Josiah Gilbert Holland Collection 1860-1881

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:

Josiah Gilbert Holland Collection, Accession 7729, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Summary

Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Josiah Gilbert Holland Collection, Accession 7729, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Background

Scope and content:

[Will give lecture if his schedule permits.]

[Declines invitation to lecture because of prior commitment.]

[Gives lecture schedule.]

[Proposes the title "The Woman Question" for an upcoming lecture.]

[Has no plans to lecture this season; may change his mind.]

[Congratulates him on election as governor of Rhode Island; appreciates Howard's remarks on his novel, Arthur Bonnicastle. ]

[Regrets he has no photograph to send; promises to send one later.]

[Says lost gloves not his; may belong to Col. [Thomas Wentworth] Higginsonor Mr. Ayer; does not believe [Bret] Harte's book sold for $10,000.]

[Declines to send an old poem for publication; does not have the strength to write a new one.]

[Will send letter from [Richard Watson] Gilderregarding stories submitted by Boyesen.]

[Declines invitation to lecture.]

[Says Clemens Petersenwishes to write a paper on Bjornsen; asks if this will interfere with his plans.]

[Suggests an illustrated article on the educational life of European universities.]

[Declines an invitation to write for Pershing's magazine because of his own duties to his own magazine.]

[Says Scribner's Monthlyis interested in [Boyesen's] "A Daughter of the Philistines."]

[Remarks that he and [Richard Watson] Gildercannot understand the last lines of material submitted; asks him to look it over again.]

[Has seen Mrs. Conyer; praises her hard work and successful experiment.]

[Congratulates him on his article entitled "The Government of Large Cities"; praises its moral insight and moral earnestness.]

[Gives his opinion of Walt Whitman; belittles him and his talent as a poet; comments that Mrs. Thaxter's fever is strong.]

[Likes Stedman's work on Walt Whitmanbecause of its critical view of the subject; calls Whitman's art a "monster" and a "bastard"; does not believe he made a contribution to American literature; compares him unfavorably to other American literary figures such as Poe, Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, and Stedman.]

[Politely refuses to publish his book.]

[Will print his pamphlet; insists it be done in Springfield; dislikes having a local print job done at a firm a hundred miles away.]

[Declines invitation to visit because his wife is sick.]

[Reports that his own story, "Mistress of the Manse," is now ready to be printed.]

Acquisition information:
Deposit, 1964 Nov 11
Processing information:

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

Physical location:
Physical description:
ca. 20 items