Surveys of Materials by or Relating to Prominent Individuals

Surveys list all of the materials (that we have located) by or relating to a specific individual throughout the Division's collections. Surveys have been compiled in a variety of formats and to different levels of detail. At minimum a survey provides the names of the collections containing correspondence or other material by or about an individual.

Surveys are not guides to complete collections of an individual's papers. The materials listed are, in most cases, not filed or shelved together, but are scattered throughout the Division's collections.

The surveys are not comprehensive: they are meant to serve as a time-saving device. Researchers are encouraged to check the guides to other collections that may prove fruitful for their research as the survey files have not been rigorously updated in recent years; researchers are also encouraged to ask Division staff, in person or via mssref@nypl.org, for reference assistance.

To request material listed in a survey it will usually be necessary to consult the guides to the collections listed in order to identify the box number or volumes that contain the material by or relating to the subject of the survey. Some finding aids are available on the Division's website, but many are only available in paper format in the division's reading room. Division staff will be able to assist readers translate the information in a survey into a request for material.

In many cases the surveys were compiled in order to complete a microfilm order of all the material by or relating to an individual. In these cases copies of the microfilm (or paper copies made from film) can be ordered.

The Division has surveys for the following individuals:

A

  • Adams, Charles Francis (1807-1886)
  • Adams, Charles Francis (1835-1915)
  • Adams, Henry Brooks (1838-1918)
  • Adams, John (1735-1826)
  • Addams, Jane (1860-1935)
  • Ade, George (1866-1944)
  • Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873)
  • Aiken, Conrad (1889-1973)
  • Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888)
  • Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888)
  • Alcott, William Andrus (1798-1859)
  • Alger, Horatio (1834-1899)
  • Allen, Hervey (1899-1949)
  • Allibone, Samuel Austin (1816-1889)
  • Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)
  • Andre, John (1751-1780)
  • Anthon, Charles (1797-1867)
  • Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1903)
  • Appleton, Jesse (1772-1819)
  • Ariss, John (ca. 1725-1799)
  • Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
  • Atherton, Gertrude H (1857-1948)
  • Audubon, John J. and Lucy (1785-1851)
  • Austin, Mary Hunter (1868-1934)

B

  • Bacheller, Irving (1859-1950)
  • Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1823-1888)
  • Baker, Ray Stannard (1870-1946)
  • Balmanno, Robert (1780-1861)
  • Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1832-1918)
  • Bangs, John Kendrick (1862-1922)
  • Barlow, Francis C. (Francis Channing) (1834-1896)
  • Barlow, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1826-1889)
  • Barnard, Daniel Dewey (1797-1861)
  • Barr, Robert (1850-1912)
  • Barron, James (1769-1851)
  • Bartlett, Josiah (1729-1795)
  • Bartlett, Truman H (1835-1923)
  • Bayard, Thomas Francis (1828-1898)
  • Beach, Rex (1877-1949)
  • Beard, Charles Austin (1874-1948) and Mary Ritter (1876-1958)
  • Beard, Daniel Carter (1850-1941)
  • Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887)
  • Belcher, Jonathan (1681/2-1757)
  • Bellamy, Edward (1850-1898)
  • Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953)
  • Bellows, Henry W. (1814-1842)
  • Belmont, August (1816-1890)
  • Benjamin, Judah P. (1811-1884)
  • Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931)
  • Benson, Eugene (1839-1908)
  • Benson, Stella (1892-1933)
  • Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
  • Benton, Thomas Hart (1782-1858)
  • Bergh, Henry (1811-1888)
  • Bernhardt, Sarah. 1844-1923
  • Berryer, Pierre Antoine (1790-1868)
  • Bethune, George Washington (1805-1862)
  • Biddle, Nicholas (1786-1844)
  • Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914)
  • Bierstadt, Albert (1830-1902)
  • Bigelow, John (1817-1911)
  • Blaine, James G. (1830-1893)
  • Blair, Francis Preston (1821-1875)
  • Blair, Montgomery (1813-1883)
  • Blake, Lillie Devereux (1835-1913)
  • Block, Maurice (1816-1901)
  • Boker, George Henry (1832-1890)
  • Bolivar, Simon (1783-1830)
  • Booth, Edwin (1833-1893)
  • Borglum, Gutzon (1867-1941)
  • Botta, Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lynch) (1815-1891)
  • Bouck, William C (1786-1859)
  • Bowditch, Henry Pickering (1840-1911)
  • Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth (1848-1895)
  • Brace, Charles Loring (1826-1890)
  • Breckinridge, John Cabell (1821-1875)
  • Bridge, James Howard (1856-1939)
  • Briggs, Charles F (1804-1877)
  • Bright, John (1811-1889)
  • Bristed, Charles Astor (1820-1874)
  • Bronte, Charlotte
  • Brooks, Noah (1830-1903)
  • Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893)
  • Brooks, Van Wyck (1886-1963)
  • Brougham, John (1810-1880)
  • Brown, Alice (1857-1948)
  • Brown, Jacob (1775-1828)
  • Brown, John [abolitionist] (1800-1859)
  • Brown, John [of Kentucky] (1757-1837)
  • Browne, Charles F. [pseud. Artemus Ward] (1834-1867)
  • Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
  • Browning, Robert (1812-1889)
  • Browning, Sariana (1814-)
  • Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
  • Bryce, James (1838-1922)
  • Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of (1742-1829)
  • Buck, Pearl S (1892-1973)
  • Bull, William (1710-1791)
  • Bulloch, Archibald (1729/30-1777)
  • Bullus, John (1774 or 5-1818)
  • Bunner, Henry Cuyler (1855-1896)
  • Burke, Edmund (1730-1797)
  • Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924)
  • Burnham, Daniel H (1846-1912)
  • Burr, Aaron (1756-1836)
  • Burritt, Elihu (1810-1879)
  • Burroughs, John (1837-1921)
  • Butler, Pierce (1744-1822)
  • Butler, Richard
  • Butler, William Allen (1825-1902)
  • Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron (1788-1824)

