Overview
Autograph letters and manuscripts of authors, artists, and others collected by the American poet Amy Lowell.
Dates
- Creation: 1523-1930
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English, Danish, German, Italian, French, and Greek.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to most of this material.
The Emily Dickinson original manuscripts may not be used without the curator's permission (items (91), (92), (93), (94), (95)); readers should use digital surrogates or consult photocopy versions in item (95a).
The Charlotte Brontë manscript in item (42) is fragile and may not be used without the curator's permission; readers should consult enlarged photocopy version in item (42a).
Extent
4 linear feet (10 boxes)An extensive collection of primarily autograph manuscript letters of authors, artists, and others, although the collection also includes some manuscript compositions. All were collected by Amy Lowell and many items include wrappers and notes annotated by Lowell. Collection includes autograph manuscript material by: Jane Austen, William Blake, Charlotte Brontë, Ludwig van Beethoven, Walter Crane, Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louis XV, Benjamin Franklin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Heinrich Heine, Victor Hugo, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Johnson, Marie Antoinette, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Claude Monet, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Theodore Roosevelt, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, George Sand, Clara Schumann, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Makepeace Thackeray, J. M. W. Turner, Voltaire, Richard Wagner, James McNeil Whistler, Oscar Wilde, and many others.
Number (116) has been omitted from this series.
Biographical / Historical
Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was an American poet, critic, lecturer, and an avid book and manuscript collector.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by author's name. See curatorial file for additional information.
Physical Location
Amy Lowell Room
Immediate Source of Acquisition
No accession number. Bequest of Amy Lowell; received: 1925.
Separated Materials
This material was formerly listed in this finding aid, but has been recataloged as:
- Original correspondence of John Keats and other Keats-related material is now MS Keats 1-6.
- Correspondence of Ridgeley Torrence, item (309), is now bMS Lowell 19 (1214a).
- Lowell 4210.5 is now MS Lowell 10
- Lowell 4211.22 is now MS Lowell 17
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt and others
Original finding aid is in curatorial file. A few items were not located at the time of the 2011 recataloging and have been so noted in the item entries below.
- Title
- Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925, collector. Amy Lowell autograph collection, 1523-1930: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01636
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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