ma147 Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection, ca. 1820-1900 (bulk 1880-1890) Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Peter Nelson. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
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 Collection Overview Chapin, Samuel Austin, 1858-1959 Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection ca. 1820-1900 1880-1890 1 archives box (0.5 linear ft.) Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Consists of 59 manuscript items, chiefly letters and dating from 1880-1890, collected by Samuel Chapin (AC 1880) and preserved by Marcus P. Kiley (AC 1919). The collection includes materials of such individuals as Lyman Abbott, Edward Beecher, William Lloyd Garrison, Edward Everett Hale, Rudyard Kipling and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. English. Scope and Contents of the Collection

59 manuscript items, chiefly letters and dating from 1880-1890, that were collected by Samuel Chapin (AC 1880) when he was on the editorial staff of St Nicholas Magazine. The collection was preserved and later presented to Amherst College by his friend and fellow alumnus Marcus P. Kiley (AC 1919). The collection includes materials of such individuals as Lyman Abbott, Edward Beecher, William Lloyd Garrison, Edward Everett Hale, Rudyard Kipling and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

 Arrangement of the Collection

The manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by author name.

 Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

There is no restriction on access to the Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection for research use. Particularly fragile items may be restricted for preservation purposes.

Requests for permission to publish material from the Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.

 Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Chapin-Kiley Manuscript Collection [Box #, Folder #], Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library

 History of the Collection

Search Terms Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922. Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895. Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893. Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879. Kiley, Marcus Philip, 1897-1981. Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. Amherst College. Class of 1880. Chapin. Amherst College. Class of 1919. Kiley. Additional Information Additional Finding Aids Available

All items in this collection are also described in the finding aid for the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection.

