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| Collection Title: | Collection of Delia Salter Bacon, 1821-1888 |
| Preferred Citation: | Y.c.2599 (1-323) |
| Creator: | Delia Salter Bacon |
| Extent: | 1 box (323 items) |
| Repository: | Folger Shakespeare Library |
| Abstract: | Delia Salter Bacon is the originator of the Baconian theory, which she first proposed in “William Shakespeare and His Plays: An Inquiry Concerning Them,” Putnam’s Monthly Magazine VII (January 1856): 1-19, and shortly thereafter in The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded, By Delia Bacon, With a Preface by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Author of “The Scarlet Letter,” etc. (London and Boston, 1857). The letters to and from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, in particular, dating from 1853-1856, discuss her research in England on the authorship of Shakespeare’s works. In MS Y.c.2599 (48), March 7, [1837], Delia Bacon writes of revising her play, later published as The Bride of Fort Edward (New York: Samuel Colman, 1839), for the British actress Ellen Tree. The letters from John Lord, MSS Y.c.2599 (265-268), 1844-1846, describe his first impressions of England, Ireland and the Continent, politics, religion, and Anglo-American relations. There are also a few miscellaneous papers, MSS Y.c.2599 (311-323), including Delia Bacon’s “Author’s Apology and Claim” [1856]; prospectus’ for two of her Historical Lessons, November [1852] (her lecture series in New York) and February 1853 (her lecture series in Brooklyn); three newspaper cuttings; an engraving of Leonard Bacon, a memorandum concerning the publication of The Bride of Fort Edward, and an inventory of items from the school run by Delia, Julia, and Alice Bacon in Jamaica, Long Island, sold in 1830 for $130.59 in order to repay their creditors. |
| Processed by: | Folger staff | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date completed: | ca.1969 (original typescript on file) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Encoded by: | Apex Data Services, with revisions by Folger staff. Project partially funded by The Gladys Kreble Delmas Foundation, in collaboration with the Research Libraries Group. | ||||||||||||||||||
Gift of David Bacon, Leonard Lee Bacon, and Alice Bacon Hallett in 1969 (items 1-317). Item 318 donated by Leonard Lee Bacon in 1971, and items 319-23 donated by Leonard Lee Bacon in 1994.
Film Fo. 127.13a (microfilm copy, reduction ratio 13:1, 81 feet, lacking item 82); the collection is quoted extensively by V.C. Hopkins in Prodigal Puritan: a life of Delia Bacon (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1959).
Mrs. Alice Bacon; Benjamin W. Bacon; David Bacon; George Blagden Bacon; Leonard Bacon; Leonard W. Bacon; Lucy J. Bacon; Theodore Bacon; George Bancroft; Sarah C. Becker; Catherine E. Beecher; Francis Bennoch; James Buchanan; Charles Butler; Jane and Thomas Carlyle; Messrs. Chapman and Hall; Rufus Choate; Samuel Colman; J.P. Collier; Messrs. Dix and Edwards; Sir Henry Ellis; R.W. Emerson; Edward Everett; Eliza R. Farrar; George Fayrer; C.C. Felton; Celina Flower; G.J. Granville; Mrs. W. Grote; Francis L. Hawks; Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne; Arthur Helps; Herriman and Brink; George S. Hillard; Marcus Hodges; R.M. Milnes (later Lord Houghton); J.B. Hume; M. Jones; Rose H. Lathrop; J? T? Lipscomb; George Littlewood; Sampson Low, Son, & Co.; John Lord; E.B. Lytton (later Baron Lytton); James Martineau; Maria Mitchell; John Murray; Anthony Panizzi; J.W. Parker; Elizabeth Peabody; George Peabody; Alice Bacon Peck; Phillips, Sampson & Co.; George Palmer Putnam; Bernard and David Rice; Mr. and Mrs. George Ripley; Sarah S. Robbins; Benjamin Silliman; Augustus R. Sleet; Harriet B. Stowe; Thomas H. Taylor, the editor of the Tribune; Jonathan M. Wainwright; Thomas S. Williams; and Julia Bacon Woodruff.
