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Cataloged.
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The collection consists of letters from celebrities in various fields, collected by Harry Harkness Flagler, including some addressed to him. Included are letters of Ambrose Bierce, Thomas A. Edison, Edwin Forrest, Andrew Jackson, Rudyard Kipling, Richard Mansfield, John D. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Ruskin, Constantin Stanislavsky, and George Washington.
The collection includes a bound volume of five Dickens letters, titled "Charles Dickens A Most Interesting Series of Five Autograph Letters To his American Friends, Mr. and Mrs. David C. Colder 1842-1854."
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Harry Harkness Flagler letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
John Ruskin letter is on: microfilm.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Source of acquisition--Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1969. Accession number--M-69.
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.