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Papers of Paul Goodman, the American social critic, essayist, writer of fiction, poet and psychotherapist. Includes correspondence, compositions by Goodman, biographical information, and materials by others.

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Correspondence of the American writer Henry James Jr. and that of his sister, the American diarist, Alice James. Also includes his diaries, appointment books, and James family photograph albums.

Scope and Contents: The Langdon Warner papers at Houghton Library offer a uniquely personal window into the life and work of Langdon Warner. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, personal research notes, and printed matter covering all periods of Warner’s life. The correspondence series primarily includes Warner’s extensive personal correspondence with his parents, wife, children, and the most intimate members of his extended circle. These letters cover roughly sixty years of Warner’s life and...

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Compositions, correspondence, notes, photographs, daguerreotypes, and other materials by and about Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Emerson family. Also includes secondary materials by Emerson scholars.

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Correspondence, writings, photographs, and other papers of the American writer and editor James Parton.

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Papers of American businessman and government executive William Cameron Forbes.

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Letters to English painter Sir William Rothenstein concerning both his professional and personal life as well as compositions by other authors.

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Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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Early records of the American Birth Control League, an organization founded by Margaret Sanger.

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Scope and Contents: Primarily contracts of the publisher Houghton Mifflin Company, but also includes some from its predecessors: Hurd and Houghton (1864-1878); Houghton, Osgood and Company (1878-1880); and Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1880-1908). Correspondence is between the publisher and the authors, or their representatives or contractors. Houghton, Mifflin and Company editors and staff include: C. W. Bramhall, James Thomas Fields, Ferris Greenslet, Franklin Sherman Hoyt,...