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Woodman, Horatio. Autographs, 1836-1840.

Title: Autographs, 1836-1840.

A collection of short letters written to Horatio Woodman, Exeter, New Hampshire, 1836-1840, for his autograph collection, including signatures of many persons important in public life at the time, such as James K. Polk, Daniel Webster, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Clement C. Clay, and W. B. Calhoun.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145773487 View

Brainard, Charles Henry, 1817-1885. Papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Title: Charles Henry Brainard papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Autograph album (1858-1884), a letter book (1855-1883), and a scrapbook of letters and autographs (1795-1857 and undated) of American print dealer, publisher, and historian, Charles Henry Brainard.

ArchivalResource: 4 volumes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01547/catalog View

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Autograph letter signed : Concord [Mass.], to Horatio Woodman, 1862 Mar. 22.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Concord [Mass.], to Horatio Woodman, 1862 Mar. 22.

Apologizing for misquoting [Ralph Waldo] Emerson; criticizing Emerson's support for John Brown; encouraging Woodman to favor [James Thomas] Fields "as a candidate for the club"; referring to [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 15.2 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/456453988 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

Woodman, Horatio, 1821-1870. Letter : Boston, to Joseph H. Barrett, 1870 Jan. 24.

Title: Letter : Boston, to Joseph H. Barrett, 1870 Jan. 24.

Autograph letter signed. Relates to a eulogy for Edwin Stanton.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52248874 View

Woodman, Horatio, 1821-1870. Letter : Boston, to Joseph H. Barrett, 1870 Jan. 24.

Title: Letter : Boston, to Joseph H. Barrett, 1870 Jan. 24.

Autograph letter signed. Relates to a eulogy for Edwin Stanton.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79008508 View

Woodman, Horatio, 1821-1879. Horatio Woodman papers, 1843-1899; bulk: 1843-1879.

Title: Horatio Woodman papers, 1843-1899; bulk: 1843-1879.

Correspondence of Boston literary personality Horatio Woodman, lawyer, literary agent, writer, editor of the Boston Evening Transcript, and one of the founders of the Saturday Club (a Boston literary club founded in 1856). Woodman maintained intimate friendships with prominent writers and the collection contains correspondence with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Peirce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard Grant White; other lawyers such as Richard Henry Dana; and other founders of the Saturday Club including Louis Agassiz, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Samuel Gray Ward, and Edwin Percy Whipple. Woodman was also active in military affairs during the Civil War through his friendships with Mass. Gov. John A. Andrew and Charles Sumner. His letters to them offer military advice and discuss articles published in the Transcript related to the Civil War; and discuss Woodman's criticism of Gen. George B. McClellan.

ArchivalResource: 1 box and 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43752611 View