Letters are arranged alphabetically by sender, and chronologically under each sender's name. Each letter has an individual number (all numbers are part of MS Y.c.2599). A list of related papers concerning Delia Salter Bacon at the Folger Shakespeare Library appears at the end of the finding aid.
The following LCSH and AAT headings are assigned to this collection.
| Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship--Baconian theory. |
| Correspondence. |
| Personal papers. |
| Manuscripts--Washington (D.C.) |
| Manuscripts, English--Washington (D.C.) |
| Bacon, Delia Salter, 1811-1859. |
| Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. |
| Panizzi, Anthony, Sir, 1797-1879. |
| Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872. |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. |
(1) Mrs [Alice] Bacon to Leonard Bacon, October 4, [1827]
(2) Delia Bacon to Alice Bacon (later Peck), June 1, 1828
(3) Delia Bacon to Benjamin W. Bacon, [Autumn, 1830?]
(4) Delia Bacon to David Bacon, October 28, 1849
(5) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, September 29, 1821
(6) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, September 28, 1825
(7) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, December 22, [1825]
(8) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, February 26, 1826
(9) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, March 22, [1826]
(10) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, Summer [1826?]
(11) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, January 30, 1827
(12) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, March 12, 1827
(13) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, March 24, 1827
(14) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, June 9, 1827
(15-16) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, June 13, 1827
Encloses a letter from Thomas S.Williams, June 12, 1827.
(17) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, June 15, 1827
(18) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, June 23, [1827]
(19) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, August 6, 1827
(20) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, Summer [1827?]
(21) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, September 10, [1827]
(22) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, October 15, 1827
(23) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, November 30, 1827
(24) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, December 28, 1827
(25) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, January 3, 1828
(26) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, Febuary 8, 1828
The first part is a letter from Julia Bacon.
(27) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, March 28, 1828
Julia Bacon has added a note.
(28) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, April 12, 1828
(29) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, April 22, 1828
(30) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, May 7, 1828
(31) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, May 16, [1828]
(32) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, June 9, 1828
(33) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, February 23, 1830
(34) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, March 2, 1830
(35) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, March 26, 1830
(36) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, April 7, [1830]
(37) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, April 13, [1830]
(38) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, August 2, 1830
(39) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, [August 1830?]
(40) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, May 9, 1831
(41) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, December 12, 1831
(42) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, June 16, 1832
(43) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, February 7, 1833
(44) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, [January 1836]
(45) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, February 1836
(46) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, September 11, 1836
(47) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, December 23, 1836
(48) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, March 7, [1837]
(49) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, August 16, [1837]
(50) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, December 9, 1837
(51) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, June 8, 1838
(52) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, August 3, 1838
(53) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, September 3, [1838]
(54) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, September 25, 1838
(55) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, November 28, 1838
(56) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, December 18, 1838
(57) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, April 10, 1839
(58) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, October 25, November 9, [1840]
(59) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, July 24, 1841
(60) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, August 29, [1841?]
(61) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, September 18, [1841?]
(62) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, December 15, 1842
(63) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, October 1846
(64) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, November 10, [1846]
(65) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, December 5, [1846]
(66) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, December 30, 1846
(67) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, [May 1847]
At the end is a letter from C.E. Beecher to Leonard Bacon.
(68) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, Winter [1848-49]
(69) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, November 27, [1851]
(70) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, February 9, 1852
(71) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, May 27, 1852
(72) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, August 31, 1852
(73) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, April 2, 1853
(74) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, May 13, 1853
Encloses her copy of a letter from Edward Everett to Anthony Panizzi, May 10, 1853.
(75) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, November 1, 1855
(76) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, December 20, [1855]
Adds a note to Julia and Julia adds a note to Leonard, Jan. 15, 1856.
(77) Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon, June 19, [1857]
(78) Delia to Lucy Johnson Bacon, September 23, [1827]
(79) Delia Bacon to Francis Bennoch, November [27?, 1856]
(80) Delia Bacon to Messrs. Dix and Edwards, December 20, 1855
(81) Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson, August 4, 1852
(82) Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson, September 30, 1852
Missing. Not on microfilm.
(83) Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 4, 1853
(84) Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 15, 1853
(85) Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 1853
(86) Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson, September 29, 1854
(87-88) Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson, March [24, 1855]
Encloses a letter to the editor of the Tribune of the same date.
(89) Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson, October, November 1, [1855]
(90) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, May 8, 1856
(91) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, May 18, 1856
(92) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, May 24, [1856]
(93) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, June 22, June 23, 1856
(94) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, June 26, [1856]
(95) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, July 1, 1856
(96) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, July [1856]
(97) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, July 23, [1856]
(98) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, August 1, 1856
(99) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, October 16, [1856]
(100) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oct. 22, Oct. 23, 1856
(101) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, October 29, 1856
(102) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, February 10, 1857
(103) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, February 24, 1857
(104) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, June 16, [1857]
(105) Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, August [1857]
(106) Delia Bacon to Sophia Hawthorne, August 9, 1856
(107) Delia Bacon to Sophia Hawthorne, August 20, [1856]
(108) Delia Bacon to Sophia Hawthorne, August 26, 1856
(109) Delia Bacon to Sophia Hawthorne, August 29-30, 1856
(110) Delia Bacon to Marcus [Hodges], June 10, [1857]
Incomplete. On the back is the beginning of a letter to her landlady, Mrs Baldwin.
(111) Delia Bacon to the Editor of Putnam’s Magazine, May 1, [1856]
Copy. DB adds a note at the end that the original was forwarded to Dix and Edwards. See MS Y.c. 64 (1).
(112) Delia Bacon to David Rice, After June 14, 1857
Unfinished, with cryptic note at end.
(113) George Blagden Bacon to Leonard Bacon, March 26, [1858]
(114) Leonard Bacon to Delia Bacon, [September 1856]
Draft.
(115) Leonard Bacon to Delia Bacon, July 3, 1857
Draft.
(116) Leonard Bacon to Delia Bacon, August 14, 1857
Draft?
(117) Leonard Bacon to Delia Bacon, March 4, 1858
Draft. Incomplete.
(118) Leonard Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 23, 1856
(119) Leonard Bacon to Dr. George Fayrer, January 8, 1858
Draft.
(120-121) Leonard Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, September 12, 1856
Draft and original.
(122) Leonard Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne, July 23, 1857
Draft and original (?) of last part.
(123) Leonard Bacon to Bernard Rice, December 11, December 15, 1857
(124-125) Leonard Bacon to David Rice, July 3, 1857
Draft and original.
(126-127) Leonard Bacon to David Rice, August 25, 1857
Draft and original.
(128) Leonard Bacon to David Rice, September 18, 1857
(129-130) Leonard Bacon to David Rice, October 9, 1857
Draft and original.
(131) Leonard Bacon to David Rice, October 20, 1857
(132) Leonard Bacon to David Rice, November 3, 1857
Draft.
(133) Leonard W.Bacon to David Rice, August 25, 1857
(134) George Bancroft to Delia Bacon, November 15, 1852
(135) Sarah C. Becker to Delia Bacon, January 27, 1856
(136) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, October 29, 1856
(137) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, October 31, 1856
(138) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, [November? 1856]
(139) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, [November? 1856]
(140) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, November 28, 1856
(141) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, December 1, 1856
(142) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, [December? 1856]
(143) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, December 20, 1856
(144) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, February 16, 1857
(145) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, [February 17?, 1857]
(146) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, [February 18?, 1857]
(147) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, February 27, 1857
Incomplete.
