MS Am 1633 Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. Charles Follen Adams papers: Guide.
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Call No.: MS Am 1633
Creator: Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918.
Title: Charles Follen Adams papers,
Date(s): 1857-1917.
Quantity: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Letters to and various manuscripts of dialect poet Charles Follen Adams.
*60M-192. Presented in memory of Charles Follen Adams by his children
Charles Mills Adams and Ella Adams Sawyer; The Warren, 149 Warren Street, Roxbury,
Massachusetts; received: 1961.
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Charles Follen Adams Ppers (MS Am 1633). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Charles Follen Adams was a dealer in dry and fancy goods in Boston, Mass., who
achieved great popularity as the author of German dialect verse. His most famous
piece was "Leedle Yawcob Strauss" (1876).
Organized into the following series:
- I. Letters from various persons
- II. Manuscripts
- III. Drawings and autograph albums
Letters to Adams from various correspondents, chiefly concerning Adams's verse;
manuscripts of poems and lectures; drawings by Morgan Sweeney (Boz) for books by
Adams; contracts and correspondence with publishers; and three autograph albums.
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Series: I. Letters from various persons
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(1) Abbott, Ira A. 1 letter; 1890.
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(2) Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886. 1 letter;
1878.
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(3) Barnabee, Henry Clay, 1833- 1 letter;
[n.d.]
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(4) Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857- 1 letter;
1891.
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(5) Burdette, Robert Jones, 1844-1914. 5
letters; 1878-1896 &
[n.d.]
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(6) Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. 5 letters;
1894-1903 &
[n.d.]
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(7) Clark, Charles Heber, 1841-1915. 1 letter;
1877.
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(8) Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910. 1
letter (photostat); [n.d.]
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(9) Deland, Margaret (Campbell) 1857-1944. 1
letter; 1916.
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(10) Dolbear, Amos Emerson, 1837-1910. 1 letter;
1 postcard; 1903
& 1904.
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(11) Dorr, Julia Caroline (Ripley) 1835-1913. 2
letters; 1877 & 1895.
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(12) Edeson, Robert. 1 letter; 1912.
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(13) Emerson College of Oratory. 2 letters;
1893 & 1900
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(14) Field, Eugene, 1850-1895. 1 letter;
1878.
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(15) Field, Vernon A. 1 letter (in rhyme);
1907.
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(16) Fields, James Thomas, 1816-1881. 1
postcard; 1877.
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(17) Foss, Sam Walter, 1858-1911. 9 letters;
1893-1903.
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(18) Gould, Elizabeth Porter, 1848-1906. 2
letters; 1897 & 1900.
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(19) Griswold, A. M. 1 postcard;
1878.
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(20) Guest, Edgar Albert, 1881- 1 letter;
1917.
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(21) Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909. 7 letters;
1878-1895 &
[n.d.]
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(22) Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911. 1
letter; 1907.
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(23) Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. 5
letters; 1871-1893.
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(24) Hood, C. I. & Co. 4 letters; 1887 & 1888.
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(25) Howe, Julia (Ward) 1819-1910. 1 letter;
1900.
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(26) Knowles, Frederic Lawrence, 1869-1905. 3
letters; 1901.
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(27) Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903. 2
letters; 1879 & 1880.
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(28) Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. 1
letter; 1877.
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(29) Moulton, Ellen Louise (Chandler) 1835-1908.
2 letters; 1888 &
[1893]
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(30) Needham, Alicia Adelaide 2 letters; 1
postcard; 1902-1907.
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(31) Nye, Edgar Wilson, 1850-1896. 1 letter;
1881.
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(32) Pearce, John T. 1 letter; 1878.
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(33) Pickard, Samuel Thomas, 1828-1915. 1 letter;
1904.
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(34) Quinby, William E. 16 letters; 1876-1901.
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(35) Read, Opie, 1852-1939. 1 letter; 1887.
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(36) Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916. 4 letters;
1882-1913.
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(38) Russell, Sol Smith, 1848-1902. 4 letters;
1875-1888 &
[n.d.]
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(39) Smith, Samuel Francis, 1808-1895. 1 letter;
1895.
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(40) Stoddard, Chester L. 1 letter; 1909.
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(41) Stone, C. E. Whiton 1 letter; 1892.
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(42) Trowbridge, John Townsend, 1827-1916. 3
letters; 1 postcard; 1895-1914.
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(43) Tyler, Fannie A. 1 letter; 1894. Enclosing A.signature of
Oliver Holden.
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(44) Upham, Grace Le Baron (Locke) 1845- 1
letter; 1893.
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(45) Waterman, Nixon, 1859- 1 letter; 2
postcards; 1900-1907.
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(46) Wells, Kate (Gannett) 1838-1911. 1 letter;
[1911?]
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(47) Whitson, John Harvey, 1854- 1 letter;
1904.
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(48) Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. 1
letter; 1878.
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(49) Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915. 1
letter; 1895.
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(50) Letters from various persons in regard to publishing poems in
other collections.
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Series: II. Manuscripts
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(51) Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. 14 A.MS.
(some signed) poems. Some unpublished.
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(52) Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. 5 A.MS.s.
poems, written for special occasions.
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(53) Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. 12
A.MS.s., TS., and printed poems, written for
advertisements.
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(54) Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. Notes,
etc. on lecture course given at Emerson
College of Oratory.
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(55) Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918.
Contracts, etc. with publishers.
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(56) Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. Origin of pseudonym and dialect; Everett School
Exhibition, 23 Mar 1857.
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(57) Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918. Biography.
A.MS. (unsigned); [n.p.,n.d.] 2s. (3p.)
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(58) Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918, recipient
Complimentary memberships, invitations, etc.
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(59) Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918, recipient
Miscellaneous correspondence regarding use of poems by other
readers.
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Series: III. Drawings and autograph albums
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(60) Sweeney, Morgan J. (Boz) Original colored
drawings for poems in
C. F. Adams booklets.
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(61) Sweeney, Morgan J. (Boz). Original pen &
ink drawings for Der Oak und der Vine,
Vas Marriage a Failure, Leedle
Yawcob Straus and Yawcob's Dribulations.
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(62) Sweeney, Morgan J. (Boz) Proof
sheets and drawings for Dot
Long-handled Dipper.
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(63) Sweeney, Morgan J. (Boz). Original
drawings for books by C. F. Adams.
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(64) Sweeney, Morgan J. (Boz). Miscellaneous
drawings (not for C. F. Adams'
poems)
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(65) Adams, Charles Follen, 1842-1918.
Autograph album.
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(66) Adams, Ella Paige Autograph
album.
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(67) Adams, Charles Mills. Autograph
album.
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(68) MacLarty, J. M. Mine Vamily. (Words
by C. F. Adams) A.MS.s. sheet music; [n.p.,n.d.] 1s. (4p.)
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