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Saturday Morning Club (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1871-1983

Title: Records of the Saturday Morning Club, 1871-1983

Bylaws, minutes, financial records, etc., of the Saturday Morning Club, established to promote "culture and social intercourse" for young women in Boston, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 4.38 linear feet ((8 file boxes, 5 half file boxes) plus 3 oversize volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00892/catalog View

Gilman, Arthur, 1837-1909. Scrapbook, 1876-1914 (inclusive).

Title: Scrapbook, 1876-1914 (inclusive).

Collection consists of a scrapbook of clippings (some annotated by Gilman) documenting the evolution of Radcliffe College and women's higher education in the United States and in England.

ArchivalResource: 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232009465 View

Additional papers, ca. 1870-1922.

Title: Additional papers, ca. 1870-1922.

Papers of American poet and feminist Josephine Preston Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (12 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00982/catalog View

Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934. Records of the President of Radcliffe College, 1903-1925 (inclusive).

Title: Records of the President of Radcliffe College, 1903-1925 (inclusive).

Official Radcliffe College correspondence consisting of incoming correspondence 1903-1925 (alphabetical by author) and outgoing correspondence 1909-1925 (chronological) in letter books with name and subject index.

ArchivalResource: 5.4 linear ft. (13 file boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006485 View

Irwin, Agnes, 1841-1914. Letters to Agnes Repplier, 1886-1894.

Title: Letters to Agnes Repplier, 1886-1894.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (14 leaves plus 19 photographs).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155896222 View

Radcliffe College governing boards records, 1878-1999 (inclusive).

Title: Radcliffe College governing boards records, 1878-1999 (inclusive).

Collection contains documents relating to the founding and incorporation of Radcliffe College, 1878-1896; and to the Harvard/Radcliffe relationship, 1882-1985. Included are articles of incorporation, 1882, photocopy of the Charter, 1894, printed statutes, and agreements with Harvard University. Materials describe the foundation and history of the early years of Radcliffe, the debate over the admission of women to Harvard Law School and Medical School, and the changing relationship between the two institutions. Also Council and Executive Committee records containing minutes, 1882-1999; correspondence, 1897-1914, including that of Chairman Frederick Cabot of the Finance Committee; and other materials relating to college fundraising, appointments, buildings and grounds, and student activities. Records of the Council's Committee on Higher Education of Women include minutes, correspondence, memoranda and questionnaires, 1944-1945. Questionnaires (from classes of 1888-1944) pertain to family, marriage and career patterns of Radcliffe students. Board of Trustees, Corporation and Associates records contain minutes, 1882-1999; correspondence, 1942-1980; and sub-committee materials. Administrative Board records include minutes concerning academic affairs, correspondence, and Standing Committee in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' recommendations for degrees, 1889-1914.

ArchivalResource: 39.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006522 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

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907. Papers, 1884-1959 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1884-1959 (inclusive).

Contains correspondence with Le Baron Briggs and Agnes Irwin, among others; reports and speeches; materials relating to Agassiz's visit to Oxford and Cambridge; and biographical information.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft. (1/2 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006482 View

John Chipman Gray correspondence

Title: John Chipman Gray correspondence

Correspondence of Harvard professor and lawyer John Chipman Gray. Consists chiefly of letters written to Gray and his wife, Anna Lyman Mason Gray, many of which are RSVPs to social engagements from notable Boston and Harvard figures. Other topics include John Gray's legal writings and lectures and Anna Gray's poetry. Includes two autograph letters of Daniel Webster (addressed to others), and several letters of condolence from acquaintances such as Abbott Lawrence Lowell on the occasion of John Gray's death. The collection also includes letters to other members of the Gray family and some Gray family ephemera, such as stock certificates. Items concerning Japan include a letter from Isabella Stewart Gardner describing her impressions of Japanese culture and society, a letter from Fanny MacVeagh, wife of the American ambassador to Japan, describing the landscape and culture, and a collection of letters from John Gray's former student Kentaro Kanako, a Japanese noble and diplomat, whose letters describe the politics, government, and society of Japan and express great nostalgia for Boston society. He also discusses newly published political science works and his translations of many such works. Kanako visited the United States several times and wrote to the Grays from both Japan and the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01090/catalog View

Governing Board Records, 1878-1999

Title: Governing Board Records, 1878-1999

Minutes, correspondence, and other records concerning the founding of Radcliffe College, and of the governing boards of Radcliffe College.