 1 1 Abbott, Jacob, Farmington, Maine, to [Lyman Abbott], n. p., ALS 2p. 1871 Aug 14 1 1 Abbott, Lyman, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. 1886 Dec 28 1 1 Abbott, Lyman, New York, to Roswell Smith, New York, TLS 1p. 1881 May 10 1 1 Abbott, Lyman, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Roswell Smith, New York, ALS 2p. 1883 Mar 7 1 1 Barnum, Phineas Taylor, Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Lyman Abbott, [New York] 1878 Nov 22 1 1 Beecher, Charles, Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. 1882 May 17 1 1 Beecher, Edward, New York, to Lyman Abbott, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, ALS 1p. [ca. 1880] Jul 12 1 1 Beecher, Edward, Brooklyn, New York, to [Henry Bowen?], [New York], ALS 1p. 1882 Aug 25 1 1 Beecher, Edward, Brooklyn, [New York], to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. 1882 May 16 1 1 Beecher, James Chaplin, Brooklyn, [New York], to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 3p. 1882 May 23 1 1 Beecher, Thomas Kinnicut, Elmira, New York, to Edward Beecher, Brooklyn, New York, AL 1p. 1882 May 17 1 1 Birch, Reginald Bathurst, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 3p. with illustrations [ca. 1880] 1 1 Birch, Reginald Bathurst, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. with illustrations [ca. 1880?] 1 1 Brooks, Noah, Newark, NJ, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 2p. plus annotated ms note by Mrs. Dodge to Samuel Austin Chapin 1888 Feb 13 1 1 Brooks, Phillips, Boston, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p. 1879 May 31 1 1 Brooks, Phillips, Boston, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p. 1881 Sep 26 1 1 Burroughs, John, West Park, New York, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 1p. 1888 Feb 16 1 1 Chateaubriand, Francois René, Vicomte de, Paris [?], to Madame de Feletz, n. p., facsimile 1p. [ca. 1820?] Feb 5 1 1 Coolidge, Susan, Newport, [Rhode Island?], to an unknown person, n. p., ALS 2p. [ca. 1900?] Oct 1 1 Curtis, George William, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1869 May 15 1 1 Damrosch, Walter, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 1p. [18]83 Nov 21 1 1 Damrosch, Walter, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. [18]83 Dec 6 1 1 Damrosch, Walter, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 1p. [18]83 Dec 11 1 1 Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. 1884 Jul 26 1 1 Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. [ca. 1890?] 1 1 Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 4p. [ca. 1890?] 1 1 Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley, Rutland, Vermont, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 2p. [1884 Mar 3 1 1 Eggleston, Edward, Lake George, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 3p. 1885 Feb 25 1 1 Foote, Mary Hallock (Mrs. Arthur De Wint), Boise, Idaho, to [William Foyal Clarke], n. p., ALS 3p. 1885 Aug 1 1 1 Garrison, William Lloyd, Roxbury, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1867 May 8 1 1 Gough, John B., Worcester, [Massachusetts], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1872 Jul 25 1 1 Greeley, Horace, autograph note identified as "Editorial for Tribune" [ca. 1865?] 1 1 Hale, Edward Everett, Roxbury, to an unknown person, n. p., ANS 1p. [ca. 1890?] 1 1 Harper, Fletcher, n. p., to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ANS 1p. 1869 Nov 16 1 1 Hawthorne, Julian, envelopes addressed to St Nicholas magazine from J.H., 3p. [1885] 1 1 Holland, Josiah Gilbert, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p. 1874 May 20 1 1 Jackson, Helen Hunt, Berkeley [?], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p. 1880 Dec 11 1 1 Jenks, Tudor Storrs, n. p., to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. [18]91 Dec 24 1 1 Jewett, Sarah Orne, n. p., to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. [ca. 1880?] 1 1 Kipling, Rudyard, Drawings to guide the illustrator of the Jungle Book stories (W.H. Drake) in St Nicholas magazine, 3 1/2 p. & TNS-S.A.C., AN-N.F.M. [1893?] 1 1 Kipling, Rudyard, Drawings to guide the illustrator of the Jungle Book stories (W.H. Drake) in St Nicholas magazine, 4 1/2 p. & ANS-M.K. [1893?] 1 1 Lathrop, Rose H., New York, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, n. p., ALS 1p. [ca. 1880?] Jun 1 1 Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. [ca. 1900?] Jun 1 1 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 2p. 1881 Sep 30 1 1 Lossing, Benson Jonathan, Dover Plains, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1878 Aug 9 1 1 Mitchell, Maria, n. p., to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. [ca. 1870?] 1 1 Page, Thomas Nelson, Richmond, Virginia, to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, New York, TNS 1p. 1888 Feb 17 1 1 Porter, Noah, [New Haven, Connecticut], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1881 Jan 14 1 1 Reid, Whitelaw, New York, to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1877 Jun 19 1 1 Rives, Amélie, Castle Hill, to [William Foyal Clarke], n. p., ALS 2p. 1888 Mar 7 1 1 Roe, Edward Payson, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 2p. 1881 Oct 24 1 1 Roe, Edward Payson, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to Samuel Austin Chapin, n. p., ALS 1p. 1884 Mar 27 1 1 Scudder, Horace Elisha, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Lyman Abbott, n. p., ALS 1p. 1880 Sep 14 1 1 Storrs, Richard Salter, Brooklyn, [New York], to [Lyman Abbott], n. p., ALS 2p. [ca. 1890?] Feb 1 1 Stowe, Charles, Saco, to Edward Beecher, n. p., ALS 4p. & ALS of E.B. to brother 1882 Jun 9 1 1 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, autograph signature [ca. 1880?] 1 1 Thaxter, Celia, Appledore, Isle of Shoals, to The Century Co. "Publisher", n. p., ALS 1p. 1883 Jun 7 1 1 Thaxter, Celia, Shoals, to [Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge] "Editor", n. p., ALS 2p. 1883 Aug 21 1 1 Thaxter, Celia, Hotel Clifford, to [Mary Mapes Dodge], "Editor", n. p., ALS 1p. [18]88 Feb 14 1 1 Whittier, John Greenleaf, Danvers, to [Lyman Abbott], n. p., ALS 2p. 1880 Dec 20