Charles Frederick Briggs Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Page, William, 1811-1885
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content: William Page and Page Family papers
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content: William Page and Page Family papers / Series 2: Correspondence
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content: 1843-1846, undated
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.pagewill, Subseries 2.2
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content: Archival materials
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content: Letters in this series are from writer and editor Charles Frederick Briggs to William Page and to poet James Russell Lowell from the mid-1840s. A draft of a single letter from Page to Briggs is also found. Briggs' lengthy letters discuss personal matters, matters relating to Briggs' publishing projects, current political figures, writings by Lowell and Page, and theoretical ideas about literature and art. Also found are two manuscripts of Briggs' comedic poems based on the character of Harry Franco, enclosed in letters to Lowell (1843) and Page (undated). Scattered, brief letters from Briggs to Page from a later period can be found in General Correspondence.