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Bancroft, George, 1800-1891. Papers, 1815-1908

Title: George Bancroft papers, 1815-1908

This collection consists of the papers of historian and diplomat George Bancroft of Massachusetts, New York, and Newport, R.I. It contains personal and professional correspondence, including that of several American presidents; writings; financial papers; research notes; travel journals; memoranda books; and printed material that chronicle much of the political history of nineteenth century Europe and the United States. Bancroft's correspondence forms the largest part of his collection. It contains letters on political and historical matters from many of the most prominent persons in the 19th century, including John Thornton Kirkland, Edward Everett, George Ticknor, William Cullen Bryant, Jared Sparks, William Hickling Prescott, Samuel A. Eliot, Robert C. Winthrop, James Fenimore Cooper, Francis Parkman, Henry John Temple (the third Viscount Palmerston), William Gladstone, Marcus Morton, Caleb Cushing, John C. Calhoun, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John L. O'Sullivan, Charles Sumner, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

ArchivalResource: 72 document boxes, 12 volumes, and 1 oversize box.

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Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Spec. Coll., Dibner Coll.. [Contact repository for more information].

Title: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Spec. Coll., Dibner Coll.. [Contact repository for more information].

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Photographs of Harvard professors including Oliver W. Holmes, H.W. Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell [manuscript], ca.1864.

Title: Photographs of Harvard professors including Oliver W. Holmes, H.W. Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell [manuscript], ca.1864.

Eighteen photographs; see control folder for full list of subjects.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647982461 View

Cogswell, Joseph Green, 1786-1871. [Letters, 1849-1860].

Title: [Letters, 1849-1860].

ArchivalResource: 3 letters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12957185 View

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Washington Irving papers, 1759-1898, bulk (1805-1866).

Title: Washington Irving papers, 1759-1898, bulk (1805-1866).

Collection contains correspondence, writings by Irving, family papers, pictorial materials, and published works about Irving.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 15 linear feet (25 boxes, 10 v.).Copies: 7 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364013 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

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

Cogswell, Joseph Green, 1786-1871. Joseph Green Cogswell papers, 1817-1877.

Title: Joseph Green Cogswell papers, 1817-1877.

Collection consists of ten original documents and photostats of Cogswell's papers from other repositories.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear foot (1 box)

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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

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859. Letter to Joseph Cogswell [manuscript], n.d.

Title: Letter to Joseph Cogswell [manuscript], n.d.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647978382 View

Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886,. Documents relating to Charles Sumner, ca. 1828-1912.

Title: Documents relating to Charles Sumner, ca. 1828-1912.

Documents from Charles Sumner's archive of correspondence that were excluded from the collection MS Am 1 ("Charles Sumner correspondence") as being not original letters to or from Sumner. Also included are a few other documents originating with Edward L. Pierce, Sumner's biographer. Correspondents include: Charles Francis Adams, Louis Agassiz, Nathaniel Bowditch, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Salmon P. Chase, Gustave Paul Cluseret, Caleb Cushing, Richard Henry Dana, Edward Everett, C. C. Felton, J. C. Fremont, S. G. Howe, Reverdy Johnson, Theodore Parker, George Palmer Putnam, George Sand, and Joseph Story. Authors of compositions and notes include George Earl of Carlisle and John Greenleaf Whittier.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.8 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612739407 View

Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949. Barrett assorted authors collection, 1814-1947

Title: Barrett assorted authors collection [manuscript] 1814-1947.

