http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8st7w27 No online items Charles Warren Stoddard Autograph Album: Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Diann Benti. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org © November 2017 The Huntington Library. All rights reserved. Charles Warren Stoddard mssHM 35075 1 Autograph Album: Finding Aid Overview of the Collection Title: Charles Warren Stoddard Autograph Album Dates (inclusive): 1863-1897 Collection Number: mssHM 35075 Creator: Stoddard, Charles Warren, 1843-1909 Extent: 1 volume, 241 pages ; volume 29 x 23 cm Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 Phone: (626) 405-2191 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org Abstract: An album containing handwritten poems, notes, and letters written to American author and poet Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) by his friends and acquaintances including many leading literary figures chiefly in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts from the 1860s to 1890s. Among the many notable contributors are Samuel Clemens, Bret Harte, and Joaquin Miller. Language: English. Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader Services. Publication Rights The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher. Preferred Citation [Identification of item]. Charles Warren Stoddard Autograph Album, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Provenance Purchased from Goodspeed, February 1923. Biographical Note American author and poet Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) was born in Rochester, New York, on August 7, 1843, and moved with his family to San Francisco, California, in 1855. Stoddard began writing and traveling at an early age. In 1864, Stoddard made his first trip to Hawaii and Polynesia. His poetry was first published in The Golden Era in 1862 and his first book of poems was published in 1867. In the 1860s and 1870s, Stoddard traveled widely, participated in Bohemian literary circles in San Francisco, and worked as a correspondent and journalist. In the early 1880s, Stoddard was a co-editor of the Overland Monthly magazine with Ina D. Coolbrith and Bret Harte. From 1885 to 1886, he served as chair of the English department at the University of Notre Dame, and was department chair at Catholic University from 1889 to 1902 before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He returned to San Francisco in April 1903, and then later lived in Monterey, California, until his death on April 23, 1909. Scope and Content This collection consists of an autograph album containing handwritten notes, letters, poems, and drawings by approximately 200 friends and acquaintances of American author Charles Warren Stoddard, including leading American literary figures, journalists, poets, critics, politicians, and actors of the late 19th century. Among the many notable contributors are Samuel Clemens, Bret Harte, and Joaquin Miller. The earliest item in the book is an 1863 dedication by Thomas Starr King, and continues with contributions primarily from members of San Francisco literary society beginning in the mid-to-late 1860s through the late 1890s, as well as from friends in other locales where Stoddard lived or traveled including Louisville, Kentucky; Washington, D.C.; Massachusetts; New York; and Hawaii. A letter from L.C. Bayles (page 23) introduces lines of verse with the note "in accordance with your request," reflecting Stoddard's curation of the album as a compendium of verse and personal sentiments tailored towards friendships and literary musings. The volume includes two photographs of groups of men and women, captioned, "Riverdale, N.Y., July 4th 1890" (page 116). There are manuscript poems and lines of verse, often penned specifically for Stoddard, from literary friends including Isaac Hull Adams; Daniel Dulany Addison; Benjamin Parke Avery; William Barry; Fred Buel; James F. Bowman; George Burrows; Charles Warren Stoddard mssHM 35075 2 Autograph Album: Finding Aid Carrie Carlton; Bliss Carman; Pierre Cauwet; Robert W. Chambers; Sarah M. Clarke; Ada Clare; Katherine E. Conway; Ina D. Coolbrith; R. M. Daggett; Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren; Malcolm Douglas; Theodore F. Dwight; Eugene Field; Hamlin Garland; Grace Greenwood; Bret Harte; Jerome Hart; John Hay; Charles Hinton; Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.; William Dean Howells; Daniel E. Hudson; Thomas A. Janvier; Tremenheere Johns; Ralph Keeler; George Kennan; Orpheus C. Kerr; Alice Kingsbury (Cooley); Rudyard Kipling; Emilie Lawson; James Linen; Fitz Hugh Ludlow; Adah Isaacs Menken; John Malone; Joaquin Miller; Morton Mitchell and Laddie Mitchell; James Whitcomb Riley; James