About 115 of the letters, notes and other items are tipped to leaves of an album; the remainder are loose. Album is 28x21.5 cm (11x8½"), half leather & cloth, spine strip lacking.
Astonishing autograph collection assembled by one Leonie A. Millard of Troy, New York - she evidently wrote relentlessly to authors of the day, many of them women, and they responded in kind. So while some are simple signatures, the great majority are cards or letters, sometimes sentiments or greetings, others letters of some detail. Among the respondents are John Kendrick Bangs, Edward E. Hale, Lotta Crabtree, John Burroughs, Charles F. Lummis, Kate Sanborn, Anthony Hope Hopkins, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Thomas Nelson Page, A.B. Frost, Owen Wister, Mabel Osgood Wright, Julia Ward Howe, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Dudley Warner, Elizabeth Custer, Ina Coolbrith, and others. Millard would place small portraits next to many of the autographs, clipped from magazines perhaps, and there are a number of loose portraits present, for future use.
The collection includes, but is not limited to:
John Kendrick Bangs
Edward E. Hale
Edward Eggleston
Lotta Crabtree
Maude Adams
May Irwin
[Mrs.] Leslie Carter [stage name of Caroline Louise Dudley]
Moses Coit Tyler
John Burroughs
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Lee Meriwether (the author, not the actress)
Kate Douglas Wiggin (two)
Martha Finley
Laurel Richards
Charles F. Lummis
Cherry Croft
Octave Thanet
Mary E. Wilkins [Freeman]
Louis Imogen Guiney
Robert J. Burdett
Florence Earle Coates
Robert J. Burdette
Kate Sanborn
Clara Louise Burnham
Anthony Hope Hopkins
Mary J. Holmes
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (two, one without the Wilcox)
Marion Harland [penname of Mary Virginia Terhune] (two)
Sara O[rme] Jewett
Maggie Mitchell
Thomas Nelson Page
George Washington Cable
William Dean Howells
F. Marion Crawford
Frank R. Stockton
Louise Chandler Moulton
Richard Henry Savage
Maria Louis Pool
Kirk Munroe
John Townsend Trowbridge
Mary A. Livermore
A.B. Frost
Opie Read
Owen Wister
Mabel Osgood Wright
Charles Eliot Norton
Julia Ward Howe
Will Hicok Lowe
LOOSE
Howard Chandler Christie
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Lew Wallace
Russell Sage
Jeremiah Curtain
Margaret E. Sangster
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Will M. Clemens
Elbert Hubbard
Israel Zangwill
Charles Dudley Warner
Irving Bachellor
Elizabeth B. Custer (two)
Helena Modjeska
Joaquin Miller
Ina Coolbrith
Hamlin Garland
Howard Pyle
Charles King
Richard Henry Stoddard