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Title: Charles Warren Stoddard Autograph Album
Dates (inclusive): 1863-1897
Collection Number: mssHM 35075
Creator:
Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909
Extent:
1 volume, 241 pages ; volume 29 x 23 cm
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: An album containing handwritten poems, notes, and letters written to American author and poet
Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) by his friends and acquaintances including many leading
literary figures chiefly in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts from the 1860s to 1890s. Among
the many notable contributors are Samuel Clemens, Bret Harte, and Joaquin Miller.
Language: English.
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[Identification of item]. Charles Warren Stoddard Autograph Album, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Goodspeed, February 1923.
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 consists of an autograph album containing handwritten notes, letters, poems, and drawings by approximately
200 friends and acquaintances of
American author Charles Warren Stoddard, including leading American literary figures, journalists, poets, critics, politicians,
and actors of the late 19th century. Among
the many notable contributors are Samuel Clemens, Bret Harte, and Joaquin Miller.
The earliest item in the book is an 1863 dedication by Thomas Starr King, and continues with contributions primarily from
members of San Francisco literary society beginning
in the mid-to-late 1860s through the late 1890s, as well as from friends in other locales where Stoddard lived or traveled
including Louisville, Kentucky; Washington, D.C.;
Massachusetts; New York;
and Hawaii. A letter from L.C. Bayles (page 23) introduces lines of verse with the note "in accordance with your request,"
reflecting Stoddard's curation of the album as a
compendium of verse and personal sentiments tailored towards friendships and literary musings. The volume includes two photographs
of groups of men and women,
captioned, "Riverdale, N.Y., July 4th 1890" (page 116).
There are manuscript poems and lines of verse, often penned specifically for Stoddard, from literary friends including
Isaac Hull Adams; Daniel Dulany Addison; Benjamin Parke Avery; William Barry; Fred Buel; James F. Bowman; George Burrows;
Carrie Carlton; Bliss Carman; Pierre Cauwet; Robert W. Chambers; Sarah M. Clarke; Ada Clare; Katherine E. Conway; Ina D. Coolbrith;
R. M. Daggett; Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren;
Malcolm Douglas; Theodore F. Dwight; Eugene Field; Hamlin Garland; Grace Greenwood; Bret Harte;
Jerome Hart; John Hay; Charles Hinton;
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.; William Dean Howells; Daniel E. Hudson; Thomas A. Janvier; Tremenheere Johns; Ralph Keeler; George
Kennan; Orpheus C. Kerr; Alice Kingsbury (Cooley); Rudyard Kipling; Emilie Lawson; James Linen;
Fitz Hugh Ludlow; Adah Isaacs Menken; John Malone; Joaquin Miller; Morton Mitchell and Laddie Mitchell; James Whitcomb Riley;
James Jeffrey Roche; Edgar Saltus; Richard Henry Savage; Emma D.E.N. Southworth; Frank Soulé; Bella Z. Spencer;
Horatio Stebbins; Maria Longworth Storer (with sketches);
J. D. Strong; M.D. Strong; H. A. Stuart; T. R. Sullivan; Bayard Taylor; Charles Wadsworth; Charles Henry Webb; May Wentworth;
George Edward Woodberry; and R. C. Wyllie.
Prose and letters from L. C. Bayles; Frederick Billings; Ezra S. Carr and his wife, Jeanne C. Smith Carr; Samuel Clemens;
Laura Cuppy; G. B. Densmore; Annie Fields; Archibald C. Gunter;
Francis King Harte; Louise E. Holden; Jules Luquiens; C. T. H. Palmer; Theodore Roosevelt; Anna Josephin Savage;
Rodney L. Tabor; Charles A. Wetmore; Virgil M. Williams; and Thérèse Yelverton.
Drawings include ones by Reginald B. Birch; John S. Bugbee; Arthur Lemon; G. Thomas; and Theodore Wores.
There are also brief notes and/or signatures of individuals including Charles Francis Adams; Henry Adams; Frances Hodgson
Burnett; Ada, Dyas; Louise Imogen Guiney;
Iza Duffus Hardy; Clarence King; Francis D. Millet; Thomas Nelson Page; Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Dudley Warner; and Lydia
Woodworth.
The contents are handwritten on blank pages in an "Album" published by Leavitt & Allen, consisting of 241 pages including
an engraved title page and frontispiece and [8] other
engraved plates with illustrations by Creswick,
W. H. Bartlett, W. Tombleson; J. Smillie and T. Addison Richards; engravings by J. Sartain; J. Bannister; Rawdon, Wright,
Hatch & Smillie; J. White; and C. T. Giles. Edges gilt.
