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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

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911. Carte de visite album, 1862-1866

Title: Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) Carte de Visite Album (1862-1866)

Album entitled "Harvard Photographs" consists of 25 cartes-de-visite, chiefly taken between 1862-1866, collected by Higginson, mainly of Harvard University graduates, professors or administrators, with a few exceptions: a crayon drawing of Mrs. W.E. Channing, carte- de- visite of Francis Jackson, and one of Holworthy Hall on the Harvard University campus. Persons represented include Louis Agassiz, Francis Bowen, William Ellery Channing, Ruth Gibbs Channing, Walter Channing, George William Curtis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, C.C. Felton, Waldo Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel Longfellow, Charles Russell Lowell, James Jackson Lowell, James Russell Lowell, James Jackson, Joseph Lovering. John Lothrop Motley, Benjamin Pierce, Jared Sparks, John F.W. Ware, Jeffries Wyman, and Morrill Wyman.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (25 cartes-de-visite)

https://cambridgehistory.org/research/thomas-wentworth-higginson-1823-1911-carte-de-visite-album-1862-1866/ View

Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Title: Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Papers of the Palfrey family of New England. The material of this collection encompasses over 150 years of American history and many items of interest besides those documenting the life and works of John Gorham Palfrey, who is its central figure. A few of these may be briefly mentioned here. The papers of William Palfrey include letters between John Wilkes and the Sons of Liberty and William Palfrey's personal correspondence with Wilkes at the time of the latter's imprisonment in 1769-1770, including Palfrey's description of the Boston Massacre. William Palfrey's business account and financial papers are extensive and range in subject from accounts of trade with Virginia in 1763 to the disposition of funds of the Continental Army during the time Palfrey was Pay Master General. His close association and correspondence with John Hancock should be noted. Several interesting items pertain to the dispute between Hancock and the Boston printer, John Mein, which resulted in Thomas Longman's suit against Mein and the latter's imprisonment. The papers of John Palfrey deal mainly with his business affairs and the management of his plantation at Attakapas. However, several letters by his sons, Edward, William Taylor, and Henry William give first-hand accounts of battles in the war of 1812. Letters to John Gorham Palfrey from over 1000 corespondents form the largest single section in the collection. Of special importance are 377 letters from Jared Sparks and 148 letters from Charles Sumner.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet (130 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00387/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

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

Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874. Papers of Jeffries Wyman, 1826-1909 (inclusive), 1832-1874 (bulk).

Title: Papers of Jeffries Wyman, 1826-1909 (inclusive), 1832-1874 (bulk).

Contains correspondence with colleagues, including Charles Darwin, Asa Gray, and Louis Agassiz, concerning such topics as collecting specimens for the ethnology museum, scientific expeditions, Harvard Medical School, spontaneous generation, fossils, and shell heaps. Correspondence with family members, especially Wyman's father, his brother Morrill Wyman, and friends, pertains to his medical studies in Paris, travels, teaching at Hampden-Sydney College, and family and social matters. Also includes account books, bibliographies, photographs, family memorabilia, and biographical information.

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281435333 View

Oliver Wendell Holmes letters from various correspondents, 1820-1894

Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes letters from various correspondents

Letters sent to Oliver Wendell Holmes by various correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (10 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01350/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

Pulsifer, Robert Starkey, 1792-1833. Robert Starkey Pulsifer papers, 1765-1859.

Title: Robert Starkey Pulsifer papers, 1765-1859.

Shipmaster of Boston, Mass. Correspondence and other papers (1817-33) relating to Pulsifer's voyages to China, Europe, and South America, together with family papers. Letters (1837-39) from Dr. Morrill Wyman to his fiancee, Elizabeth Pulsifer, concern his medical practice and personal matters. Other correspondents include Samuel Aspinwall, John P. Cushing, Thomas T. Forbes, James H. and Thomas H. Perkins, his brothers Joseph and David D. Pulsifer, and his wife Betsy (Sprague) Pulsifer.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16816826 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

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

Letters to Charles Eliot Norton and other papers, 1702-1952

Title: Letters to Charles Eliot Norton and other papers, 1702-1952

Possibly an autograph collection of letters from famous literary, cultural, and political figures, some of which are addressed to Charles Eliot Norton. Others are addressed to a variety of correspondents. Also includes cut signatures, books, pamphlets, clippings and other printed material.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00335/catalog 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

Batchelder family papers, 1806-1902

Title: Batchelder family papers, 1806-1902

Papers of American cotton manufacturer and inventor Samuel Batchelder and his son, civil engineer John M. Batchelder.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01282/catalog View