Papers of Delia Salter Bacon
Folger MS Y.c.2599 (1-323)
Folger Shakespeare Library
323.0 items
(2 boxes)
Bulk, 1827-1859
1820-1952 (bulk 1827-1859)
Includes 312 autograph letters signed and initialed and one typed letter signed to and from Delia Bacon and others; 10 miscellaneous items including prospectuses of Delia Bacon, her The author's apology and claim, [1857?], an engraving of Leonard Bacon, a memorandum of an agreement between Delia Bacon and Samuel Coleman, an inventory of school items to be sold at a private sale in 1831 and payments to various people for sums due, and 3 newspaper clippings.
In English.
Bacon, Delia Salter, 1811-1859
Acquisition Information
Gift of David Bacon, Leonard Lee Bacon, and Alice Bacon Hallett in 1969, originally housed in 2 black cardboard boxes (items 1-317). Item 318 donated by Leonard Lee Bacon in 1971, and items 319-23 donated by Leonard Lee Bacon in 1994.
Other Formats
Also available on microfilm, Film Fo. 127.13a (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).
Scope and Content
Includes 312 autograph letters signed and initialed and one typed letter signed to and from Delia Bacon and others; 10 miscellaneous items including prospectuses of Delia Bacon, her The author's apology and claim, [1857?], an engraving of Leonard Bacon, a memorandum of an agreement between Delia Bacon and Samuel Coleman, an inventory of school items to be sold at a private sale in 1831 and payments to various people for sums due, and 3 newspaper clippings.
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 Folger 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, Folger MS 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, Folger MS Y.c.2599 (311-323), including Delia Bacon’s “Author’s Apology and Claim” [1857?]; 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.
List of correspondents: 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.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into two series: 1. Correspondence; 2. Miscellaneous papers.
The Correspondence series is arranged alphabetically by sender, and chronologically under each sender's name.
Related Materials
Autograph letters signed from Delia Salter Bacon to various recipients, 1855 (
Folger MS Y.c.64 (1-3)). Recipients include: Editor of Putnam’s magazine, May 1, [1856]; Phillips and Sampson Publishing Firm, July 5, 1855; and George Palmer Putnam, September 24, 1855. (MS Y.c.2599 (111) notes that Y.c.64 (1) was forwarded to the publishers, Messrs. Dix and Edwards).
Autograph letters signed from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon, January 15, 1855, and to Thomas Carlyle, May 12, 1853 (
Folger MS Y.c.856 (1-2)). A letter of introduction for Delia Bacon.
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Preferred Citation
[Item title and date], Papers of Delia Salter Bacon, Folger MS Y.c.2599 [item number], Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts
Panizzi, Anthony, Sir, 1797-1879 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts
Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts
Clippings
Inventories -- Manuscripts
Letters -- Manuscripts
Manuscripts
Memorandums -- Manuscripts
Portraits -- Male
Prints
Prospectuses -- Manuscripts
Correspondence
Letter from Mrs [Alice] Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (1)
[1827] October 4
Letter from Delia Bacon to Alice Bacon (later Peck)
Y.c.2599 (2)
1828 June 1
Letter from Delia Bacon to Benjamin W. Bacon
Y.c.2599 (3)
[1830? Autumn]
Letter from Delia Bacon to David Bacon
Y.c.2599 (4)
1849 October 28
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (5)
1821 September 29
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (6)
1825 September 28
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (7)
[1825] December 22
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (8)
1826 February 26
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (9)
[1826] March 22
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (10)
[1826?] Summer
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (11)
1827 January 30
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (12)
1827 March 12
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (13)
1827 March 24
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (14)
1827 June 9
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (15-16)
1827 June 13
Encloses a letter from Thomas S.Williams, June 12, 1827.
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (17)
1827 June 15
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (18)
[1827] June 23
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (19)
1827 August 6
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (20)
[1827?] Summer
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (21)
[1827] September 10
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (22)
1827 October 15
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (23)
1827 November 30
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (24)
1827 December 28
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (25)
1828 January 3
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (26)
1828 Febuary 8
Scope and Contents note
The first part is a letter from Julia Bacon.
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (27)
1828 March 28
Scope and Contents note
Julia Bacon has added a note.
