Death; Letters; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Rice, Sara Sigourney, 1831-1909;
In this brief letter dated April 20, 1875 and written from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "in great haste" and without his usual cordiality, replies to Sara Sigourney Rice about a testamonial to Edgar Allan Poe. For Poe's...
Borrowing and lending; Dow, Jesse E. (Jesse Erskine), 1809-1850; Health; Letters; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Thomas, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1806-1866;
In this letter dated March 16, 1843 and written from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Edgar Allan Poe informs his friends Jesse E. Dow and Frederick W. Thomas that he has arrived in Philadelphia safely and thanks them for all they have done for him. In...
In his letter dated November 29, 1835 and written from Augusta, Georgia, William Poe, Jr., a cousin, relates some interesting facts about the Georgian branch of the Poe family to Maria Clemm. The letter is testament to the piety of this branch of...
Balkan Peninsula--Maps--Early works to 1800;Italy--Maps--Early works to 1800; Europe, Central--Maps--Early works to 1800;Europe, Eastern--Maps--Early works to 1800
Hand-colored engraved map, elaborate figural cartouche, showing the course of the river Danube from Ingolstadt to the Black Sea and the adjacent Balkan countries, plus Italy, Hungary and Poland. Included are contiguous parts of the Adriatic and...
Andreas Bureus was Sweden’s ’father of cartography. King Karl IX gave him in 1603 the task of formulating a reliable map of the Nordic countries. Bureus trained Swedish surveyors and then teams of them were sent to survey various parts of the...
Mahón (Spain)--Maps--Early works to 1800;Fortification--Minorca (Spain)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Map shows plans of the city of Mahón and the fortress Castillo de San Felipe on the island of Minorca, one of the Balearic Islands near the coast of Catalonia. Inset map shows a plan of Fort St. Philippe, as it was called by the French, at the...
Seine-et-Marne (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800;Brie (France)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Decorative map showing Paris and the area in between the rivers Marne and Seine, as they meander through the Brie region, home of the Brie cheese, including Chateau Thierry, Provins and Fontainebleau. Shows fortified towns, woods, cities, lakes,...
Northumberland (England)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Seventeenth century double-page map of the county of Northumberland, England, probably originating from Blaeu's atlas published in 1645. Includes a decorative cartouche, mileage scale, numerous coats-of-arms of local noble families including Robert...
Hungary--Maps--Early works to 1800;Balkan Peninsula--Maps--Early works to 1800; Poland--Maps--Early works to 1800
The map shows the borders of the Kingdom of Hungary and other countries, non-existing independently and mostly under Ottoman Turkey's occupation, on the Balkan Peninsula in the first half of the 18th century. It lacks explanatory notes, so only...
Drawing; Sheet music; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sheet music of The Grasshopper, A Tragic Cantata, written by Innes Randolph and illustrated by A. J. Volck. This fanciful satire of Italian grand opera, dedicated to and no doubt performed by and for the members of the Wednesday Club of Baltimore,...
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893; Caricatures and cartoons; Etching;
Etching by Adalbert Volck in which General Benjamin F. Butler, who later ran for governor of Massachusetts many times before being elected in 1882, is portrayed as Simon Tappertit, a character in Charles Dickens' book, Barnaby Rudge. Tappertit was...
Drawing; Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908; Simpson, J. Palgrave (James Palgrave), 1807-1887; Theater programs; Wednesday Club (Baltimore, Md.);
Sketch by Adalbert Volck for the Wednesday Club's production of the three-act comedy, A Scrap of Paper, J. Palgrave Simpson's adaptation of Victorien Sardou's play, Les Pattes de mouche. In this sketch, two women standing in a well-furnished...
