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Mason Locke Weems (October 11, 1759 – May 23, 1825), usually referred to as Parson Weems, was an American book agent and author who wrote the first biography of George Washington immediately after his death. He was the source of some of the apocryphal stories about Washington. The tale of the cherry tree ("I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet") is included in the fifth edition of The Life of Washington (1809 imprint, originally published 1800), a bestseller that depicted Washington's virtues and was intended to provide a morally instructive tale for the youth of the young nation.
Mason Weems was born on October 11, 1759, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He studied theology in London and was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1784. He worked as a minister in Maryland in various capacities from 1784 to 1792. Financial hardship forced Weems to seek additional employment, and he began working as a traveling book agent. Weems married Frances Ewell in 1795 and established a household in Dumfries, Virginia. He had a small bookstore in Dumfries that now houses the Weems–Botts Museum, but he continued to travel extensively, selling books and preaching.
After the death of his father-in-law, Colonel Jessie Ewell (1743–1805), Weems assumed the Ewell family estate, Bel Air, located in Prince William County, Virginia, to partially satisfy debts owed to Weems. In 1808, Weems and his family moved into Bel Air, where he lived until his death. While on travel in Beaufort, South Carolina, Weems died on May 23, 1825 of unspecified causes. He is buried at Bel Air.
Wikipedia entry "Mason Locke Weems," viewed 9/16/21
Mason Locke Weems (October 11, 1759 – May 23, 1825), usually referred to as Parson Weems, was an American book agent and author who wrote the first biography of George Washington immediately after his death. He was the source of some of the apocryphal stories about Washington. The tale of the cherry tree ("I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet") is included in the fifth edition of <i>The Life of Washington</i> (1809 imprint, originally published 1800), a bestseller that depicted Washington's virtues and was intended to provide a morally instructive tale for the youth of the young nation.<p>
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Mason Weems was born on October 11, 1759, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He studied theology in London and was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1784. He worked as a minister in Maryland in various capacities from 1784 to 1792. Financial hardship forced Weems to seek additional employment, and he began working as a traveling book agent. Weems married Frances Ewell in 1795 and established a household in Dumfries, Virginia. He had a small bookstore in Dumfries that now houses the Weems–Botts Museum, but he continued to travel extensively, selling books and preaching.
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After the death of his father-in-law, Colonel Jessie Ewell (1743–1805), Weems assumed the Ewell family estate, Bel Air, located in Prince William County, Virginia, to partially satisfy debts owed to Weems. In 1808, Weems and his family moved into Bel Air, where he lived until his death. While on travel in Beaufort, South Carolina, Weems died on May 23, 1825 of unspecified causes. He is buried at Bel Air.
Slaughter, Philip, 1808-1890. Letter : to an unknown recipient, 1887 April 29.
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Letter : to an unknown recipient, 1887 April 29.
Slaughter discusses colonial parishes and parish life; the popularity of his own A History of St. George's Parish; and a proposed history of Fredericksburg, Va. Slaughter also discusses George Washington's biographers, especially Mason Locke Weems, whom Slaughter defends amidst contemporary criticisms.
Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825. Letter to Thomas Cummings [manuscript], 1822 August 26.
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Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825
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Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel papers 1871-1958
Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel papers, 1871-1958
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Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel papers 1871-1958
Emily Ford Skeel (1867-1958) was a bibliographer, editor and philanthropist. Her parents were Gordon Lester Ford (1823-1891), a railroad and real-estate magnate and collector of Americana, and Emily Fowler Ford (1826-1893), a poet. Like her older brothers Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858-1941) and Paul Leicester Ford (1865-1902), Skeel did historical research and compiled bibliographies on Parson Weems and Noah Webster. She and her husband, Roswell Skeel, Jr. (1866-1922), contributed time and money to various organizations and causes concerned with social reform or environmental conservation. Collection consists of correspondence, notes, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter relating to Skeel's professional and personal activities. General correspondence, 1871-1958, includes letters about her bibliographic and editorial work as well as letters of Skeel and her husband with family and friends, librarians, archivists, and academics. There is correspondence with various organizations and societies concerned with social and educational issues and with the Single Tax measures of Henry George. Personal and family correspondence, 1871-1950, contains correspondence with family members, relatives and personal friends, and other correspondence that is personal in nature. Financial and household correspondence, 1913-1946, consists of letters with banks and stockbrokers, general business letters and correspondence from Skeel's years in Martha's Vineyard. Bibliographic notes are made up of material Skeel gathered for her work on Webster and original manuscript of the Webster bibliography. Minor series includes notes about Weems, memoranda, writings, student notebooks, personal and family papers with genealogical information, commonplace books, accounts and account books, and maps. Also, scrapbooks compiled by Emily and Roswell Skeel; photographs of family members and residences, prominent people and various other subjects; and printed matter, such as clippings, pamphlets, prints and ephemera.