The collection contains manuscripts of The broken battalions by Paul Hamilton Hayne, The flower of Liberty by Oliver W. Holmes, and The need of two loaves by Nathaniel Parker Willis, as well as a printed pamphlet What Mr. Jenkins thinks by Heman Lincoln Wayland. Topics discussed in the authors' correspondence include personal finances, efforts to get published, lectures and public appearances, booksellers and selling, book reviews, book and autograph collecting, other writers, current writing, illnesses, regrets and acceptances and editing. There are brief comments on current events including the slave trade, the War of 1812, the Civil War and World War I. Correspondents are: James Truslow Adams, George Ade, Washington Allston, Leonard Bacon, Isaac Bailey, S. Baring-Gould, Albert Barnes, Theodric Romeyn Beck, Lyman Beecher, J.D. Bell, William Rose Benét, Robert Bonner, Henry Chandler Bowen, Louis Bromfield, James Brooks, George Washington Bungay, Thornton W. Burgess, John Burroughs, George Washington Cable, Henry Charles Carey, William Ellery Channing, William Ellery Channing, Francis James Child, George William Childs, Horace Porter, Alexander Robert Chisolm, William Conant Church, Edward Daniel Clarke, Richard Coe, Joseph Green Cogswell, Samuel Stillman Conant, Charles Taber Congdon, Martin Franklin Conway, Moncure Daniel Conway, Joseph Cook, David Goodman Croly, Jane Cunningham Croly, Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, George Ticknor Curtis, George William Curtis. Frederic Dannay, Francis W. Dawson, Joseph Delaplaine, Eugene Lemoine Didier, Mary Abigail Dodge, Ignatius Donnelly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Addis Emmet, Jeremiah Evarts, Edward Everett, T. Farre, Edward S. Farrow, C.C. Felton, John Fiske, Clyde Fitch, Peter Force, Hamlin Garland, Caroline Howard Gilman, Parke Godwin, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Asa Gray, Barry Gray, George Gray, Joel Tyler Headley, Robert Silliman Hillyer, Edward Howard House, Freeman Hurst, Burges Johnson, Thomas Wallace Knox, Melville de Lancey Landon, Fitzhugh Lee, Francis Lieber, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Benson Lossing, Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop, William McFee, Archibald MacLeish, Julia Marlowe, Samuel Merwin, Elias Nason, Scott Nearing, Bill Nye, Edgar Wilson, James Parton, James Kirke Paulding. Jonathan Cogswall Perkins, Bliss Perry, Morris Phillips, Wendell Phillips, Octavius Pickering, George Henry Preble, William Hickling Prescott, Agnes Repplier, Edgar Saltus, Carl Sandburg, Frederick Saunders, John Savage, Montgomery Schuyler, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Ernest Thompson Seton, Elizabeth M. Sewell, Lemuel Shattuck, George William Sheldon, Henry Augustus Shute, L.H. Sigourney, Upton Sinclair, Edward Spencer, Charles Sprague, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ann Sophia Stephens, M. Stillman, Jared Sparks, Richard Henry Stoddard, Wilkins Tannehill, Bayard Taylor, Marion Harland, Maurice Thompson, John Reuben Thompson, Benjamin W. Ticknor, George Ticknor, Theodore Tilton, George Francis Train, John Townsend Trowbridge, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Henry Van Dyke, Jeanette Walworth, Joseph Warren, Heman Lincoln Wayland. Noah Webster, R.A. West, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Marshall Pinckney Wilder, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and James Grant Wilson. Recipients includes William Johnson Bacon, Henry Carey Baird, James Nelson Barker, [Maxwell Struthers?] Burt, Henry Charles Carey, Carey & Hart, Eckstein Case, Salmon Portland Chase, William Pleater Davidge, Eugene Lemoine Didier, Charles Daniel Drake, John Wakefield Francis, Samuel Ward Francis, Nathan Hale, Joseph LeRoy Harrison, Abraham Hart, George Stillman Hillard, Isabella Batchelder James, Ralph Olmstead Keeler, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, F.W. McDonough, R. Shelton Mackenzie, North American Review, Horace Porter, Justus Starr Redfield, Matthew Hale Smith, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Richard Henry Stoddard, Theodore Tilton, Charles Burr Todd, and James Wolcott Wadsworth. The collection also contains portraits of John Esten Cooke, George William Curtis, Jeremiah Evarts, James Kirke Paulding, William H. Prescott, and Bayard Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 144 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647968743 View

Wright, Nathalia. Nathalia Wright collection of Greenough family correspondence, 1830-1873.

