Autograph letters signed and intialled from Richard Henry Stoddard, New York, Long Island and elsewhere(?), to various people [manuscript], 1852-1892.

11 items.

Correspondents: W.C. Bennett, Mrs. Horace Silsby, William Winter and another. In (1) Stoddard thanks Bennett for his "boke" of songs and writes of British and American authors. In (2) he thanks Mrs. Silsby for including his Shakespeare verses in her book. In (3) he comments on his ode to Abraham Lincoln. In (4) he wishes Winter would hear the Shakespearean readings of Sydney Woollett. Also, a poem to James Lorimer Graham, Jr. accompanying a volume of Shakespeare's sonnets and beginning, What can I give him, who so much hath given, 1864. Poem listed in the Folger card index of first lines. 2 essays, "The English Laureates" and "Romeo and Juliet", 1892; the title-page to "The Lion's Cub", 1890; and an obituary notice.

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United States -- New York (State) -- New York.
United States -- New York (State) -- Long Island.

Y.c.1437 (1-11)

cs396, 442, 1182, 2082, 1512, 1880