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Paul Hamilton Hayne papers, 1815-1944 and undated

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Summary

Creator:
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886
Extent:
13.8 Linear Feet
about 4930 items
Language:
English.
Collection ID:
RL.00523

Background

Scope and Content:

Correspondence, diaries, notes, scrapbooks, clippings, and literary manuscripts of Hayne and his family. The papers illustrate Hayne's career and refer to Russell's Magazine (which Hayne edited), literary criticism, Southern writers, American literature, politics, including Reconstruction in South Carolina, and other subjects.

Includes Hayne's diaries (1864-1884), largely composed of comments on correspondence and notations of ideas and events, and manuscript copies of poems, many autographed, by Hayne's son, William Hamilton Hayne.

Major correspondents include Edward Bok, Jefferson Davis, Charles A. E. Gayarré, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sidney Lanier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Nelson Page, James Platt, Margaret Junkin Preston, Francis S. Saltus, William Gilmore Sims, Edmund C. Stedman, Alexander H. Stephens, Algernon C. Swinburne, Henry Timrod, Moses Colt Tyler, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

The addition (accession #2000-0273) (250 items; 2.2 linear feet, dated 1831-1886, contains transcriptions of selected letters, typed and annotated by Rayburn Moore as he edited A Man of Letters in the Nineteenth-century South (1982). Many of the original letters may be found in Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Biographical / Historical:

Poet and literary critic, of Charleston, S.C., and Columbia County, Georgia

Acquisition Information:
The Paul Hamilton Hayne Papers was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase from 1944-2000.
Processing information:

Processed by Rubenstein Library staff; Ruth Bryan; and Danielle McGregor

Completed May 14, 2002

Encoded by Ruth E. Bryan

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Collection is open for research.

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Paul Hamilton Hayne papers, 1815-1944 and undated
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Collection ID RL.00523
EAD ID haynepaulhamilton
ARK ark:/87924/m1vs67
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Total components 48
Items available online Online 1
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Last indexed 2023-02-15

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