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John Lord and John Covington naval papers, 1820-1840

Title: John Lord and John Covington naval papers 1820-1840

This collection consists of material from U. S. Navy gunners John Lord and John R. Covington. Contents include regulations for U.S.S. Constitution; ordinance specifications of rigging and equipment of ships; formulas and tables in gunnery; gunners stores; and clippings related to the Constitution, its bell, and Jackson figurehead. Watercolor drawings by Lord depict the native costumes and views of Mediterranean countries, and of United States midshipmen of 1778 and 1827. Correspondence and a warrant for Covington are also contained herein

ArchivalResource: .5 linear foot (1 box, 1 volume)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1805 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

Bacon, Delia Salter, 1811-1859. Papers of Delia Salter Bacon [manuscript], 1820-1952 (bulk 1827-1859).

Title: Papers of Delia Salter Bacon [manuscript], 1820-1952 (bulk 1827-1859).

Includes 312 autograph letters signed and initialed and one typed letter signed to and from Delia Bacon and others; 10 miscellaneous items including prospectuses of Delia Bacon, her The author's apology and claim, [1857?], an engraving of Leonard Bacon, a memorandum of an agreement between Delia Bacon and Samuel Coleman, an inventory of school items to be sold at a private sale in 1831 and payments to various people for sums due, and 3 newspaper clippings. Many of the later letters discuss Delia Bacon's research on the authorship of Shakespeare's works in England. Correspondents include: Mrs. Alice Bacon, Benjamin W. Bacon, David Bacon, George Blagden Bacon, Leonard Bacon, Leonard W. Bacon, Lucy Johnson Bacon, Theodore Bacon, George Bancroft, Sarah Cary Becker, Catherine E. Beecher, Francis Bennoch, James Buchanan, Charles Butler, Jane and Thomas Carlyle, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, Rufus Choate, Samuel Colman, J.P. Collier, Messrs. Dix and Edwards, Sir Henry Ellis, R.W. Emerson, Edward Everett, Eliza R. Farrar (Mrs. John Farrar), George Fayrer, C.C. Felton, Celina Flower, G.J. Granville, Mrs. W. Grote, Francis L. Hawks, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, Arthur Helps, Herriman and Brink, George S. Hillard, Marcus Hodges, R.M. Milnes (later Lord Houghton), J.B. Hume, M. Jones, Rose H. Lathrop, [J.?T.?] Lipscomb, George Littlewood, Sampson Low, Son & co., John Lord, E.B. Lytton (later Baron Lytton), James Martineau, Maria Mitchell, John Murray, Anthony Panizzi, J.W. Parker, Elizabeth Peabody, George Peabody, Alice Bacon Peck, Phillips, Sampson & co., George Palmer Putnam (editor of Putnam's magazine), Bernard and David Rice, Mr. and Mrs. George Ripley, Sarah S. Robbins, Benjamin Silliman, Augustus R. Sleet, Harriet B. Stowe, Thomas H. Taylor (editor of the Tribune), Jonathan M. Wainwright, Thomas S. Williams and Julia Bacon Woodruff.

ArchivalResource: 323 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462090158 View

Library Of Congress, Manuscript Division. Horatio King Papers.

Title: Library Of Congress, Manuscript Division. Horatio King Papers.

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J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/matthews/ View

Lord, John, 1810-1894. Letters, 1867 Nov. 9 and Dec. 28, Stamford, Conn., to [E.P.] Evans [Ann Arbor?].

Title: Letters, 1867 Nov. 9 and Dec. 28, Stamford, Conn., to [E.P.] Evans [Ann Arbor?].

Sends copy of his new history [i.e. The old roman world] for a review in the North American; protests the projected publication of an unfavorable review of the book.

