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Title: Walter R. Benjamin Autograph Collection
Dates (inclusive): 1797-1930
Collection Number: mssHM 79615-79797
Creator:
Benjamin, Walter Romeyn, 1854-1943.
Extent: 194 items in 3 boxes
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 194 documents, correspondence, and manuscripts of various individuals collected for their autograph
value by New York
rare book dealer Walter R. Benjamin (1854-1943).
Represented figures include activists, literary, political, religious, and social people in American history.
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Walter R. Benjamin Autograph Collection, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Walter R. Benjamin, November 20, 1943.
Walter Romeyn Benjamin, 1854-1943, was a New York dealer in rare books and
manuscripts. He was the editor of The Collector, a monthly magazine for autograph
and historical collectors.
This collection contains documents, correspondence, and manuscripts from various
individuals. These figures include activists, literary, political,
religious, and social people in American history.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by author. Box 1: Alexander Hamilton
United States Custom House - Litchfield; Box 2: Littell - Starin; and Box 3: Stedman
- Miscellaneous.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Benjamin, Walter
Romeyn, 1854-1943.
Autographs -- United States.
Autographs (manuscripts) -- United
States.
Holographs (autographs) -- United
States.
Letters (correspondence) -- United
States.
Manuscripts -- United States.
Signatures (names) -- United States.
Bronson, Greene C. (Greene Carrier),
1789-1863, recipient.
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1875.
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland),
1808-1873.
Corson, Juliet, 1842-1897.
Cuyler, Theodore L. (Theodore
Ledyard), 1822-1909.
Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth),
1842-1932.
Doane, William Croswell, 1832-1913.
Gough, John B. (John Bartholomew),
1817-1886.
Hannibal, Julius Caesar, 1822-1857.
Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934.
Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931.
Johnston, Alexander, 1849-1889.
Kennan, George, 1845-1924.
Leighton, William, 1833-1911.
Le Plongeon, Alice D. (Alice Dixon),
1851-1910.
Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908.
Lewis, Charlton Thomas, 1834-1904.
Lighton, William R. (William Rheem),
1866-1923.
Lillie, Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil), 1855-.
Littell, Eliakim, 1797-1870.
Livermore, George, 1809-1865.
Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 1847-1903.
Lord, Chester Sanders, 1850-1933,
recipient.
Parton, James, 1822-1891.
Peck, Annie S. (Annie Smith),
1850-1935.
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877.
Remick, Harry.
Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917.
See, T.J.J. (Thomas Jefferson
Jackson), 1866-.
Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott,
1835-1921.
Stevens, John Austin, 1795-1874.
Stilwell, Silas M. (Silas Moore),
1800-1881.
Stoddard, Elizabeth, 1823-1902.
Sullivan, William, 1774-1839.
Sweet, Ada Celeste.
Swift, Lewis, 1820-1913.
Tyng, Stephen H. (Stephen Higginson),
1800-1885.
United States. Department of the
Treasury.