| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Benedict, Clare |
| Title: | Clare Benedict Collection |
| Dates: | 1796-1961 |
| Dates: | 1870-1940 |
| Extent: | 6.00 linear feet (6 containers) |
| Abstract: | Clare Benedict was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of George Stone Benedict and Clara Woolson Benedict. She was the niece of author Constance Fenimore Woolson. Benedict was an author in her own right, writing books that dealt with family history, biography of Woolson, and general topics. Constance Fenimore Woolson was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, the daughter of Charles Jarvis Woolson and Hannah Pomeroy. She was a niece of James Fenimore Cooper. Woolson and her family moved to Cleveland in 1840. Woolson attended the Cleveland Female Seminary and was a graduate of Madame Chegaray's finishing school in New York City. She later lived in Florida, and then spent the rest of her life in Europe. Woolson published many works of fiction during her lifetime. The collection consists of books, letters, letter fragments, notes, notebooks, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, bound magazines, poems, essays, genealogies, invitations, programs, a memorial book, tickets, postcards, lithographs, sketches, watercolors, brochures, press notices, reviews, birth records, receipts, a military commission, signatures, a constitution, and a nail. In many cases, authors of books contained in the collection wrote inscriptions to either Clare Benedict or Constance Fenimore Woolson. Included are two books inscribed by Henry James, along with a letter written by him to Benedict. Excerpts of letters, notes, postcards, photographs, and other manuscript material concerning either the author or the subject of a book were placed into each volume, most likely by Clare Benedict. Some of the books and manuscript materials appear to have originally belonged to Constance Fenimore Woolson, and include letters, notes, letter fragments, poems, a poetry notebook, and other items. |
| MS Number | MS 4830 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
Clare Benedict (1868-1961) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of George Stone Benedict (1840-1871) and Clara Woolson Benedict (1843-1923). The niece of writer Constance Fenimore Woolson, her mother's sister, Benedict was an author in her own right, not only of general works, but also of several that dealt with family history and biography of her aunt. These include the multi-part volume Appreciations of Voices Out of the Past, Constance Fenimore Woolson, The Benedicts Abroad; the Family Trilogy (1941). Benedict died in Switzerland in 1961.
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, the daughter of Charles Jarvis Woolson and Hannah Pomeroy. Hannah Pomeroy was the niece of author James Fenimore Cooper. Woolson and her family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1840, where her father established an iron foundry. She attended the Cleveland Female Seminary in the 1850s and was a student of Linda Thayer Guilford. In 1858, she graduated from Madame Chegaray's finishing school in New York City. Her sister, Georgiana Pomeroy Woolson, married Samuel Livingston Mather of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1850. Their son, Samuel Mather (1851-1931) became a close friend and financial advisor to his Aunt Constance. Woolson spent time doing war work during the Civil War, and after the death of her father in 1869, lived with her mother in New York. In 1873, she and her mother moved south, living primarily in Florida until 1879 when her mother died. Woolson lived the rest of her life in Europe where she became a friend and colleague of Henry James.
Woolson published many works popular during her lifetime, including collections of short stories, Castle Nowhere: Lake Country Sketches and Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches; many articles and short stories; and five novels, Anne, For the Major, East Angels, Jupiter Lights, and Horace Chase. She died in 1894 in Venice, Italy. Interest in her and her work, which had waned following her death, has greatly increased in recent years. For further biographical information on Woolson, see Constance Fenimore Woolson: The Grief of Artistry (1989) by Cheryl B. Torsney; Critical Essays on Constance Fenimore Woolson (1992) also by Torsney; Constance Fenimore Woolson: Homeward Bound (1995) by Sharon L. Dean; Constance Fenimore Woolson (1963), by Rayburn S. Moore; and Constance Fenimore Woolson, Literary Pioneer (1934), by John Dwight Kern.