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (28)
1828 April 12
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (29)
1828 April 22
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (30)
1828 May 7
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (31)
[1828] May 16
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (32)
1828 June 9
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (33)
1830 February 23
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (34)
1830 March 2
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (35)
1830 March 26
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (36)
[1830] April 7
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (37)
[1830] April 13
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (38)
1830 August 2
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (39)
[1830? August]
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (40)
1831 May 9
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (41)
1831 December 12
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (42)
1832 June 16
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (43)
1833 February 7
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (44)
[1836 January]
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (45)
1836 February
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (46)
1836 September 11
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (47)
1836 December 23
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (48)
[1837] March 7
Scope and Contents note
Writes of revising her play for Ellen Tree.
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (49)
[1837] August 16
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (50)
1837 December 9
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (51)
1838 June 8
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (52)
1838 August 3
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (53)
[1883] September 3
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (54)
1838 September 25
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (55)
1838 November 28
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (56)
1838 December 18
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (57)
1839 April 10
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (58)
[1840] October 25 and November 9
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (59)
1841 July 24
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (60)
[1841?] August 29
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (61)
[1841?] September 18
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (62)
1842 December 15
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (63)
1846 October
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (64)
[1846] November 10
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (65)
[1846] December 5
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (66)
1846 December 30
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (67)
[1847 May]
Scope and Contents note
At the end is a letter from C.E. Beecher to Leonard Bacon.
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (68)
[1848-49] Winter
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (69)
[1851] November 27
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (70)
1852 February 9
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (71)
1852 May 27
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (72)
1852 August 31
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (73)
1853 April 2
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (74)
1853 May 13
Scope and Contents note
Encloses her copy of a letter from Edward Everett to Anthony Panizzi, May 10, 1853.
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (75)
1855 November 1
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (76)
[1855] December 20
Scope and Contents note
Adds a note to Julia and Julia adds a note to Leonard, Jan. 15, 1856.
Letter from Delia Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (77)
[1857] June 19
Letter from Delia Bacon to Lucy Johnson Bacon
Y.c.2599 (78)
[1827] September 23
Letter from Delia Bacon to Francis Bennoch
Y.c.2599 (79)
[1856] November [27?]
Letter from Delia Bacon to Messrs. Dix and Edwards
Y.c.2599 (80)
1855 December 20
Letter from Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Y.c.2599 (81)
1852 August 4
Letter from Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Y.c.2599 (82)
1852 September 30
Scope and Contents note
Missing. Not on microfilm.
Letter from Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Y.c.2599 (83)
1853 April 4
Letter from Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Y.c.2599 (84)
1853 April 15
Letter from Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Y.c.2599 (85)
1853 April 1853
Letter from Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Y.c.2599 (86)
1854 September 29
Letter from Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Y.c.2599 (87-88)
[1855] March [24]
Scope and Contents note
Encloses a letter to the editor of the Tribune of the same date.
Letter from Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Y.c.2599 (89)
[1855] October and November 1
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (90)
1856 May 8
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (91)
1856 May 18
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (92)
[1856] May 24
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (93)
1856 June 22-23
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (94)
[1856] June 26
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (95)
1856 July 1
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (96)
[1856] July
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (97)
[1856] July 23
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (98)
1856 August 1
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (99)
[1856] October 16
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (100)
1856 October 22-23
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (101)
1856 October 29
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (102)
1857 February 10
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (103)
1857 February 24
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (104)
[1857] June 16
Letter from Delia Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (105)
[1857] August
Letter from Delia Bacon to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (106)
1856 August 9
Letter from Delia Bacon to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (107)
[1856] August 20
Letter from Delia Bacon to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (108)
1856 August 26
Letter from Delia Bacon to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (109)
1856 August 29-30
Letter from Delia Bacon to Marcus [Hodges] : incomplete
Y.c.2599 (110)
[1857] June 10
On the back is the beginning of a letter to her landlady, Mrs. Baldwin.
Letter from Delia Bacon to the Editor of Putnam’s Magazine : copy
Y.c.2599 (111)
[1856] May 1
DB adds a note at the end that the original was forwarded to Dix and Edwards. See
Folger MS Y.c.64 (1)
Letter from Delia Bacon to David Rice : incomplete
Y.c.2599 (112)
After 1857 June 14
Scope and Contents note
Unfinished, with cryptic note at end.
Letter from George Blagden Bacon to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (113)
[1858] March 26
Letter from Leonard Bacon to Delia Bacon : draft
Y.c.2599 (114)
[1856 September]
Letter from Leonard Bacon to Delia Bacon : draft
Y.c.2599 (115)
1857 July 3
Letter from Leonard Bacon to Delia Bacon : draft
Y.c.2599 (116)
1857 August 14
Scope and Contents note
Draft?
