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Barber, Noyes, 1781-1844. Hoadley fund autograph collection, 1788-1929.

Title: Hoadley fund autograph collection, 1788-1929.

Collection of autographs primarily from Connecticut congressmen and senators, mostly in the form of letters. Correspondents include: Noyes Barber, William H. Barnum, Nathan Belcher, Walter Booth, Herbert W. Bowen, Henry Channing, Daniel Crocker, Sidney Dean, James Dixon, William W. Eaton, William W. Ellsworth, Samuel Fessenden, Calvin Goddard, Chauncey Goodrich, Edwin W. Higgins, Charles T. Hillyer, R. R. Hinman, Orrin Holt, Julius Hotchkiss, C. M. Ingersoll, Ralph I. Ingersoll, Samuel Inham, Ebenezer Jackson, Jr., Samuel W. Johnson, Andrew T. Judson, Everett J. Lake, Jonathan Law, Lyman Law, John Lawrence, P.D. Oakey, Thomas B. Osborne, James Phelps, Lancelot Phelps, S. Dryden Phelps, O. H. Platt, John Russ, Charles A. Russell, Origen S. Seymour, William E. Simonds, Nathaniel Smith, Truman Smith, Isaac Spencer, N. D. Sperry, H. H. Starkweather, Griffin Stedman, William L. Storrs, Julius L. Strong, Lewis B. Sturges, Frederic C. Walcott, and John Woodruff. Also includes a letter from Harriet Hawley, wife of Senator Joseph R. Hawley, written to Rev. Jacob Eaton during the Civil War. Contains a document relating to the Connecticut Delaware First Company. Collection has been arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope.

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Eleanor M. Tilton Papers, 1770-1991

Title: Eleanor M. Tilton Papers, 1770-1991

ArchivalResource: 68 linear ft. (ca.93,000 items in 81 boxes, 58 file drawers, 88 card file boxes & 1 oversized folder).

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Tilton, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marguerite), 1913-. Papers, 1770-1991.

Title: Papers, 1770-1991.

This collection includes nine letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as letters of Louis Agassiz, Amos Bronson Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Charles Sumner, and John Greenleaf Whittier. In addition, there are two incomplete manuscripts by Emerson and one document from the Liverpool Custom-house signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne as Consul for the United States. The collection also includes the corrected typescript, index, and page and galley proofs for Thomas Franklin Currier, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (New York, 1953) which was edited by Professor Tilton. Also, some early correspondence and photographs of the Tilton family and friends. There are letters from the actors Annie Louise Ames, Richard J. Dillon, and Hans L. Meery to Tilton's grandfather, Bernard Paul Verne, as well as photographs, tintypes, and daguerreotypes of the Verne family and friends. 1992 Addition: Her professional papers include correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and printed materials on many aspects of 18th and 19th century American literature, especially literary New England. Among her papers are files compiled in editing volumes 7 and 8 of THE LETTERS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON (New York, 1939-1991). These files contain correspondence, card files, notes, transcripts, photocopies, book typescripts, printed materials, and other related items. There are also similar files relating to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and to her books, AMIABLE AUTOCRAT: A BIOGRAPHY OF DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (New York, 1947) and LITERARY BANTLINGS: ADDENDA TO THE HOLMES BIBLIOGRAPHY (New York, 1957).

ArchivalResource: 68 linear ft. (ca.93,000 items in 81 boxes, 58 file drawers, 88 card file boxes & 1 oversized folder).

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