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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

Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864. Edward Hitchcock letter, 1854 Jan. 5.

Title: Edward Hitchcock letter, 1854 Jan. 5.

Letter to an unidentified correspondent, refusing an invitation to lecture because of lack of time, also that his lectures would be too theological.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71129604 View

Phelps, Lydia R. Baldwin, d. 1872. Phelps Papers, 1843-1845, ca. 1872.

Title: Phelps Papers, 1843-1845, ca. 1872.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (2.5 linear in.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52171699 View

Letters by and about Abbott Lawrence, 1831-1856.

Title: Letters by and about Abbott Lawrence, 1831-1856.

Letters by and about manufacturer, banker, and Massachusetts congressman Nathan Appleton.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01238/catalog View

Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881. Papers of John G. Palfrey [manuscript], 1858-1868.

Title: Papers of John G. Palfrey [manuscript], 1858-1868.

Palfrey requests page numbers of a quote from Leonard Bacon's "Early constitutional history of Connecticut"; discusses travel and money; solicits contributions for "the North American Review"; and requests a paper on "Geological survey of Massachusetts." A photograph of Palfrey is included. Correspondents include T. Bigelow, Samuel L. Dana, and Charles J. Hoadley.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647814531 View

Portrait file: Guide.

Title: Portrait file: Guide.

The Portrait File is an alphabetically arranged collection of portait images of individuals, groups of individuals, and views and miscellany, received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01675/catalog View

Historical Manuscripts Collection, 1821-1909

Title: Historical Manuscripts Collection 1821-1909

Correspondence and literary manuscripts - mostly orations, disputations and essays - written by Amherst College alumni. The collection includes materials of such individuals as Henry Ward Beecher, John Quincy Adams, William Austin Dickinson, and Edward Hitchcock.

ArchivalResource: 8 archives boxes; (4 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma182.html View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864. Autograph letter signed : Amherst, to an unidentified recipient, 1850 Jan. 13.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Amherst, to an unidentified recipient, 1850 Jan. 13.

Seeking to purchase an aneroid barometer.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269606027 View

Edwards, B. B. (Bela Bates), 1802-1852. Correspondence, 1831-1840.

Title: Correspondence, 1831-1840.

Letters from various correspondents, including Francis Wayland, Ebenezer Porter, Edward Hitchcock, and Moses Stuart, relating to various literary and educational matters.

ArchivalResource: 11 items ; 32 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237627346 View

Dickinson Family. Dickinson family library. 1810-1943.

Title: Dickinson family library

Books that were collected by the poet Emily Dickinson and her family.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear feet (591 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00321/catalog View

Torrey, John, 1796-1873. Papers, 1818-1859.

Title: Papers, 1818-1859.

ALS. Papers consist mostly of letters written to Torrey by professional colleagues, botanists and geologists involved in exploration and surveyor expeditions. Notable correspondents include Louis Agassiz, A. D. Bache, Spencer Fullerton Baird, George Bentham, Jacob Bigelow, James Dwight Dana, William Darlington, Amos Eaton, Ebenezer Emmons, Asa Gray, A. Guyot, Robert Hare, Joseph Henry, Edward Hitchcock, John Lindley, Josiah Clark Nott, C. S. Rafinesque, and John White Webster. A complete list of correspondents is available.

ArchivalResource: 59 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35527699 View

Scientists Collection, 1563-1973

Title: Scientists Collection 1563-1973

The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 Linear feet; 13 upright boxes, 8 oversize folders.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.509.L56-ead.xml View

Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864. [Edward Hitchcock, 1793-1864 : sermons, discourses].

Title: [Edward Hitchcock, 1793-1864 : sermons, discourses]. [between 1794-1856]

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35901123 View

Massachusetts. Militia. Division orders : the troops comprising the fourth division of Massachusetts Militia will parade for view and inspection in the month of October next as follows ...

Title: Division orders : the troops comprising the fourth division of Massachusetts Militia will parade for view and inspection in the month of October next as follows ...

ArchivalResource: [2] p. ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213495190 View

Handwriting samples of naturalists and others, ca. 1800-1970 (inclusive)

Title: Handwriting samples of naturalists and others, ca. 1800-1970 (inclusive)

ArchivalResource: 12 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181162346 View

Parker Cleaveland papers, [ca. 1806]-1844, Circa 1806-1844

Title: Parker Cleaveland papers, [ca. 1806]-1844 Circa 1806-1844

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Film.1106-ead.xml View

Sir Charles Lyell correspondence, 1811-1882, 1811-1882

Title: Sir Charles Lyell correspondence, 1811-1882 1811-1882

From negative microfilm held by Dr. Leonard G. Wilson, the collection consists mostly of incoming correspondence from English and American scientists, with a small section of correspondence from Lyell.

ArchivalResource: 10.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.4-ead.xml View

Administrative correspondence of the Gray Herbarium and Harvard University Herbaria, 1890-2019, bulk 1890-1955

Title: Administrative correspondence of the Gray Herbarium and Harvard University Herbaria, 1890-2019, bulk 1890-1955

The collection consists of Gray Herbarium correspondence from the 1890s to present day but the bulk of the letters are from 1890-1955. Most of the letters are addressed to staff members of the Gray Herbarium and were transferred to the archives from office files. Some letters were gifts to the Gray Herbarium that were interfiled into the collection.

