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Bell, Luther V., (Luther Vose), 1806-1862. Two Dissertations on what are termed the "Spiritual Phenomena," read at the meetings of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Insane Hospitals at Washington and Boston in 1854 and 1855, circa 1855.

Title: Two Dissertations on what are termed the "Spiritual Phenomena," read at the meetings of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Insane Hospitals at Washington and Boston in 1854 and 1855, circa 1855.

Notes for speeches, pasted-in newspaper clippings, copied correspondence, and notes.

ArchivalResource: 19 x 13 x 2 centimeters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/781381948 View

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

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

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

Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Papers of Elliott Coues, 1820-1914 (bulk 1820-1898).

Title: Papers of Elliott Coues, 1820-1914 (bulk 1820-1898).

Correspondence, writings, and printed material relating primarily to Coues' activities in the theosophical movement and the Gnostic Theosophical Society of Washington, D.C., and to personal and family matters. Also includes correspondence (1820-1829) of Coues' mother, Charlotte Haven Ladd Coues, and correspondence (1832-1860) of his father, Samuel Elliott Coues (1797-1867), relating to efforts in the 1830s to establish the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, and Samuel's work (1840-1846) as president of the American Peace Society. Correspondents include Luther V. Bell, Helena Blavatsky, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., William Ladd, and Seba Smith.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82785979 View

Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894. George E. Ellis writings, 1843-1893.

Title: George E. Ellis writings, 1843-1893.

Correspondence and writings of historian and minister George E. Ellis, 1843-93. Includes letters from minister and Congressman Charles Wentworth Upham, 1843-74, manuscript copy of an address given by Ellis at Upham's funeral, 1875, and letters from Upham's children following their father's death, 1877. Also includes letters sent and received by Phillips Brooks, George Silsbee Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and others regarding Ellis's essay about Civil War surgeon Luther Vose Bell, 1862-63, his publication entitled, "The Red Man and the White Man," 1882-83, a history of Plymouth, Mass., 1893, memorials of John Harvard and Samuel Sewall, 1884-85, and research for an essay on libraries and museums.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51442060 View

Seaver, Benjamin, 1795-1856. Letters to Benjamin Seaver, 1824-1854; bulk: 1854.

Title: Letters to Benjamin Seaver, 1824-1854; bulk: 1854.

Letters to Benjamin Seaver, primarily from his children Benjamin Francis "Frank" Seaver, Mary Elizabeth Seaver Blanchard, and Charles Milton Seaver, Jan.-June 1854. Benjamin Seaver was a Massachusetts congressman and the mayor of Boston in 1852 and 1853. In 1854, he was living in Paris and London. The letters discuss family matters, including the health of Benjamin Seaver's wife, Sarah (Johnson) Seaver, who was a patient at the McLean Asylum for the Insane (now McLean Hospital) under the care of Dr. Luther V. Bell. Other subjects include business and financial matters; the economy; news of the Crimean War; temperance laws in Boston and other local political issues; debates over the Kansas-Nebraska Act and slavery in those territories; the Missouri Compromise; the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Law; the Anthony Burns fugitive slave case and the reaction of Northern abolitionists; riots and martial law in Boston following the trial; growing tension between the North and the South; the Know-Nothing movement (or American Party) and anti-Catholicism; and smallpox and cholera outbreaks. The collection contains no letters written during Seaver's tenure as mayor of Boston. Also included is a 27 Feb. 1824 letter from James T. Blanchard to Harriet Blanchard describing New Orleans and the American response to the Greek War of Independence.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670118342 View

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Papers, 1798-1893 (bulk 1827-1887)

Title: Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

Correspondence and manuscripts of American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian, Dorothea Dix.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00078/catalog View

Butler Hospital records, 1840-1892

Title: Butler Hospital records Butler Hospital records 1840-1892

The Butler Hospital records contain many of the hospital's records from its founding in 1841 to approximately its 50th anniversary in 1891. These records document the changing attitudes toward the mentally ill in Europe and the United States in the early 19th century as well as communal responsibility for the less fortunate, the responsibility of the wealthy for sharing both their wealth and their expertise, the financial practices of the period, detailed specifications on the construction of the first hospital of any kind in Rhode Island, the hospital's expansion, and the day-to-day expenses of such an institution.

ArchivalResource: 3 Linear Feet

http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-ms2007.033&view=title View

Topical pamphlet collection, <1741>-<1996>.

Title: Topical pamphlet collection, <1741>-<1996>.

A long-established, artificial, still-growing collection consisting largely of printed pamphlets, with articles, reprints, some ephemera, typescripts, photocopied manuscript material, and one set of slides (to accompany a typescript item) also included. Some of the items within were bound during the 19th century, some are loose. Covering a broad range of topics relating to American (and particularly New England) history, life, and thought, the Topical Pamphlet Collection provides background and context for the more specifically Concord-related materials in the Concord Free Public Library Special Collections. The collection--not to be confused with the Concord Pamphlet Collection--includes <883> items, dating from <1741> to <1996>. Series I (Historical Topics) includes <352> items dating between <1741> and <1996>, Series II (Individuals, As Author or Subject) <300> items between <1761> and <1963>, Series III (Massachusetts Towns--History, Anniversaries, Description, etc.) <127> items between <1748> and <1991>, and Series IV (Pamphlet Materials on Multiple Topics, Organized by Form) <104> items between <1752> and <1940>. Some of the bound volumes include the occasional out-of-scope pamphlet. Moreover, there is some topical overlap of material in different subseries.

ArchivalResource: <883 > items<47 > containers

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694087719 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