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Lowell Observatory. Records, 1894-ongoing.

Title: Records, 1894-ongoing.

Primarily correspondence by Percival Lowell and members of his staff originating from Lowell's offices in Flagstaff, Arizona and Boston, Massachusetts. The remainder of the collection has been organized into four categories and consists of the papers of Lowell (1882-1916), materials other than his correspondence; Andrew Ellicott Douglas (1894-1901); Vesto Melvin Slipher (1879-1954); and the Lowell Observatory Miscellaneous Papers (1894-1916). Photographs are of Lowell and of the Observatory and its staff during the early period of its history. Correspondents include: Edward F. Flynn, Carl O. Lampland, W. Louise Leonard, Constance S. Lowell, and William L. Putnam. There are also numerous drafts and texts of both published and unpublished articles and lectures by Lowell and various members of his staff, as well as eight large scrapbooks containing 3,500 clippings of the period.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78113808 View

Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.

Title: Autograph File, L, 1641-1976.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01435/catalog View

Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939. Papers, 1862-1939

Title: David Peck Todd papers 1862-1939

Correspondence, writings, records of astronomical expeditions, diaries, notebooks and scrapbooks of David Peck Todd, astronomer and teacher at Amherst College from 1881 to 1917. Between 1882 and 1914 Todd conducted nine expeditions to various parts of the world to study solar eclipses. The notes, photographs, drawings and memorabilia of these expeditions make up a significant portion of the papers. He was also a fertile inventor, and plans and drawings for many devices, some related to solving technical problems encountered on his expeditions are included in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear feet (124 boxes, 1 folio)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0496b View

Douglass, A. E. (Andrew Ellicott), 1867-1962. Papers, 1867-1966 (bulk 1894-1960).

Title: Papers, 1867-1966 (bulk 1894-1960).

Chiefly materials related to A.E. Douglass' astronomical and tree-ring research, and administration, at the Harvard College Observatory, Lowell Observatories, Steward Observatory, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, and University of Arizona. Includes scientific records; clippings; photographs of astronomical images, observatories, and tree- rings; typescripts of speeches and manuscripts; his published articles; reprints of articles by others; and lecture notes. Correspondence with other scientists includes William Henry Pickering, Percival Lowell, Godfrey Sykes, and Edmund Schulman. Personal correspondence is with his wife Ida Whittington Douglass, and other family members and friends. Drafts, proofs, and final editions, from 1919-1936, are present of his book Climatic Cycles and Tree Growth. Involvement with scientific organizations such as the Carnegie Institution, 1918-1938, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1919-1950, is documented; as are his scholarly contributions to conferences. Personal items cover his childhood and his student days at Trinity College, Hartford, 1885-89; travels to other countries; and participation in numerous civic and Masonic groups. An unpublished biography of Douglass by David Brinegar is present. Photographs, mainly black-and-white, some cyanotype, depict professional and social activities, personal life, and travels. The South American photographs from the 1890s include Inca ruins in Bolivia, topical views of Chile, and the Harvard College Observatory in Arequipa, Peru.

ArchivalResource: 90 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28774759 View

Bates College (Lewiston, Me.). Office of the President. Office of the President, George Colby Chase records, 1868-1921.

Title: Office of the President, George Colby Chase records, 1868-1921.

This collection, which is primarily correspondence, contains both hand- and type-written letters written to and by George C. Chase. The letters concern matters of both a business and personal nature - the Andrew Carnegie subscriptions, the hazing of freshmen, amending the College charter, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, efforts to obtain a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Chase's desire to retire and the plans for his successor, and letters written by Chase to his son, George M. Chase. Also included are many letters from people who supported the work of the College as well as letters of introduction written on behalf of Chase to help him in the solicitation of funds. Among the correspondents in the collection are Robert Frost, Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, Edward Everett Hale, Sarah Orne Jewett, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, William P. Frye, Percival Lowell, Wilfrid Laurier, William Howard Taft, Nelson Dingley, Jr., John Davis Long, and Benjamin E. Bates, the son of the college's namesake. There are also eight volumes of George Chase's diaries (1868-1913), a few newspaper clippings, and several notes and memos from Harry W. Rowe concerning his reminiscences of certain people and events mentioned in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 3 manuscript boxes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/265031445 View

Lowell Observatory. Correspondence, 1894-1916.

