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Calvert, George Henry, 1803-1889. George Henry Calvert letter to M.L. Simons, 1873 Aug. 8.

Title: George Henry Calvert letter to M.L. Simons, 1873 Aug. 8.

Calvert writes to Simons, 8 Aug. 1873, approving the information about himself to be included in the new edition of the Cyclopedia of American literature, and explaining how the material initially came to be prepared by two of his friends, without his input.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52999949 View

Balch, Edwin Swift, 1856-1927,. Papers of the Balch family, 1760-1955.

Title: Papers of the Balch family, 1760-1955.

The collection contains journals and letters, 1825-1881, of Joseph Swift; journal excerpts and diary of Emily Swift Balch; letters and diaries of Thomas Balch; letters of Elise Willing Balch; a diary, 1760-1761, of Joseph Shippen; deeds, letters, unpublished writing, address books, engagement book, and a Vassar sketchbook of Eugenia Hargous Macfarlane Balch; and letters, and Little Theatre minute book of Emily Tapscott Clark Balch. The collection pertains chiefly to Edwin Swift Balch, and contains a journal, 1859-1906, re Philadelphia society, the Civil War, Confederate diplomacy and European travel; an autograph album signed by prominent literary, artistic and political figures; scrapbooks re polar exploration, and the Cook-Peary controversy; a biography and bibliography of his published works, incomplete diaries, 1904-1917; and account books. Other topics include Philadelphia riots, 1864, fighting near Leestown, W. Va., Mosby's raiders, life in Paris, art in Europe and America, Louis Philippe, Jenny Lind, the London Exhibition of 1851, Prince Clemens von Metternich, Napoleon III, the Paris Commune, Henry M. Stanley, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Suez Canal, the Sedan battlefield, Richard Cobden, Theodore Roosevelt, and European travel especially in Switzerland. Also unpublished pieces by Edwin Swift Balch and Eugenia H.M. Balch; a biography of Emily Balch and manuscripts of her "Stuffed Peacocks," and of Joseph Hergesheimer's "Tintypes"; and a limerick collection. Also family photographs; a tintype album; a photograph album with notes by Rudolph Franke on a polar expedition; and "The Confession of the Murder of Prof. Marvin," analyzed by Thomas F. Hall, 1926.

ArchivalResource: 170 items.1 reel : positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647842108 View

Calvert, George Henry, 1803-1889. Letter to N[ahum?] Capen, 1875 June 23.

Title: Letter to N[ahum?] Capen, 1875 June 23.

Calvert confirms a meeting and will look for Capen and "# one Paine" at the depot.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49050145 View

Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869. [Letters] / Sainte-Beuve.

Title: [Letters] / Sainte-Beuve. [1856-1868]

Letter, 1856 mai 28 [to] M. Halévy. -- Letter, 1868 août 29, 11, rue Mont Parnasse, Paris [to M. G. H. Calvert, Newport, R.I.] and envelope.

ArchivalResource: 2 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/352926085 View

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

George Edward Woodberry papers concerning Edgar Allan Poe, 1829-1928.

Title: George Edward Woodberry papers concerning Edgar Allan Poe, 1829-1928.

Letters and papers assembled by scholar George Edward Woodberry, concerning the American poet Edgar Allan Poe.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (.75 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00220/catalog View

George Henry Calvert papers, Calvert (George Henry) papers, 1868-1885 and undated

Title: George Henry Calvert papers Calvert (George Henry) papers 1868-1885 and undated

This collection consists of poems, visiting cards, newspaper clipping, and a letter concerning George Henry Calvert (1803-1889), a former Newport, Rhode Island, mayor and resident.

ArchivalResource: 0.02 linear feet (1 folder)

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RNR-ms505&view=title View

Brown University. Library (Providence, Rhode Island). Selected correspondence, 1913-1993, "Bray" to "Coolbrith".

Title: Selected correspondence, 1913-1993, "Bray" to "Coolbrith".

Includes letters exchanged by selected donors, booksellers, and researchers with librarians and support staff.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122493216 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

Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917. Papers: 1883-1901.