ArchivalResource: 75 linear feet

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/gra00079/catalog View

Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864. Letter, 1849 Oct. 30, Amherst, to Publishing Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, care of Jeffries Wyman, Cambridge, Mass.

Title: Letter, 1849 Oct. 30, Amherst, to Publishing Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, care of Jeffries Wyman, Cambridge, Mass.

Transmits a letter of W.W. Mather to Hitchcock (1838 Oct. 26) about the origins of the Association of American Geologists (forerunner of the AAAS), and requests the committee to publish a correction regarding the roles of Mather and Hitchcock in founding the AAG.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. on 2 l. 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6297633 View

Samuel George Morton Papers, 1819-1850

Title: Samuel George Morton Papers 1819-1850

Through his craniometic studies of human races, the Philadelphia physician Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) exerted a profound influence on the development of physical anthropology in antebellum America, and made substantial contributions to mineralogy, paleontology, and natural history. Relating primarily to Morton's scientific interests, the Morton Papers include insights into Morton's perspectives on education, medical practice, geology and mineralogy, craniology, paleontology, the Wilkes Exploring Expedition (also known as the United States Exploring Expedition 1838-1842), and his two major monographs, the and . Several of the letters were written by Morton in his capacity as corresponding secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Also included in this collection are Morton's "Some Remarks on the Infrequency of Mixed Offspring Between the European and Australian Races" (1850), Joseph Barclay Pentland's notes on the aborigines of Peru (ca. 1840?), and newspaper clippings on Morton's death; a diary of Morton's trip to the West Indies, 1834, a set of craniological sketches for use in Crania Americana, and a microfilm of letters in private hands, written to Morton, 1838-1844 Crania Americana Crania Aegyptiaca

ArchivalResource: 2.25 Linear feet; 5 boxes, bound volumes, microfilm

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M843-ead.xml View

Survey of Massachusetts. Accounts and correspondence of the geological survey, 1830-1846.

Title: Accounts and correspondence of the geological survey, 1830-1846.

As part of a survey of the Commonwealth commissioned by the governor in 1830 in order to prepare an accurate map of Massachusetts, a geological examination of the state was conducted and a list of mineral, botanical, and zoological specimens of the state compiled. Two surveys were carried out by Edward Hitchcock of Amherst College, in 1830-1832 and in 1837-1840. This series contains correspondence between Hitchcock and the governors from both surveys.

ArchivalResource: 0.35 cubic ft. (1 doc. box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122372731 View

Bigelow, John P. (John Prescott), 1797-1872. Papers, 1805-1896 (bulk 1814-1863)

Title: John P. (John Prescott) Bigelow papers, 1805-1896 (inclusive), 1814-1863 (bulk)

Letters, diaries, and papers of American politician John P. (John Prescott) Bigelow.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00390/catalog View

Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers

Title: Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers

The Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers contain correspondence, drawings, legal documents, sermons, drafts of published and unpublished works, printed articles, autographs, artwork, and images relating to the professional activities and some of the personal life of Edward Hitchcock, Orra White Hitchcock, and their family. The material spans the years 1804-1910, with the bulk of the material falling into the period 1820-1864. Edward Hitchcock's work as a minister and nationally noted geologist is well documented in the papers. Orra White Hitchcock is less thoroughly represented. The collection contains the diaries she kept when she accompanied her husband on their European trips, along with her ad hoc sketches.

ArchivalResource: 20 Linear feet (24 archives boxes, 4 half archives boxes, 6 flat boxes, 1 oversize archives boxes, 1 mapcase drawer)

https://archivesspace.amherst.edu/repositories/2/resources/38 View

Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858. Letters, [ca. 1806]-1844.

Title: Letters, [ca. 1806]-1844.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122380138 View

Amherst College Inaugurations Collection, 1821-present

Title: Amherst College Inaugurations Collection 1821-present

Speeches, notes, newsclippings, photographs, invitations, tickets, programs,, and guest lists from various Amherst College Inauguration ceremonies dating from 1821 to present.

ArchivalResource: 3 records storage boxes, 1 archives box; (3.5 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/amherst/ma94.html 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

Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864. Letter, 1854, March 30, Amherst, Mass., to Madam.

Title: Letter, 1854, March 30, Amherst, Mass., to Madam.

Declining invitation to deliver address.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122691940 View

Phelps Papers MS 0641., 1843-1845, ca.1872

Title: Phelps Papers 1843-1845, ca.1872

Phelps, Lydia R. Baldwin, d. 1872; student. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary graduate, 1845. Papers consist of correspondence, compositions, a certificate of good character and a biographical note; primarily documenting her activities as a student at Mount Holyoke.

ArchivalResource: 1 box; (2.5 linear in.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm096.html 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

American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.200-ead.xml View

Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875. Correspondence, 1811-1882.

Title: Correspondence, 1811-1882.

Consists mostly of incoming correspondence from English and American scientists, with a small section of correspondence from Lyell.

ArchivalResource: 10 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122316414 View

Amherst College. Inaugurations collection, 1821-[ongoing] / Amherst College.

Title: Inaugurations collection, 1821-[ongoing] / Amherst College.

Inaugural addresses, programs, invitations, news clippings, photographs, schedules and other materials related to the inauguration ceremonies for incoming Amherst College presidents.

ArchivalResource: 3 records storage boxes, 1 archives box (3.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51775516 View

Autograph File, H

Title: Autograph File, H

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: 11 linear feet (22 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01431/catalog View