Title: Nathalia Wright collection of Greenough family correspondence, 1830-1873.

Collection of letters from sculptor Horatio Greenough and Greenough family members to Hiram Powers and others. There are letters from Horatio Greenough to George Bancroft, William Cullen Bryant, Joseph Green Cogswell, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Folsom, Robert Gilmor, George Washington Greene, John Gorham Palfrey, James Kirke Paulding, Powers, Edward Elbridge Salisbury, Charles Sumner, and Richard Henry Wilde. Some letters discuss sculptural works and plans for works, including both the bust of Lafayette, done in 1931, and a statue of George Washington in Union Square, New York. In addition to the outgoing letters from Horatio, there are letters to Powers from Henry Greenough, Richard S. Greenough, and Louisa (Gore) Greenough, and from Henry Greenough to Samuel Swett.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear feet (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702180365 View

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859. Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott [manuscript], 1847-1852.

Title: Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott [manuscript], 1847-1852.

Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott, including letters to George P. Putnam and Susan Prescott. Also included are six letters from George S. Hillard to George P. Putnam; and an engraving by J. Kirk of Prescott's house in Pepperell, Massachusetts, n.d.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647983343 View

Ebeling, Christophe Daniel, 1741-1817. Bibliotheca Americana : Quinquaginta annorum indefessa opera, summo studio, maximumque impendio collecta Chr. Dan. Ebeling, prof. historia in Gymnasio Hamburgensi : manuscript, 1821.

Title: Bibliotheca Americana : Quinquaginta annorum indefessa opera, summo studio, maximumque impendio collecta Chr. Dan. Ebeling, prof. historia in Gymnasio Hamburgensi : manuscript, 1821.

ArchivalResource: 1 v., bound ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612810033 View

John W. Francis papers, 1798-1865, 1820-1860

Title: John W. Francis papers 1798-1865 1820-1860

John Wakefield Francis (1789-1861) was a physician who co-founded the New York Academy of Medicine. He served as the second president of the Academy, taught at Bellevue Hospital, wrote medical texts, and edited professional journals. Collection consists of correspondence, financial papers, writings, by-laws and minutes, and related papers of Francis and others. Incoming correspondence, 1809-1861, from colleagues, friends and family members and outgoing correspondence, 1808-1860, contain letters of recommendation, petitions and accounts of medical cases. Correspondence of others includes letters to Francis's associates and family members. Financial documents, 1798-1851, are accounts, receipts, receipt books, checks, and collection notices. Writings are speeches, lectures and notes of Francis and others. Also, minutes and by-laws, 1807-1810, of the Medical and Surgical Society of the University of New York State; and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 2.8 linear feet (7 boxes); 3 microfilm reels

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1065 View

Warner, John, -1873. Letters and papers, 1850-1864

Title: John Warner letters and papers, 1850-1864

The major portion of this correspondence deals with the controversy which arose when Benjamin Peirce, after having seen the manuscript of Warner's "Studies in Organic Morphology" (Philadelphia, 1857), read a paper on morphology before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1855). Other topics discussed include the alleged "Harvard clique," the administration of the Dudley Observatory (Albany, N.Y.), and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

ArchivalResource: 255 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.W243-ead.xml View

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859. Papers of William Hickling Prescott [manuscript], 1836-1858.

Title: Papers of William Hickling Prescott [manuscript], 1836-1858.

The papers are comprised chiefly of letters to Theodore Dwight, Henry Hart Milman, and American and European publishing firms. Subjects discussed include books by Dwight, Milman, George Bancroft and Thomas Babington Macauley, business relations with Richard Bentley, the anti-Catholic uprising in England, 1850, the U.S. presidential campaign of 1852, family matters, and the writing and publication of several of Prescott's books. Other topics include Prescott's trip to England, his British and American friends, and access to manuscript materials in Italian libraries and the archives of the Spanish legation. Fourteen engravings of Prescott are included.