Title: Papers: 1883-1901.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence. Included are 2 business letters written by Sanborn from her farm, Breezy Meadows, in Metcalf, Mass. to Mr. [Borlin?] (1892 Sept. 10) and Mr. Coombes (1892 Oct. 19), requesting the return of a manuscript and negotiating the payment for a book. Also included are letters from Sanborn to Charles Follen Adams (1893-1901) extending him invitations and a book, and thanking him for presents. Also includes 1 letter from George H. Calvert, of Newport, RI, to Sanborn (1883 Feb. 21), responding to Sanborn's request for his personal reminiscences of Margaret Fuller. He mentions his first meeting with her in 1837 when Fuller politely disagreed with William Ellery Channing over the merits of Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd's poem, Ion, a visit in 1838 that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a later visit at the Tribune offices with Horace Greeley. The collection also includes an advertising flier (4p, undated) for a series of lectures entitled, Miss Kate A. Sanborn's lectures on literature. The flier lists fifteen lecture subjects, including Spinster Authors of England, Bachelor Authors, Pets of Noted Persons, and Vanity and Insanity: the Shadows of Genius, and quotes from favorable reviews.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122529763 View

Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917. Papers of Kate Sanborn [manuscript], 1883-1901.

Title: Papers of Kate Sanborn [manuscript], 1883-1901.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence. Included are two business letters written by Miss Sanborn from her farm, Breezy Meadows, in Metcalf, Mass. to Mr. Borlin (?) (1892 September 10) and Mr. Coombes (1892 October 19) requesting the return of a manuscript and negotiating the payment for a book. Also included are letters (1893-1901) to Charles Follen Adams extending him invitations and a book, and thanking him for presents. A letter from George H. Calvert, Newport, R.I. (1883 February 21) responds to Sanborn's request for his personal reminiscences of Margaret Fuller. He mentions his first meeting with her in 1837 when Fuller politely disagreed with William Ellery Channing over the merits of Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd's poem "Ion," a visit in 1838 that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a later visit at the Tribune offices with Horace Greeley. The collection also contains an advertising flier (4 p., n.d.) for a series of lectures entitled "Miss Kate A. Sanborn's Lectures on Literature." The flier lists fifteen lecture subjects, including Spinster Authors of England, Bachelor Authors, Pets of Noted Persons, and Vanity and Insanity: the Shadows of Genius, and quotes from favorable reviews.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647827165 View

John Thomas Codman Brook Farm collection, 1840-1901.

Title: John Thomas Codman Brook Farm collection, 1840-1901.

Papers and records relating to the Brook Farm community and also to residentJohn Thomas Codman.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02188/catalog View

Lee, Charles Carter, 1798-1871. Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Title: Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Papers collected by Charles Carter Lee include papers of General Light-Horse-Harry Lee, Major Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, and John Penn Lee. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's papers consist mainly of correspondence pertinent to his "Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States." Other topics include anti-Federalism, travel to the West Indies and advice to a son. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's correspondents include William Goddard, Christopher R. Greene, Nathanael Greene (copies), Andrew Jackson (copy), Lafayette (copy), Ann Hill Carter Lee, James Madison (copies), Nathaniel Pendleton, and George Washington (copy). Major Henry Lee's papers consist primarily of correspondence written during his residence in Europe in the 1830s. Topics of interest include James Wilkinson's defeat before Montreal, Jacksonian era politics, David Porter in the Mediterranean, Lee's biography of Napoleon and proposed biography of Andrew Jackson, Lee's financial and legal troubles, Lee's literary efforts. Prominent people discussed include James Buchanan, Henry Clay, John H. Eaton, Thomas Jefferson, Amos Kendall, Gales and Seaton, Henry St. George Tucker, and Daniel Webster. There is fairly extensive correspondence with Charles Carter Lee, Major William B. Lewis and Duff Green. Other correspondents include John Armstrong, James Biddle, Charles L. Bonaparate, Daniel Brent, John Carroll Brent, James L. Cathcart, Edward Vernon Childe, John Browne Cutting, Andrew Jackson Donelson, George William Featherstonhaugh, and Robert Selden Garnett. Also Francis Walker Gilmer, James A. Hamilton, William B. Hodgson, Sam Houston, Rachel Jackson, Peter Augustus Jay, Anne R. Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Hugh S. Legaré, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, John McLean, James Madison, John Marshall, John Moore of Paris, Nathaniel Niles, Barry O'Meara, Thomas Ritchie, Meritt M. Robinson, Gilbert C. Russell, Andrew Stevenson, John Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, William Conway Whittle, and James Wilkinson. The papers of Charles Carter Lee constitute the bulk of the collection and contain manuscripts of his literary works and speeches, correspondence, and legal and financial papers. Topics include his student days at Harvard; a reply to George Henry Moore's "Mr. Lee's plan--March 29, 1777. The treason of Charles Lee"; scattered political commentary including remarks on William Cabell Rives; and a description of the capture of General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, 1863. Correspondents include William S. Archer, Henry Carey Baird, Nathaniel Burwell, George H. Calvert, David Campbell, Bernard M. Carter, J. H. Chamberlayne, Jr., Robert Young Conrad, E. S. Davis, Frederic De Peyster, Lyman C. Draper, Benjamin Rush Floyd, Letitia Floyd, David Graham, Robert Greenhow, William Wirt Henry, Francis Kinloch, and Benjamin H. Latrobe. Also George Washington Custis Lee, Richard Henry Lee, James Lyons, A. W. McDonald, Louis McLane, James Madison (copy), Hugh Nelson, Beverley Randolph, Charles H. Randolph, Robert E. Scott, Andrew Stevenson, Norborne M. Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, Peter Van Winkle, Daniel Webster (copy), John Wickham, and William F. Wickham. John Penn Lee papers, consist of miscellaneous printed matter, routinme legall papers and business papers of the law firm of Dillard and Lee, Rocky Mount, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1917 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647915474 View

