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Willamette University Archives and Special Collections
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Viola Price Franklin letter collection
Franklin, Viola Price, 1855-
WUA010
1 linear feet
1 box
1849-1941
The Viola Price Franklin letter collection contains letters and notes from many well-known figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries including Susan B. Anthony, Zane Grey, Dante Rossetti, Dorothy Dix, and Louisa May Alcott.
Mark O. Hatfield Library
Materials are in English.
Viola Price Franklin was a teacher, writer, librarian, literary critic, and collector of autographs during her lifetime. Her husband, Dr. Frank Franklin, was a professor of social sciences and then professor of library science and the Willamette University librarian from 1918 to 1936. During her time at Willamette University, Viola worked in the University library.
The Viola Price Franklin letter collection contains letters and autographs collected by Viola Price Franklin. Most of the letters were written to either Viola or her brother, Charles W. Price, who was secretary of the Lotos Club, a literary society in New York. The letters were written during the late 19th century and early 20th century and are from a wide variety of people, many of them well-known. There are letters to Viola from well-known authors such as Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Viola Price Franklin also collected the autographs of authors. The collection contains letters written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Robert Browning, among others.
Letters from Zane Grey, Sir James Barrie, and William Howard Taft are among those addressed to Charles W. Price.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by last name of the author.
The collection is open to researchers.
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[Identification of item], Viola Price Franklin letter collection, Archives and Special Collections, Mark O. Hatfield Library, Willamette University.
Letters collected by Viola Price Franklin, wife of Willamette University Librarian, Dr. F. G. Franklin, and presented to Willamette University by Maude A. Price, sister of Viola Price Franklin, 1946.
Alcott, Louisa May, Madeleine B. Stern, Joel Myerson, and Daniel Shealy. The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott. Boston: Little, Brown. 1987.
Price, Charles W. (Charles Wilson), 1857-1934
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Allen, Henry James
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Astor, John Jacob, 1864-1912
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948
Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
Beck, James M. (James Montgomery), 1861-1936
Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950
Bingham, Hiram, 1831-1908
Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925
Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926
Capper, Arthur, 1865-1951
Clark, William Adolphus, 1825-1906
Cockran, William Bourke, 1854-1923
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
Copeland, Royal S. (Royal Samuel), 1868-1938
Depew, Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell), 1834-1928
Dewey, John, 1859-1952
Dix, Dorothy, 1861-1951
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Edge, Walter E. (Walter Evans), 1873-1956
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Emerson, Raymond, 1886-1977
Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969
Goethals, George W. (George Washington), 1858-1928
Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 1837-1904
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870
Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne, 1851-1926
Longfellow, Alice M. (Alice Mary), 1850-1928
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982
Simms, Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1880-1944
Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Root, Elihu, 1845-1937
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
Skinner, Otis, 1858-1942
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Zimmern, Helen, 1846-1934
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Peck, Morton Eaton, 1871-1959
Salem (Or.)
Salem
correspondence
Adams, Oscar Fay
1891-1898
1
1
An American author.
Ade, George
1915 December 18
1
2
An American author.
Alcott, Louisa May
1885 December 18
1
3
An American author. This letter appears complete in the work cited above. It is also quoted from in the work "Alcott in Her Own Time" by Daniel Shealy.
Alden, Raymond M.
1907 September 16
1
4
An American educator.
Allen, Henry James.
1922-1932
1
5
U.S. Senator from Kansas.
Allen, James Lane
1914 October 12
1
6
An American author.
Anthony, Susan B.
1902 November 14
1
7
An American woman suffrage advocate.
Astor, J. J.
1891-1892
1
8
Great grandson of John Jacob Astor. Died on the Titanic.
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
undated
1
9
An American author.
Banks, Louis Albert
1927 May 6
1
10
An American author.
Barrie, Sir James Matthew
October 8
1
11
A British author.
Barton, Bruce
1927 May 5
1
12
An American author.
Beck, James Montgomery
1923 February 3
1
13
U.S. Solicitor General.
Belasco, David
1929 May 28
1
14
An American playwright and producer.
Bell, Lilian
1896-1897
1
15
An American author.
Belmont, August Jr.
1913 January 23
1
16
An American finacier.
Benet, William Rose
1913 January 23
1
17
An American author.
Bigelow, Poultney
1914 October 7
1
18
An American journalist.
Bingham, Hiram
1926
1
19
A U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Bliven, Bruce
1938 October 21
1
20
An American journalist.
Bolton, Sarah K.
1886
1
21
An American author.
Broun, Heywood
undated
1
22
An American journalist.
Browne, William Hand
1898 February 7
1
23
An American educator.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
circa 1850s
1
24
A British author.
Browning, Robert
1878 October 25
1
25
A British author. See also Zimmern, Helen.
Bryan, Mary Baird
1898 June 13
1
26
An American jurist.
Bryan, William Jennings
1913 January 22
1
27
An American politician.
Burdette, Robert Jones
1893 December 26
1
28
An American author.
Butler, Nicholas Murray
1925-1926
1
29
An American educator.
A/B - General File
1891-1923
1
30
Canby, Henry Seidel
1929 April 1
1
31
An American author.