(148) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, March 2, 1857
(149) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, [March? 1857]
(150) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, [March? 1857]
(151) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, [mid March 1857]
(152) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, April 4, [1857]
(153) Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon, [April 1857]
(154) James Buchanan to Delia Bacon, January 12, 1856
(155) Charles Butler to Delia Bacon, August 20, 1853
(156) Charles Butler to Delia Bacon, February 14, 1854
(157) Charles Butler to Delia Bacon, [Summer 1854?]
Last part of letter only.
(158) Charles Butler to Delia Bacon, June 23, 1854
(159) Jane Carlyle to Delia Bacon, [December 1854?]
(160) Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon, June 8, 1853
(161) Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon, June 14, 1853
(162) Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon, August 12, 1853
(163) Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon, December 12, 1853
(164) Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon, October 4, 1854
(165-166) Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon, June 7, 1855
Encloses an open letter to a publisher on her behalf.
(167) Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon, December 14, 1856
(168) Messrs. Chapman and Hall to Delia Bacon, September 7, 1855
(169) Rufus Choate to Delia Bacon, [October 1850]
(170) Rufus Choate to Delia Bacon, [November 9?, 1850]
(171) John P. Collier to Delia Bacon, August 12, 1853
(172) Messrs. Dix and Edwards to Delia Bacon, November 20, 1855
(173) Messrs. Dix and Edwards to Delia Bacon, January 24, 1856
(174) Messrs. Dix and Edwards to Leonard Bacon, January 24, 1856
(175) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, June 12, 1852
(176) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, April 13, 1853
(177) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, May 12, 1853
(178-179) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, June 16, 1853
Encloses a letter to Arthur Helps.
(180) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, November 20, 1853
(181-183) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, August 5, 1855
Encloses a letter from Phillips, Sampson & Co., August 2, 1855, and another to Delia Bacon from George Palmer Putnam, August 1, 1855.
(184) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, December 3, 1855
(185) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, June 23, 1856
(186) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, July 28, 1856
Copy in hand of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.
(187) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Leonard Bacon, April 25, 1856
(188) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Leonard Bacon, February 18, 1858
(189) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Leonard Bacon, February 25, [1858]
(190) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Peabody
(191-192) Edward Everett to Delia Bacon, May 10, 1853
Encloses a letter to Anthony Panizzi, May 10, 1853.
(193) Eliza Rotch Farrar to Delia Bacon, November 16?, [1850]
(194) Eliza Rotch Farrar to Delia Bacon, February 18, 1856
(195) Eliza Rotch Farrar to Delia Bacon, October 29, [1856]
(196) Eliza Rotch Farrar to Delia Bacon, November 1, [1856]
(197) George Fayrer to Leonard Bacon, February 2, 1858
(198) George Fayrer to Leonard Bacon, March 11, 1858
(199-200) George Fayrer to Leonard Bacon, March 25, 1858
Encloses a note by Delia Bacon.
(201) George Fayrer to Leonard Bacon, September 2, 1858
(202) George Fayrer to Leonard Bacon, September 3, 1858
(203) George Fayrer to Bernard Rice, November 28, 1857
(204) C. C. Felton to Eliza R. Farrar, April 2, [1851]
Fragment.
(205) Celina Flower to Delia Bacon, April 17, [1857]
(206) Celina Flower to [Ralph Waldo Emerson?], January 25, 1858
Quotes a letter to her Dr [David?] Rice, January 22, 1858.
