Inventory of the Paul Hamilton Hayne Papers, 1815-1944
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitlePaul Hamilton Hayne Papers,
1815-1944
Creator
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886
Extent
ca. 13.8 Linear Feet
4930 Items
Repository
4930 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred
to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the
Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Paul Hamilton Hayne Papers, Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The Paul Hamilton Hayne Papers was received by the Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a purchase in 1944-2000.
Processing Information
Processed by RBMSCL staff; Ruth Bryan; Danielle McGregor
Completed May 14, 2002
Encoded by Ruth E. Bryan
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
Poet and literary critic, of Charleston, S.C., and Columbia Co., Ga.
[top]Collection Overview
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 and undated) contains transcriptions of selected letters (1831-1886),
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 Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
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Subject Headings
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- Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 1830-1886.
- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930.
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
- Gayarré, Charles, 1805-1895.
- Hayne, William Hamilton.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
- Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
- Moore, Rayburn S., 1920- man of letters in the nineteenth-century South.
- Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922.
- Platt, James, b. 1831.
- Preston, Margaret Junkin, 1820-1897.
- Saltus, Francis Saltus, 1849-1889.
- Sims, William Gilmore, 1806-1870.
- Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908.
- Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883.
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
- Timrod, Henry, 1828-1867.
- Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900.
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- Authors--Correspondence.
- Authors--Diaries.
- Authors, American.
- Reconstruction--South Carolina.
- Southern States--Intellectual life.
- South Carolina--Charleston.
- Georgia--Columbia County.
- Transcripts.
 | List of Series in Collection | |||||||
 |  | Correspondence | ||||||
| | Diaries | ||||||
| | Scrapbooks | ||||||
| | Miscellaneous | ||||||
| | Clippings | ||||||
| | Writings | ||||||
| | Miscellaneous | ||||||
 | | Preliminary container list for accession#2000-0273 | ||||||
Detailed Description of Collection
Correspondence
Transcriptions of letters from 1831-1886, typed and annotated by
Rayburn Moore, exist. Please see the container list for accession#
2000-0273.
Box 1
1815-1867
Box 2
1868-1872
Box 3
1873-1875
Box 4
1876-1878
Box 5
1879-1880
Box 6
1881
Box 7
1882-1883 April
Box 8
1883 May-1884
Box 9
1885
Box 10
1886
Box 11
1887-1890
Box 12
1891-1907
Box 13
1908-1927 and undated;
fragments
Diaries
1864-1885
Scrapbooks
Scrapbooks
Miscellaneous
Financial papers
Miscellany
Pictures
Clippings
A-Q
Box 21
R-Z
Box 22
Contemporary authors
Miscellaneous
Box 23-24
P.H. Hayne
Box 25
Literary criticisms
War reminiscences
Box 26
Miscellaneous
Writings
Works: A-S
Box 28
Works: T-Z
"Last Poems"
"Wickham's Roost"
Misc., unidentified
Miscellaneous
Biographical material
Genealogy
Tributes
Works of contemporary authors
Preliminary container list for accession#2000-0273
Transcriptions of selected correspondence
Typed and annotated by Rayburn Moore, editor of
A Man of Letters in the Nineteenth-Century
South: The Selected Letters of Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1982
Box 1
1831 May 10-1881 February 5
Box 2
1881 February 8-1883 August 23
Box 3
1883 August 30-1885 April 17
Box 4
1885 April 19-1886 November 13
