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Elizabeth Sherman Hoar (July 14, 1814-April 7, 1878) was a schoolmate of Henry Thoreau and his siblings. After his death she assisted Sophia Thoreau and Ellery Channing in collecting the posthumous works of Henry, close friend and traveling companion of her brother Edward. In her youth Elizabeth was engaged to marry Charles Chauncy Emerson, her father's young law partner. Charles died of consumption in May, 1836, before they were wed. Much beloved by his family, Elizabeth was for the rest of her life called "Aunt Lizzie" by the Emerson children and treated as a member of that family. She and Ralph Waldo Emerson were like brother and sister. He invited her to join the Transcendental circle. She helped prepare copy for the Dial magazine. Through Waldo Elizabeth became close friends with Margaret Fuller, Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley, the Alcotts, and the Peabody sisters. Sophia Peabody sculpted two medallions of Charles Emerson in profile, one for Waldo and one for Elizabeth.
Elizabeth often managed the Emerson household during Lidian's confinement or illness. Ruth Emerson, R.W.'s mother, died in her arms. Elizabeth was one of the few who could consistently deal with the eccentricities of R.W.'s Aunt Mary Moody Emerson. She often arranged her lodging and paid some of her expenses. When Nathaniel Hawthorne and his bride, Sophia Peabody, moved to the Old Manse in Concord, Elizabeth and Henry Thoreau prepared a vegetable garden for them.
In November, 1844, Elizabeth Hoar accompanied her father to Charleston, South Carolina. Judge Hoar had been commissioned by Governor George Briggs and the Massachusetts legislature to treat with the South Carolina government. Free black sailors, ashore in South Carolina to load cotton aboard Massachusetts ships for transport to Massachusetts mills, were apt to be impounded and, unless their ship's captain paid a ransom, sold into slavery. South Carolina legislators did not take kindly to Northern "meddling" with their State laws. When they learned of Hoar's mission, he was told to get out of town. A mob threatened to drag him from his hotel. Friendly residents with Harvard connections, among them the Rev. Samuel Gilman, minister of the Unitarian Church, and Dr. Joshua Barker Whitridge persuaded him to leave without further attempt to address the authorities. Elizabeth and her father were got secretly out of the hotel and onto a ship. On December 27 Squire Hoar reported the story to a Concord Town Meeting.
Concord people were incensed at the South Carolinians' rudeness to their most respected citizen and his daughter. Roughly to threaten an emissary from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and summarily to dismiss an issue of law was outrageous behavior. Moreover, subjection of Massachusetts ships to a shortage of hands was a serious economic matter. The episode had far-reaching effects throughout Massachusetts. Many who had seen no good in "abolitionist agitation" and those who had been reluctant to countenance the anti-slavery cause, changed their minds.
Elizabeth Sherman Hoar (July 14, 1814-April 7, 1878) was a schoolmate of Henry Thoreau and his siblings. After his death she assisted Sophia Thoreau and Ellery Channing in collecting the posthumous works of Henry, close friend and traveling companion of her brother Edward. In her youth Elizabeth was engaged to marry Charles Chauncy Emerson, her father's young law partner. Charles died of consumption in May, 1836, before they were wed. Much beloved by his family, Elizabeth was for the rest of her life called "Aunt Lizzie" by the Emerson children and treated as a member of that family. She and Ralph Waldo Emerson were like brother and sister. He invited her to join the Transcendental circle. She helped prepare copy for the Dial magazine. Through Waldo Elizabeth became close friends with Margaret Fuller, Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley, the Alcotts, and the Peabody sisters. Sophia Peabody sculpted two medallions of Charles Emerson in profile, one for Waldo and one for Elizabeth.
Elizabeth often managed the Emerson household during Lidian's confinement or illness. Ruth Emerson, R.W.'s mother, died in her arms. Elizabeth was one of the few who could consistently deal with the eccentricities of R.W.'s Aunt Mary Moody Emerson. She often arranged her lodging and paid some of her expenses. When Nathaniel Hawthorne and his bride, Sophia Peabody, moved to the Old Manse in Concord, Elizabeth and Henry Thoreau prepared a vegetable garden for them.
