PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::00747::Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection)//EN" "ViU00747.sgm" A Guide to the Rufus Wilmot Griswold CollectionGriswold, Rufus Wilmot. 7104-aProcessed by Special Collections Dept. staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Courtney BoissonnaultFunded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. University of Virginia Library © 1997 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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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::00747::Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection)//EN" "ViU00747.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 Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature 7104-a

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 1997 Special Collections Department Staff 1997 Courtney Boissonnault Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, #7104-a Descriptive Summary University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept.
Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA
Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection 1841-1846 7104-a 5 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

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See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

 Preferred Citation

Rufus Wilmot Griswold Collection, Accession 7104-a, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

 Acquisition Information

Deposit [ 1963 December 17] 1964 July 23

 Funding Note

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

 Item Listing Letters Rufus Wilmot Griswoldto James Kirke Paulding 1841 October 1 ALS, 2 p.

[Requests additional poems and biographical information to be included in a proposed new collection to be titled The Poets and Poetry of America. ]

 Rufus Wilmot Griswoldto George Roberts 1841 November 1 ALS, 1 p.

[Recommends that George B. Leiberbecome the new agent in Philadelphiafor the [Boston] Notion. ]

 Rufus Wilmot Griswoldto Edwin Percy Whipple [ca. 1846] November 15 ALS, 3 p.

[Discusses current literary projects and requests assistance in obtaining pamphlet by [Orestes] Brownsonand in writing a brief sketch on [Francis] Bowenincluding Coleridgism, Emersonism, transcendentalism--"a retrospect of philosophy in the United States. " Also mentions [William Gilmore] Simms, Edgar Allan Poeand [Joel Tyler] Headley. ]

 Rufus Wilmot Griswoldto [Spencer Fullerton] Baird n.d. ALS, 1 p.

[Concerns summer travels of friends and himself. Writes scathingly of "the learned Blacksmith" ( Elilu Burritt), William Hewittsand Mary Hewitt. ]

 Prints Portrait of Rufus Wilmot Griswoldby "Burt" n.d. Print