Eleanor M. Tilton papers, 1770-1991
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1245
- Bib ID:
- 4079404 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Tilton, Eleanor M (Eleanor Marguerite), 1913-
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 68 linear feet (81 boxes 58 file drawers 88 card file boxes 1 oversized folder)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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Box 1 located on-site. Boxes 2-82 and card files are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
This collection includes nine letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as letters of Louis Agassiz, Amos Bronson Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Charles Sumner, and John Greenleaf Whittier. In addition, there are two incomplete manuscripts by Emerson and one document from the Liverpool Custom-house signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne as Consul for the United States. The collection also includes the corrected typescript, index, and page and galley proofs for Thomas Franklin Currier, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (New York, 1953) which was edited by Professor Tilton. Also, some early correspondence and photographs of the Tilton family and friends. There are letters from the actors Annie Louise Ames, Richard J. Dillon, and Hans L. Meery to Tilton's grandfather, Bernard Paul Verne, as well as photographs, tintypes, and daguerreotypes of the Verne family and friends.
1992 Addition: Her professional papers include correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and printed materials on many aspects of 18th and 19th century American literature, especially literary New England. Among her papers are files compiled in editing volumes 7 and 8 of THE LETTERS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON (New York, 1939-1991). These files contain correspondence, card files, notes, transcripts, photocopies, book typescripts, printed materials, and other related items. There are also similar files relating to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and to her books, AMIABLE AUTOCRAT: A BIOGRAPHY OF DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (New York, 1947) and LITERARY BANTLINGS: ADDENDA TO THE HOLMES BIBLIOGRAPHY (New York, 1957).
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Including correspondence, manuscripts, documents & printed materials
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 10 series.
- Series I: Cataloged Correspondence
- Series II: Cataloged Manuscripts
- Series III: Cataloged Documents
- Series IV: Photographs and Tintypes
- Series V: General Files
- Series VI: Subject Files
- Series VII: Printed Materials
- Series VIII: Ralph Waldo Emerson Files
- Subseries VIII.1: Book Manuscripts of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Subseries VIII.2: Card Files re. Emerson and Holmes
- Subseries VIII.3: Correspondence re. Emerson
- Subseries VIII.4: Hoar Family of Concord, MA
- Subseries VIII.5: Notebooks re. Emerson
- Subseries VIII.6: Notes/Miscellaneous
- Subseries VIII.7: Photocopies of Letteres to and from Emerson
- Subseries VIII.8: Printed Materials
- Subseries VIII.9: Subject Files
- Subseries VIII.10: Transcripts of Letters to amd from Emerson
- Subseries VIII.11: Typescripts re. Emerson
- Subseries VIII.12: Ward Family of Boston
- Subseries VIII.13: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Subseries VIII.14: Holmes Research Materials
- Series IX: Henry David Thoreau Files
- Series X: Oversize - General Files
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
Box 1 located on-site. Boxes 2-82 and card files are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Single photocopies 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.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Eleanor M. Tilton papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Eleanor M. Tilton, 1979, 1983& 1992.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Tilton, Eleanor M. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1979. Accession number--M-79.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/89.
Revision Description
2010-03-31 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Biographical / Historical
Professor of English, Barnard College, 1959-1979, scholar of American literature, editor and authority on Ralph W. Emerson. Columbia University Ph.D., 1947.
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