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Worcester, Joseph Emerson, 1784-1865. Letter, Cambridge, Mass., to Samuel Gilman [manuscript] 1820 May 31.

Title: Letter, Cambridge, Mass., to Samuel Gilman [manuscript] 1820 May 31.

Worcester thanks Gilman for his assistance in preparing his gazeteer. Engraving, n.d., of Worcester seated in his library [1 item engraving 24.5 cm.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647950181 View

North American Review papers, 1831-1843

Title: North American Review papers, 1831-1843

These papers are primarily manuscripts of, and materials relating to, articles published in the magazine during the editorship of John Gorham Palfrey. North American Review

ArchivalResource: 7 linear feet (20 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00073/catalog View

[Webster and Worcester dictionary controversy : pamphlet vol.]

Title: [Webster and Worcester dictionary controversy : pamphlet vol.] [1851-1860]

ArchivalResource: 12 pieces in 1 v. ; 23-25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79196135 View

Nichols, Mary Sargeant Gove, 1810-1884. Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols letters to Alonzo Lewis [manuscript], 1848-1859, undated.

Title: Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols letters to Alonzo Lewis [manuscript], 1848-1859, undated.

Over the course of 11 years, Nichols writes to her dear friend Alonzo Lewis about poetry, her life, and career as an author. The letters are typically very stream-of-consciousness, and Nichols often delves into issues of religion, including her conversion to Roman Catholicism, family, and the ways in which Lewis is "truly a poet." Briefly mentions Anna Bishop, Sarah Jane Lipppincott Clarke (Grace Greenwood), Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Jenny Lind, Herman Melville, John Godfrey Saxe, [Richard Henry?] Stoddard, and Nathaniel Willis. Includes a poem, written as a valentine, entitled "The rose and the ray." Collection also contains a letter from J. E. Worcester sending a dictionary.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/174964798 View

Dickinson Family. Dickinson family library. 1810-1943.

Title: Dickinson family library

Books that were collected by the poet Emily Dickinson and her family.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear feet (591 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00321/catalog View

Hemenway, Amy. Collection of autographs, 1791-1873

Title: Amy Hemenway collection of autographs, 1791-1873.

Autograph collection of American collector Amy Hemenway.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00456/catalog View

[Webster and Worcester dictionary controversy : pamphlet vol.].

Title: [Webster and Worcester dictionary controversy : pamphlet vol.]. 1830-1911.

ArchivalResource: 40 items in 1 v. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82590552 View

Papers, 1759-1955

Title: Papers, 1759-1955

Diaries and correspondence of the Swanton family from Maine.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.; (1 carton)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00115/catalog View

Worcester, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1784-1865. Joseph Emerson Worcester letters [manuscript], 1821, 1861.

Title: Joseph Emerson Worcester letters [manuscript], 1821, 1861.

In a letter 1821 September 14, to the Rev. Samuel Gilman Worcester writes concerning corrections for the description of Charleston in his gazetteer, and reasons for the delay in publication. Also responds to inquiries on deaths among family and friends. In a letter, 1861 December 5, to William A. Wheeler, Worcester mentions the receipt of a letter enclosing the title page and specimen from Wheeler's proposed dictionary. Explains at length why he is unable to lend money for the project.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647999587 View

Bowen, Francis, 1811-1890. Correspondence, 1724-1909 (bulk 1836-1892)

Title: Francis Bowen correspondence, 1724-1909 (inclusive), 1836-1892 (bulk)

Correspondence of the American philosopher Francis Bowen. Consists chiefly of letters to Bowen. Includes some letters concerning contributions to the North American Review and a few letters relating to his teaching at Harvard.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00760/catalog View

Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1794-1867. Papers, 1768-1866

Title: Charles G. Loring papers, 1768-1866

Papers of Boston lawyer and state senator Charles Greely Loring primarily relating to the American Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01452/catalog View

Minor, Lucian, 1802-1858. Papers, 1819-1868.

Title: Papers, 1819-1868.

Papers of Lucian Minor, lawyer and temperance advocate, include a commonplace-book; his diary of a trip from Charlottesville, Virginia north and west to the junction of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers in 1836; letters to him, including part of one from C.C. Felton on the subject of slavery; and letters written by his wife, Lavinia C. Minor, asking for assistance in her attempts to get her late husband's writings on a trip to New England published. Also, an extract from a journal of a gentleman travelling in New England (1819). Additional correspondents include William G. Stearns and J.E. Worcester.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. and 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19419692 View

Papers, 1759-1955

Title: Papers, 1759-1955

Diaries and correspondence of the Swanton family from Maine.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.; (1 carton)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00115/catalog View

Farmer, John, 1789-1838. John Farmer papers, 1810-1834.

Title: John Farmer papers, 1810-1834.

First item is a group of correspondence that was apparently originally stored in a letterbook (only cover remains). The cover has the title: Genealogical & Miscellaneous collections 1833. Correspondents include Joshua Coffin, Nathan P. Fletcher, William Gibbs, Alfred Johnson, John Kelly, Lemuel Shattuck, John H. Sumner, Isaiah Thomas, and Joseph Emerson Worcester. The subject matter of the correspondence concerns lists of publications (for William Buell Sprague, Ebenezer Hill, Jacob Burnap, and Hezekiah Packard), class lists and/or biographical sketches of Dartmouth College graduates, biographical sketches for various citizens including Edmond Charles Genet, genealogical sketches concerning various New England families, and some extracted genealogical data. The second item is another group of correspondence consisting primarily of town and church historical sketches for various communities in NH as well as some biographical sketches. Item three: A list of the Congregational & Presbyterian Ministers in the State of New Hampshire from the first settlement of the state to the year 1834 (65 p.); Record of deaths & ages in Concord, New Hampshire from 1800 with an imperfect list of those who died in said town 1792-1799; Item four: Manuscript C. Statistical and Historical Papers and Notes relating principally to New Hampshire (169 p.); fifth item: A genealogy of the Farmers of Billerica, Mass. (36 p.).

ArchivalResource: 0.83 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/185145659 View

Kingsley memorial collection, 1696-1934

Title: Kingsley memorial collection 1696-1934

The collection is composed of family correspondence, diaries, and legal, financial, and professional papers which document the lives of several members of the Kingsley family or of the related Coit, Gilman, Upham, and Farnam families. One third of the collection concerns James Luce Kingsley, his tenure on the Yale faculty, and his classical and historical scholarship. Another third of the collection relates to the life and work of William Lathrop Kingsley, especially his editorship of the New Englander and his service to Yale College and the Class of 1843. The remaining third of the collection recounts the lives of family members in Norwich, Connecticut; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Canandaigua, New York; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during the first half of the nineteenth century. The European and world travels of family members and the life of the Upham family during the War of 1812 are highlighted in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0604 View

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

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

Worcester, Joseph Emerson, 1784-1865. Letter, Cambridge, Mass., to Samuel Gilman [manuscript] 1820 May 31.

Title: Letter, Cambridge, Mass., to Samuel Gilman [manuscript] 1820 May 31.

Worcester thanks Gilman for his assistance in preparing his gazeteer. Engraving, n.d., of Worcester seated in his library [1 item engraving 24.5 cm.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647950181 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc, 1826-1836

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc 1826-1836

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.IIc-ead.xml View

Worcester, Joseph Emerson, 1784-1865. Letter, 1824 March 8, Cambridge, to George Ticknor, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1824 March 8, Cambridge, to George Ticknor, Boston.

Sends a list of topographical works on the states.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3998308 View

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

Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934. Papers of LeBaron Russell Briggs, 1901-1933.

Title: Papers of LeBaron Russell Briggs, 1901-1933.

The collection contains a one page fragment of an unknown manuscript. The first sentence begins "his neighbor's goods. In our impatience we forget" and is on paper watermarked 1901. A letter to Houghton, Mifflin, Co., 1901 Aug 21, discusses his preference for the spelling found in Joseph E Worcester's "Dictionary of the English Language" and mentions returning a copy of a contract. Letters to J. Byron Rees, 1907-1913, discuss admitting George Burwell Dutton as an A.M. candidate; Rees' offer to look up anything for him at the Bodleian; Rees' permission to talk to William Allan Neilson about an unnamed matter; and a visit to Williams College. A letter, 1933 May 1, refuses an unspecified request by "Wheelwright."

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51747732 View

Kingsley family. Kingsley memorial collection, 1696-1934 (inclusive), 1801-1896 (bulk).

Title: Kingsley memorial collection, 1696-1934 (inclusive), 1801-1896 (bulk).

