Box VMF 7
Contains 13 Results:
Richard S. Hawes Collection
Various journals collected by Hawes
John Hawkes Collection
Correspondence from Hawkes to William Matheson and a poster advertising a reading by Hawkes.
Mary Hemingway Letters
Correspondence between Mary Hemingway and Henry Wenning
Robert A. Hereford Typescript
Typescript draft of Old Man River: The Memories of Captain Louis Rosché, Pioneer Steamboatman recorded and edited by Hereford. 289 pages
Album. Inscribed on page 1 `Lizzie A. Sutton by her affectionate aunt Mary Carpenter. Jan. 1, 1855.' Contains poems and tributes to Lizzie from her friends, 1855 January 1 - 1862 September 30
7 1/2 x 9 1/4" Black leather cover front designed and titled Garland album in gold leaf, back has only title in gold. Illustrations of flowers bound in. 19 pages
Bills of lading [bound] of Henry M. Worsham, shipper, St. Louis, for merchandise bound for St. Paul, Galena, other, 1855 May 8 - 1873 April 3
7 5/8 x 9 1/2" Brown and red ink, pencil. One page inserted, sealed to volume. Green woven paper cover. 116 pages
Daybook, showing personal accounts, St. Louis, 1867 January 31 - January 1887
5 x 7 3/4" Manuscript, black and blue ink and pencil. Bound in red leather with gold leaf border and title. 238 pages
Commonplace book. Titled on the flyleaf, Echoes from arsenal hill by Alexander Nicolas De Menil. Contains Preface, poems by De Menil including Aspiration, Her cause is dead, Heart truths, and Oh be not prout. (The last seems to be an earlier version of 0 Mortal be not proud by Alexander De Menil, published in Songs of minority [St. Louis News Co., 1906]) Also included in the book are two "oratorical compositions", The progress of St. Louis and Peace to America, and two untitled poems of other poets, Ethel Grey `weep not that fame's deep chalice is not thyne...' and Lydia Howard Sigourney `They have all passed away...' Engravings bound in book, clippings laid in. The flyleaf is inscribed "Auguste to Alexandre Christmas 1856", 1867 September 13 - 1868 January
8 x 10" Bound in tooled brown leather borders enclosing blue leather diamond with title Pensez a Moi, and design in gold leaf. Front and back are the same. 26 pages
Hawkes to William Matheson, Chief of Rare Books Department, Washington University Libraries, commenting on the publishing history of Fiasco Hall, a brochure of Hawkes's early poems, which he had had privately printed, 1968 January 18
Typed letter signed, 1 page