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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Papers, 1822-1930 (bulk: 1830-1877).

Title: Papers of Ralph Waldo Emerson [manuscript], 1822-1930 (bulk 1830-1877).

The collection contains complete manuscripts or portions of numerous poems including "The rhodora," "Hymn, sung at the completion of the Concord monument," "Days," "Sea-shore," "Behold the sea," "Friends at Folansbee Lake," "Illusions," and "The forerunners." Prose manuscripts include those for "Solution" and "Unitarian belief" with portions of numerous other essays or lectures including one on John Quincy Adams. Other manuscripts include an 11 page autobiography through 1856; an "Account of interview with Mr. J. Adams, aged 90" and prologue to a Christmas play, with associated manuscript of F. B. Sanborn. Printed material consists of newsclippings of Emerson's obituaries. There are also 14 prints or photographs of Emerson and his home. Correspondence relates to the literary career and personal life of Emerson, to his ministry in the Unitarian Church, his lectures in the United States and abroad, hs editorship of "The Dial," his relationship with Thomas Carlyle and the supervision of the American edition of Carlyle's work. There are also letters of Edward Waldo Emerson and Ellen T. Emerson with their father. Chief correspondents include C. A. Bartol, Henry Whitney Bellows, Samuel Bellows, Samuel Brown, James Eliott Cabot, Peleg Chandler, James Freeman Clark, Moncure Daniel Conway, Rebecca L. Duncan, Likian Jackson Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Fields, Osgood & Co., Gugielmo Gajani, Henry George, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Arthur Helps, and Alexander Ireland. Also Little, Brown & Co., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Theodore Lyman, Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, William B. Robers, L. B. Russell, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Epes Sargent, John Sartain, Mary E. P. Stearns, George Luther Stearns, Henry David Thoreau, John Weiss, C.H. Wheeler, Charles Stearns Wheeler, and B. B. Wiley. Topics include religion, philosophy, American culture and government, Brook Farm, Fourierism, abolition, poetry, Longfellow's novel "Kavanagh," the Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Emerson's translation of the Persian poet Hafiz, the Concord Centennial, the Saturday Club, Emerson's English and California tours, the Boston Athenaeum, the Fourth of July and the case of French vs. Upton. The following people are also mentioned in his correspondence : Amos Bronson Alcott, Louis Aggasiz, Lord & Lady Amberley, George Bancroft, William Ellery Channing, Arthur Hugh Clough, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Margaret Fuller, Horatio Greenough, Herman F. Grimm, Harro Paul Herring, Samule Hoar, Also Washington Irving, Henry James, Charles Morris, John Gorham Palfry, Coventry Patmore, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Sarah Sheppard, Daniel Webster, John Greenleaf Whittier, William A. Wheeler and William Wordsworth.

ArchivalResource: 230 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647923124 View

Cabot, Philip, 1872-1941. Philip Cabot papers, 1885-1942 ; bulk: 1924-1941.

Title: Philip Cabot papers, 1885-1942 ; bulk: 1924-1941.

The collection consists of the papers of Philip Cabot, Professor of Utility Management and Business Administration, and expert on public utilities, 1885-1942. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, articles, transcripts, studies, reports, clippings, teaching notes, and annotated cases documenting the development of public utility management courses taught in the 1920s and early 1930s under the sponsorship of the National Electric Light Association. The collection includes correspondence, agendas and administrative papers of Cabot's monthly meetings of the Business Executives Discussion Group (later called the New England Conference on National Defense), 1934-1941; original notes and cases used in public utility management classes; reports on local publc utilities written with colleague Lester Ginsburg, 1925-1937; a scrapbook of clippings collected by Cabot, 1926-1929; and correspondence with friends, family and colleagues on Harvard-related groups such as the Harvard Political Union, Students Service for Defense (the Harvard Chapter of American Student Defense League), Committee on Observation of 25th Year of School, American Quartermaster Corps (ROTC), and financial contributions to Baker Library. Personal papers include correspondence with his father and mother, James Elliot and Elizabeth Dwight Cabot, brother Hugh Cabot, and friends James Bryant Conant, Donald David, Deane Malott, Lincoln Filene, among others, 1885-1941; and letters discussing his death and funeral, 1942. Subject files include personal and professional correspondence with friends and business leaders including David H. Morris of the Bank of New York, Harvey P. Hood, and Colby M. Chester of General Foods, among others.

