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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

Photographs of Harvard professors including Oliver W. Holmes, H.W. Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell [manuscript], ca.1864.

Title: Photographs of Harvard professors including Oliver W. Holmes, H.W. Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell [manuscript], ca.1864.

Eighteen photographs; see control folder for full list of subjects.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647982461 View

Winlock, Joseph, 1826-1875. Letterbook, 1857-1875.

Title: Letterbook, 1857-1875.

This item contains much information about his various posts and about conflicts, personalities, and the politics of science. There are also many references and comments about scientific technology of the day, and of such people as Matthew F. Maury. There are numerous letters to A. D. Bache, James Henry Coffin, Charles Henry Davis, and William H. Willcox.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (340 p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523480 View

Charles Babbage selected correspondence, 1827-1871, 1827-1871

Title: Charles Babbage selected correspondence, 1827-1871 1827-1871

Mentioned in these letters are personal affairs, experiments, Babbage's calculating machine, and his "Bridgewater Treatise," second edition.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.15-ead.xml View

Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871. Selected correspondence, 1827-1871.

Title: Selected correspondence, 1827-1871.

Mentioned in these letters are personal affairs, experiments, Babbage's calculating machine, and his "Bridgewater Treatise," second edition.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17270536 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

Papers, 1836-1942.

Title: Papers, 1836-1942.

Correspondence, manuscripts ofpoems, translations of Dante's works, and other materials by and about American poet andtranslator Thomas William Parsons.

ArchivalResource: 4boxes, 9 v. (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01270/catalog View

Putnam, Katharine Day, 1844-1875. Papers, 1862-1876.

Title: Papers, 1862-1876.

Papers of Katharine D. Putnam, apparently compiled by Henry I. Bowditch after her death in 1875. The papers contain letters between Putnam and members of the Bowditch family, including Henry, his wife Olivia Y., and their son Edward. The letters concern the death during the Civil War of Nathaniel Bowditch, Putnam's fiance, their common grief, her relationship with the Bowditches as a second family, her illness, and death. Also included are letters from Putnam to the family from Europe in 1871, letters from Putnam to her friend Feroline Fox, primarily concerning the Civil War death of her brother (probably) Thomas B. Fox, and condolence letters to the Bowditches upon Putnam's death.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23864105 View

Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892. Pilgrimage to Appledore by H.I. and E.B. Bowditch, 1858.

Title: Pilgrimage to Appledore by H.I. and E.B. Bowditch, 1858.

Diary in letter form (to wife Olivia) written during a trip to the Isle of Shoals off the New Hampshire coast. Includes appendices: "Appledore as a place of residence for invalids" and "Orders of the Fleet."

ArchivalResource: 19 x 12 x 1 centimeters.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/723496196 View

Scientists Collection, 1563-1973

Title: Scientists Collection 1563-1973

The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 Linear feet; 13 upright boxes, 8 oversize folders.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.509.L56-ead.xml View

Slavery in the United States collection, 1703-1905.

Title: Slavery in the United States collection, 1703-1905.

