Constance Fenimore Woolson: A Catalogue of Letters by Sharon L. Dean

Sharon L. Dean, "Constance Fenimore Woolson's Letters to Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin," Resources for American Literary Study, vol. 31 (2007): 126-155. Copyright 2007 AMS Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

Update 9/26/09, from Sharon Dean: Twenty-five addition letters to Samuel Mather, Jr., privately owned, are on microfilm at Western Reserve Historical Society.

New: More Letters

1 letter to Miss Mary Booth, privately owned

1 letter to Mrs. Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham at the Western Reserve Historical Society

1 letter to Edward Strickland at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard

2 letters to Edward Everett Hale in the Elsa Noble Collection at Univ. Pennsylvania

Thanks to Professor Dean and AMS Press for making this resource available.

Typed for the web by Mary Pilch, Washington State University.

Name	Place of Origin	Date	Number	Archive
Oscar Fay Adams	Geneva	July 10	1	Phillips Exeter Academy
Thomas Bailey Aldrich	Baden-Baden; Sorrento	June 30; Apr. 10	2	Houghton/Harvard
William Wilberforce Baldwin	Cairo; Cheltenham; Florence; Milan; Oxford; Richmond, Eng.; Venice	1886-Dec. 17, 1893	36	Pierpont Morgan Library, NY
Mrs. W. W. Baldwin	Florence	Apr. 15; Dec. 25, 1890; Easter 1891	3	Pierpont Morgan Library, NY
Miss Mary Booth	W. 32nd St., NY	Feb. 2, 1871	1	Princeton University
John Eliot Bowen	Geneva	July 9	1	Barnard College
R. R. Bowker	Cleveland; St. Augustine	May 13, 1873; Jan. 19, 1875	2	Library of Congress
Mrs. Dodge	Geneva	Sept. 13	1	Princeton University
D.C. Eaton	Yonkers	Aug. 15	1	Princeton University
D.C. Eaton	Shelby, NC	July 3	1	University of Virginia
Miss Farnian	Charleston	Apr. 17, 1875	1	Historical Society, Mackinac Island
Mr. Fay	St. Augustine	Feb. 26, 1876	1	University of Virginia
J. B. Gilder	Florence	June 10	1	NY Public Library
J.L. & J.B. Gilder	Florence	Jan. 28	1	Rollins College
Daniel Gilman	Cairo	no date	1	Johns Hopkins University
Mr. Gilmore	Cheltenham	Jan. 30, 1891	1	Johns Hopkins University
Joel Chandler Harris	Cairo	Mar. 11, 1890	1	Emory University
*John and Clara Hay	Baden-Baden Cheltenham; Florence; Geneva; Leamington; London; Venice; Vienna; Washington	1879-Dec. 12, 1890	John: 18 Clara: 3	Brown University
*Paul Hamilton Hayne	Charleston; Cooperstown; Darlington Co., SC; Goshen, VA; Hibernia, FL; Mentone, France; St. Augustine; Summerville, SC; W. 17th St., NY	1875-1876; 1878; 1880	15	Duke University
Mrs. Houts	Florence	Oct. 15	1	Vassar College
Elinor Howells	Hampstead Health	Dec. 24, 1882; July 13 or 15; Nov. 5	3+ Fragment	Houghton/Harvard
William Dean Howells	Florence; Shelby, NC; Rome; St. Augustine; W. 17th St., NY; Yonkers	June 28, 1876; May 4; Oct. 27; Nov. 5; Dec. 11	6	Houghton/Harvard
William Dean Howells (?)	Cleveland	Aug. 24, 1871	1	Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library, Fremont, OH
Winifred Howells	Venice	May 11, 1883	1	Houghton/Harvard
*Henry James	Leipzig; Sorrento; Venice	Feb. 12, 1882; Aug 30, 1882; June 7, 1883; June 24, 1883	4	Houghton/Harvard
L.E. Jones	Venice	Nov. 24, 1893	1	Brigham Young University
Little Readers	Sorrento	Mar. 18	1	Knox College, Illinois
Katharine Loring	Cheltenham; Florence	Feb. 15; Oct. 9; Nov. 16; Sept. 19, 1890	4	Beverly Historical Society, Massachusetts
Hamilton Mabie	Venice	June 18, 1883	1	Duke University
Mrs. Markland	no place	June 12	1	Ohio State University
Elizabeth Mather	St. Augustine	Dec. 4, 1875	1	Rollins College
Elizabeth Mather	Venice	Apr. 25, 1883; May 20, 1883	2	WRHS
Flora Mather	Florence	May 6	1	WRHS
Katherine Livingston Mather	Cheltenham; Engelberg; Florence; Geneva; Leamington; London; Lucerne; Mentone; France; Oxford; Rome; Sienna; Sorrento; Venice	Dec. 22, 1879-Dec. 13, 1893	25	WRHS (24 of these were transcribed by someone, and the orginals appear to be lost)
Samuel Mather Jr.	Athens; Cairo; Cheltenham; Dover; Florence; London; Lucerne; Richmond; Eng; steamship Gallia; Vienna	1880s-Nov. 23, 1893	41	WRHS
Samuel Mather Sr.	Florence; London; Lucerne; steamship Gallia	Nov. 24, 1879; Feb. 23, 1887	5	WRHS (transcribed as those to Flora above).
Mrs. McKibbin	Florence	no date	1	University of Virginia
Mrs. Nixon	Leamington	Dec. 5	1	University of Virginia
James Osgood	Charleston	Dec. 1, 1875	1	Historical Society, Mackinac Island
James Osgood	Florence	Dec. 30, 1886	1	Huntington Library, Los Angeles
James Osgood	Asheville	Oct. 22, 1875	1	Massachusetts Historical Society
Miss Rebekah Owen	Oxford	Apr. 16, 1893; May 9, 1893; Apr. 18	4	Colby College
B. Phillips	Lucerne	Aug. 16	1	NY Public Library
Miss Richards	Baden-Baden	24-Jul	1	University of Virginia
W.H. Rideing	Switzerland	July 12, 1883	1	WRHS
Scribner's	London	Feb. 2; May 14	2	Princeton University
Scribner's	Shelby, NC	July 3	1	University of Virginia
Sir	Lucerne	Aug. 9	1	University of Virginia
E.C.Stedman	Asheville; Baden-Baden; Cooperstown; Florence; Mentone, France; St. Augustine; Switzerland; Washington; Yonkers	June 12, 1874-Aug. 10	17	Columbia University
E.C.Stedman	Yonkers	Oct. 28	1	Princeton University
E.C. Stedman	Cooperstown	Oct. 10, 1876	1	Yale University
O.F.R.Waite	Oxford	Aug. 15, 1892	1	Fiske Free Library, Claremont, NH
William Collins Whitney	Oxford	Feb. 26, 1893	1	Library of Congress

