1897 regarding concerning speaking engagements, traveling, printed circulars, and attending praryer meetings.
Dates: 1883-1896

Will Wallace Harney letters

 Collection — Folder S0594
Identifier: S0594
Scope and Contents This collection includes six letters written by Will Wallace Harney to Henry Paret, Esq. of New York ranging from 1893 to 1894. The 1893 letters are in response to requests for his autograph and photograph for Stedman's Poets of America. The 1894 letters concern Paret's request for biographical information about Harney's uncle, William Ross Wallace. The collection also includes two of Harney's poem (undated).
Dates: 1893-1894

William Herschell collection

 Collection — Folder OB051
Identifier: OB051
Scope and Contents This collection includes 3 printed items with content created by William M. Herschell in the United States ranging from 1903 to 1940. The first item is a poem, "An Humble Grace" by Herschell, printed with a drawing of an African American man standing at a dinner table with a woman and 3 children, dated Thanksgiving 1903 by Franklin Booth. The second item is the cover page of sheet music (pasted to a board) for the song, "Long Boy" with words by Herschell, music by Barclay Walker, and...
Dates: 1903-1940

William Herschell history and sheet music

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0646
Scope and Contents This collection includes a history of the Indianapolis Gazette and handwritten sheet music from William Herschell in Indianapolis, Indiana, ranging from 1916 to 1943, regarding his work as a poet and journalist.
Dates: 1916-1943