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Collection Overview

Title: Samuel Arthur Jones papers, 1833-1974

ID: 01/01/MSS00028

Primary Creator: Jones, Samuel Arthur (1834-1912)

Extent: 10.8 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Arrangement of the collection is specified in box numbering and "folder set" numbering. The collection was previously organized according to format set types, however the quantity of material of each set needed to be consolidated and added to other sets to ensure space proficiency. Labels are recognized accordingly: UIUC RBML Samuel Arthur Jones Collection [Type of Material] [Folder Set/s] UIUXXXXX [Box #]

Date Acquired: 00/00/2004

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Papers of Samuel A. Jones, homeopathic physician and scholar of American Transcendentalism. Includes personal records; diaries; reading logs; records of book acquisitions; documents and correspondence pertaining to his service as a Civil War surgeon; records of homeopathic drug provings; manuscripts of medical lectures; manuscripts and proofs of published works; unpublished poems and essays.

Collection Historical Note

Dr. Samuel Arthur Jones, 1834-1912, was born in Manchester, England. Jones is of Welsh stock, moving to the United States with his parents in 1842. Jones received two degrees in medical studies at the Missouri Homeopathic Medical College at St. Louis in 1860, and from the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1861. Samuel A. Jones served in the Union Army during the Civil War, where he established a private practice in New Jersey and taught medicine in New York. His work and experiences made him an advocate of homeopathy and an established researcher in the field. Dr. Jones' not only had a passion for homeopathy, but fascination with literature and book collecting. His book collecting concentrated nineteenth century literary works, those including Thoreau and Carlyle. In addition, he has many first editions of manuscripts, correspondence with Thoreau, and photographs.

Administrative Information

Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence, 1862-1907],
[Series 2: Portraiture],
[Series 3: Professional materials, 1875-[1974]],
[Series 4: Personal/Miscellaneous material, 1833-1974],
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Series 1: Correspondence, 1862-1907

Correspondence between Samuel Jones and various literary figures. Notable in the series are autograph letters, letters from Edward Emerson, postcards from Henry S. Salt, Frank E. Hopkins, H.G.O. Blake, Alfred Hosmer and many others. Some key correspondents are those that relate to Thoreau's incarceration and letters from Daniel and Anna Ricketson.

Box 3

File 5: Autograph letters

Item 1: Harriet Beecher Stowe to Dr. W. S. Searle
Item 2: O.W. Holmes to S. A. Jones: 2 letters
Item 3: Henry W. Longfellow to J. Ward Lydecker
Item 4: George William Curtis to S.A. Jones: 3 letters
Item 5: Prof. James D. Dana to Prof. Rominger
Item 6: J. Drysdale to Dr. Dunham
Item 7: W.J. Herdman to S.A. Jones
Item 8: Thomas Dunn English to S.A. Jones
Item 9: Annie H. Wharton to "Emily"
Item 10: From Horatio Seymour: 2 letters. One missing.
Item 11: From Peyton Blakiston, M.D.
Item 12: G.W. Curtis to Daniel Ricketson, 1867 August 26
Item 13: Wendell Phillips to Daniel Ricketson, 1875 August
Item 14: Dr. Joseph Ernfurn to a colleague, 1883 March 29
Item 15: Charles S. Oldres to John van Brunt, 1862 August 30
Item 16: Hahnemann to unknown recipient
Item 17: Autograph of Edward Z. Judson
Item 18: Wallace Brun to Student Lecture Association

Box 4

File 6: Letters from Edward Emerson to S.A. Jones, 1891-1898: Extent: 27 letters.
File 7: Postcards from Henry S. Salt to S.A. Jones, 1891-1897: Extent: 18 postcards.
File 8: Letters from Frank E. Hopkins and Theodore L. DeVinne to S.A. Jones, 1896-1899: Arrangement: Letters 1-19 and 21-24 are from Hopkins; Letter 20 is from DeVinne.; Extent: 24 letters.
File 9: Letters from Henry Salt to S.A. Jones, 1891-1904: Extent: 99 letters.

Box 5

File 10: Letters to S.A. Jones, 1893-1903: Includes letters from Charles Orr, F.H. Neff, and Eckstein Case.; Extent: 11 letters.
File 11: Letters from H.G.O. Blake to S.A. Jones, 1890-1892: Extent: 17 letters with 15 envelopes.
File 12: Letters between S.A. Jones and Burr, C.H. Greene, and W. harvey Greene, 1897-1898: Extent: 42 letters.

Box 6

File 13: Letters and pamphlet concerning Thoreau's incarceration, 1894-1898

Arrangement: Letters 1-5 concern Thoreau's incarceration.

Letters 6-10 are from Charles Eliot Norton to S.A. Jones.

