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Richard Harding Davis collection
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Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]181 South College Avenue, Newark, DE 19717-5267
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the University of Delaware Library Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Richard Harding Davis, American writer, journalist, and war correspondent, was born April 18, 1864, in Philadelphia and died April 11, 1916. He was the son of newspaper editor Lemuel Clarke and Rebecca Harding Davis, a novelist.
Davis began his writing career as a journalist and is perhaps best known for his work as a war correspondent, reporting on the War of 1898 in Cuba, the Boer War in South Africa, and World War I. Davis's articles appeared among the pages of many newspapers, including the
Philadelphia Record , the Philadelphia Press , and the New York Evening Sun .Many of Davis's works enjoyed mass circulation through popular periodicals such as
Stage , Scribner's Magazine , Harper's Weekly , Harper's New Monthly Magazine , Collier's Weekly , Outing , Metropolitan Magazine , and the New York Times Magazine . Though Davis had aspirations for a literary career, producing both plays and novels, his works were not always received with fanfare."Richard Harding Davis." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Biography Resource Center). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (accessed October 2008).
The Richard Harding Davis collection is a small association collection containing six autographed letters signed by the author; four newspapers clippings; several photographs of Davis and his estate, Crossroads Farm in Mt. Kisco, New York; and a line print of an engraving by Charles Dana Gibson entitled "No. V. The Opera Box. Copyright, 1892. The Century Co."
The collection is a gift of a descendant of the Smidt family who purchased the Crossroads Farm estate.
The materials are arranged chronologically by date.
- Box 1: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (18 inches)
Gift of Britton Goodling, 2005.
Processed and encoded by Christopher La Casse, October 2009.
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- University of Delaware Library Special Collections
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- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Finding Aid Date
- 2009 October 5
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce isrequired from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?askspec
Collection Inventory
Letters range from the provenance of the collection's materials to letters written by Richard Harding Davis concerning financial matters.
Physical Description12 items
Includes several photographs of Davis and his estate, Crossroads Farm in Mt. Kisco, New York.
Physical Description54 items
Clippings include articles looking back at Richard Harding Davis's life.
Physical Description4 items
A line print of an engraving by Charles Dana Gibson entitled "No. V. The Opera Box. Copyright, 1892. The Century Co."
Physical Description1 item