Letter from Leonard Bacon to Delia Bacon : incomplete draft
Y.c.2599 (117)
1858 March 4
Letter from Leonard Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Y.c.2599 (118)
1856 April 23
Letter from Leonard Bacon to Dr. George Fayrer : draft
Y.c.2599 (119)
1858 January 8
Letter from Leonard Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (120-121)
1856 September 12
Scope and Contents note
Draft and original.
Letter from Leonard Bacon to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (122)
1857 July 23
Scope and Contents note
Draft and original (?) of last part.
Letter from Leonard Bacon to Bernard Rice
Y.c.2599 (123)
1857 December 11 and December 15
Letter from Leonard Bacon to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (124-125)
1857 July 3
Scope and Contents note
Draft and original.
Letter from Leonard Bacon to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (126-127)
1857 August 25
Scope and Contents note
Draft and original.
Letter from Leonard Bacon to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (128)
1857 September 18
Letter from Leonard Bacon to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (129-130)
1857 October 9
Scope and Contents note
Draft and original.
Letter from Leonard Bacon to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (131)
1857 October 20
Letter from Leonard Bacon to David Rice : draft
Y.c.2599 (132)
1857 November 3
Letter from Leonard Woolsey Bacon to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (133)
1857 August 25
Letter from George Bancroft to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (134)
1852 November 15
Letter from Sarah C. Becker to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (135)
1856 January 27
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (136)
1856 October 29
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (137)
1856 October 31
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (138)
[1856 November?]
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (139)
[1856 November?]
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (140)
1856 November 28
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (141)
1856 December 1
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (142)
[1856 December?]
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (143)
1856 December 20
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (144)
1857 February 16
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (145)
[1857 February 17?]
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (146)
[1857 February 18?]
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon : incomplete
Y.c.2599 (147)
1857 February 27
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (148)
1857 March 2
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (149)
[1857 March?]
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (150)
[1857 March?]
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (151)
[1857 mid March]
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (152)
[1857] April 4
Letter from Francis Bennoch to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (153)
[1857 April]
Letter from James Buchanan to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (154)
1856 January 12
Letter from Charles Butler to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (155)
1853 August 20
Letter from Charles Butler to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (156)
1854 February 14
Letter from Charles Butler to Delia Bacon : fragment
Y.c.2599 (157)
[1854? Summer]
Scope and Contents note
Last part of letter only.
Letter from Charles Butler to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (158)
1854 June 23
Letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (159)
[1854 December?]
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (160)
1853 June 8
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (161)
1853 June 14
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (162)
1853 August 12
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (163)
1853 December 12
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (164)
1854 October 4
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (165-166)
1855 June 7
Scope and Contents note
Encloses an open letter to a publisher on her behalf.
Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (167)
1856 December 14
Letter from Messrs. Chapman and Hall to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (168)
1855 September 7
Letter from Rufus Choate to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (169)
[1850 October]
Letter from Rufus Choate to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (170)
[1850 November 9?]
Letter from John P. Collier to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (171)
1853 August 12
Letter from Messrs. Dix and Edwards to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (172)
1855 November 20
Letter from Messrs. Dix and Edwards to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (173)
1856 January 24
Letter from Messrs. Dix and Edwards to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (174)
1856 January 24
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (175)
1852 June 12
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (176)
1853 April 13
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (177)
1853 May 12
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (178-179)
1853 June 16
Scope and Contents note
Encloses a letter to Arthur Helps.
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (180)
1853 November 20
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (181-183)
1855 August 5
Scope and Contents note
Encloses a letter from Phillips, Sampson & Co., August 2, 1855, and another to Delia Bacon from George Palmer Putnam, August 1, 1855.
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (184)
1855 December 3
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (185)
1856 June 23
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Delia Bacon : copy
Y.c.2599 (186)
1856 July 28
Scope and Contents note
Copy in hand of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (187)
1856 April 25
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (188)
1858 February 18
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (189)
[1858] February 25
Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Y.c.2599 (190)
1853 March 26
Letter from Edward Everett to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (191-192)
1853 May 10
Scope and Contents note
Encloses a letter to Anthony Panizzi, May 10, 1853.
Letter from Mrs. John Farrar (Eliza Rotch Farrar) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (193)
[1850] November 16?
