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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: letters of William Cullen Bryant
    part number: Volume III, 1849-1857./ edited by William Cullen Bryant II, and Thomas G. Voss
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Personal correspondence.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 568 pages)
  abstract: During the years covered in this volume, Bryant traveled more often and widely than at any comparable period during his life. The visits to Great Britain and Europe, a tour of the Near East and the Holy Land, and excursions in Cuba, Spain, and North Africa, as well as two trips to Illinois, he described in frequent letters to the Evening Post. Reprinted widely, and later published in two volumes, these met much critical acclaim, one notice praising the "quiet charm of these letters, written mostly from out-of-the-way places, giving charming pictures of nature and people, with the most delicate choice of words, and yet in the perfect simplicity of the true epistolary style."His absence during nearly one-fifth of this nine-year period reflected the growing prosperity of Bryant's newspaper, and his confidence in his editorial partner John Bigelow and correspondents such as William S. Thayer, as well as in the financial acumen of his business partner Isaac Henderson. These were crucial years in domestic politics, however, and Bryant's guidance of Evening Post policies was evident in editorials treating major issues such as the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, the rise of the Republican Party, and the Dred Scott Decision, as well as in his correspondence with such statesmen as Salmon P. Chase, Hamilton Fish, William L. Marcy, Edwin D. Morgan, and Charles Sumner. His travel letters and journalistic writings reflected as well his acute interest in a Europe in turmoil. In France and Germany he saw the struggles between revolution and repression; in Spain he talked with journalists, parliamentary leaders, and the future president of the first Spanish republic; in New York he greeted Louis Kossuth and Giuseppe Garibaldi.Bryant's close association with the arts continued. He sat for portraits to a dozen painters, among them Henry P. Gray, Daniel Huntington, Asher Durand, Charles L. Elliott, and Samuel Laurence. The landscapists continued to…
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Key to Manuscript Sources Often Cited in Footnotes -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Bryant Chronology 1849-1857 -- Bryant's Correspondents 1849-1857 -- XIV. Cuba, Scotland, and Europe under the Bayonet 1849 -- XV. Retrospections and Projections 1850-1852 -- XVI. Voyage to the East 1852-1853 -- XVII. Tumults of the Noisy World 1853-1857 -- XVIII. A Sea Change and Spain 1857 -- Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Index of Recipients. Volume III -- Index
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: English.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bryant, William Cullen
      name part: 1794-1878
    genre: Correspondence
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bryant, William Cullen
      name part: 1794-1878
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
  classification: PS1181 .A4 2020eb
  classification: 811/.3
  identifier: 0823287270
  identifier: 9780823287277
  identifier: 0585247579
  identifier: 9780585247571
  identifier: 22573/ctvjk31mk JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvjk2xmt
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 191213
    record change date: 20220105170636.0
    record identifier: in00004374159
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng