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Autobiography and Reminiscences of Charles Lanman

Scope and Contents note

Contained in two manuscripts written in his later life and apparently unpublished: Eventide Recollections and My Ships of Thought; or a Booklover's Monologue.

box 1, folder 1-6

Eventide Recollections. Washington, D.C. ca. 1890

box 1, folder 1

"A family monologue"

box 1, folder 2

"Lamaniana" [and Charles James Lanman].

box 1, folder 3

"Recollections of New York."

General note

Missing, March 2003 (JF).

box 1, folder 4

"Newspaper Recollections."

General note

Missing, March 2003 (JF).

box 1, folder 5

"Artistic Recollections."

General note

Missing, March 2003 (JF).

box 1, folder 6

"Literary Recollections."

General note

Missing, March 2003 (JF).

box 1, folder 7

My Ships of Thought; or a Booklover's Monologue. Washington, D.C. circa. 1892

Scope and Contents note

Includes recollections concerning the publication of his Dictionary of congress.

General note

A copy in Negative microfilm collection, no.04721.

Manuscripts

Scope and Contents note

Containing biographies of various persons, chiefly Americans, with whom Lanman was acquainted. Many of these were written for newspapers and were later collected and published in his Haphazard Personalities; Chiefly of Noted Americans (Boston: Lee and Shephard; New York: C.T. Trillingham, 1886). Each biography is paginated separately; many are corrected drafts, with additions, of articles published at an earlier date.

box 2, folder 1-3

Haphazard Personalities.... Washington, D.C. ca. 1885

box 2, folder 4

Curious Characters and Pleasant Places. Published: Edinburgh. 1881

box 3, folder 1

"Presidential Recollections." Washington, D.C. ca. 1890

Scope and Contents note

Revisions, with additions, of a newspaper article published earlier.

[Contains 2 letters from James A. Garfield, March 28, 1874 and January 24, 1871 and one from Chester A. Arthur, April 28, 1881]

box 3, folder 2

"Recollections of Michigan." Washington, D.C.

Scope and Contents note

Revisions, with a few additions, of an article published earlier.

box 3, folder 3

Octavius Perinchief. Washington, D.C. [published]. 1879

box 3, folder 4

"Letters from a Motley Crew." Washington, D.C. ca. 1889

General note

Published as part of his Riverside Essays[?].

box 3, folder 5

"Literary Ladies." Washington, D.C.

Scope and Contents note

Revision, with additions, of an earlier newspaper article.

box 3, folder 6

"An Quixotic Yankee." Washington, D.C.

box 3, folder 7

"The Old Connecticut Acadaemy." Washington, D.C.

Scope and Contents note

Revision, with a few corrections, of an earlier work.

box 3, folder 8

"Narrow Escapes." Washington, D.C.

Scope and Contents note

Revision, with corrections and additions, of an earlier article.

box 3, folder 9

[Untitled (first page missing) manuscript] Washington, D.C.

Scope and Contents note

[Recollections of Washington, D.C. in the post Civil War years.]

box 4, folder 1

["Adventures of an Angler in Canada,. . ."] [1848]

Scope and Contents note

A revision, with additions and corrections, of his earlier work on angling for inclusion in his Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces (Philadelphia: J.W. Moore, 1856).

box 4, folder 2

"Letters from the Alleghany Mountains and the Sources of the Potomac." Washington, D.C. ca. 1856

Scope and Contents note

Revised draft, with additions and corrections, for inclusion in his Adventures in the Wilds of the United States..., 1856.

box 4, folder 3

"A Summer in the Wilderness...." Washington, D.C. 1856

Scope and Contents note

Revised draft of an earlier work ("A Summer in the Wilderness; Embracing a Canoe Voyage on the Upper Mississippi and Lake Superior." New York: D. Appleton & Company; Philadelphia: G.S. Appleton, 1847) with additions and corrections for his Adventures in the Wilds of the United States..., 1856.

box 4, folder 4

"A Tour to the River Restigouche." Washington, D.C.

Scope and Contents note

Revision, with corrections and additions, of a section of his Adventures in the Wilds of the United States, 1856.

box 4, folder 5

"A Winter in the South." Washington, D.C.

Scope and Contents note

Revision, with corrections and additions, of a section of his Adventures in the Wilds of the United States..., 1856.

box 4, folder 6

From the River Potomac to Mount Desert. Washington, D.C.

Scope and Contents note

A manuscript composed of earlier articles with corrections and additions [Unpublished?].

box 4, folder 7

In the Evening Twilight. 1813

Scope and Contents note

Manuscript of some poems by Lanman[?].

box 4, folder 8

Two letters from Charles Lanman. 1862 and 1875

Scope and Contents note

To Benjamin Perley Poore (June 19, 1862).
To John Neafie (February 20, 1875).

The letter to Benjamin P. Poore contains a reference to President Abraham Lincoln and Charles Summer.

box 4, folder 8

Letter to D. Appleton & Company.

box 4, folder 9

Two letters to Lanman. 1867 and 1875

From Congressman R.P. Spalding (1867).
From Congressman Scott Lord (1875).

Collection Contents

Autobiography and Reminiscences of Charles Lanman

Manuscripts