Mabie, Hamilton W[right], undated
Scope and Content
"Fiction, Poetry & Belles Letters." Signed manuscript. 27 pages on 26 numbered leaves.
Dates
- Creation: undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Acosta, Mercedes de, 1893-1968 (Person)
- From the Collection: Allmond, Marcus Blakey (Person)
- From the Collection: Andros, R. S. S. (Richard Salter Storrs) (Person)
- From the Collection: Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) (Person)
- From the Collection: Burgess, Gelett (Person)
- From the Collection: Cooper, James Fenimore (Person)
- From the Collection: Davie, Donald (Person)
- From the Collection: Gioia, Dana (Person)
- From the Collection: Gosse, Edmund (Person)
- From the Collection: Herford, Oliver (Person)
- From the Collection: Howard, Robert, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 (Person)
- From the Collection: Lindsay, Vachel (Person)
- From the Collection: Lofting, Hugh (Person)
- From the Collection: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Person)
- From the Collection: Mabie, Hamilton Wright (Person)
- From the Collection: Maeterlinck, Maurice (Person)
- From the Collection: Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 (Person)
- From the Collection: Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 (Person)
- From the Collection: Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 (Person)
- From the Collection: Perkoff, Stuart Z. (Person)
- From the Collection: Porter, Cole (Person)
- From the Collection: Read, Thomas Buchanan (Person)
- From the Collection: Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Runyon, Damon (Person)
- From the Collection: Ruskin, John (Person)
- From the Collection: Saltus, Edgar (Person)
- From the Collection: Sherman, Frank Dempster (Person)
- From the Collection: Stevenson, Robert Louis (Person)
- From the Collection: Vale, Eugene (Person)
- From the Collection: Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 (Person)
- From the Collection: Weismiller, Edward Ronald (Person)
- From the Collection: Wells, Carolyn (Person)
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Biographical note
'Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D.' (1846-1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer, born at Cold Spring, N. Y., educated at Williams College (1867) and the Columbia Law School (1869). American culture is indebted to him for helping to spread, by his lectures as well as his writings, a love of good reading in the United States.
He received honorary degrees from his own alma mater, from Union College, and from Western Reserve and Washington and Lee universities. His writings include:
''Norse Stories, Retold from the Eddas'' (1882)
''Nature in New England'' (1890)
''My Study Fire'' (two series, 1890 and 1894)
''Short Studies in Literature'' (1891)
''Under the Trees and Elsewhere'' (1891)
''Essays in Literary Interpretation'' (1892)
"Essays on Books and Culture'' (1897)
''Essays on Work and Culture'' (1898)
''The Life of the Spirit'' (1899)
''William Shakespeare, Poet, Dramatist, and Man'' (1900)
''A Child of Nature'' (1901)
''Works and Days'' (1902)
''Parables of Life'' (1902)
''Essays on Nature and Culture'' (1904)
''Backgrounds of Literature'' (1904)
''Introduction to Notable Poems'' (1909)
''American Ideals, Character, and Life'' (1913)
''Japan To-Day and To-Morrow'' (1914)
Various books for children were written or edited by him (1905-08).
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Extent
From the Collection: 0.42 Linear Feet (1 legal-size document box)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu