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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records of homeopathic drug provings; manuscripts of medical lectures; manuscripts and proofs of published works; unpublished poems and essays.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

Access Restrictions: Open to researchers.

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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],
[All]

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.

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