Item 11 is a pamphlet by Jones.

Extent: 11 items.

Item 1: Irving Allen to S.A. Jones, 1894 May 7
Item 2: Ellen Loomis to S.A. Jones, 1894 May 12
Item 3: Alfred Hosmer to S.A. Jones, 1894 May 17
Item 4: Ellen Loomis to S.A. Jones, 1894 May 21
Item 5: Alfred Hosmer to S.A. Jones, 1894 May 22
Item 6: Charles Eliot Norton to S.A. Jones, 1898 August 11
Item 7: Clipping sent from Charles Eliot Norton to S.A. Jones, 1898 September 1: No letter included.
Item 8: Charles Eliot Norton to S.A. Jones, 1898 August 5
Item 9: Charles Eliot Norton to S.A. Jones, 1898 August 17: Includes three copies of Norton's address of June 7.
Item 10: "Anti-Imperialism" pamphlet, 1898 August 18: Pamphlet sent from Charles Eliot Norton to S.A. Jones.
Item 11: "Thoreau's Incarceration" (as told by Thoreau's jailer): Pamphlet by S.A. Jones. Reprint from The Inlander, Dec. 1898, by the Thoreau Society.

File 14: Correspondence from Alfred and Horace Hosmer and Eugene Briggs to S.A. Jones, 1849-1903

Extent: 69 items.

Box 7

File 17: Correspondence with Daniel Ricketson, Anna Ricketson, and Walter Ricketson, 1884-1903

Arrangement: Letters 1-6 are from Daniel Ricketson to S.A. Jones (1890-1891).

Letters 7-10 are (copies) from Samuel A. Jones to Daniel Ricketson (1890-1901).

Letters 11-20 are from Anna Ricketson to S.A. Jones (1901 through 1903).

Letters 21-25 are from Walter Ricketson to S.A. Jones (1901-1902). Letter 25 is a copy of a letter from L.M. Alcott dated May 27, 1884.

Extent: 25 letters

File 18: Miscellaneous items, 1894-1906

Extent: 13 items

Item 1: Letter from Albert Lane to S.A. Jones, 1903 May 18
Item 2: Letter from Albert Lane to S.A. Jones, 1903 July 3
Item 3: Letter from Francis Garrison to S. A. Jones, 1895 January 3
Item 4: Letter from E. H. Harvey to S. A. Jones, 1894 March 6
Item 5: Letter from Albert Lane to S. A. Jones, 1903 April 14
Item 6: Copy of addenda to Thoreau bibliography
Item 7: Letter from Albert Lane to S. A. Jones, 1903 April 8
Item 8: Poem on Charles Lamb from M. A. B. Evans
Item 9: Letter from Francis Allen to S. A. Jones, 1906 August 20
Item 10: Packet containing short pieces: Includes 1) Note by S. A. Jones on Jeffries; 2) essay on Thoreau's Incarceration; 3) poems and a short piece from the Brook Farm "Harbinger" by George W. Curtis; 4) Copy of Thoreau's poem "Inspiration"
Item 11: "Life's Enigma" poem: Possibly written by S. A. Jones
Item 12: Page 12 from an essay, including the poem "A Sprig of Rosemary"
Item 13: Five pages of "Roadside Rhymes by a Wayfarer"

File 20: Miscellaneous letters to Jones, 1857-1901

Includes correspondence from William C. Lane, R. C. Davis, Goodspeed, Daniel G. Mason, Ellen T. Emerson, G. M. Williamson, and Walton Ricketson.

Extent: 9 letters, plus enclosures.

File 21: Miscellaneous items, 1890-1897, undated

Includes correspondence from Silas Hosmer and C.E. Davis; poems, essays, and a speech by Jones and other writers. Of note is a manuscript of Jones' Thoreau bibliography (4 pp.).

Extent: 24 items

Box 8

File 24: Correspondence between Salt, Angell, Dr. Holmes and Dr. and Mrs. Jones, 1862-1907

Item 1: Copy of a letter from Jones to Dr. Holmes
Item 2: Letter from Henry Salt to Mrs. Jones, 1905 November 12
Item 3: Letter from James B. Angell to S. A. Jones, 1907 August 10
Item 4: Letter from Henry Salt to Mrs. Jones, 1907 March 15
Item 5: Caricature, "The 'Professor' Waits for Practice", 1880 July
Item 6: Letter from Jones to "my own dear Jenny", 1862 November 26: Written from a Civil War camp.

Series 2: Portraiture

Photographs collected by Samuel A. Jones. Includes photos by Hosmer of Thoreau and Concord.

