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Baxter, James Phinney, 1831-1921. Papers of James Phinney Baxter [manuscript], 1885-1904.

Title: Papers of James Phinney Baxter [manuscript], 1885-1904.

The collection includes a letter, 1885, from James Phinney Baxter to "Dear Gould," concerning financial arrangements, his reception by Queen Victoria, a sermon by Charles H. Spurgeon, and travel through the British Isles and Europe. There is also a letter, 1904, from Henry H. Edes to James Phinney Baxter, discussing the annual dinner for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and requesting that Baxter nominate John Carroll Perkins to membership in the Society. With it is an invitation, 1904, to the Colonial Society of Massachusetts' annual dinner.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647859308 View

Miscellaneous letters, 1825-1894.

Title: Miscellaneous letters, 1825-1894.

Letters by American essayist, poet, and teacher of anatomy Oliver WendellHolmes to various correspondents concerning medicine, education, and his literarywork.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01332/catalog View

Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959

Title: Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959

Papers of Daniel Appleton White (1776-1861); wives; children including of daughter Mary Wilder Foote (1810-1857) and son William Orne White (1821-1911), William's wife, Margaret Harding White, and their children. Papers of Caleb Foote (1803-1894), his children including sons, Arthur William Foote (1853-1937) and Henry Wilder Foote (1838-1889), Henry's wife, Frances Ann Eliot Foote (1838-1896), and children. Papers of Henry Wilder Foote II (1875-1964), son of Henry Wilder Foote, of his wife Eleanor Tyson Cope Foote (b. 1879), and son Arthur Foote (II). Miscellaneous papers of ancestral families of Henry Wilder Foote II and William Orne White, including the Deadmans, the Eliots, the Flaggs, the Footes, the Haynes, the Lymans, the Ornes, the Wests, the Whites, and the Wilders.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00575/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

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIj, 1898-1988

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIj 1898-1988

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIj-ead.xml View

Edes, Henry Herbert, 1849-1922. Henry Herbert Edes collection, 1642-1914.

Title: Henry Herbert Edes collection, 1642-1914.

Historical documents collected by historian and antiquarian Henry Herbert Edes, 1642-1914. Includes papers related to the history of Charlestown (Boston), Mass. such as First Church of Charlestown records; a diary kept by Seth Sweetser, Charlestown town clerk, 1767-78; military papers of Col. Thomas Marshall kept during the Revolutionary War; Bunker Hill Drill Club records, 1861; and a manuscript copy of an address delivered by R.C. Winthrop to the Bunker Hill Monument Association, 1883. Also includes letters, sermons and prison visiting records of minister Thomas Prentiss, 1815-17; a list of convicts at the Massachusetts State Prison in Charlestown, 1818-26; manuscript copy of an addresses by George E. Ellis, 1869; diaries and exercise books kept by Edward Wheelwright while a student at Harvard University, 1841-42; and Edes family papers among many other items.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes, 14 v. and 1 oversize box. PARTIALLY PROCESSED.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51442045 View

Cambridge (Mass.). Proprietors of the Palls. Accounts, 1784-1819.

Title: Accounts, 1784-1819.

Accounts of the Proprietors of the Palls in the First Parish, Cambridge, Mass., 1784-1815. Includes list of proprietors, memoranda of meetings, and accounts of cash paid for palls and/or the hearse at funerals. These records were kept mainly by William Winthrop, treasurer. This volume also contains accounts of the Proprietors of the Common Land (1784-1819), First Parish, which consist of rents for gallows land and land near Fresh Pond and the causeway, rented mainly to Gideon and Walter Frost, Jonathan Hearsey, and Noah Wyeth. In addition, there is a list of subscribers to the purchase of a new clock by Simon Willard for the meeting house (1794). The inside cover of the volume is inscribed by Henry H. Edes.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16220053 View

Letters from various correspondents, 1874-1920 and undated.

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1874-1920 andundated.

Letters from family members and various correspondents sent to theAmerican editor and author Lindsay Swift.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01846/catalog View

James Freeman Clarke family papers, 1777-1914.

