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Worcester, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1784-1865. Joseph E. Worcester papers, 1816-1865

Title: Joseph E. Worcester papers, 1816-1865

Collection of letters to and from lexicographer, philologist, author, and scholar Joseph Emerson Worcester, 1816-65, of Cambridge, Mass. relating to his publications of gazetteers, atlases and dictionaries. Also includes a printed copy of his "A Dictionary of the English Language", with manuscript annotations. Some of the letters have been disbound; others are pasted onto pages of a copy of his dictionary, collated and arranged by his son Samuel T. Worcester in 1881. Correspondents include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, Henry Clay, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, John Farmer, Richard Fletcher, Daniel Webster, Noah Webster, and Samuel T. Worcester, among others.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes and 3 cased vols. UNPROCESSED

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61206393 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

Fletcher, Richard, 1788-1869. Letter to George Tyler Bigelow, 8 June 1859.

Title: Letter to George Tyler Bigelow, 8 June 1859.

Letter to Justice Bigelow regarding an insurance case then before the court, in which Fletcher was counsel for the plaintiff.

ArchivalResource: 1 folded sheet (3 p.) ; 20.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/235092445 View

Shattuck, Lemuel, 1793-1859. Papers, 1637-1850 (bulk 1825-1850)

Title: Lemuel Shattuck papers, 1637-1850, (1825-1850)

Correspondence of Lemuel Shattuck, chiefly letters addressed to him. The letters discuss Shattuck's work on his history of Concord, Mass.; his tenure as the editor of the Yeoman's Gazette; various publishing projects; the affairs of the Middlesex County and Cambridge, Mass. Lyceums, the 6th U.S. Census (1840); and his work on statistics, public health, history, and genealogy. The largest group (21 letters, 1826-1849) is Shattuck's correspondence with Edward Everett. Everett's letters cover the politcal affairs, including Everett's 1826 speech on slavery and his position on the Antimasonic and National Republican parties in the 1832 elections. Other correspondents include James Buchanan (1791-1868); Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Farmer (1789-1838), George Farrar (1778-1858), Richard Fletcher (1788-1869), John Hoskins Griscom (1809-1874); Eben Norton Horsford (1818-1893), Horace Mann (1706-1859), James Gates Percival (1795-1856); Ezra Ripley (1751-1841), Jared Sparks I1789-1866), James Stewart (1799-1864), James Walker (1794-1874), Francis Wayland (1796-1865), Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Noah Webster (1758-1843), and Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1854). Also included a group of 16 manuscripts (1654-1799), collected by Shattuck in preparation for his history of Concord, Mass. Including the documents dealing with Simon Willard's 1654 expedition against the Narrangansett Indians; King Phillip's War (1675-1676), and the dispute between the town of Concord and Robert Blood (1685/6).

ArchivalResource: 83 pieces.

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1781541 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

Sidney Bartlett correspondence, 1824-1855.

Title: Sidney Bartlett correspondence, 1824-1855.

Collection consists of correspondence on professional matters including references to George D'Wolf, uncle of Herman Melville, and to the lawsuit of Gould v. Gould in regard to the administration of the estate of Jacob Gould.

ArchivalResource: .3 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122532116 View

Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888. Samuel E. Sewall letterbook, 1799-1800.

Title: Samuel E. Sewall letterbook, 1799-1800.

Leather-bound letterbook kept by Samuel E. Sewall, a lawyer in Boston, Mass., kept between 1846-50. Includes handwritten copies of letters written by Sewall to various clients related to patent and creditors' rights; and letters related to Sewall's work for Judge Richard Fletcher. Also includes an index to correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. in a case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44162135 View

Sidney Bartlett correspondence, 1824-1855

Title: Sidney Bartlett correspondence 1824-1855

Sidney Bartlett (1799-1889) was a lawyer in Boston, Mass. Collection consists of correspondence on professional matters including references to George D'Wolf, uncle of Herman Melville, and to the lawsuit of Gould v. Gould in regard to the administration of the estate of Jacob Gould. Correspondents include Judge Thomas Burgess, Benjamin F. Butler, R.H. Dana, Jr., Judge Richard Fletcher, Henry A. Pierce, Judge Lemuel Shaw, and H.B. Stanton.

ArchivalResource: .3 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/225 View

Hoar, George Frisbie. 1826-1904. Autograph collection, 1598-1945

Title: George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-1945

Autograph collection of Massachusetts Republican Senator George Frisbie Hoar.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00676/catalog View

Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880. Barbara D. Simison papers relating to Lydia Maria Child, 1836-1947.

Title: Barbara D. Simison papers relating to Lydia Maria Child, 1836-1947.

The papers concern Barbara D. Simison's projected edition of the letters of Lydia Maria Child, and consist of research correspondence with other scholars and with libraries and Simison's annotated working transcripts of Child's letters. In addition, the collection contains 15 autograph letters by Lydia Maria Child, including an ALS to Richard Fletcher describing the Samaritan Asylum for Colored Orphans; 3 ALS to Oliver Johnson concerning publishing projects and Civil War politics; and an ALS to James Redpath in support of a woman sculptor's effort to secure the commission for a statue of John Brown.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 linear feet (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702144918 View