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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Papers, 1798-1893 (bulk 1827-1887)

Title: Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

Correspondence and manuscripts of American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian, Dorothea Dix.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00078/catalog 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

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

Title: Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

The bulk of the collection is correspondence, much of it pertaining to Dix's work with the mentally ill. Includes letters from superintendents of hospitals for the insane: 134 from Dr. John Curwen at the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum in Harrisburg, 129 from Dr. Charles H. Nichols at the Government Hospital for the Insane (now St. Elizabeths) in Washington, D.C., and 124 from Richard S. Fellowes in New Haven, Conn., as well as 69 letters from U.S. president Millard Fillmore, and letters of thanks from states, institutions, and relatives of the mentally ill. Also contains Dix's correspondence with friends in the U.S. and Great Britain; third party correspondence relating to Dix's career or discussing her after her death; reports and notes on hospitals and prisons; documents to establish asylums, regulate prisons, or authorize Dix to organize military hospitals; military passes; notebooks Dix kept with hymns, sermons, and passages from the Bible; one diary, 1857; poems; address books; financial and genealogical papers; wills;portraits; daguerreotypes; biographical material; puzzles; printed material; clippings; and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

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Robert Owen Collection, 1805-1858

Title: Robert Owen Collection 1805-1858

ArchivalResource: 2991 items

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Bird, Charles, d. 1849. Charles Bird Papers, 1800-1837 (inclusive).

Title: Charles Bird Papers, 1800-1837 (inclusive).

The Charles Bird Papers holds the business records of a successful hardware importer and merchant, and includes correspondence and records of financial transactions with merchants in England, cities along the American east coast, and Cuba.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes 1.67 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145522366 View

Central Association for Stopping the Sale of Intoxicating Liquor on Sundays. Correspondence, 1859-1885.

Title: Correspondence, 1859-1885.

Consists of over two hundred letters and signatures, as well as some images, relating to the Temperance Movement in England. The letters date predominantly from the 1870s, a time when the Temperance Movement was emerging as an important political force in Great Britain, and are principally addressed to leading figures in the Temperance Movement in north-west England: Edwin Barton and Robert Whitworth, honorary secretaries of the Central Association for Stopping the Sale of Intoxicating Liquor on Sundays, and Robert Martin, secretary of the License Amendment League. The majority of the letters are written by politicians, relating to petitions to stop the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sundays.

ArchivalResource: 276 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/609678383 View

War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Title: War of 1812 mss., 1776-1879

Consists of individual items acquired separately either as a gift or purchase from a variety of sources, relating to the War of 1812.

ArchivalResource: 3181 items

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