In November, 1844, Elizabeth Hoar accompanied her father to Charleston, South Carolina. Judge Hoar had been commissioned by Governor George Briggs and the Massachusetts legislature to treat with the South Carolina government. Free black sailors, ashore in South Carolina to load cotton aboard Massachusetts ships for transport to Massachusetts mills, were apt to be impounded and, unless their ship's captain paid a ransom, sold into slavery. South Carolina legislators did not take kindly to Northern "meddling" with their State laws. When they learned of Hoar's mission, he was told to get out of town. A mob threatened to drag him from his hotel. Friendly residents with Harvard connections, among them the Rev. Samuel Gilman, minister of the Unitarian Church, and Dr. Joshua Barker Whitridge persuaded him to leave without further attempt to address the authorities. Elizabeth and her father were got secretly out of the hotel and onto a ship. On December 27 Squire Hoar reported the story to a Concord Town Meeting.
Concord people were incensed at the South Carolinians' rudeness to their most respected citizen and his daughter. Roughly to threaten an emissary from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and summarily to dismiss an issue of law was outrageous behavior. Moreover, subjection of Massachusetts ships to a shortage of hands was a serious economic matter. The episode had far-reaching effects throughout Massachusetts. Many who had seen no good in "abolitionist agitation" and those who had been reluctant to countenance the anti-slavery cause, changed their minds.
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Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
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Louisa May Alcott papers, 1849-1931.
Louisa May Alcott papers, 1849-1931.
Title:
Louisa May Alcott papers, 1849-1931.
Papers pertaining primarily to the works of American author Louisa May Alcott.
Concord Academy records and student compositions kept by schoolmaster Phineas Allen, 1828-[not after 1836].
Concord Academy (Concord, Mass. : 1822). Concord Academy records and student compositions kept by schoolmaster Phineas Allen, 1828-[not after 1836].
Title:
Concord Academy records and student compositions kept by schoolmaster Phineas Allen, 1828-[not after 1836].
Academy records, 1828-1830, plus undated items, include list of scholars (1828), lists of studies pursued, and lists of order of declamation and examination. Student compositions (most undated) include pieces by Caroline Downes Brooks, Sarah Brown, Sarah D. Clarke, Nancy Harmstad, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman Hoar (piece dated 1829), George Moore, Frances Jane H. Prichard, and "T."
Concord Academy (Concord, Mass. : 1822). Concord Academy records and student compositions kept by schoolmaster Phineas Allen, 1828-[not after 1836].
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Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
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Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.
Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.
Title:
Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection, 1600-1950.
Letters and a few manuscripts of prominent literary figures, statesmen, and politicians from the United States and Europe collected by American professor of English Albert Stephens Borgman.
Tilton, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marguerite), 1913-. Papers, 1770-1991.
Title:
Papers, 1770-1991.
This collection includes nine letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as letters of Louis Agassiz, Amos Bronson Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Charles Sumner, and John Greenleaf Whittier. In addition, there are two incomplete manuscripts by Emerson and one document from the Liverpool Custom-house signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne as Consul for the United States. The collection also includes the corrected typescript, index, and page and galley proofs for Thomas Franklin Currier, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (New York, 1953) which was edited by Professor Tilton. Also, some early correspondence and photographs of the Tilton family and friends. There are letters from the actors Annie Louise Ames, Richard J. Dillon, and Hans L. Meery to Tilton's grandfather, Bernard Paul Verne, as well as photographs, tintypes, and daguerreotypes of the Verne family and friends. 1992 Addition: Her professional papers include correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and printed materials on many aspects of 18th and 19th century American literature, especially literary New England. Among her papers are files compiled in editing volumes 7 and 8 of THE LETTERS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON (New York, 1939-1991). These files contain correspondence, card files, notes, transcripts, photocopies, book typescripts, printed materials, and other related items. There are also similar files relating to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and to her books, AMIABLE AUTOCRAT: A BIOGRAPHY OF DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (New York, 1947) and LITERARY BANTLINGS: ADDENDA TO THE HOLMES BIBLIOGRAPHY (New York, 1957).
