Manuscripts

Edmund Clarence Stedman collection

Description: Collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, poems and ephemera related to Edmund Clarence Stedman. The manuscripts include a review of Rudyard Kipling's The Seven Seas (1896); the poems include "Madrigal," "Souvenir de Jeunesse," and "Custer." The correspondence includes letters from, among others, Frances Allitsen, William Henry Babcock, Ambrose Bierce, James Gowdy Clark, Albert Stanburrough Cook, Robert Lowell, John Williamson Palmer, Whitelaw Reid, James Ryder Randall, John Jerome Rooney, and Frank Dempster Sherman; some of the letters are addressed to Laura Hyde Woodworth Stedman. The ephemera includes a group of dinner place cards with the signatures of the guests on the versos and a photographic print of Richard Grant White.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1863-1901
Call number: mssStedman
Creator: Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: purchased from George D. Smith sale, lot 45, August 1915.; provenance unknown, in library as of William K. Bixby sale, 1938.; purchased from Charles F. Heartman, 1918.; provenance unknown, in library as of Judd Stewart, 1920.; gift of Anderson sale, approximately 1960.; gift of Edgar F. Vance, approximately 1960.; purchased from Mary W. F. Dickinson, 1919.; provenance unknown, in library as of Ruth A. Child, approximately 1950.; gift of American Art Association in Conant Sale, lot 25, August 1950.; gift of 1953.; gift of approximately 1960.; removed from rare book 13142, December 1968.; purchased from November 1923.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Allitsen, Frances, (1848-1912,); Babcock, William Henry, (1849-1922,); Bierce, Ambrose, (1842-1914?,); Clark, James G. (1830-1897,); Cook, Albert S. (1853-1927,); Lowell, Robert, (1816-1891,); Palmer, John Williamson, (1825-1906,); Randall, James Ryder, (1839-1908,); Reid, Whitelaw, (1837-1912,); Rooney, John Jerome, (1866-1934,); Sherman, Frank Dempster, (1860-1916,); Stedman, Laura Hyde Woodworth, (1833-1905,)
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