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Title: Charles Warren Stoddard Collection
Dates (inclusive): 1868-1908 and undated
Bulk dates: 1898-1908
Collection Number: mssHM 38486-HM 38513
Creator:
Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909
Extent:
28 items in 1 box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains 10 manuscripts and 18 letters either written by or related to American author Charles Warren Stoddard
(1843-1909).
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
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The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
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The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the
researcher.
[Identification of item]. Charles Warren Stoddard Collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, October 1963.
American author and poet Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) was born in Rochester, New York, on August 7, 1843, and moved
with his family to San Francisco, California, in 1855.
Stoddard began writing and traveling at an early age. In 1864, Stoddard made his first trip to Hawaii and Polynesia.
His poetry was first published in
The Golden Era
in 1862 and his first book of poems was published in 1867. In the 1860s and 1870s, Stoddard traveled widely, participated
in Bohemian literary circles in San Francisco,
and worked as a correspondent and journalist. In the early 1880s, Stoddard was a co-editor of the
Overland Monthly
magazine with Ina D. Coolbrith and Bret Harte. From 1885 to 1886, he served as chair of the English department at the University
of Notre Dame, and
was department chair at Catholic University from 1889 to 1902, before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He returned to San
Francisco in April 1903,
and then later lived in Monterey,
California, until his death on April 23, 1909.
This collection contains 10 manuscripts and 18 letters either written by or related to American author Charles Warren Stoddard.
Manuscripts
consist of poems by Stoddard, as well as a contemporary copy of a poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and two reminiscences by
poet Ina D. Coolbrith about John Greenleaf Whittier and Bret Harte and Stoddard.
Includes letters to Stoddard from Samuel Clemens (contemporary copy) "Amber" (Martha Everts Holden); Grace Keeler Machin;
Alice Macleod; Toby Rosenthal; Edward Rowland Sill; Thomas Walsh; and Carrie Wyatt.
There are also single images of Stoddard's friends Thérèse Yelverton and David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii, as well as two envelopes
and two printed articles by Stoddard.
Related Materials in the Huntington Library
- Charles Warren Stoddard poems and letters, 1878, 1885-1887 (Call number: mssHM 2541-HM 2432, mssHM 24342-HM 24345)
- Charles Warren Stoddard autograph album, 1863-1897 (Call number: mssHM 35075)
- Charles Warren Stoddard letters to Dewitt Miller, 1893-1909 (Call number: mssHM 38365-38418)
- Charles Warren Stoddard Letters, 1880-1904 (Call number: mssHM 2979-2985)
- Stoddard, Charles Warren. In Old Bohemia. II. The "Overland" and the Overlanders [typescript manuscript of essay], [1907] (Call number: mssHM 51797), in the Lute Pease Papers
- Stoddard, Charles Warren. "Madrigal" [poem], 1880, in Lydia Woodworth autograph album (Call number: mssHM 45669)
- Stoddard, Charles Warren. To Theo N. Vail [a poem in 6 lines to Theodore Newton Vail, on his 43rd birthday], 1888 July 16 (Call number: mssAP) in the Albert Bigelow Paine letters
- Stoddard, Charles Warren. 2 letters to Mary Hunter Austin, 1904-1907 (Call number: mssAU 4792-4793), in the Mary Hunter Austin Papers
- Stoddard, Charles Warren. 8 letters to Jeanne C. (Smith) Carr, 1870-1891 (Call number: mssCA 164-171) in the Jeanne C. Smith Carr Papers
- Stoddard, Charles Warren. 7 letters to Annie (Adams) Fields, 1894-1905 (Call number: mssFI 3844-3850) in the James Thomas Fields Papers and Addenda
- Stoddard, Charles Warren. 6 letters to Charles Augustus Keeler, 1895-1899 (Call number: mssKeeler papers, Box 5), in the Charles Augustus Keeler Papers
- Stoddard, Charles Warren. 5 letters to Jack London, 1906-1908 (Call number: mssJL 19084-19088), and 1 letter to Queen Liliuokalani, 1906 November (Call number: mssJL 19083), in the Jack London Papers
- Stoddard, Charles Warren. 1 letter to Arthur Loring MacKaye, 1896 December 6 (Call number: mssHM 46964), in the Beatrice Borchardt Collection
- Stoddard, Charles Warren. 1 letter to John Fleming Wilson, June 26, 1907 (Call number: mssLockley, Folder 41), and 4 letters to Lute Pease, 1908-1908 (Call number: mssLockley, Folder 42), in the Fred Lockley Papers and Addenda
- Ina D. Coolbrith letters to Charles Warren Stoddard, approximately 1868-1898 and undated (Call number: mssHM 38419-38485)
- Photogravure of Charles Warren Stoddard (approximately 1900?) (Call number: mssGraham, Box 37 [14]) in the Margaret Collier Graham Papers
The collection is arranged in the following 3 series:
- Manuscripts
- Correspondence
- Photographs and ephemera
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1841-1928.
Harte, Bret, 1836-1902.
Kalakaua, David, King of Hawaii, 1836-1891 -- Photographs.
Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909 -- Archives.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
Yelverton, Thérèse, Viscountess Avonmore, 1832?-1881 -- Pictorial works.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Archives.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archives.
Letters (correspondence) -- United States.
Manuscripts -- United States.
Poems -- United States.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907.
Amber, 1844-1896, correspondent.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910, correspondent.
Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1841-1928, correspondent.
Dwight, Theodore F., correspondent.
Rosenthal, Toby Edward, approximately 1848-1917, correspondent.
Sill, Edward Rowland, 1841-1887, correspondent.
Walsh, Thomas, 1875-1928, correspondent.