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Abbot, Abiel, 1770-1828. [Salutatory oration in Latin], 1792.

Title: [Salutatory oration in Latin], 1792.

ArchivalResource: 6 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77072332 View

Abbot, Abiel, 1770-1828. Abbot family papers, 1827-1876 (bulk 1827-1828).

Title: Abbot family papers, 1827-1876 (bulk 1827-1828).

Collection contains letters from Rev. Abiel Abbot to Eunice Wales Abbot, a fragment of a travel diary by Rev. Abbot, and a letter from Anne Wales Abbot to her sister. Rev. Abbot's letters (1827-1828) concern his second trip to Charleston (S.C.) and include descriptions of a visit to Point Comfort plantation near Charleston, and a visit to the Academy of Fine Arts (Charleston, S.C.), where he saw Jacques Louis David's painting of the coronation of Napoleon. Fragment of a diary (1827) mainly concerns Abbot's visits with friends in Charleston and church services which he attended. Abbot also describes a meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Society in Charleston. Letter (1876) by Anne Wales Abbot describes her stay at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cleland H. Huger (at 4 [now #8] Legare St., Charleston), and a church service which she attended in Charleston.

ArchivalResource: 6 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32140995 View

Poor family. Papers, 1791-1921 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1791-1921 (inclusive).

Correspondence, diaries, financial documents, notebooks, sermons, photos, and clippings. Subjects include social life and customs in New York and New England, Unitarianism, women missionaries, and the rights of women.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006796 View

Papers, 1791-1921

Title: Papers, 1791-1921

Letters, diaries, photographs, etc., of the Poor family from New England.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00100/catalog View

Abbot, Abiel, 1770-1828. Abiel Abbot Diary and Papers, 1818-1827.

Title: Abiel Abbot Diary and Papers, 1818-1827.

Beverly, Massachusetts minister (born in Andover). Diary (1818-1819, 1827) discusses life at home and on voyages to Philadelphia, Savannah, South Carolina, Baltimore, and Cumano, Columbia. Describes daily events, slave selling, education, dueling, and other social conditions. Papers include letters, genealogical notes.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/611549267 View

Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835. Papers, 1746-1900

Title: Benjamin Vaughan Papers 1746-1900

Letters (including some transcripts and photostats) from and to Vaughan from many American and British correspondents, including: Also personal correspondence and business papers of Benjamin, Charles, Petty, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., William, William Oliver, and Sarah Vaughan (2 boxes); lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 vols.); a large number of notes and memoranda on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, architecture, astronomy, diplomacy, diseases, dueling, electricity, hieroglyphs, internal improvements, medicine, meteorology, land, manufactures, politics, punctuation, religion, silk-manufacturing, stock-breeding, taxation, Unitarianism, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Napoleon I, Joseph Priestley, Bowdoin College, town of Hallowell, Maine; notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families. For a personal account of the collection, see Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, "The Benjamin Vaughan Papers," APS 95 (1951): 246-249. Proceedings

ArchivalResource: 13.25 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.V46p-ead.xml View

Abbot, Abiel, 1770-1828. Abiel Abbot agricultural journal/almanac, 1819-1827.

Title: Abiel Abbot agricultural journal/almanac, 1819-1827.

Bound volume containing pages with handwritten journal entries interleaved with pages of "Hoff's agricultural & commercial almanac calculated for the states of Georgia and the Carolinas for the year of our Lord 1819" (calculated by Joshua Sharp. Charleston: J. Hoff). The first entry, "Agricultural hints," contains information about the planting, fertilization, and yields of the wheat, potato, rutabaga, and beet crops of various individuals. Other entries include "On farm yard manure," "To raise corn for fodder," "Peas," and "Ringing or circumcising limbs of trees to make them fruitful." "Account of the weather" [1819-1820] mentions Hobcaw [Plantation, South Carolina] and J. Legare's estate on John's Island [South Carolina]. The author notes "great shivering among the blacks - yet most of them of choice go about barefoot. In going to & from meeting many of them carry their shoes." Journal notes about the author's garden begin in April 1823. Entries contain notes about the grafting and care of a wide variety of cherry, pear, apricot, peach, and plum trees. Other entries discuss his crops of corn, cabbages, potatoes, turnips, sweet potatoes, pole beans, melon, peas, carrots, onions, squash, and other vegetables. Other plants include white lilac, quince, and clover. Includes notes on planting, tending, fertilizing, and crop production. Abbot notes that he bought a variety of potatoes for his garden from the Vermont [sic] and Lebanon Shakers. Additional notes include "Account of fruit trees in my garden" including the varieties in each row, "Hints on fruit rippening," "Pears when ripe," "Kinds of apples for my little orchard," and "Expenses on the Brown lot." Abbot records that he is "to preach in my late nephew's pulpit" and to "preach at Gloucester."

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32141004 View

Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856. Autograph Book, 1717-1849.

