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Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897. Papers of Charles A. Dana manuscript], 1844-1895.

Title: Papers of Charles A. Dana manuscript], 1844-1895.

Dana discusses the Brook Farm experiment, its founder George Ripley, members John S. Dwight, George W. Curtis, and Georgiana Bruce Kirby, and the Fourier controversy. Other topics include an uncle's debts, John Williamson Palmer's "Folk Songs," and the death of Robert Gould Shaw. Routine invitations and responses, a letter of introduction and three photographs complete the collection.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Ripley, George, 1802-1880. A common place book, upon the plan recommended and practised by John Locke, Esq. : manuscript, 1822-1840.

Title: A common place book, upon the plan recommended and practised by John Locke, Esq. : manuscript, 1822-1840.

Commonplace book begun while Ripley was a student at Harvard University, containing excerpts and poems, as well as original compostions concerning John Locke, John Milton, Francis Bacon, Jeremy Taylor, and others. The last several entries concern Brook Farm.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ([54], 71 p.) ; 26 cm.

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Brown, John Stillman, 1806-1902. John Stillman Brown family papers collection [microform], 1818-1907.

Title: John Stillman Brown family papers collection [microform], 1818-1907.

This collection of correspondence and miscellaneous papers is arranged chronologically. The early papers are concerned with family matters and schools. In 1841 the main letters are from non-family members. Charles A. Dana, a friend of Hannah's, wrote about the Brook Farm community. During the Civil War, the letters are about active duty in the service and at the home front. Letters talk about camp life, military life and the ability and service of Native Americans (Indians) as Civil War soldiers. Finally there are letters from the Brown children and their mother giving details on social activities, religious life, politics, and the women's suffrage movement.

ArchivalResource: 4 microfilm rolls ; 35 mm.

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Butterfield, Rebecca Codman, b. ca. 1825. Codman-Butterfield papers, 1834-1910.

Title: Codman-Butterfield papers, 1834-1910.

Papers of Rebecca Codman Butterfield and her parents Rebecca B. and John Codman. Included in Rebecca B. Codman's papers is a letter from her husband and the records of the Ladies Physiological Society (1837-[1840]), of which she was a member. The Society promoted awareness and sponsored lectures on women's anatomy and health issues, often delivered by women. Among the topics dicussed in the records are Sylvester Graham's "vegetable system," possibly one of the first mentions of vegetarianism, and smallpox. (Cont'd) Rebecca Butterfield's papers contain slightly different ms. and typescript versions of her reminiscences of Brook Farm, a utopian agricultural community in West Roxbury, Mass. where her parents were members during her youth. The piece, probably written in the 1890s, describes daily life, activities, setting, and philosophy, particularly following the introduction of Fourierism and the renaming of the community to Brook Farm Phalanx. Also included are a few miscellaneous poems by Rebecca Butterfield.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

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Cranch, Christopher Pearce, 1813-1892. Papers of Christopher Pearce Cranch [manuscript] 1840-1891.

Title: Papers of Christopher Pearce Cranch [manuscript] 1840-1891.

The collection contains the poems: Early morning, Shakespeare, Matteawan, After life, Music in heaven, The overture, Old & young, Survival of the fittest, To J.L.G. jr., and Seven wonders of the world. In his correspondence Cranch criticizes an aspiring poet, notes that a picture of his has been sold, regrets an invitation to a reading, sends verses to a collector, mentions revisions on a sonnet and agrees to send J.B. Bouton a piece for a book on Central Park. Of special interest are a letter to Edmund Clarence Stedman demanding to know why he was not anthologized and a letter to John Sullivan Dwight claiming that his transcendental acquaitances and beliefs have ostracized him and mentioning the Dial and the imminent founding of Brook Farm.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

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Hoxie, John Andrews. Letter [18]45 Sep. 7, Brook Farm, to Hiram H. Kenyon, Kelloggsville, N.Y.