(207) Celina Flower to Ralph Waldo Emerson, February 4, [1858]
(208) Granville J. Granville to Delia Bacon, October 11, 1856
(209) Granville J. Granville to Delia Bacon, October 13, 1856
(210) Granville J. Granville to Delia Bacon, October 14, 1856
(211) Granville J. Granville to Delia Bacon, October 31?, 1856
(212) Mrs. W. Grote to Delia Bacon, August 5, 1855
(213) Francis L. Hawks to Delia Bacon, October 29, 1852
(214) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, May 12, 1856
(215) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, May 16, 1856
(216) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, May 26, 1856
(217) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, June 21, 1856
(218) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, June 25, 1856
(219) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, July 10, 1856
(220) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, July 12, 1856
(221) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, July 21, 1856
(222) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, August 12, 1856
(223) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, September 24, 1856
(224) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, October 21, 1856
(225) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, October 24, 1856
(226) Nathaniel Hawthorn to Delia Bacon, February 11, 1857
(227) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, February 19, 1857
(228) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon, August 14, 1856
(229) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon, February 26, 1857
(230) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon, June 13, 1857
(231) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon, July 18, 1857
(232) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon, August 1, 1857
(233) Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon, September 17, 1857
(234) Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice, June 13, 1857
(235) Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice, July 22, 1857
(236) Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice, July 30, 1857
(237) Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice, August 10, 1857
(238) Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice, September 2, 1857
(239) Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice, September 17, 1857
(240) Sophia Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, August 3, [1856]
(241) Sophia Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, August 21, 1856
(242) Sophia Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, September 7, [1856]
Note of Delia Bacon’s on the back.
(243) George S. Hillard to Delia Bacon, October 21, [1850]
(244) Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton to Delia Bacon, August 22, [1853]
(245-246) J. Burnley Hume to Charles Butler, April 15, 1853
Encloses a letter of introduction for Delia Bacon to Sir Henry Ellis.
(247) M. Jones to Delia Bacon, April 16, 1856
(248) Rose H. Lathrop to [Theodore] Bacon, September 14, [1888]
(249) Rose H. Lathrop to [Theodore] Bacon, October 2, 1888
(250) Dr. J?[ohn] T?[homas] Lipscomb to Delia Bacon, October 20, 1854
With receipt.
(251) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, November 1, 1856
(252) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, November 5, 1856
Envelope only.
(253) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, November 8, 1856
(254) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, November 14, 1856
(255) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, November 22, 1856
(256) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, [November - December 1856]
(257) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, December 29, 1856
(258) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, January 15, 185[7]
(259) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, January 22, 1857
(260) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, February 9, 1857
(261) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, February 21, 1857
(262) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, February 27, 1857
(263) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, March 10, 1857
(264) George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon, March 14, 1857
(265) John Lord to Delia Bacon, May 24, June 22, [1844]
A copy of the middle section of this letter is apparently part of the Delia Bacon Correspondence at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, b MS Am 1748.
(266) John Lord to Delia Bacon, December 30, 1844
(267) John Lord to Delia Bacon, January 2, 1846
(268) John Lord to Augustus R. Sleet, August 1, 1844
(269) Sampson Low, Son & Co. to Delia Bacon, October 1, 1855
(270) Sampson Low, Son & Co. to Delia Bacon, December 11, 1855
(271) Edward [G]. Bulwer-Lytton, later Baron Lytton, to Delia Bacon, April 27?, 1854
(272) James Martineau to Delia Bacon, May 30, 1853
Delia Bacon has added some notes.
(273) Maria Mitchell to Leonard Bacon, October 13, [1857]
(274-275) Maria Mitchell to Mrs George Ripley, September 7, 1857
Enclosed in a letter George Ripley to Leonard Bacon, September 25, 1857.
(276) John Murray to Delia Bacon, June 28, [1855]
(277) John William Parker to Delia Bacon, July 25, 1855
(278) Elizabeth Peabody to Delia Bacon, March 22, [1853]
(279) Elizabeth Peabody to Delia Bacon, [March - April 1853]
(280) Elizabeth Peabody to Delia Bacon, April 4, [1853]
(281) George Peabody to Delia Bacon, June 10, [1854]
(282) George Peabody to Delia Bacon, June 26, 1854
(283) George Peabody to Delia Bacon, July 29, 1854
(284) Alice Bacon Peck to [Leonard Bacon], August 4, 1857
(285) Alice Bacon Peck to Leonard Bacon, August 13, 1857
(286) Bernard Rice to Leonard Bacon, November 12, 1857
On behalf of his father, David Rice, encloses his accounts with Delia Bacon’s bills and receipts and a note of the contents of her purse and writing case.
