British and American writers and literary giants, contained within a single portfolio: Sir Walter Scott, two separate handwritten letters, signed; Mabel Loomis Todd, handwritten letter, signed; Oliver Wendell Holmes, handwritten letter, signed; Algernon Charles Swinburne, handwritten letter, signed; Archibald MacLeish, two separate handwritten letters, signed, one envelope; Alfred Noyes, handwritten poem, signed, and typed letter, signed; Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, handwritten five page folio “Prudence and the Bishop”, signed; George Bernard Shaw, handwritten note to suffragette Dorothy Frooks, signed, with envelope; William Morris, handwritten note, signed; Edith Sitwell, handwritten letter, signed; Philip Stanhope, 1797 dated handwritten letter, signed "Chesterfield"; Louis Untermeyer, typed poem and typed letter, both signed, with typed envelope; Booth Tarkington, signed photograph; Charlotte Mary Yonge, handwritten letter, signed; Howard Nemerov, handwritten poem, signed; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, typed poem “Come Lie With Me”, signed; a second Oliver Wendell Holmes handwritten letter, signed; Adrienne Rich, typed poem with handmarked edits, signed; Frances Hodgson Burnett, handwritten letter, signed; Christina Rossetti, handwritten letter, signed; Maxine Kumin, typed poem “The Absent Ones”, signed; Richard Eberhart, typed poem, signed; William Makepeace Thackeray, short note, signed; Wendell Phillips, handwritten note with quote from abolitionist John Brown, signed; Edmund Gosse, short note, signed; Mary Augusta Ward, a/k/a “Mrs. Humphry”, handwritten quote from her novel, signed; Oliver Wendell Holmes, handwritten verse, signed; Frank Stockton, page from “Pomona’s Club”, signed, along with two unsigned lithographs; Henry James, two separate handwritten letters, signed; Vita Sackville-West, typed letter, signed with some handwritten additions; Julia Ward Howe, handwritten letter, appears to be signed as “old bird”; Amy Lowell, typed letter, signed; Augustus J.C. Hare, two separate handwritten letters, signed; Paul Engle, typed “The Last Heron”, signed with handwritten remarks; a few with typed transcriptions, many with Walter R. Benjamin and other receipts (where shown), signatures have not been reviewed by a third-party, portfolio 15 x 12 x 1-1/2 in.

Provenance: From a New York Family