Title: John M. Winterbotham Collected Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1600-1925

Creator:

• Winterbotham, John M.

Call Number: Wis Mss KT

Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (13 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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Abstract:

Autograph signatures, autograph letters, and miscellaneous items, collected by John M. Winterbotham of Galveston, Texas. Many of the items were originally collected by others. Contents include signatures of British officials and others in public life; letters, 1868-1925, received by Sir Sidney Colvin, for many years keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum; letters, 1900-1916, written by Georgiana, Countess of Guilford; letters, 1887-1898, received by Arthur Weld, drama and music editor for the Milwaukee Journal; copies of letters of Stephen F. Austin and others important in the history of Texas, from the originals in the Rosenberg Library, Galveston; and biographical sketches of numerous prominent Americans, together with some correspondence concerning the subjects of the sketches, accumulated by Guy C. Bixler in preparing a proposed volume of American biographies.

Language: English

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This collection is very heterogeneous in nature, and the bulk of it consists of material chiefly valuable for autograph purposes.

Biographical sketches of prominent Americans, with some routine correspondence, gathered by Guy C. Bixler for a volume of a proposed encyclopedia to be published by the Knickerbocker Publishing Company, New York City, comprise three boxes.

Two boxes of letters, cards, pictures, and legal and business papers contain autographs of British men and women in all fields of human endeavor, including playwrights, actors, actresses, suffragists, statesmen, peers, physicians, scientists, barristers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and clergymen, chiefly for the period of the nineteenth century but extending also as far back as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. An eleven-page letter, 1854, of Robert Lee, the Scott clergyman, to Lord Munay on the subject of the attitude of the clergy toward public questions and the appointment of a different type of man to the theological departments of the universities is among these autographs.

There are three volumes of British autographs. A volume of letters, 1821-1878, to Arthur Fitzgerald-Kinnaird, 10th Baron Kinnaird, M.P., contains mainly autographs of men in British public life, but also includes a few continental items, among them an undated letter of Count Cavour, the father of Italian unity. A second volume comprises an autograph collection [of the Rev. Jerom Murch, Mayor of Bath], including autographs of British peers, government officials, bishops, literary men, jurists, and others of the nineteenth century. A third volume contains autographs of British peers, government officials, and others of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The volume of letters, 1868-1925, to Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin are chiefly personal. About fifteen of the letters are from George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle and sometimes contain comments on literary and artistic matters. Occasional letters from this volume have been printed in E. V. Lucas, The Colvins and Their Friends (New York, 1928). Sir Colvin was director of Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, 1876-1884, and keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum for nearly thirty years after 1884.

A folder of letters from Georgiana, Countess of Guilford, 1900-1916, written from various points in Great Britain to Ann Stephens, New York City, are personal, but sometimes in 1914-1916 contain comments on World War I from the British viewpoint. A folder of letters, 1887-1898, to Arthur Weld, drama and music editor of the Milwaukee Journal in the nineties, are chiefly from American actors, actresses, and musicians, and are mostly short personal notes. There is also a box of autographs of American artists, actors, actresses, authors, capitalists, and suffragists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and autographs of French men of letters, painters, statesmen, soldiers, and scholars of the nineteenth century.

Photostatic and typewritten copies of letters, 1834-1841, 1861, 1863, relate to Texas history. Included are several letters relating to the nomination of Peter W. Grayson for president of the Republic of Texas to succeed Samuel Houston in 1838 and Grayson's suicide, a letter of Houston, 1841, and a letter dated Galveston, January, 1863, describing military action about that city.

Acquisition Information

Presented by John M. Winterbotham, 1932-1933, and by Mrs. Winterbotham in 1941.