ArchivalResource: 85 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647833980 View

Additional papers of the Howe-Richards family, 1843-1957.

Title: Additional papers of the Howe-Richards family, 1843-1957.

Primarily letters from friends and colleagues to the families of suffragist Julia Ward Howe and her daughter, author Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01385/catalog View

Everett, Alexander Hill, 1790-1847. Letter, 1816 April 12, Hague, to George Ticknor, Gottingen.

Title: Letter, 1816 April 12, Hague, to George Ticknor, Gottingen.

Sends news of Mr. Walsh and Mr. Cogswell. Speaks of politics. Enclosure: Dobson, T. Proposal to publish by subscription an American register.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 fold. leaf 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3250338 View

Autographs, Miscellaneous, Listed In Catalogues. Bauman Rare Books, Catalogue Of Rare Books & Docs..

Title: Autographs, Miscellaneous, Listed In Catalogues. Bauman Rare Books, Catalogue Of Rare Books & Docs..

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Howe family papers, 1819-1910.

Title: Howe family papers, 1819-1910.

Correspondence and records of the Howe family of Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes and 3 volumes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00398/catalog View

Francis, John W. (John Wakefield), 1789-1861. John W. Francis papers, 1798-1865, bulk (1820-1860).

Title: John W. Francis papers, 1798-1865, bulk (1820-1860).

Collection consists of correspondence, financial papers, writings, by-laws and minutes, and related papers of Francis and others.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 2.8 linear feet (7 boxes)Copies: 3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122466419 View

Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward papers, 1823-1934 (inclusive) 1837-1900 (bulk).

Title: Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward papers, 1823-1934 (inclusive) 1837-1900 (bulk).

Papers of Samual Baker Ward and his wife Anna Hazard Barker Ward, friends of Ralph Waldo Emerson and associates of the Transcendentalists.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (2.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00309/catalog View

Washington Irving papers, 1759-1898, 1805-1866

Title: Washington Irving papers 1759-1898 1805-1866

Washington Irving (1783-1859), the American author, wrote his first popular work, A History of New York, under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. He continued to write stories and essays which made him the outstanding figure in American literature of his time and established his reputation abroad. In 1826 Irving went to Spain to work at the American embassy in Madrid, then at the American legation in London, before returning to New York in 1832. In 1842 he was sent back to Madrid as U.S. minister. After traveling extensively in the U.S. and Europe, he established himself at his estate "Sunnyside" near Tarrytown, N.Y. where he continued to write historical and biographical works. He also served as the first president of the Astor Library in New York City from 1849 until his death in 1859. Collection contains correspondence, writings by Irving, family papers, pictorial materials, and published works about Irving. Correspondence, 1805-1863, consists of Irving's letters to and from family, friends and colleagues as well as correspondence and other documents signed in his capacity as charge d'affaires of the American legation in London and as president of the Astor Library. Literary manuscripts include holograph drafts, manuscripts, revisions, and notes for many of Irving's literary and historical works. Journals consist of his diaries kept between 1804 and 1842; notebooks contain personal and literary notes made between 1807 and 1844; family papers include letters and documents written or received by members of the Irving family (except Washington Irving); related letters and documents are items that were not generated or received by Irving or his family but which relate to Irving or his associates; and pictorial materials contain original drawings, oil portrait of Irving, etchings, lithographs, photographs, and many engravings. Also, rare editions of Irving's writings and translations and works about him (many are extra-illustrated).

ArchivalResource: 15 linear feet (25 boxes, 10 v.); 7 microfilm reels

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1524 View

Documents relating to Charles Sumner, 1828-1912.

Title: Documents relating to Charles Sumner, 1828-1912.

Letters and other documents relating to Charles Sumner, largelyfrom Sumner's own archive of correspondence, but excluding original letters to andfrom him.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01963/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

Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin, Manuscript Department. Darmstaedter Collection.

Title: Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin, Manuscript Department. Darmstaedter Collection.