ArchivalResource:
106 linear feet (150 boxes and 2 v.)
Collection consists of mostly single letters from approximately 40 individuals addressed to Henry Charles Carey, Isaac Lea, or William A. Blanchard. Senders with more than one letter have the number of letters in parentheses following their names. The majority of the letters are from authors, including George Bancroft, Robert Montgomery Bird, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Cullen Bryant, Fleetwood Churchill, Willis Gaylord Clark (2), James Fenimore Cooper, George William Featherstonhaugh, Henry D. Gilpin, John D. Godman, Mary Griffith, John Griscom, Washington Irving (2), John Kennedy Pendleton (4), James Kent, William Francis Lynch (3), Grenville Mellen, Eliza Robbins, L.H. Sigourney, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and William B. Wood.
Scrapbook of book reviews and clippings relating to "Parson" Mason Locke Weems and publication of his book, The life of George Washington, 1919-1946.
Scrapbook of book reviews and clippings relating to "Parson" Mason Locke Weems and publication of his book, The life of George Washington, 1919-1946.
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Scrapbook of book reviews and clippings relating to "Parson" Mason Locke Weems and publication of his book, The life of George Washington, 1919-1946.
Scrapbook of book reviews and clippings relating to "Parson" Mason Locke Weems and publication of his book, The life of George Washington, 1919-1946.
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Richard Sprigg : papers, 1776-1788.
Sprigg, Richard, fl. 1776-1788. Richard Sprigg : papers, 1776-1788.
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Richard Sprigg : papers, 1776-1788.
Letters to Sprigg from Thomas J. Bullitt and friends, including Mason Lock Weems. All are personal letters with occasional mentions of current news. Also discussed are the U.S. Constitution, paper money, courts of justice, and a shooting. A brief note from Sprigg's father, Edward Sprigg, 27 June 1776, and an undated invitation are included.
Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825. ALS : Dumfries, Va., to Jacob Johnson, Kimber & Co., 1815 Apr. 13.
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Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825
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Papers of Paul Leicester Ford
Papers of Paul Leicester Ford
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Papers of Paul Leicester Ford
The majority of the letters in the collection discuss Ford's research, his historical and fiction writing, and the dramatization of his novels. Of interest are a lengthy letter to Richard Watson Gilder re his work for Century magazine and the possibility of a book on Ben Franklin and a letter to S. Weir Mitchell on George Washington's abstention from tobacco. In addition there are routine letters of invitation and regret.
There are ten pages of research notes in American history, one page fragments of works on Mason Weems and Benjamin Rush and the "Story of an untold love," and an unsigned criticism of the latter, possibly by Horace Scudder.
With these is an 1895 letter from Jacob D. Cox to David Wells discussing a paper on income tax and the Supreme Court by Wells.
The collection also contains four proof books of Paul L. Ford & Co., a job printing company in Brooklyn, N.Y., showing specimens of printing available.
Weems, Mason Locke, ca. 1760-1825. Autograph letter signed : Dumfries, to Thomas Jefferson, 1821 Oct. 14.
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Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825
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Ferdinand J. Dreer autograph collection 1492-1925
Dreer, Ferdinand J. (Ferdinand Julius), 1812-1902. Autograph collection. 1492-1925
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Ferdinand J. Dreer autograph collection 1492-1925
Ferdinand Julian Dreer’s chief hobby was collecting autographs. He started with two documents and over time he was able to amass more than 15,000 items from some of the world’s most prominent and intriguing public figures. Owing to this interest, Dreer became acquainted with many people in the world of arts and letters, politics, education, clergy, business, and international affairs. As he was aware of such a collection’s potential impact on scholarship and society, Dreer donated all of his holdings to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, with which he had been associated for many years as the institution’s vice president.