ArchivalResource:
68 linear ft. (ca.93,000 items in 81 boxes, 58 file drawers, 88 card file boxes & 1 oversized folder).
Tilton, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marguerite), 1913-. Papers, 1770-1991.
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Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
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James Bradley Thayer papers
James Bradley Thayer papers
Title:
James Bradley Thayer papers
This collection includes materials relating chiefly to Thayer's writing and teaching career. Includes research notes and drafts for A Preliminary Treatise on the Law of Evidence at the Common Law (1898) and his biography of John Marshall (1901); papers relating to his participation in the writing of the constitutions of North and South Dakota, 1889, and his chairmanship of a committee concerned with Indian legislation, 1887-1892; diary-like letters to his wife, Sophia Bradford (Ripley) Thayer, written while on a Western journey with Ralph Waldo Emerson; and letters to Emerson relating to Emerson's business affairs.
Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878. Journal, 1844.
Title:
Journal, 1844.
Manuscript and typescript record of Elizabeth's trip to Charleston, S.C., with her father, Samuel Hoar, who was sent by the governor of Massachusetts to test the constitutionality of certain laws in South Carolina under which free blacks from Massachusetts, serving as seamen on vessels trading at ports in South Carolina, were seized, imprisoned, and sometimes sold as slaves.
Houghton Library printed book provenance file, E-K.
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Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
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Hawthorne family papers, 1825-1929.
Hawthorne family. Hawthorne family papers, 1825-1929.
Title:
Hawthorne family papers, 1825-1929.
The papers afford glimpses into the social and private lives of some of the Hawthorne family. Like others of her time and circumstances, Sophia Hawthorne devoted generous amounts of time to correspondence and journal-keeping; her surviving papers provide a rich reflection of life in 19th-century Concord, in Cuba, and later in England and Europe during Hawthorne's tenure as Consul at Liverpool. Included are letters, verse, journals, and notes relating to the family and milieu of Nathaniel Hawthorne and of the men and women of the American literary renaissance and of the Transcendentalist movement. Virtually all of the letters of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop were written to Clifford Smyth, a literary editor and historian, and to Clifford's wife, Beatrix, Rose's niece; Rose dearly loved Beatrix and her family. Sent from Rosary Hill Home between 1913 and 1926, the year Rose died, the letters illustrate some of the familial concerns of Rose, who was by then Mother Alphonsa: she was for example, worried about her brother, Julian, and she remained committed to preserving her parents' memory. Also included are circa 450 pages of holograph manuscripts which, though undated, can be placed as pre-1900. The manuscripts consist of complete drafts of short stories, verse, and substantial fragments of several novels. These manuscripts seem not to have been previously published. Also present are two other items of interest: a copybook dated 1858, when Rose was seven, with penmanship exercises and numerous poems, and a holograph journal from 1873, when she was 22 years old. Of Julian Hawthorne's letters, almost all were written to Julian's son-in-law, Clifford Smyth, and to Clifford's wife, Beatrix (Julian's daughter). Three items are childhood notes, written in pencil, two to Julian's aunt Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; the other to his maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Peabody. Also included are Hawthorne family memorabilia and photographs, and manuscript papers of actress Anna Cora Mowatt.
ArchivalResource:
1.75 linear feet (3 manuscript boxes and 1 small box)
Hawthorne family. Hawthorne family papers, 1825-1929.
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Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
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Letters, 1863-1865.
Emerson, Ellen Tucker. Letters, 1863-1865.
Title:
Letters, 1863-1865.
