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Webster, John White, 1793-1850. Papers relating to his trial, 1850.

Title: Papers relating to his trial, 1850.

Papers relating to the trial of John W. Webster for the murder of George Parkman in Boston, Mass., on 23 Nov. 1849. Collection contains notes in the hand of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw on the witnesses, circumstantial evidence, and homicide. Also, a copy of the indictment, judgment, and sentence, along with Webster's petition for a writ of error, among other items.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20720546 View

Parsons, Usher, 1788-1868. Papers, 1819-1840.

Title: Papers, 1819-1840.

ALS. Personal and professional correspondence includes letters from R.N.D. Desgenettes, Jeffries Wyman, John Jeffries, John Collins Warren, James Thacher, Thomas M. Potter, George Hayward, John Witt Randall, Enoch Hale, John White Webster, Jerome van Crowninshield Smith, John D. Fisher, James Jackson and J.B. Whitridge. Papers also include a letter from Parsons to his brother-in-law, Oliver Wendell Holmes.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35231275 View

Records of the Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy kept by John White Webster, 1824-1835 and undated.

Title: Records of the Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy kept by John White Webster, 1824-1835 and undated.

This collection documents the teaching and administrative activities of John White Webster, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, and provides an overview of Webster's supervision of the Harvard chemical laboratory and use of scientific instruments and drawings in experiments and lectures at Harvard from 1824 to 1835.

ArchivalResource: .17 cubic feet; (1 half-document box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua35011/catalog View

Silliman family. Silliman family papers, 1717-1977 (inclusive), 1717-1911 (bulk).

Title: Silliman family papers, 1717-1977 (inclusive), 1717-1911 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, lectures, notebooks, diaries, journals, and other material documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Silliman family, including Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) and Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1816-1885). Personal material details family life, relationships, social activities, and cultural pursuits. Professional material details the academic and literary interests of the Sillimans, particularly in chemistry, physics, and geology. The evolution and development of science, the beginnings of scientific instruction at Yale, and many related topics are documented. Material relating to John Trumbull and the Trumbull Art Gallery at Yale is also included. Family letters and journals offer observations on local and national events, as exemplified by Maggie Lindsley's journal and letters with Benjamin Silliman relating to the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 35 linear feet (69 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154274 View

Gay, Frederick Lewis, 1856-1916. Family papers, 1374-1902, bulk: 1690-1858.

Title: Family papers, 1374-1902, bulk: 1690-1858.

Family letters and historical documents collected by Frederick L. Gay. Includes papers and correspondence of Dr. Winslow Lewis with his mother Betsy Lewis, his father Capt. Winslow Lewis, and his brothers Frederick and Gustavus. Other correspondents include Dr. Lewis's wife, Emeline Richards Lewis; his son-in-law George Gay; several Boston physicians; and the Scottish writer Anne Grant. Frederick Lewis's letters of 1823 describe his shipwreck on the coast of France; letters of Frederick, Dr. Lewis, and later of George Gay (1846) describe their medical studies in Paris. Letters of Willard Gay and others to George Gay give accounts of a smallpox epidemic in Boston, the war with Mexico, and the war panic between the U.S. and Great Britain (1846). (Cont) Also included are poems and letters of Mary Starr of New London, Conn.; a few letters and notes concerning the murder trial of Prof. John W. Webster; part of the journal (1697-98) of Joseph Robineau, Sieur de Villebon, in Acadia; papers of Francis Foxcroft; papers of Capt. Benjamin Richards; deeds to land in Dedham, Marblehead, and Medfield, Mass.; an account book (1776-1777) and daybook (1810-1811) of William Aspinwall; an account book of Boston merchant William Quick (1744-1747); and a few medieval mss. concerning lands in England.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17987468 View

Webster, John White, 1793-1850. Papers, 1824-1850.

Title: Papers, 1824-1850.

This collection contains letters of John White Webster, for the period 1824 to 1848, and material pertaining to the trial, 1850. The letters were written primarily to fellow mineral-collectors concerning their "finds" and the exchange of various minerals. The recipients include William Lincoln (1801-1843) of Worcester, Mass., and Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829) of Paris, Me. The collection includes a detailed newsclipping account of the trial from the Boston Daily Advertiser as it transpired in the Supreme Judicial Court in March 1850. There is also an indexed booklet containing the depositions of various witnesses for the prosecution, including scientists, physicians, police detectives, the janitor who discovered the corpse, and relatives of Dr. Parkman who identified his remains. Several depositions contain detailed scientific analyses and mearsurements for purposes of identification.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (11 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225194037 View

Webster, John White, 1793-1850. Letters, 1850.

Title: Letters, 1850.

A letter to Rev. Francis Parkman from John W. Webster asking forgiveness for the murder of Parkman's brother, Dr. George Parkman. Includes a cover letter (31 August 1850) to Rev. Parkman from Rev. George Putnam, Webster's advisor.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder and 1 folder of photocopies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17997648 View

Harris, Thaddeus William, 1795-1856. Papers, ca. 1818-1852

Title: Thaddeus William Harris papers, approximately 1818-1852

Correspondence, botanical lectures, and notebooks of natural historian and Harvard librarian Thaddeus William Harris.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 linear feet (14 folders)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00030/catalog View

Webster, John White, 1793-1850. Papers, 1850.

Title: Papers, 1850.

Notes on the trial of Prof. John W. Webster for the murder of Dr. George Parkman, presumably taken by one of Webster's two lawyers, Pliny Merrick and Edward D. Sohier. Includes Webster's memoranda to Sohier and Merrick, and letters from various people offering speculations on the case.

ArchivalResource: 2 narrow boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17997715 View

Nichols, George, 1809-1882. Correspondence, 1827-1885

Title: George Nichols Correspondence, 1827-1885

Professional correspondence of Riverside Press proofreader and editor George Nichols.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (4 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01315/catalog View

Le Duc, William Gates, 1823-1917. Recollections of a Quartermaster 1911.

Title: Recollections of a Quartermaster 1911.

Memoirs of William G. LeDuc finished in February 1911. The narrative covers the childhood and youth in Ohio and Northern Mississippi, Kenyon College, travels in Kentucky, Tennessee, Boston (where he attended the trial of John W. Webster); his life in Minnesota, Civil War experience, and post-war career up through end of 1910, including his business interests in California and Mexico and connections with the Banning Company. The memoir ends with an account of LeDuc's spiritualist experiences.

ArchivalResource: IX, 402 pages 28 cm., typescript, bound volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/657892502 View

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Inst. Arch. & Spec. Coll.. Horsford Family Papers.

Title: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Inst. Arch. & Spec. Coll.. Horsford Family Papers.

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Autograph File, N, 1686-1975.

Title: Autograph File, N, 1686-1975.

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: 2.5 boxes (1.2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01437/catalog View

Webster, John White, 1793-1850. Letter, 1841-1847.

Title: Letter, 1841-1847.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155905736 View

Brigham, Warren Luther, 1846-1880. Letters received, 1830-1879.

Title: Letters received, 1830-1879.

W.L. Brigham, poet, writer, and editor of The Saturday Evening Gazette, The Daily Advertiser, and The Boston Courier was in contact with many eminent men of letters and the arts of the middle 19th c. This scrapbook contains a collection of letters, business and personal, along with a group of autographs. Correspondents include Edward Everett, John White Webster, William Dean Howells, Edward Everett Hale, Mark Twain, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Reade, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joachin Miller and Martin Milmore.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8257992 View

Russell, Charles Theodore, 1815-1896. Papers, 1846-1877.

Title: Papers, 1846-1877.

Diaries (1849-1877, some gaps), reflecting Russell's family life, career, daily events, and religious views; and account books (3 v., 1846-1870), arranged chronologically, with index to the second vol., consisting of records of family and personal finances.

ArchivalResource: 11 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70948518 View

Shaw, Lemuel, 1781-1861. Sentence of John W. Webster for the murder of George Parkman, 1850.

Title: Sentence of John W. Webster for the murder of George Parkman, 1850.

Sentence, written in Shaw's hand, condemning Webster to death by hanging.

ArchivalResource: 11 p. : handwritten ; 27.5 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/235086378 View

Webster, John White, 1793-1850. Letters to John M. Holley, 1821.

Title: Letters to John M. Holley, 1821.

Has visited on foot most of the mines of Great Britain and exchanges ore specimens with many mineralogists in Europe; asks Holley to continue sending samples of ore from the Salisbury, Conn., area.

ArchivalResource: 2 items ; 26 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37438999 View

Webster, John White, 1793-1850. Letter, 1845, Sept. 24 : Cambridge, MA.

Title: Letter, 1845, Sept. 24 : Cambridge, MA.

ALS. Instructions for the forwarding of some books and for the purchase of a map of the Hudson River.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31822648 View

Henry Ford Museum. Charles Henry Davis Papers.

Title: Henry Ford Museum. Charles Henry Davis Papers.

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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

Webster, John White, 1793-1850. Autograph letter signed J. W. Webster to: William Hickling Prescott January 16, 1845.

Title: Autograph letter signed J. W. Webster to: William Hickling Prescott January 16, 1845.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70817612 View

Nye, Amelia Hickling Chambers, 1796-1872. Letters, 1847-1854.

Title: Letters, 1847-1854.

Letters (and typescripts) from Amelia H.C. Nye of New Bedford, Mass. to her sister Marianne H. Ivens of St. Michael, the Azores, regarding their sister Harriet H. and brother-in-law John W. Webster; his financial difficulties; his trial, sentence, and execution for the murder of George Parkman; the effects on the family's living arrangements; and the death of Harriet in 1853. Also, other Hickling family news.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20805565 View

Bemis, George, 1816-1878. Papers, 1794-1901, bulk: 1831-1877.

Title: Papers, 1794-1901, bulk: 1831-1877.

Correspondence, diaries, and other papers of Boston lawyer George Bemis. Building his reputation in part through his assistance to the prosecution in the trial of Harvard professor John W. Webster for the murder of George Parkman, Bemis later became an authority in international law. He assisted the U.S. government in pursuing the Alabama Claims against Great Britain after the Civil War. Bemis's early correspondence is mainly with his Harvard classmates Ebenezer R. Hoar and Frederick Eustis; with Harvard professors, including President Josiah Quincy; and with his siblings Seth, Jonathan W., and Sarah Bemis. Later correspondents include Charles Sumner, Charles F. Adams, William H. Seward, and F.W. Sargent. Other materials include 10 volumes of diaries Bemis kept from 1836 to 1865, a journal of a trip to Europe kept by Jonathan W. Bemis (1853-54), part of a bound draft and hand-corrected proof of George Bemis's Report of the Case of John W. Webster, and Bemis's will.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16014009 View

Spear, Charles, 1801-1863. The Parkman tragedy, 1850.

Title: The Parkman tragedy, 1850.

Drafts and outlines for an essay entitled "The Parkman Tragedy." Spear seems to have used blank pages of incoming letters and torn scraps of paper for the earliest draft[s?], making assembling the text into a coherent whole difficult. There may be one or more early drafts; texts that appear to be later versions may or may not be complete and may or may not be the final version.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228509900 View

Autograph File, H

Title: Autograph File, H

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 linear feet (22 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01431/catalog View

Harvard University. Harvard College Papers, 2nd series, 1826-1863

Title: Harvard College Papers, 2nd series, 1826-1863

At a special meeting of the Corporation on February 6, 1850, the President and Fellows voted to have all manuscript papers related to the history of the College and College affairs identified, arranged, and bound. Loose records were gathered into two sets of volumes. Each set was named "Harvard College Papers," and the sets became "1st series" and "2nd series". This second series holds material similar to that of the first series, but of later date.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 3 cubic feet (30 volumes).

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua12002/catalog View

Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963.

Title: Louis Arthur Holman collection of Keats iconography and related papers, 1752-1963.

Collection of images concerning the life of the English poet, John Keats, as well as papers relating to the collection. Collection assembled by American Louis Arthur Holman. Holman was a Keats expert, an artist, writer on art, and a staff member at Goodspeed's Book Shop who established a print department, but later became the owner of Holman's Print Shop.

ArchivalResource: 39 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02040/catalog View

Webster, John White, 1793-1850. Letter : to William Hickling Prescott, 1850 Aug. 29.

Title: Letter : to William Hickling Prescott, 1850 Aug. 29.

In the letter, written the night before his execution, Webster asks that his burial be kept secret and wonders whether his body could be placed for a month or two in the Prescott tomb under St. Paul's until "morbid curiousity is at rest." Webster also expresses great remorse for his crime.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41415981 View

Webster, John White, 1793-1850. Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1824 May 8.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1824 May 8.

Asking for a written opinion concerning lectures on chemistry and mineralogy at Harvard.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270586850 View