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David Bunnell Olmstead Literary Portraits Sequential listing Following is a list of items in the scrapbooks, in order of appearance. Olmstead's descriptions and annotations are given in quotation marks. For example, for the first item, Maurice Thompson, Olmstead’s notes are "Poet. Novelist. 1844-1901." While the information provided by Olmstead is always interesting, it is not always accurate. Due to difficulties in reading his handwriting and to changes over time, the names given in the list below may or may not be spelled correctly or in their modern form. Common abbreviations appearing in the list and in the scrapbooks include: Personal names: Titles, ranks, etc.: Alex., Alex'r. Alexander Arc. or Arch. Archbishop And. Andrew B. Born Ant. Anthony Bap. Baptized Arch. Archibald Bar., Bart., Bt. Baron, Baronet Benj. Benjamin Bp. Bishop Ch., Cha., Chas. Charles Cap., Cap’n Captain Ed., Edw. Edwin or Edward Col. Colonel Eliz. Elizabeth DD Doctor of Divinity Fr. Francis Ed. Editor Fr’d., Fr’c., Fred., Frederic/k Eng. England Fred’k. Geo., G. George Esq. Esquire Hen., Hen’y. Henry Fr. Frater or Father Iohannus, Ioh. John FRS Fellow of the Royal Society Jas. James Gen., Gen’l General Jn., Jno., Jon. Jonathan Gov. Governor Jos. Joseph or Josiah Hon. Honorable Mich. Michael JD Juris Doctor (law degree) Rob., Robt. Robert KBE Knight of the British Empire Sam’l. Samuel KC (or QC) King’s Counsel (or Queen’s Counsel) Th., Thos. Thomas LLD Legum Doctor (law degree) Wm., Will’m. William Maj. Major MD Doctor of Medicine MP. Member of Parliament OBE Order of the British Empire PhD. Doctor of Philosophy Prof. Professor Rt., Rgt. Right (as in “Rt. Hon.” or “Rt. Rev.”) Rev., Rev’d, Rv. Reverend Un’ty or Univ. University Page | 1 Last updated: 1/26/2017 David Bunnell Olmstead Literary Portraits Sequential listing TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 2, PAGES 1-200 .......................................................................................................................... 3 VOLUME 3, PAGES 202-400 .................................................................................................................... 22 VOLUME 4, PAGES 401-600 .................................................................................................................... 39 VOLUME 5, PAGES 601-800 .................................................................................................................... 59 VOLUME 6, PAGES 801-1000 .................................................................................................................. 76 VOLUME 7 - MISSING .............................................................................................................................. 83 VOLUME 8 - MISSING .............................................................................................................................. 84 VOLUME 9, PAGES 1050-1089 ................................................................................................................ 85 VOLUME 10, PAGES 1090-1129 .............................................................................................................. 91 VOLUME 11, PAGES 1130-1169 .............................................................................................................. 96 Page | 2 Last updated: 1/26/2017 David Bunnell Olmstead Literary Portraits Sequential listing VOLUME 2, PAGES 1-200 Maurice Thompson "Poet. Novelist. 1844-1901" Charles D. Roberts "Charles G. D. Roberts "Born New Brunswick Canada. Poet" Jeremy Daylor "Born in London Sep 21st 1849. Poet. Critic Biographer" Sidney Lanier [brief biography] Frontispiece William Slayter The History of Britaine "1587” Osmond Airy "HM Inspector of Schools" H. W. O. Davis "Fellow of Balliol Ox." Seamus Macmanus "Sketches, Poems, Stories" H. H. Burleigh "1802-1871. Poet" Mrs. Ellen Goodman Shepard "B. Spgfield Mass. March 21, 1820 Poet." Joseph Jacobs "B. Wales 1864" George M. Vickers Edward Rowland Sill "1841-1887" Frontispiece of John Weever's Ancient Funeral Monuments James F. Rhodes LLD. "Born O. 1848. Historian of Boston" Wm. Macdonald "Prof. American Hist. Brown Un." Harry Von Tiller "Comic Opera" J. Houston Mifflin "1809-1883. Poet" Lloyd Mifflin "Born Columbia Pa. 1846" Ignatius Donnelly "1831-1901" Alfred Austin "1835-1913. Poet Laureate" Francis Lynde "Born New York 1856" Alfred Austin [brief biography] "Alfred Austin Dies in England" [article] Horace Annesly Vachell "B. Sydenham. Kent Oct 30 1861. Novels and Dramas" George Brandes "Litterateur" Mary Anderson Navarro [brief biography] Mary Anderson Navarro "Actress. Author" Albert Kinross "Joan of Garioch" Alice Dudeney "Novelist" John T. Trowbridge "Born NY 1827-1916. Fiction. Juvenile Stories. Verse" "Littlewick Meadow Home of Alice Dudeney" Robert Henry DD Edmund Gosse "Born London 1849. House of Lords Librarian. English Literature" Thomas Hodgkin "Eng. Author" Elihu Burritt [incldes brief biography] Robert Henry DD Page | 3 Last updated: 1/26/2017 David Bunnell Olmstead Literary Portraits Sequential listing Nicholas Boileau "1636-1711" [includes brief biography] Hawthorne Parsonage and Hawthorn Church / Charlotte Bronte. "1816-1855" "St. Mary's Church Scarborough-where Anne was buried May 28, 1849" Sir John Hayward Knight "Frontispiece. Life and Raigne of Edward the Sixth" Graham Balfour "English Author. Grad. Oxford" Rev. Patrick Bronte Calvin S. Gerhard "1845-1902" Mrs. Linden Bates "of Chicago. Fiction" Frederika Bremer "1802-1865" J. H. Brown. "Ottawa Canada" Frederika Bremer [brief biography] Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges [brief biography] Thomas Betterton [brief biography] Thomas Betterton "1635-1710. Actor" Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges "1762-1837" Barton Booth "1681-1733" [brief biography] Barton Booth Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson "1832-1910. Traveler. Dramatist. Author" Mary McNeil Scott Jane Barr [brief biography] George Leopold Cuvier [brief biography] M. Gaston Boissiere G. Cuvier "Naturalist" Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc "1759-1808. Botaniste. Zoologiste. Agronome" Victor Hugo "1802-1885. Poet. Novelist" John Kendrick Bangs Eden Phillpotts "English Novelist" John Kendrick Bangs [brief biography] Henry M. Stanley [brief biography] John Adolphus Esq. FAS "1764-1845. Historian" Chaulieu. "Poet" Henry M. Stanley Florence Earle Coates. "Poet" George Ebers. "Born Berlin March 1, 1837. Orientalist. Novelist" Ina Donna Coolbrith "1897 - Oakland California" George Ebers [brief biography] [poem by Ina Donna Coolbrith] Will Carleton [obituary] Alexander Jean A. Lavignac "Doyen of the French Conservatoire" Page | 4 Last updated: 1/26/2017 David Bunnell Olmstead Literary Portraits Sequential listing Will Carleton "Hudson Mich. 1845-1912" Bliss Carman "B. Frederickton Canada 1861. Poet" Richard Nash "1674-1761" Edward Thurlow "1732-1806. Lord Chancellor of England. 1732-1806" Rev. E. J. Hardy "Born at Armagh May 7, 1849" Richard Nash [brief biography] "To Edward Thurlow Esq." [poem by Wm. Cowper] "To a Bird" [poem by Lord Thurlow] Alexander Pope [brief biography] Edward Heawood. "Librarian. Royal Geo. Society" Sir Spencer Walpole John Edward C. Bodley "English Author" Marshall P. Thompson Alexander Pope "1688-1774. Poet" William Frend de Morgan Mrs. W. K. Clifford Frances Parker "A Western Novelist" Jeanette C. Chamberlain "Poet" Frontispiece to Castara by William Haberton "1605-1645 Poet" Francis S. Smith "Poet" Stephen Crane "1870-1900 Novelist" Prof J. W. Jenks "Chair of Political Economy Cornell" John Sartain Ann Catley Miss Zitkala Sa "of the Yankton Sioux Tribe" Frontispiece to "The God-Man" by Reev. Henry Losch Thomas Carlyle / "Carlyle's Birthplace Ecclefechan Dumfriashire Dec. 4 1795 House with the Arch" / "Little Garden Cheyne Row where Carlyle Lived" / Carlyle's Grave in the Churchyard at Ecclefechan" Alban J. Conant "Naturalist" Samuel Rutherford Crockett "Poetry. Fiction" Francois E. J. Coppie Title page and frontispiece to "A Relation of the Fearful State of Francis Spira" 1701 Florence Tinsley Cox Laura Daintrey "Fiction" Frances Little William Canton Lydia Maria Child "1802-1880. A Native of Mass. Author. Philanthropist" Eliza Archerd Connor Page | 5 Last updated: 1/26/2017 David Bunnell Olmstead Literary Portraits Sequential listing Frontispiece to Tim Garthwaite's "Gentlemen's Calling 1660" J. A. Cockerell "Dramatist. Journalist" Verney Lovett Cameron James Freeman Clarke "1810-1888. Unitarian Theologian, Born NH 1810" Thomas Hicks "Artist" / Charles A. Dana "Editor" / Geo. Wm. Curtis "Author" Richard Harding Davis Abby Morton Diaz "1821-1904 A Boston Writer" John W. Draper "1811-1882 Scientist" Mollie E. Moore Davis Hiram Powers "1805-1873. American Sculptor" Archibald McLean Amanda G. Douglas "Novelist" Orville Dewey "1794-1882. Preacher. Author" Dante Alighieri [brief biography] Thomas Henry Huxley [brief biography] Dante Alighieri "Born in Florence May 27, 1265-1321" Thomas Henry Huxley Born Ealing England "1825-1896. Naturalist" [Alexander Dumas?] Alexander Dumas "House where Dumas was born. House where he died" Mrs. Centilivre "Frontispiece to her Works" Henry Drummond "1852-1891 Tropical Africa" Margaret B. Love James B. McMaster "Born LI 1852. Prof. Am Hist. Penn. Unty" Samuel Speed "Merchant of London. Stationer. Verse Writer" Lord Mahon "5th Earl of Stanhope. Historian. Literateur" Miss L. Dougall. "Montreal Canada" Alphonse Daudet "Born Nimes. Gard. 1840-1897. Romancer. Poet" Ellis Meredith "Heart of my Heart" Mrs. G. H. Gilbert Born Rochdale Eng. 1820 and Annie Russell 1900 Herbert Spencer "Born at Derby 1820-1904. Philosopher. Principles of