Title: James Freeman Clarke family papers, 1777-1914.

Papers of James Freeman Clarke's grandfathers, the Rev. James Freeman and the Revolutionary war general William Hull, both of Boston, Mass., and of his wife's family, the Huidekopers.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00872/catalog View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog View

Wendell family papers

Title: Wendell family papers

Correspondence, business papers, and compositions by members of the Wendell family, a prominent merchant family from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear feet (93 boxes and 1 folder)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01421/catalog View

Saltonstall family. Saltonstall family papers, 1524-1969.

Title: Saltonstall family papers, 1524-1969.

Large multi-generational collection of papers of the Saltonstall family of Haverhill and Salem, Mass., 1524-1969, includes correspondence, legal and business papers, genealogical information, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, letterbooks, deeds, pamphlets, speeches, printed material, diaries, and other papers largely of and collected by Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845) and Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895). The collection includes family correspondence to and from Dr. Nathaniel Saltonstall (1746-1815) of Salem, a 1766 graduate of Harvard College and physician; William Gurdon Saltonstall (1831-1899), acting master of the Commodore Hull, a ship involved in the North Atlantic blocking squadron during the Civil War; Richard M. Saltonstall (1849-1929) an 1880 graduate of Harvard College, businessman and investor; U.S. House of Representative, Salem, Mass. Mayor, Mass. Senator and Representative, and Harvard College 1802 graduate, Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845); Collector of Customs, lawyer, and 1844 graduate of Harvard College Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895); U.S. Senator, Mass. Gov., Mass. State Senator, Democrat, and 1914 Harvard Graduate, Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979); William G. Saltonstall (1905-1989), principal of Phillips Exeter Academy and a sailor in the United States Navy during World War II; and Eleanor "Nora" Saltonstall (1894-1919), a volunteer in a French Army unit during World War I and European and California traveler. Other family members heavily represented in the collection include Gurdon Saltonstall, Endicott Peabody Saltonstall, Anne E. Saltonstall, William Lawrence Saltonstall. Also includes extensive genealogy and estate papers for many Saltonstall family members. Many Saltonstall men were on the Harvard College Board of Overseers. Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845) collected much of the earlier material and manuscripts of Sir Richard Saltonstall (1610-1694) and Royal Gov. of Connecticut Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724). Additional correspondents include Mary Elizabeth Sanders Saltonstall, Richard Saltonstall, Francis G. Saltonstall, Lewis Cass, William Minot, John Gorham, Peter Chardon Brooks, William Prescott, Charles Pelham Curtis, Lemuel Shaw, Caleb Cushing, Rufus Choate, Nathaniel Bowditch, Joseph Story, Josiah Quincy, Levi Lincoln, Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, Robert Charles Winthrop, Daniel Putnam King, Henry H. Edes, Theodore Roosevelt, and members of the Lee, Brooks, Cabot, Orne, Middlecott, Varnun, and Merrill families.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes, 27 v., 3 folder, and 7 oversize containers. Partially processed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/66466234 View

Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Colonial Society of Massachusetts letterpress books, 1912-1914.

Title: Colonial Society of Massachusetts letterpress books, 1912-1914.

Letterpress books containing outgoing letters of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1912-14. The Colonial Society was organized in 1892 to collect, preserve and publish documents related to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Colonial era. Letters are signed by Henry H. Edes and discuss donations, lectures, and publications.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. in cases.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49231752 View

Edes, Sarah Louisa, b. 1823. Diaries, 1852-1853.

Title: Diaries, 1852-1853.

Her diaries, written in _Marsh's Pocket Diary_, were kept for 1852 and 1853. The entries record everyday activities of herself and her son. There are frequent sentimental referrals to her late husband.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207132004 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

Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Title: Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Primarily professional correspondence of biographer and editor M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes (9 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00489/catalog View

James Freeman Clarke correspondence, 1845-1872.

Title: James Freeman Clarke correspondence, 1845-1872.

Letters written to Unitarian clergyman, author and reformer James Freeman Clarke and his family.

ArchivalResource: 25 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00490/catalog View