Garden City, New York: 6 Old Westbury Road, 25 October 1957. Writing to Hartley regarding his education and his writing, “the person who wants to write clearly must work hard and long himself,” citing his literary experiences in high school followed by his college years as an English major. He... Read More

Pattenburg, New Jersey: 20 November 1957. Responding to Hartley's letter asking about some biographical details and also about the importance of her education to her writing. “I do want to state quite emphatically that I believe in as good an education as anybody can get. Personally I find knowledge acquired... Read More

London: 1 November, 1957. "Self-discipline is the professional writer's primary need" Interesting letter from Ambler, in answer to the question, "How important to you was your high school education, and is college experience necessary for creative writing?"Ambler points out that in England "there is no real equivalent of 'high school'... Read More

New York: 27 September 1958. Hartley had written to Anthony regarding the biographical information in ‘Twentieth Century Authors” and whether she had some additions which she responds that she does not and that “In a general way it covers the situation…It may interest you to know that I have a...... Read More

[ El Rancho Bonito, Arizona: Evans School], 1912. Miscellany of poetry and photographs of school life. Among the 17 students of the Evans School at El Rancho Burrito in this year were Louis Gordon Hamersley, Archibald Bullock Roosevelt, and Thomas Archer Morgan. Read More

[New York: ca.1818]. Original manuscript commencement speech delivered to graduates of Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons by the influential early American physician, Samuel Bard (1742-1821), founder of the King’s College (Colombia) Medical School, the New York Hospital, and longtime president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons.Bard was raised..... Read More

Paris: Chez J.-B. Garnery, Librairie, rue de Pot-de-Fer, No. 14, [c. 1823]. Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711-1780) was a Royal Governess, Teacher, Popular Novelist, Educational Writer for Women and Children. She settled in London and started a Monthly Magazine for Women: "Nouveau Magasin" and the first woman editor of... Read More

1817. AGE 11 ON EDUCATION. "Education will be very useful to us in all our business through life,-and if we have not an education we shall feel very unhappy..." My sentiments exactly. Read More

n.p. (Washington, D.C): Feburary 8th, 1930. ‘It Was Not Luck, But Hard Work’. A plucky letter from the first blind US Senator. Reading in part: “Through an electric shock I lost my sight. Then it was the beginning all over as a blind man to make myself into a successful..... Read More

np: nd. Probably Matthew Burdick of the 85th New York who was blinded in the Civil War. Read More

Providence, R.I: [Providence press company, printers], 1867. First edition, one of 300 copies. Guild (1822-1899) was a graduate of Brown University, and became Librarian from 1848 to 1893, as a writer and historian. Read More

Southern Pines, North Carolina: 21 November 1958. Responding to Hartley's letter asking about some biographical details and also about the importance of her education to her writing. She writes “First, I never had ahigh-school education just an old fashioned private school. College experience is not necessary for the writer of... Read More

Charter-House: 6 May 1794. With the seal. To Dundas telling him of his appointment as a governor of the Charterhouse in the place of the late Earl Camden [Charles Pratt]. Read More