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McDonald Clarke collection 0.16 Cubic Feet Four legal file folders

Clarke, McDonald, 1798-1842

This collection of McDonald Clarke papers contains one autograph poem titled "Midnight" from 1815, an undated manuscript poem fragment beginning "They tell me we shall never meet" from Clarke's Afara; receipts for the sale of books to William Gowans from Clarke dated October 28, 1837, and from Francis G. Dorr, dated October 25, 1837; and an undated lithograph of the head and upper torso of Clarke.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Robert Anbian papers 5.35 Cubic Feet 13 document boxes, one medium oversized flat box

Anbian, Robert

This collection contains the papers of poet, author, publisher, and political activist Robert White Anbian (1949-2022). Anbian graduated from the University of Virginia in 1971, after which he spent three years in Niger with the Peace Corps from 1974 to 1977. He then relocated to San Francisco, where he worked as a writer and poet until his death. From 1985 to 1996, Robert served as the editor of the monthly Film Arts Foundation magazine, Release Print, and the publicist for an independent filmmaker education and advocacy group. He founded his own publishing house, Night Horn Books. Anbian published three poetry collections: WE Parts 1 & 2 (Night Horn Books, 1999), Antinostalgia (Ruddy Duck Press, 1992), and Bohemian Airs & Other Kêfs (Night Horn Books, 1982).

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

William Cullen Bryant letter to Elizabeth Oakes Smith addition (ViU-2022-0070) 0.04 Cubic Feet One folder (Barrett boxes vault) Folder 1

This collection contains a letter from William Cullen Bryant, American poet, journalist, and longtime editor of the New York Evening Post, to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, poet and essayist. In 1872 Bryant made a speech in New York on May 22 at the dedication of John Quincey Adams Ward's statue of Shakespeare on the Mall in Central Park. Here, a week after the speech, Bryant acknowledges Mrs. Oakes Smith's praise: "I completed it in the hope that it might not altogether displease such judges as yourself, and having succeeded in that, my ambition is fully gratified."

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
  2. William Cullen Bryant papers

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