This collection, which spans the years 1703 to 1905, contains a variety of correspondence, business records, and documents relating to slavery in the United States. These materials include both sides of the history of slavery, from slave trading to abolition. There is correspondence of three Richmond, Va., slave trader/auctioneer firms: R.H. Dickinson & Brother, which later became Dickinson, Hill & Co.; E.H. Stokes; and Betts & Gregory. The majority of the correspondence deals with the business of the buying and selling of slaves. Some letters from slave owners set the pricing of their slaves to be sold; while other letters describe the type of slave(s) buyers are looking for (e.g., dark mulatto, boys and girls between a certain age and/or height, a seamstress). There are other letters describing the atmosphere of slave auctions (e.g., dull). Other business records include a daybook of R.H. Dickinson & Brother for the period 1846 to 1849, and an account book for Dickinson, Hill & Co. for the years 1855 to 1858. This volume also includes scattered diary entries of Sarah Earle Chase (1836-1915) for the spring of 1865 in Richmond and for a voyage to Europe in the spring and summer of 1870. There are three folders of sales and tax receipts for slaves, as well as one folder of blank receipts. These materials, along with the above-mentioned correspondence, were probably taken from the Dickinson office in Richmond by Sarah Earle Chase and her sister Lucy Chase (1822-1909) [see the Chase Family Papers collection description]. There are six folders of correspondence of Isaiah Coffin Ray (1804-1882), a boot and shoe merchant in Nantucket and New Bedford, Mass., who shifted his calling to law in the 1850s. He was appointed to the American Anti-Slavery Committee on Finance at the 1844 Convention in New York. These letters, dated 1836 to 1851, mainly concern arrangements for lectures, meetings, etc., while some are of a more personal nature. Several of the correspondents were active in the Fourierist movement and Brook Farm, but the letters appear to be concerned primarily with anti-slavery activities. Principal correspondents are Rebecca T. Pool ( - ), John Orvis (1816-1897), John Anderson Collins (1810-1879), John Allen ( - ), Harrison Gray Otis Colby (1807-1853), Elizabeth Buffum Chace (1806-1899), Asa Burnham Hutchinson (1823-1884), John C. Cluer (1800- ), Albert Brisbane (1809-1890), and William Henry Channing (1810-1884). The miscellaneous correspondence contains both the business of slave trading and the anti-slavery movement. The letters concerning sales of slaves are mainly from the Southern States. However, there are two letters with a northern connection. The first, dated 20 February 1806, from John Taylor, of Northampton, Mass., to Noah Scovell, of Saybrook, Conn., is in regard to a runaway slave girl. The second, dated 15 March 1831, from Nathaniel Humphreys, of Antigua, to Jno. C. Lee, of Salem, Mass., is in regard to the sale of slaves. There are two letters written to Elizur Wright (1804-1885) while he was editor of the Anti-Slavery Reporter in New York City. The first, dated 26 October 1837, is from Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802-1837). He writes that " ... you may depend on me for aid in contributions to the columns of the Magazine ..." Lovejoy, however, was killed by a mob in Alton, Ill., just a few days later on 7 November. The other letter, dated 27 January 1838, is from Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866) declining to contribute to the magazine. A letter, dated 6 December 1852, from Charles Calistus Burleigh (1810-1878) to Samuel Joseph May (1797-1871) is in regard to Jefferson Lee, " ... originally from the South." It seems Lee had moved to Pennsylvania, then to Plainfield, Mass., and who " ... now thinks it will be for his advantage to remove to Canada ... He thinks of going to the Elgin settlement ..." This letter serves as an introduction of Lee to May. Two letters, dated 12 January and 5 April 1856, are from Charles Emory Smith (1842-1908), of Albany, N.Y., to his uncle Isaac Smith ( - ), of Leominster, Mass. In the letters, Smith argues in favor of abolition and the preservation of the Union, while his uncle opposed the latter principle. There is also a letter, dated 13 August 1868, from Edward A. Huston to Isaac Smith detailing Huston's visit with William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) and his family. Two photostats of letters (originals in the UMass library) concern Erasmus Darwin Hudson (1806-1880). The first is a letter of introduction written for him by James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892), while the other is "short & sweet" from an unidentified correspondent. Other correspondents include George Leonard (1801-1881), William Cost Johnson (1806-1860), Ralph Randolph Gurley (1797-1872), Samuel May (1810-1899), Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808-1892), Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876), and James Shannon (1799-1859). Most of these letters are in regard to the deliverance of lectures. The miscellaneous documents include a list of slaves from Plaquemine, La.; bills of sales and deeds for slaves; manumissions; a list of taxes and fees paid to the state of Alabama and Greene County; and a resolution of the state of Massachusetts in regard to the abolition of slavery. One manumission document, dated 26 March 1794, is of particular interest. Signed by Nicholas Davies (c. 1708-1794), and witnessed by seven others, the document liberates twenty of his slaves and their children. It was recorded, on 23 June 1794, at the Bedford County (Va.) Court House. Another interesting manumission, dated 7 July 1845, is for "Amanda Holmes, a coloured woman," and a bill of sale, dated 29 January 1850, for "one negro named Williams Holmes" from Col. Adam D. and Mary B. Stewart, to Amanda Holmes, a free woman of color, all of St. Louis, Mo. Other documents include a typed copy of a slaver's accounts in Africa for the years 1789 to 1792; the constitution of the Cambridge (Mass.) Anti-Slavery Society, dated 4 June 1834; and a school report, by Theron Johnson Damon (1883-1973), entitled "Inside History of Shadrach Fugitive Slave Case," dated 25 May 1905. Damon graduated from Harvard in 1905. A call for a national (or northern) convention, to be held in October 1857, of those in favor of disunion, went out in July of 1857, from Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) and other leading abolitionists. There are twenty-five folders of responses to that call from seventeen states. The also collection contains two small notebooks attributed to Arnold Buffum (1782-1859). The first is a report from the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society and a draft of a petition to the U.S. Congress. The second contains drafts of two lectures or articles dated 26 October 1853 and 4 November 1853 plus two pages of an expense account for 1856.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.1 folder ; oversize.2 v. ; octavo.1 v. ; folio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259785 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

Hale, John P. (John Parker), 1806-1873. Hale-Chandler papers, 1777-1873.

Title: Hale-Chandler papers, 1777-1873.

Chiefly correspondence, including Revolutionary War letters (1777-1784) from Samuel Hale, a Tory in England, to his wife and son in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; John P. Hale's correspondence with Franklin Pierce; Hale's correspondence concerning the anti-slavery issue. Includes papers relating to Hale's political activities and his service as minister to Spain. Includes personal papers of Hale's daughter, Lucy (Hale) Chandler and her husband, William Eaton Chandler, as well as family records (1822-1859) of the Hale, O'Brien, and Parker families of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Correspondents include John Albion Andrew, Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, Richard Henry Dana, Charles Mayo Ellis, Joshua Reed Giddings, Theodore Parker, William F. Smith, Henry Brewster Tappan, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes and 1 portfolio (4.5 ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237360402 View

Hays, Isaac, 1796-1879. Papers, ca. 1820s-1879.

Title: Papers, ca. 1820s-1879.

These papers reflect Hays' interests and activities in the medical profession and as an editor. His interest in paleontology, especially in the controversy with G. W. Featherstonhaugh, is also represented. There is one separate volume (77 letters) containing correspondence about natural history and naturalists, written to Hays by C. L. Bonaparte, George Ord, Thomas Say, and Charles A. Lesueur. The correspondence in the larger collection, however, contains much material on the "American Journal of the Medical Sciences," particularly illuminated in the correspondence with John D. Godman.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523611 View

Winlock, Joseph, 1826-1875. Letterbook, 1857-1875.

Title: Joseph Winlock letterbook, 1857-1875

This item contains much information about his various posts and about conflicts, personalities, and the politics of science. There are also many references and comments about scientific technology of the day, and of such people as Matthew F. Maury. There are numerous letters to A. D. Bache, James Henry Coffin, Charles Henry Davis, and William H. Willcox.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 340 p.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.W721-ead.xml View

Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892. Letter to an unidentified recipient, 1878 April 24.

Title: Letter to an unidentified recipient, 1878 April 24.

Bowditch discusses an old farmhouse he once owned and an inscription which John Greenleaf Whittier wrote for an old sundial in front of the house, a copy of which he encloses.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50544379 View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.