This collection contains one hundred letters all written by Ellen Tucker Emerson to family and friends. The majority of the letters (45) were written to her sister Edith (1841-1928), who spent twelve months in New York undergoing the water-cure. Eleven letters were written to her brother Edward (1844-1930), who was often away at Harvard College, twelve to her cousin John Haven Emerson (1840- ), and seven to her father. The remainder were to friends and other relatives. Most of the letters were written from Concord, Mass., and in lively prose detail Ellen's life in the Emerson household and in the wider Concord community. The family was firmly based in Concord from which town Ralph Waldo Emerson traveled widely lecturing and Ellen made occasional visits to friends and relatives in Boston, Canton, Naushon, and Plymouth, Mass., and Newport, R.I. Ellen writes of: her visits to "Aunt Ripley" [Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley (1793-1867)] at the Manse where Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Sanborn are boarding for part of 1864; her Dante studies with "Aunt Lizzie" [Elizabeth Hoar (1814-1878)]; and her labors with Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne (1809-1871), Una Hawthorne (1844-1877), and Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) in behalf of "Mrs. Mann's fair". She describes skating on Walden Pond [14 January 1863], visiting Edward's newly decorated room at Harvard [6 January 1863], attending Anna Ward's wedding at the Catholic Chapel [30 January 1863], listening to Mr. Alcott and her mother discuss education [8 January 1864], and monitoring the behavior of her "daughter", Edith Davidson, her ward for several years. The Civil War, the ever-present background, was for Ellen a spur to patriotic action. She attends the Soldier's Aid sewing circle and works on fundraising fairs and balls. Emotionally she was most concerned with the well-being of her cousin Charles Emerson (1841- ) who served on the staff of General Nathaniel Banks. William "Wilky" James (1842-1910), a friend of her brother's and a frequent visitor, was wounded during the attack of the Mass. 54th on battery Wagner. She was particularly distressed by the deaths of Col. Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864) and Concord's own hometown hero, Col. George Lincoln Prescott (1829-1864), whose funeral she describes at length [1 September 1864]. In her 3 November 1864 letter to her friend Addy [Manning?] she betrays her mixed feelings about the war: Oh, what a blessing it is to live during this war, to know all the high heats of patriotism, all the glory of the soldier's character...I think that all this new, heavenly atmosphere came from the war, and pity a people who live in peace. But I want the war to end soon nevertheless, of course[.]. These letters are an important addition to the two volume Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson, edited by Edith E. W. Gregg (Kent State University Press, 1982), filling gaps in 1863, 1864, and January of 1865. It seems probable that the pencil markings on the letters--"go on" and "omit" were made by Ellen's nephew, Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969). According to Edith Gregg, he marked up transcripts for possible publication but in this case it must have been the originals which were not available to her.
Autograph letter signed : Bowness, to Sophia Hawthorne, 1861 Aug. 9.
Hoar, Elizabeth, 1814-1878. Autograph letter signed : Bowness, to Sophia Hawthorne, 1861 Aug. 9.
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Autograph letter signed : Bowness, to Sophia Hawthorne, 1861 Aug. 9.
Talking at length about educating young girls (Una will soon have a new teacher), and reminiscing on her own school days; also describing the English countryside and the poor weather.
Ralph Waldo Emerson additional papers, ca.1835-1891.
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Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
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Journal, 1844.
Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878. Journal, 1844.
Title:
Journal, 1844.
Manuscript and typescript record of Elizabeth's trip to Charleston, S.C., with her father, Samuel Hoar, who was sent by the governor of Massachusetts to test the constitutionality of certain laws in South Carolina under which free blacks from Massachusetts, serving as seamen on vessels trading at ports in South Carolina, were seized, imprisoned, and sometimes sold as slaves.
Compositions, correspondence, notes, photographs, daguerreotypes, and other materials by and about Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Emerson family. Also includes secondary materials by Emerson scholars.
Autograph letter signed : Bowness, to Sophia Hawthorne, 1861 Aug. 9.
Hoar, Elizabeth, 1814-1878. Autograph letter signed : Bowness, to Sophia Hawthorne, 1861 Aug. 9.
Title:
Autograph letter signed : Bowness, to Sophia Hawthorne, 1861 Aug. 9.
Talking at length about educating young girls (Una will soon have a new teacher), and reminiscing on her own school days; also describing the English countryside and the poor weather.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Autograph letter (signature cut away) : Concord, to Elizabeth Hoar, in England, 1859 Aug. 3.
