Collection of over 150 items, mostly letters, handwritten and typed poems, and signatures, each signed by a notable literary figure of the 19th or 20th century. Highlights include: Henry W. Longfellow; John Greenleaf Whittier; Matthew Arnold; Edgar Lee Masters; W. D. Snodgrass; Marianne Moore; John Ashberry, Donald Hall, Grace Schulman, and Brad Leithauser; Edgar Guest; and John Masefield. Also includes three books signed by their authors: Irvin S. Cobb; Witter Bynner; and Richard Aldington. In overall very good to fine condition.
Additional signers include: Edwin Arnold, Brooks Atkinson, Kendall Banning, John Vance Cheney, Florence Earle Coates, Cid Corman, Glenn Ward Dresbach, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, Strickland Gillilan, Marion Franklin Ham, John Hollander, Barbara Howes, John A. Joyce, Reginald Wright Kauffman, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Susanne K. Langer, Lucy Larcom, Irving Layton, Elias Lieberman, Douglas Malloch, Arthur Brisbane McGee, Joaquin Miller, Angela Morgan, George Pope Morris, Louise Chandler Moulton, George O’Neil, Pedro Pietri, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Samuel Rogers, Maurice Rostand, Archibald Rutledge, Lydia Sigourney, Agnes Strickland, Auguste-Louis (Baron de Stael-Holstein), Edith Thomas, Charles Hanson Towne, Vernon Watkins, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ella W. Wilcox, and Charles Wright.
