Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878

Author, translator, and traveler.

From the description of Papers of Bayard Taylor, 1856-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71064729

American journalist.

From the description of Papers of Bayard Taylor [manuscript], 1847-1878. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972079

From the description of Poem and letter, 1877 June 26, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972081

From the description of Letter to a member of the Traveller's Club, 1865 February 20. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972082

From the description of Letter and engravings, 1877 February 29, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972074

From the description of Bayard Taylor letter to unidentified recipient, 1855 September 10. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 276999267

From the description of Letter to B.B. Wade, 1868 October 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 61112740

Traveler, translator, man of letters, born in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

From the description of Writings, 1875, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 216929218

Taylor was an American man of letters best known for his many books of travel and his translation of Faust. He was secretary of the American legation at St. Petersburg (1862-1863) and minister to Germany (1878).

From the description of Bayard Taylor papers, 1826-1912 (inclusive), 1845-1878 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612374174

From the guide to the Bayard Taylor papers, 1826-1912 (inclusive), 1845-1878 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

American writer.

From the description of Harpocrates : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1865 or later]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580815

From the description of Letter, 1877 Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384374

Bayard Taylor was an American novelist, poet, essayist, translator, nd writer of short stories and travel literature.

From the description of Bayard Taylor collection of papers, 1848-1907. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122607240

From the guide to the Bayard Taylor collection of papers, 1848-1907, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.)

Poet, novelist and travel writer born in Kennet Square, Penn. Wrote popular accounts of his journeys. U.S. Minister to Germany, 1878, where he died. Ferdinand Freiligrath was a German poet who had fled Germany fearing persecution for his liberal political beliefs and was living in London.

From the description of Letter, Feb. 25, 1847. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768331

American author and traveller.

From the description of O deep, exulting freedom of the hills : autograph sonnet signed, 1850 Nov. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129912

Bayard Taylor, 1825-1878, was an American poet, travel writer, translator, and author. He was also a diplomat, serving in the American Legation to Russia during the Civil War, and in the American Legation to Germany as Envoy briefly before his death in 1878. Born in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania he built his own home, Cedarcroft, nearby.

From the description of Letters by Bayard Taylor and others , 1844-1909. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 593541490

Traveler, translator, writer, man of letters, non-resident professor of German literature at Cornell University.

From the description of Bayard Taylor papers, 1837-1878. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63534749

American author and traveler.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gotha, to Whitelaw Reid, 1873 Apr. 22. (Morgan Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 83193931

From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : Brooklyn and Kennett Square, to Horace Greeley, 1859 Jan. 8-1870 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580363

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Friedrichroda, to Gordon Grant, 1878 Jul. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574731

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gotha, to "My dear Sinclair", 1872 Dec. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574762

American author.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gotha, to William Makepeace Thackeray, 1858 Aug. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270854948

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Frankfort, to his brother, William, 1844 Dec. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574734

From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Cedarcroft," Chester Co., to the Governor of Pennsylvania, A.G. Curtin, 1861 Apr. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574565

The Quaker poet and traveller, Bayard Taylor, was a scholar of German literature and the United States minister to Germany.

From the description of Papers, 1854-1878. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 32595427

American poet, critic and travel author.

From the description of [Letters] 1868-1878 / Bayard Taylor. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 437427555

Poet, author, and travel writer Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was born in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. His travel works include such titles as: Eldorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire, a product of his travels to California and Mexico and his dispatches to the New York Tribune as a special correspondent during the summer of 1849; Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark, and Lapland (1857); At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-book of the Life, Scenery, and Men (1859-1862) ; and Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet, and Central Asia (1874). Taylor became a distinguished novelist and poet, and translated Goethe's Faust in the original meters (1870-1871).

Taylor was appointed minister to Germany in 1878, departing the U. S. in April of that year aboard the same ship as Samuel Clemens and his family. His journey was noted in "The Start for Germany; Bayard Taylor Takes off for Berlin. The Holsatia Carries Away the New Minister, Accompanied by Mark Twain and His Family," published in The New York Times (12 April 2008). Taylor died in Berlin the following December at the age of 53.

From the guide to the Bayard Taylor Letter (MS 129), 13 January 1878, (University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.)