Related Materials in the Huntington Library
- Charles Warren Stoddard Collection (Call number: mssHM 38486-HM 38513)
Additional manuscript items by Stoddard are listed in the finding aid for the Charles Warren Stoddard Collection and can also
be found by searching in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Stoddard, Charles Warren, -- 1843-1909 -- Archives.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Archives.
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 19th century.
Manuscripts -- United States -- 19th century.
Albums -- United States -- 19th century.
Autograph albums -- United States -- 19th century.
Drawings -- United States -- 19th century.
Poems -- United States -- 19th century.
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915, inscriber.
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918, inscriber.
Addison, Daniel Dulany, 1863-1936, contributor.
Avery, Benjamin Parke, 1828-1875, contributor.
Barry, William Francis, 1849-1930, contributor.
Billings, Frederick, 1823-1890, contributor.
Birch, Reginald B., 1856-1943, illustrator.
Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893, inscriber.
Bowman, James F., -1882, contributor.
Bugbee, John S., illustrator.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924, contributor.
Carlton, Carrie, 1836-1868, contributor.
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929, contributor.
Carr, Ezra S. (Ezra Slocum), 1819-1894, contributor.
Carr, Jeanne C. Smith, contributor.
Cauwet, Pierre, contributor.
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William), 1865-1933, contributor.
Clare, Ada, contributor.
Clarke, Sarah M., contributor.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910, contributor.
Conway, Katherine E. (Katherine Eleanor), 1853-1927, contributor.
Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1841-1928, contributor.
Cooley, Alice Kingsbury, 1840-1910, contributor.
Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, 1825-1898, contributor.
Daggett, Rollin Mallory, 1831-1901, contributor.
Densmore, G. B., contributor.
Dwight, Theodore F., contributor.
Dyas, Ada, 1843-1908, inscriber.
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, contributor.
Field, Kate, 1838-1896, contributor.
Fields, Annie, 1834-1915, contributor.
Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940, contributor.
Greenwood, Grace, 1823-1904, contributor.
Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920, contributor.
Gunter, Archibald Clavering, 1847-1907, contributor.
Hardy, Iza Duffus, contributor.
Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, contributor.
Hart, Jerome, 1854-1937, contributor.
Hay, John, 1838-1905, contributor.
Hinton, Charles Howard, 1853-1907, contributor.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, contributor.
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, contributor.
Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone), 1849-1913, contributor.
Johns, Tremenheere Lanyon, 1839-1875, contributor.
Keeler, Ralph, 1840-1873, contributor.
Kennan, George, 1845-1924, contributor.
Kerr, Orpheus C., 1836-1901, contributor.
King, Clarence, 1842-1901, inscriber.
King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864, contributor.
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936, contributor.
Linen, James, 1808-1873, contributor.
Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 1836-1870, contributor.
Luquiens, Jules, 1845-1899, contributor.
Malone, John, -1906, contributor.
Menken, Adah Isaacs, 1835-1868, contributor.
Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913, contributor.
Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912, inscriber.
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922, inscriber.
Palmer, Charles T. H. (Charles Theodore Hart), 1827-1897, contributor.
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, contributor.
Roche, James Jeffrey, 1847-1908, contributor.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919, inscriber.
Saltus, Edgar, 1855-1921, contributor.
Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver.
Savage, Richard, 1846-1903, contributor.
Soulé, Frank, 1810-1882, contributor.
Spencer, Bella Zilfa, 1840-1867, contributor.
Stebbins, Horatio, 1821-1902, contributor.
Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte, 1819-1899, contributor.
Storer, Maria Longworth, 1849-1932, contributor.
Strong, J. D. (Joseph Dwight), 1853-1899, contributor.
Stuart, H. A. (Hector A.), contributor.
Sullivan, T. R. (Thomas Russell), 1849-1916, contributor.
Tabor, Rodney L., contributor.
Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878, contributor.
Wadsworth, Charles, 1814-1882, contributor.
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900, inscriber.
Webb, Charles Henry, 1834-1905, contributor.
Wentworth, May, contributor.
Wetmore, Chas. A. (Charles Augustus), contributor.
Williams, Virgil Macey, 1830-1886, contributor.
Wyllie, Robert Crichton, 1798-1865, contributor.
Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930, contributor.
Woodworth, Lydia, inscriber.
Wores, Theodore, 1858-1939, illustrator.
Yelverton, Thérèse, Viscountess Avonmore, 1832?-1881, contributor.
Leavitt & Allen, publisher.