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Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

Papers, 1817-1867.

Title: Papers, 1817-1867.

Primarily family correspondence of the American clergyman and writer Andrew Bigelow.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00530/catalog View

Lawrence, Amos, 1786-1852. Amos Adams Lawrence papers, 1814-1879.

Title: Amos Adams Lawrence papers, 1814-1879.

Contains family correspondence, including letters from Lawrence's sons William R., written from school and (after 1849) while on a tour of the southern U.S. and Cuba; and Amos A. Lawrence written from schools, Washington, D.C., and the southern and eastern U.S. Among the other family members represented in the collection are Lawrence's wife, Nancy M. Ellis, and his brother Abbott, including letters regarding their involvement in national politics and the Whig party. Scant business records in the collection relate to Lawrence's Boston merchant firms of A. & A. Lawrence and Mason and Lawrence, and to his involvement in the mills of Lawrence and Lowell, Mass. A large portion of the correspondence relates to Lawrence's philanthropic activities, in particular to various societies, organizations, and educational institutions. Among the individuals and institutions to which he donated and with whom he corresponded are Mark Hopkins of Williams College (including 4 letterbooks containing their exchanged correspondence); Alpheus S. Packard of Bowdoin College; Charles White and Caleb Mills of Wabash College; and James Means of the Lawrence Academy. Among Lawrence's friends and business associates in the collection are Enoch Pond, J.A. Stearns, H.A. Bullard, Andrew Bigelow, George N. Briggs, and his lawyer, John Aikens. Also included are two personal account books (1814-52; 1829-52) with records of his monetary contributions.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22186629 View

Walker, James, 1794-1874. Correspondence, 1815-1859

Title: Walker, James, 1794-1874. Correspondence, 1815-1859.

Letters received by Harvard University president and American UnitarianAssociation founder James Walker (1794-1874) in connection with his work for theAmerican Unitarian Association and the ,1815-1859. Christian Examiner

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00478/catalog View

Bigelow, Andrew, 1795-1877. Papers, 1817-1867.

Title: Papers, 1817-1867.

Chiefly correspondence between family members, especially Andrew Bigelow, his wife Amelia, his brothers John Prescott Bigelow and Francis Bigelow, his sisters Elizabeth Prescott Bigelow and Katherine Bigelow Lawrence, and his brother-in-law Abbott Lawrence. Includes discussions of family financial transactions. Also contains letters to Bigelow in his position as minister. These letters are from other clergymen suggesting swapping Sundays or particular pulpits, or accompany monetary contributions to the church.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122505817 View

Adams, Thomas, 1724-1812. Papers, 1768-1807.

Title: Papers, 1768-1807.

Notebooks, memoranda, correspondence, and sermons extracted or transcribed by "Book Adams" and or his daughter Hannah. Includes 60 personal and business letters of Hannah Adams, an author of religious and historical works. Correspondents include Fisher Ames, Ezra Stiles, Henri Gregoire, Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn, Andrew Bigelow, and Sarah Savage.

ArchivalResource: 42 v. ; 10-19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51932581 View

Bigelow, Andrew, 1795-1877. Papers, 1806-1889.

Title: Papers, 1806-1889.

This collection consists of five boxes of correspondence, 1806-1889, and sixty-eight volumes of diaries, notebooks, and accounts, 1816-1876. The correspondence is especially complete for the period after 1833, when Bigelow returned to New England after holding a ministerial post in Washington, D.C. The chief correspondents were his brother, John Prescott Bigelow (1797-1872), later mayor of Boston and Mass. Secretary of State; his brother-in-law, Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855), wealthy Boston merchant and U.S. Congressman; his brother-in-law, Henry Stevens ( - ), a merchant in New York; his brother, Francis R. Bigelow ( -1886); Jonathan Porter; and John Gansed ( - ), E.B. Hale ( - ), and William George Scandlin (1828-1871), concerning ministerial matters, especially charitable work in Boston. The letters of John Prescott Bigelow, Francis R. Bigelow, and Abbott Lawrence often contain political commentaries on such subjects as abolitionism, the administration of President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), nullification, anti-Catholic upheavals in Boston, and state and local politics. There is also correspondence in the 1830s relating to the American Colonization Society, of which Andrew Bigelow was a member; several letters in Italian from Peter Campanello ( - ) in Sicily concerning his collection of minerals; and many letters from ministerial colleagues concerning the poor in Boston and the type of aid to be provided, especially during the 1840s. There are also letters from Bigelow's two sons during their school years, letters of his wife, Amelia Bigelow, and courtship letters of Henry Stevens in New York to Elizabeth Prescott Bigleow ( -1859), 1830s to 1840s, in Medford, Mass. The folders include correspondence of Abbott Lawrence's son, Colonel Timothy Bigelow Lawrence (1826-1869), U.S. Consul-General in Italy, concerning his duties there, 1868-1869. The diaries, 1816-1876, are an account of Andrew Bigelow's daily professional and personal activities, as well as his travels to Europe and the Near East. There are also miscellaneous notebooks, cash accounts, and briefly interleaved diary/almanacs.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes.68 v. ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207115092 View

Our First Men: A Calendar of Wealth, Fashion, and Gentility ... extra-illustrated book, 1795-1893.

Title: Our First Men: A Calendar of Wealth, Fashion, and Gentility ... extra-illustrated book, 1795-1893.

