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Letters from various correspondents, 1854-1897.

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1854-1897.

Letters toMassachusetts lawyer Edward Lillie Pierce from Charles Francis Adams, Samuel PortlandChase, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Carl Schurz, and many other correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01482/catalog View

Benjamin Peirce Papers.

Title: Benjamin Peirce Papers.

ArchivalResource:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01552/catalog View

Harvard University Archives. Records Of The Harvard Observatory.

Title: Harvard University Archives. Records Of The Harvard Observatory.

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Autograph File, E, 1564-1961.

Title: Autograph File, E, 1564-1961.

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: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01428/catalog View

Papers of Oakes Ames, 1897-1967 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Oakes Ames, 1897-1967 (inclusive).

 Oakes Ames (1874-1950) graduated from Harvard in 1898, taught botany at Harvard and was director of the Botanical Museum.  His papers document his personal and family life, and include autobiographical material.  They also document the field of botany, including teaching, research, and the administration of the Botanical Museum.

ArchivalResource: 12 containers (folders or boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua08003/catalog 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

Papers, 1838-1907, 1918-1920

Title: Papers, 1838-1907, 1918-1920

Diaries, correspondence, etc., of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and researcher.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes, 1 supersize folder

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00225/catalog View

Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes, 1867-2005

Title: Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes, 1867-2005

These papers of Fogg Museum director Edward Waldo Forbes document his administration of the museum and a wide range of personal and professional activities and interests. The bulk of the collection dates from 1909 to 1944. The papers consist primarily of correspondence, including a series of correspondence with art dealers, and also include photographs, reports, expedition field notes and journals, printed material, newspaper clippings, blueprints, meeting minutes, letters of recommendation, insurance records, invoices, page proofs, telegrams, rubbings, sketches, visiting cards, shipping documents and press releases.

ArchivalResource: 51 linear feet (119 file boxes, oversize materials)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00005/catalog View

James Morgan Hart papers, 1856-1916.

Title: James Morgan Hart papers, 1856-1916.

Includes letters from scholars relating to the study of languages and literature, particularly Old English, Celtic, and German, and to scholarly language journals and associations; from educators relating to university patterns and policies at Cornell; from editors concerning Hart's publications; from Mrs. Bayard Taylor regarding her husband's papers; autographed letters from Louisa May Alcott, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Hamilton Fish, Henry James, Henry W. Longfellow, Lord Russell, and others addressed to Hart's father, John Seeley Hart; notes on German and English literature; photograph albums of family and friends; scrapbook of Hart's letters to newspapers; typescript copies of letters of Will Doherty relating to entomological collecting trips in Asia, Africa, and Europe; letters from Hart to his parents commenting on his student days at Princeton and Göttingen, his life as a law clerk in New York City, and his experiences as an instructor at Cornell and in subsequent teaching posts; and letters from T.F. Crane commenting on affairs at Cornell University.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMA00065.xml View

Learned Hand papers

Title: Learned Hand papers

Materials relating to Hand's private and public life, his activities as an alumnus of Harvard University, his friendship with Felix Frankfurter, and to the Hand family. Includes material on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City; information on the Progressive movement (1909-1914) and the beginnings of the New Republic and its early staff; and transcripts of oral-history interviews conducted by Gerald Gunther of Stanford Law School and others, of Judge Hand, his family and associates.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear feet linear feet (in 235 boxes and 18 paige boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00059/catalog View

James Bradley Thayer papers

Title: James Bradley Thayer papers

This collection includes materials relating chiefly to Thayer's writing and teaching career. Includes research notes and drafts for A Preliminary Treatise on the Law of Evidence at the Common Law (1898) and his biography of John Marshall (1901); papers relating to his participation in the writing of the constitutions of North and South Dakota, 1889, and his chairmanship of a committee concerned with Indian legislation, 1887-1892; diary-like letters to his wife, Sophia Bradford (Ripley) Thayer, written while on a Western journey with Ralph Waldo Emerson; and letters to Emerson relating to Emerson's business affairs.

ArchivalResource: 31 boxes, 6 Paige boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00093/catalog View

Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959

Title: Papers of Professor Henry William Wilder Foote and Family, 1714-1959

Papers of Daniel Appleton White (1776-1861); wives; children including of daughter Mary Wilder Foote (1810-1857) and son William Orne White (1821-1911), William's wife, Margaret Harding White, and their children. Papers of Caleb Foote (1803-1894), his children including sons, Arthur William Foote (1853-1937) and Henry Wilder Foote (1838-1889), Henry's wife, Frances Ann Eliot Foote (1838-1896), and children. Papers of Henry Wilder Foote II (1875-1964), son of Henry Wilder Foote, of his wife Eleanor Tyson Cope Foote (b. 1879), and son Arthur Foote (II). Miscellaneous papers of ancestral families of Henry Wilder Foote II and William Orne White, including the Deadmans, the Eliots, the Flaggs, the Footes, the Haynes, the Lymans, the Ornes, the Wests, the Whites, and the Wilders.

ArchivalResource:

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00575/catalog View

Cantwell, John Simon. Papers, 1804-1907.

Title: Cantwell, John Simon. Papers, 1804-1907.

Papers of Universalist minister John Simon Cantwell, including correspondence and autographs. The papers span 1804-1907.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.21 c.f.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00585/catalog View

Papers of Phillips Brooks, 1877-1922, 1941.

Title: Papers of Phillips Brooks, 1877-1922, 1941.

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was a prominent Episcopal minister. He was a member of the Harvard College Board of Overseers (1870-1889), preacher to Harvard University (1881-1891), and a member of the Board of University Preachers to Harvard University (1886-1891).