ArchivalResource: 40.4 linear feet

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00581/catalog View

Nichols-Shurtleff family. Papers, 1780-1953, (bulk: 1850-1940)

Title: Papers of the Nichols-Shurtleff family, 1780-1953 (inclusive), 1850-1940 (bulk)

Correspondence and diaries of the Nichols and Shurtleff families from New England.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear ft.; (17 file boxes, 3 half file boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00112/catalog View

Wister, A. L. (Annis Lee), 1830-1908. Letter, 1908 September 11, Lindenshade, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, to Barrett Wendell [manuscript].

Title: Letter, 1908 September 11, Lindenshade, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, to Barrett Wendell [manuscript].

In a letter to Barrett Wendell, Wister mentions reading "France" ["The France of Today, 1907"] by Wendell; explains losing a letter Wendell wrote to Dean Agnes Irwin re a Phi Beta Kappa address by Wister's brother, Horace Furness; and asks Wendell to recall his thoughts about the address so that she can relay them to her brother.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647812176 View

Radcliffe College autograph collection, 1705-1946 (inclusive), 1881-1946 (bulk).

Title: Radcliffe College autograph collection, 1705-1946 (inclusive), 1881-1946 (bulk).

Collection of autographed letters created by the college librarian. The letters were written by prominent national figures, Harvard faculty, Radcliffe officers and alumnae among others and relate to college events and activities.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006507 View

Saturday Morning Club (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1871-1983 (inclusive).

Title: Records, 1871-1983 (inclusive).

Collection contains constitutions and bylaws; minutes; financial records; annual reports; correspondence; papers by members; lecture notes; Club histories; lists of officers, members, lecturers, and their topics; announcements of meetings, parties and plays; autograph books; photos; and other records. Included are records of the executive committee and other committees, secretaries, and treasurers.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006838 View

Briggs, Elizabeth, 1863-1937. Papers of Elizabeth Briggs, 1883-1937 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Elizabeth Briggs, 1883-1937 (inclusive).

The papers document the early history of Radcliffe including alumnae protest at the incorporation of the College in 1894, and the foundation and progress of the Alumnae Association. Included are correspondence about Mary Coes (second Dean of Radcliffe) and reminiscences of student activities, courses and personalities.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006503 View

McCleary, Helen C. Radcliffe College yearbook of Helen C. McCleary, 1901.

Title: Radcliffe College yearbook of Helen C. McCleary, 1901.

Collection consists of the 1901 Radcliffe College yearbook, annotated by McCleary in 1934, concerning the request made by Dean Agnes Irwin that all owners of the 1901 volume cut out certain pages. (McCleary did not comply.) Also included is a letter by Frances Lee (class of 1901) to Mrs. Sibley describing her work on the volume, including the sketches and photographs and, often, the individuals who served as models.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/693669232 View

Church, Blanche Bonnelle, 1882-1969. Papers, 1899-1905 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1899-1905 (inclusive).

Collection consists of a college scrapbook including programs, correspondence, photographs, etc., 1899-1902; and letters and photographs from her European tour, 1905.

ArchivalResource: .9 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232009457 View

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907. Records of Radcliffe College President Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, 1879-1978

Title: Records of Radcliffe College President Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, 1879-1978

Correspondence, speeches, reports, etc., of Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, first president of Radcliffe College.

ArchivalResource: 1 carton

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00392/catalog View

Records of the President of Radcliffe College

Title: Records of the President of Radcliffe College

Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, speeches, annual reports, commencement addresses, and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (1 carton).

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00392/catalog View

Papers of the Hamilton family, 1818-1974

Title: Papers of the Hamilton family, 1818-1974

Correspondence, photographs, writings, etc., of the Hamilton family of Indiana, including physician Alice Hamilton and classicist Edith Hamilton.

ArchivalResource: 18.35 linear feet ((43 file boxes, 2 half file boxes) plus 3 folio+ folders, 3 photograph albums, 14 photograph folders)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00108/catalog View

Radcliffe College. Office of the Dean. Records of the Office of the Dean, 1894-1977 (inclusive),

Title: Records of the Office of the Dean, 1894-1977 (inclusive),

Included are office files of the following deans: Agnes Irwin (Dean 1894-1909); Mary Coes (Dean 1910-1913); Christina Hopkinson Baker (Acting Dean 1922-1923); Bernice Brown Cronkhite (Dean 1923-1934); Kathleen Overmeyer Elliott (Dean of Instruction 1959-1963, Dean of the College 1963-1971, Dean of Students 1971-1973). Contains correspondence concerning admissions, scholarships, student academic affairs and counselling. Materials reflect the changing functions of the office before and after the Harvard/Radcliffe merger in 1971. Also includes speeches of Irwin and Baker. Elliott's files as Vice-President, 1973-1976, are also included.

