Writings and Notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mosler, Henry, 1841-1920
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content: Henry Mosler papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Boxes 2-3, 6)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1860-circa 1900
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.moslhenr, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Of particular note in this series is Mosler's 1862 Civil War diary (with transcript) and two illustrated notebooks, 1862 and 1863, containing diary entries, poems, sketches, financial tallies and names and addresses. The diary contains records of sketches Mosler made for Harper's Weekly, a narrative of his activities during 1862, financial notes, poems, names and addresses, and several sketches.

Writings by others include biographical accounts of Mosler's life: a Historical Press Association typescript entitled "Henry Mosler, Genre Painter," and a handwritten account of Mosler's career by an unidentified author. Also found are handwritten poems, many of them dedicated to Mosler and/or inspired by his paintings and with accompanying notes and letters. They include poems by J. C. Beard, William J. Dennis ("My Eighty-Third Christmas"), Oscar Edgar (3 poems), François Fertiault (10 poems), Charles Fuster, Alice C. Hall, Roger Miles (2 poems), Berthe Nordez, and Thomas Buchanan Read. Also found is the poem "Acrostic" written by Lt. H. Millard at Shiloh in 1862.