ArchivalResource: 7 cartons and 5 boxes (10.85 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64385258 View

John Jay Chapman papers

Title: John Jay Chapman papers

Correspondence between American essayist John Jay Chapman and his family and friends, as well as compositions by him.

ArchivalResource: 51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00932/catalog View

Emerson family correspondence, ca. 1725-1900.

Title: Emerson family correspondence, ca. 1725-1900.

Correspondence of the New England-based Emerson family.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (15 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00324/catalog View

Diaries, 1859-1906

Title: Diaries, 1859-1906

Diaries and transcripts of Elizabeth Roger Mason Cabot, member of a prominent Boston family.

ArchivalResource: 1 file box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00484/catalog View

Davidson, Thomas, 1840-1900. Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948 (inclusive), 1857-1902 (bulk).

Title: Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948 (inclusive), 1857-1902 (bulk).

Correspondence, lectures, articles, printed matter, clippings, and film relating to the career of Davidson who came to the U.S. in 1867 and was associated with the St. Louis and Concord schools of philosophy, the founding of the Fellowship of the New Life, and the establishment of the Breadwinners' College. From 1878 to 1884, he was in Italy studying the writings of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, about whom he published a study in 1882. The major portion of the papers is made up of correspondence, including letters from Henry Adams, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Stuart Mill, and Stephen Samuel Wise. Only a few pages of his diary of 1858 survive. Also with the papers is material from Edward Endelman, a student of Davidson's. Of particular interest is Endelman's correspondence about Davidson with William T. Harris, a Hegelian philosopher who had been a close friend of Davidson's. In addition, two reels of microfilm collected by John Roemischer which contain letters and articles by Davidson in other repositories have been added to the papers.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear ft. (35 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153412 View

Thomas Davidson papers, 1857-1948, 1857-1902

Title: Thomas Davidson papers 1857-1948 1857-1902

Correspondence, lectures, articles, printed matter, clippings, and film relating to the career of Davidson who came to the U.S. in 1867 and was associated with the St. Louis and Concord schools of philosophy, the founding of the Fellowship of the New Life, and the establishment of the Breadwinners' College. From 1878 to 1884, he was in Italy studying the writings of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, about whom he published a study in 1882. The major portion of the papers is made up of correspondence, including letters from Henry Adams, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Stuart Mill, and Stephen Samuel Wise. Only a few pages of his diary of 1858 survive. Also with the papers is material from Edward Endelman, a student of Davidson's. Of particular interest is Endelman's correspondence about Davidson with William T. Harris, a Hegelian philosopher who had been a close friend of Davidson's. In addition, two reels of microfilm collected by John Roemischer which contain letters and articles by Davidson in other repositories have been added to the papers.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (35 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0169 View

Cabot, James Elliot, 1821-1903. Extracts from letterbooks of J. & T.H. Perkins et al., 1786-1838.

Title: Extracts from letterbooks of J. & T.H. Perkins et al., 1786-1838.

Extracts from foreign and domestic letterbooks concerning trade with Europe, the West Indies, and China. With bookplate of George Edward Cabot.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (348 p.) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/302947895 View

Cabot, James Elliot, 1821-1903. Letter and an envelope, 1894.

Title: Letter and an envelope, 1894.