ArchivalResource: (5 document boxes, 1 flat file box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua11004/catalog View

Biography of Samuel Atkins Eliot, ca.1885-1956 (inclusive), 1954-1956 (bulk).

Title: Biography of Samuel Atkins Eliot, ca.1885-1956 (inclusive),1954-1956 (bulk).

Drafts and other material relating to Charles W. Eliot's biography of his fatherSamuel Atkins Eliot. The biography was not completed.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00191/catalog View

Papers, 1863-1961.

Title: Papers, 1863-1961.

Papers of Unitarian minister Samuel A. Eliot including sermons, addresses, and othe writings; correspondence; subject files; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00594/catalog View

Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Title: Letters sent to Walter Hines Page from various correspondents, English period, 1876-1937.

Letters to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page from various correspondents concerning his diplomatic service.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (11.88 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00275/catalog View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01530/catalog 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

Charles Eliot Norton additional papers, 1851-1922.

Title: Charles Eliot Norton additional papers, 1851-1922.

Additional papers of American scholar and Harvard professor, Charles EliotNorton.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 1 portfolio box, and 6 volumes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01935/catalog View

Papers of Thomas Hill, 1794-1930.

Title: Papers of Thomas Hill, 1794-1930.

Thomas Hill (1818-1891) was President of Harvard University from October 6, 1862 to September 30, 1868. He was also a Unitarian minister, mathematician, scientist, educator, and Harvard University lecturer.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua15005/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

Eliot, Christopher Rhodes, 1856-1945. Papers, 1872-1943

Title: Eliot, Christopher Rhodes, 1856-1945. Papers, 1872-1943.

Papers of Unitarian minister Christopher Rhodes Eliot.

ArchivalResource: 48 boxes (48 cubic feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00075/catalog View

James Bradley Thayer papers

Title: James Bradley Thayer papers

This collection includes materials relating chiefly to Thayer's writing and teaching career. Includes research notes and drafts for A Preliminary Treatise on the Law of Evidence at the Common Law (1898) and his biography of John Marshall (1901); papers relating to his participation in the writing of the constitutions of North and South Dakota, 1889, and his chairmanship of a committee concerned with Indian legislation, 1887-1892; diary-like letters to his wife, Sophia Bradford (Ripley) Thayer, written while on a Western journey with Ralph Waldo Emerson; and letters to Emerson relating to Emerson's business affairs.

ArchivalResource: 31 boxes, 6 Paige boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00093/catalog View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, oversize, ca. 1829-1985

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, oversize, ca. 1829-1985

Oversized photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic feet; 34 boxes; 880 photographs

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua01009/catalog View

Records of the Cambridge Scientific Club, 1842-1985, bulk dates 1846-1945.

Title: Records of the Cambridge Scientific Club, 1842-1985, bulk dates 1846-1945.

The Cambridge Scientific Club was founded on November 14, 1842 as a small informal dining club consisting chiefly of members of the Harvard University faculty who met to exchange ideas on a wide variety of topics including religion, music, the natural sciences, political economy, the law, ancient history, and the fine arts. The records are organized in four series: General information about the Cambridge Scientific Club, Records of meetings, Lecture given by Cornelius C. Felton to members of the Cambridge Scientific Club, and Photographs of Cambridge Scientific Club members.

ArchivalResource: 1.37 cubic feet (3 document boxes, 43 photographs, 2 photograph albums)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua19008/catalog View

Papers, 1863-1961.

Title: Papers, 1863-1961.

Papers of Unitarian minister Samuel A. Eliot including sermons, addresses, and othe writings; correspondence; subject files; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00594/catalog View

Records of the Harvard Club, and, 1855-1858, 1933

Title: Records of the Harvard Club, and 1855-1858 1933

The short-lived Harvard Club (1855-1857), based in Boston, was the first of Harvard's alumni clubs. The Club records document the history, activities, and interests of the Club, and include general information, correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records, and committee records.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cubic foot; (1 document box, 1 flat box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua23008/catalog View

Cabot family. Papers, 1786-1945

Title: Papers of the Cabot family, 1786-2013

Correspondence, diaries, and travel journals, etc., of the Cabot family of Boston, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 13 + 1/2 file boxes, 1 card file, 1 boxed volume, 1 oversize folder

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00131/catalog View

Oliver Wendell Holmes letters from various correspondents, 1820-1894

Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes letters from various correspondents

Letters sent to Oliver Wendell Holmes by various correspondents.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (10 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01350/catalog View

Papers of Charles W. Eliot, 1869-1976 (inclusive)

Title: Papers of Charles W. Eliot, 1869-1976 (inclusive)

Contains addresses by Eliot. Also addresses, letters, and writings about Eliot; and Henry James' biography of Eliot, with author's annotations.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006040300203941/catalog View

Charles Fessenden Morse addresses on the Civil War, etc., 1885-1921.

Title: Charles Fessenden Morse addresses on the Civil War, etc., 1885-1921.

Typescript speeches given by Morse on Civil War-related subjects.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00194/catalog View

Class album, 1873.

Title: Class album, 1873.

This volume is part of a series of Harvard class photograph albums, which may be considered the nineteenth-century counterpart to yearbooks.  This volume contains photographs of instructors and administrators, class members, the campus and environs, and a few other individuals who drew the notice of the album's compiler.

ArchivalResource: 2 volumes.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua12003/catalog View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216647 View

Royal Institution (Great Britain). John Tyndall Papers.

Title: Royal Institution (Great Britain). John Tyndall Papers.

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