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This collection was purchased from Stuart Bennett for the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 2 May 2022.
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life. He soon relocated to New York and took up work as an editor at various newspapers. He became one of the most significant poets in early literary America and has been grouped among the fireside poets for his accessible, popular poetry.
MSS 6244 Addition, William Cullen Bryant letter to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
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."
This collection is open for research.
This collection was a purchase from Bill Hutchison to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 27 January, 2015
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was a prominent figure in the development of American literature and worked for over 50 years as the editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant's success in literature began when he was 17 years old through the publication of his acclaimed poem Thanatopsis in the North American Review. Early in his career, Bryant worked as an attorney before finding his calling as an editor at the New York Review and then The New York Evening Post. He used his position to publish works on a variety of controversial topics including free trade, workingmen's rights, abolition, and free speech. Along with using his role to advance social causes, Bryant was also a key member of the Democratic Party, and later a founding member of the Republican Party.
MSS6244-ah addition, Manuscript: Landscapes from the Works of William Cullen Bryant, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.
Manuscript poems from the Works of William Cullen Bryant with beautiful illustrations of nature painted by students from the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting.