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Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a New Hampshire-born author, poet and editor. Hist most noteable works are The Story of a Bad Boy and An Old Town By The Sea. Two letters written by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. One letter describes some of his works in progress; the other, written from the office of the Atlantic Monthly, requests the portraits of several people from Arthur Stedman. Also included is a holograph copy of the first and last stanzas of the poem “On Lynn Terrace,” an engraved portrait of Aldrich,…

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a New Hampshire-born author, poet and editor. His most noteable works are The Story of a Bad Boy and An Old Town By The Sea. Four letters written by Thomas Bailey Aldrich to his good friend and his wife’s obstetrician, Dr. Israel Tisdale Talbot. The letters are personal in nature. In one, dated September 18, 1868, Aldrich informs Talbot that he named his youngest son Talbot Bailey…

Six broadsides: "Rembrandt’s Last Self Portrait" (poem by Charles E. Wadsworth; wood engraving by Lance Hidy; "The Beautiful Young Devon Shorthorn Bull. Sexton Hyades 33rd" (by Leslie Norris; lino-cut by Charles E. Wadsworth; "On Chick-A-Dee Mis-Printed Chick-E-Dee" (print and poem by Charles E. Wadsworth; "The Owlet" (print and sonnet by Charles E. Wadsworth; "Feather and Pebble" (print and poem by Charles E…

Author and illustrator of children’s books. Sketch of Big Anthony, Bambolona, the baker’s daughter, and Strega Nona from the book Big Anthony and the Magic Ring.

Emil and Mary Tonieri were caretaker managers of The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire for many years. The MacDowell Colony, the nation’s oldest and largest artists’ retreat, was founded in 1908. Over the hundred years of its existence, the Colony has gained national and international recognition for its artists and their works. More than 50 Pulitzer Prizes have been won by MacDowell alumni and such works as Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (Grover’s Corners is modeled on Peterborough),…

R.T. (Terry) Risk, author and printer, began operating the Typographeum Press in Francestown, New Hampshire in 1974. He uses a 10 x 15 Chandler and Price treadle platen press. Hand-set and printed letterpress books of literary interest, including poetry, short stories, biographies, and travel adventures in book, pamphlet and ephemera format, 1974 to 1992.

Hanford Wentworth Eldredge (1909-1991) was a sociology professor at Dartmouth College who served as a counter-intelligence officer in the United States Army Airforce during World War II. This collection consists of a manuscript of his drafts for an autobiography.

American author best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in such novels as O Pioneers, My Antonia and The Song of the Lark. A May 2, 1922 letter to George N. Whipple of Boston, MA, which describes some of Cather’s travels and views on lecturing.

W.S. Braithwaite (1878-1962) was a writer, poet and literary critic. From 1906 to 1931 he contributed to The Boston Evening Transcript, eventually becoming its literary editor. He also wrote articles, reviews and poetry for many other periodicals and journals, including Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and the New Republic. Letters sent by various N.H. poets to W.S. Braithwaite, 1921-1928. Primarily, the letters contain poems not accepted by Braithwaite for publication in any one of his…

William Bronk (1918-1999) was born in Fort Edward, New York. He entered Dartmouth College in 1934, where he studied under the critic and poet Sidney Cox and met Robert Frost. After graduation he studied at Harvard briefly and then left to write a study of Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman that was published 30 years later as “The Brother in Elysium: Ideas of Friendship and Society in the United States.” After Army…

Author and literary critic. Known for the Christmas story Christmas Every Day. Letter written by William Dean Howells that thanks Dr. Perkins for sending medicine and asks him to send more. Photograph included.

American philosopher, author of 22 books, resident of Madison, New Hampshire Two letters written by Ernest Hocking, on May 28, 1963 and Nov. 18, 1964 accompanied by an inscribed photo. In the first letter, written to Marshall Bean, Hocking expresses some of his basic philosophical beliefs, particularly noting the influence of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles and describing his interpretation of Christ’s crucifixion. In the second letter, Hocking promises to send an inscribed book to Mr…

William B. Ewert (1943-2001) earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree at the University of New Hampshire. In 1970 he became science consultant to the New Hampshire Department of Education, and eventually served as assistant to the commissioner. He was chair of the Friends of the UNH Library from 1975 to 1990, and again from 1998 until his death in October 2001. In 1999 he received the Granite State Award,…

Professor of Fine Arts at Reading University and biographer of English Art Critic John Ruskin. Letter written Sept. 20, 1911 to Alfred E. Richards by Collingwood in which he describes his general health, and criticizes those “people who give their opinions on Ruskin,” so soon after his death. Also includes a sketch attributed to John Ruskin.

William Helmuth Heyen was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940 and was educated at SUNY Brockport and Ohio University. He taught American literature and creative writing at SUNY Brockport for over thirty years before his retirement in 2000. Ewert published many of William Heyen's poems. The manuscript versions of the poems can be found here in the William Heyen Papers, along with correspondence from…

William Loeb III (1905-1981) was born on December 26, 1905. He purchased controlling interest in the Manchester Union Leader (New Hampshire) in 1949. Professionally Loeb was known as a provocative, conservative newspaper editor. New Hampshire’s position as the “first in the nation” primary and Loeb’s control over local publishing interests via the Manchester Union Leader made him a significant force in shaping state…

Winston Churchill (1871-1947) was an American novelist who moved to Canaan, New Hampshire in 1899. Churchill's early novels were historical but his later works were set in contemporary America. He often sought to include his political ideas into his novels. Churchill wrote in the naturalist style of literature, and some have called him the most influential of the American naturalists. Twenty-three letters written by Winston Churchill between 1899-1951. The letters are both business and personal…