Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
Person
biographical statement
Citation:
"William Dean Howells." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 24 Nov. 2010 /www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/273557/William-Dean-Howells>.Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence collection
Collection
Identifier: 6196
Abstract
This artificial collection was created by former USC librarians. It contains letters and related ephemeral material created by a wide variety of primarily American men and women of letters. Many of these are addressed to various University librarians--including Lloyd Arvidsen, Lewis Steig, Charlotte Brown and Christian Dick--and former USC President Rufus von KleinSmid. In addition to this set of letters, which make up the bulk of the collection and were seemingly saved for their autograph...
Dates:
1851-1979
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
General Literary Manuscripts collection
Collection
Identifier: 0375
Abstract
The General Literary Manuscripts collection is an artificially created collection comprised chiefly of literary works and manuscript fragments of well-known writers and other public figures. The time covered is late 17th century to the first half of the 20th century.
Dates:
1677 - 2016
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Willard Morse collection on William Dean Howells
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0137
Abstract
Book reviews and periodical appearances (originals or photostats), and an extensive typewritten catalog of Morse's holdings on William Dean Howells, author, editor, and critic, who was widely acknowledged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the "Dean of American Letters." Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) was a mining executive in the West and Mexico. He was later made a director and member of the executive committee of the American Smelter Securities Company, Chilean...
Dates:
1860 - 1933
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
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