C

  • Cabell, James Branch (1870-1958)
  • Cable, George Washington (1844-1925)
  • Calhoun, John C (1782-1850)
  • Cambreleng, Churchill Caldom (1786-1862)
  • Carey, Alice (1820-1871)
  • Carey, Henry Charles (1793-1879)
  • Carey, Phoebe (1824-1871)
  • Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)
  • Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)
  • Carrington, Henry Beebee (1824-1912)
  • Carroll, Charles, [of Carrolton] (1737-1832)
  • Cash, Wilbur J. (1901-1941)
  • Casilear, John William (1811-1893)
  • Cass, Lewis (1782-1866)
  • Cather, Willa S. (1876-1947)
  • Catlin, George (1796-1872)
  • Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914)
  • Chambers, Robert (1865-1933)
  • Chapin, Edwin Hubbell (1814-1880)
  • Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland) (1808-1873)
  • Chase, Samuel.(1741-1811)
  • Chauncey, Isaac (1772-1840)
  • Chesebrough, Caroline (1825-1873)
  • Chestnutt, Charles Waddell (1858-1932)
  • Cheever, John
  • Child, Lydia Maria (1802-1880)
  • Childs, George William (1829-1894)
  • Chopin, Kate O’Flaherty (1851-1904)
  • Churchill, Winston (1871-1947)
  • Clark, Lewis Gaylord (1810-1873)
  • Clarke, James Freeman (1810-1888)
  • Clarke, William Fayal (1855-1937)
  • Clay, Henry (1777-1852)
  • Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910)
  • Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908)
  • Cleveland, Frances Folsom (1864-1947)
  • Clinton, George (1686-1761)
  • Cobbett, William (1762-1835)
  • Cobden, Richard (1804-1864)
  • Coburn, Charles C. (1877-1961)
  • Cochran, John (1730-1807)
  • Coffin, Charles Carleton (1823-1896)
  • Colden, Cadwallader (1688-1776)
  • Cole, Lew
  • Cole, Thomas (1801-1848)
  • Coleman, Charles Caryl (1840-1928)
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
  • Coles, Edward (1786-1868)
  • Colfax, Schuyler (1823-1885)
  • Collins, Ellen (1828-1912)
  • Collins, Wilkie (1823-1889)
  • Columbus, Christopher
  • Conkling, Roscoe (1829-1888)
  • Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
  • Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832-1907)
  • Cook, Clarence Chatham (1828-1900)
  • Cooke, John Esten (1830-1886)
  • Cooke, Philip Pendleton (1816-1850)
  • Cooke, Rose Terry (1827-1892)
  • Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)
  • Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)
  • Cooper, Susan Fenimore (1813-1894)
  • Cottle, Joseph (1770-1853)
  • Cox, Samuel Sullivan (1824-1889)
  • Cozzens, Frederick S. (1818-1869)
  • Cram, Ralph Adams (1863-1942)
  • Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813-1892)
  • Cranch, William (1769-1855)
  • Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
  • Crawford, Francis Marion (1854-1909)
  • Crawford, William Harris (1772-1834)
  • Crittenden, John Jordan (1787-1863)
  • Crockett, David (1786-1836)
  • Croghan, George [Indian trader] (d. Aug. 31, 1782)
  • Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658)
  • Cropsey, Jasper Francis (1823-1900)
  • Crosby, Ernest Howard (1856-1907)
  • Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)
  • Curtis, George W. (1824-1892)
  • Cushing, William (1732-1810)
  • Cushman, Charlotte Saunder (1816-1876)
  • Custer, Elizabeth Bacon (1842-1933)

D

  • Dalling and Bulwer, Henry Lytton Bulwer, Baron (1801-1872)
  • Dana, Charles A (1819-1897)
  • Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. (1815-1882)
  • Dana, Richard Henry, Sr. (1787-1879)
  • Darley, Alex M. (Alexander M.)
  • Darley, Felix Octavius Carr (1822-1888)
  • Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882)
  • Davis, Jefferson [and Varina Howell D.] (1808-1889)
  • Davis, Rebecca Harding (1831-1910)
  • Davis, Richard Harding (1864-1916)
  • Dawson, Henry B. (1751-1829)
  • Dearborn, Henry (1751-1829)
  • De Kalb, Johann (1721-1780)
  • De la Mare, Walter (1873-1956)
  • Delancey family
  • De Vinne, Theodore Low (1828-1914)
  • Dewey, John (1859-1952)
  • Dewey, Orville (1794-1882)
  • Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
  • Dickinson, John (1732-1808)
  • Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881)
  • Dix, Dorothea Lynde (1802-1887)
  • Dix, John A. (1798-1879)
  • Dodge, Mary Mapes (1830-1905)
  • Dodgson, Charles L. [Lewis Carroll] (1832-1898]
  • Dorr, Thomas Wilson (1805-1854)
  • Dorsheimer, William (1832-1888)
  • Dos Passos, John Roderigo (1896-1970)
  • Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813-1861)
  • Draper, Ruth (1889-1956)
  • Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)
  • Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
  • Duer, William Alexander (1780-1858)
  • Dumas, Alexandre (père) (1802-1870)
  • Dunbar, Paul Lawrence (1872-1906)
  • Dunne, Finley Peter (1867-1936)

