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Letters to Charles Eliot Norton and other papers, 1702-1952

Title: Letters to Charles Eliot Norton and other papers, 1702-1952

Possibly an autograph collection of letters from famous literary, cultural, and political figures, some of which are addressed to Charles Eliot Norton. Others are addressed to a variety of correspondents. Also includes cut signatures, books, pamphlets, clippings and other printed material.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00335/catalog View

Parton, James, 1822-1891. [Mechanics pamphlets 5].

Title: [Mechanics pamphlets 5]. [1859-1893?]

ArchivalResource: 18 v. in 1 : ill. ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42259554 View

James Thomas Fields autograph album, 1750-1941.

Title: James Thomas Fields autograph album, 1750-1941.

Letters and autographs collected by Boston publisher James Thomas Fields.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.16 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00689/catalog View

Thomas Wentworth Higginson correspondence

Title: Thomas Wentworth Higginson correspondence

Letters from various correspondents to author, reformer, and soldier Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00929/catalog View

Parton, James, 1822-1891. Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Title: Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Correspondents include family members, professional associates such as publishers and researchers, and personal friends. Much of the professional correspondence concerns the biographies, articles, and speeches he wrote about political and literary figures, such as Aaron Burr and General Benjamin F. Butler, and his interest in copyright and other legal matters. Also includes correspondence of Ellen Willis Eldrege Parton and Ethel Parton. Finally there are Parton's financial accounts with publishers, photographs, genealogies, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79843093 View

Houghton, Henry Oscar, 1823-1895. Henry Oscar Houghton additional papers, 1836-1977 (inclusive).

Title: Henry Oscar Houghton additional papers, 1836-1977 (inclusive).

Includes: correspondence; manuscripts; notes; materials on the Clay and Houghton families and the Atlantic Monthly Contributor's Dinner for 1874; and printed materials. Letters to Kershaw relate to ceramics (Kershaw was the husband of Justine Houghton, daughter of HOH). Correspondents include: Edward Everett; Charles William Eliot; Henry Oscar Houghton (1856- ); Nanna Wyer Houghton; Houghton family members; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; James Parton; Edna Dean Procter; Horace Elisha Scudder; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward; and many others.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612198457 View

Letters from Ida L. Greeley, 1873-1878.

Title: Letters from Ida L. Greeley, 1873-1878.

Letters to the American biographerJames Parton from Ida L. Greeley along with his notes on the Voltaire centennial celebration.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01170/catalog View

Gibboney, Stuart G. (Stuart Gatewood), 1877-1944,. Genealogical data pertaining to the Hemings family of Monticello, 1961-1966.

Title: Genealogical data pertaining to the Hemings family of Monticello, 1961-1966.

The collection contains charts, correspondence and notes of John Cook Wyllie, Pearl M. Graham, Nellie E. Jones and Stuart G. Gibboney concerning Betty Hemings and her descendants including Sally Hemings. Included is correspondence of and about Nellie E. Jones, a descendant of Madison Hemings and the owner of a pair of spectacles and an inkwell once owned by Thomas Jefferson. Letters from Pearl M. Graham discuss her research on Jefferson-Hemings descendants, and her belief that the novel "Clotel" is based on fact. She also disputes Thomas Jefferson Randolph's denial to historian Henry S. Randall of a liason between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a denial then repeated in James Parton's life of Jefferson. The collection also contains a photograph of the gravestone of Priscilla Hemmings; research notes and genealogies charted by John Cook Wyllie including one tracing the ancestry of Nellie E. Jones; and a photograph of Ann Elizabeth Forrest Isaacs from Ebony magazine, 1954.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49622145 View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog View

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867. Papers of Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1835-1866.

Title: Papers of Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1835-1866.

The collection contains several poems, an essay and a quotation by Willis. Subjects in his correspondence include his travels in England, 1831-1836; publication matters, particularly involving the Home Journal; his literary work and the writings of others; financial success of his plays; and his family and health. Briefer topics include a portrait of James T. Fields by Mathew Brady; his narrowly averted duel with Captain James Marryat; meeting Jane Porter; help from Henry Tuckerman; and duty on books published in England. Recipients include Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Almont Barnes, Ann Lynch Botta, Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Theodore Sedgwick Fay, James T. Fields, James Henry Hackett, Fitz-Green Halleck, Abraham Hart, Harper & Brothers, Asa Hutchinson, Benson John Lossing, Thomas R. Lounsbury, Mary Russell Mitford, George Pope Morris, John Gorham Palfrey, John Williamson Palmer, James Parton, E[phraim?] Peabody, Samuel B. Ruggles, Epes Sargent, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Osmond Tiffany, Teresa Vielé, George Virtue, and Catherine Ann Warfield. There is also one letter written by Cornelia Willis for her husband. In addition the collection contains a photograph, two engravings, and a magazine drawing of Willis, and an engraving of a house, "Ashland."

ArchivalResource: 70 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54395077 View

Parton, James, 1822-1891. Family papers, 1835-1966.

Title: Family papers, 1835-1966.