Title: Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856. Autograph Book, 1717-1849.

Autograph book kept by Unitarian minister Ephraim Peabody covering theperiod 1717-1849 and including letters from many leading Unitarians.

ArchivalResource: 1 box

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/div00539/catalog View

Gratz, Simon. Alphabetical collection, 1677-1910.

Title: Alphabetical collection, 1677-1910.

The alphabetical collection is particularly rich in papers of Protestant American clergymen. Letters, 1795-1820, of American Presbyterian clergy addressed to William Wallace Woodward, a Philadelphia bookseller. Manuscript sermons of such clergymen as Abiel Abbot, Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel Chauncey, Timothy Edwards, Ashbel Green, Levi Hart, Alexander Murray, James Muir, William B. Sprague, Solomon Stoddard, Samuel Willard, and others. The collection includes letters and portraits of many other prominent Americans and Europeans: Theodosia Burr Alston; Governor Edmund Andros, 1677; General John Armstrong, 1769; Susanna Anthony, 1770; John Jacob Astor, 1842; John Bradford, 1720; Governor Jonathan Belcher; George Bryan; George Clinton; George Clymer; DeWitt Clinton, 1822; John Dickinson; William Dearborn, 1808; William Duer, 1786; Edward Everett, 1827; Benjamin Eastburn, 1734; William Eaton, 1805; Albert Gallatin, 1801-1811; Joseph Galloway, 1769; Adolphus W. Greely; Jonathan Greenleaf, 1843; Alexander Hamilton; Samuel Hopkins, 1770; William Harrison, 1786; Patrick Henry; Jared Ingersoll; John Jay, 1822; Washington Irving; Dyre Kearney, 1787; James Kent; Francis Scott Key; John Laurens, 1778; Gouverneur Morris, 1806; John P. Montgomery, 1776; Thomas Mifflin, 1791; John Nicholson, 1795; Isaac Morris; Samuel Otis, 1789; Richard and Thomas Penn, 1755; Edmund Pendleton; James Parker, 1793; Colonel James Rodney, 1764; Joseph Reed, 1812; Peyton Randolph; J. Bayard Smith, 1778; Jonathan D. Sergeant, 1784; Henry De Saussure, 1787; Theodore Sedgwick, 1799; William Tweed, 1871; John Tyler, Jr., 1842; James Wadsworth, 1780; John F. Zubley, 1767; and others. Other miscellaneous items are: manuscripts of James Monroe, 1794-1828, on the French Revolution; instructions to James Monroe by Edmund Randolph, 1794-1796; Aaron Burr letters, 1775-1811; Erick Bollmann, 1810; William Eaton, 1802; Joseph Bonaparte correspondence, 1815-1827; parchment deeds, 1691-1786, of Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Judge John Cleves Symmes to Captain Dayton on settlements west of Ohio and on the Miami, 1789; papers relating to Indian affairs, 1789-1806; Irish Revolution papers, 1806-1813; Mexico and South America, 1785-1843; United States Bank, 1805; Bank of North America, 1813-1814; Canadian Rebellion, 1837-1838; political relations between France and America, 1783-1793; letters of writers, artists, scholars, scientists, physicians, apothecaries, penologists, reformers, etc., ca. 1711-1910, including Joseph Lancaster's voluminous correspondence on education, James Rumsey's manuscripts and printed material, 1788, concerning his invention of the first steam vessel, and other papers bearing on intellectual trends.

ArchivalResource: 100 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474586 View

Abbot, Henry L. Henry L. Abbot papers

Title: Henry L. Abbot papers

Papers of American military engineer Henry L. Abbot, together with papers of other family members.

ArchivalResource: 21 boxes (10.25 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01230/catalog View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Letterbooks, 1789-1866

Title: Jared Sparks letterbooks 1789-1866

Jared Sparks's letterbooks. Contains mostly original letters to Jared Sparks.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear feet (41 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02772/catalog View

Miscellaneous letters, 1786-1982.

Title: Miscellaneous letters, 1786-1982.

Single or very small groups of unrelated letters, many from the 19th century, to and from various persons, especially southerners who were prominent in the literary and political areas. Topics include family life; travels in North Carolina and other parts of the South; social life and customs; plantation life; slavery and slave sales North Carolina, Maryland, and other places; local and national politics; the Civil War, both military action and the homefront in Louisiana, North Carolina (including blockading the coast and attacking Fort Fisher), Mississippi, and other parts of the South; the University of North Carolina; World War I; literature; and other topics. Among the correspondents are Abiel Abbott, Henry Ward Beecher, Alfred Holt Colquitt, Sherman Converse, Peter Early, Frank Porter Graham, Sam Houston, Washington Irving, Andrew Jackson, Laura Riding Jackson, North Carolina governor Samuel Johnston, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Milledge, Margaret Mitchell, Wilson Cary Nicholas, North Carolina writer William S. Pearson, Isaac F. Shepard, Edward Stanly, Edward Telfair, Albion W. Tourgée, Martin Van Buren, Abraham Bedford Venable, and Daniel Webster.

