Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection, ca. 1820-1900 (bulk 1880-1890)
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Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection
Creation of Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection
Time of Creation of Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection
Chapin, Samuel Austin, 1858-1959
Scope and Contents of the Collection 59 manuscript items, chiefly letters and dating from 1880-1890, that were collected by Samuel Chapin (AC 1880) when he was on the editorial staff of St Nicholas Magazine. The collection was preserved and later presented to Amherst College by his friend and fellow alumnus Marcus P. Kiley (AC 1919). The collection includes materials of such individuals as Lyman Abbott, Edward Beecher, William Lloyd Garrison, Edward Everett Hale, Rudyard Kipling and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922.
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Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895.
Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893.
Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
Kiley, Marcus Philip, 1897-1981.
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
Amherst College. Class of 1880. Chapin.
Amherst College. Class of 1919. Kiley.
Abbott, Jacob, Farmington, Maine, to [Lyman Abbott], n. p., ALS 2p. 1871 Aug 14
Abbott, Lyman, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. 1886 Dec 28
Abbott, Lyman, New York, to Roswell Smith, New York, TLS 1p. 1881 May 10
Abbott, Lyman, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Roswell Smith, New York, ALS 2p. 1883 Mar 7
Barnum, Phineas Taylor, Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Lyman Abbott, [New York] 1878 Nov 22
Beecher, Charles, Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. 1882 May 17
Beecher, Edward, New York, to Lyman Abbott, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, ALS 1p. [ca. 1880] Jul 12
Beecher, Edward, Brooklyn, New York, to [Henry Bowen?], [New York], ALS 1p. 1882 Aug 25
Beecher, Edward, Brooklyn, [New York], to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. 1882 May 16
Beecher, James Chaplin, Brooklyn, [New York], to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 3p. 1882 May 23
Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut, Elmira, New York, to Edward Beecher, Brooklyn, New York, AL 1p. 1882 May 17
Birch, Reginald Bathurst, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 3p. with illustrations [ca. 1880]
Birch, Reginald Bathurst, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. with illustrations [ca. 1880?]
Brooks, Noah, Newark, NJ, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 2p. plus annotated ms note by Mrs. Dodge to Samuel Austin Chapin 1888 Feb 13
Brooks, Phillips, Boston, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p. 1879 May 31
Brooks, Phillips, Boston, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p. 1881 Sep 26
Burroughs, John, West Park, New York, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 1p. 1888 Feb 16
Chateaubriand, Francois René, Vicomte de, Paris [?], to Madame de Feletz, n. p., facsimile 1p. [ca. 1820?] Feb 5
Coolidge, Susan, Newport, [Rhode Island?], to an unknown person, n. p., ALS 2p. [ca. 1900?] Oct
Curtis, George William, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1869 May 15
Damrosch, Walter, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 1p. [18]83 Nov 21
Damrosch, Walter, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. [18]83 Dec 6
Damrosch, Walter, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 1p. [18]83 Dec 11
Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. 1884 Jul 26
Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. [ca. 1890?]
Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 4p. [ca. 1890?]
Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley, Rutland, Vermont, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 2p. [1884 Mar 3
Eggleston, Edward, Lake George, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 3p. 1885 Feb 25
Foote, Mary Hallock (Mrs. Arthur De Wint), Boise, Idaho, to [William Foyal Clarke], n. p., ALS 3p. 1885 Aug 1
Garrison, William Lloyd, Roxbury, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1867 May 8
Gough, John B., Worcester, [Massachusetts], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1872 Jul 25
Greeley, Horace, autograph note identified as "Editorial for Tribune" [ca. 1865?]
Hale, Edward Everett, Roxbury, to an unknown person, n. p., ANS 1p. [ca. 1890?]
Harper, Fletcher, n. p., to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ANS 1p. 1869 Nov 16
Hawthorne, Julian, envelopes addressed to St Nicholas magazine from J.H., 3p. [1885]
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p. 1874 May 20
Jackson, Helen Hunt, Berkeley [?], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p. 1880 Dec 11
Jenks, Tudor Storrs, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. [18]91 Dec 24
Jewett, Sarah Orne, n. p., to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. [ca. 1880?]
Kipling, Rudyard, Drawings to guide the illustrator of the Jungle Book stories (W.H. Drake) in St Nicholas magazine, 3 1/2 p. & TNS-S.A.C., AN-N.F.M. [1893?]
Kipling, Rudyard, Drawings to guide the illustrator of the Jungle Book stories (W.H. Drake) in St Nicholas magazine, 4 1/2 p. & ANS-M.K. [1893?]
Lathrop, Rose H., New York, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 1p. [ca. 1880?] Jun
Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. [ca. 1900?] Jun
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p. 1881 Sep 30
Lossing, Benson Jonathan, Dover Plains, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1878 Aug 9
Mitchell, Maria, n. p., to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. [ca. 1870?]
Page, Thomas Nelson, Richmond, Virginia, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, New York, TNS 1p. 1888 Feb 17
Porter, Noah, [New Haven, Connecticut], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1881 Jan 14
Reid, Whitelaw, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1877 Jun 19
Rives, Amélie, Castle Hill, to [William Foyal Clarke], n. p., ALS 2p. 1888 Mar 7
Roe, Edward Payson, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. 1881 Oct 24
Roe, Edward Payson, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 1p. 1884 Mar 27
Scudder, Horace Elisha, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1880 Sep 14
Storrs, Richard Salter, Brooklyn, [New York], to [Lyman Abbott], n. p., ALS 2p. [ca. 1890?] Feb
Stowe, Charles, Saco, to Edward Beecher, n. p., ALS 4p. & ALS of E.B. to brother 1882 Jun 9
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, autograph signature [ca. 1880?]
Thaxter, Celia, Appledore, Isle of Shoals, to The Century Co. "Publisher", n. p., ALS 1p. 1883 Jun 7
Thaxter, Celia, Shoals, to [Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge] "Editor", n. p., ALS 2p. 1883 Aug 21
Thaxter, Celia, Hotel Clifford, to [Mary Mapes Dodge], "Editor", n. p., ALS 1p. [18]88 Feb 14
Whittier, John Greenleaf, Danvers, to [Lyman Abbott], n. p., ALS 2p. 1880 Dec 20