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A Remarkable gathering of Harriet Beecher Stowe ephemera, signatures, handwritten correspondence and photographs relating to both the Stowe and Allen families.

Included are many Stowe and Allen family photos, books, bibles (a prayer book belonging to and signed by Calvin Ellis Stowe), photo albums and a wonderful 1865-1877  "Visitors Book" from the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s daughter Georgiana Stowe Allen and her husband Henry Allen. This album contains several small sketches, watercolors and oil paintings that are signed and dated by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Also appearing in the album are several photographs of the Hartford home of Harriet Beecher Stowe as well as other Stowe family homes and interests. There are MANY guest book entries signed by Harriet as well. Included amongst the MANY Stowe, Allen, Beecher and Ely family signatures are: Harriet Beecher Stowe (many signatures) and her husband Calvin Ellis Stowe (many) and the Stowe children (many): Fred W. Stowe (several), Charles Edward Stowe (several), Miss H.B. Stowe (several), Hattie Stowe (Miss H.B., several), Eliza Tyler Stowe (several), Grace Beecher, Mrs. Freeman Allen, G.B. Beecher, Harriet E. Ely, A.B. Ely, H.E. Ely, Bessie Ely, and more.

Signatures of other visitors include: J. Edward Warren, Manton Eastburn, Ellen A. Winslow, F.D. Huntington, Charlotte Read, Thomas M. Clark, Mary F. B. Perkins, Hettie B. Stowe, Lucy A. Perkins, Tammy E. Lang, J. Field, Alfred Ely, Mrs. Miron Winslow, May Glover, Helen Bigelow, Susan Learoyd, T.C. Perkins, Alfred P. Rockwell, Katherine V. Rockwell, Helen Bigelow, Edwin M. Van Deusen, Harriet S. Winslow, Anne Catherine Warren, Mary S. Johnson, Howard Clark, Susan Walton, Gerard Walton, Catherine E. Beecher, Samuel Johnson, Miss E.C. Winthrop, Horace J. Caufield, Arthur Lawrence, Robert Foots Beecher, Leslie P. Codman, Lily Codman, Walter Thompson, Elisa C. Winthrop, Grace Parker, Phillips Brooks, Joseph N. J.W. Whitridge, G.S. Converse, Blanchard, Sarah Amy Beck, H. Cecil Haven, H.J. Cook, Julius Henry Waterbury, C.W. Gilman, Joseph S. Jenckes, Joseph N. Blanchard, R.W. Atwell, A. Jackson, James T. Fields, C.H. Von Cocles, Charles Kingsley, William R. Huntington, Thos. R. Pynchon, Bertha Whitridge, C.W. Evrest, James T. Fields, T.R. Selmer, B. Paddock, Edmund F. Flasten (sp?), Charles Stanley Lester, John L. Egbert, Hasket Derby, Annie Elliot Trumbull, Emily Hale Perkins, Maida Louise Sisson, William R. Huntington, George Denham, Rellanson Smith, Jenny Triden, Frederick Burgess, David Claiborne Garrett, Frederick William Harriman, G.W. Simmons Jr., Rev. George Ryder and J.A. Crabtree. Many of these signatures appear in multiples.

Also included in the collection is: A family scrapbook or album from “Georgie” Stowe Allen with many photos and letters including correspondence between Harriet Beecher Stowe and her grandson Freeman Allen. This includes 2 Victorian Valentines with previously unpublished handwritten poems by Harriet Beecher Stowe to her Grandson Freeman Allen; A caricature of H.B. Stowe’s cat “Jack Snappy”; A note from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Freeman Allen from the Stowe summer home in Mandarin, Fla.; Several wonderful handwritten anecdotes handwritten by “Georgie” Stowe Allen of comments made by Freeman Allen about his famous Grandmother Harriet Beecher Stowe such as: “I asked Freeman the other day “who wrote the Bible?” without hesitation Freeman replied “Grandma Stowe” !!; Also many tintype, cdv and cabinet photos of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s grandson Freeman Allen, to include several poses with his mother Georgiana Stowe Allen; photos of Harriet Beecher Stowe Allen (H.B. Stowe’s granddaughter); Journal entries on each of Freeman’s early birthdays; Letters of congratulations to Henry and “Georgie” Stowe Allen  from friends and family members;  Poignant entries written by “Georgie” and Henry Allen about their son and his early accomplishments in life and much more.

Inlaid Hepplewhite Slant Top Desk in original finish and brass. Case width 38". Found recently in Southern, Maine home.