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The Clare Benedict Collection, 1796-1961 (1870-1940), consists of books, letters, letter fragments, notes, notebooks, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, bound magazines, poems, essays, genealogies, invitations, programs, a memorial book, tickets, postcards, lithographs, sketches, watercolors, brochures, press notices, reviews, birth records, receipts, a military commission, signatures, a constitution, and a nail. Most of the manuscript material has been tipped in, glued, or taped into the individual books, which make up the bulk of this collection. In many cases, the authors of the books represented in this collection inscribed the book to either Clare Benedict or Constance Fenimore Woolson. Excerpts of letters, notes, postcards, photographs, and other manuscript material concerning either the author or the subject of the book were placed into each volume. The book collection belonged to Clare Benedict, who most likely pasted the manuscript material into the books. Some of the books and manuscript materials appear to have originally belonged to Constance Fenimore Woolson, and include letters, notes, letter fragments, poems, a poetry notebook, and other items.
This collection is of value to researchers of Constance Fenimore Woolson, her niece, Clare Benedict, and other family members. Genealogists of the Woolson, Benedict, Pomeroy, Mather, and Fynmore families will find some material useful, as will those interested in the history of Cooperstown, New York. Those researching women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will find material here, as will those exploring the history of the American expatriate community in Europe during this time period. Of note are two books inscribed by Henry James, one to Constance Fenimore Woolson (Folder 71) and one to Clare Benedict (Folder 72), which includes a letter to Benedict from James. In addition to Constance Fenimore Woolson, Clara Woolson Benedict, and Clare Benedict, correspondents include Henry M. Alden, William G. Mather, Hannah Cooper, William Cooper, Ann Cooper, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, George Clausen, John A. Williams, Emma N. Ireland, Clara Woolson Benedict, Sarah Rathbone Benedict, and Mrs. John Hervey.
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Related MaterialResearchers should also consult MS 3735 Samuel Mather Family Papers, MS 484 Linda Thayer Guilford Papers, MS 1085 Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham Papers, and the Constance Fenimore Woolson Papers, Microfilm Edition.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4830 Clare Benedict Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of the Clare Benedict estate, 1962
Processed by Deborah R. Shell and Richard Robertson in 2000
Series I: Clare Benedict 1796-1959 undated |
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Sub-series A: Publications 1796-1959 undated |
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| 1 | 1 | Book, XII (Leipzig, 1921), with tipped in manuscript materials including a photograph of Clare Benedict, 1914; handwritten reviews of the book, undated; a poem in German written to Clare Benedict, Leipzig, December 3, 1921; typewritten book review, undated; and a Library of Congress card catalog listing for XII, ca. 1921. . | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Book, Appreciations of Voices Out of the Past, Constance Fenimore Woolson, The Benedicts Abroad: The Family Trilogy (London, 1941), with tipped in newspaper clipping indicating William G. Mather borrowed the title from the Western Reserve Historical Society Library 1941 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Book, Appreciations of Voices Out of the Past, Constance Fenimore Woolson, The Benedicts Abroad: The Family Trilogy, paperbound copy undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Book, Constance Fenimore Woolson (London, undated), with tipped in manuscript materials including notes on the Wollaston family seat in England, undated; Wollaston pedigree, undated; handwritten transcription of Will of Thomas Woolson, December 6, 1708; genealogical notes on the Woolson family undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Book, Constance Fenimore Woolson (London, undated), copy from the London Library, with tipped in manuscript materials including notes, October 1886; invitation to "Miss Woolson" from Sir Henry and Lady Layard, Venice, Italy, for Christmas Day, undated; handwritten note concerning the finding of this copy at the London Library "under debris from the bomb" 1886 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Book, The Divine Spark (ca. 1913), tribute to Richard Wagner, with tipped in manuscript materials including photographs of Clara Woolson Benedict and Clare Benedict, 1914, Clara