Cannon, Joseph Gurney
1913 January 18
1
32
A U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Capper, Arthur
1926 May 18
1
33
A U.S. Senator from Kansas.
Carmon, William Bliss
1914 October 13
1
34
A Canadian author.
Chambers, Robert William
1914 October 13
1
35
An American author.
Chapple, Joe Mitchell
1929 March 9
1
36
An American journalist.
Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart C.
October 5
1
37
An American author.
Cheney, John Vance
1897 March 31
1
38
An American author.
Churchill, Winston
1914 October 5
1
39
An American author.
Clark, William A.
1921 May 3
1
40
A U.S. Senator from Montana.
Coates, Florence Earle
1889 September 14
1
41
An American author.
Cobb, Irvin Shrewsbury
1927 May 6
1
42
An American author.
Cockran, William Burke
1916 January 22
1
43
A U.S. Representative from New York.
Coolbrith, Ina Donna
1912 August 27
1
44
An American author.
Coolidge, John Calvin
1925 July 13
1
45
President of the United States.
Cooper, Hugh Lincoln
1929 November 29
1
46
An American engineer.
Copeland, Royal Samuel
1925 January 20
1
47
A U.S. Senator for New York.
Curtis, Charles
1928
1
48
An American politician.
Davis, Richard Harding
February 14
1
49
An American journalist.
Depew, Chauncey Mitchell
circa 1921
1
50
A U.S. Senator from New York.
Dewey, John
1933 October 5
1
51
An American author.
Dix, Dorothy
undated
1
52
An American author.
Douglass, Frederick
1862 May 2
1
53
An American abolitionist and reformer.
Drew, John
undated
1
54
An American abolitionist and reformer.
C/D - General folder
1891-1932
1
55
Edge, Walter Evans
1913 January 17
1
56
A Governor of New Jersey and Ambassador to France.
Edison, Thomas
1913-1915
1
57
An American inventor.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1849 November
1
58
An American author.
Euwer, Anthony Henderson
1922 October 26
1
59
An American author.
Farrar, John Chipman
1923 June 6
1
60
An American editor.
Field, Mrs. Eugene
circa 1897
1
61
Her first name was Kate.
Fuller, Ethel Romig
undated
1
62
An American author.
E/F - General folder
1901-1936
1
63
Gale, Zona
October 7
1
64
An American author.
Garland, Hamlin
1896 December 19
1
65
An American author.
Garrison, Lindley Miller
1914 January 14
1
66
An American lawyer.
Gary, Elbert Henry
1926 January 18
1
67
An American business leader.
Gibson, Hugh Simons
1928 July 20
1
68
An American diplomat.
Gilder, Richard Watson
undated
1
69
An American author.
Goethals, George Washington
1913 November 26
1
70
An American engineer.
Grey, Zane
1914 October 6
1
71
An American author.
Hadley, Arthur Twining
1919 April 19
1
72
An American economist.
Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
1923 January 27
1
73
An American critic and producer.
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo
1903 December 27
1
74
A U.S. Senator from Ohio.
Harvey, George Brinton McClellan
undated
1
75
U.S. Ambassador to Great Britian.
Hayne, Paul Hamilton
1878 May 22
1
76
An American author.
Hays, Will H.
1931 October 5
1
77
An American politician.
Hempl, George
undated
1
78
An American philologist.
Hibben, John Grier
1926 June 11
1
79
An American educator.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
1891 May 27
1
80
An American author.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1894 September 18
1
81
An American jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Hoover, Herbert Clark
1928
1
82
President of the United States.
House, Edward Mandell
1922 November 2
1
83
An American author.
Howe, Edgar Watson
1923 November 7
1
84
An American author.
Howe, Julia Ward
1900 January 17
1
85
An American abolitionist and author.
Howells, William Dean
1918 July 15
1
86
An American author.
Hughes, Charles Evans
1921 November 18
1
87
An American jurist.
Hurst, John Fletcher
1900 July 17
1
88
An American educator.
G/H - General folder
1893 - 1936
1
89
Ingalls, John James
1894 August 11
1
90
A U.S. Senator from Kansas.
Inoue, Katsunosuke
1928 November 5
1
91
A Japanese diplomat.
Insull, Samuel
1929 November 2
1
92
An American business magnate.
James, George Wharton
1908 October 21
1
93
An American journalist.
Johnson, Robert Underwood
March 1
1
94
An American author.
Jones, Henry Arthur
1914 October 9
1
95
An English playwright.
Jordan, David Starr
1909 March 8
1
96
An American author.
Kahn, Otto H.
1926-1929
1
97
An American financier.
Keeler, Charles Augustus
1926-1929
1
98
An American financier.
Kelvin, William Thomson
1898 November 9
1
99
An Irish physicist.
Kennedy, John P.
undated
2
1
A U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
Kingsley, Charles
undated
2
2
A British author.
Lansing, Robert
1915 December 2
2
3
An American lawyer.
Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
May 1
2
4
An American social worker. Rose Hawthorne is the daughter of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne.
Lindsay, Elizabeth Conner
1933
2
5
Wife of Vachel Lindsay.
Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel
undated
2
6
An American author.
Longfellow, Alice Mary
1887 December 19
2
7
An American author.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1873 February 10
2
8
An American author.
K/L - General folder
1891-1933
2
9
Mabie, Hamilton Wright
1891-1914
2
10
An American author.
MacGrath, Harold
1914 October 12
2
11
An American author.
MacDowell, Marian
1929
2
12
An American philanthropist.
MacLeish, Archibald
1941 May 23
2
13
An American poet and Librarian of Congress.
McCormick, Ruth Hanna
1928 July 27
2
14
A U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Markham, Edwin
undated
2
15
An American author.
Martin, Edward Sandford
1922 February 20
2
16
An American publisher.
Martineau, Harriet
May 6
2
17
A British author.
Matthews, Brander
1906 October 12
2
18
An American author.
Miller, Joaquin
1906 January 22
2
19
An American author.
Mitchell, Silas Weir
1913 February 14
2
20
An American author.
Monroe, Harriet
1896-1897
2
21
An American author.
Morgenthau, Henry, Sr.
1930 December 15
2
22
An American business man and United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
Morley, Christopher
1935 May 24
2
23
An American author.
Moulton, Louise Chandler
1885 December 29
2
24
An American author.
Moulton, Richard Green
1893-1905
2
25
An Irish educator.
Nast, Conde
1926 March 1
2
26
An American publisher.
Nicholson, Meredith
1914 October 10
2
27
An American author.
Noyes, Alfred
1919 February 15
2
28
A British author.
M/N - General folder
1890-1940
2
29
Oppenheim, Edward Phillips
1925-1927
2
30
A British author.
Page, Thomas Nelson
1913 March 14
2
31
An American author.
Paine, Albert Bigelow
1894-1895
2
32
An American author.
Peck, Morton E.
undated
2
33
An American educator. Handwritten copy of poem entitled, "Discoverers," unsigned.
Phelps, William Lyon
1919 February 17
2
34
An American educator.
Phillips, Wendell
August 3
2
35
An American reformer.
O/P - General folder
August 3
2
36
Reid, Ogden
1933 June 17
2
37
An American journalist.
Repplier, Agnes
October 15
2
38
An American author.
Richards, Ellen Henrietta
1909 July 19
2
39
An American chemist.
Rinehart, Stanley Marshall
1921 July 5
2
40
An American physician.
Roosevelt, Theodore
1910 August 3
2
41
A President of the United States.
Root, Elihu
1915-1919
2
42
A U.S. Secretary of State.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
undated
2
43
An English poet.
Russell, John E.
May 4
2
44
The author of Elementary Logic.
Q/R - General folder
1911-1930
2
45
Saltus, Edgar Evertson
undated
2
46
An American author.
Schwab, Charles M.
1919-1922
2
47
An American industrialist.
Scollard, Clinton
1894 April 16
2
48
An American author.
Sigsbee, Charles Dwight
1921 May 2
2
49
A U.S. naval officer.
Sinclair, Upton Beall
1927 September 22
2
50
An American author.
Skinner, Otis
1911 November 1
2
51
An American actor.
Spofford, Harriet E. Prescott
1889 September 10
2
52
An American author.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
1882 January 26
2
53
An American suffrage leader.
Sterling, George
1908 March 6
2
54
An American author.
Strachey, John St. Loe
1923 October 4
2
55
A British author.
Street, Julian
1915 January 28
2
56
An American author.
Stuart, Ruth McEnery
1897 January 21
2
57
An American author.
Sullivan, Mark
1926 May 2
2
58
An American journalist
Swope, Gerald
1926
2
59
An American engineer.
Taft, William Howard
1913-1928
2
60
A President of the United States.
Taylor, William
undated
2
61
An American minister.
Thaxter, Celia
1893 January 20
2
62
An American author.
Thomas, Augustus
1923 February 1
2
63
An American author.
Thompson, James Maurice
1893 October 24
2
64
An American author.
Thomson, Elihu
1926
2
65
An American inventor.
Torrence, Ridgely
1924-1926
2
66
An American author.
Tully, Eleanor Gates
1909 April 28
2
67
An American author.
S/T - General folder
1913-1932
2
68
Underwood, Oscar Wilder
1913 January 25
2
69
A U.S. Senator from Alabama.
Untermyer, Samuel
1929 September 27
2
70
An American lawyer.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
1885-1889
2
71
An American author.
Warner, Charles Dudley
1889 September 19
2
72
An American author.
Watterson, Henry
1913 February 25
2
73
An American journalist.
Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train
1893 February 8
2
74
An American author.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
1893 January 25
2
75
An American author.
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
1886-1889
2
76
An American author.
Wilson, Woodrow
1914-1917
2
77
A President of the United States.
Wise, Stephen S.
1918 November 13
2
78
An American rabbi.
Wood, Leonard
1899 December 27
2
79
A Metal of Honor recipient.
Wright, Joseph
1909 March 8
2
80
An English lignuist.
U/V/W - General folder
1894-1931
2
81
Yard, Sydney Janis
1908 November 7
2
82
An American artist.
Zimmern, Helen
January 23
2
83
A British author.