Collection ID: 4079404 MS#1245

Collection context

Summary

Creator:
Tilton, Eleanor M (Eleanor Marguerite), 1913-
Extent:
68 linear feet and 81 boxes 58 file drawers 88 card file boxes 1 oversized folder
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Eleanor M. Tilton papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Background

Scope and Content:

This collection includes nine letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as letters of Louis Agassiz, Amos Bronson Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Charles Sumner, and John Greenleaf Whittier. In addition, there are two incomplete manuscripts by Emerson and one document from the Liverpool Custom-house signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne as Consul for the United States. The collection also includes the corrected typescript, index, and page and galley proofs for Thomas Franklin Currier, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (New York, 1953) which was edited by Professor Tilton. Also, some early correspondence and photographs of the Tilton family and friends. There are letters from the actors Annie Louise Ames, Richard J. Dillon, and Hans L. Meery to Tilton's grandfather, Bernard Paul Verne, as well as photographs, tintypes, and daguerreotypes of the Verne family and friends.

1992 Addition: Her professional papers include correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and printed materials on many aspects of 18th and 19th century American literature, especially literary New England. Among her papers are files compiled in editing volumes 7 and 8 of THE LETTERS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON (New York, 1939-1991). These files contain correspondence, card files, notes, transcripts, photocopies, book typescripts, printed materials, and other related items. There are also similar files relating to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and to her books, AMIABLE AUTOCRAT: A BIOGRAPHY OF DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (New York, 1947) and LITERARY BANTLINGS: ADDENDA TO THE HOLMES BIBLIOGRAPHY (New York, 1957).

Biographical / Historical:

Professor of English, Barnard College, 1959-1979, scholar of American literature, editor and authority on Ralph W. Emerson. Columbia University Ph.D., 1947.

Acquisition information:
Source of acquisition--Tilton, Eleanor M. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1979. Accession number--M-79.
Custodial history:

Gift of Eleanor M. Tilton, 1979, 1983& 1992.

Processing information:

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/89.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into 10 series.

Accruals:

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed Terms

Subjects:
Actors
Criticism, Textual
Literature publishing
Scholarly publishing
Theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century
Transcendentalists (New England)
Deeds
Portraits
Actors
Philosophers
Poets
Scholars
Women scholars
Actresses
Authors
Editors
Physicians
Women college teachers
Letters (correspondence)
Advertisements
Announcements
Applications
Articles
Bibliographies
Biographies (literary works)
Brochures
Bulletins
Calendars (documents)
Card files
Trade catalogs
Certificates
Clippings (Information Artifacts)
Contracts
Résumés (personnel records)
Daguerreotypes (photographs)
Dissertations
Drafts (documents)
Engravings (prints)
Essays
Etchings (prints)
Examinations (documents)
Financial records
Galley proofs
Genealogies (histories)
Greeting cards
Guidebooks
Illustrations
indexes (reference sources)
Invitations
Invoices
Lists (document genres)
Lithographs
Manuscripts (documents)
Maps (documents)
Newsletters
Notebooks
Notes (documents)
Pamphlets
Photographs
Photographic prints
Pictures (object genre)
Playbills
Poems
Postcards
Prints
Proofs (printed matter)
Reports
Reprints
Reviews (documents)
Sermons
Silhouettes
Syllabi
Tax returns
Tintypes (photographs)
Transcripts
Names:
Barnard College -- Faculty
Ticknor and Fields
Emerson family
Hoar family
Tilton family
Ward family
Verne family
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Airy, George Biddell, 1801-1892
Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888
Ames, Annie Louise
Badeau, Adam, 1831-1895
Baker, George M (George Melville), 1832-1890
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810
Bryant, Jacob, 1715-1804
Bugbee, James M (James McKellar), 1837-1913
Burnap, Beniamin, fl.1700
Burnap, Joseph, fl.1700
Currier, Thomas Franklin, 1873-1946
Dillon, Richard J.
Eatton, John
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881
Fowles, John, 1926-2005
Gillett, Frederick Huntington, 1851-1935
Gunn, Elisha, fl.1796
Gunn, William, fl.1796
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Henley, Samuel, 1740-1815
Hinman, R. R (Royal Ralph), 1785-1868
Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Howison, George Holmes, 1834-1917
Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940
Meery, Hans L
Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877
Nickools, Thomas, fl.1700
Phipps, Samuel, fl.1700
Quay, Matthew Stanley, 1833-1904
Richardson, John, active 1700
Root, Elisha, fl.1796
Root, Joseph, fl.1796
Root, Martin, fl.1796
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Verne, Bernard Paul
Ward, Samuel Gray
Weiss, John, 1818-1879
Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Wilson, Carroll A (Carroll Atwood), 1886-1947
Places:
American literature

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

Box 1 located on-site. Boxes 2-82 and card files are located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

TERMS OF ACCESS:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

PREFERRED CITATION:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Eleanor M. Tilton papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th St.
New York, NY 10027, United States
CONTACT:
(212) 854-5590
rbml@library.columbia.edu