Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection, ca. 1820-1900 (bulk 1880-1890)

Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection, ca. 1820-1900 (Bulk: 1880-1890)

1 archives box (0.5 linear ft.)

Abstract:

Consists of 59 manuscript items, chiefly letters and dating from 1880-1890, collected by Samuel Chapin (AC 1880) and preserved by Marcus P. Kiley (AC 1919). The collection includes materials of such individuals as Lyman Abbott, Edward Beecher, William Lloyd Garrison, Edward Everett Hale, Rudyard Kipling and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Terms of Access and Use:

Restrictions on access:

There is no restriction on access to the Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.

Restrictions on use:

Requests for permission to publish material from the Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Scope and Contents of the Collection

59 manuscript items, chiefly letters and dating from 1880-1890, that were collected by Samuel Chapin (AC 1880) when he was on the editorial staff of St Nicholas Magazine. The collection was preserved and later presented to Amherst College by his friend and fellow alumnus Marcus P. Kiley (AC 1919). The collection includes materials of such individuals as Lyman Abbott, Edward Beecher, William Lloyd Garrison, Edward Everett Hale, Rudyard Kipling and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by author name.

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

There is no restriction on access to the Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.

Restrictions on use:

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection [Box #, Folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library

History of the Collection

Processing Information

Additional Information

Contact Information

Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Robert Frost Library
PO Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002-5000

Phone: (413) 542-2299
Fax: (413) 542-2692

Email Reference Form: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/askus
URL: http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives

Language

English.

Additional Finding Aids Available

All items in this collection are also described in the finding aid for the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.

Sponsor

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Contents List

Abbott, Jacob, Farmington, Maine, to [Lyman Abbott], n. p., ALS 2p.	1871 Aug 14		Box 1: folder 1

Abbott, Lyman, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p.	1886 Dec 28		Box 1: folder 1

Abbott, Lyman, New York, to Roswell Smith, New York, TLS 1p.	1881 May 10		Box 1: folder 1

Abbott, Lyman, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Roswell Smith, New York, ALS 2p.	1883 Mar 7		Box 1: folder 1

Barnum, Phineas Taylor, Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Lyman Abbott, [New York]	1878 Nov 22		Box 1: folder 1

Beecher, Charles, Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p.	1882 May 17		Box 1: folder 1

Beecher, Edward, New York, to Lyman Abbott, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, ALS 1p.	[ca. 1880] Jul 12		Box 1: folder 1

Beecher, Edward, Brooklyn, New York, to [Henry Bowen?], [New York], ALS 1p.	1882 Aug 25		Box 1: folder 1

Beecher, Edward, Brooklyn, [New York], to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p.	1882 May 16		Box 1: folder 1

Beecher, James Chaplin, Brooklyn, [New York], to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 3p.	1882 May 23		Box 1: folder 1

Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut, Elmira, New York, to Edward Beecher, Brooklyn, New York, AL 1p.	1882 May 17		Box 1: folder 1

Birch, Reginald Bathurst, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 3p. with illustrations	[ca. 1880]		Box 1: folder 1

Birch, Reginald Bathurst, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. with illustrations	[ca. 1880?]		Box 1: folder 1

Brooks, Noah, Newark, NJ, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 2p. plus annotated ms note by Mrs. Dodge to Samuel Austin Chapin	1888 Feb 13		Box 1: folder 1

Brooks, Phillips, Boston, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p.	1879 May 31		Box 1: folder 1

Brooks, Phillips, Boston, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p.	1881 Sep 26		Box 1: folder 1

Burroughs, John, West Park, New York, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 1p.	1888 Feb 16		Box 1: folder 1

Chateaubriand, Francois René, Vicomte de, Paris [?], to Madame de Feletz, n. p., facsimile 1p.	[ca. 1820?] Feb 5		Box 1: folder 1

Coolidge, Susan, Newport, [Rhode Island?], to an unknown person, n. p., ALS 2p.	[ca. 1900?] Oct		Box 1: folder 1

Curtis, George William, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p.	1869 May 15		Box 1: folder 1

Damrosch, Walter, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 1p.	[18]83 Nov 21		Box 1: folder 1

Damrosch, Walter, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p.	[18]83 Dec 6		Box 1: folder 1

Damrosch, Walter, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 1p.	[18]83 Dec 11		Box 1: folder 1

Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p.	1884 Jul 26		Box 1: folder 1

Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p.	[ca. 1890?]		Box 1: folder 1

Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 4p.	[ca. 1890?]		Box 1: folder 1

Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley, Rutland, Vermont, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 2p.	[1884 Mar 3		Box 1: folder 1

Eggleston, Edward, Lake George, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 3p.	1885 Feb 25		Box 1: folder 1

Foote, Mary Hallock (Mrs. Arthur De Wint), Boise, Idaho, to [William Foyal Clarke], n. p., ALS 3p.	1885 Aug 1		Box 1: folder 1

Garrison, William Lloyd, Roxbury, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p.	1867 May 8		Box 1: folder 1

Gough, John B., Worcester, [Massachusetts], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p.	1872 Jul 25		Box 1: folder 1

Greeley, Horace, autograph note identified as "Editorial for Tribune"	[ca. 1865?]		Box 1: folder 1

Hale, Edward Everett, Roxbury, to an unknown person, n. p., ANS 1p.	[ca. 1890?]		Box 1: folder 1

Harper, Fletcher, n. p., to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ANS 1p.	1869 Nov 16		Box 1: folder 1

Hawthorne, Julian, envelopes addressed to St Nicholas magazine from J.H., 3p.	[1885]		Box 1: folder 1

Holland, Josiah Gilbert, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p.	1874 May 20		Box 1: folder 1

Jackson, Helen Hunt, Berkeley [?], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p.	1880 Dec 11		Box 1: folder 1

Jenks, Tudor Storrs, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p.	[18]91 Dec 24		Box 1: folder 1

Jewett, Sarah Orne, n. p., to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p.	[ca. 1880?]		Box 1: folder 1

Kipling, Rudyard, Drawings to guide the illustrator of the Jungle Book stories (W.H. Drake) in St Nicholas magazine, 3 1/2 p. & TNS-S.A.C., AN-N.F.M.	[1893?]		Box 1: folder 1

Kipling, Rudyard, Drawings to guide the illustrator of the Jungle Book stories (W.H. Drake) in St Nicholas magazine, 4 1/2 p. & ANS-M.K.	[1893?]		Box 1: folder 1

Lathrop, Rose H., New York, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 1p.	[ca. 1880?] Jun		Box 1: folder 1

Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p.	[ca. 1900?] Jun		Box 1: folder 1

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p.	1881 Sep 30		Box 1: folder 1

Lossing, Benson Jonathan, Dover Plains, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p.	1878 Aug 9		Box 1: folder 1

Mitchell, Maria, n. p., to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p.	[ca. 1870?]		Box 1: folder 1

Page, Thomas Nelson, Richmond, Virginia, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, New York, TNS 1p.	1888 Feb 17		Box 1: folder 1

Porter, Noah, [New Haven, Connecticut], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p.	1881 Jan 14		Box 1: folder 1

Reid, Whitelaw, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p.	1877 Jun 19		Box 1: folder 1

Rives, Amélie, Castle Hill, to [William Foyal Clarke], n. p., ALS 2p.	1888 Mar 7		Box 1: folder 1

Roe, Edward Payson, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p.	1881 Oct 24		Box 1: folder 1

Roe, Edward Payson, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 1p.	1884 Mar 27		Box 1: folder 1

Scudder, Horace Elisha, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p.	1880 Sep 14		Box 1: folder 1

Storrs, Richard Salter, Brooklyn, [New York], to [Lyman Abbott], n. p., ALS 2p.	[ca. 1890?] Feb		Box 1: folder 1

Stowe, Charles, Saco, to Edward Beecher, n. p., ALS 4p. & ALS of E.B. to brother	1882 Jun 9		Box 1: folder 1

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, autograph signature	[ca. 1880?]		Box 1: folder 1

Thaxter, Celia, Appledore, Isle of Shoals, to The Century Co. "Publisher", n. p., ALS 1p.	1883 Jun 7		Box 1: folder 1

Thaxter, Celia, Shoals, to [Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge] "Editor", n. p., ALS 2p.	1883 Aug 21		Box 1: folder 1

Thaxter, Celia, Hotel Clifford, to [Mary Mapes Dodge], "Editor", n. p., ALS 1p.	[18]88 Feb 14		Box 1: folder 1

Whittier, John Greenleaf, Danvers, to [Lyman Abbott], n. p., ALS 2p.	1880 Dec 20		Box 1: folder 1

Search Terms

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Contributors

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922.
Amherst College. Class of 1880. Chapin.
Amherst College. Class of 1919. Kiley.
Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895.
Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893.
Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
Kiley, Marcus Philip, 1897-1981.
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.

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