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Beecher Family Papers

Title: Beecher Family Papers

Correspondence, writings, speeches, diaries, clippings, printed matter, sermons, and other papers of two centuries of Beecher family members. The papers relate principally to Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), popular 19th century clergyman and orator, and members of his family. Among those represented are his father, the Reverend Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), clergyman; his brothers, Edward Beecher (1803-1895), educator and antislavery leader, and Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824-1900) and Charles Beecher (1815-1900), both clergyman and antislavery activist; and his sisters, Harriett Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe (1811-1896), author, Catherine Esther Beecher (1800-1878), pioneer educator and writer on 'domestic economy,' and Isabella Homes (Beecher) Hooker (1822-1907), well-known suffragist. Also included are papers relating to the Scoville family (mainly Annie Beecher Scoville, 1866-1953, teacher and lecturer), as well as other related families. The papers cover an extremely wide range of cultural, political, social, and religious issues and topics of 19th and early 20th century America and include correspondence from a large number of well-known men and women. The papers were previously known as the Beecher-Scoville Family Papers.

ArchivalResource: 72.67 Linear Feet (138 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0071 View

Beecher family. Beecher-Stowe family papers, 1798-1956 (inclusive).

Title: Beecher-Stowe family papers, 1798-1956 (inclusive).

Mostly correspondence, also miscellaneous writings, clippings, photographs (including daguerreotypes), and memorabilia. Correspondence of Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-1878), Esther Beecher, Eunice White (Bullard) Beecher (1813-1897), Harriet (Porter) Beecher (?-1835), Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), James C. Beecher (1828-1886), Lydia (Beals) Jackson Beecher (1789-1869), Calvin Ellis Stowe (1802-1886), Eliza Tyler Stowe (1836-?), Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe (1811-1896), Harriet Beecher Stowe II (1836-?), and Susan (Munroe) Stowe, much of which contains family news, stories, and comments about the times. Also included is material pertaining to Isabella (Beecher) Hooker (1822-1907), and other family members, as well as Lyman Beecher Stowe's correspondence and research on Charlotte (Perkins) Gilman and actress Charlotte Cushman. Bulk of the collection pertains to Harriet (Beecher) Stowe, her husband, Calvin and their children; their personal and professional correspondence includes letters from publishers and prominent people Harriet Stowe met in England.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006728 View

Dutton Family Papers, 1800-1880

Title: Dutton Family Papers, 1800-1880

The collection is valuable for the documentation it provides concerning a New Haven area clergy family during the period 1800 to 1880. Daily events and family relationships are revealed in substantive family correspondence. Of particular interest are Samuel Dutton's notebooks from his student days at Yale. The bulk of the collection is comprised of manuscript sermons written by Aaron and Samuel Dutton during their pastorates in Guilford and New Haven. These sermons touch on topics such as slavery, the Civil War, "Millerism", temperance and immigration. The sermons span the careers of both Duttons, who were known for their abolitionist stances, and thus provide an opportunity for tracing the development of their thought over a number of years. Aaron Dutton was born in Watertown, Connecticut on May 21, 1780. He served as minister of the First Congregational Church in Guilford, Connecticut from 1806 until 1842, at which time he resigned due to the dissension in the congregation regarding his abolitionist stance. In 1843, he went to Iowa in service of the American Home Missionary Society. He died in New Haven in 1849. His son, Samuel William Southmayd Dutton was born in Guilford, Connecticut on March 14, 1814. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale in 1833, he held positions as teacher, tutor, rector, minister (North Church, New Haven, Connecticut), publisher and editor. He was a noted champion of the antislavery cause. He died in Millbury, Massachusetts in 1866.

ArchivalResource: Total archival boxes 18; total linear footage 9'

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/divinity.063 View

Beecher, Charles, 1815-1900. Life of Edward Beecher [microform].

Title: Life of Edward Beecher [microform].

The manuscript is a biography of Edward Beecher, written by his younger brother, Charles. There is much about Edward's philosophy on the doctrine of pre-existence, with which Charles was in agreement.

ArchivalResource: Manuscripts.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122386254 View

Beecher, Charles, 1815-1900. Papers, 1870-1873.

Title: Papers, 1870-1873.

Correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (5 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50481848 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

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

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

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: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View

Beecher, Charles, 1815-1900. Autograph letter signed : Georgetown, [Mass.], to J.W. Harper, Jr., 1868 Nov. 1.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Georgetown, [Mass.], to J.W. Harper, Jr., 1868 Nov. 1.