Correspondence of James Parton primarily with Florence Adams Bannard, Milton Emblick Flower, and Ethel Thomas Parton. Also includes correspondence and photographs of Parton family members as well as compositions by Ethel Thompson Parton.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122520481 View

North American Review. North American Review papers, ca. 1842-1868 (inclusive), 1864-1868 (bulk).

Title: North American Review papers, ca. 1842-1868 (inclusive), 1864-1868 (bulk).

Manuscripts of articles written for the North American Review, 1864-1868, during the associate editorship of Charles Eliot Norton. Includes articles by Henry Adams, E. L. Godkin, W. D. Howells, Henry James Sr., Henry James Jr., William James, H. C. Lea, Simon Newcomb, James Parton, William Dwight Whitney, Chauncey Wright, and others. There are also two indexes to the names of writers for the North American Review, arranged by issue number. One, by James Winthrop Harris, covers 1815-1842 (v. 1-55). The other covers 1815-1860 (v. 1-91).

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes and 2 volumes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612370676 View

Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944.

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records

Records of Houghton Mifflin Company and its predecessors, containing papers relating to both the printing and publishing branches of the business.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear feet (165 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00009/catalog View

Henry Oscar Houghton additional papers, 1836-1977.

Title: Henry Oscar Houghton additional papers, 1836-1977.

Additional papers of Massachusetts printer and publisher Henry Oscar Houghton. Alsoincludes some family papers, especially those of Boston Museum of Fine Arts Curator,Francis Stewart Kershaw.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00091/catalog View

Parton, James, 1822-1891. Additional papers, 1849-1891.

Title: Additional papers, 1849-1891.

Contains Parton's notebooks, trip journal, scrapbook, minutes of committees, lectures, compositions, clippings, and articles by and about Parton.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes, 10 v. (5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84274063 View

Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Title: Howells family papers, 1850-1954 (inclusive).

Correspondence, compositions, and diaries of American novelist William Dean Howells as well as papers of his wife and children.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes, 2 volumes, 2 portfolio boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01480/catalog View

Blair Family Papers, 1755-1968, (bulk 1829-1892)

Title: Blair Family Papers 1755-1968 (bulk 1829-1892)

Prominent family in nineteenth century national politics. Correspondence, speeches and writings, legal files, financial records, historical research files, printed matter, and estate records documenting principally the careers of Francis Preston Blair, journalist and presidential advisor, Frank P. Blair, soldier and politician, and Montgomery Blair, lawyer and cabinet officer.

ArchivalResource: 19,050 items; 73 containers plus 1 oversize; 29.5 linear feet; 49 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998026 View

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

Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949. Barrett assorted authors collection, 1814-1947

Title: Barrett assorted authors collection [manuscript] 1814-1947.

The collection contains manuscripts of The broken battalions by Paul Hamilton Hayne, The flower of Liberty by Oliver W. Holmes, and The need of two loaves by Nathaniel Parker Willis, as well as a printed pamphlet What Mr. Jenkins thinks by Heman Lincoln Wayland. Topics discussed in the authors' correspondence include personal finances, efforts to get published, lectures and public appearances, booksellers and selling, book reviews, book and autograph collecting, other writers, current writing, illnesses, regrets and acceptances and editing. There are brief comments on current events including the slave trade, the War of 1812, the Civil War and World War I. Correspondents are: James Truslow Adams, George Ade, Washington Allston, Leonard Bacon, Isaac Bailey, S. Baring-Gould, Albert Barnes, Theodric Romeyn Beck, Lyman Beecher, J.D. Bell, William Rose Benét, Robert Bonner, Henry Chandler Bowen, Louis Bromfield, James Brooks, George Washington Bungay, Thornton W. Burgess, John Burroughs, George Washington Cable, Henry Charles Carey, William Ellery Channing, William Ellery Channing, Francis James Child, George William Childs, Horace Porter, Alexander Robert Chisolm, William Conant Church, Edward Daniel Clarke, Richard Coe, Joseph Green Cogswell, Samuel Stillman Conant, Charles Taber Congdon, Martin Franklin Conway, Moncure Daniel Conway, Joseph Cook, David Goodman Croly, Jane Cunningham Croly, Frederick William Nicholls Crouch, George Ticknor Curtis, George William Curtis. Frederic Dannay, Francis W. Dawson, Joseph Delaplaine, Eugene Lemoine Didier, Mary Abigail Dodge, Ignatius Donnelly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Addis Emmet, Jeremiah Evarts, Edward Everett, T. Farre, Edward S. Farrow, C.C. Felton, John Fiske, Clyde Fitch, Peter Force, Hamlin Garland, Caroline Howard Gilman, Parke Godwin, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Asa Gray, Barry Gray, George Gray, Joel Tyler Headley, Robert Silliman Hillyer, Edward Howard House, Freeman Hurst, Burges Johnson, Thomas Wallace Knox, Melville de Lancey Landon, Fitzhugh Lee, Francis Lieber, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Benson Lossing, Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop, William McFee, Archibald MacLeish, Julia Marlowe, Samuel Merwin, Elias Nason, Scott Nearing, Bill Nye, Edgar Wilson, James Parton, James Kirke Paulding. Jonathan Cogswall Perkins, Bliss Perry, Morris Phillips, Wendell Phillips, Octavius Pickering, George Henry Preble, William Hickling Prescott, Agnes Repplier, Edgar Saltus, Carl Sandburg, Frederick Saunders, John Savage, Montgomery Schuyler, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Ernest Thompson Seton, Elizabeth M. Sewell, Lemuel Shattuck, George William Sheldon, Henry Augustus Shute, L.H. Sigourney, Upton Sinclair, Edward Spencer, Charles Sprague, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ann Sophia Stephens, M. Stillman, Jared Sparks, Richard Henry Stoddard, Wilkins Tannehill, Bayard Taylor, Marion Harland, Maurice Thompson, John Reuben Thompson, Benjamin W. Ticknor, George Ticknor, Theodore Tilton, George Francis Train, John Townsend Trowbridge, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Henry Van Dyke, Jeanette Walworth, Joseph Warren, Heman Lincoln Wayland. Noah Webster, R.A. West, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Marshall Pinckney Wilder, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and James Grant Wilson. Recipients includes William Johnson Bacon, Henry Carey Baird, James Nelson Barker, [Maxwell Struthers?] Burt, Henry Charles Carey, Carey & Hart, Eckstein Case, Salmon Portland Chase, William Pleater Davidge, Eugene Lemoine Didier, Charles Daniel Drake, John Wakefield Francis, Samuel Ward Francis, Nathan Hale, Joseph LeRoy Harrison, Abraham Hart, George Stillman Hillard, Isabella Batchelder James, Ralph Olmstead Keeler, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, F.W. McDonough, R. Shelton Mackenzie, North American Review, Horace Porter, Justus Starr Redfield, Matthew Hale Smith, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Richard Henry Stoddard, Theodore Tilton, Charles Burr Todd, and James Wolcott Wadsworth. The collection also contains portraits of John Esten Cooke, George William Curtis, Jeremiah Evarts, James Kirke Paulding, William H. Prescott, and Bayard Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 144 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647968743 View

Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.

Title: Autograph File, P, 1554-2005.

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: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01439/catalog View

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911. Correspondence, 1843-1911.

Title: Correspondence, 1843-1911.

Letters from a wide array of correspondents concerning literary and political affairs. Correspondents include George William Curtis, Edward Everett Hale, Henry Lee Higginson, Louise Chandler Moulton, Charles Eliot Norton, James Parton, Josephine Preston Peabody, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, and Richard Grant White, among others. Some letters are to his second wife, Mary Thacher Higginson. Letters by Thomas Wentworth Higginson are mostly to Julia Ward Howe. Also includes a small amount of printed material.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80954794 View

Austin, P. E. Trade catalogs of sewing and needlework, 1860-1929.

Title: Trade catalogs of sewing and needlework, 1860-1929.

Catalogs, brochures, and instruction books on home and industrial sewing machines, chiefly Singer sewing machines, accessories and parts, histories of the sewing machine, and other ephemera relating to sewing machines.

ArchivalResource: 55 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568977 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

George William Curtis additional correspondence, 1844-1891.

Title: George William Curtis additional correspondence, 1844-1891.

Letters written to the American author George Curtis along with letters from him to his wife Anna Shaw Curtis.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00924/catalog View

Parton, James, 1822-1891. Letter to [?]. Newburyport, MA. 1886 Aug. 30.

Title: Letter to [?]. Newburyport, MA. 1886 Aug. 30.

Concerning a request.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122335125 View

J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge papers, 1855-1939.

Title: J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge papers, 1855-1939.

Correspondence, photographs, and manuscripts of American writer John Townsend Trowbridge

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00379/catalog View

Parton, James, 1822-1891. Papers of James Parton [manuscript] 1860-1893.

Title: Papers of James Parton [manuscript] 1860-1893.

Parton discusses his writing, especially a project of articles on tours taken by U.S. Presidents Washington and Jackson, and an article on Jefferson for which Charles Scott Venable of the University of Virginia supplied documents; the Civil War including treatment of prisoners and citizenship for blacks; book purchases; and other publishing matters. There are also two letters from Ellen W.E. Parton regarding photographs of Parton, and a joint letter from Parton and "Fanny Fern" mentioning Parton's Andrew Jackson. Correspondents include Estes and Lauriet, Fanny Fern, James Thomas Fields, William B. Lewis, Samuel Sidney McClure, George Pope Morris, Robert Patterson and James Grant Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647934391 View

Fanny Fern and Ethel Parton Papers MS 117., 1805-1982

Title: Fanny Fern and Ethel Parton Papers 1805-1982

Author, journalist, columnist, children's author, and humorist. Sara Payson Willis wrote for several small Boston magazines under the name Fanny Fern; numerous newspapers soon published her pieces. She had a regular weekly column in the New York Ledger and was one of the first woman columnists. Ethel Parton, granddaughter of Sara Willis and James Parton, worked as a writer and literary assistant, and at age 70 began writing children's books. Materials include extensive writings, correspondence, sketches, albums, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes; (7 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss19.html 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