Woolson Benedict, Clare Benedict, and dog "Yello," undated, Mrs. Benedict and "Plum," undated, and Mrs. Benedict at Franzensbad, 1914; letters concerning the book, May 16, 1913, and undated; and ticket stubs for a Richard Wagner Festival, Leipzig, May 22, 1913 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Book, European Backgrounds (Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1912), with tipped in manuscript materials including notes from Constance Fenimore Woolson, undated; photograph, Clare Benedict, undated; postcard, with note, undated; quotation, undated; letter to Mr. Mather from Mary E. Phillips concerning Clare Benedict, August 23, 1944; handwritten program, piano recital, undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Book, The Little Lost Prince (Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, undated), with tipped in manuscript materials including a letter to Clare Benedict from Newson[?], December 21, 1912; letter to Clare Benedict from M. Carmichael, January 3, 1913; publishing brochure, Andrew Elliot, undated; letter from Constance Fenimore Woolson concerning Clare Benedict, undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Book, The Love Saint (Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1913), with tipped in manuscript materials including a letter to Clare Benedict, December 25, 1913; newspaper clipping, review, undated; note from Dr. Rudolf Eucken, undated; letter, December 16, 1913 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Book, Our Lady of Understanding (New York: Grafton Press, 1910), with tipped in manuscript materials including notes and letters to Clare Benedict, December 8, 14, and 22, 1910; handwritten review by Charles H. Owen, undated; newspaper clipping, review of Our Lady of Understanding, Hartford Courant, December 16, 1910 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Book, A Resemblance and Other Stories (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909), with tipped in manuscript materials including a photograph of Clare Benedict at Franzensbad, undated; newspaper clippings, undated; letters from W. G. Mather, November 11, 1906, W. H. Kirk, December 29, 1915, John Washington[?], March 9, 1907 [?], Houghton Mifflin Company, February 23, 1909 [?], Magdalene College, Cambridge, March 3, 1909 [?], Pomeroy Place, Cooperstown, New York, undated; handwritten plot summaries, undated; bookmark and note concerning George Meredith, undated; press notices, undated . | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Book, Trilogy, Part I, Voices Out of the Past (London, undated), with tipped in manuscript materials including birth record for Hannah Cooper Pomeroy, November 18, 1808; letter from Hannah Cooper to her father, William Cooper, House of Representatives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1799; Cooper family tree, undated; receipt, William Cooper to Mary Henshaw, for family expenditures, 1797; letter from Ann Cooper to William Cooper, May 3, 1796 . | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Book, Trilogy, Part II, Constance Fenimore Woolson (London, undated), with tipped in manuscript materials including handwritten notes and letters by Constance Fenimore Woolson, 1884 and undated; military commission, State of New Hampshire to Thomas Woolson, September 12, 1823 . | |||||||||
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| 2 | 14 | Book, Trilogy, Part III, The Benedicts Abroad (London, undated), with tipped in and loose manuscript materials including lithograph print of George A. Benedict, undated; notes concerning birth and death dates of George S. Benedict, undated; Benedict family Bible record, undated; Benedict family genealogical notes, undated; letter from Clara Woolson Benedict, undated; notes, undated; Henry James signatures (6), cut from letters, undated; poem, to Clara Woolson Benedict, December 20, 1887; letter to Clare Benedict from Dorothy Canfield Fisher, April 9, 1935; letter to Clare Benedict from George Clausen [?], May 7, 1913 . | |||||||||
| 2 | 15 | Bound magazine, "An Interchange of Courtesies," The Atlantic Monthly Volume XCVI (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905), pp. 812-824; manuscript materials tipped in including letters, December 3 and 31, 1905, September 27, 1906, and undated; illustrations from Harper's Magazine, undated . | |||||||||
| 2 | 16 | Bound magazine, "Love in the Mist," Harper's Monthly Magazine Volume CXIII, October 1906 (Harper and Brothers, 1906), pp. 731-740; manuscript materials tipped in, including letters from H.M. Alden, March 21, 1902, and John A. Williams, October 11, 1910; illustrations, undated . | |||||||||