ArchivalResource: 2 items. Holograph signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34367722 View

Alexander Stevenson Twombly papers, 1843-1907

Title: Alexander Stevenson Twombly papers 1843-1907

Letters from personal friends and famous people concerning Twombly's work as minister, author, president of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1163 View

Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888. Additional correspondence, 1787-1886

Title: James Freeman Clarke additional correspondence, 1787-1886

Letters written to the Unitarian clergyman and author James Freeman Clarke and his family.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00934/catalog View

Bury family. Bury family papers, 1831-1931.

Title: Bury family papers, 1831-1931.

Notebook of Rev. Richard A. Bury (and Antoinette E. Gregory and E.B. Gregory) on sermons heard in Detroit, Michigan, and Albany, New York, 1831-1833, and of lectures of John Lord at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, 1852; journal of farm activities at Grosse Ile, 1834-1859; diary, 1853, of Richard Augustus Bury describing boat trip from Detroit to the Straits of Mackinac and Eagle River with comments on northern Michigan copper mining; also a manuscript poem describing the destruction of the Pitman Hotel at. Sand Lake by fire; scrapbook and transcripts of pages from scrapbook, 1890s-1924, maintained by Richard Alfred Bury relating to Adrian, Michigan, history, notably articles about Mayor Thomas J. Navin and other prominent local figures, about the Adrian fire department, and about H.K. Stimson, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Adrian.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34419515 View

Vol. LVI (ff. 433). Dec. 1857-Nov. 1860.Royal Institution; London: Lectures on art delivered at, by Sir A. H. Layard: 1859.includes:f. 1 Bhau Dájí, formerly Secretary of the Bombay Association: Letter to Sir A. H. Layard: 1857. ff. 1-173 passim, 35...

Title: Vol. LVI (ff. 433). Dec. 1857- Nov. 1860.Royal Institution; London: Lectures on art delivered at, by Sir A. H. Layard: 1859.includes:f. 1 Bhau Dájí, formerly Secretary of the Bombay Association: Letter to Sir A. H. Layard: 1857. ff. 1-173 passim, 35... Dec 1857-Nov 1860

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Evans family. Evans family papers, 1866-1918.

Title: Evans family papers, 1866-1918.

The correspondence chiefly concerns the writing activities of Prof. and Mrs. Evans.

ArchivalResource: 123 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68795888 View

Sarah Orne Jewett correspondence, 1861-1930.

Title: Sarah Orne Jewett correspondence, 1861-1930.

Correspondence of American author Sarah Orne Jewett.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00384/catalog View

Lockwood, Mary E. Notes on the historical lectures delivered by Revnd. John Lord at the School of the Misses Green / taken by Mary E. Lockwood.

Title: Notes on the historical lectures delivered by Revnd. John Lord at the School of the Misses Green / taken by Mary E. Lockwood. between 1850 and 1852.

Lecture notes.

ArchivalResource: 123 p. ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7502489 View

White, Samuel Holmes, 1830-1882. Samuel Holmes White papers, 1873-1874.

Title: Samuel Holmes White papers, 1873-1874.

Letters from John Lord and James B. Angell about speaking at N.E.A. convention.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34420968 View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Twombly, Alexander Stevenson, 1832-1907. Alexander Stevenson Twombly papers, 1843-1907 (inclusive).

Title: Alexander Stevenson Twombly papers, 1843-1907 (inclusive).

Letters from personal friends and famous people concerning Twombly's work as minister, author, president of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702166766 View

Evans family. Papers, 1866-1918.

Title: Papers, 1866-1918.

The correspondence chiefly concerns the writing activities of Prof. and Mrs. Evans.

ArchivalResource: 123 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34368375 View

American Antiquarian Society. John Lord, Narrative Of A Visit To The Smithsonian.

Title: American Antiquarian Society. John Lord, Narrative Of A Visit To The Smithsonian.

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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

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216640 View

Students' Lecture Association (University of Michigan). Students' Lecture Association (University of Michigan) letters, 1854-1856 and undated.

Title: Students' Lecture Association (University of Michigan) letters, 1854-1856 and undated.

Letters received from prominent speakers regarding possible speaking engagements at the University.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34419891 View