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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word 2000, created by Alicia Pearia, 4/16/2002 Description is in English Feb 19, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu02321::A Guide to the Papers of Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie)//EN" "viu02321.xml" 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 Papers of Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, 1842-1860 A Collection in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library The Special Collections Department 8010-a

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2002 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Papers of Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, 1842-1860 8010-a This collection consists of 8 items. English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Papers of Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, Accession #8010-a , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the Library on September 10, 1966.

 Scope and Content Information

The collection contains two manuscripts: "To Harry Munroe," and an untitled essay on Greek and Italian brigandage.

Letters discuss her health, the weather, her writing including "Fairy Fingers" and "Mimic Life," Elizabeth H. Appleton, Thomas Crawford, Catherine Hayes, Mary Morris Hamilton Schuyler and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, Ion Perdicaris, William Foushee Ritchie, Randolph Rogers, Frank Slayton, Julia G. O. Smyth, and Henry Alexander Wise.

 Variant Forms of Name Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie Anna Cora Ogden Ritchie Anna Cora Ritchie Anna Ritchie Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Anna Cora Mowatt Anna Mowatt Anna Cora Ogden Anna Ogden Helen Berkeley Helen Berkley Contents List Manuscripts "To Henry Monroe" 1860 Dec 4 AMsS, 2 p.

Poem

 "Greek and Italian Brigandage is a subject of almost as much interest in England as in Italy and Greece . . ." n.d. AMs, 12 p.

Essay

 Letters Anna Cora [Ogden] Mowatt [Ritchie], New York, to James T[homas]Fields 1842 Sep 23 ALS, 2 p.

Discusses in detail: her desire for his help in publishing "a moral tale for the young" under a pseudonym. Mentions: Edwin Percy Whipple, Boston, William Davis Ticknor, and New World.

 A[nna]C[ora Ogden]Mowatt [Ritchie], Greenfield Hill, CT, to Catharine O Sargent, Boston, MA 184[6] Jul 23 ALS, 3 p.

Discusses in detail: Julia Gabriella Ogden and her fiance Joseph Kennedy Smyth. Mentions: Samuel Gouverneur Ogden, Julia Fairlie Ogden, Typeeby Herman Melville, and Lizzy.

 [Anna Cora Ogden] Mowatt [Ritchie], Boston, MA, to Mr. Campbell 1852 May 31 AL, 1 p.

Discusses briefly Mr. Campbell's having most of her published works.

 Anna Cora [Ogden] Mowatt Ritchie, Richmond, VA, to Harper and Brothers, New York 1858 Feb ALS, 2 p.

Discusses Elizabeth Haven Appleton, on whose behalf she is submitting a manuscript. Mentions Cincinnati, OH, and Harper's New Monthly Magazine.

 Anna Cora [Ogden] Mowatt Ritchie, Astoria, to S[amuel] B[ulkley]Ruggles 1858 Aug 25 ALS, 3 p.

Discusses in detail support for Mary Morris Hamilton Schuyler's organization for fund-raising for Mount Vernon Discusses briefly: Louise Ingersoll Greenough; her desire to see Ruggles; Mary Rutledge Fogg; Octavia Walton LeVert; the coincidence of the landing of the transatlantic telegraph cable and the first use of steam towage on a canal being on the same day. Mentions: Boston, Enquirer, Samuel Gouverneur Ogden, New York, Tennessee, Alabama, and Edward Everett.

 Engraving Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, head and shoulders, right side, by J.C. Buttre, New York n.d. Engraving signed