The collection is composed of family correspondence, diaries, and legal, financial, and professional papers which document the lives of several members of the Kingsley family or of the related Coit, Gilman, Upham, and Farnam families. One third of the collection concerns James Luce Kingsley, his tenure on the Yale faculty, and his classical and historical scholarship. Another third of the collection relates to the life and work of William Lathrop Kingsley, especially his editorship of the New Englander and his service to Yale College and the Class of 1843. The remaining third of the collection recounts the lives of family members in Norwich, Connecticut; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Canandaigua, New York; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire during the first half of the nineteenth century. The European and world travels of family members and the life of the Upham family during the War of 1812 are highlighted in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702206113 View

Swanton family. Papers, 1759-1955 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1759-1955 (inclusive).

This collection consists mainly of diaries and of correspondence between family members beginning with Margaret Lewis Gay's diary (ca. 1759), entitled "What are the Duties of Wives to their Husbands." The papers of her grandchildren present a view of life in Gardiner, Maine, and Boston, Mass., during the first half of the 19th century and include Laura Gay Davis's letters home from Portugal. The letters of Julia Caroline Deaborn Wingate, a daughter of Margaret Gay and General Henry Dearborn, represent the second generation of the family. The rest of the Gay family correspondence and Olive Gay Worcester's diaries, 1829-1880, provide a picture of domestic, medical, and economic concerns during this period. The Worcester papers consist of letters from Henry Worcester to his brother, Joseph and his wife, and of Olive Gay Worcester's correspondence with her family. The Swanton papers, spanning roughly the years 1850-1925, include the family letters and diary of Mary Olivia Worcester Swanton, the Harvard diary of her son, John Reed Swanton, Class of 1896, and the letters between John and his wife Alice Barnard. John Swanton's letters and Alice Swanton's journals record some of the professional and personal satisfactions and hardships of their life on America's frontiers in the 1900s and 1910s. Also included are the letters Alice wrote daily to John when she did not accompany him on his field trips, a photocopy of John Swanton's autobiography, and genealogies. The papers of Mary Augusta Byram include her diary, family letters, and poems.

ArchivalResource: 2.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006868 View

Additional papers, 1784-1924

Title: Additional papers, 1784-1924

Diaries, commonplace books, and correspondence of the Gay, Worcester, Swanton, and Byram families of Maine.

ArchivalResource: 1.4 linear ft.; (1 carton, 1 file box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00116/catalog View

Swanton family. Additional papers, 1784-1924 (inclusive).

Title: Additional papers, 1784-1924 (inclusive).

This collection consists of diaries, commonplace books, and correspondence among members of the Gay, Worcester, Swanton, and Byram families. The Worcester papers include the diaries, and recipe book of Olive (Gay) Worcester, and her correspondence with Worcester relatives; included are the Civil War letters from her son, Henry Parker Worcester to family. The Gay family is represented by the correspondence of Dorcas Parker Gay and Rufus Gay with their sister, Olive (Gay) Worcester. The Swanton papers include a diary, notes, and correspondence of Walter Scott Swanton, the commonplace books and correspondence of his wife Mary Olivia (Worcester) Swanton, and the letters, Harvard diary, and an English theme of their son, John Reed Swanton (Harvard 1896). The Byram papers include poems, ca. 1784, and the letters received by Mary Augusta Byram from her Byram, Gay, and Worcester relatives. The papers illustrate the daily life and illnesses of family members in Gardiner and Bath, Maine, and the activities of members of the Swedenborgian New Jerusalem Church.

ArchivalResource: 1.4 linear ft. (1 carton, 1 file box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/539584966 View

Worcester, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1784-1865. Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Wm. A. Whitehead, New York, 1838 Oct. 1.

Title: Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Wm. A. Whitehead, New York, 1838 Oct. 1.

ALS.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p. on double sheet) ; 26 x 41 cm., folded to 26 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28996371 View

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884. Papers, 1555-1882 (bulk: 1833-1881)

Title: Wendell Phillips papers, 1555-1882 (inclusive) 1833-1881 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, and other papers of American abolitionist Wendell Phillips.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes (17.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00497/catalog View

Worcester, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1784-1865. Papers, 1830-1834.

Title: Papers, 1830-1834.

Letters from Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784-1865), editor of the American Almanac, concerning material for that publication.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41109612 View