Title: Letter [18]45 Sep. 7, Brook Farm, to Hiram H. Kenyon, Kelloggsville, N.Y.

Gives "condensed statement from our financial report" of Brook Farm, for 1844, and other news.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. on 1 l. With address panel.

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Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 1813-1892. Christopher P. Cranch papers, 1782-1928.

Title: Christopher P. Cranch papers, 1782-1928.

Papers of Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist, Christopher Pearse Cranch of Cambridge, Mass., 1828-92 include original letters, typescripts and extracts of letters and diaries gathered by Cranch's daughter, Leonora Cranch Scott, in preparation for her 1917 book, The Life and Letters of Christopher Pearse Cranch. Cranch's letters describe his activities at the Harvard Divinity School, his interest in the Transcendentalist movement, friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his involvement in the Brook Farm community at West Roxbury, Mass. Includes letters to his family and wife Elizabeth de Windt, 1846-63 describing his trip to Europe as a painter; and letters to friends, among them Mrs. George L. Stearns, John S. Dwight, and George William Curtis, describing his musical, literary, and artistic pursuits. In addition to correspondence, the collection includes essays, poetry, and translations; a collection of loose ink sketches and a sketchbook, 1875-76; and a commonplace book, 1872-79. Other correspondents include George W. Curtis, John S. Dwight, Ralph W. Emerson, James R. Lowell, George Ripley, and William W. Story. Collection also includes papers of Christopher's father and grandfather William and Richard Cranch as well as other members of the Cranch family, 1782-1828. The papers of Richard Cranch include correspondence with his wife, Mary Smith Cranch; correspondence between Richard and in-laws Abigail and John Adams; and correspondence with nephew Christopher Cranch, and cousins Robert Garland and Joseph Cranch. William Cranch's papers include correspondence, primarily with his family and father Richard written while a student at Harvard College, 1784-87, while studying law at Haverhill, Mass., 1789-94, and while an agent with the Washington, D.C. real estate firm of Morris, Nicholson, and Greenleaf. Also included is an annotated almanac for 1797 noting church interests and accounts. Collection also includes letters from Abigail Adams, daughter of John and Abigail, to her cousin Eliza Cranch, 1784-91; and research and publication notes of Leonora Cranch Scott for the publication of her book.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes and 1 oversize box.

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Blair, Nora Schelter. Some school memories of Brook Farm / by a former pupil, St. Elmo, Tennessee, 1892 Dec. 22.

Title: Some school memories of Brook Farm / by a former pupil, St. Elmo, Tennessee, 1892 Dec. 22.

In 1845, Nora Schelter, then thirteen, joined the community with her father and cousins. The author reminisces about life in the community and particularly the influence of Sophia Ripley, who was in charge of girls' education.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (9 p.) ; 30 cm.

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Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.). Account book : manuscript, 1844-1845 and undated.

Title: Account book : manuscript, 1844-1845 and undated.

Accounts organized by month with a list of active members and accounts of their time spent on communal activities under such headings as agricultural, domestic, education, and others. The member list includes the names of George Ripley, Charles A. Dana, John Dwight, Isaac Hecker, and others. The clippings are from contemporary newspapers and concern a variety of topics with no discernable theme.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (28 p.) and a tray case ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612823101 View

A. J. MacDonald collection of utopian materials, ca. 1840-1865

Title: A. J. MacDonald collection of utopian materials ca. 1840-1865

Research files on approximately ninety utopian communities, compiled by MacDonald for his unpublished work, The Communities of the United States. The collection consists primarily of MacDonald's notes, which range from extensive histories to brief sketches of communities. There is also printed material such as constitutions, prospectuses and articles about communities, and a few pencil and watercolor sketches of various communities. Communities particularly well represented include the Brook Farm Phalanx, Clermont Phalanx, Harmony Society, Icarian Community, North American Phalanx, Oneida Community, Prairie Home Community, Shakers, Skaneateles Community, Sylvania Association, and the Wisconsin Phalanx.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 3; Other Storage Formats: microfilm; Linear Feet: 3.30

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Boston Union of Associationists. Additional records, 1846-1851.

