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[Identification of item], in the James Saxon Childers Papers, #3384, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchase 1949

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• Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
• Authors, American--Autographs.
• Authors, English--Autographs.
• Autographs--Collections.
• Childers, James Saxon, 1899-
• Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933.
• Harte, Bret, 1836-1902.
• Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.
• Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
• Masefield, John, 1878-1967.
• Rickman, John, 1771-1840.
• Rickman, Susannah Postlethwaite.
• Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894.
• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
• Southey, Robert, 1774-1843.
• Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941.

Writer and editor of Alabama.

Autograph letters from American and European literary figures, some written to Childers, others collected by him, and a few other items. Authors of letters include John Galsworthy (one letter), John Masefield (one), Matthew Arnold (one), Bret Harte (one), James Weldon Johnson (three), James Russell Lowell (one), Christina Rossetti (one), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (one), Robert Southey (fourteen), and Hugh Walpole (one). The Southey letters, 1822-1837 and undated, are addressed to John Rickman and Rickman's wife, Susannah Postlethwaite Rickman.