The volume is an extra-illustrated edition of "Our First Men:" A Calendar of Wealth, Fashion, and Gentility . . . (Boston: Published by all the Booksellers, 1846). The book consists of printed biographical notes on persons in Boston, Mass., who were believed to be worth in excess of $100,000, and includes reproductions of portraits of many of the people and manuscript letters of twenty-two of the people listed in the volume. The letters were tipped in to the volume by an unidentified person and are dated 1795 to 1893. It appears that some were addressed to people in the publishing business, others to the Rev. Andrew Bigelow (1795-1877), Minister-at-Large to the poor of Boston, concerning donations, and several were addressed to attorneys. The contents concern a wide variety of subjects. Included among the letter-writers are: Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), Lucius Manlius Sargent (1776-1867), Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), and Artemas Ward (1762-1847). The latter wrote of his inability to attend the celebrations in Lexington, Mass., on April 19, 1835, and Charles Francis Adams wrote about the design and title of a volume intended for publication.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (50 p.) ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207162196 View

Bigelow, Andrew, 1795-1877. Andrew Bigelow Papers, 1823-1861

Title: Andrew Bigelow Papers, 1823-1861

Colllection includes sermons and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: One box

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/229646602 View

Bigelow, Andrew, 1795-1877. Bond to Harvard College, September 10, 1810.

Title: Bond to Harvard College, September 10, 1810.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77064232 View

Bigelow, John P. (John Prescott), 1797-1872. John Prescott Bigelow papers, 1805-1896 (inclusive) 1814-1863 (bulk).

Title: John Prescott Bigelow papers, 1805-1896 (inclusive) 1814-1863 (bulk).

The collection, which consists primarily of letters to Bigelow, is both personal and professional in nature, covering his family life and law student days as well as his political career. While the major correspondent is Governor of Massachusetts Edward Everett (391 letters), there is also much correspondence with family members and friends, including Andrew Bigelow and Bigelow's brother-in-law Abbott Lawrence while Lawrence was ambassador to England. Includes Bigelow's diaries and notes on his trips, addresses and articles, a memoir about his sister Anna, and documents reflecting his public career. Also contains a few journals of other family members and miscellaneous pamphlets and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612373200 View

Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856. Autograph Book, 1717-1849.

Title: Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856. Autograph Book, 1717-1849.

Autograph book kept by Unitarian minister Ephraim Peabody covering theperiod 1717-1849 and including letters from many leading Unitarians.

ArchivalResource: 1 box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00539/catalog View

Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View

Bigelow, Andrew. Papers, 1823-1861.

Title: Bigelow, Andrew. Papers, 1823-1861.

This collection contains Andrew Bigelow's correspondence, sermons, writings; as well as letters from his family. The papers span 1823-1861.

ArchivalResource: 1 box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00685/catalog View

Harvard University. Mathematical theses, 1782-1839

Title: Mathematical theses, 1782-1839.

The mathematical theses consist of equations and drawings which illustrate the equations. At the time of their creation, the purpose of these finely executed documents on large sheets of paper was to demonstrate a student's mastery of one or more mathematical concepts, yet the enduring value of many of the them lies in the fact that they are works of art.

ArchivalResource: 16 cubic feet; (406 broadsides)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua17004/catalog View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Bigelow, John P. (John Prescott), 1797-1872. Papers, 1805-1896 (bulk 1814-1863)

Title: John P. (John Prescott) Bigelow papers, 1805-1896 (inclusive), 1814-1863 (bulk)

Letters, diaries, and papers of American politician John P. (John Prescott) Bigelow.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00390/catalog View

Penmanship Collection, undated; 1762-1856.

Title: Penmanship Collection, undated; 1762-1856.

The penmanship collection consists of twenty-three copy books, undated, 1762-1856, representing the work of students from various locations, e.g., Boston, Charlton, Leicester, and Salem, Mass., Brunswick, Me., Eastford, Conn., and New York and Fishers Island, N.Y. The books, many with illustrated covers, contain examples of penmanship learning methods, including progressions from letters to sentences, practice-copying of verses and essays, plain and ornamental script, "ladies' epistolary writing," and "gentlemen's business hand." Several books also contain examples of paraphs, and others are divided into cypher books with detailed arithmetic and accounting problems. Represented in the collection are Nathaniel Allen, of Fisher's Island, N.Y.; Andrew Bigelow; Almira F. Bray, of Gloucester, Mass.; Marcell Brown; Mary Clough; Reuben Comins (1819- ), of Charlton, Mass.; James Coombs; Sarah W. Gill, of New York, N.Y.; Benjamin Goddard, Jr.; Simon Ray Greene; Mary Elizabeth Hovey (1829-1892); Lucy Ann Keyes, of Eastford, Conn.; Betsey Ann Lincoln (1817-1904); Rev. Samuel May (1810-1899), of Leicester, Mass.; Josiah B. Peele, of Salem, Mass.; Dan. F. Plummer; S. G. Rea; Rebeckah Salisbury, of Boston, Mass.; Samuel Salisbury (1769-1849); Almyra Sprague; Mary B. Thomas; Almond Tracy (1800- ); and Lincoln Varney, of Brunswick, Me. The oversize folder contains two items: a petition, dated May 1764, of John Vinal (1736-1832), writing-master and usher of the South-Writing School, to the town of Boston, regarding debt incurred while ill with small pox; and a mathematics exercise.

ArchivalResource: 25 v. ; octavo.1 folder ; oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259605 View