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 16 Oct. 1894, and addressed to Barton Aylesworth. Cabot responds to Aylesworth's request for biographical information by saying no such data are available. The envelope in which the item was sent is with the collection.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 p.) ; 18 x 12 cm. or smaller + 3 photocopies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82415709 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

Emerson family correspondence, ca. 1725-1900.

Title: Emerson family correspondence, ca. 1725-1900.

Correspondence of the New England-based Emerson family.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (15 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00324/catalog View

Parkman family papers, 1793-1896

Title: Parkman family papers, 1793-1896

Correspondence, poems, journals, and other compositions by members of the Parkman family of Boston, Massachusetts. Contains correspondence of the various members of the Parkman family, primarily of Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman. Correspondents include: Elizabeth Dwight Cabot, Edmund Dwight, Mary Harrison Eliot Dwight, Anna Cabot Lowell, Anna Cabot Lowell Dwight Mills, Catherine Eliot Norton, Henry Parkman, Mary B. Parkman, Samuel Parkman, Margarett Searle, Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton, Ellen Dwight Twisleton, and Ellen Twisleton Parkman Vaughan. Letters discuss family, social engagements, and the events of daily life. Elizabeth Dwight Cabot's letters describe London and its tourist sites, society, social customs, and fashions. Edward Twisleton letters discuss Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, whom he and his wife became friendly with in London, and his one meeting with Charlotte Brontë. There are commonplace books, essays, and journals of Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman, as well as compositions by Ellen Dwight Twisleton. Additionally, there are many unidentified poems. Francis Parkman material consists of four letters to Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman.

ArchivalResource: 25 boxes (8.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00486/catalog View

Papers, 1851, 1888-1901

Title: Papers, 1851, 1888-1901

Commonplace book and letters of Elizabeth Dwight Cabot, reformer.

ArchivalResource: 1 file box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00483/catalog View

Emerson family papers, 1699-1939.

Title: Emerson family papers, 1699-1939.

Compositions, correspondence, notes, photographs, daguerreotypes, and other materials by and about Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Emerson family. Also includes secondary materials by Emerson scholars.

ArchivalResource: 171 boxes (56 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00121/catalog View

Parkman family papers, 1793-1896

Title: Parkman family papers, 1793-1896

Correspondence, poems, journals, and other compositions by members of the Parkman family of Boston, Massachusetts. Contains correspondence of the various members of the Parkman family, primarily of Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman. Correspondents include: Elizabeth Dwight Cabot, Edmund Dwight, Mary Harrison Eliot Dwight, Anna Cabot Lowell, Anna Cabot Lowell Dwight Mills, Catherine Eliot Norton, Henry Parkman, Mary B. Parkman, Samuel Parkman, Margarett Searle, Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton, Ellen Dwight Twisleton, and Ellen Twisleton Parkman Vaughan. Letters discuss family, social engagements, and the events of daily life. Elizabeth Dwight Cabot's letters describe London and its tourist sites, society, social customs, and fashions. Edward Twisleton letters discuss Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, whom he and his wife became friendly with in London, and his one meeting with Charlotte Brontë. There are commonplace books, essays, and journals of Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman, as well as compositions by Ellen Dwight Twisleton. Additionally, there are many unidentified poems. Francis Parkman material consists of four letters to Mary Eliot Dwight Parkman.

ArchivalResource: 25 boxes (8.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00486/catalog View

Cabot, Elizabeth Dwight, 1830-1901. Papers, 1851-1901 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1851-1901 (inclusive).

Collection consists of Cabot's commonplace book and letters to Chase. The letters discuss her family and her work on education and housing in Boston.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232008125 View

Ralph Waldo Emerson letters to James Elliot Cabot, 1845-1875.

Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson letters to James Elliot Cabot, 1845-1875.

Letters from American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson to his friend and secretary, James Elliot Cabot.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft. )

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00326/catalog 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

Cabot, James Elliot, 1821-1903,. Letters from various correspondents, 1843-1902.

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1843-1902.