ArchivalResource: 10.4 linear ft. (25 file boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006487 View

Curtis family. Papers, 1797-1991 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1797-1991 (inclusive).

Collection consists of correspondence of Curtis family and friends. There is information about the courtship of the parents, family life, travel in U.S. and abroad, golf and other sports, and the lives and careers of the sons and daughters. Upper-class Boston social life is well documented in the correspondence of the five daughters. Letters and clippings provide information about the civic activism of Frances Greely Curtis, and Harriot and Isabella's support for Afro-American education. Margaret's career as a social worker in the American Red Cross and other organizations is documented in her correspondence and professional papers.

ArchivalResource: 12.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122471414 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

Warren, Arthur, 1860-1924. Letters received, 1884-1920.

Title: Letters received, 1884-1920.

Collection relates to Warren's career as a writer and journalist and includes letters from leading American and British authors and actors. The majority of letters fall around 1894, a period when Warren was the London corrrespondent for the Boston Herald. Organized chronologically, there are letters from: Nora Perry, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Harold Frederic (2 letters, one describing James Whitcomb Riley's alcohol binge), Augustin Daly, Henry Irving (2 letters in the hand of Irving's secretary, Bram Stoker, one referring to a hoped-for visit from Oliver Wendell Holmes), Hallam Tennyson, Theodore Low DeVinne (2 letters, one concerning a book he is printing, describing the binding style and the problems he is having with photo-engraving), Bernard Partridge, Francis Henry Underwood (about his novel Quabbin), Agnes Repplier, George DuMaurier, Hall Caine (2 letters, one regarding proofs of Manxman), Charles Thomas Jacobi (2 letters, with praise for Warren's book on the printer Charles Whittingham), John Corbin (thanking Warren for his appreciation of Miss Taylor in A Bird of Paradise), and Henry Roseman Lang (regarding economic and political conditions worldwide). Undated letters (some to Mrs. Warren) include those from Louise Chandler Moulton, William H. Rideing, Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Agnes Irwin, Patrick Andrew Collins (giving a dinner in London for Augustin Daly), Lucretia P. Hale, and Raphael Merry del Val (to Isaac Henderson).

ArchivalResource: 1 box (36 items) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/176881241 View

Higginson, Henry Lee, 1834-1919. Papers, 1906-1909 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1906-1909 (inclusive).

Talks given at Radcliffe about Josephine Shaw Lowell, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Ellen Hooper Gurney, Agnes Irwin, and Sarah Wyman Whitman.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232007609 View

Records of Radcliffe College President Ada Louise Comstock, 1923-1943

Title: Records of Radcliffe College President Ada Louise Comstock, 1923-1943

Official Radcliffe College correspondence, reports, memoranda, etc., of Ada Louise Comstock, educator and third president of Radcliffe College.

ArchivalResource: 27.11 linear feet (64 file boxes, 1 card file box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00395/catalog View

Irwin, Agnes, 1841-1914. Letters, 1875, n.d.

Title: Letters, 1875, n.d.

Two small collections consist of letters about social engagements from Irwin to Ethel Springer, n.d., and to Mrs. (Edward) Pickering, 1875.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232007310 View

Radcliffe College Archives biography files, 1855-2007

Title: Radcliffe College Archives biography files, 1855-2007

Biographical files of Radcliffe College administrators, officers, notable alumnae and other associates of the college.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 linear ft.; (4 cartons, 1 file box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch01113/catalog View

Thomas Wentworth Higginson correspondence

Title: Thomas Wentworth Higginson correspondence

Letters from various correspondents to author, reformer, and soldier Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00929/catalog View

Irwin, Agnes, 1841-1914. Papers, 1894-1949 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1894-1949 (inclusive).

Excerpts of speeches by and letters from Agnes Irwin, 1894-1904; articles about her, 1909-1949; pencil drawing of her.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232007399 View

Sarah Orne Jewett correspondence, 1861-1930.

Title: Sarah Orne Jewett correspondence, 1861-1930.