E

  • Eads, James Buchanan (1820-1887)
  • Eames, Emma (1865-1952)
  • Eaton, John Henry (1790-1856)
  • Edwards, Harry Stillwell (1855-1938)
  • Eggleston, Edward (1837-1902)
  • Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
  • Eliot, George (1819-1880)
  • Ellery, William (1727-1820)
  • Ellicott, Andrew (1754-1820)
  • Ellis, Edward Sylvester (1840-1916)
  • Ellis, Havelock (1859-1939)
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
  • Emmet, Thomas Addis (1764-1827)
  • Emory, William Helmsley (1811-1887)
  • Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895)
  • English, Thomas Dunn (1819-1902)
  • Epstein, Jacob (1880-1959)
  • Ernst, Morris Leopold,1888-1976
  • Erskine, Thomas (1750-1823)
  • Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer) (b. 1883)
  • Eustace, John Skey (1760-1805)
  • Evarts, William Maxwell (1818-1901)
  • Everett, Alexander Hill (1790-1847)

F

  • Farnham, Eliza Woodson (1815-1864)
  • Farrell, James T. (1904-1979)
  • Fenollosa, Ernest (1853-1908)
  • Fenton, Reuben (1819-1885)
  • Ferber, Edna (1887-1968)
  • Ferguson, James (1797-1867)
  • Few, William (1748-1828) and Ignatius Alphonso (1789-1845)
  • Ficke, Arthur Davidson (1883-1945)
  • Field, Cyrus W. (1819-1892)
  • Field, David Dudley (1781-1867)
  • Field, Eugene (1850-1895)
  • Field, Henry M. (1822-1907)
  • Field, Maunsell Bradhurst (1822-1875)
  • Fields, Annie Adams (1834-1915)
  • Fields, James T. (1817-1881)
  • Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874)
  • Firbank, Ronald (1886-1926)
  • Fiske, Harrison Grey (1861-1942)
  • Fiske, John (1842-1901)
  • Fitch, Clyde (1865-1909)
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)
  • Flagg, Azariah Cutting (1790-1873)
  • Flaxman, John (1755-1826)
  • Flower, Roswell P. (1835-1899)
  • Foote, Mary Hallock (1847-1938)
  • Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, Sir (1853-1937)
  • Force, Peter (1790-1868)
  • Ford, Patrick (1835-1913)
  • Frank, Waldo David (1889-1967)
  • Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
  • Frederic, Harold (1856-1898)
  • Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins (1852-1930)
  • Fremont, Jessie Benton (1824-1902)
  • Frémont, John Charles (1813-1890)
  • French, Alice (1850-1934)
  • French, Daniel Chester (1850-1931)
  • Freneau, Philip Morin,1752-
  • Frost, Robert (1874-1963)
  • Frothingham, Octavius Brooks (1822-1895)
  • Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894)
  • Fuller, Henry Blake (1857-1929)
  • Furness, Horace Howard (1833-1912)
  • Fuseli, Henry (1741-1825)

G

  • Gadsden, Christopher (1724-1805)
  • Gadsden, James (1788-1858)
  • Gaine, Hugh (1726-1807)
  • Gallatin, Albert (1761-1849)
  • Galloway, Joseph (1731-1803)
  • Galsworthy, John (1867-1933)
  • Gardiner, O. C. (Oliver Cromwell)
  • Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882)
  • Garland, Hamlin (1860-1940)
  • Garrison, William Lloyd (1838-1909)
  • Gasparin, Agénor, comte de (1810-1871)
  • Gates, Horatio (1728-1806)
  • Geddes, Patrick, Sir (1854-1932)
  • Gellhorn, Martha (1908- )
  • George, Henry (1839-1897)
  • Gérôme, Jean Léon (1824-1904)
  • Gerry, Elbridge (1744-1814)
  • Gerry, Elbridge T. (Elbridge Thomas) (1837-1927)
  • Gibran, Kahlil (1883-1931)
  • Gibson, Charles Dana (1867-1944)
  • Gifford, Sanford Robinson (1823-1880)
  • Gilder, Jeannette Leonard (1849-1916)
  • Gildersleeve, Basil Lanneau (1831-1924)
  • Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson (1860-1935)
  • Gissing, George (1857-1905)
  • Gladden, Washington (1836-1918)
  • Gladstone, William E (1809-1898)
  • Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945)
  • Godkin, Edwin Lawrence (1831-1902)
  • Godolphin, Sidney (1645-1712)
  • Godwin, Frances Bryant (1822-1893)
  • Godwin, Parke (1816-1904)
  • Gogarty, Oliver St. John (1878-1957)
  • Gold, Michael (1893-1967)
  • Gompers, Samuel (1850-1924)
  • Goodrich, Samuel G. (1793-1860)
  • Gordon, Charles William [pseud. Ralph Conor] (1860-1917)
  • Gorgas, Josiah (1818-1883)
  • Gorgas, William Crawford (1854-1920)
  • Gorky, Maksim (1868-1936)
  • Gosse, Sir Edmund William (1849-1928)
  • Gould, Jay (1836-1892)
  • Gourlie, John H. (John Hamilton) (1807-1891)
  • Grant, Robert (1852-1940)
  • Gray, Ethel Huyler (1877- )
  • Greeley, Horace (1811-1872)
  • Green, Andrew H. (1820-1903)
  • Green, Anna Katherine (1846-1935)
  • Greene, George Washington (1811-1883)
  • Greene, Nathanael (1742-1786)
  • Greenough, Horatio (1805-1852)
  • Greenwood, Grace [Sara Jane (Clarke) Lippincott] (1823-1904)
  • Gregory, Lady Augusta. [Isabella Augusta Persse] (1852-1932)
  • Grey, Zane (1875-1939)
  • Griswold, Rufus Wilmot (1815-1857)
  • Guthrie, James (1792-1869)

