William Allen Butler Collection 1858-1894

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred citation:

William Allen Butler Collection, Accession 7160-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

William Allen Butler Collection, Accession 7160-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

[Includes advertising circular; considers credit risks of [Lee and Carl ?] who have "paid promptly" and [ W. B. Kern?] whom "it is not prudent to trust."]

[Intends to lend an article on Palermo, written for the Independent, to Richards for his weekly paper.]

[Says he sent pieces appropriate for [Our] Young Folksto Ticknor at Mr. Fields' suggestion; requests their return, as he has received no response after a month.]

[Writes that poem in question was written between 1868 and 1871 and published in Harper's Monthly Magazineas well as in Butler's volume of poems.]

[Responds to request for address of John Lyonsby suggesting the inquiry should go to another William Allen Butlerwho perhaps handled the land transaction.]

[Responds to request for his autograph and autograph of Evert A. Duyckinckby sending his own and referring the correspondent to others for Duyckinck's.]

[Thanks him for volume of New World containing account of the "MacKenzie case," suggests it was written by Daniel E. Sickels; sends brief, prepared by his father and [Charles] O'Connor, and a copy of the log of the ["Somers"] which records proceedings resulting in the mutineers execution.]

[Sends requested photograph, refers to engraved "likeness" of himself in the American Portrait Gallery. ]

[Thanks him for volume of the New Worldcontaining and article on the "Somers" case; mentions another magazine piece on the topic.]

Acquisition information:
Deposit 1964 May 22
Processing information:

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Physical location:
Physical description:
10 items