Stanford University Press archival book copies, 1900-2012
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Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825
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Letter [manuscript] : to an unknown recipient, 1887 April 29.
Slaughter, Philip, 1808-1890. Letter [manuscript] : to an unknown recipient, 1887 April 29.
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Letter [manuscript] : to an unknown recipient, 1887 April 29.
Slaughter discusses colonial parishes and parish life; the popularity of his own A History of St. George's Parish; and a proposed history of Fredericksburg, Va. Slaughter also discusses George Washington's biographers, especially Mason Locke Weems, whom Slaughter defends amidst contemporary criticisms.
Slaughter, Philip, 1808-1890. Letter [manuscript] : to an unknown recipient, 1887 April 29.
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Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825
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Lewis Gaston Leary papers, 1719-1986.
Leary, Lewis (Lewis Gaston), 1906-1990. Lewis Gaston Leary papers, 1719-1986.
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Lewis Gaston Leary papers, 1719-1986.
Chiefly notes, lectures, addresses, and articles on American writers, with an emphasis on early American literature, especially minor authors. Includes research materials on Philip Freneau, Parson Weems, and Henry D. Thoreau. The collection also contains correspondence, 1958-1985, and an autobiographical sketch by Leary. Acquired as part of the Jay B. Hubbell Center for American Literary Historiography.
Leary, Lewis (Lewis Gaston), 1906-1990. Lewis Gaston Leary papers, 1719-1986.
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Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825
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Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s
Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s
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Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s
Correspondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1986 ADDITION: One letter from James Monroe and two from Theodore Roosevelt. 1987 ADDITION: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and photographs dealing with American and English literature, and American and French history during the era of the Revolutions. Included are letters from Erskine Caldwell, Will Durant, Howard Fast, Rachel Field, Emil Ludwig. Edwin Markham, Christopher Morley, and John Howard Payne; manuscripts of John Drinkwater, Felicia Hemans, Romain Rolland, Louis Untermeyer, and Tennessee Williams; and documents of James Duane, Joseph Hopkinson, and Sir Walter Scott. 1988 ADDITION: Correspondence and documents dealing with American and English history during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are letters from Dubo and Demante de Millot (about the French fleet in Haiti in 1780), U.S. Grant, Victor Hugo, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robespierre, W.H. Seward, and Daniel Waldo; and documents of the Sultan of Borneo and James Madison. There are also photographs taken by Lee David Hamilton of Central Park and of Polaris submarines. 1989 ADDITION: Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents on American history and literature, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. There are letters and some manuscripts to the editor of ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICAL VERSE and LYRA MYSTICA dating from the 1920s and the 1930s; letters and autographs of early 20th century Americans and New York and Connecticut colonial documents signed by Isaac Huntington, Jacob Remer, and Thomas Dongon. Also included are photographs of foreign travels in a Packard motorcar, 1903-1904, and a photographic travelogue (photographs taken by Henry C. Rem) of the first European motorcar tour by Americans in a Packard, 1907-1910. 1990 ADDITION: Documents dealing with finance and land sales in New York from 1789 to 1879. There are land deeds resulting from the dispersal of the assets of John Lamb at the end of the 1790s, mortgage bonds, insurance policies, and papers about the insurance claims of Ebenezer Stevens for shipping seized by France in 1808. There is also a letter in rebus form, written in 1734. 1992 ADDITION: Three letters from Richard Le Gallienne to Margot Holmes, his photograph signed and inscribed to her, and a Berenice Abbott photograph have been added. 1997 ADDITION: Naval commission of Richard Morice as Commander of H.M.S. Tarrier.
ArchivalResource:
2 linear feet (5 boxes, several oversized items)
Schaefler, Sam, 1920-,. Historical and Literary Letters and Documents, 1674-197-.
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Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 8 -- Letters to Franklin 1783 December-1786
Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 8 -- Letters to Franklin, 1783 December-1786
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Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 8 -- Letters to Franklin 1783 December-1786
This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description
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