H

  • Habersham Family [of Georgia]
  • Hackett, James Henry (1800-1871)
  • Hale, Edward Everett (1822-1909)
  • Hale, John Parker (1806-1873)
  • Hall, Abraham Oakey (1826-1898)
  • Hall, Nathan K. (1810-1874)
  • Halpine, Charles G. (1829-1868)
  • Hamilton, Alexander (1757-1804)
  • Hamlin, Hannibal (1809-1891)
  • Hampton, Wade (1818-1902)
  • Hancock, John (1737-1793)
  • Hancock, Winfield Scott (1826-1886)
  • Hand, Edward (1744-1802)
  • Harben, Will Nathaniel (1858-1919)
  • Harding, Warren G. (1865-1923)
  • Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
  • Harris, Frank (1854-1931)
  • Harris, Townsend (1804-1878)
  • Harrison, Benjamin (1740-1791)
  • Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901)
  • Harrison, Susan Francis (1859-1935)
  • Hart, Albert B. (1854-1943)
  • Harte, Bret (1836-1902)
  • Hassam, Childe (1859-1935)
  • Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph (1770-1843)
  • Havemeyer, William F. (1804-1874)
  • Hay, John Milton (1838-1905)
  • Hay, Udney
  • Hayes, Rutherford B. (1822-1893)
  • Hayne, Paul Hamilton (1830-1886)
  • Hazard, Ebenezer (1744-1817)
  • Hazelton, Harold E.
  • Helper, Hinton Rowan (1829-1909)
  • Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
  • Hendricks, Thomas Andrews (1819-1885)
  • Henley, William E. (1849-1903)
  • Henry, Patrick (1736-1799)
  • Herbert, Henry William (1807-1858)
  • Hewitt, Abram Stevens (1807-1858)
  • Higginson, Ella (1862-1940)
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911)
  • Hill, David Bennett (1843-1910)
  • Hillard, George (1808-1879)
  • Hitchcock, Edward (1793-1864)
  • Hitchcock, Phineas (1831-1881)
  • Hoar, George F. (1826-1904)
  • Hoffman, John T. (1828-1888)
  • Hoge, Mrs. (Jane Currie Blaikie) (1811-1890)
  • Hood, Thomas (1799-1845)
  • Hook, Theodore Edward (1788-1841)
  • Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879)
  • Hoover, Herbert (1874-1964)
  • Hopkinson, Francis (1731-1791)
  • Horne, Richard H. (1803-1884)
  • House, Edward Howard (1836-1901)
  • Howe, Edgar Watson (1853-1937)
  • Howe, Frederick Clemson (1867-1940)
  • Howe, William Howe, Viscount (1729-1814)
  • Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)
  • Howland, Hewitt H. (Hewitt Hanson) (1863-1944)
  • Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
  • Hughes, Thomas (1822-1896)
  • Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)
  • Hull, Isaac (1773-1843)
  • Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859)
  • Hume, Joseph (1777-1855)
  • Humphreys, David (1752-1818)
  • Huneker, James Gibbons (1860-1921)
  • Hunt, Henry J. (1819-1889)
  • Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784-1859)
  • Hunt, Richard Morris (1827-1895)
  • Hunt, Washington (1811-1867)
  • Hunter, Robert Mercer (1809-1887)
  • Huntington, Daniel (1816-1906)
  • Hurlbert, William Henry (1827-1895)
  • Hurst, Fannie (1889-1968)
  • Hutchinson, Thomas (1711-1780)

I

  • Ingalls, John James (1833-1900)
  • Ingelow, Jean (1820-1897)
  • Ingraham, Joseph H. (1809-1860)
  • Iredell, James (1751-1799)
  • Irving, Henry, Sir (1838-1905)
  • J
  • Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845)
  • Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830-1885)
  • Jackson, James (1757-1806)
  • James, Henry (1843-1916)
  • James, William (1842-1910)
  • Jameson, Anna Brownell (1794-1860)
  • Janvier, Catharine A. (Catharine Ann) (1841-1923)
  • Jefferson, Joseph (1829-1905)
  • Jefferson, Peter [father of Thomas] (1708-1757)
  • Jeffrey, Francis (1773-1850)
  • Jerrold, Douglas William (1803-1857)
  • Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849-1909)
  • Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875)
  • Johnson, [Jonathan] Eastman (1824-1906)
  • Johnson, John, Sir (1742-1830)
  • Johnson, Tom Loftin (1854-1911)
  • Johnson, William, Sir (1715-1774)
  • Johnston, Richard Malcolm (1822-1898)
  • Johnston, Samuel (1733-1816)
  • Jones, John Paul (1747-1792)
  • Jung, Carl (1875-)

K

  • Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857)
  • Kelly, John (1821-1886)
  • Kemble, Fanny (1809-1893)
  • Kemble, Gouverneur (1786-1875)
  • Kemp, Harry [Hibbard] (1883-1960)
  • Kemper, Jackson (1789-1870)
  • Kendall, Amos (1789-1869)
  • Kent, Rockwell (1882-)
  • Kernan, Francis (1816-1892)
  • Ketchum, Jonathan
  • King, Charles (1844-1933)
  • King, Preston (1806-1865)
  • King, Rufus (1755-1827)
  • Kirkland, Caroline Matilda Stansbury (1801-1864)
  • Kosciuszko, Thaddeus (1746-1817)
  • Kossuth, Louis (1802-1894)
  • Kreymborg, Alfred (1883-1967)
  • Krutch, Joseph Wood (1893-1970)