Title: Additional records, 1846-1851.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. (.1 linear ft)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612842843 View

Slavery in the United States collection, 1703-1905.

Title: Slavery in the United States collection, 1703-1905.

This collection, which spans the years 1703 to 1905, contains a variety of correspondence, business records, and documents relating to slavery in the United States. These materials include both sides of the history of slavery, from slave trading to abolition. There is correspondence of three Richmond, Va., slave trader/auctioneer firms: R.H. Dickinson & Brother, which later became Dickinson, Hill & Co.; E.H. Stokes; and Betts & Gregory. The majority of the correspondence deals with the business of the buying and selling of slaves. Some letters from slave owners set the pricing of their slaves to be sold; while other letters describe the type of slave(s) buyers are looking for (e.g., dark mulatto, boys and girls between a certain age and/or height, a seamstress). There are other letters describing the atmosphere of slave auctions (e.g., dull). Other business records include a daybook of R.H. Dickinson & Brother for the period 1846 to 1849, and an account book for Dickinson, Hill & Co. for the years 1855 to 1858. This volume also includes scattered diary entries of Sarah Earle Chase (1836-1915) for the spring of 1865 in Richmond and for a voyage to Europe in the spring and summer of 1870. There are three folders of sales and tax receipts for slaves, as well as one folder of blank receipts. These materials, along with the above-mentioned correspondence, were probably taken from the Dickinson office in Richmond by Sarah Earle Chase and her sister Lucy Chase (1822-1909) [see the Chase Family Papers collection description]. There are six folders of correspondence of Isaiah Coffin Ray (1804-1882), a boot and shoe merchant in Nantucket and New Bedford, Mass., who shifted his calling to law in the 1850s. He was appointed to the American Anti-Slavery Committee on Finance at the 1844 Convention in New York. These letters, dated 1836 to 1851, mainly concern arrangements for lectures, meetings, etc., while some are of a more personal nature. Several of the correspondents were active in the Fourierist movement and Brook Farm, but the letters appear to be concerned primarily with anti-slavery activities. Principal correspondents are Rebecca T. Pool ( - ), John Orvis (1816-1897), John Anderson Collins (1810-1879), John Allen ( - ), Harrison Gray Otis Colby (1807-1853), Elizabeth Buffum Chace (1806-1899), Asa Burnham Hutchinson (1823-1884), John C. Cluer (1800- ), Albert Brisbane (1809-1890), and William Henry Channing (1810-1884). The miscellaneous correspondence contains both the business of slave trading and the anti-slavery movement. The letters concerning sales of slaves are mainly from the Southern States. However, there are two letters with a northern connection. The first, dated 20 February 1806, from John Taylor, of Northampton, Mass., to Noah Scovell, of Saybrook, Conn., is in regard to a runaway slave girl. The second, dated 15 March 1831, from Nathaniel Humphreys, of Antigua, to Jno. C. Lee, of Salem, Mass., is in regard to the sale of slaves. There are two letters written to Elizur Wright (1804-1885) while he was editor of the Anti-Slavery Reporter in New York City. The first, dated 26 October 1837, is from Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802-1837). He writes that " ... you may depend on me for aid in contributions to the columns of the Magazine ..." Lovejoy, however, was killed by a mob in Alton, Ill., just a few days later on 7 