	Knickerbocker Publishing Company Biographical Sketches
Box   1	Adams, Alva
Box   1	Arden, Edwin
Box   1	Ayer, Harriet
Box   1	Babcock, Robert Hall
Box   1	Barrett, John
Box   1	Bascom, Florence
Box   1	Bascom, John
Box   1	Berger, Victor L.
Box   1	Billings, Frank
Box   1	Blashfield, Albert Dodd
Box   1	Blashfield, Edwin Howland
Box   1	Booth, Ballington
Box   1	Bridger, James
Box   1	Brush, George de Forest
Box   1	Clews, Henry
Box   1	Closbom, James S.[?]
Box   1	Cobb, Cyrus
Box   1	Cobb, Darius
Box   1	Commons, John R.
Box   1	Cox, Palmer
Box   1	Crosman, Henrietta
Box   1	Dale, Alan
Box   1	De Wolfe, Elsie
Box   1	Di Cesnola, Luigi Palma
Box   1	Dodge, Joshua Eric
Box   1	Dorr, Julia Caroline (Ripley)
Box   1	Unidentified
Box   1	Edison, Thomas Alva
Box   1	Edwards, George Wharton
Box   1	Elliott, Howard
Box   1	Fowke, Gerard
Box   1	French, Daniel Chester
Box   1	Frohman, Daniel
Box   1	Gilbert, ?
Box   1	Gilder, Jeanette L.
Box   1	Gilman, Charlene Perkins
Box   1	Glaser, Lulu
Box   1	Gompers, Samuel
Box   1	Gordon, Laura (de Force)
Box   1	Grosscup, Peter Stenger
Box   2	Hammerstein, Oscar
Box   2	Hawley, Joseph Roswell
Box   2	Harriman, Edward Henry
Box   2	Hewett, Abram S.
Box   2	Hill, James Jerome
Box   2	Hobson, Richmond Pearson
Box   2	Holland, Edmund Milton
Box   2	Howe, Julia Ward
Box   2	Hughitt, M.
Box   2	Huntington, D.
Box   2	Jastrow, Morris
Box   2	Jewett, Henry
Box   2	Johnson, Eastman
Box   2	Johnson, Rossiter
Box   2	Johnston, J. Stoddard
Box   2	Jones, Hugh B.
Box   2	La Farge, John
Box   2	Lathrop, Francis
Box   2	Lawson, Publius Virgilius
Box   2	Lee, Jennette
Box   2	Lockwood, Belva Ann
Box   2	McAdoo, William Gibbs
Box   2	McClellan, George Brinton
Box   2	MacNeil, Harmon A.
Box   2	McNeill, Israel C.
Box   2	Marshall, Roujet de Lisle
Box   2	Martinot, Sadie
Box   2	Mathew, Shaitu[?]
Box   2	Millais, John Everett
Box   3	Parkhurst, Charles Henry
Box   3	Partridge, William O.
Box   3	Peck, Annie Smith
Box   3	Pettigrew, Richard Franklin
Box   3	Phelps, John Jay
Box   3	Reuterdahl, H.[?]
Box   3	Root, Elihu
Box   3	Ross, Edward Alsworth
Box   3	Rotch, Arthur
Box   3	Rotch, Benjamin Smith
Box   3	Ruckstuhl, Frederick Wellington
Box   3	Ryder, Albert Pynkham
Box   3	Saint Gaudens, Augustus
Box   3	Seawell, Molly Elliot
Box   3	Sheffield, Joseph Earl
Box   3	Shurtleff, R. M.
Box   3	Smillie, George H.
Box   3	Smith, Charles Forster
Box   3	Sprague, Homer Baxter
Box   3	Spreckels, John D.
Box   3	Starr, Frederick
Box   3	Story, George Henry
Box   3	Stuart, Ralph
Box   3	Sully, Daniel
Box   3	Sumner, Charles
Box   3	Thomas, George Henry
Box   3	Updegraff, Milton
Box   3	Volk, Douglas
Box   3	Wellman, Mrs. Francis L. (Juch, Emma A. J.)
	Typewritten copies of manuscript material in the Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas on Texas and Mississippi Valley history, 1827-1844
Box   4	Two albums
Box   4	Letters to and from Captain Basil Hall, 1828-1831
Box   4	Delorme, “Revelations sur la Commune”
Box   4	Miscellaneous
Box   4	Letters relating to Texas history, 1834-1841, 1861, 1863 Physical Description: Photostatic and typewritten copies
Box   5-6	Autographs of British playwrights, actors, actresses, suffragists, statesmen, peers, physicians, scientists, barristers, musicians, sculptors, painters, 17th to 19th centuries
Box   7	Autographs of American artists, actors, actresses, authors, suffragists, and capitalists, 19th and 20th centuries
Box   7	Autographs of French men of letters, painters, statesmen, soldiers, scholars, 19th and 20th centuries
Box   8	Letters from American actors, actresses, and musicians to Arthur Weld, of the Milwaukee Journal, 1887-1898
Box   8	Letters from Georgiana, Countess of Guilford, to Ann Stephens, New York City, 1900-1916
Box   11 Volume   1	The Colvins and Their Friends: letters, 1868-1925, to Sir Sidney and Lady Colvin Note: Sir Colvin was director of Fitz-William Museum at Cambridge, 1876-1884, and for nearly 30 years thereafter keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum. Occasional letters from the volume are printed in E. V. Lucas, The Colvins and Their Friends (New York, 1928).
Box   13 Volume   2	Letters, 1821-1878, to Arthur Fitzgerald-Kinnaird, 10th Baron Kinnaird
Box   12 Volume   3	Autograph collection [of the Reverend Jerom Murch, Mayor of Bath], including British peers, government officials, bishops, literary men, jurists, etc., of the 19th century
Box   10 Volume   4	Autographs of British peers, government officials, and miscellaneous, 17th-18th centuries
Box   9 Volume   5-6	Autographs of English men of letters and others, 18th-20th centuries