L

  • La Farge, John (1835-1910)
  • Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
  • Lamont, Daniel S. (1851-1905)
  • Lancaster, Joseph (1778-1838)
  • Landseer, Edwin Henry (1802-1873)
  • Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)
  • Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)
  • Lanman, Charles F.
  • Larcom, Lucy (1824-1893)
  • Larsen, Nella
  • Lathrop, George Parsons (1851-1898)
  • Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (1764-1820)
  • Latrobe, John H.B. (1803-1891)
  • Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930)
  • Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830)
  • Lawson, James (1799-1880)
  • Lazarus family
  • Le Gallienne, Richard (1866-1947)
  • Leavitt, Joshua (1794-1873)
  • Lecky, William Edward Hartpole (1838-1903)
  • Lee, Arthur (1740-1792)
  • Lee, Francis Lightfoot (1734-1797)
  • Lee, Henry [known as ‘Light-Horse Harry’] (1756-1818)
  • Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward) (1807-1870)
  • Leggett, William (1801-1839)
  • Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, Baron (1830-1896)
  • Leland, Charles G. (1824-1903)
  • Leslie, Charles Robert (1794-1859)
  • Lewes, George Henry (1817-1878)
  • Lewis, Charles Bertrand (1842-1924)
  • Lewis, Francis (1713-1802)
  • Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809)
  • Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)
  • Lieber, Francis (1800-1872)
  • Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
  • Lincoln, Levi (1782-1868)
  • Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel (1879-1931)
  • Linton, William J. (1812-1897)
  • Lippmann, Walter (1889-)
  • Littell, Eliakim (1797-1870)
  • Livingston, William (1723-1790)
  • Locke, Alain Leroy (1886-)
  • Locke, David Ross (1833-1888)
  • Locker-Lampson, Frederick (1821-1895)
  • Logan, James (1674-1751)
  • Logan, Olive (1839-1909)
  • London, Jack (1876-1916)
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
  • Longfellow, Samuel (1819-1892)
  • Lossing, Benson John (1813-1891)
  • Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
  • Lowell, Josephine Shaw (1843-1905)
  • Lowndes, William (1782-1822)

M

  • Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron (1800-1859)
  • McClure, Samuel Sidney (1857-1949)
  • McCormick, Cyrus H. (1809-1884)
  • McCormick, Robert
  • McCulloch, Hugh (1808-1895)
  • McDonald, George (1824-1905)
  • MacDonough, Thomas (1783-1825)
  • McEntee, Jervis (1828-1891)
  • MacKenzie, Alexander Slidell
  • McKinley, William (1843-1901)
  • MacLeish, Archibald (1892-1982)
  • MacLise, Daniel. [pseud. Alfred Croquis] (1806-1870)
  • McPherson, Edward (1830-1895)
  • MacReady, William Charles (1793-1873)
  • MacVeagh, Isaac Wayne (1833-1917)
  • Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1840-1914)
  • Mangum, Willie Person (1792-1861)
  • Mann, A. Dudley (Ambrose Dudley) (1801-1889)
  • Mann, Horace (1796-1859)
  • Manning, Daniel (1831-1887)
  • Manning, William T. [American clergyman] (1866-1949)
  • Mansfield, Joseph K. F. (Joseph King Fenno) (1803-1862)
  • Marble, Manton (1835-1917)
  • Marcy, William L. (1786-1857)
  • Markham, Edwin (1852-1940)
  • Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of (1650-1722)
  • Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of (1660-1744)
  • Marion, Francis (1732-1795)
  • Marquand, John P. (1893-?)
  • Marryat, Frederick (1792-1848)
  • Marsh, George P. (1801-1882)
  • Marshall, George Catlett (1880-19)
  • Marshall, John (1755-1835)
  • Martin, Luther (1748-1826)
  • Martin, William Alexander P. (1827-1916)
  • Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)
  • Mason, George (1725-1792)
  • Mason, John Young (1799-1859)
  • Masson, David (1882-1907)
  • Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950)
  • Mather, Richard and Samuel
  • Mathew, Sir George B.
  • Mathew, Theobald (1790-1856)
  • Mathews, Cornelius (1817-1889)
  • Mathews, John
  • Matthews, James Brander (1852-1929)
  • Mauduit, Jasper
  • Maugham, W. Somerset (1874-1965)
  • Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1806-1873)
  • Mazzei, Philip [American revolutionary agent] (1730-1816)
  • Mead, William Rutherford (1846-1928)
  • Meade, George Gordon (1815-1872)
  • Meade, Richard Kidder (1746-1805)
  • Meade, William (1789-1862)
  • Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) (1880-1956)
  • Meredith, George (1828-1909)
  • Meredith, William Morris (1799-1873)
  • Merz, Charles
  • Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Furst von (1773-1859)
  • Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)
  • Millais, John Everett (1829-1896)
  • Milledge, Jonathan
  • Miller, Henry (1891-)
  • Miller, Joaquin (1839-1913)
  • Miller, Walter T.
  • Miro, Esteban Rodrigues (1744-1795)
  • Mitchel, John (1815-1875)
  • Mitchel, John Purroy (1879-1918)
  • Mitchell, Donald Grant (1822-1908)
  • Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889)
  • Mitchell, Silas Weir (1829-1914)
  • Mitchill, Samuel Latham (1764-1831)
  • Molna´r, Ferenc
  • Monro, Alexander (1697-1767)
  • Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936)
  • Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady (1689-1762)
  • Montefiore, C. G. (Claude Goldsmid) (1858-1938)
  • Montez, Lola (1818-1861)
  • Montgomery, Richard (1738-1775)
  • Montgomery, Janet
  • Moore, Anne Carroll
  • Moore, Charles Herbert (1840-1930)
  • Moore, George (1852-1933)
  • Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)
  • More, Hannah (1745-1833)
  • Morellet, Abbe Andre (1727-1819)
  • Morgan, Angela
  • Morgan, Daniel [revolutionary soldier] (1736-1802)
  • Morgan, Edwin Barbour (1806-1881)
  • Morgan, Edwin Dennison (1811-1883)
  • Morgenthau, Henry, Jr (1891-)
  • Morgenthau, Henry, Sr (1856-1946)
  • Morley, Christopher (1890-)
  • Morris, Gouverneur (1752-1816)
  • Morris, Robert (1734-1806)
  • Morris, Robert H.
  • Morris, William (1834-1896)
  • Morse, Samuel F.B (1791-1872)
  • Morse, Sidney Edwards (1794-1871)
  • Motley, John Lothrop (1814-1877)
  • Moulton, Ellen Louise Chandler (1835-1908)
  • Mount, William Sidney (1807-1868)
  • Mowatt, Anna Cora Ogden (1819-1870)
  • Moylan, Stephen
  • Mozoomdar, Protap Chundar
  • Muir, Edwin (1887-1959)
  • Muir, John (1838-1914)
  • Mumford, Lewis (1895-?)
  • Munsey, Frank A. (1854-1925)
  • Murfree, Mary Noailles (1850-1922)
  • Murphy, Edgar Gardner (1869-1913)
  • Myers, Theodorus Bailey (1821-1888)

