Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Notes and correspondence concerning Emily Dickinson: Guide.

Houghton Library, Harvard College Library

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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: b
Call No.: MS Am 2380
Creator: Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890.
Title: Notes and correspondence concerning Emily Dickinson,
Date(s): 1930-1963.
Quantity: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Abstract: Materials concerning the editing of the manuscripts and letters of the American poet Emily Dickinson.

Acquisition Information:

*70M-33. Presented by Theodora Van Wagenen Ward, 34 Healy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts; received: 1970 May.

Historical Note

Ward lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the author of Emily Dickinson's Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland.

Arrangement

Arranged chiefly by correspondent.

Scope and Content

Includes correspondence and notes concerning Ward's edition of Emily Dickinson's Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland published by the Harvard University Press, 1951, and Thomas Herbert Johnson's editions of Emily Dickinson and The Letters of Emily Dickinson published by the Harvard Univeristy Press, 1955 and 1958.

Container List

(1) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Chart of handwriting - capitals : AMs, undated. 1 folder.
Graph paper chart.

Figures refer to letters to the Hollands.

(2) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Notes on handwriting : AMs, undated. 8 folders.
5 x 8 lined index cards with Ward's observations regarding linking, etc... Writing in pencil, some on both sides.

Note by TVWW: "The Roman figures refer to the letters as arranged in Emily Dickinson's letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland. Some of them were tentative at the time the cards were made, so identification may not be certain in every case."
Includes following dates:
- Folder 1: 1860 March - 1873 autumn
- Folder 2: 1874 May - 1875 early autumn
- Folder 3: 1878 early January - 1880 December
- Folder 4: 1880 December 28 - 1882 ?
- Folder 5: 1882 October - 1883 March
- Folder 6: 1883 spring - 1884 summer
- Folder 7: 1884 late September - 1870s middle
- Folder 8: 2 cards labeled "Poem" with "#8" and "#9", with date; Four labelled TWH; Galatea 72, 71, 104, 76

(2a) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Notes on paper : AMs, undated. 8 folders.
5 x 8 lined index cards

Note by TVWW: "This study of the papers on which Emily Dickinson wrote to Dr. & Mrs. Holland was made in connection with the editing of the volume Emily Dickinson's letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland, and the figures refere to the arrangement in the book. In some cases the dates are still tentative."
Includes following dates:
- Folder 1: 1870 October - 1873 autumn
- Folder 2: 1875 about - 1876
- Folder 3: 1878 about - 1878 early
- Folder 4: 1878 early - 1880 December 28
- Folder 5: 1881 early January - 1882
- Folder 6: 1882 October 29 - 1883 March
- Folder 7: 1883 March - 1884 June 1
- Folder 8: 1884 summer ? - 1885 spring

(3) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with Millicent Bingham; 1945-1954. 1 folder.
Includes the following letters (all from Bingham except where noted:
- 1945 April 24
- 1945 May 17
- 1945 December 21
- 1946 March 31
- 1946 April 12
- 1947 January 24; From Ward
- 1947 January 29
- 1947 April 22
- 1947 May 28
- 1948 February 17
- Easter Sunday (no year)
- 1948 July 5; on Stationery of Todd Wildlife Sanctuary, Maine
- 1949 January 15
- 1949 December 29
- 1950 January 8
- 1950 November 19
- 1951 April 2
- 1954 November 24
- Also a one paragraph typescript carbon of a biographical sketch of Josiah Holland.

(4) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890, recipient. Letter from Margaret Jane Perkins; 1963 May 1. 1 folder.

(5) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890, recipient. Letter from Orton Loring Clark; 1953 August 16. 1 folder.

(6) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with Richard Hooker; 1960. 1 folder.
Includes the following letters (all from Hooker except where noted):
- 1960 March 30
- 1960 May 25; from Ward
- 1960 June 1
- 1960 November 12
- 1960 November 21; from Ward
TVWW note: "Eldest grandson of Samuel Bowles. The questions discussed were concerning the contents of T.W.'s book The capsule of the mind.

(7) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with Julia S. L. Dwight. 1 folder.
Includes following letters:
- 1951 October 27; letterhead Amherst College, Office of the President, To Jay Leyda from Charles W. Cole
- 1951 November 5; letterhead Amherst College, Office of the President, To Jay Leyda from Charles W. Cole
- 1951 November 10; letterhead Amherst College, Office of the President, To Jay Leyda from Charles W. Cole
- 1951 November 29; from Ward to Dwight, top torn off.
- 1952 January 10; from Dwight to Ward; from a nursing home
- 1952 January 14; from Ward to Dwight
TVWW notes: "Miss Julia Dwight, daughter of the Rev. Edward S. Dwight."

