Excerpt from The Manuscript Division in the New York Public Library
Of choice literary manuscripts there are not many in the Library. The principal items are W ashington Irving's Apology for his Diedrich Knicker hocker's New York, written at Sunnyside, in 1848; his Biographical Sketch of Washington Allston, 1854-1855 a contribution to A Book of the Hud son, 1849; and pages from his manuscript of his Life of George Washing ton. Nathaniel Hawthorne is represented by a portion of his Mosses from an Old Manse; Thackeray, by his Note Book for Lectures and Henry Esmond, as well as the manuscript of a long introduction to an American edition of his works; and there is a manuscript of Samuel Warren, author of Ten Thousand a Year. In the field of American literature the Library has the extensive correspondence of Evert A. Duyckinck in connection with his editorship of Arcturus, The Literary World, and The Cyclopaedia of American Literature, 1840-1855, and some to his brother George L. Duyckinck, from nearly every American man of letters during that period and some from foreign writers. In this aggregation are literary letters from Park Benjamin, Charles Frederick Briggs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wil liam Allen Butler, George Henry Calvert, John Esten Cooke, Frederick S. Cozzens, Richard Henry Dana, George Cary Eggleston, Ralph Waldo Emer son, Edward Everett, Charles Gayarre', fitz-greene Halleck, Nathaniel Haw thorne, P. H. Hayne, Joel T. Headley, Henry William Herbert, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, G. P. R. James, Francis Lieber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Benson J. Lossing, James Russell Lowell, Cornelius Mathews, James K. Paulding, John Howard Payne, Edgar Allan Poe, Epes Sargent, Henry R. Schoolcraft, Horace E. Scudder, Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, William Gilmore Simms, Bayard Taylor, George Ticknor, Robert Tomes, Henry T. Tuckerman, Martin F arquhar Tupper, Charles W. Webber, Richard Grant White, and hundreds of others; also the literary correspondence of Evert A. Duyckinck with Edward S. Gould and William A. Jones. Apart from those enumerated above, there are one or more letters, etc., written by Robert Burns, William Cowper, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Samuel Johnson, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Southey. Twelve legal documents relate to Milton's family and a volume of miscellaneous papers bears upon Milton himself.
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