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Autographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Martin Waltham Bates letter to Joseph Boyd

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0047
Abstract

Autograph letter from Delaware Senator, Martin Waltham Bates, to Joseph Boyd, complying with his request for an autograph on January 30, 1858.

Dates: 1858 January 30
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

William Cullen Bryant letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0019
Abstract Autograph letter written and signed by William Cullen Bryant, American romantic poet, journalist, and editor, to Messrs. Carey and Hart of Philadelphia, saying that he has "sent you my autograph signature to be engraved under my portrait. It was my intention to write my name on the paper which contained the engraved portrait, but by inadventure I sent it off without doing so. I now enclose my autograph to be sent to the engraver." The letter is pasted on an album leaf and dated September 1,...
Dates: 1846 September 1
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Nellie Farren, Book of tastes : autograph manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: SLC 0122
Abstract

Autograph book of questionnaires completed by theatrical celebrities and others, collected by the music hall star and actress, Ellen "Nellie" Farren. Participants include Tom Hood, J. R. Planche, Lord Lytton (referring to his son, Owen Meredith), F. C. Burnand, and Clement Scott.

Dates: 1864-1876
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Autograph Abraham Lincoln documents from the Lincoln Collection at the University of Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0465
Abstract

Documents in the University of Delaware’s Lincoln Collection that contain Abraham Lincoln’s original signature or other autograph writing, including rare signed copy of “A Resolution,” submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States. Part of a much larger collection of Lincolniana that came to the University from the Lincoln Club of Delaware in 1972.

Dates: 1855-1887
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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