November. The other letter, dated 27 January 1838, is from Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866) declining to contribute to the magazine. A letter, dated 6 December 1852, from Charles Calistus Burleigh (1810-1878) to Samuel Joseph May (1797-1871) is in regard to Jefferson Lee, " ... originally from the South." It seems Lee had moved to Pennsylvania, then to Plainfield, Mass., and who " ... now thinks it will be for his advantage to remove to Canada ... He thinks of going to the Elgin settlement ..." This letter serves as an introduction of Lee to May. Two letters, dated 12 January and 5 April 1856, are from Charles Emory Smith (1842-1908), of Albany, N.Y., to his uncle Isaac Smith ( - ), of Leominster, Mass. In the letters, Smith argues in favor of abolition and the preservation of the Union, while his uncle opposed the latter principle. There is also a letter, dated 13 August 1868, from Edward A. Huston to Isaac Smith detailing Huston's visit with William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) and his family. Two photostats of letters (originals in the UMass library) concern Erasmus Darwin Hudson (1806-1880). The first is a letter of introduction written for him by James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892), while the other is "short & sweet" from an unidentified correspondent. Other correspondents include George Leonard (1801-1881), William Cost Johnson (1806-1860), Ralph Randolph Gurley (1797-1872), Samuel May (1810-1899), Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808-1892), Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876), and James Shannon (1799-1859). Most of these letters are in regard to the deliverance of lectures. The miscellaneous documents include a list of slaves from Plaquemine, La.; bills of sales and deeds for slaves; manumissions; a list of taxes and fees paid to the state of Alabama and Greene County; and a resolution of the state of Massachusetts in regard to the abolition of slavery. One manumission document, dated 26 March 1794, is of particular interest. Signed by Nicholas Davies (c. 1708-1794), and witnessed by seven others, the document liberates twenty of his slaves and their children. It was recorded, on 23 June 1794, at the Bedford County (Va.) Court House. Another interesting manumission, dated 7 July 1845, is for "Amanda Holmes, a coloured woman," and a bill of sale, dated 29 January 1850, for "one negro named Williams Holmes" from Col. Adam D. and Mary B. Stewart, to Amanda Holmes, a free woman of color, all of St. Louis, Mo. Other documents include a typed copy of a slaver's accounts in Africa for the years 1789 to 1792; the constitution of the Cambridge (Mass.) Anti-Slavery Society, dated 4 June 1834; and a school report, by Theron Johnson Damon (1883-1973), entitled "Inside History of Shadrach Fugitive Slave Case," dated 25 May 1905. Damon graduated from Harvard in 1905. A call for a national (or northern) convention, to be held in October 1857, of those in favor of disunion, went out in July of 1857, from Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) and other leading abolitionists. There are twenty-five folders of responses to that call from seventeen states. The also collection contains two small notebooks attributed to Arnold Buffum (1782-1859). The first is a report from the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society and a draft of a petition to the U.S. Congress. The second contains drafts of two lectures or articles dated 26 October 1853 and 4 November 1853 plus two pages of an expense account for 1856.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.1 folder ; oversize.2 v. ; octavo.1 v. ; folio.