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Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
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Papers of F. B. Sanborn and William Ellery Channing, 1834-1917.
Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917. Papers of F. B. Sanborn and William Ellery Channing, 1834-1917.
Title:
Papers of F. B. Sanborn and William Ellery Channing, 1834-1917.
Contains letters to Sanborn from various correspondents. Letters from William Ellery Channing concern Channing's biography of Henry Thoreau and letters from Thomas Wentworth Higginson concern raising funds for the aid of fugitive slaves in Kansas. Additionally, there are letters from Sanborn to various family members as well as poems and other compositions by Sanborn. Also contains letters from William Ellery Channing to Ralph Waldo Emerson discussing poetry, the Dial, and lecture tours. Letters from Channing to Elizabeth Hoar are about their relationship, poetry, and mutual acquaintances. There is a journal, notebooks, and poems by Channing, among other items.
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850. Letter, [1843?] 16th Jany, [Cambridge, MA] to Elizabeth Hoar.
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Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
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William Ellery Channing papers, 1843-1901.
Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901. William Ellery Channing papers, 1843-1901.
Title:
William Ellery Channing papers, 1843-1901.
Papers include: ms. book of poems, with revisions and annotations, 1843-1875; mss. of Channing's autobiographical works Leviticus ([early 1850's]) and Major Leviticus ([not before 1854/1855]); two sewn booklets of lectures on "Society" ([delivered before Concord Lyceum in 1858?]); ms. draft of Chapter 14 of Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (possibly also unpublished installment no. 9 of series for Commonwealth begun in 1863); undated ms. copy of "Sleepy Hollow," not in Channing's hand (poem written 1855, published 1902 in Poems of Sixty-Five Years). (Cont.) correspondence, including two letters to Elizabeth Hoar (undated and 1856), one to Sophia Thoreau (1868), and over one hundred to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Marston Watson (1859-1901, the single 1901 letter by Mrs. F.B. Sanborn, plus many undated).
Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901. William Ellery Channing papers, 1843-1901.
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Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
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Papers : of Elizabeth Hoar, 1832-1862 [manuscript].
Hoar, Elizabeth, fl. 1832-1862. Papers : of Elizabeth Hoar, 1832-1862 [manuscript].
Title:
Papers : of Elizabeth Hoar, 1832-1862 [manuscript].
The papers include a notebook with poems in her hand by various authors as well as essays, poems, and correspondence. Correspondence discusses a poem from Longfellow, the Roman Revolution of 1848-1849, and family news.
Hoar, Elizabeth, fl. 1832-1862. Papers : of Elizabeth Hoar, 1832-1862 [manuscript].
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Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878
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F. B. Sanborn and William Ellery Channing papers, 1834-1917.
F. B. Sanborn and William Ellery Channing papers, 1834-1917.
Title:
F. B. Sanborn and William Ellery Channing papers, 1834-1917.
Letters to the American writer and philanthropist F.B. Sanborn, as well as compositions by him. Also contains correspondence and compositions of the American writer William Ellery Channing.
Papers, 1916-1922, re struggle to secure the "votes for women," consisting of correspondence of Eulalie Chaffee Salley and fellow suffragists within South Carolina and around United States, including members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and National League of Women Voters; places represented include Aiken, Columbia, Edgefield, Charleston, and Lancaster, S.C.; Washington, D.C.; New York; Chicago; and elsewhere. Scrapbook, 1916-1920, of newspaper clippings re women's suffrage movement and activism by Salley and others. Principal correspondents include Mary Sumner Boyd; Sen. James F. Byrnes; Mrs. W.C. Cathcart; Carrie Chapman Catt; Jessie S. Clayton; Gov. Cooper; Della Dortch; E.A. Dunovant; and Marie Stuart Edwards. Others represented include Edna Fischel Gellhorn; Bertha T. Munsell; Maud Wood Park; Caroline I. Reilly; Myra Gage Scouten; Nettie R. Shuler; Lola C. Trax; J.P. Tumulty; and Pres. Woodrow Wilson.
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