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Archival Collections Portal > Rare Book & Manuscript Library Collections > Finding Aid: Eleanor M. Tilton Papers
Eleanor M. Tilton Papers,
1770-1991
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Eleanor M. Tilton Papers, Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Summary Information
At a Glance
| Bib ID: | 4079404 View CLIO record |
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| Creator(s): | Tilton, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marguerite), 1913- |
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| Title: | Eleanor M. Tilton Papers,
1770-1991
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| Physical description: | 68 linear ft. (ca.93,000 items in 81 boxes, 58 file drawers, 88 card file boxes & 1 oversized folder).
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| Language(s): | In English
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| Access: |
This collection has no restrictions.
Box 1 located on-site. Boxes 2-82 and card files are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least two business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
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Arrangement
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 10 series:
Return to top Description
Scope and Content
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).
Series II: Cataloged Manuscripts
Series III: Cataloged Documents
Series IV: Photographs and Tintypes
Series V: General Files
Series VI: Subject Files
Including correspondence, manuscripts, documents & printed materials
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
All shelved Off-Site
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
Return to top Using the Collection
Partially Offsite
Access Restrictions
This collection has no restrictions.
 Box 1 located on-site. Boxes 2-82 and card files are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least two business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
Restrictions on Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; 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.
Return to top About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University Libraries Digital Library Program Division
Processing Information
Cataloged 09/--/89 Christina Hilton Fenn
Machine readable finding aid generated from MARC-AMC source via XSLT conversion June 26, 2009
Finding aid written in English.
2010-03-31
Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.
Return to top Subject Headings
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives. All links open new windows.
Genre/FormSubjects| Heading | CUL Archives:
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| Actors. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Actors. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Actresses. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Airy, George Biddell, Sir, 1801-1892. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| American letters--Editing. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| American literature. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Ames, Annie Louise. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Authors. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Baker, George Melville, 1832-1890. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Barnard College--Faculty. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Bryant, Jacob, 1715-1804. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Bugbee, James M. (James McKellar), 1837-1913. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Burnap, Beniamin, fl.1700. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Burnap, Joseph, fl.1700. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Criticism, Textual. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Currier, Thomas Franklin. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Dillon, Richard J. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Eatton, John. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Editors. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Emerson family. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Fowles, John, 1926-2005. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Gillett, Frederick Huntington, 1851-1935. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Gunn, Elisha, fl.1796. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Gunn, William, fl.1796. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Henley, Samuel, 1740-1815. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Hinman, R. R. (Royal Ralph), 1785-1868. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Hoar family. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Howison, George Holmes, 1834-1917. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Letters--Editing. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Literature publishing. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Meery, Hans L. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Nickools, Thomas, fl.1700. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Philosophers. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Phipps, Samuel, fl.1700. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Physicians. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Poets. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Quay, Matthew Stanley, 1833-1904. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Richardson, John, fl.1700. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Root, Elisha, fl.1796. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Root, Joseph, fl.1796. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Root, Martin, fl.1796. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Scholarly publishing. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Scholars. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Theater--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Ticknor and Fields. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Tilton family. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Transcendentalists (New England) | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Verne, Bernard Paul. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Ward family. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Ward, Samuel Gray. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Weiss, John, 1818-1879. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Wilson, Carroll A. (Carroll Atwood), 1886-1947. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Women college teachers. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
| Women scholars. | Portal | CLIO | ArchiveGRID |
Return to top History / Biographical Note
Biographical Note
Professor of English, Barnard College, 1959-1979, scholar of American literature, editor & authority on Ralph W. Emerson. Columbia University Ph.D., 1947.
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