| 2 | 17 | Bound magazine, "Brand's Guardians," The Century Magazine Volume LXXIII, March 1907 (The Century Company, 1907), pp. 687-694; manuscript materials tipped in, including a letter to Clare Benedict from William Gwinn Mather, January 2, 1922; newspaper clipping, review of A Resemblance, undated; illustrations, undated . | |||||||||
| 2 | 18 | Bound magazine, "The Shadow of the Trees," Putnam's Monthly & The Reader Volume V, December 1908 (Putnam's Monthly Company, 1908), pp. 335-343; manuscript materials tipped in, including letter from Reverend Wendell Prime, undated . | |||||||||
Sub-series B: Notebooks and Scrapbooks 1871-1959 undated |
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| 2 | 19 | In Memoriam book, George S. Benedict, with tipped in manuscript materials including invitations, photographs, handwritten notes, and a newspaper clipping ca. 1871 | |||||||||
| 2 | 20 | Notebook, list of international libraries receiving donation copies of Five Generations, undated; tipped in and loose letters of thanks for donations 1927 1938 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 21 | Notebook, list of United States libraries receiving donation copies of Five Generations, Alabama - New York state undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 22 | Notebook, list of United States and Canada libraries receiving donation copies of Five Generations, New York City undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 23 | Notebook, typewritten excerpts of press notices for A Resemblance undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 24 | Notebook, handwritten quotations undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 25 | Notebook, poetry, including a photograph of Clare Benedict undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 26 | Notebook of illustrations and text by Emma N. Ireland (music teacher of Clare Benedict), presented to Clara Benedict undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 27 | Scrapbook, including handwritten inventory of books, notebooks, framed pictures, and their locations, undated; photographs, including tintypes, carte de visites, and cabinet cards, of Benedict family members, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and gravesites, undated; loose copy of typewritten letter, author unknown, concerning life of Clare Benedict undated | |||||||||
| 2 | 28 | Scrapbook, hand-stitched blue velvet with gold thread "Clare" embroidered on cover, including nail from Pomeroy Place with note from C. W. Benedict, undated; loose notes, undated; list of books belonging to Constance Fenimore Woolson, undated; letter to Kate Mather, Cleveland, Ohio, December 13, [no year]; photographs of Clare Benedict, undated; Guild of the Holy Cross, constitution 1895 undated | |||||||||
Series II: Constance Fenimore Woolson ca. 1860-1896 undated |
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Sub-series A: Publications ca. 1860-1896 undated |
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| 2 | 29 | Book, Anne (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1882), with tipped in manuscript materials including Constance Fenimore Woolson signatures, 1881 and undated; excerpts of letters from Woolson, undated; postcards, undated; newspaper clippings, reviews of Anne and other articles about Woolson and the dedication of a tablet to her memory, undated . | |||||||||
| 2 | 30 | Book, Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875), with tipped in manuscript materials including a poem to Woolson written by Edith Hibbard, Mackinac Island, 189[?]; postcards of Zoar, Ohio, undated; lithograph of a view of Zoar, undated; photograph of a billboard sign with text concerning Cleveland as the location of early education of Woolson and the Great Lakes as the location of several of her stories, undated . | |||||||||
| 2 | 31 | Book, Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896), with tipped in manuscript materials including a letter to Mr. Alden from Woolson, Rome, February 5, [?]; letter to Mr. Alden from Woolson, Engelberg, August 23, [?] 1896 undated | |||||||||
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| 3 | 32 | Book, East Angels (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884, 1885, 1886), with tipped in manuscript materials including a handwritten and newspaper clipping of poem "The Florida Beach," undated; newspaper clippings, review of East Angels, July 13, [?], article about Woolson by Shan F. Bullock, undated; photograph, undated; postcard, undated 1884-1886 undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 33 | Book, For the Major (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883), with tipped in manuscript materials including excerpts of letters, undated; an excerpt of note written by Clara Woolson Benedict about her sister Constance Fenimore Woolson 1883 undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 34 | Book, The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895), with tipped in manuscript