(8) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with Alfred L. Hampson and Mary Landis Hampson; 1945-1953. 1 folder.
Includes the following, all from Hampsons unless noted:
- Letter to Editor, Saturday Review by Virginia Dickinson Reynolds, 1945 July 28
- 1947 September 1
- 1947 September 22
- 1947 October 1
- 1947 November 10
- 1950 March 27
- 1951 December 10
- Hampson to Henry A. Laughlin of Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951 November 4
- Henry A. Laughlin to Hampson, 1951 November 7
- envelope to Mrs. Jasper D. Ward, 1951 November 11
- 1952 November 5
- 1952 November 7
- 1953 August 13
- Undated: on stationery headed: Windebrowe, Alstead Center, New Hampshire; "I enclose the revised preface to my book" draft in TVWW's hand

(9) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890, recipient. Letters from Charles R. Green; 1930-1958. 1 folder.
Includes the following, all from Green:
- 1930 September 24
- 1930 November 10
- undated, Sat. pm
- 1930 November 26
- 1931 July 31
- 1949 January 7; plus drawing
- 1950 November 16
- 1950 November 28
- Drawing, "Dickinson house copied from plan at the Jones Library, 2p.
- 1951 February 6
- Press notice on new Dickison books; typescript carbon
- 1951 March 12
- 1951 March 20
- 1951 March 28
- 1953 August 7
- 1956 October 16
- 1957 January 30
- 1957 February 7
- 1958 February 27

(10) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with Austin Dickinson Jenkins; 1953. 1 folder.
Includes the following, all from Jenkins unless noted:
- 1953 April 22; from Ward
- 1953 April 27
- 1953 April 30; from Ward
- 1953 May 6
- 1953 May 12; from Ward
- 1953 May 14
- 1953 June 15
- 1953 August 9; from Ward
- 1953 August 12

(11) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with Jay Leyda, 1951-1957. 7 folders.

(12) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen , b. 1890, recipient. Letters from William H. McCarthy, 1949-1955. 2 folders.
Several letters on letterhead of Philip and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation or Rosenbach Company.

(13) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with Esther B. Mooney, 1951-1958.
Includes the following, all from Mooney unless noted:
- 1951 December 21
- 1952 January 7; from Ward
- 1956 March 30
- 1956 May 22
- 1957 June 14
- 1957 June 14; from Ward
- 1957 July 23
- 1957 November 8
- 1957 November 20
- 1958 January 15

(14) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with Rebecca Patterson, 1949-1951. 3 folders.
Includes the following, all from Patterson unless noted:
- 1949 May 18
- 1949 May 22; from Ward
- 1949 May 25
- 1949 May 30
- 1949 June 5; from Ward
- 1949 June 8
- 1949 April 30
- 1949 September 15
- 1949 September 27
- 1949 December 6
- 1949 December 18; from Ward
- 1949 January 3
- 1949 January 6
- Autograph manuscript by TW title: "manuscripts of letters missing" crossed out, then retitled: "letter from Bowles quoted by Mrs. Patterson."
- 1950 January 12; copy from Patterson to Mr. McCarthy
- 1950 January 12; from Ward
- 1950 January 13; copy from Patterson to Mr. McCarthy
- 1950 January 16
- 1950 January 21
- 1950 January 26; from Ward
- 1950 January 30; with envelope
- 1951 May 19
- typescript of T.H. Johnson's review from New York Times of Patterson's The riddleof Emily Dickinson.

(15) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890, recipient. Letter from Richard Sewall, 1960 March 21. 1 folder.

(16) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with Claribel Smith and James P. Smith, 1949-1953. 1 folder.
Includes the following, all from Smith unless noted:
- 1949 October 19; refers to Aunt Abiah
- 1949 November 29
- undated
- 1953 March 30; Ward to James P. Smith
- 1953 April 1

(17) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with Sally Jenkins Squires; 1951-1953. 1 folder.
Includes the following, all from Squires unless noted:
- 1952 December 30; from Ward
- 1952 January 5
- 1952 October 16
- 1953 Easter
- no year April 18
- 1953 June 18

(18) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Correspondence with various persons concerning Genevieve Taggard, 1952-1963. 1 folder.
Includes:
- 1952 July 13; Kenneth Durant to Ward
- 1952 August 12; Kenneth Durant to Ward
- 1952 September 14; Kenneth Durant to Ward
- 1952 September 17; New York Public Library to Ward; enclosing photostats of Taggard letters to Ward
- 1963 January 7; NYPL to Ward
- undated; Genevieve Taggard to Ward; photocopy

(19) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890, recipient. Letters from Isabel Wilder and Thornton Wilder; 1952. 1 folder.
Includes:
- 1952 October 24; from the Atlantic Monthly to Ward
- 1952 November 2; from Isabel Wilder to Ward
- 1952 November 16;from Thornton Wilder to Ward; with envelope

(20) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890, recipient. Letters from George F. Whicher, 1933-1951. 2 folders. 1 folder.
Includes:
- 1933 April 2
- 1933 April 11
- 1933 May 19
- 1933 May 29
- 1933 June 5
- 1938 February 10
- 1938 February 15
- 1944 January 7
- 1944 January 24
- 1945 December 18
- 1945 December 20
- 1946 January 14
- 1946 February 7
- 1946 February 14
- 1947 April 8
- 1947 September 15
- 1948 February 5
- 1948 December 10
- 1951 February 13
- 1951 April 20
- 1951 November 9
- 1951 October 23; Whicher to Houghton Mifflin Company
- 1951 November 19
- 1954 April 19; Harriet F. Whicher to Ward; with envelope
- clipping of obituary of Whicher

(21) Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen, b. 1890. Miscellaneous correspondence, various dates. 3 folders.

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