N

  • Nash, Francis (1742-1777)
  • Nast, Thomas (1840-1902)
  • Nearing, Scott (1883- )
  • Necker, Jacques (1732-1804)
  • Neihardt, John G. (1881- )
  • Nelson, Horatio 1758-1805)
  • Nelson, Samuel
  • Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909)
  • Newman, Francis William (1805-1897)
  • Nicholson, Francis (1655-1728)
  • Nicollet, Joseph Nicolas (1786-1843)
  • Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)
  • Niles, Hezekiah (1777-1839)
  • Noah, Mordecai Manuel (1785-1851)
  • Noailles, Adrien Maurice (1678-1766)
  • Northey, Edward, Sir
  • Norton, Charles Eliot (1827-1908)
  • Nott, Eliphalet (1773-1866)
  • Nye, Edgar Wilson (1850-1896)

O

  • Oberholtzer, Sara Louisa (1841-1930)
  • O’Callaghan, Edmund Bailey (1797-1880)
  • O’Connor, William Douglas (1832-1889)
  • O’Conor, Charles (1804-1884)
  • O’Day, Caroline
  • Ogden, Rollo (1856-1937)
  • Ogden, William Butler (1805-1877)
  • Okakura, Kakuzo (1862-1913)
  • Olmsted, Denison (1791-1859)
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822-1903)
  • O’Mara, James
  • O’Neill, Eugene Gladstone (1888-1953)
  • Oppenheim, James (1882-1932)
  • O’Rielly, Henry (1806-1886)
  • O’Reilly, John Boyle (1844-1890)
  • Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1857-1935)
  • Osgood, James R.
  • Osgood, Samuel
  • Osler, William, Sir (1849-1919)
  • O’Sullivan, John L. (1813-1895)
  • Owen, Robert Dale (1801-1877)

P

  • Page, Thomas Nelson (1853-1922)
  • Page, Walter Hines (1855-1918)
  • Paine, Albert Bigelow (1861-1937)
  • Paine, Robert Treat (1731-1814)
  • Paine, Robert Treat (1773-1811)
  • Parker, Gilbert, Sir (1862-1932)
  • Parker, Theodore (1810-1860)
  • Parkman, Francis (1823-1893)
  • Paterson, William (1745-1806)
  • Paulding, James Kirke (1778-1860)
  • Payne, John Howard (1791-1852)
  • Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer (1804-1894)
  • Peabody, Ernest H.
  • Peabody, George (1795-1869)
  • Peabody, George Foster (1852-1938)
  • Peabody, Josephine Preston (1874-1922)
  • Peale, Charles Wilson (1741-1827)
  • Peale, Rembrandt (1778-1860)
  • Peale, Titian Ramsay
  • Pearse, Patrick Henry
  • Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920)
  • Peck, Harry Thurston (1856-1914)
  • Pendleton, Edmund (1721-1803)
  • Penn, William, Sir (1621-1670)
  • Perkins, Charles C. (1823-1886)
  • Perkins, Jacob (1766-1849)
  • Perry, Matthew C. (1794-1858)
  • Pershing, John Joseph (1860-1948)
  • Peterkin, Julia Mood (1880-1961)
  • Peters, Richard (1704-1776)
  • Peterson, Charles J.
  • Piatt, John James (1835-1917)
  • Piatt, Sarah Morgan Bryan (1836-1919)
  • Pickens, Andrew (1739-1817)
  • Pickering, John
  • Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869)
  • Pierpont, John
  • Pierrepont, Edwards (1817-1892)
  • Pike, Albert (1809-1891)
  • Pike, James Shepard
  • Pinchot, Gifford (1865-1946)
  • Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir (1855-1934)
  • Pinkney, William (1764-1822)
  • Piozzi, Hester Lynch (1741-1821)
  • Pleasants, John Hampden
  • Plummer, Mary Wright (1856-1916)
  • Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
  • Poinsett, Joel R. (1779-1851)
  • Pollock, Channing (1880-1946)
  • Pomeroy, Marcus M.
  • Poole, Ernest (1880-1950)
  • Porter, David D. (1813-1891)
  • Porter, Fitz-John. (1822-1901)
  • Porter, Horace (1837-1921)
  • Porter, James Madison
  • Porter, William Sydney (1862-1910)
  • Post, Louis Freeland (1849-1928)
  • Potter, Henry C. (1835-1908)
  • Pound, Ezra (1885- )
  • Powers, Hiram (1805-1873)
  • Powys, John Cowper (1872-1963)
  • Pratt, Enoch (1808-1896)
  • Preble, Edward (1761-1807)
  • Preble, Jedediah
  • Prentice, George D. (1802-1870)
  • Prescott, William Hickling (1796-1859)
  • Price, Richard (1723-1791)
  • Prime, Samuel Iranaeus (1812-1885)
  • Prime, William Cowper (1825-1905)
  • Pryor, Roger Atkinson (1828-1919)
  • Pulitzer, Joseph (1847-1911)
  • Putnam, Israel (1718-1790)
  • Pyle, Howard (1853-1911)

