INVENTORY OF THE OSBORNE COLLECTION
BOX
1
Item 1: Pocket compass (belonged to Herman Melville).
Folder 1
Item 2: Receipt for The Liberal Preacher, July 19, 1830, for Major
Thomas Melville.
Item 3: Receipt for The Columbian Centinel, June 1 December 1, 1830,
for Major Thomas Melville.
Item 4: Herman Melvill(e) to Miss Lucy Melvill, 1828.
Folder 2
Item 5: "Author Melville Gone: He was Held by Cannibals, but He Made
it Lucrative," The Morning Journal [New York City], September
29, 1891.
Item 6: "Herman Melville's Funeral," New York Daily Tribune,
October 1, 1891.
Item 7: "Herman Melville," The New York Times, October 2,
1891.
Item 8: "The Late Hiram Melville" (a letter from O.G.H.), The
New York Times, October 6, 1891.
Item 9: "The News This Morning" (item replying to New York Times
article), New York Daily Tribune, October 3, 1891.
Folder 3
Item 10: "Herman Melville" (notice of a new edition of Moby-Dick,
Typee, Omoo, White-Jacket), The Literary World, December 1, 1900.
Item 11: Obituary of Mrs. Herman Melville, Pittsfield Times, August
9, 1906.
Item 12: Discussion of Moby-Dick in brief notice of Dr. Douglas Lithgow,
Nantucket, A History, New York Times Book Review, July 12, 1914.
Item 13:" Appomattox"
(quotes from Melville's "The Surrender at Appomattox"). No journal
title, no date [circa 1915].
Item 14: "Moby-Dick, The Unforgotten," New York Sun, July
15, 1916.
Item 15: "Herman Melville," a poem by Warren H. Cudworth (a centennial
tribute for a New York paper). No journal title, no date [August 1, 1919,
centennial of Melville's birth?].
Item 16: "Current interest in the Hawaiian Islands has helped ('remind
us of the almost forgotten') Melville." "His death comparatively
recent." [Apparently refers to the annexation controversy, which was
alive as early as 1893 and culminated July 7, 1898, with President McKinley's
signing of the resolution.] No title, no date.
Item 17: A fragment concerning "classic art." No mention of Melville.
New York T[imes?]. No title, no date.
Folder 4
Item 18: Receipt for contribution to the Boston Dispensary, 1845. Received
from Mr. Chief Justice Shaw.
Item 19: Lemuel Shaw to "Dear Mamma," c/o Rev. Oakes Shaw, November
1799.
Item 20: Lemuel Shaw to "My dear Lemuel" (Lemuel Shaw, Jr.), Boston,
August 12, 1851.
Item 21: Josephine MacC. Shaw to Frances T. Osborne, August 27, 1922, Edgartown,
Mass.
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Folder 5
Item 22: Obituary of
Samuel Savage Shaw (youngest son of Lemuel Shaw), September 24, 1915.
Item 23: "S.S. Shaw's Will Divides Relics: Relatives to Receive Priceless
Collection of Furniture and Autographs." No journal title, no date.
Item 24: The Proceedings at the Meeting of the Bar at the Birthplace of
CHIEF JUSTICE SHAW. (The Honorable Richard Olney was master of ceremonies
at an occasion where addresses were given by Governor McCall, Chief Justice
Rugg, A. Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard University, and a letter was
received from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.) West Barnstable,
Mass., August 4, 1916.
Item 25: "Samuel Savage Shaw Dead" "Old Boston lawyer... "
No publication (newspaper) info, no date.
Folder 6
Item 26: Family Correspondence of Herman Melville 1830-1904, in the Gansevoort-Lansing
Collection, ed. Victor Hugo Palsits, New York, 1929. Includes family photographs.
Folder 7
Item 27: "Niece of Herman Melville; She Revived Author's Fame,"
New York Herald Tribune, April 25 (?), 1963 or 1964 (?). An obituary
of Eleanor Melville Metcalf, Melville's granddaughter.
Item 28: "Wrote of Melville: Mrs. Metcalf, Granddaughter of Author of
Moby-Dick, Dies at 82." No journal title, no date. Published at Martha's
Vineyard, 1963 or 1964 (?).
Item 29: Poems by Eleanor Melville Metcalf (privately printed). Read
at Woodlawn Cemetery, April 29, 1964 [on the occasion of Mrs. Metcalf's burial?].*
Item 30: Dukes County Intelligencer, August 1964. Contains articles
about whaling.*
Item 31: The Lookout. February March 1964. Publication of Seaman's
Church Institute of New York. Issue devoted to Melville. (2 copies, 1 found
in separate file with no record).*
Item 32: "The Van Schaick Mansion," Truth, no date. Mention
of General Peter Gansevoort.
Item 33: Three first-date-of-issue stamped envelopes, Herman Melville Commemorative,
1970.
(* With manila envelope)
Folder 8
Item 34: [Willard Thorpe?] to Mrs. (Eleanor Melville) Metcalf, November 24,
1941.
Item 35: Notice of death of Henry B. Thomas (Melville's son-in-law), August
7, 1934. No journal title.
Item 36: Newspaper clipping concerning transfer of Arrowhead (the house in
Pittsfield where Melville wrote Moby-Dick) to J. Dwight Francis in
1937. No title, no date.
Item 37: "Melville Books Acquired by Princeton," New York Herald
Tribune, January 13, 1938.
Item 38: Letter of Frances C. Osborne (Mrs. Abeel Osborne), December 11, 1941,
concerning loan of books Melville owned to Princeton and list of books (in
pencil).
Item 38a: Envelope (sealed in mylar) to Mrs. Frances Osborne from Bank, December
3, 1946.
Item 39: Typescript of recollections of Melville by Frances Cuthbert Thomas
Osborne (Mrs. Abeel Osborne). Shorter than the version in Merton M. Sealts,
Jr., Early Lives of Melville, p. 179, which reprints Bulletin of
the New York Public Library 69 (December 1965), 655-660.
Folder 9
Item 40: Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 55 (July 1951) and
69 (December 1965) (found in separate folders).
Folder 10
Item 41: Mrs. A.D. Osborne (Frances Thomas Osborne), Edgartown, Mass., to
Mrs. Duncan Elliott Osborne (Elizabeth Bachman Osborne), Menlo Park, California,
January 31, 1966.
Item 42: Mrs. A.D. Osborne (Frances Thomas Osborne), Hackettstown, New Jersey,
to Mr. Duncan Elliott Osborne, Austin, Texas, February 1, 1971.
Item 43: Mrs. A.D. Osborne to Mrs. Anne B. Osborne, Anson, Texas, December
9, 1966.
Item 44: Mrs. A.D. Osborne, Edgartown, Mass., to Mrs. Anne B. Osborne, Anson,
Texas, December 2, 1966.
Folder 11
Item 45: Photograph of painting of Herman Melville by J.O. Eaton, New York,
1870. Original belonged to Eleanor Melville Metcalf. Now at the Houghton Library,
Harvard University.
Item 46a: Photograph of painting of General Peter Gansevoort, Melville's grandfather.(See
Folder 13 for 46b.)
Item 47: One-page folio sale listing in newspaper clipping.
Folder 12
Item 48/49: Miscellaneous items: Letter to Professor Walt Herbert and letter
to Betty [Osborne?].
Folder 13 (Original frames, mats, misc.)
Item 46b: Original frame
Item 50: Original frame/mat
Item 51: Reproduction of Farrer print used for collection catalog cover
BOX
2: PRINTS
Item 52: Print of engraving by J.M.W. Turner entitled "Abingdon, Berkshire,"
engraved by C. Cousen. "From the picture in the National Gallery"
(matted).
Item 53: Print of engraving (?) by J.M.W. Turner entitled Brighton Chain
Pier, engraved by R. Wallis. "From the picture in the possession
of Lord Leconfield of Petworth" (matted).
Item 54: Print of engraving by J. B. Allen after J.M.W. Turner entitled Decline
of Carthage.
Item 55: Print of engraving by J. Cousen after J.M.W. Turner entitled Fishing
Boats A Coast Scene.
Item 56: Print of etching after a drawing by Jacob van Ruisdael. Trees
at the Edge of a River, with Two Men in a Rowboat.
Item 57: Print of engraving by E. Goodall after J.M.W. Turner entitled Florence.
.
Item 58: Etching by Claude Lorrain. Le Port de la Mer a la Grosse Tour
(Harbour with a Large Tower).
Item 59: Engraving by H[enry] Farrer, On the East River, 1879.
Item 60: Engraving by Joseph Longhi, Bust of Napoleon, 1806.
PORTFOLIO
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Item 61: Six articles concerning Judge Shaw and a portrait. The Boston
Herald, August 5, 1916.
Item 62: "Edgartown Finds New Link with Melville," The Evening
Standard (New Bedford, Mass.), August 11, 1929. (Entire section preserved
in 3 mylar sheets only one page re Melville.)
Item 63: "Chief Justice Shaw," The Sunday Herald, Boston,
Mass., September 26, 1915. Criticizes death notices referring to Samuel Shaws
father as "a lawyer."
Item 64: "Supreme Court Pauses to do Honor to Chief Justice of Other
Days," The Pittsfield Eagle, September 16, 1930. Refers to Judge
Shaw as "the judicial Moses who led the common law of Massachusetts out
of the wilderness."
Item 65: Article on death of Walter D. Osborne, The New York Times,
March 5, 1972.
Item 66: "Melvilles Fans Trace His Footsteps," The New York Times,
December 29, 1972.
Item 67: "Melville:a Catholic View" and "Melville Taken Seriously."
Sheed and Ward's Own Trumpet, February 1950.