materials including note fragment and signature, Constance Fenimore Woolson, undated; magazine clippings, undated; excerpt of letter from Woolson, undated; photographs, Italy and Venice 1895 undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 35 | Book, Horace Chase (London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1894), with tipped in manuscript materials including letter from Woolson, October 14, [?]; photograph, Constance Fenimore Woolson, undated; fragment of writing, undated; newspaper clipping concerning dedication of the Constance Fenimore Woolson English House, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, May 21, [?]; note from Woolson to her sister 1894 undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 36 | Book, Jupiter Lights (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Limited, 1889), with tipped in manuscript materials including a photograph of Constance Fenimore Woolson, undated; excerpt of letter, with Woolson signature, undated; letter to Mr. Alden, August 23, [?]; postcards, Jupiter Inlet, Florida 1889 undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 37 | Book, Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896), with tipped in manuscript materials including watercolor by T. W. Thomas, undated; illustration, with text, undated; signature of C. F. Woolson, undated; pencil sketches (throughout book), undated; photograph, p. 148, undated; typed quotation, p. 325, undated; letter excerpt, undated; letter to Henry M. Alden from Woolson, January 17, 1890 . | |||||||||
| 3 | 38 | Book, The Old Stone House (Boston, D. Lothrop & Co., 1873), by Anne March (pseudonym for Constance Fenimore Woolson), with tipped in manuscript materials including a photograph of Constance and Clara Woolson as children, undated; signature of Constance F. Woolson, Cleveland, Ohio, undated; photograph of Constance Fenimore Woolson ca. 1860-ca. 1870 | |||||||||
| 3 | 39 | Book, Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880), with tipped in manuscript materials including photocopy of carte de visite photograph, undated; C. F. Woolson autograph, undated; sketch of St. Augustine, Florida by E. Olive, undated; sketch of "Old Spanish Stairway," undated; excerpts of letter to Henry M. Alden from Constance Fenimore Woolson 1880 undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 40 | Book, Two Women: 1862. A Poem (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890), with tipped in manuscript materials including an excerpt of a letter, undated; newspaper clipping concerning Woolson 1890 undated | |||||||||
Sub-series B: Other Writings ca. 1870-1890 undated |
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| 3 | 41 | Scrapbook, "Miss Woolson's Poetry Book," including newspaper and magazine clippings of poems and handwritten poems, some with notes ca. 1870-ca. 1890 undated | |||||||||
Series III: Clara Woolson Benedict ca. 1870 undated |
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| 3 | 42 | Book, Phelps, Agnes, One Year at Our Boarding-School (Boston: Loring, ca. 1870s), with tipped in manuscript materials including photographs of Clara Woolson Benedict, undated, and a signature of Clara Woolson Benedict, undated. A handwritten note on the preface page indicates Clara Woolson Benedict was the author of this book ca. 1870 undated | |||||||||
Series IV: Genealogical and Biographical Materials 1859-1961 undated |
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| 3 | 43 | Benedict family, notebook on popes named Benedict taken by Maud Johnston, friend of Clare Benedict, with a tipped in photograph of Johnston undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 44 | Fynmore family, Memorials of the Family of Fynmore (London: published by the author, 1886), by William P. W. Phillimore, with tipped in genealogical notes on the Cooper family, undated . | |||||||||
| 3 | 45 | Mather family, The Portraits of Increase Mather (Cleveland: private distribution by William Gwinn Mather, 1924) by Kenneth B. Murdock, inscribed to Clare R. Benedict from her cousin William G. Mather, with tipped in manuscript materials including photographs of William Gwinn Mather and Katharine Livingston Mather, undated; a photograph of Cliff Cottage, undated; a letter to Clare Benedict from William G. Mather, September 10, 1948; programs from "A Mather Dinner" given at Gwinn, Cleveland, Ohio, December 27, 1925, and from a testimonial dinner honoring William Gwinn Mather, January 10, 1946; a typewritten letter from Katharine Mather to William G. Mather, undated . | |||||||||
| 3 | 46 | Pomeroy family, Berry-Pomeroy Castle: An Historical & Descriptive Sketch (Totnes, England: The Times, undated), by T. C. and A. E. Mortimer, with tipped in manuscript materials including postcards undated | |||||||||
