Clara Barrus and John Burroughs papers
Contributors: Burroughs, John, 1837-1921
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3700
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Houghton Mifflin Company; Description and travel; Publishers and publishing; Philosophy; Poetry; Voyages and travels; Practical Politics; American poetry; John Burroughs Memorial Association
Description: Correspondence, writings, estate papers, printed matter, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers pertaining to the works and travels of Barrus and Burroughs and to the administration of their estates.  Subjects include conservation, family matters, John Burroughs Memorial Association, lectures, philosophy, poetry, politics, publishing, and travels including a trip to Hawaii.  Correspondents include Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, Clyde Fisher, Clara Bryant Ford, Hamlin Garland, William Temple Hornaday, Adeline Barrus Johnson, Robert Underwood Johnson, William Sloan Kennedy, John Muir, Carl Sandburg, Ernest Thompson Seton, Ida M. Tarbell, George Augustus Warburton, Walt Whitman, and editors at Houghton Mifflin Company.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Edith A. Johnson, 2007.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Clara Barrus: physician, editor, and author; and John Burroughs: author and naturalist.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.