Author:George William Curtis

George William Curtis
(1824–1892)

George William Curtis

Works

Books

• Hawthorne (1846) (external scan)
• Nile Notes of a Howadji (1851) (external scan)
• Lotus-eating (1852) (external scan)
• The Howadji in Syria (1852) (external scan)
• Rural Essays (1853) (external scan)
• The Potiphar Papers (1853) (external scan)
• Prue and I (1856) (external scan)
• Trumps (1861) (external scan)
• Cecil Dreeme (1861), co-authored with Theodore Winthrop
• An Oration On the Annals of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1863) (external scan)
• The President: Why he should be Re-Elected (1864) (external scan)
• The Life, Character and Writings of William Cullen Bryant (1879) (external scan)
• Robert Burns (1880) (external scan)
• An Address at the Unveiling of the Statue of Washington (1883) (external scan)
• James Russell Lowell
• Wendell Phillips (1884) (external scan)
• Unveiling of the Pilgrim Statue (1885) (external scan)
• (ed.) The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley (1889) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• From the Easy Chair (1891) (external scan)
• Party and Patronage (1892) external scan
• Other Essays from the Easy Chair (1893) (external scan)
• Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis (1894) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• Literary and Social Essays (1894) (external scan)
• Longfellow (1896) (external scan)
• Emerson (1896) (external scan)
• Speeches of George William Curtis [and] Henry Ward Beecher (1898) (external scan)

Works in periodicals and encyclopaedias

• “Letter to St. Botolph Club” from St. Botolph Club, Visit of the Hon. Carl Schurz to Boston, March 1881.
• "Hawthorne, Nathaniel," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1892)
• "Sumner, Charles," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "The Shrouded Portrait" (1855) in The Knickerbocker Gallery
• Introduction to Life in the Open Air and other papers, by Theodore Winthrop. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863
• "Biographical Sketch of the Author" – An introduction to Theodore Winthrop's novel Cecil Dreeme (1862)
• Harper's Weekly Editor 1863–92
• "Poet of Trees" a short work about William Cullen Bryant.
• Letter from George William Curtis to Unknown. Published September 10, 1858 (short work) (external scan)

Letters

• Early letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight: Brook Farm and Concord, 1898 (external scan)
• Letter to Carl Schurz (November 7, 1887)

Works about George William Curtis

• A few remarks upon "Four papers from the Boston Courier" concerning Theodore Parker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George William Curtis, and the abolitionists, 1858 (short work) (external scan)
• "Curtis, George William," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• Carl Schurz, [[../]], October, 1904
• "Curtis, George William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Curtis, George William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Curtis, George William," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)