Correspondence of American author Sarah Orne Jewett.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00384/catalog View

Records of the Office of the Dean, 1894-1965

Title: Records of the Office of the Dean, 1894-1965

Records of Radcliffe College's Office of the Dean of Instruction, which supervised academic affairs.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 linear ft.; (9 file boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch01131/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

Paine, Elsie Miriam. Additional papers, 1900-1948 (inclusive).

Title: Additional papers, 1900-1948 (inclusive).

Collection contains diaries (1900-1922) tracing the growth of Radcliffe College; a history of the Cambridge Congregational Church School, 1903-1948; correspondence; programs; and Radcliffe College alumnae material.

ArchivalResource: 1.67 linear ft. (4 file boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/539585090 View

Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910. Papers of Julia Ward Howe, 1858-1908.

Title: Papers of Julia Ward Howe, 1858-1908.

Manuscripts include a fair copy of "The battle hymn of the republic," 1904; a tribute to Thomas Bailey Aldrich; a poem "The nation's holiday"; three untitled poems; a quotation; and a transcript of a poem by William Dean Howells. Letters to editors and friends discuss her work, particularly for "Harper's magazine" and "The critic," lecture engagements, social life, philanthropies, especially the New England Woman's Club, family and friends. Specific topics include disturst of James Fields, admiration for Edwin Booth, the death of Robert Gould Shaw, New York City draft riots, the role of women in society, and a tour of Brittany in 1878. Portraits include a photograph by her son Henry Morton Howe and a pencil sketch by her son-in-law John Elliott. Printed items include a tribute on her 70th birthday, a contract for the sale of a play, two printed copies of the "Battle Hymn," one used for recruiting Afro-American troops, and acknowledgement of condolences on her death.

ArchivalResource: 105 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793438 View

Paine, Elsie Miriam. Papers of Elsie Miriam Paine, 1904-1972 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Elsie Miriam Paine, 1904-1972 (inclusive).

Papers contain personal correspondence from F. C. de Sumichrast (Associate Professor of French at Harvard) and Caroline Shaw Sherer, class of 1901, and Fanny Rogers, class of 1897; diaries tracing the growth of Radcliffe from 1900 to 1922; and history of the Cambridge Congregational Church School, 1903-1948.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft. (7 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006490 View

Nichols-Shurtleff family. Papers, 1780-1953, (bulk: 1850-1940)

Title: Papers of the Nichols-Shurtleff family, 1780-1953 (inclusive), 1850-1940 (bulk)

Correspondence and diaries of the Nichols and Shurtleff families from New England.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear ft.; (17 file boxes, 3 half file boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00112/catalog View

Papers of Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, 1834-1959

Title: Papers of Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, 1834-1959

Correspondence, photographs, drawings, etc., of Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, sculptor and inventor.

ArchivalResource: 2.79 linear feet (5+1/2 file boxes, 1 card file box) plus 4 oversize folders, 1 supersize folder, 8 reels of microfilm (M-60)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00189/catalog View

Irwin, Agnes, 1841-1914. Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1879-[1886], n.d.

Title: Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1879-[1886], n.d.

Includes a Shakespearean note from James Bradley Thayer, which Agnes Irwin is passing along to Furness. Also includes a recent note attempting to date Thayer's note and Agnes Irwin's letter of enclosure. The last letter in the collection is dated 14 April, n.y.; in this she thanks Furness for his gift of a copy of the Variorum Othello (1886).

ArchivalResource: 3 items (5 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155883724 View

Papers and correspondence, 1884-1959

Title: Papers and correspondence, 1884-1959

Correspondence, speeches, memorials, etc., of Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, first president of Radcliffe College.

ArchivalResource: 1 file box, 1 folio+ folder

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00391/catalog View

Papers of the Hamilton family, 1818-1974

Title: Papers of the Hamilton family, 1818-1974

Correspondence, photographs, writings, etc., of the Hamilton family of Indiana, including physician Alice Hamilton and classicist Edith Hamilton.

ArchivalResource: 18.35 linear feet ((43 file boxes, 2 half file boxes) plus 3 folio+ folders, 3 photograph albums, 14 photograph folders)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00108/catalog View

Norton family. Letters received by the Norton family, 1830-1920

Title: Letters received by the Norton family, 1830-1920

Letters from various persons to the family members of Charles Eliot Norton, including his mother, wife, sisters, and his children and their spouses.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00128/catalog View