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Re: literary scholar in search of woman poet's manuscripts



At 08:59 PM 9/20/00 -0400, you wrote:
....

I'm searching for the papers of a Victorian poet named Augusta Webster,
uncanonized and infrequently printed until recently, and I've just about
come to a dead end.

....

Dr. Fletcher,

This is what I found after a quick search of the National Union Catalog of
Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) at the Library of Congress website
(URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/ ). Hope this helps.

Jim Cross
Special Collections
Clemson University Libraries


Author:        Webster, Augusta, 1837-1894.
Title:         Letter from Augusta Webster.
Published:     1881.
Notes:         Owned.
               Recipient unidentified.
Subjects:      Letters.
Location:      British Library Department of Manuscripts London
                  Add.MS.42577, f.300
Control No.:   UKRVRB00049352-A


Author:        Webster, Augusta, 1837-1894.
Title:         Letter from Augusta Webster.
Published:     1892.
Notes:         Access: by appointment.
               Owned.
Subjects:      Letters.
Location:      Trinity College Cambridge Library Cambridge
                  Cullum Q.44
Control No.:   UKRVRG00087955-A


Author:        Webster, Augusta, 1837-1894.
Title:         Letter from Augusta Webster to Mrs Frances
                  Elizabeth Thompson.
Published:     [18--]
Notes:         Access: by appointment.
               Autograph.
               Owned.
Subjects:      Letters.
Location:      Trinity College Cambridge Library Cambridge
                  Add.Ms.b.49211
Control No.:   UKRVRG0008901X-A


Author:        Webster, Augusta, 1837-1894.
Title:         Letter from Augusta Webster.
Published:     1881.
Notes:         Autograph.
               Owned.
Subjects:      Letters.
Location:      Glasgow District Libraries Mitchell Library
                  Glasgow In 891104
Control No.:   UKRVRG00061042-A


Author:        Webster, Augusta, 1837-1894.
Title:         2 letters from Augusta Webster to Austin Dobson.
Published:     1874-1877.
Notes:         Access: by appointment.
               Autograph.
               Owned.
Subjects:      Letters.
Location:      University of London Library London MS810/III-28
                  & 74
Control No.:   UKRVRG00010812-A


Author:        Webster, Augusta, 1837-1894.
Title:         Letter from Augusta Webster to May Morris.
Published:     1886.
Notes:         Owned.
Subjects:      Letters.
Location:      British Library Department of Manuscripts London
                  Add.MS.45346, f.25
Control No.:   UKRVRB00049360-A


Author:        Webster, Augusta, 1837-1894.
Title:         Letter from Augusta Webster to John Leicester
                  Warren.
Published:     [18--]
Notes:         Autograph.
               Owned.
Subjects:      Letters.
Location:      John Rylands University Library of Manchester
                  Manchester In De Tabley Papers
Control No.:   UKRVRG0012799X-A


Author:        Webster, Augusta, 1837-1894.
Title:         Letter from Augusta Webster to Macmillan & Co.
                  Ltd.
Published:     [1879]
Notes:         Access: by appointment.
               On deposit.
Subjects:      Letters.
Location:      University of Reading Library Reading In MS1089,
                  in box 7
Control No.:   UKRVRG00148733-A


Author:        Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908, collector.
Title:         Poets of America collection, 1800-1908.
Description:   127 items.
Notes:         Poet, critic, and New York stock broker.
               Chiefly includes poems, letters, and documents of
                  19th century poets and others mentioned in his Poets of
                  America.
               Accompanied by 152 portraits and other
                  illustrations, and three autographs.
               Inserted in Stedman's own 4-volume
                  extra-illustrated copy of his Poets of America, 1885, now in
                  the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
               Gift of L. H. Weiner, 1973.
Subjects:      American poetry -- 19th century.
Other authors:  ...
               Webster, Augusta (Davies), 1837-1894.
               ....
Other titles:  Poets of America.
Control No.:   MIUR85-A74

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