Q

  • Quincy, Edmund (1808-1877)
  • Quincy, Josiah (1772-1864)
  • Quincy, Josiah, Jr. (1802-1882)

R

  • Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel (1783-1840)
  • Ramée, Marie Louise de la [Ouida [1839-1908)](1840-1908)
  • Ramsay, David (1749-1815)
  • Randall, Henry Stephens
  • Randall, Samuel J. (1828-1890)
  • Randolph, John (1773-1833)
  • Reade, Charles (1814-1884)
  • Redpath, James (1833-1891)
  • Reedy, William Marion (1862-1920)
  • Reid, Thomas Mayne (1818-1883)
  • Remington, Frederic (1861-1909)
  • Renwick, James (1792-1863)
  • Revere, Paul (1735-1818)
  • Rhodes, James Ford (1848-1927)
  • Richards, Thomas Addison (1820-1900)
  • Richardson, Henry Hobson (1838-1886)
  • Richardson, William Alexander (1811-1875)
  • Richmond, Christopher (17_-)
  • Rinehart, Mary Roberts
  • Ripley, George (1802-1880)
  • Rives, Amelie
  • Rives, William Cabell (1793-1868)
  • Rivington, James (1724-1802)
  • Roane, Spencer (1762-1822)
  • Roberts, Charles George Douglas (1860-1943)
  • Robertson, Morgan Andrew (1861-1915)
  • Robinson, Edward (1794-1863)
  • Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)
  • Robinson, Rowland E. (1833-1900)
  • Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
  • Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917)
  • Rodney, Caesar (1728-1784)
  • Rodney, C. A. (Caesar Augustus) (1772-1824)
  • Rodney, Thomas (1744-1811)
  • Roe, Edward Payson (1838-1888)
  • Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855)
  • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)
  • Roosevelt, Nicholas J. (1767-1854)
  • Roosevelt, Sara Delano (1854-1941)
  • Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
  • Root, Elihu (1845-1937)
  • Rosenfeld, Paul (1890-1946)
  • Ross, John, Sir (1777-1856)
  • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
  • Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)
  • Roth, Philip
  • Royce, Josiah (1855-1916)
  • Rush, Richard (1780-1859)
  • Ruskin, John (1819-1900)
  • Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872-1970)
  • Russell, Charles Edward (1860-1941)
  • Russell, George William (1867-1935)

S

  • Saint Gaudens, Augustus (1848-1900)
  • Saltus, Edgar Evertson (1855-1921)
  • Saltus, Francis Saltus (1849-1889)
  • Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin (1831-1917)
  • Sand, George (1804-1876)
  • Sanger, Margaret (1879-1966)
  • Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)
  • Santayana, George (1863-1952)
  • Sargent, Epes (1813-1880)
  • Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925)
  • Sartain, John (1808-1897)
  • Scammel, Alexander (1747-1781)
  • Schoff, Stephen Alonzo (1818-1904)
  • Schurz, Carl (1829-1906)
  • Schuyler, Louisa Lee
  • Schuyler, Montgomery (1843-1914)
  • Schuyler, Philip (1733-1804)
  • Schweitzer, Albert (1875-1965)
  • Scollard, Clinton (1860-1932)
  • Scott, Charles [American Revolutionary General] (1739-1813]
  • Scott, Walter, Sir (1771-1832)
  • Scott, Winfield (1786-1866)
  • Scudder, Horace Elisha (1838-1902)
  • Sedgwick, Catharine M. (1789-1867)
  • Sedgwick, Theodore (1746-1813)
  • Sedgwick, William Thompson (1855-1921)
  • Sedley, Henry (1835- )
  • Seldes, Gilbert (1893-1970)
  • Seward, William H. (1801-1872)
  • Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
  • Shaw, Henry Wheeler (1818-1885)
  • Shelby, Isaac (1750-1826)
  • Shelly, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
  • Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888)
  • Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)
  • Shinn, Milicent Washburn (1858-1940)
  • Shippen, Edward (1729-1806)
  • Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard) (1791-1865)
  • Silliman, Benjamin D. (Benjamin Douglas) (1805-1901)
  • Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870)
  • Sinclair, Upton (1878-1968)
  • Skinner, John S. (John Stuart) (1788-1851)
  • Skinner, Otis (1858-1942)
  • Sloane, William Milligan (1850-1928)
  • Smillie, James David (1833-1909)
  • Smith, Alfred Emanuel (1873-1944)
  • Smith, Goldwin (1823-1910)
  • Smith, Robert (1757-1842)
  • Smith, Sydney (1771-1845)
  • Southey, Robert (1774-1843)
  • Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry (1809-1897)
  • Speed, James (1812-1887)
  • Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903)
  • Spofford, Ainsworth Rand (1825-1908)
  • Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott (1835-1921)
  • Stael, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) (1766-1817)
  • Stanton, Edwin M (1814-1869)
  • Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902)
  • Stark, John (1728-1822)
  • Stead, William Thomas (1849-1912)
  • Stearns, George Luther (1809-1867)
  • Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908)
  • Steffens, Lincoln (1866-1936)
  • Stephen, Adam
  • Stephens, James
  • Sterling, George
  • Stieglitz, Alfred (1864-1946)
  • Stiles, Ezra (1727-1795)
  • Stockdale, John (1749-1814)
  • Stockton, Frank R. (1834-1902)
  • Stockton, Richard, Sr. (1730-1781)
  • Stoddard, Elizabeth (1823-1902)
  • Stone, Thomas (1743-1787)
  • Story, Joseph
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)
  • Straus, Oscar Solomon (1850-1926)
  • Strong, Josiah (1847-1916)
  • Sturgis, Russell, Jr. (1836-1909)
  • Stuyvesant, Peter (1592-1672)
  • Sullivan, John (1740-1795)
  • Sully, Thomas (1783-1872)
  • Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
  • Sumner, William Graham (1840-1910)
  • Swartout, Samuel
  • Symons, Arthur (1865-1845)

