William Warland Clapp letters from various correspondents
Overview
Letters to Boston journalist and author William Warland Clapp.
Dates
- Creation: 1819-1889
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
1 linear feet (2 boxes)Letters to Clapp from Henry A. Delille, Edward Everett, Jonas Hanot French, Alexander Hamilton Rice, Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber and others. Letters mostly address topics on the Army during the Civil war, including Army Desertion, the Army and President Lincoln's plans and maneuvers, and various personal accounts of soldiers fighting in the Civil War. Letters also concern letters to the editor of the Evening Gazette and Boston Gazette about war stories that readers wanted published, and angry letters about publications. Collection also contains a letter of thanks to Clapp from the Armory of the Boston Light Infantry, a signature of Seminole Chief Bobby Bow Legs, and various invitations.
Biographical / Historical
Clapp was a journalist and author. He was editor of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette (1847-1865) and editor of the Boston Journal (1865-1891).
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
57M-264. Gift of Mrs J. H. Means, 60 Mt. Vernon Street Boston 8, Mass.; received: 1957.
- Title
- Clapp, William Warland, 1826-1891, recipient. William Warland Clapp letters from various correspondents, 1819-1889: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01280
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.
Harvard Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-2440
Houghton_Library@harvard.edu