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Editorial Correspondence of The Independent
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Kinsley Twining (1832-1901) was an American clergyman and editor.
This collection consists of selected editorial correspondence of the New York weekly The Independent, founded in 1848 by Henry Chandler Bowen as a Congregationalist journal which later expanded in scope to include articles on literary and social topics. Successive editors were Theodore Tilton (1856-1861 and 1864-1871), Henry Ward Beecher (1861-1864), William Hayes Ward (1868-1916), Kinsley Twining, literary editor (1880-1901), and Hamilton Holt (1897-1921).
The collection contains approximately 85 letters, 1882-1899, to Kinsley Twining (1832-1901), a Congregationalist minister, William Hayes Ward (1835-1916), a Congregationalist minister, Orientalist, and professor of Latin and natural science, Miss Susan Hayes Ward, and Hamilton Holt by various contributors to The Independent. Some of the authors included are William Gordon Blaikie, Bliss Carman, Paul Leicester Ford, Louise Guiney, Tudor Jenks, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edmund Kirke, Philip B. Barston, E. C. Stedman, John Tabb for Mrs. Sidney Lanier, and others. Eight manuscripts, primarily of verse, are also present, including "On the Stairs" and "At an Easter Market" by Bliss Carman, "The House by the Side of the Road" by Sam Walter Foss, and "True Happiness" by W. J. Linton. There are also a few clipped autograph signatures and newspaper clippings.
Arranged alphabetically.
Purchased from David Holmes in 1997.
This collection was processed in 2003. Finding aid written in 2003.
No appraisal information is available.
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- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Authors and publishers -- United States -- 19th century
- Congregational churches -- Clergy -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Editors -- New York (N.Y.) -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Newspaper publishing -- New York (N.Y.) -- 19th century
- Poets, American -- 19th century
- Publishers and publishing -- New York (N.Y.) -- 19th century -- Correpondence
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- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2003
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Collection is open for research use.
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
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