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Dana family. Dana family papers, 1654-1950 bulk 1770-1931.

Title: Dana family papers, 1654-1950 bulk 1770-1931.

Personal and official documents of Francis Dana, Massachusetts revolutionary leader, minister to Russia and chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; Richard Henry Dana, noted poet and essayist; Richard Henry Dana, Jr., author and United States attorney for Massachusetts during the Civil War; Richard Henry Dana III, civil service reformer; and other family members. Other family members represented in the collection are Richard Dana, Edmund Trowbridge, Edmund Dana, Washington Allston, Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Edmund Trowbridge Dana, Jr., Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sarah Ann Dana, Ruth Charlotte Dana, Elizabeth Ellery Dana II, Frances Longfellow Dana, Helen Sherwood Ford Mumford Dana, and Sophia Willard Dana Ripley (discussing Brook Farm). Prominent correspondents include: John Adams, Elbridge Gerry, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Francis Adams, Charles Sumner, William M. Evarts, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Francis Adams II and Charles J. Bonaparte.

ArchivalResource: 87 boxes, 286 bound v. and 2 oversize containers.

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Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1813-1904.

Title: Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne [manuscript] 1659-1963 (bulk 1839-1864).

The collection contains literary manuscripts, correspondence, business papers, portraits and other items pertaining to Hawthorne. Collection contains the manuscripts of "Chiefly about war matters," "Consular experiences," "A description of a tragedy" by H. Aldrich, "Jonathan Cilley," fragment of "Our old home," fragment of "Septimus Felton, "A sketch or two in Warwick," a fragment of "Times Portraiture," annotated by Elizabeth P. Peabody, an 1815 copybook, an essay for "Homes of American Authors" beginning "I passed by the Old Manse...."and "Cuban Journal" by Sophia Peabody. The collection also contains an electrostatic copy of the original manuscript of "A wonder book for boys and girls." Correspondents include Catharine Ainsworth, George Bancroft, Moncure Daniel Conway, William Cox Bennett, Francis Bennoch, Dr. John Brown, Zachariah Burchmore, Henry Colman, Evert Duyckinck, Lydia Tuttle Fessenden, James T. Fields, Samuel G. Goodrich, Rufus W. Griswold, E. W. Gurney, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, George S. Hillard, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Alexander Ireland, George Payne Rainsford James, George Parsons Lathrop, Henry W. Longfellow, Horace Mann, Horace Mann, Jr., Robert Manning,Herman Melville (copy), James Miller, J. L. O'Sullivan, George P. Putnam, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, C.H. Peirce, Franklin Pierce, Roberts Brothers, Stephen Pleasonton, William Buell Sprague, George Nicholas Sanders, John Sartain, Alexander Strahan, Charles Sumner, L.A. Surette, Howard Ticknor, W. D. Ticknor, Ticknor & Co., William A. Tiffany, Martin Van Buren, C. W. Webber, Sidney Webster, William A. Wheeler, and E. P. Whipple, Topics include his the customhouse in Boston (1839-40), Brook Farm, 1841, customhouse in the District of Salem and Beverly (1847-54), and consul at Liverpool (1853-60). Also health of self and family, pet dog, wife and children, current writing, lecturers for the [Boston?] Lyceum, London social life, Delia Bacon's book on Shakespeare, life in Italy, horse racing in England, and pessimistic outlook on the Civil War. Of interest are in depth letters concering religion and spirituality from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to General E. A. Hitchcock. In addition there are brief mentions of Louis Agassiz, Barry Cornwall, George Curtis, Jefferson Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Grace Greenwood, Jean Ingelow, Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, Mary Peabody Mann, Mary Russell Mitford, John Lothrop Motley, and Albert Smith. The collection also contains various Custom House receipts consular affidavits and certification, shipping certificate, and royalty check of Hawthorne. In addition the collection contains miscellaneous legal documents pertaining to the Hawthorne family including a fragment of a legal document, 1659, a survey, 1675, a warrant, 1707, and an account 1800. In addition the collection contains portraits of Hawthorne including two ambrotypes, a carte-de-visite, a cabinet card, and several engravings, together with three pencil drawings by Sophia Hawhtorne and an engraving of the Hawthorne residence. Of interest is "Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tributes by American Authors on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth" containing letters and brief manuscripts solicited by Ralph Waldo Stoddard in 1904. The collection also contains photostatic and typescript copies of Hawthorne items elsewhere. There are several twentieth century letters concerning provenance of some of the letters, and a post 1955 compilation of notes and excerpts pertaining to Una Hawtorne.

ArchivalResource: 215 items.

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Boston Union of Associationists. Records and other material, 1846-1848.