Letters fragments and unidentified letters

Cairns Collection, University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1 written from Oxford on Aug. 30
University of Michigan: 1
Fragments of letter pasted in books
Located in archives at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL: in Henry Mills Alden, Oxford Guide. Oxford: Alden & Co., n.d.
Located in books in Clare Benedict Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland OH. MS. 4830:
in Henry Mills Alden, God in His World: An Interpretation.* New York: Harper, 1890 (letters from Cheltenham: Florence;
Llandudno, North Wales; Venice; dated Dec. 2, 1885; Nov. 21, 1889; May 11, 1890; Nov. 20).
in Clare Benedict, Five Generations (1785-1923). Vol 2, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Vol. 3, The Benedicts Abroad
in Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. Boston; Osgood, 1876 (inscribed to Clare and Willie [Benedict]).
in Andrew Elliot, European Backgrounds. N.p.: n.p., 1912
in Andrew Elliot, The Little Lost Prince. Edinburg: n.p., n.p.
in C.H. Grandgent, Italian Grammar. Boston: Osgood, 1876 (addressed to G. Pomeroy Keese).
in E.C. Stedman, Victorian Poets. Boston: Osgood, 1876 (addressed to My Dear Friend and to Clara Benedict).
in Woolson, Anne. New York: Harper, 1882 (inscribed to Miss Guilford).
in Woolson, Dorothy. New York: Harper, 1896 (inscribed to Alden).
in Woolson, Front Yard. New York: Harper, 1895.
in Woolson, Horace Chase. London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1894 (addressed to My Dear Friend and to Clara Benedict).
in Woolson, Jupiter Lights. London: Sampson Low, 1889 (addressed to Alden).
in Woolson, Mentone, Cairo, Corfu. New York: Harper, 1896 (addressed to Alden).
in Woolson, Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches. New York: Appleton, 1880.
in Woolson, Two Women. New York: Appleton, 1862 (inscribed to Linda Guilford).
*Letters Published
Excerpts from those Henry Mills Alden in Woolson, Constance Fenimore Woolson: Selected Stories and Travel Narratives, ed. Victoria Brehm and Sharon L. Dean.

John and Clara Hay in Alice Hall Petry, "Always, Your Attached Friend: The Unpublished Letters of Constance Fenimore
Woolson to John and Clara Hay."
Paul Hamilton Hayne in Jay B. Hubbell, "Some New Letters of Constance Fenimore Woolson."
Henry James in The Letters of Henry James, 3: 523-52
Fragments of letters in Clara Benedict, Five Generations, especially vol. 2, Constance Fenimore Woolson. (Many of these
approximately eighty-five letters are excepts from archived letters and are being cross-referenced. Correspondents
include Jane Averell Carter, Emily Veron Clark, Mary Benedict Crowell, J.L. and J.B. Guilford, George Pomeroy Keese,
Elizabeth Guin Mather, Katherine Livingston Mather, Samuel Mather Jr., Harriet Benedict Sherman, Arabella Carter
Washburn, and Flora Payne Whitney.)

Constance Fenimore Woolson: A Catalogue of Letters