| 3 | 47 | Pomeroy family, History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family (Toledo, Ohio: The Franklin Printing and Engraving Company, 1912), by Albert A. Pomeroy, with tipped in manuscript materials including a portrait, unidentified and undated; fragments of notes by Clara W. Benedict, undated; photographs, with notes, of Berry Pomeroy Castle, undated; photographs of Buckfast Abbey, Devon, England, undated; photographs of Berry House and St. Maly, undated; notes concerning coat of arms of the Pomeroy family, undated; handwritten essay concerning Berry Pomeroy Castle, undated; copy of a letter concerning the Pomeroy genealogy, March 17, 1859; postcard, undated . | |||||||||
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| 4 | 48 | Pomeroy family, The House Speaks, by Clare Benedict, undated, with tipped in manuscript materials including a postcard of Pomeroy Place, Cooperstown, New York, undated; fragment of a note, undated; floor plan of Pomeroy Place by Clara Woolson Benedict, undated; photograph of Pomeroy House, undated; card, Miss Clare Rathbone Benedict, undated; invitation, one hundredth birthday celebration of Pomeroy House, 1904; newspaper clippings, 1904, 1961, and undated . | |||||||||
| 4 | 49 | Pomeroy family, Pomeroy (Toledo, Ohio: Franklin Printing & Engraving Co., undated), with an introduction by Albert A. Pomeroy, March 3, 1909, with tipped in manuscript materials including a handwritten genealogy of the Pomeroy family, undated; invitation, one hundredth birthday celebration of Pomeroy House, 1904; photographs of Pomeroy Place, undated; genealogical notes on Seth Pomeroy, undated; drawing of Berry Pomeroy Castle, undated; the Pomeroy coat of arms, undated; genealogical notes on Arthur Pomeroy, undated . | |||||||||
| 4 | 50 | Woolson family, Constance Fenimore Woolson: Literary Pioneer (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1934) by John Dwight Kern, inscribed to Clare Benedict from the author 1934 | |||||||||
| 4 | 51 | Woolson family, A Catalogue of Memorabilia Relating to Constance Fenimore Woolson, materials contained in Woolson House, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, with tipped in manuscript materials including an invitation to the dedication of the House, May 31, [1938]; copy of a typewritten letter to J. Donald Adams, editor, New York Times Book Review concerning the collection, May 9, 1938 . | |||||||||
Series V: Other Publications 1846-1949 undated |
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| 4 | 52 | Alden, H. M., God in His World (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890), with tipped in manuscript materials including letters to Alden from Constance Fenimore Woolson, November 21, [?], May 11, [?], December 2, [?]. Book signed by C. F. Woolson 1890 undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 53 | Alden, Henry Mills, Magazine Writing and the New Literature (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908), inscribed by the author to Clare Benedict, with tipped in manuscript materials including an invitation to seventieth birthday party for Henry Mills Alden, November 10, [?]; fragment of a letter to Alden from Constance Fenimore Woolson, undated; letter to Mrs. Alden from Clara W. Benedict 1908 undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 54 | Browning, Robert, The Florentine Poems of Robert Browning, no publication data, with tipped in handwritten poems. Book signed by C.F. Woolson, Florence 1887 | |||||||||
| 4 | 55 | Chimes and Rhymes, no publication data, with inscription "Plum's Birth'day from Pa B. - Mr. George A. Benedict Editor of the Cleveland Herald to his granddaughter, Clare Benedict," including tipped in photographs of Clare Benedict and George A. Benedict undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 56 | The Cicerone: An Art Guide to Painting in Italy (London: John Murray, 1879). Book signed by C. F. Woolson, December 1880 Florence, and with penciled in notes 1879-1880 | |||||||||
| 4 | 57 | Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Carol (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876), with inscription "To Clare from Aunt Conny Dec. 25th" and "given to Clare Benedict as a child by her aunt, Constance Fenimore Woolson" 1876 undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 58 | Eucken, Rudolf, The Spiritual Outlook of Europe To-Day (London: The Faith Press, 1922), with inscription to Clare Benedict from the author 1922 undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 59 | The First Hundred Years, Cleveland, Ohio: Society for Savings 1949 | |||||||||
