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[Lacroix, Octave]

AL to Lacroix by ?

  

Lagerlöf, Selma, 1858-1940

Correspondence, 1936-1937 with Helen Ferris

Library purchase

 

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834

ALS, 1834 Aug. 25, to J. H. Green

 From the Library of Edwin Corning

Gift of the Friends of the Library

 

Lameau, S. J.

ALS, 1882 July 27, to Mr. Thompson

 Library purchase, 1976

 

Lander, Rosalie

TLS, 1967 Jan. 8, to Gilbert and Janet Troxell

 Removed from The Three Rosettis, ed. by Janet C. Troxell

Maser Collection, Oct. 1990

 

Landor, Arnold Henry Savage, 1865-1924

ALS, 1889, to Herbert Browne

 

Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1803-1873

ALS, 1853 Feb. 23, to Charles Landseer

Gives his opinion as to requirements for admission of engravers to the Royal Academy.

Adelman Fund, 1989

 

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Ms Poem, to Frederick Locker, and reply, 1882 Jan. 14

Written on endpaper of XXII Ballades in Blue China, by A. Lang

 

Lapham, Lewis

TLS (signed Lulu), 1968 August 8 to J. Hampton Barnes

 

Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950

ALS, 1931 Apr. 15, to Marion Edwards Park

"I shall not visit America again without asking you to let me come [back] to Bryn Mawr."

TLS to Mr. Bingham, invitation to tea

From the Papers of Marion E. Park

 

Laver, James, 1899

AMsS "Caricatures of the Regency"

 Adelman Collection, 1986

 

Law, Margaret Lathrop, 1890-

ACS, c. 1958, to Marjorie Thompson

Removed from Yield from Flame, by M. Law

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor R. King

 

Lawrence, Robert

ACS, 1963 Mar. 24, to Donald Brien

From the Papers of Donald Brien

 

Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935

ALS, 1924 July 19, to "Dear Sir"

Concerning receipt of 15 guineas subscription for The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which Lawrence describes as "a quite private issue." Removed from Miscellanies, by T. E. Lawrence

Gift of Jeannetta Jameson Chase '17

 2 ALS (as T. E. Shaw), to Phoebe Brown
1924 Sept. 2. Remarks on her use of the name Lawrence: "It served its purpose in the war, and is dead. "Shaw" is short, and of equal authenticity. Indeed I chose first the one and then the other." Demanding that she have someone known to him write and tell him who she is, so that he will add her to the subscription list for The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Describes the conditions under which it is being published. "If you want the book still, then please just polish up some one who knows me enough to write and tell me that you are rich, not a puritan, and spendthrifty ... and then I'll ask you to send a cheque to my bank. If all these precautions and warnings offend you, then so be it."
Gift of Phoebe Brown.

1925 Aug. 17. Continues the discussion of her subscription for the Seven Pillars. Does not demand, as before, that she submit references, only payment. Postscript reads: "Let me put it to you most strongly that your subscribing will be a deplorably silly act: one which your purse will regret for years."
Gift of Phoebe Brown.

Lear, Edward, 1812-1888

ALS, 1844 Apr. 28, to T. G. Parry

ALS, n.d., to J. E. Gray

Removed from Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, by E. Lear

Gift of Ethelinda Schaefer Castle

 

Leete, Helen Ames

ANS, 1943 July 8, to Mrs. Henschel

Removed from Demand Peace, by H. Leete

Gift of Charles and Leila Frances Monaghan '82

 

Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van, 1632-1723

ALS, 1679 May 11, to Lambertus van Vetthuysen

Explains for Utrecht doctor the effects of dampness on mold, a matter about which he had written earlier to the Royal Society.

Gift of Frank C. Deering Trust

 

Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947.

ALS, n.d., to "Gertrude"

 

Le Grice, C. V. (Charles Valentine), 1773-1858

ALS, 1845 June 10, to "My Dear Sir"

From the Library of Edwin Corning

 

Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron, 1830-1896

Misc. Corr., 1870-1895

 

Lemperly, Paul, 1858-1939

ALS, 1938 Jan. 11, to Donald Brien

Describes his physical and financial disasters

From the Papers of Donald Brien

 

Leonard, William Ellery, 1876-1944

ALS, 1927 Dec. 5, to Miss Park

From the Papers of Marion Edwards Park

 

Leslie, Shane, 1885-1971

3ALSs, 1942 Nov. 13-30, to George [Cornwallis-West]; in pessimistic wartime letters from Home Guard headquarters, describes condition of London.

ALS, 1922 April 6, to William Toynbee, in response to a letter fromToynbee on Leslie's work.