Box 2

File 3: Photos by Hosmer of Thoreau and Concord

Box 12

File 47: Miscellaneous photographs: Includes photos of Jones, Emerson, Richard Jeffers, Thoreau's house, Daniel Ricketson, Dr. Ripley, John C. Shaw, William Ellery Channing, Hosmer house at Concord, Whittier, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Kahnemann, Henry Salt, William McKinley, Louisa May Alcott, Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, James Russell Lowell, Admiral George Dewey, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Richmond Pearson Hobson, and General Nelson A. Miles.

Box 16

File 23: Pictures from the Jones collection: Includes three portraits of Thoreau: a crayon by Rowse, a daguerreotype by Markham, and an ambrotype by Dunshee; a daguerreotype of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Southworth & Hawes; a photograph of Walt Whitman by Gutekunst; and a sketch of Thomas Carlyle by John J. Dunne.

Box 17

Series 3: Professional materials, 1875-[1974]

Collections of medical articles, treatises related to his profession, and records related to Sam Jones' MD degree. In addition, several notebooks with notes related to the "materia medica" are present in this series.

Box 1

File 2: Medical articles

Box 7

File 22: Catalogue of Dr. Samuel A. Jones' medical library, 1879

Box 8

File 26: Collected pamphlets: Includes 1) Historical Sketch of the University of Michigan by Charles Kendall Adams, 2) Die Pikrinsaure... by W. Erb, 3) The Psychological Action of Picric Acid by Louis B. Couch M.D., 4) Anti-Imperialism, from Professor C. E. Norton, acknowledged Aug. 20, 1898.; Extent: 4 pamphlets

Box 10

File 35: "The Memory of Hahnemann": poem by S. A. Jones; Extent: 3 pages
File 39: Items relating to Jones' M.D. Degree, 1860-1875: Includes a certificate of examination, a telegram announcing Jones' appointment at the University of Michigan, letters, an essay by Jones, and two articles by other writers.; Extent: 7 items

Box 13

File 49: Notebooks and loose pages dealing with materia medica

Series 4: Personal/Miscellaneous material, 1833-1974

Materials of James Jones that relate to his life. Included is anything related to the personal life of Samuel Jones - his interests in Thoreau, clippings, some correspondence, notes, and manuscripts.

Box 1

File 1: Obituary of Dr. Samuel A. Jones

Box 3

File 4: Literary papers of Jones

Item 1: Rejected Inlander paper
Item 2: Life's mute remembrancers
Item 3: Typescript fragment: Pages 6 and 7, beginning "What is excellent..." with numerous corrections.
Item 4: Letter from Thoreau to Calvin Greene: Facsimile
Item 5: Untitled manuscript, 1880: Begins: "An alien...". Signed "S.A.J." and dated Ann Arbor, 1880.
Item 6: Manuscript: Begins: "O mother, mother..." written on the eve of the day his mother was buried.
Item 7: Poems: Begins with "Prelude."
Item 8: "My chappie cane": Dated "October 25th"
Item 9: "On a nameless bust"
Item 10: "Life's lesson"
Item 11: "Thoreau"
Item 12: "Ripley": Xeroxed manuscript; Extent: 2 pages
Item 13: Letters by Tolman, Sanborn, Vickers regarding Thoreau: Xerox copies.
Item 14: Notebook: Written in Jones' hand, containing a bibliography of Longfellow's books; a bibliography of Whittier's books; Carlyle: editions and dates; draft of a poem, "Solemnly came the new-born day...".
Item 15: Speech by Jones (fragment), 1878 October 1: Autograph. Pages 24 through 26.
Item 16: "Perpend, O Senior, perdent": Speech. Dated "26 April".
Item 17: ALS from Joseph Kennedy to Samuel Arthur Jones, 1878 Feb 4: Regarding Kennedy's medical history.; Extent: 12 pages
Item 18: Packet of eight manuscripts: 1) Sub-oxidants (unfinished), 2) Post meridiem (unfinished), 3) American copy of Sartor Resartus, 4) The problem (rhyme), 5) Rare Visitaar from auld reekie, 6) Investigations of gold solutions, 7) "Nothing but roaring", 8) Recollections of B. F. Cocker.
Item 19: Notebook with one page in Jones' hand, 1891 June 11: His birthday and mention of the internment of his father's casket.

Box 7

File 15: Clippings related to Thoreau: Extent: 14 Clippings.
File 19: Dr. Jones' article on Richard Jefferies

Box 8

File 23: Copies of letters of Concord writers, 1836-1868

Copies of letters made by Jones.

1) ALS from Henry David Thoreau to Daniel Ricketson, 1855 February 1.

Henry David Thoreau to Charles W. Rice, 1836 August 5.

2) Leaf from an unidentified Ralph Waldo Emerson manuscript (possibly from Parnassus).

3) ALS from Sophia Thoreau to Daniel Ricketson, 1868 October 12.