(287) David Rice to Leonard Bacon, June 19, 1857
(288) David Rice to Leonard Bacon, July 24, 1857
(289) David Rice to Nathaniel Hawthorne, June 12, 1857
(290) David Rice to Nathaniel Hawthorne, June 14, 1857
(291) David Rice to Nathaniel Hawthorne, July 25, 1857
(292) David Rice to Nathaniel Hawthorne, August 1, 1857
(293) David Rice to Nathaniel Hawthorne, September 16, 1857
(294) Sarah S. Robbins to Delia Bacon, July 10, 1848
(295) Sarah S. Robbins to Leonard Bacon, March 7, 1866
(296) Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon, February 20, 1847
(297) Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon, March 1, 1847
(298) Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon, March 5, 1847
(299) Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon, March 7, 1847
(300) Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon, March 9, 1847
(301) Benjamin Silliamn to Delia Bacon, March 10, 1847
(302) Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon, March 17, 1847
(303) Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon, March 19, 1847
(304) Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon, [March? 1847]
(305) Harriet Beecher Stowe to Delia Bacon, [August 1849]
(306) Harriet Beecher Stowe to Delia Bacon, August 1, [1851]
(307) Harriet Beecher Stowe to Delia Bacon, [December 1851]
(308) [Thomas H.] Taylor to Delia Bacon, November 14, 1852
(309) [Jonathan M.] Wainwright to Delia Bacon, November 1, 1852
(310) Julia Bacon Woodruff to Leonard Bacon, May 20, 1856
Quotes at length a letter to her Delia Bacon, May 1.
(311) The author’s apology and claim, [1857?]
(31 pp). Signed “Rest Rest, perturbed spirit! Delia Bacon. Stratford-on-Avon. The Shakespeare Problem Solved.”
(312-313) Prospectus for Miss Bacon’s Historical Lessons at the Stuyvesant Institute, November [1852].
2 copies. Printed. First copy (312) sent by Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(314) Letters to the newspaper concerning her Historical Lessons, December 1852 - January 1853.
Offprint.
(315) Prospectus for Miss Bacon’s Course of Historical Lessons in Brooklyn, February 1853.
3 copies. Printed.
(316) Review of The Philosophy of the Plays, taken from The Leader, [April 18, 1857].
(317) Newspaper cutting reporting Delia Bacon’s return to the United States, [April, 1858]
(318) Engraving of Leonard Bacon, “engraved for the Eclectic by J.J. Cade. New York.”
(319) Samuel Colman to Delia Bacon, July 17, 1839
Memorandum of agreement between Bacon and Samuel Colman for publication of The Bride of Fort Edward.
(320) Samuel Colman to Delia Bacon, March 12, 1840
(321) Herriman and Brink to Delia Bacon, April 4, 1831
(322) Inventory of items from the school in Jamaica, Long Island run by Delia, Julia, and Alice Bacon, sold privately, with record of payments to their creditors, [1830]
(323) Norman Holmes Pearson to Mrs. Bacon, re. his search for letters from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon, August 30, 1952
Y.c.64 (1) Delia Bacon to the Editor of Putnam’s Magazine, May 1, [1856]
[MS Y.c.2599 (111) notes that this letter was forwarded to the publishers, Messrs. Dix and Edwards].
Y.c.64 (2) Delia Bacon to Phillips, Sampson, & Co. [publishers], July 5, 1855
Y.c.64 (3) Delia Bacon to George Palmer Putnam, September 24, 1855
Y.c.856 (1) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, January 15, 1855
Y.c.856 (2) Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thomas Carlyle, May 12, 1853
Letter of introduction for Delia Bacon.