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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. Feb 17, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00557::William Allen Butler Collection)//EN" "ViU00557.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 William Allen Butler Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 7160-a

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #7160-a Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
William Allen Butler Collection 1858-1894 7160-a 10 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

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

 Acquisition Information

Deposit 1964 May 22

 Funding Note

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

 Item Listing Letters D. Appleton & Co., New York, to Dear [Sirs ?] 1858 Jul 21 ALS, 2 p.

[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."]

 William Allen Butlerto J[oseph] H. Richards 1860 Jun 25 ALS, 1 p.

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

 William Allen Butler, New York, to Howard M[alcolm] Ticknor, Boston 1868 Apr 2 ALS, 1 p.

[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.]

 William Allen Butler, New York, to George E. Jardine 1878 Dec 26 ALS, 1 p.

[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.]

 William Allen Butler, New York, to [F.] K. Howell, Newark, New Jersey 1879 Jun 11 ALS, 1 p.

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

 William Allen Butler, [ New York], to John M. [Bush ?] [Burt ?] 1889 Aug 8 ALS, 1 p.

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

 William Allen Butler, Yonkers, New York, to Cephas Brainerd 1894 Jul 18 ALS, 3 p.

[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.]

 William Allen Butler, Yonkers, New York, to Henry Paret 1894 Oct 27 ALS, 1 p.

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

 William Allen Butler, [ New York City], Cephas Brainerd 1894 Oct 31 ALS, 1 p.

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