Letter from Mrs. John Farrar (Eliza Rotch Farrar) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (194)
1856 February 18
Letter from Mrs. John Farrar (Eliza Rotch Farrar) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (195)
[1856] October 29
Letter from Mrs. John Farrar (Eliza Rotch Farrar) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (196)
[1856] November 1
Letter from George Fayrer to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (197)
1858 February 2
Letter from George Fayrer to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (198)
1858 March 11
Letter from George Fayrer to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (199-200)
1858 March 25
Scope and Contents note
Encloses a note by Delia Bacon.
Letter from George Fayrer to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (201)
1858 September 2
Letter from George Fayrer to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (202)
1858 September 3
Letter from George Fayrer to Bernard Rice
Y.c.2599 (203)
1857 November 28
Letter from C. C. (Cornelius Conway) Felton to Mrs. John Farrar (Eliza Rotch Farrar) : fragment
Y.c.2599 (204)
[1851] April 2
Letter from Selina Flower to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (205)
[1857] April 17
Letter from Selina Flower to [Ralph Waldo Emerson?]
Y.c.2599 (206)
1858 January 25
Scope and Contents note
Quotes a letter to her Dr. [David?] Rice, January 22, 1858.
Letter from Selina Flower to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Y.c.2599 (207)
[1858] February 4
Letter from Granville John Granville to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (208)
1856 October 11
Letter from Granville John Granville to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (209)
1856 October 13
Letter from Granville John Granville to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (210)
1856 October 14
Letter from Granville John Granville to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (211)
1856 October 31?
Letter from Mrs. W. Grote to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (212)
1855 August 5
Letter from Francis L. Hawks to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (213)
1852 October 29
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (214)
1856 May 12
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (215)
1856 May 16
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (216)
1856 May 26
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (217)
1856 June 21
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (218)
1856 June 25
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (219)
1856 July 10
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (220)
1856 July 12
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (221)
1856 July 21
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (222)
1856 August 12
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (223)
1856 September 24
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (224)
1856 October 21
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (225)
1856 October 24
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (226)
1857 February 11
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (227)
1857 February 19
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (228)
August 14, 1856
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (229)
1857 February 26
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (230)
1857 June 13
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (231)
1857 July 18
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (232)
1857 August 1
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (233)
1857 September 17
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (234)
1857 June 13
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (235)
1857July 22
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (236)
1857 July 30
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (237)
1857 August 10
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (238)
1857 September 2
Letter from Nathaniel Hawthorne to David Rice
Y.c.2599 (239)
1857 September 17
Letter from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (240)
[1856] August 3
Letter from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (241)
1856 August 21
Letter from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (242)
[1856] September 7
Scope and Contents note
Note of Delia Bacon’s on the back.
Letter from George Stillman Hillard to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (243)
[1850] October 21
Letter from Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton, to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (244)
[1853] August 22
Letter from J. Burnley Hume to Charles Butler
Y.c.2599 (245-246)
1853 April 15
Scope and Contents note
Encloses a letter of introduction for Delia Bacon to Sir Henry Ellis.
Letter from M. Jones to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (247)
1856 April 16
Letter from Rose Hawthorne Lathrop to [Theodore] Bacon
Y.c.2599 (248)
[1888] September 14
Letter from Rose Hawthorne Lathrop to [Theodore] Bacon
Y.c.2599 (249)
1888 October 2
Letter from Dr. J?[ohn] T?[homas] Lipscomb to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (250)
1854 October 20
Scope and Contents note
With receipt.
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (251)
1856 November 1
Envolope of letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (252)
1856 November 5
Scope and Contents note
Envelope only.
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (253)
1856 November 8
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (254)
1856 November 14
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (255)
1856 November 22
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (256)
[1856 November-December]
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (257)
1856 December 29
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (258)
185[7] January 15
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (259)
1857 January 22
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (260)
1857 February 9
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (261)
1857 February 21
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (262)
1857 February 27
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (263)
1857 March 10
Letter from George Littlewood (of Wertheimer & Co.) to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (264)
1857 March 14
Letters from John Lord to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (265-268)
[1844] May 24 and June 22
Scope and Contents note
Describes his first impressions of England, Ireland and the Continent; politics, religion and Anglo-American relations.
(265): [1844] May 24 and June 22. 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): 1844 December 30.
(267): 1846 January 2.
(268): to Augustus R. Sleet, 1844 August 1.