Jeffrey Roche; Edgar Saltus; Richard Henry Savage; Emma D.E.N. Southworth; Frank Soulé; Bella Z. Spencer; Horatio Stebbins; Maria Longworth Storer (with sketches); J. D. Strong; M.D. Strong; H. A. Stuart; T. R. Sullivan; Bayard Taylor; Charles Wadsworth; Charles Henry Webb; May Wentworth; George Edward Woodberry; and R. C. Wyllie. Prose and letters from L. C. Bayles; Frederick Billings; Ezra S. Carr and his wife, Jeanne C. Smith Carr; Samuel Clemens; Laura Cuppy; G. B. Densmore; Annie Fields; Archibald C. Gunter; Francis King Harte; Louise E. Holden; Jules Luquiens; C. T. H. Palmer; Theodore Roosevelt; Anna Josephin Savage; Rodney L. Tabor; Charles A. Wetmore; Virgil M. Williams; and Thérèse Yelverton. Drawings include ones by Reginald B. Birch; John S. Bugbee; Arthur Lemon; G. Thomas; and Theodore Wores. There are also brief notes and/or signatures of individuals including Charles Francis Adams; Henry Adams; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Ada, Dyas; Louise Imogen Guiney; Iza Duffus Hardy; Clarence King; Francis D. Millet; Thomas Nelson Page; Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Dudley Warner; and Lydia Woodworth. The contents are handwritten on blank pages in an "Album" published by Leavitt & Allen, consisting of 241 pages including an engraved title page and frontispiece and [8] other engraved plates with illustrations by Creswick, W. H. Bartlett, W. Tombleson; J. Smillie and T. Addison Richards; engravings by J. Sartain; J. Bannister; Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Smillie; J. White; and C. T. Giles. Edges gilt. Related Materials in the Huntington Library • Charles Warren Stoddard Collection (Call number: mssHM 38486-HM 38513) Additional manuscript items by Stoddard are listed in the finding aid for the Charles Warren Stoddard Collection and can also be found by searching in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog. Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog. Subjects Stoddard, Charles Warren, -- 1843-1909 -- Archives. Authors, American -- 19th century -- Archives. Forms/Genres Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 19th century. Manuscripts -- United States -- 19th century. Albums -- United States -- 19th century. Autograph albums -- United States -- 19th century. Drawings -- United States -- 19th century. Poems -- United States -- 19th century. Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) Alternate Authors Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915, inscriber. Adams, Henry, 1838-1918, inscriber. Addison, Daniel Dulany, 1863-1936, contributor. Avery, Benjamin Parke, 1828-1875, contributor. Barry, William Francis, 1849-1930, contributor. Billings, Frederick, 1823-1890, contributor. Birch, Reginald B., 1856-1943, illustrator. Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893, inscriber. Bowman, James F., -1882, contributor. Bugbee, John S., illustrator. Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924, contributor. Charles Warren Stoddard mssHM 35075 3 Autograph Album: Finding Aid Carlton, Carrie, 1836-1868, contributor. Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929, contributor. Carr, Ezra S. (Ezra Slocum), 1819-1894, contributor. Carr, Jeanne C. Smith, contributor. Cauwet, Pierre, contributor. Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William), 1865-1933, contributor. Clare, Ada, contributor. Clarke, Sarah M., contributor. Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910, contributor. Conway, Katherine E. (Katherine Eleanor), 1853-1927, contributor. Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1841-1928, contributor. Cooley, Alice Kingsbury, 1840-1910, contributor. Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, 1825-1898, contributor. Daggett, Rollin Mallory, 1831-1901, contributor. Densmore, G. B., contributor. Dwight, Theodore F., contributor. Dyas, Ada, 1843-1908, inscriber. Field, Eugene, 1850-1895, contributor. Field, Kate, 1838-1896, contributor. Fields, Annie, 1834-1915, contributor. Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940, contributor. Greenwood, Grace, 1823-1904, contributor. Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920, contributor. Gunter, Archibald Clavering, 1847-1907, contributor. Hardy, Iza Duffus, contributor. Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, contributor. Hart, Jerome, 1854-1937, contributor. Hay, John, 1838-1905, contributor. Hinton, Charles Howard, 1853-1907, contributor. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, contributor. Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920, contributor. Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone), 1849-1913, contributor. Johns, Tremenheere Lanyon, 1839-1875, contributor. Keeler,