Includes letters to Stephen Cabot and his military records as an officer during the Civil War. Letters to James Cabot concern his work an relationship with Emerson, as well as personal letters from Louis Agassiz, Fanny Kimble, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84447458 View

James Elliot Cabot letters from various correspondents, 1843-1902.

Title: James Elliot Cabot letters from various correspondents, 1843-1902.

Letters to the American biographer James Elliot Cabot.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00827/catalog View

Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1915.

Title: Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1915.

Correspondence and manuscripts of American writer and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier and his American biographer Samuel Thomas Pickard.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (5.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00386/catalog View

James, William, 1842-1910. Papers, 1803-1941 (bulk: 1862-1910)

Title: William James papers, 1803-1941 (inclusive) 1862-1910 (bulk).

Papers of American philosopher and psychologist William James.

ArchivalResource: 42 boxes, 37 volumes, 1 scroll box, 1 portfolio box and 5 cartons (57 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00373/catalog 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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Journals and notebooks : typed transcripts, 1819-1875.

Title: Journals and notebooks : typed transcripts, 1819-1875.

Carbon copies of typescripts of Emerson's manuscript journal and notebook volumes (1819-1875) now in the Houghton Library, Harvard University (formerly in the Concord Free Public Library). Typescripts, prepared 1929-1938, include transcripts of Edward Waldo Emerson's notes and footnotes on the original manuscripts. Some of the individual journals are identified by the alphabetical designations of James Elliot Cabot.

ArchivalResource: 3.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34072114 View

James Russell Lowell papers, 1835-1919.

Title: James Russell Lowell papers, 1835-1919.

Papers of American author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat James Russell Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00365/catalog View

Papers of Richard Clarke Cabot, 1886-1974 (inclusive), 1888-1939 (bulk)

Title: Papers of Richard Clarke Cabot, 1886-1974 (inclusive), 1888-1939 (bulk)

Richard Clarke Cabot (1868-1939) was a physician and medical educator whose interests included social work, religion and medicine, and medical ethics. The Papers of Richard Clarke Cabot document both his professional and family life.

ArchivalResource:

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua02998/catalog View

Emerson family. Emerson family correspondence, ca. 1780-1900.

Title: Emerson family correspondence, ca. 1780-1900.

Correspondents include Sarah Ripley Ansley, James Elliot Cabot, Charles Chauncy Emerson, Edward Bliss Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Lidian (Jackson) Emerson, Mary Moody Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary M. Emery, Edith (Emerson) Forbes, and Charles Eliot Norton among others.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (15 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612701577 View

Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection

Title: Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection

Autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the materials were donated by Fred Rosenstock to Brigham Young University, but some were acquired from different sources. Many of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collins, Colorado. Contains autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collings Colorado. The materials are largely letters and autographs produced by prominent American and British authors, editors, politicians, and other important artistic and historical figures in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The items relating to the individual creators are being cataloged separately and will be available on the Brigham Young University cataloging data base. BYU special collections created this artificial collection placing the material in alphabetical order.

ArchivalResource: 40 boxes (20 linear ft.)

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/Vault%20MSS%202 View

James Elliot Cabot letters from various correspondents, 1843-1902.

Title: James Elliot Cabot letters from various correspondents, 1843-1902.

Letters to the American biographer James Elliot Cabot.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00827/catalog View

Peabody, Francis Greenwood, 1847-1936. Notes of lectures on philosophy by Francis Bowen, John Fiske, Charles S. Peirce, J. Elliot Cabot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederic H. Hedge, George P. Fisher : delivered to graduate students in Harvard College, 1869-1870 (inclusive).

Title: Notes of lectures on philosophy by Francis Bowen, John Fiske, Charles S. Peirce, J. Elliot Cabot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederic H. Hedge, George P. Fisher : delivered to graduate students in Harvard College, 1869-1870 (inclusive).

Lecture notes taken by Francis G. Peabody for University course in philosophy, 1869-70.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76976829 View