Title: Records and other material, 1846-1848.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612836271 View

Brook Farm correspondence

Title: Brook Farm correspondence

The Brook Farm correspondence totals one box (19 folders), autograph letters, signed, to and from some of the founders and participants in Brook Farm. Most folders include copies of typewritten transcriptions. Of particular interest: John Allen's, James Kay's, John Orvis's, and John Sullivan Dwight's lengthy and descriptive letters relating to Brook Farm and other matters; Elizabeth Blackwell's feminist viewpoints, including those about a woman's role in medicine, as well as her own struggles to obtain a medical degree (she was the first female doctor in the United States); Marianne Dwight Orvis's and Anna Parsons' letters describing the fire that destroyed the Phalanstery; George Ripley's letter to Phineas Eastman on the unsuitability of Eastman's daughter for the Brook Farm school.

ArchivalResource: 1 Box (1 box, 19 folders)

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Brisbane, William Henry, 1806-1878. William Henry Brisbane papers, 1829-1975.

Title: William Henry Brisbane papers, 1829-1975.

Papers, mainly 1829-1913, of William Henry Brisbane, a Wisconsin physician and minister. Born a South Carolina slaveholder, Brisbane later became an abolitionist, freed his slaves, and moved north where he edited abolitionist publications in Ohio and Pennsylvania and participated in the experiment in communal living at Brook Farm in Massachusetts. After coming to Wisconsin in 1853 Brisbane promoted the development of Arena and served as a clerk in the legislature and as chaplain of the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry, 1861-1862. During the early years of Reconstruction, Salmon P. Chase appointed him tax commissioner of the District of South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 c.f. (3 archives boxes and 2 card boxes),3 reels of microfilm (35mm), and2 photographs.

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Codman, John Thomas. John Thomas Codman Brook Farm collection, 1840-1901.

Title: John Thomas Codman Brook Farm collection, 1840-1901.

Collection consists of papers collected by and primarily concerning John Thomas Codman and his connection to the Brook Farm Community. Also includes letters to and from others involved with Brook Farm, especially the community's founder George Ripley, and also some of their record books. Prominent signatures are found in the autograph collection including: Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theodore Parker, William Henry Seward, Charles Sumner, and many others. Correspondents include: Louis Agassiz, William Henry Channing, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Charles Anderson Dana, Eugene Victor Debs, Horace Greeley, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Henry James, James Whitcomb Riley, George Ripley, among others.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (1.5 linear ft.)

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George Ripley scrapbooks and Brook Farm Phalanx pupil register, 1845-1880.

Title: George Ripley scrapbooks and Brook Farm Phalanx pupil register, 1845-1880.

Scrapbooks of clippings by and about American social reformer and journalist,George Ripley, as well as an autograph manuscript register of pupils at his BrookFarm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.).

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

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Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888. Papers, 1832-1888.

Title: Papers, 1832-1888.

Letters exchanged between James Freeman Clarke, Unitarian clergyman, author, and reformer, and his wife, Anna Huidekoper Clarke. Letters detail Clarke's frequent travels and activities as pastor of the Unitarian church in Louisville, Kentucky, 1833-1840; the Church of the Disciples in Boston, 1841-1850, 1854-1888; the Unitarian church in Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1850-1854; and as editor of the Western Messenger, 1836-1839. There is also information on his travels in France, Germany, and Switzerland, and his association with and opinion of contemporaries such as William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Abraham Lincoln. Subjects discussed include Unitarianism, abolitionists, transcendentalism, spiritualism, feminism, and Utopianism at Brook Farm.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11229140 View

Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884. W.H. Channing letter to Dear Sir, 1852 Mar. 29.

Title: W.H. Channing letter to Dear Sir, 1852 Mar. 29.

