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Robert Carter letters from various correspondents, 1851-1898 (inclusive), 1851-1862 (bulk).

Title: Robert Carter letters from various correspondents, 1851-1898 (inclusive), 1851-1862 (bulk).

Letters to American author and politician Robert Carter.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00787/catalog View

James Fowler Simmons Papers, 1771-1939, (bulk 1840-1860)

Title: James Fowler Simmons Papers 1771-1939 (bulk 1840-1860)

Manufacturer, political leader, and United States senator from Rhode Island. Correspondence, family letters, memoranda, legal documents, account books, photographs, and printed matter relating to Simmons's cotton and yarn manufacturing enterprises and to public matters, including the tariff, Thomas Dorr and the Dorr Rebellion of 1842, the nomination and election of Abraham Lincoln as president, and social, economic, and political conditions in Rhode Island.

ArchivalResource: 21,000 items; 58 containers; 19 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010252 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

Garrison family papers, 1801-1948 (inclusive), 1840-1907 (bulk).

Title: Garrison family papers, 1801-1948 (inclusive), 1840-1907 (bulk).

Papers of American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and his family.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00673/catalog View

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884. Papers, 1555-1882 (bulk: 1833-1881)

Title: Wendell Phillips papers, 1555-1882 (inclusive) 1833-1881 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, and other papers of American abolitionist Wendell Phillips.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes (17.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00497/catalog View

Letters from various correspondents, 1850-1895 (inclusive), 1852-1878 (bulk).

Title: Letters from various correspondents, 1850-1895 (inclusive),1852-1878 (bulk).

Letters from various correspondents to American lawyer and politician Edward LilliePierce.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01271/catalog View

Walker, Amasa, 1799-1875,. [Amasa Walker collection of materials concerning railroads between Boston and St. Louis].

Title: [Amasa Walker collection of materials concerning railroads between Boston and St. Louis]. [1835-1840]

A compilation of circulars, pamphlets, charters, acts of incorporation, letters to newpapers, and other clippings concerning the desirability of uninterrupted rail service between Boston and the Mississippi River.

ArchivalResource: 13 pieces ; 18-22 cm, in binding 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60554569 View

Bird, Francis William, 1809-1894. Papers, 1826-1924; bulk: 1847-1889

Title: Francis William Bird papers, 1826-1924 (inclusive), 1847-1889 (bulk).

Papers of American antislavery leader, state legislator and paper manufacturer Francis William Bird. The bulk of the collection is letters to Bird from his political colleagues in the Free-Soil and antislavery movements, about two thirds of them written before or during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01325/catalog View

Alexander Del Mar Letters, 1866-1896

Title: Alexander Del Mar Letters 1866-1896

Papers of the American mining engineer, economist, historian, politician. Delmar was Director of the U.S. Bureau of Statistics and Chairman of the National Silver Party. Incoming correspondence in reply to requests for reports from the heads of various government agencies (Horatio C. Burchard, William Pitt Kellogg, N.C. McFarland, Joseph Nimmo, Charles W. Seaton).

ArchivalResource: 22 items (SC)

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/d/delmar_a.htm View

Walker, Amasa, 1799-1875. Amasa Walker papers, 1823-1902.

Title: Amasa Walker papers, 1823-1902.

Loose papers of Amasa Walker, political economist, abolitionist, peace advocate, farmer, and merchant of North Brookfield, Mass. contain correspondence on subjects including the peace movement and League of Universal Brotherhood, national politics, particularly with regard to the slavery question, and lectures. Correspondents include Charles Sumner and Thomas Drew. Also included are a few family letters. (Cont'd) Seven scrapbooks contain clippings on Walker's views in debates over slavery, currency and bank failures, and other misc. subjects. Several of the vols. had been used by Walker as account books and are partially or wholly obscured by the clippings. These include two account books and a financial letterbook (1837-39) of the India Fire and Marine Insurance Co. of Boston of which Walker was a trustee and an account book recording sales of dry goods by the Boston firm of Carleton, Walker, and Co. (1825-27). (Cont'd) One vol. also contains an undated account of a voyage to Malta by Robert W. Walker. The collection also includes an anonymous account book recording sales of shoes and boots (1848); accounts of the "Hale farm" in North Brookfield (1855-63); two small vols. kept by Walker as one of the commissioners appointed by the state to investigate an epidemic of pleuropneumonia among cattle, including the results of examinations of the herds in eastern Mass. (1860); and a scrapbook containing obituaries of Walker's son, Francis A. Walker (1897).

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes and 2 narrow boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32183750 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

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

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Walker, Amasa, 1799-1875. Amasa Walker document signed, 1851-1852.

Title: Amasa Walker document signed, 1851-1852.

Document signed by which Walker, Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, certifies the Revolutionary War service of Joseph Brackett, of Falmouth, Me.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232608557 View

Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Title: Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Papers of the Palfrey family of New England. The material of this collection encompasses over 150 years of American history and many items of interest besides those documenting the life and works of John Gorham Palfrey, who is its central figure. A few of these may be briefly mentioned here. The papers of William Palfrey include letters between John Wilkes and the Sons of Liberty and William Palfrey's personal correspondence with Wilkes at the time of the latter's imprisonment in 1769-1770, including Palfrey's description of the Boston Massacre. William Palfrey's business account and financial papers are extensive and range in subject from accounts of trade with Virginia in 1763 to the disposition of funds of the Continental Army during the time Palfrey was Pay Master General. His close association and correspondence with John Hancock should be noted. Several interesting items pertain to the dispute between Hancock and the Boston printer, John Mein, which resulted in Thomas Longman's suit against Mein and the latter's imprisonment. The papers of John Palfrey deal mainly with his business affairs and the management of his plantation at Attakapas. However, several letters by his sons, Edward, William Taylor, and Henry William give first-hand accounts of battles in the war of 1812. Letters to John Gorham Palfrey from over 1000 corespondents form the largest single section in the collection. Of special importance are 377 letters from Jared Sparks and 148 letters from Charles Sumner.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet (130 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00387/catalog View

Additional letters from various correspondents, 1849-1931.

Title: Additional letters from various correspondents, 1849-1931.

Letters toentomologist and Director of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology Samuel Henshawprimarily pertaining to professional and museum matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01112/catalog View

Joseph R. Hawley Papers, 1638-1906, (bulk 1841-1906)

Title: Joseph R. Hawley Papers 1638-1906 (bulk 1841-1906)

Army officer, editor and United States representative and senator from Connecticut. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, drafts of speeches, business papers, and memorabilia relating to Hawley's personal and family life and to his business and political work.

ArchivalResource: 13,200 items; 45 containers; 13.6 linear feet; 29 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010129 View