| 4 | 60 | Gittings, Victoria, The Unbidden Sonata and The Queen's Chatelaine (London: Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd, undated), with an inscription to Clare Benedict from Victoria Gittings, May 1933; and with tipped in manuscript materials including photographs of Victoria Gittings, undated; a typewritten essay by Victoria Gittings on "The Love Saint" by Clare Benedict 1933 undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 61 | Grandgent, C. H., Italian Grammar (Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1889), with a tipped in letter excerpt signed by C. F. W., undated. Book signed on title page by C. F. Woolson. 1889 undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 62 | Gregory, Octavia, Apples of Gold (London: Nethuen & Co. Ltd., 1916), with an inscription to Mrs. Benedict from Octavia Gregory, undated; photograph of T. H. Thomas, undated; postcard, undated; poem entitled "Lancelot" 1916 undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 63 | Gregory, Octavia, A Garden Enclosed and Other Poems (Bournemouth: Richmond Hill Printing Works Ltd., 1911), with an inscription to Mrs. Benedict from the author, Christmas 1912, and with tipped in manuscript materials including a photograph of Octavia Gregory, undated; typewritten poem, author unknown 1911-1912 undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 64 | Gurney, Alfred, Parsifal, A Festival Play By Richard Wagner: A Study, (London: Kegan Paul., Trench, and Co., 1888) with tipped in manuscript materials including a letter excerpt, undated; a typewritten excerpt of a letter written by Mrs. Benedict, undated; photographs, undated. Book signed by Clara Woolson Benedict . | |||||||||
| 4 | 65 | Harper's New Monthly Magazine (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850), Volume I, Book signed by Chas. J. Woolson 1850 | |||||||||
| 4 | 66 | Harris, May, Essays (no publisher, no date), with tipped in manuscript materials including a photograph of May Harris, undated; typewritten essay by May Harris, "The Trend of the Essay" undated | |||||||||
| 4 | 67 | Heber, Reginald, The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber (Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1859) with an inscription to Clare Rathbone Benedict from Grandma Benedict [Sarah Rathbone Benedict], undated; tipped in manuscript materials including a card to "darling Clare" from Grandma B., undated; excerpts of letters from Sarah Rathbone Benedict to Clare Benedict; a photograph of Mrs. George A. Benedict [Sarah Rathbone Benedict] 1859 undated | |||||||||
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| 5 | 68 | Hervey, John, The Conquerers: Tragic Masks (Harrisburg: Stackpole Sons, 1941), with tipped in manuscript materials including a typewritten excerpt of a letter from Clare Benedict to William G. Mather, undated; a typewritten excerpt of letters from Mrs. John Hervey to Clare Benedict, undated . | |||||||||
| 5 | 69 | Holt, Hamilton, "My Commencement," Rollins College Bulletin, an address delivered at commencement exercises June 2, 1949, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, with inscription to Clare Benedict from the author . | |||||||||
| 5 | 70 | Jackson, Mabel G., A Sheaf, bound volume of typewritten essays, short stories, and poems, with tipped in manuscript materials including photographs of Mabel G. Jackson, 1921 and undated, and a photographic still life, unidentified and undated; watercolor, undated; handwritten poem inscribed "To C. B." and signed M. G. J., undated . | |||||||||
| 5 | 71 | James, Henry, A Little Tour in France (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1885), with inscription to Constance Fenimore Woolson from the author, undated, and including handwritten notes on pp. 242, 255, and on endpapers, with note "copied by C. F. Woolson," undated . | |||||||||
| 5 | 72 | James, Henry, The Soft Side (London: Methuen & Co., 1900), with an inscription to Clare Benedict from the author, September 1, 1900; with tipped in manuscript materials including a letter to Clare Benedict signed by Henry James, December 13, 1911; letter excerpts signed by Henry James, undated . | |||||||||
| 5 | 73 | L'epoca della Sinfonia nella vita di Beethoven (no publisher, undated), with tipped in manuscript materials including a photograph, unidentified and undated; inscriptions and notes, undated; letter excerpt, Clara Woolson Benedict, undated . | |||||||||
| 5 | 74 | Life of Saint Clare (Philadelphia: TheDolphin Press, 1910), with inscription "to Clare Benedict from M. C., Christmas 1913," and with tipped in manuscript materials including a print, undated; letter excerpt to Mrs. Benedict, signed by M. Carmichael, undated; postcard, with note, from Dr. and Mrs. J. Milnor Coit to Clara and Clare Benedict, undated; pen and ink drawing, undated . | |||||||||
| 5 | 75 | Lilienfein, Heinrich, Der Stier von Olivera (Stuttgart and Berlin, J. O. Gottassche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1910), with inscription to Clare Benedict from the author, September 14, 1928 [?] . | |||||||||