Concerning the Autobiography of his father.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270622307 View

Beecher family papers MS 0509., 1822-1903, 1822-1865

Title: Beecher family papers 1822-1903 1822-1865

Beecher Family. Lyman Beecher and children: Catharine E. (1800-1878), William (1802-1889), Edward (1803-1895), Mary (1805-1900), George (1809-1843), Henry Ward (1813-1887), Charles (1815-1900), and Thomas Kinnicut (1824-1900); daughter-in-law, Katherine Edes Beecher (d. 1870), and grandson, Frederick W. Beecher. Papers consist of correspondence, sermons, lecture notes, funeral sermons, a poem and biographical information relating to members of the Beecher family; principally pertaining to family matters, women's education and theological issues; includes letters written to Mary Lyon and Zilpah Grant Banister.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes; (5 linear in.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm010.html View

Dutton Family papers, 1800-1880 (inclusive).

Title: Dutton Family papers, 1800-1880 (inclusive).

Material documents the life and work of the Dutton family, a New Haven area clergy family during the period 1800 to 1880. Daily events and family relationships are revealed in substantive family correspondence. Of particular interest are Samuel Dutton's notebooks from his student days at Yale. The bulk of the collection is comprised of manuscript sermons written by Aaron and Samuel Dutton during their pastorates in Guilford and New Haven. These sermons touch on topics such as slavery, the Civil War, "Millerism", temperance and immigration. The sermons span the careers of both Duttons, who were known for their abolitionist stances, and thus provide an opportunity for tracing the development of their thought over a number of years.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear feet (18 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702181205 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

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Harriet Beecher Stowe collection of papers, 1847-1895.

Title: Harriet Beecher Stowe collection of papers, 1847-1895.

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence by and about the author.

ArchivalResource: 43 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122346140 View

Harriet Beecher Stowe collection of papers, 1847-1895

Title: Harriet Beecher Stowe collection of papers 1847-1895

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 65 items

http://archives.nypl.org/brg/19177 View

Dutton Family papers, 1800-1880 (inclusive).

Title: Dutton Family papers, 1800-1880 (inclusive).

The collection is valuable for the documentation it provides concerning a New Haven area clergy family during the period 1800 to 1880. Daily events and family relationships are revealed in substantive family correspondence. Of particular interest are Samuel Dutton's notebooks from his student days at Yale. The bulk of the collection is comprised of manuscript sermons written by Aaron and Samuel Dutton during their pastorates in Guilford and New Haven. These sermons touch on topics such as slavery, the Civil War, "Millerism", temperance and immigration. The sermons span the careers of both Duttons, who were known for their abolitionist stances, and thus provide an opportunity for tracing the development of their thought over a number of years.

ArchivalResource: 9 linear ft. (18 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122369962 View

United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives, 1861-1870

Title: United States Sanitary Commission records. Army and Navy Claim Agency archives 1861-1870

The United States Sanitary Commission established the Army and Navy Claim Agency (ANCA) in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1864 to serve as the USSC’s central office to assist Union soldiers, sailors, and their families in prosecuting claims on the federal government for pensions, back pay, bounty, commutation of rations, prize money, and other benefits, without cost. The Army and Navy Claim Agency Archives comprise the records of the Army and Navy Claim Agency; the records of the Pension Agency, its predecessor organization; the registers and cash books of its subsidiary local agencies; and the records of two quasi-independent USSC claim agencies whose origins predate the establishment of the Army and Navy Claim Agency: the Protective War Claim Association of the State of New York, located in New York City, and the Protective War Claim and Pension Agency, located in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 506.37 linear feet; 1190 boxes, 46 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/18809 View

Chandler, Peleg W. (Peleg Whitman), 1816-1889. Letters received, 1866-1874.

Title: Letters received, 1866-1874.

These letters were received by Chandler after he retired from the bench and consideration of public office due to deafness. Yet, he continued to advise on the law and was consulted on legal and political matters by many including Governor Bullock and Congressman Hooper. In retirement, Chandler pursued other interests. A number of letters comment on his observations on the Authority of the Gospels, by a Layman (Chicago, 1867), a work notably influenced by Swedenborgian doctrines. Born in Maine, Chandler graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834 but maintained his ties to the state, where he owned a summer hotel, and to the school, which awarded him a L.L.D. in 1867. As an influential and respected resident of Boston, Chandler was involved in Back Bay improvements and in the development of the South End as a trustee of Huntington Avenue Lands. Correspondents include E.R. Hoar, John H. Clifford, George W. Blagden, George Otis Shattuck, John Codman Ropes, Rufus Ellis, Samuel Hurd Walley, Charles Wentworth Upham, George Tyler Bigelow, Cyrus Woodman, Alexander H. Bullock, Samuel Hooper, Charles Beecher, Edward Kent, Samuel Bowles, John Gorham Palfrey, George Frisbie Hoar, A.S. Packard, John Appleton, John Ross Key, Issac F. Redfield, Charles G. Greene and Charles Franklin Dunbar.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 185 items) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39273758 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

Beecher, Charles, 1815-1900. Letter : to James Manning Winchell Yerrinton, Georgtown, 1862 May 22.

Title: Letter : to James Manning Winchell Yerrinton, Georgtown, 1862 May 22.

Autograph letter signed to James Manning Winchell Yerrinton.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58564301 View