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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 16, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00451::Paul Hamilton Hayne Collection)//EN" "ViU00451.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Paul Hamilton Hayne Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 6495-e

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #6495-e Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Paul Hamilton Hayne Collection 1874-1882 6495-e 4 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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Paul Hamilton Hayne Collection, Accession 6495-e, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

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Purchase -Barrett Fund [ 8 Apr 1968] 1 Oct 1968

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

 Item Listing Letters Paul Hamilton Hayne, Augusta, Georgia, to Mary Mapes Dodge, New York 1874 Feb 23 ALS, 2 p.

[Expresses admiration for the new St. Nicholas magazine; offers for possible publication a prose sketch of Southern country life as it was 40 or 50 years ago, written by his mother, a lady of 68, "but bright- minded and alert"; says that the story describes, among other things, the mingling of white children with plantation Negroes.]

 [ Mary Mapes Dodge], New York, to Mr. Clark n. d. AL, 1 p.

[Includes ALS on verso; asks Clark to write to Paul Hamilton Hayne; says that they can not use the offered manuscript due to a large stock of already accepted material.]

 Paul Hamilton Hayne, Copse Hill, Georgia, to [ Erastus Brainerd], [ London] [1878] ALS, 3 p.

[Includes penciled note "To Brainerd, 1878"; thanks him for acquainting him with the workings of the English magazine system; asks if [Theodore Dunton] Wattswould refuse his " Sonnet" if he sent it to the editors of The Examineror The Athenaeum; says he is astonished that [Brainerd] is not English but a fellow country man; says he would like to send him a poem, dedicated to Oliver Wendell Holmesfor his aid during the yellow fever pestilence, but has no copy; sends instead, [" Hiram Benner"], a poem by [ Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow; describes the condition the country is in, the restlessness of the people, his own hopelessness in regard to the government, the country's desire to obtain recognition in Great Britain; says he has given up the dream of ever visiting England; asks if [Brainerd] is a permanent resident of London; asks if he know Captain Randolph Hamilton; expresses pleasure at [Brainerd's] kind words regarding " Muscadines. "]

 Paul Hamilton Hayne, [ Copse Hill], to unknown 1882 ALS, 2 p.

[Includes printed copy of " The Decline of Faith"; talks about a volume of [his] poems to be published; says the volume is the handsomest and best illustrated book of the genre ever to have been issued in this country; says he is certain that the correspondent will share his joy; comments on [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow's death; says he has composed sonnets on the occasion at the request of Baldwin of New York; says the sonnets fell short of his own expectations because of his ill health.]