Extent: 3 letters

File 25: Collected essays on Thoreau, 1890-1901, undated

Includes "Reminiscences by Joseph Hosmer, among others.

Extent: 21 items

File 27: Items related to Thoreau and his acquaintances

Includes Jones' manuscript of his Thoreau bibliography; a contract between Maria Thoreau and Nathan Hosmer for additions to the Thoreau house to be made by November 1847; H.G.O. Blake's notebook of notes on Thoreau's journals; and letters from J.F. Dutton, Alfred Hosmer, Edward Hoar, and Anna Ricketson; among other items.

File 28: Items related to publications on Thoreau

Includes a set of illustrations and title pages of various publications about Thoreau.

File 29: Items Relating to the Civil War, 1861-1867

Includes Jones' commission and order to report for duty and other official documents from the armed forces.

Box 9

File 30: Personal items: Includes an unbound copy of Jones' "A Homeopath's Faith", a pamphlet entitled "General Introduction to the Hundred Greatest Men", a calendar of the University of Michigan for 1877-78, and a manuscript of a temperance speech by Jones.; Extent: 4 items
File 31: Thoreau-related items: Includes: 1)Jones on "Thoreau amongst friends and Philistine" and 2) "Thoreau: His friends and his critics" along with a notebook of clippings from newspapers.
File 32: "Do Medicines Act on the Morphological Elements of the Blood.", 1882 April 17: Manuscript; Extent: 34 pages

Box 10

File 33: Original printer's copy for the Rowfant Edition of Lowell's Lectures, 1885 January-February: Extent: 115 pages
File 34: Literary items: Includes: 1) Emerson's obituary for Thoreau, 2) Catalogue of rare books with Charles Lamb's letter, 3) pirated edition of Emerson and Landor correspondence, 4) address by Richard Hughes to the London School of Homeopathy, 1877, 5) Lippincott's Magazine, August 1891, 6) George E. Dattnell's pamphlet on Jeffries, 7) Froude's "My Relations with Carlyle", 8) Louisa May Alcott's "Thoreau's Flute", 9) sheets from Thoreau's "Friendship", 10) Catalogue of books from Lamb's library, 11) Letter of introduction, Jones to Hawthorne
File 36: "A Post-Mortem Examination: The Anti-Slavery Papers of James Russell Lowell": Typescript by S. A. Jones; Extent: 12 pages
File 37: Notes from book-reading, 1887: Bound notebook; contains much Thoreau material.; Extent: 1 item
File 38: "Rhymings" bound notebook, 1884 June 29: Written by S. A. Jones
File 40: Miscellaneous writings: Includes "Roadside Rhymes" by Jones and "Editor's Preface".; Extent: 2 items
File 41: Letters and other items related to Concord writers, 1890-1908: Includes letters from Alfred Hosmer, Silas Hosmer, Bertrand Dobell, Daniel Mason, May Fisher, E. B. Hill, Paul Lemperley, F. B. Sanborn, Daniel Ricketson, as well as clippngs, poems, and essays.

Box 11

File 42: Jones' legal and personal documents: Includes: 1) Oath of Identity, 2) Marriage Certificate, 3) Return of Medical and Hospital Property 1863, 4) Forestry Hill Cemetery Co. to S. A. Jones' Right of Burial, 5) mortgage, 6) papers concerning services in the Civil War.; Extent: 6 items
File 43: Jones' notebook recording trip to Concord and Thoreau materials, 1890
File 44: Drafts of Notes on Thoreau, 1890-1914: Includes passages from Thoreau's "Walking" copied by Jones from his manuscript in the Concord Library, Thoreau's parentage, and a postcard from Otto Wiscker.

Box 12

File 45: Jones' notes on friends of the Thoreau family
File 46: "A Chronology of Thoreau's Life", 1901 February 12: Written by Jones. "Begun on Feb. 12, 1901" but incomplete. Also, an undated speech or lecture draft, "A Man with a Conviction".
File 48: Items relating to Jones' library: Includes the Catalogue of the Medical Library of Jones, memoranda books, and a cost catalogue of some of the Carlyle collection.

Box 14

File 50: Miscellaneous items from the collection of Dr. Samuel A. Jones: Includes a pamphlet, letters, poems, clippings, essays, a euology by Jones on Moses Coit Tyler, and other items.
File 51: Thoreau items: Includes a plaster from Thoreau and a Thoreau pencil, as well as letters between G. Grosvenor Dawe and S. A. Jones.

Box 15

File 52: Dr. Jones' Thoreau scrapbooks, 1895-1898: Extent: 2 scrapbooks

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence, 1862-1907],
[Series 2: Portraiture],
[Series 3: Professional materials, 1875-[1974]],
[Series 4: Personal/Miscellaneous material, 1833-1974],
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