ArchivalResource: About 300 items (1.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44588589 View

Saunders, Daniel, 1796-1872. [Business records].

Title: [Business records]. 1817-1869.

Includes a title chain, ca. 1836, for the Andover Mill; an annual file, 1821-1869, with deeds for land purchased privately and as agent for the Essex Co.; personal correspondence; business correspondence concerning Concord Woolen Mill, Concord, N.H.; bills and receipts; and an inventory and description of a woolen mill in Fitchburg, Mass., 1835. Also contains daybook, 1833-1834, and ledger, 1840-1842, with entries for wool, carding, dressing cloth, dyestuffs, farming and foodstuffs; ledger, 1843-1845, with detailed entries in account with the Merrimack Water Power Association and Essex Co., mostly for land purchases; and a daybook, 1851-1858, with entries for rents, cord wood, and farm labor; cash books, 1843-1846; bank checks, 1844-1848; lumber accounts, 1845-1848; and a lumber survey, 1850. Also contains orders from Lawrence selectmen to D. Saunders, treasurer, 1847-1849, for goods or services purchased by the town; correspondence of John Folsum, Chester, N.H.; and an undated photograph of Daniel Saunders.

ArchivalResource: 2 ft. (3 boxes + 2 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49302238 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

Wales, Ebenezer. Papers, 1782-1872.

Title: Papers, 1782-1872.

Papers of various members of the interrelated Abbot, Wales, and Everett families, in particular letters to Boston merchant Ebenezer Wales from his agents William Child, Joseph Adams, Jr., and Henry Payson regarding Wales's business interests in Baltimore, particularly as a result of suspended maritime trade during the War of 1812. Other papers include Haverhill and Beverly, Mass. minister Abiel Abbot's Harvard valedictory address (1792) and letters to his son Abiel, Jr. The collection also includes one letter each from William E. Channing, Henry Ware, Jr., and Theodore Parker regarding preaching; letters and legal papers of various members of the Everett family, in particular the estate papers and inventory of Moses Everett; and a few items related to Ezra Abbot.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26487114 View

Abiel Abbot letter to Jedidiah Morse, 1799

Title: Abiel Abbot letter to Jedidiah Morse 1799

American clergyman, minister at Haverhill, Mass, 1795-1803.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3811 View

Miscellaneous letters, 1800s-1900s.

Title: Miscellaneous letters, 1800s-1900s.

Single or very small groups of related letters, chiefly to and from 19th-century Southerners who were prominent in literary and political affairs. Topics include family life, social life and customs, slavery, local and national politics, literature, business and legal matters, agriculture and plantation life, religious practices, temperance movements, land sales and purchases, migration to the southwest and west, and travel abroad and in the United States, especially in the southern states. Among the correspondents are Abiel Abbott, Henry Ward Beecher, Alfred Holt Colquitt, Peter Early, Sam Houston, Washington Irving, Andrew Jackson, Laura (Riding) Jackson, North Carolina Governor Samuel Johnston, Henry Wadsworth Longellow, John Milledge, Margaret Mitchell, Wilson Cary Nicholas, Edward Telfair, Albion W. Tourgee, Martin Van Buren, Abraham Bedford Venable, and Daniel Webster.

ArchivalResource: 200 items (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27192721 View

Huntington, Joseph. Joseph Huntington collection, ca. 1774.

Title: Joseph Huntington collection, ca. 1774.

This collection contains a letter to Rev. James Campbell (ca. 1774), a letter from Chauncey Booth to Abiel Abbot, and a sketch of Dr. Joseph Huntington written by Abbot.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (1 folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/722850936 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

Harvard University. Mathematical theses, 1782-1839

Title: Mathematical theses, 1782-1839.

The mathematical theses consist of equations and drawings which illustrate the equations. At the time of their creation, the purpose of these finely executed documents on large sheets of paper was to demonstrate a student's mastery of one or more mathematical concepts, yet the enduring value of many of the them lies in the fact that they are works of art.

ArchivalResource: 16 cubic feet; (406 broadsides)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua17004/catalog View

Abbot, Abiel, 1770-1828. A journal of a voyage to South Carolina, 1818.

Title: A journal of a voyage to South Carolina, 1818.

Bound volume contains the diary of Rev. Abiel Abbot written during a trip by sea from Boston (Mass.) to Charleston (S.C.) and a visit to South Carolina. Abbot provides detailed descriptions of the buildings, institutions, lifestyle, and prominent individuals of Charleston and surrounding areas. Included are descriptions of Charleston's churches and other institutions such as the City Hospital, the Sugar House (or Gaol, a jail for slaves), and the Library Society. Abbot also recounts his visit to Henry Izard's plantation near Charleston called "The Elms."

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32141416 View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View