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Title: Thomas Nast Papers .
Dates (inclusive): 1851-1916 .
Bulk dates: 1860-1902.
Collection Number: mssHM 27714-27783
Creator:
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902.
Extent: 69 pieces in 1 box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains 69 letters of American cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902) and his family, including
letters from Nast written while covering the Heenan-Sayers prizefight and Giuseppe Garabaldi's military campaign in Sicily
(1860);
a tour of Pennsylvania Civil War battlefields in the summer of 1863; an 1872 trip to Washington, D.C.; his 1873
lecture tour; and from Guayaquil, Ecuador (1902).
Language: English.
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[Identification of item]. Thomas Nast Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino,
California.
Purchased from P. P. Appel, 1960, and William F. Kelleher, 1962.
Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was a German-born American cartoonist. In 1861 he married Sarah Edwards of
New York; the family lived first and New York and later in Morristown, New Jersey.
Nast contributed drawings to Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, the New York
Illustrated News (for which he covered the Heenan-Sayers fight of 1860 and
Garibaldi's campaign), and Harper's Weekly (in which appeared Nast's Civil War
drawings, and later political cartoons). In 1902 Nast was appointed consul at
Guayaquil, Ecuador, where he died of yellow fever on December 7, 1902.
Related Materials in the Huntington Library
- Letters to Thomas Nast (Call number: mssHM 15520-15534)
- Nast, Thomas. Letter to Albert Bigelow Paine. 1901 November 21 (AP 1271) and Paine, Albert Bigelow. Letter to Thomas Nast. [1902 May 16] (AP 1428) in Albert Bigelow Paine Letters (Call number: mssAP)
- Thomas Nast Scrapbook of drawings, etc. related to the Heenan Sayers heavyweight fight, 1860 (Call number: mssHM 46703)
- Thomas Nast drawing and signature (1878 January 3) on page 20 of autograph album (Box 1) in John Anson Ford Papers (Call number: mssFord papers)
Collection of letters of American cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902) and his family -- his wife, Sarah Edwards Nast, and
his son Thomas
Nast, Jr. There are twenty five letters by Thomas Nast, chiefly addressed to his
wife, written during his trips to England and Italy to cover the Heenan-Sayers
prizefight and Giuseppe Garabaldi's military campaign in Sicily (1860), (this group
also includes six letters addressed to William Luson Thomas, 1830-1900), the tour of
Pennsylvania battlefields in the summer of 1863, the trip to Washington in the
beginning of 1872, his 1873 lecture tour, and from Guayaquil, Ecuador (1902). Also
included are three letters from Sarah Edwards Nast to her husband (1859 and 1869).
There is also a copy (in the hand of Mrs. Nast) of a satire of Andrew Johnson ("So
sayeth King Andy Johnson"), perhaps a caption to a political cartoon.
The rest of
the collection are letters of condolence and official correspondence dealing with
Thomas Nast's death and settling of his accounts. Correspondents include Herbert
Henry Henry Davis Peirce and Theodore Roosevelt.
Selected Nast's letters were published by Albert Bigelow Paine in his Th. Nast : his
period and his pictures (New York : Macmillan; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,
1904).
Arranged chronologically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Johnson, Andrew,
1808-1875 -- Humor.
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
-- Archives.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe,
1807-1882.
United States. Consulat
(Guyaquil, Ecuador)
Artists -- United States --
Correspondence.
Cartoonists -- United States --
Correspondence.
Consuls -- United States
--Correspondence.
German Americans --
Correspondence.
Journalists -- United States --
Correspondence.
Ecuador -- Description
and travel.
Italy -- History --
1815-1870 -- Sources.
London (England) --
Description and travel.
Pennsylvania --
History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
United States --
History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Washington (D.C.) --
Description and travel.
Letters (correspondence) -- United
States -- 19th century.
Nast, Sarah Edwards.
Peirce, Herbert H. D. (Herbert Henry
Davis), 1849-1916.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Thomas, William Luson, 1830-1900,
correspondent.