Fisher, James T. Papers, 1790-1865.

Title: Papers, 1790-1865.

Partner in firm of Fisher and Chapin, wholesale salt provisions, and founder and treasurer of the Religious Union of Associationists of Boston. Correspondence and records of the Union relating to the formation of the Religious Union of Associationists in Boston (1846), the Union in Philadelphia, The North American Phalanx of Monmouth, N.J., and other Associationist groups, and the phalansterian movement. Correspondents include Louis Blanc, Albert Brisbane, George Henry Calvert, William H. Channing, Victor Prosper Considerant, Charles A. Dana, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, John S. Dwight, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Parke Godwin, Henry James, Moses Lazarus, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George Ripley (of Brook Farm), Marcus Spring, and Edmund Tweedy.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16348768 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

George Henry Calvert letter, 1845

Title: George Henry Calvert letter 1845

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/8151 View

Calvert family. Calvert family letters, 1795-1857.

Title: Calvert family letters, 1795-1857.

Sixty-four letters written by George Henry Calvert (8), his mother Rosalie Stier Calvert, and his uncle Charles J. Stier, as well as other members of the Calvert family. All the letters are in French except those written by George Calvert. These latter were written from Europe and describe the life of a young gentleman of leisure in the early 19th century. Other letters deal chiefly with family financial transactions. Also, letters from George Henry Calvert to Hiram Powers, 1843-1857.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.( 1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/472459421 View

Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917. Papers of Kate Sanborn, 1883-1901.

Title: Papers of Kate Sanborn, 1883-1901.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence. Included are two business letters written by Miss Sanborn from her farm, Breezy Meadows, in Metcalf, Mass. to Mr. Borlin (?) (1892 September 10) and Mr. Coombes (1892 October 19) requesting the return of a manuscript and negotiating the payment for a book. Also included are letters (1893-1901) to Charles Follen Adams extending him invitations and a book, and thanking him for presents. A letter from George H. Calvert, Newport, R.I. (1883 February 21) responds to Sanborn's request for his personal reminiscences of Margaret Fuller. He mentions his first meeting with her in 1837 when Fuller politely disagreed with William Ellery Channing over the merits of Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd's poem "Ion," a visit in 1838 that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a later visit at the Tribune offices with Horace Greeley. The collection also contains an advertising flier (4 p., n.d.) for a series of lectures entitled "Miss Kate A. Sanborn's Lectures on Literature." The flier lists fifteen lecture subjects, including Spinster Authors of England, Bachelor Authors, Pets of Noted Persons, and Vanity and Insanity: the Shadows of Genius, and quotes from favorable reviews.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136008 View

Eichhorn, Johann Gottfried, 1752-1827. Letters, 1816 August 9 and 1824 May 20, Gottingen, to George Ticknor, [Gottingen] and Boston.

Title: Letters, 1816 August 9 and 1824 May 20, Gottingen, to George Ticknor, [Gottingen] and Boston.

Notes by Eichhorn; thanks Ticknor for his continued friendship and correspondence; mentions Calvert and [G.B.?] Emerson.

ArchivalResource: 3 items. 19-23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4696553 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