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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

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

Barton, Clara, 1821-1912. Papers, 1883-1911.

Title: Papers, 1883-1911.

Letter dated 1883 to Mrs. Talbot states that at the close of the state encampment in Hartford, Conn., each attendee shook hands with her and blessed the work of the Red Cross; letter dated 1893 thanks Mrs. Geary for the gentle way in which she informed her of the death of Linus Brockett; note dated 1911 to Edward Eaton includes Barton's tribute to Julia Ward Howe.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (6 items) ; 24 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47969987 View

Denham, Edward, 1849-1925. Papers, 1876-1888.

Title: Papers, 1876-1888.

Collection consists of drafts of letters, 1876-1877, and letters received, 1876-1888. Drafts of letters are to Denham's friends Henry G. Menage, of Calumet, Michigan, some concerning the extensive collection of historical autographs collected by Mrs. Thomas A. Greene of New Bedford. Letters from Charles William Eliot, Samuel Eliot, William J. Potter, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and others, consist of responses to Denham's Why is history read so little? (New Bedford, 1876). Denham's principal correspondents are Henry G. Menage and Joseph Henry Dubbs, professor at Franklin & Marshall College. Dubbs reports on his acquisition of Thomas Godfrey's Poems (1756), laments railroad strikes, regrets that he does not own any editions of Phillis Wheatley's poems, praises Viollet-le-Duc's Lectures on architecture and compares New Englanders' and Pennsylvanians' appetites for food and learning. Other writers, antiquarians, genealogists, publishers, historians and authors include Zachariah Allen, John Ward Dean, Samuel A. Green, Joel Munsell, Frederic B. Perkins, Henry B. Dawson, Edmund F. Slafter, Linus P. Brockett, Powhatan Bouldin, Theodore F. Dwight, John Austin Stevens, Townsend Ward, William Henry Egle, Charles Rogers, R.A. Brock, P. Hately Waddell, Charles Hawley, Frederick W. Christern, and Charles Henry Hart.

ArchivalResource: 11 folders (ca. 135 items), in box ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/682557632 View

Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900. Papers, 1765-1935 (bulk 1830-1899)

Title: Henry Barnard Papers 1765-1935 (Bulk: 1830-1899)

The Henry Barnard Papers of Fales Library holds a substantial portion of the manuscript materials collected and authored by Henry Barnard (1811-1900), a nineteenth century educationalist and prominent member of the Common School Reform movement. He joined with many of his era's most respected educators in advocating the improvement of public education in the United States, a pursuit which dominated his career as a scholar, orator, and politician. Barnard was particularly involved in expanding the literature describing the history, practice, and theories of education and teaching; over the course of his life he wrote extensively on these subjects and established multiple periodicals dedicated to them, including the . The collection at Fales Library is composed primarily of correspondence, much of which is of a routine business nature, but also includes some of Barnard's diaries, draft versions of articles published in his journals, and images of Barnard's correspondents. It also contains typed transcripts of Barnard's letters prepared by the donor of the collection, Will Monroe, notes regarding the genealogy of the Barnard family, clippings that discuss Barnard's life or the subject of education, and some of Monroe's own correspondence. American Journal of Education

ArchivalResource: 18 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/barnard/barnard.html View

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

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: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View