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Autograph File, C

Title: Autograph File, C

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: 14.5 linear feet (29 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01426/catalog View

Duane Family Collection, 1764-1933

Title: Duane Family Collection 1764-1933

A leading national opinion maker and influential regional politician, tied by marriage to the families of Benjamin Franklin and cognate families, William Duane (1760-1835) played key roles in the field of political journalism, as well as national, Pennsylvania and local Philadelphia politics. Editor of the , William Duane (1760-1835) assured himself gratitude from Jefferson and the Republicans and enmity from President Adams and the Federalists for his open and effective attacks on Federalist policies. His son William John Duane (1780-1865), was a prominent member of the Pennsylvania legislature, a legal advisor to Stephen Girard, Solicitor for many of Philadelphia's premier institutions, and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (June-September 1833). The Duane Family Collection contains a diverse assemblage of personal and professional correspondence relating to family members, with interesting material relating to William Duane (1760-1835), his son, William John Duane (1780-1865), grandson William Duane (1808-1882), great-grandson Charles Williams Duane (1837-1915), and other relations. The collection includes unique correspondence from and relating to Benjamin Franklin's family, as well as correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and other leading figures from the early nineteenth century. The collection also includes prints, photographs of family members, as well as some maps. Aurora

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.SMs.Coll.2-ead.xml View

Cogswell, Joseph Green, 1786-1871. Letters, 1856-1861, Astor Library, New York, to "Sir", Brown University Library.

Title: Letters, 1856-1861, Astor Library, New York, to "Sir", Brown University Library.

Discusses acquisition of books. [1] 1856, Jan 7; [2] 1856, Sep 12; [3] 1856, Nov 12; [4] 1856, Dec 5; [5] 1856, Dec 17; [6] 1856, Dec 22; [7] 1857, Jan 16; [8] 1857, Jan 28; [9] 1857, Jan 29; [10] 1857, Feb 13; [11] 1859, Jan 8; [12] 1859, Jan 21; [13] 1859, Feb 8; [14] 1859, Nov 4; [15] 1861, Dec 5.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122692023 View

Rhees, William Jones, 1830-1907. William Jones Rhees Papers, 1744-1907

Title: William Jones Rhees Papers 1744-1907

This collection contains the papers of Smithsonian chief clerk, bibliographer, and collector William Jones Rhees (1830-1907), of materials assembled chiefly for their autograph value, though the collection contains various groups of related materials. Includes papers of American physicist and surveyor Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867), American geographer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), National Institute for the Promotion of Sciences, and the Smithsonian Institution, as well as correspondence of William Jones Rhees, letters and papers addressed to the United States Pension Bureau, letters and papers related to Indian affairs, and miscellaneous autograph letters and documents.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 4,700 pieces in 64 boxes.

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Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878. ALS, 1859 July 11, Smithsonian Institution, to Joseph Cogswell.

Title: ALS, 1859 July 11, Smithsonian Institution, to Joseph Cogswell.

Letter to Cogswell, superintendent of the Astor Library in New York, requesting the loan of Matthew Young's book, Inquiry into the Principles of Sound, in order to pursue research on sound.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10569427 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01965/catalog View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIe. 1845-1865.

Title: Record Group IIe.

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.IIe-ead.xml View

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865. Letter, 1817 June 8, Gottingen, to George Ticknor, Paris.

Title: Letter, 1817 June 8, Gottingen, to George Ticknor, Paris.

Sends message on Spanish literature. Mentions letters of introduction received. Speaks of many friends. Cogswell is ill.

ArchivalResource: 4 p. on 1 fold. leaf 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3250384 View

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891. Papers, 1819-1901.

Title: Papers, 1819-1901.