| 5 | 76 | Pansy, Out in the World: the Story of Claire Benedict (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1892) with inscription to Clare Benedict from Ralph E. Prime [?], London, September 1896; postcards of Clare Priory, undated . | |||||||||
| 5 | 77 | Pauli, Gustav, Venice (London: H. Grevel & Co., 1904) with tipped in manuscript materials including a letter, March 6, 1923; pamphlet, The Dogaressa, by W. G. Melmonti (London: Remington & Co., 1887) with a handwritten note of Clare Benedict concerning her mother; handwritten notes, undated; prints, undated; a letter from Otto Crone to Clare Benedict, November 24, 1954; magazine article, 1889 . | |||||||||
| 5 | 78 | Prime, Wendell, Here and There a Bird (no publisher, undated), with inscription to Clara W. Benedict from the author, undated and a note concerning Reverend Prime and the Benedict family, undated . | |||||||||
| 5 | 79 | Putnam's Monthly (New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1853) Volume 1, January-June 1853. Book signed "Woolson" . | |||||||||
| 5 | 80 | Ruskin, John, The Stones of Venice (Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1884) with tipped in newspaper clipping, undated. Book signed by C. F. Woolson, Florence, 1887 . | |||||||||
| 5 | 81 | Strenna dei Romanisti (Rome: Staderini Editore, 1945) with inscription to Clare Benedict, Francello P. Piermattei [?], undated . | |||||||||
| 5 | 82 | Richardson, Elizabeth, Poets' Dogs (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895) with inscription " C. W. Benedict from K. L. M." [Kate L. Mather?], Christmas 1895; handwritten poem "Gentleman Waife," by Constance Fenimore Woolson, 1875, between pages 180-181; tipped in poem and drawing, Constance Fenimore Woolson to Clare Benedict, inside back cover, undated . | |||||||||
| 5 | 83 | Schauffler, Robert Haven, Romantic Germany (New York: The Century Co., 1910) with tipped in manuscript materials including a watercolor, undated; signature of Emperor Frederick, undated; invitation, 1869; 100 Mark Reichsbank notes, 1903 and 1908; watercolors and drawings, some by Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, pasted in throughout book, undated; postcards and photographs, pasted in throughout book, including Anna Glace Carter, undated (opposite p. 305, Dr. J. Milnor Coit, 1914 (opposite p. 316), and Mrs. J. Milnor Coit, undated (opposite p. 324); postcard to K. L. Mather from C. W. B., [1872?]; invitation, March 17, 1865; photograph, with signature, von Hindenburg, undated; newspaper clipping concerning death of Hindenburg, undated. . | |||||||||
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| 6 | 84 | Scott, Walter, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, A Poem (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811), with inscription to Clare Benedict, 1928 . | |||||||||
| 6 | 85 | Stedman, Edmund Clarence, Victorian Poets (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876), with inscription from the author, December 1895, and tipped in manuscript materials including a photograph of Edmund Clarence Stedman, undated; excerpt of a letter from Constance Fenimore Woolson, undated; a letter to Mrs. Benedict from Edmund C. Stedman, February 15, 1907 . | |||||||||
| 6 | 86 | Streamer, Volney, In Friendship's Name (New York: Brentano's, 1909), with tipped in manuscript materials including a letter from Clare R. Benedict to William G. Mather, undated; photograph of Annel [?] L. Langdon, undated . | |||||||||
| 6 | 87 | Tales of the Crusaders: Volume II, The Talisman (Boston: Samuel H. Parker, 1825), with tipped in manuscript materials including a portrait of Hannah Cooper Pomeroy Woolson, undated, and excerpt of a letter from Clara Woolson Benedict, undated . | |||||||||
| 6 | 88 | Thomas, `a Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ (London: Rivingtons, 1877), with tipped in manuscript materials including postcards, undated. Book signed by Constance Fenimore Woolson, September 1878 . | |||||||||
| 6 | 89 | Wheatly, Charles, A Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (Oxford; University Press, 1846), with nameplate of Timothy Jarvis Carter and handwritten note with genealogical information on him, undated; tipped in newspaper clippings, undated. Book signed by H. Cooper Woolson . | |||||||||
| 6 | 90 | Bound volume of pamphlets, including "Words and Phrases" by G. C. (Washington, D. C.: R. O. Polkinhorn, Printer, undated); "A Few Omitted Leaves in the History of Cooperstown" gathered by G. Pomeroy Keese, undated, with inscription from G. Pomeroy Keese, undated; "Romanticismo," by Marcello P. Piermattei, 1945, with inscription to Clare Benedict from the author, undated; "Constance Fenimore Woolson and the South," by Fred Lewis Pattee, reprinted from The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 28, No. 2, April 1939, and inscribed by the author . | |||||||||