Channing writes to Dear Sir [Rev. J.D. Kingsbury], a long letter about the origin and growth of Transcendentalism in New England, pointing out articles in The dial by Emerson and Thoreau. He closes with a long paragraph about the Brook Farm experiment.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

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Rufus and S. Willard Saxton papers, 1834-1934

Title: Rufus and S. Willard Saxton papers 1834-1934

The papers include correspondence, journals, memorabilia, and photographs that document the life of Samuel Willard Saxton and the career of his brother General Rufus Saxton during the Civil War. The largest portion of the papers is composed of S. Willard Saxton's multi-volumed journal, which he began in 1847 while at Brook Farm and continued until the 1920s. The journal chronicles his career as a printer, aide-de-camp, and civil servant; his travels; family; his interests in the cultural life of Boston and Washington, D.C.; and his summers spent in Guilford, Connecticut. His journal highlights Saxton's ardent abolitionist and reformist interests, his work on behalf of freedmen's education, and his strong Republican loyalties. The letterbooks reflect Saxton's position as an aide-de-camp for his brother and Rufus Saxton's administration of the Department of the South and the former slaves under his jurisdiction.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet (24 boxes)

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Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930. Papers of George Edward Woodberry [manuscript] 1880-1926.

Title: Papers of George Edward Woodberry [manuscript] 1880-1926.

The collection contains the poems The choir boy and The mosque at Ephesus. In his correspondence Woodberry writes to S.R. Koehler on reviews and a Blake article for the American art review, to Henry Oscar Houghton on corrections in his life of Poe, to Eugène Lemoine Didier on Poe's alleged Baltimore marriage, to W. E. Benjamin on Tamerlane, to Abbie Farwell Brown enclosing a poem, to Hugh McAtamney on Mr. Gilbert's public library in Beverley, Mass., to Mr. Young on Richard LeGallienne's friendly reviews, to William Hayes Wood declining to speak on college literature courses and to several unidentified recipients on Poe, and proofreading. A letter from Josephine Laltram Swayne requesting information on Brooks Farm, and a copy of a 1698 indenture on the Katch Larke owned by Nathaniel Hathorne are included.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

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Edith Roelker Curtis Papers MS 39., 1916-1989

Title: Edith Roelker Curtis Papers 1916-1989

Author, Poet, Biographer, Diarist. Papers include correspondence, photographs, line-a-day diaries; scrapbooks, financial records, and material relating to her literary career, including published and unpublished manuscripts, poetry, stories, articles, publicity, reviews, fan mail, research material, and forty-two volumes of diaries. Curtis' introspections give a perspective on a life's journey that included a troubled marriage and complex family life; a struggle to make a career as a writer; and day-to-day observations of New England life, from Boston elite society to small town New Hampshire.

ArchivalResource: 26 boxes; (16 Linear Ft.)

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Brisbane Family Papers, 1819-1965.

Title: Brisbane Family Papers 1819-1965.

The Brisbane Family Papers are a collection of documents, mostly correspondence dated 1819-1965, by and about the Brisbane family. The collection has been divided into three sections: items relating to social reformer Albert Brisbane (1809-1890); those of his journalist son, Arthur (1864-1936), and his descendents; and documents pertaining to journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman ("Nellie Bly") (1867-1922).

ArchivalResource: 5.75 linear ft.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. The Blithedale romance : Concord, Mass. : autograph manuscript signed, 1852 May.

Title: The Blithedale romance : Concord, Mass. : autograph manuscript signed, 1852 May.

With title page, table of contents, preface, and text.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (207 p.) ; 25.4 cm.

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Curtis, George William, 1824-1892. Letters to John Sullivan Dwight, 1843-1890.

Title: Letters to John Sullivan Dwight, 1843-1890.

Includes fifty-six letters from Curtis to Dwight concerning a concert by the New York Philharmonic Society, the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, Brook Farm and the Harbinger, the Emerson and Hawthorne families, individualism, Curtis's daily life and farming in Concord, Curtis's latest readings, Italian travels, engagement to Eliza Winthrop, a Boston Athenaeum exhibition, the beginning of Dwight's Journal of Music, and various musings by Curtis on music, art, nature, and the seasons. Also includes one letter to Dwight from Curtis's brother, James Burrill Curtis.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.3 linear ft.)

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Papers, 1822-1930 (bulk: 1830-1877).

Title: Papers of Ralph Waldo Emerson [manuscript], 1822-1930 (bulk 1830-1877).

The collection contains complete manuscripts or portions of numerous poems including "The rhodora," "Hymn, sung at the completion of the Concord monument," "Days," "Sea-shore," "Behold the sea," "Friends at Folansbee Lake," "Illusions," and "The forerunners." Prose manuscripts include those for "Solution" and "Unitarian belief" with portions of numerous other essays or lectures including one on John Quincy Adams. Other manuscripts include an 11 page autobiography through 1856; an "Account of interview with Mr. J. Adams, aged 90" and prologue to a Christmas play, with associated manuscript of F. B. Sanborn. Printed material consists of newsclippings of Emerson's obituaries. There are also 14 prints or photographs of Emerson and his home. Correspondence relates to the literary career and personal life of Emerson, to his ministry in the Unitarian Church, his lectures in the United States and abroad, hs editorship of "The Dial," his relationship with Thomas Carlyle and the supervision of the American edition of Carlyle's work. There are also letters of Edward Waldo Emerson and Ellen T. Emerson with their father. Chief correspondents include C. A. Bartol, Henry Whitney Bellows, Samuel Bellows, Samuel Brown, James Eliott Cabot, Peleg Chandler, James Freeman Clark, Moncure Daniel Conway, Rebecca L. Duncan, Likian Jackson Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Fields, Osgood & Co., Gugielmo Gajani, Henry George, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Arthur Helps, and Alexander Ireland. Also Little, Brown & Co., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Theodore Lyman, Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, William B. Robers, L. B. Russell, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Epes Sargent, John Sartain, Mary E. P. Stearns, George Luther Stearns, Henry David Thoreau, John Weiss, C.H. Wheeler, Charles Stearns Wheeler, and B. B. Wiley. Topics include religion, philosophy, American culture and government, Brook Farm, Fourierism, abolition, poetry, Longfellow's novel "Kavanagh," the Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Emerson's translation of the Persian poet Hafiz, the Concord Centennial, the Saturday Club, Emerson's English and California tours, the Boston Athenaeum, the Fourth of July and the case of French vs. Upton. The following people are also mentioned in his correspondence : Amos Bronson Alcott, Louis Aggasiz, Lord & Lady Amberley, George Bancroft, William Ellery Channing, Arthur Hugh Clough, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Margaret Fuller, Horatio Greenough, Herman F. Grimm, Harro Paul Herring, Samule Hoar, Also Washington Irving, Henry James, Charles Morris, John Gorham Palfry, Coventry Patmore, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Sarah Sheppard, Daniel Webster, John Greenleaf Whittier, William A. Wheeler and William Wordsworth.

ArchivalResource: 230 items.

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Hooper, Ellen Sturgis, 1812-1848. Poems, 1840, n.d.

Title: Poems, 1840, n.d.

Notebook with ms. poems; only one is dated (1840). Includes "The Community Brook Farm," by Susan Sturgis Bigelow and Hooper.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Ralph Waldo Emerson letters to Charles King Newcomb, 1842 Mar. 18-1858 July 25.

Title: Ralph Waldo Emerson letters to Charles King Newcomb, 1842 Mar. 18-1858 July 25.

Twenty-two letters, 1842-1858, from Emerson to Newcomb, while Newcomb lived at Brook Farm and in Providence. The letters refer to "The Two Dolons" and its anticipated publication in the Dial, to Margaret Fuller, Henry D. Thoreau, Elizabeth Hoar, Bronson Alcott, Caroline Sturgis Tappan, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George P. Bradford, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edmund Hosmer, Ellery Channing, Samuel Ward, and Swedenborg. In the earlier letters (1842), Emerson repeatedly asks Newcomb to visit him in Concord. The letters are accompanied by a photographic port. of Emerson and by a letter and a note. (Cont.) from Edward Waldo Emerson to Miss Holland.

ArchivalResource: 22 items ; 26 cm. or smaller + 5 envelopes.

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