This collection includes approximately one hundred letters written over a seventy year span from 1819 to 1889, and six hundred sixty-four folio sheets on which are pasted typewritten slips describing books which comprised Bancroft's personal library. The letters for the period 1819 to 1822, written from Europe, are (like almost all the letters) addressed to his family and outline his study for a Ph.D. at Gottingen, his travels, and observations about European life and customs. There are nineteen letters written in this period from Gottingen, Hamburg, Prague, Berlin, Heidelberg, Paris, Rome, and Marseilles. The letters for the period 1823 to 1863 were addressed chiefly to his sister, Eliza Bancroft (1791-1872), who married John Davis (1787-1854), Governor of Massachusetts and U.S. Senator. These letters range from discussions on Bancroft's association with Joseph Green Cogswell (1786-1871) at Round Hill School in Northampton, Mass., to his tenure as American Minister to England, 1846-1849, to his preoccupation with details of the publication and distribution of his books. The letters for the period 1867 to 1889 consider generally his observations and reflections on events in Europe while Minister to Germany, 1867-1874. Of particular interest are his letters from Berlin in the period 1869-1871. Many of these letters are addressed to his niece by marriage, Frederica King Davis, Mrs. John Chandler Bancroft Davis. The oversize folder contains a letter dated from Paris, 19 July 1821 from Bancroft to his sister Jane Putnam Bancroft (1798-1839).

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.1 folder (1 item) ; oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207113047 View

Jonathan D. Meredith Papers, 1795-1859, (bulk 1810-1859)

Title: Jonathan D. Meredith Papers 1795-1859 (bulk 1810-1859)

Lawyer, army officer, and businessman of Baltimore, Md. Family and general correspondence, legal files, financial papers, and other material relating chiefly to Meredith's associations with the Savings Bank of Baltimore and the Bank of the United States; the War of 1812; impeachment proceedings against James Hawkins Peck; shipping and trade with Europe and South America; and settlement of the estates of Charles Carroll and Robert Oliver.

ArchivalResource: 9,000 items; 15 containers plus 1 oversize; 6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012148 View

Ticknor, George, 1791-1871. Letter, 1842 February 13, Boston, to Daniel Webster, [Washington].

Title: Letter, 1842 February 13, Boston, to Daniel Webster, [Washington].

Recommends Mr. Cogswell as Secretary of Legation to Spain.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3533837 View

Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891. Papers of Benson John Lossing [manuscript], 1852-1892.

Title: Papers of Benson John Lossing [manuscript], 1852-1892.

The collection contains manuscripts of "Columbus: his place in history," an obituary "John Wakefield Francis," a biography "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," a short quotation about uttering truths, and an article "Lossing's field book of the American Revolution," published as a letter to the editor of "The American Whig Review." Correspondence discusses his writings and sources; a published attack on Elizabeth Oakes Smith; autograph collecting; Justus Starr Redfield's bitter review of his own life, discussion of travel and life in Italy, history of Otrauto and desire to write about it, and dismay at the course of the Civil War; a letter from Washington to Hamilton; a memorial to soldiers of Dutchess County (N.Y.); and the deaths of Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Joseph Green Cogswell, and Sidney Edwards Morse. Also prints sent to Charles Colcock Jones; the publishing schedule of the "American historical record . . ."; Vassar College; inability to subscribe to a book by William Leete Stone; a church convention; the promotion of William? Henry Adriance to lieutenant; the death of his wife; the publication of his books on the War of 1812 and the U.S. centennial; the return of a portrait of General Montgomery; a visit to the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition; a reception for Don Pedro; and family news. There is also a copyright agreement with Mason Brothers; an agreement with Francis Baker and George Edward Perine; and a memo concerning a loan. Correspondents include Charles C. Burr, Lewis J. Cist, Harvey G. Eastman, John W. Francis, Samuel W. Francis, James L. Graham, Charles Colcock Jones, Edwin D. Morgan, Justus Starr Redfield, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, William L. Stone, and John W. Thornton.

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647812117 View

Cogswell, Joseph Green, 1786-1871. Joseph Green Cogswell letter, 1852 April 5.

Title: Joseph Green Cogswell letter, 1852 April 5.

Cogswell writes to My dear sir, 5 Apr. 1852, acknowledging receipt of a package, and making a requested copy available. He thanks him on behalf of the Astor Library.

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