Title: Correspondence, 1894-1916.

Includes more than 12,000 letters and documents during the time of the Observatory's founder, Percival Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 10 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523528 View

Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939. David Peck Todd papers, 1862-1939 (inclusive).

Title: David Peck Todd papers, 1862-1939 (inclusive).

Correspondence, writings, records of astronomical expeditions, diaries, notebooks and scrapbooks of David Peck Todd, astronomer and teacher at Amherst College from 1881 to 1917. Between 1882 and 1914 Todd conducted nine expeditions to various parts of the world to study solar eclipses. The notes, photographs, drawings and memorabilia of these expeditions make up a significant portion of the papers. He was also a fertile inventor, and plans and drawings for many devices, some related to solving technical problems encountered on his expeditions are included in the papers. As an early enthusiast of aviation, he made a balloon ascent in 1910 and advocated aerial photography for recording eclipses. In Amherst he raised funds to build a new observatory in 1905 and records of this project and of his teaching career at Amherst are very well documented. His writings include three textbooks on astronomy and a wide range of scientific and popular articles, copies of which are in the papers. His wife, Mabel Loomis Toddd, who was the first to transcribe and publish Emily Dickinson's poems, was an active social force in Amherst and their family correspondence offers a vivid picture of the life of the town as well as a remarkably frank picture of their personal relationship. She also lectured extensively, basing her talks on observations made during the eclipse expeditions. Her letters to her husband during her lecture tours provide an insight both into her character and into female social life of the period. The 368 letters that she wrote between 1878 and 1922 are in themselves a significant section of the papers. Todd's correspondents include astronomers and scientists from all over the world as well as public figures in the United States. In 1922 he was declared incompetent and spent his remaining years in institutions.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear ft. (124 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122574346 View

Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939. David Peck Todd papers, 1862-1939 (inclusive).

Title: David Peck Todd papers, 1862-1939 (inclusive).

Correspondence, writings, records of astronomical expeditions, diaries, notebooks and scrapbooks of David Peck Todd, astronomer and teacher at Amherst College from 1881 to 1917. Between 1882 and 1914 Todd conducted nine expeditions to various parts of the world to study solar eclipses. The notes, photographs, drawings and memorabilia of these expeditions make up a significant portion of the papers. He was also a fertile inventor, and plans and drawings for many devices, some related to solving technical problems encountered on his expeditions are included in the papers. As an early enthusiast of aviation, he made a balloon ascent in 1910 and advocated aerial photography for recording eclipses. In Amherst he raised funds to build a new observatory in 1905 and records of this project and of his teaching career are very well documented. Her letters to her husband during her lecture tours provide an insight both into her character and into female social life of the period. The 368 letters that she wrote between 1878 and 1922 are in themselves a significant section of the papers. Todd's correspondents include astronomers and scientists from all over the world as well as public figures in the United States. In 1922 he was declared incompetent and spent his remaining years in institutions. His writings include three textbooks on astronomy and a wide range of scientific and popular articles, copies of which are in the papers. His wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, who was the first to transcribe and publish Emily Dickinson's poems, was an active social force in Amherst andtheir family correspondence offers a vivid picture of the life of the town as well as a remarkably frank picture of their personal relationship. She also lectured extensively, basing her talks on observations made during the eclipse expeditions.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear ft. (124 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153565 View

Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1895-1907.

A.L.S. (1895 Feb. 21, Boston), T.L.S. (1907 Dec. 17) to Knight with autograph postscript, envelope, and illustration, and T. note S.

ArchivalResource: 4 items : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10344231 View

Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916. [Letter : 1900?] May 17, Boston [to] "My dear Mortal."

Title: [Letter : 1900?] May 17, Boston [to] "My dear Mortal."

A copy of Lowell's manuscript will be sent.

ArchivalResource: [1] p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9839479 View

Percival Lowell Collection, 1876/1916

Title: Percival Lowell Collection 1876/1916

The Percival Lowell Collection contains the publications, papers and correspondence of the founder of Lowell Observatory. In addition to his work in astronomy, the collection includes Lowell's writings from his travels in the Orient and his lectures and writings for the public, which inspired many future scientists and science fiction writers.

ArchivalResource: 38 linear ft.

http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/lo/LowellPapers.xml View

Lowell Observatory. Records [microform], 1894-1916.

Title: Records [microform], 1894-1916.

Primarily correspondence by Percival Lowell and members of his staff, originating from Lowell's offices in Flagstaff, Arizona and Boston, Massachusetts. The remainder of the collection has been organized into four categories and consists of the papers of Lowell (1894-1916), materials other than his correspondence; Andrew Ellicott Douglas (1894-1901); Vesto Melvin Slipher (1901-1916); and the Lowell Observatory Miscellaneous Papers (1894-1916). Photographs are of Lowell and of the Observatory and its history. Correspondents include Edward F. Flynn, Carl O. Lampland, W. Louise Leonard, Constance S. Lowell, and William L. Putman.

ArchivalResource: 10 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78961648 View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916. Autograph, 1916 October 5.

Title: Autograph, 1916 October 5.

Book dedicatory written on the occasion of his visit to the State College of Washington.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29852932 View

Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916. Letter and photograph, 1911.

Title: Letter and photograph, 1911.

Letter from Lowell to (Sir) David Gill, 1911, concerning Mars, accompanied by a drawing and a photograph of Mars.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. and 1 photograph.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78630761 View

George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01643/catalog View

Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927. Records of the Director Charles Sprague Sargent, 1893-1927 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the Director Charles Sprague Sargent, 1893-1927 (inclusive).

Consists of administrative files of Charles Sprague Sargent as director of the Arboretum, including both letterpress copybooks and incoming correspondence. Material pertains to fund raising for collecting expeditions to China, Korea, Japan, and Tibet in the 1910s and 1920s and to horticulture at Arnold. Considerable correspondence exists with John Muir, 1897-1912; Ernest H. Wilson and Joseph Rock concerning their botanical collecting in Asia; and botanists in Europe and the United States. Also includes a folder with copies of outgoing correspondence from Harlan P. Kelsey, nurseryman, to Sargent and E.H. Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. and 9 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269373158 View

Lowell Observatory correspondence, 1894-1916, 1894-1916

Title: Lowell Observatory correspondence, 1894-1916 1894-1916

Includes more than 12,000 letters and documents during the time of the Observatory's founder, Percival Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 10.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Film.1313-ead.xml View

Charles Eliot Norton papers

Title: Charles Eliot Norton papers

This archive contains letters addressed to Charles Eliot Norton from about 1845 to1908. Norton was a Harvard graduate (A.B. 1846) and professor of the History of Fine Arts at Harvard from 1874 to 1898, with a special interest in the study and translation of Dante. Many of the letters in this collection deal with art and with Dante. In addition he knew a great many prominent figures in both England and the United States, especially those in the political field and the literary and artistics fields. His correspondence with these people often touches upon their public and their private lives. From 1863 to 1868 Norton was joint editor with his friend James Russell Lowell of the North American review. The letters addressed to him as editor are marked in this index by a star (*) and the folders containing them are stamped with a red N.A.R.(=North American Review). In 1898 Norton's opposition to the Spanish-American war led Senator George F. Hoar to criticize him. A list of some of the letters Norton received commenting on this controversy is at the end of this index. Referenced throughout the finding aid is the Excavations at Delphi (scrapbook folder) with a folder designation, such as f.1, f.2, and so on. All folders can be found at item number 5308.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet (45 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00083/catalog View

Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916. Letters to Elizabeth Lowell Putnam (Mrs. William Lowell Putnam) and William Lowell Putnam, 1876-1916.

Title: Letters to Elizabeth Lowell Putnam (Mrs. William Lowell Putnam) and William Lowell Putnam, 1876-1916.

ArchivalResource: 180 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83380353 View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog View

Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927 (inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk).

Title: Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927(inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk).

Correspondence of the American poet, Amy Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00100/catalog View

Richard Aldrich papers, 1842-1956 (inclusive), 1883-1938 (bulk).

Title: Richard Aldrich papers, 1842-1956 (inclusive), 1883-1938 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, andother papers of the music critic Richard Aldrich (1863-1937), including collectedphotographs and programs. Also includes collection of letters from Aldrich to OttoDresel (1826-1890).

ArchivalResource: 9.5 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01976 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/catalog View

Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888. Additional correspondence, 1787-1886

Title: James Freeman Clarke additional correspondence, 1787-1886

Letters written to the Unitarian clergyman and author James Freeman Clarke and his family.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00934/catalog View

Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930. Correspondence and compositions, 1859-1930.

Title: George Edward Woodberry correspondence and compositions, 1859-1930.

Includes poems and letters written by American poet George Edwards Woodberry.

ArchivalResource: 16 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01309/catalog View

Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916. Diary : manuscript, 1904.

Title: Diary : manuscript, 1904.

Diary of his trip to Europe, summer-fall 1904.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (194 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612871834 View

Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive), 1880-1946 (bulk).

Title: Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive),1880-1946 (bulk).

Letters and other documents of Elizabeth and Sarah Norton, the daughters of Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes and 3 volumes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01318/catalog View

Wendell family papers

Title: Wendell family papers

Correspondence, business papers, and compositions by members of the Wendell family, a prominent merchant family from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear feet (93 boxes and 1 folder)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01421/catalog View

Diaries, 1883-1914.

Title: Diaries, 1883-1914.

Diaries by and letters sent to the teacher, theologian and poet ArthurWentworth Hamilton Eaton.

ArchivalResource: 6v. (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01825/catalog View

Wendell family. Wendell family papers, ca. 1620-1921.

Title: Wendell family papers, ca. 1620-1921.

Correspondence, journals, diaries, writings, and other papers of Barrett Wendell and his wife Edith Greenough Wendell, together with papers of other members of the Wendell family. Includes correspondence, writings, legal and business papers of John Wendell; diaries and some correspondence of Jacob Wendell; correspondence of Caroline Quincy Wendell; and letters to Daniel Rindge and other Rindge family papers. There are several volumes of journals of Barrett Wendell, including accounts of travel in Europe; and a long run of diaries, 1881-1938 (1905 lacking), of Edith Greenough Wendell. Also included are business papers of Barrett Wendell, material related to his courses at Harvard, genealogical notes, photographs, and printed ephemera. Barrett Wendell's correspondents include William R. Castle, Horace Meyer Kallen, Henry Cabot Lodge, John A. Lomax, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Percival Lowell, Frederic J. Simson, and Robert Thomas White-Thomson.

ArchivalResource: 92 boxes (46 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612367880 View

Turner, H. H. (Herbert Hall), 1861-1930. Papers, 1900-1930.

Title: Papers, 1900-1930.

Several small groups of miscellaneous correspondence, mostly on astronomy and history of astronomy; other fragmentary notes and papers, also including some of his assistant F. A. Bellamy; some photogaphs; a small group of papers relating to Turner's interest in the time of sunset. Correspondents include L. A. Bauer, A. E. Donkin, William Ellis, C. R. D'Esterre, A. S. Herschel, H. Kreutz, Percival Lowell, P. Melotte, W. A. Spooner, William Wilson, and Max Wolf.

ArchivalResource: Several files.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80830617 View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Abbott Lawrence Rotch Papers, 1896-1912, (bulk 1903-1910)

Title: Abbott Lawrence Rotch Papers 1896-1912 (bulk 1903-1910)

Meteorologist and balloonist. Correspondence, financial papers, photographs, writings, maps, tables, charts, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other material relating chiefly to Rotch's interest in meteorology and aeronautics.

ArchivalResource: 1,050 items; 4 containers plus 1 oversize; 1.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010028 View

Letters from various correspondents, 1915-1924.

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1915-1924.

Letters to the American legal author Frederic Jesup Stimson.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.08 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00987/catalog View