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Box 65

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Contains 14 Results:

"Transcription from my note-book of 1887 describing my visit to the Middle West in that year.", 1887

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

A description of this notebook is written on its outer covering: "Typed original and (carbon clean) signed statement by Hamlin Garland. On carbon, of transcript of his 1887 notebook describing his visit to the Mid West. c. 30pp.

Original with corrections in author's hand.

Published as Chapter 28 in A Son of the Middle Border greatly edited and changed.

Dates: 1887

"1887" notes on overheard dialogue, farm machinery, Dr. Chase's house, and the lumber mill, 1887

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Includes a cataloger's note on a slip of paper: "Vivid phrases of an old lady - tendency toward cheap production - farm machinery - Dr. Chase's House - the mill (lumber).

Also includes enlarged photocopies of the notepad's contents, starting with: "1887. She's deep as the dark[...] you'd think the streets was paved with gold to see[...]"

Dates: 1887

"1889 Visit to the West" - stories, sketches, impressions, and poems, 1889

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Also includes a typed transcript of contents and cataloger's notes stating that these pages were microfilmed in November, 1979 -- film no. 22543.

Dates: 1889

Notes and sketches - West Salem, La Crosse, and Chicago, circa 1888-1889

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 4
Scope and Content From the Collection: The Hamlin Garland papers consist of nearly eight hundred manuscripts of Garland's writings, dozens of his literary notebooks, many hundreds of photographs and other memorabilia, and parts of Garland's personal library (cataloged separately from his papers). It also contains close to 10,000 letters, largely unpublished, including many letters from such correspondents as James M. Barrie, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, and A. A. Milne of England, and from Americans such as Walt Whitman,...
Dates: circa 1888-1889

"Hamlin Garland, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass." clippings and notes, circa 1888-1895

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Clippings on the single tax; books to be read at once; addresses of friends; lectures; list of manuscripts submitted for publication; and copies of Under the Wheel distributed.

Dates: circa 1888-1895

"Weirs" - verse, dialect notes, and ideas for stories and a play, 1888-1889

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 6
Scope and Content From the Collection: The Hamlin Garland papers consist of nearly eight hundred manuscripts of Garland's writings, dozens of his literary notebooks, many hundreds of photographs and other memorabilia, and parts of Garland's personal library (cataloged separately from his papers). It also contains close to 10,000 letters, largely unpublished, including many letters from such correspondents as James M. Barrie, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, and A. A. Milne of England, and from Americans such as Walt Whitman,...
Dates: 1888-1889

"Lectures in Social Reform" - notes and clippings on single tax movement, circa 1888-1889

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Also includes poems and notes on "The Whitman Banquet." Many of Garland's single tax movement notes are covered by clippings pasted in the notebook. Several clippings are newspaper letters authored by Garland.

Dates: circa 1888-1889

"1889, Hamlin Garland, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass." - notes on New England dialect, James Whitcomb Riley interview, "Not Work Enough" speech outline, and notes for a play, 1889

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Also includes notes on Western travels in Indianapolis, Chicago, and Minnetonka. A past cataloger's slip notes that Radburn is mentioned.

Dates: 1889

"Uncle Frank liked the Norwegian tunes[...]" - literary sketches, including "A Visit to Whitman," impressions, poems, 1889

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

La Crosse and Manville are mentioned. Includes 2 copies of a typed transcript of these notes.

Dates: 1889

"Western Notes" - story sketches and verse, 1890-1891

 Item — Box: 65, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Includes cataloger's notes explaining that this document was microfilmed for preservation in June of 1959 and which list the following titles: "Peter Bear (Indian?); A Lonely Girl's Story; A Father's Love; West Salem; Hunter's Law; Single Tax notes; Sunrise at Burns (?); Story of a Boy; Scrivener's Golden Wedding; Bubbles in the Ice (Original Poem?); Story of the old maid from Boston; A Man's Mood (original poem?); and Story of Fletcher."

Dates: 1890-1891