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.

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).

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into 10 series.

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.

Subject Headings

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Advertisements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Announcements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Applications CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Articles CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bibliographies CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Biographies (literary works) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Brochures CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bulletins CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Calendars (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Card files CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Certificates CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Clippings (Information Artifacts) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Contracts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Daguerreotypes (photographs) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dissertations CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drafts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Engravings (prints) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Essays CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Etchings (prints) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Examinations (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Financial records CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Galley proofs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Genealogies (histories) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Greeting cards CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Guidebooks CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
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Pamphlets CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
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Playbills CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poems CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
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Reports CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reprints CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reviews (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Résumés (personnel records) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
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indexes (reference sources) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Airy, George Biddell, 1801-1892 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ames, Annie Louise CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Baker, George M (George Melville), 1832-1890 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Barnard College -- Faculty CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bryant, Jacob, 1715-1804 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bugbee, James M (James McKellar), 1837-1913 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Burnap, Beniamin, fl.1700 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Burnap, Joseph, fl.1700 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Currier, Thomas Franklin, 1873-1946 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dillon, Richard J. CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Eatton, John CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fowles, John, 1926-2005 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gillett, Frederick Huntington, 1851-1935 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gunn, Elisha, fl.1796 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gunn, William, fl.1796 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Henley, Samuel, 1740-1815 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hinman, R. R (Royal Ralph), 1785-1868 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Howison, George Holmes, 1834-1917 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Meery, Hans L CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Nickools, Thomas, fl.1700 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Phipps, Samuel, fl.1700 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Quay, Matthew Stanley, 1833-1904 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Richardson, John, active 1700 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Root, Elisha, fl.1796 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Root, Joseph, fl.1796 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Root, Martin, fl.1796 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ticknor and Fields CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Verne, Bernard Paul CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ward, Samuel Gray CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Weiss, John, 1818-1879 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wilson, Carroll A (Carroll Atwood), 1886-1947 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Place
American literature CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Actors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Actors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Actresses CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Criticism, Textual CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Deeds CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Editors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Literature publishing CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Philosophers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Physicians CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poets CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Portraits CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scholarly publishing CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scholars CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Transcendentalists (New England) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women college teachers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Women scholars CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID