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Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.

Title: Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.

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: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01439/catalog View

Beecher family. Beecher-Stowe family papers, 1798-1956 (inclusive).

Title: Beecher-Stowe family papers, 1798-1956 (inclusive).

Mostly correspondence, also miscellaneous writings, clippings, photographs (including daguerreotypes), and memorabilia. Correspondence of Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-1878), Esther Beecher, Eunice White (Bullard) Beecher (1813-1897), Harriet (Porter) Beecher (?-1835), Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), James C. Beecher (1828-1886), Lydia (Beals) Jackson Beecher (1789-1869), Calvin Ellis Stowe (1802-1886), Eliza Tyler Stowe (1836-?), Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe (1811-1896), Harriet Beecher Stowe II (1836-?), and Susan (Munroe) Stowe, much of which contains family news, stories, and comments about the times. Also included is material pertaining to Isabella (Beecher) Hooker (1822-1907), and other family members, as well as Lyman Beecher Stowe's correspondence and research on Charlotte (Perkins) Gilman and actress Charlotte Cushman. Bulk of the collection pertains to Harriet (Beecher) Stowe, her husband, Calvin and their children; their personal and professional correspondence includes letters from publishers and prominent people Harriet Stowe met in England.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006728 View

Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Title: Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Correspondence of American author and biographer James Parton withfamily members, professional associates, and personal friends as well as financialaccounts, photographs, genealogies, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01317/catalog View

Brainard, Charles Henry, 1817-1885. Papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Title: Charles Henry Brainard papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Autograph album (1858-1884), a letter book (1855-1883), and a scrapbook of letters and autographs (1795-1857 and undated) of American print dealer, publisher, and historian, Charles Henry Brainard.

ArchivalResource: 4 volumes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01547/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

Papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1846-ca.1975 (inclusive), 1880-1940 (bulk)

Title: Papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1846-ca.1975 (inclusive), 1880-1940 (bulk)

Addenda to the papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman consist mainly of family correspondence, photographs, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft.; (3 file boxes, 1 folio folder, 1 folio+ folder, 10 photograph folders, 1 folio photograph folder)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00993/catalog View

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935. Papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1846-ca.1975 (inclusive), 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1846-ca.1975 (inclusive), 1880-1940 (bulk).

Addenda to the papers of Charlotte Perkins Gilman consist mainly of family correspondence, photographs, poems, and printed material. Correspondence includes love poems and courtship letters to and from Charles Walter Stetson, her first husband, and letters to and from her daughter Katharine, who was raised by Stetson and his second wife, Grace Ellery Channing. Also included are genealogies, Gilman's 1894 divorce decree from Stetson, and clippings and ephemera from Gilman's lectures.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft. (3 file boxes, 1 folio folder, 1 folio+ folder, 10 photograph folders, 1 folio photograph folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423615856 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

Denham, Edward, 1849-1925. Papers, 1876-1888.

Title: Papers, 1876-1888.

Collection consists of drafts of letters, 1876-1877, and letters received, 1876-1888. Drafts of letters are to Denham's friends Henry G. Menage, of Calumet, Michigan, some concerning the extensive collection of historical autographs collected by Mrs. Thomas A. Greene of New Bedford. Letters from Charles William Eliot, Samuel Eliot, William J. Potter, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and others, consist of responses to Denham's Why is history read so little? (New Bedford, 1876). Denham's principal correspondents are Henry G. Menage and Joseph Henry Dubbs, professor at Franklin & Marshall College. Dubbs reports on his acquisition of Thomas Godfrey's Poems (1756), laments railroad strikes, regrets that he does not own any editions of Phillis Wheatley's poems, praises Viollet-le-Duc's Lectures on architecture and compares New Englanders' and Pennsylvanians' appetites for food and learning. Other writers, antiquarians, genealogists, publishers, historians and authors include Zachariah Allen, John Ward Dean, Samuel A. Green, Joel Munsell, Frederic B. Perkins, Henry B. Dawson, Edmund F. Slafter, Linus P. Brockett, Powhatan Bouldin, Theodore F. Dwight, John Austin Stevens, Townsend Ward, William Henry Egle, Charles Rogers, R.A. Brock, P. Hately Waddell, Charles Hawley, Frederick W. Christern, and Charles Henry Hart.

ArchivalResource: 11 folders (ca. 135 items), in box ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/682557632 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

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

Perkins, Frederic B. (Frederic Beecher), 1828-1899. Letter to John Adams Dix [manuscript], 1856 March 27.

Title: Letter to John Adams Dix [manuscript], 1856 March 27.

Perkins sends a manuscript (not included) and requests sets of "Household words" and the "Monthly" as partial payment.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1p. on 1l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647814563 View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935. Papers, 1846-1961 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1846-1961 (inclusive).

Correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts, articles, reviews, clippings, photos, and drawings provide information about Gilman's personal and public life. Largest group of letters, 1897-1900, is to her future second husband, George Houghton Gilman. Other correspondence includes a sizable group to her daughter Katharine between 1895 and 1934; letters from William Dean Howells, Jane Addams, Edward Bellamy, Susan B. Anthony, James Keir Hardie, and Florence Kelley; and items pertaining to her books and articles. Literary material includes manuscripts and typescripts of chapters for Sex in Civilization (1929) and Woman's Coming of Age (1930); the plays A Pretty Idiot (1889), Changing Hands (ca. 1890), and Three Women; the books Social Ethics, A Study in Ethics (1933), and "A Winter in California; manuscripts by others; miscellaneous stories; poems; sermons; lectures; school essays; and reviews of her works. There are also correspondence and memorabilia pertaining to international congresses Gilman attended, 1899-1913.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122336316 View

Papers, 1846-1961

Title: Papers, 1846-1961

Papers of writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes, 2 card file boxes, 1 folio box, 1 folio+ box, 1 oversize box, 2 supersize folders, 10 photograph folders

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00019/catalog View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216640 View

Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Title: Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Correspondence of American author and biographer James Parton withfamily members, professional associates, and personal friends as well as financialaccounts, photographs, genealogies, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01317/catalog View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216647 View