T

  • Tabb, John B. (1845-1909)
  • Taft, William Howard (1857-1930)
  • Tait, Arthur (1819-1905)
  • Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de, Prince de Benevent (1754-1838)
  • Tallmadge, Benjamin (1754-1835)
  • Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva) (1857-1944)
  • Tarkington, Booth (1869-1946)
  • Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878)
  • Tazewell, Littleton Waller (1774-1860)
  • Teasdale, Sara (1884-1933)
  • Tenniel, John, Sir (1820-1914)
  • Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron (1809-1892)
  • Terhune, Mary Virginia Hawes (1830-1922)
  • Tesla, Nikola (1857-1943)
  • Thaxter, Celia (1835-1894)
  • Thayer, Eli (1819-1899)
  • Thompson, Benjamin, Count Rumford (1753-1814)
  • Thompson, James Maurice (1844-1901)
  • Thompson, John R.
  • Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
  • Thornton, William (1759-1828)
  • Thurman, Allen G. (1813-1895)
  • Tilton, Theodore (1835-1907)
  • Todd, John Payne (1792-1858)
  • Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich (1828-1910)
  • Totten, Joseph Gilbert (1788-1864)
  • Train, George Francis (1829-1904)
  • Trowbridge, John Townsend (1827-1916)
  • Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972)
  • Trumbull, Benjamin (1735-1820)
  • Tucker, St. George (1752-1827)
  • Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore) (1813-1871)
  • Turner, Joseph M. (1775-1851)

U

  • Underwood, John Curtiss (1809-1873)
  • Upshur, Abel Parker (1791-1844)

V

  • Van Buren, John (1810-1866)
  • Van Buren, Martin (1782-1862)
  • Van Ness, John P. (1770-1846)
  • Van Rensselaer, Mariana Griswold (1851-1934)
  • Vaughan, Benjamin (1751-1835)
  • Veblen, Thorstein B. (1857-1929)
  • Very, Jones (1813-1880)
  • Viereck, George Sylvester (1884-1962)
  • Voltaire (1694-1778)

W

  • Wallace, Lewis (1827-1905)
  • Walpole, Horace (1717-1797)
  • Walpole, Hugh, Sir (1884-1941)
  • Walpole, Robert, Sir (1676-1745)
  • Walton, George (1741-1804)
  • Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911)
  • Ward, Henry Dana (1797-1884)
  • Ward, Mary Augusta (1851-1920)
  • Warner, Charles Dudley (1829-1900)
  • Warren, James (1726-1808)
  • Washington, Booker Taliaferro (1856-1915)
  • Washington, Bushrod (1762-1829)
  • Watson, John B. (John Broadus) (1878-1958)
  • Watterson, Henry (1840-1921)
  • Wayne, James Moore (1790-1867)
  • Webb, Charles Henry (1834-1905)
  • Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)
  • Weedon, George (1734-1793)
  • Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889)
  • Wells, Herbert George (1866-1946)
  • Wendell, Barrett (1855-1921)
  • West, Rebecca (1892-1983)
  • Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)
  • Wheelock, John Hall (1886-1978)
  • Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903)
  • White, Andrew (1832-1918)
  • White, Elwyn Brooks (1899- )
  • White, Stanford (1853-1906)
  • White, Stewart Edward (1873-1946)
  • Whitlock, Brand (1869-1934)
  • Whitman, Sarah Helen (1803-1878)
  • Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
  • Whittier, John Greenleaf (1809-1892)
  • Whittredge, Worthington (1820-1910)
  • Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
  • Wilde, Oscar (1856-1900)
  • Wilde, Richard Henry (1789-1847)
  • Wilkes, John (1727-1797)
  • Wilkinson, James (1757-1825)
  • Williams, Jonathan (1750-1815)
  • Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983)
  • Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806-1867)
  • Wilson, Edmund (1895-1972)
  • Wilson, Henry (1812-1875)
  • Wilson, James (1742-1798)
  • Wilson, James Harrison (1837-1925)
  • Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
  • Wirt, William (1772-1834)
  • Wister, Owen (1860-1938)
  • Witherspoon, John (1723-1794)
  • Wolcott, Oliver, Jr. (1760-1833)
  • Wolcott, Oliver, Sr. (1726-1797)
  • Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938)
  • Woolson, Constance Fenimore (1840-1894)
  • Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
  • Wright, Elizur (1804-1885)
  • Wright, Silas (1795-1847)
  • Wright, James, Sir (1714-1785)
  • Wythe, George (1726-1806)

Y

  • Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
  • Youmans, Edward Livingston (1821-1887)
  • Young, Stark (1881-1963)

Z

  • Zangwill, Israel (1864-1926)
  • Zola, Emile (1840-1902)