ALS, 1942June 15, to Moncher Storrs, in respnse to a letter from Storrs on The Cantab, with some remarks by Leslei on the book.

Gift of Friends of the Library

 

Levis, Howard Coppuck

ALS, 1925 Nov. 16, to Mr. Nichols

From Extracts from the Diaries and Correspondence of John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys, with notes by Howard C. Levis

Gift of David N. and Julia C. Lignon Mills '40

 

Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878

ALS, [1871 Oct. 29], to John, Emily, and Eleanor Cross

George Eliot's husband describes household matters.

Gift of Emily Cross

 

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

ALS, 1957 Feb. 11, to Beatrice Fox Griffith

with AMs "Introduction to Letters to Young Churches," by J. B. Phillips

Gift of Mrs. Charles Francis Griffith

 

Lewis, Geoffrey

TLS, 1955 Oct. 8, to Mr. Garwood

 From Dorthea Seelye Franck'38

 

Lewis, Martin, 1881-1962

ACS, 1927 Oct., to Lola Ridge

Removed from Martin Lewis

From the Library of Lola Ridge

 

Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

ALS, 1930 Jan. 14, to Thomas Wolfe

"I'm going to London in about two weeks. I'll hail you first thing. We'll settle the fate of the novel."

TLS, 1934 May 16, to John Cournos

Gift of the Friends of the Library, 1986

 

Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957

ALS, 1937 Dec. 4, to "Wolfe"

  

Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926

3 ALsS, 1821 Aug. 14, 24, and n.d., to "Mrs. Archdeacon"

Concerns memorial service for James Russell Lowell, and the impending marriage of Lincoln's daughter Mary.

 

Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel , 1879-1931

ALS, 1919 Mar. 1, to Helen Taft Manning

Gift of Helen Taft Manning, 1962

 

Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974

TLS, 1932 Oct. 17, to J. R. Page

 "... A congress without presidential leadership invariably goes wild, as anyone can see who will examine the record of the [Democratic crossed out and Republican inserted handwritten] House in Wilson's last two years."

Tipped in Interpretations, Walter Lippmann 1931-32, Allan Nevins, ed.

 

Litchfield, Dorothy

TLS, 1944 Mar. 15, to Lois Reed

Describes circumstances of the book auction for the Summer School for Women Workers in Iindustry held at Bryn Mawr in 1926. File contains list of authors who autographed their books and in some cases added letters.

Library Correspondence

 

Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905

ALS, 1890 Oct. 8, to Mrs. Wallace

States that no one has written an account of her work, and writes: "In every phase of work for woman, I have persistently toiled for her higher education ... in short for her legal equality."

Removed from My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative, by M. Livermore

Library Purchase, 1972

 

Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895 [

AC, [1889 Aug.], to ?

Removed from London Lyrics, by F. Locker-Lampson

Chase Bequest, 1977

 

London, Hannah Ruth, 1894-

ANS, 1982 May 8, to Librarian at BMC

 Library Correspondence

 

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

ALS, 1878 Apr. 10, to Mrs. Cohn

ALS, 1878 Dec. 22, to Mrs. Sherwood

 

Loveman, Amy

TLS, 1953 Jan. 13, to Pauline Goldmark

Gift of Pauline Goldmark?

 

Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925

TLS, 1921 Oct. 7, to W. Van R. Whitall

Removed from Tendencies in Modern Poetry, by A. Lowell

Chase Bequest, 1977

 

2 TLsS, 1924 Feb. 5, Mar. 7, to Marion Park

From the Papers of Marion Edwards Park

 

Lowenfels, Walter, 1897-1976

ALS, 1956 Nov. 8, to David Lawson

Removed from Sonnets of Love and Liberty, by W. Lowenfels

From the Library of Lola Ridge

 

Lowes, John Livingston, 1867-1945

ALS, 1924 Mar. 18, to Marion Park

From the Papers of Marion Edwards Park

 

Ludewig, Wilhelm

ALS, 1983 May 1, to Rulf Sauppe

Removed from Sauppe Dictionary?

 

Lyman, Samuel, 1749-1802

ALS, 1798 June 25, to "Mary"

Representative of Massachusetts, in Congress at Philadelphia, gives an account of Mrs. Benjamin Rush's accident at Schuylkill River bridge with loss of the horse and carriage, and of her being saved from drowning by a young English nobleman accompanying her. "As to War...I much doubt, whether France will ever attempt to send an Army to land upon our Coast...

Gift of the Class of 1912

 

Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich, 1898-1976

ALS, 1966 Jan. 5, to "Conway"

"The whole world knows that it is primarily through your efforts ... that I have gained an international reputation. [Translated from Russian]

Gift of Helen Kingsbury '20

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