Letter from Sampson Low, Son & Co. to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (269)
1855 October 1
Letter from Sampson Low, Son & Co. to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (270)
1855 December 11
Letter from Edward [G]. Bulwer-Lytton, later Baron Lytton, to Delia Bacon,
Y.c.2599 (271)
1854 April 27?
Letter from James Martineau to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (272)
1853 May 30
Scope and Contents note
Delia Bacon has added some notes.
Letter from Maria Mitchell to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (273)
[1857] October 13
Letter from Maria Mitchell to Mrs.George Ripley (Sophia Willard Dana Ripley)
Y.c.2599 (274-275)
1857 September 7
Scope and Contents note
Enclosed in a letter George Ripley to Leonard Bacon, September 25, 1857.
Letter from John Murray to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (276)
[1855] June 28
Letter from John William Parker to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (277)
1855 July 25
Letter from Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (278)
[1853] March 22
Letter from Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (279)
[1853 March-April]
Letter from Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (280)
[1853] April 4
Letter from George Peabody to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (281)
[1854] June 10
Letter from George Peabody to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (282)
1854 June 26
Letter from George Peabody to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (283)
1854 July 29
Letter from Alice Bacon Peck to [Leonard Bacon]
Y.c.2599 (284)
1857 August 4
Letter from Alice Bacon Peck to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (285)
1857 August 13
Letter from Bernard Rice to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (286)
1857 November 12
Scope and Contents note
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.
Letter from David Rice to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (287)
1857 June 19
Letter from David Rice to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (288)
1857 July 24
Letter from David Rice to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (289)
1857 June 12
Letter from David Rice to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (290)
1857 June 14
Letter from David Rice to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (291)
1857 July 25
Letter from David Rice to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (292)
1857 August 1
Letter from David Rice to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Y.c.2599 (293)
1857 September 16
Letter from Sarah Stuart Robbins to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (294)
1848 July 10
Letter from Sarah Stuart Robbins to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (295)
1866 March 7
Letter from Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (296)
1847 February 20
Letter from Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (297)
1847 March 1
Letter from Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (298)
1847 March 5
Letter from Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (299)
1847 March 7
Letter from Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (300)
1847 March 9
Letter from Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (301)
1847 March 10
Letter from Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (302)
1847 March 17
Letter from Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (303)
1847 March 19
Letter from Benjamin Silliman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (304)
[1847 March?]
Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (305)
[1849 August]
Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (306)
[1851] August 1
Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (307)
[1851 December]
Letter from [Thomas House] Taylor to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (308)
1852 November 14
Letter from [Jonathan Mayhew] Wainwright to Delia Bacon,
Y.c.2599 (309)
1852 November 1
Letter from Julia Bacon Woodruff to Leonard Bacon
Y.c.2599 (310)
1856 May 20
Scope and Contents note
Quotes at length a letter to her Delia Bacon, May 1.
Miscellaneous papers
The author’s apology and claim
Y.c.2599 (311)
[1857?]
Scope and Contents note
(31 pp). Signed “Rest Rest, perturbed spirit! Delia Bacon. Stratford-on-Avon. The Shakespeare Problem Solved.”
Prospectus for Miss Bacon’s Historical Lessons at the Stuyvesant Institute : copies
Y.c.2599 (312-313)
[1852] November
Scope and Contents note
2 copies. Printed. First copy (312) sent by Delia Bacon to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Letters to the newspaper concerning her Historical Lessons
Y.c.2599 (314)
1852 December-1853 January
Scope and Contents note
Offprint.
Prospectus for Miss Bacon’s Course of Historical Lessons in Brooklyn : printed copies
Y.c.2599 (315)
1853 February
Scope and Contents note
3 copies. Printed.
Review of
The Philosophy of the Plays, taken from
The Leader,
Y.c.2599 (316)
[1857 April 18]
Newspaper cutting reporting Delia Bacon’s return to the United States
Y.c.2599 (317)
[1858 April]
Engraving of Leonard Bacon, “engraved for the Eclectic by J.J. Cade. New York.”
Y.c.2599 (318)
Letter from Samuel Colman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (319)
1839 July 17
Scope and Contents note
Memorandum of agreement between Bacon and Samuel Colman for publication of
The Bride of Fort Edward.
Letter from Samuel Colman to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (320)
1840 March 12
Letter from Herriman and Brink to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (321)
1831 April 4
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
Y.c.2599 (322)
[1830]
Norman Holmes Pearson to Mrs. Bacon, regarding his search for letters from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Delia Bacon
Y.c.2599 (323)
1952 August 30