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Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856. John Collins Warren correspondence, 1812-1856 (inclusive).

Title: John Collins Warren correspondence, 1812-1856 (inclusive).

Most of the collection consists of autograph letters by prominent physicians and scientists in America and abroad to Warren. There is one letter from his son, John Warren. Two letters are by Warren, one to David Hosack, a copy made by Warren, and the other ia letter to Philip Syng Physick.

ArchivalResource: 36 items (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703652722 View

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838. Bowditch Family Papers, 1712-1927.

Title: Bowditch Family Papers, 1712-1927.

This collection of correspondence, business papers, pamphlets, family history, and photographs spans nine generations.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes, 12 volumes (12 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/607096821 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01965/catalog View

Bowditch, N. I. (Nathaniel Ingersoll), 1805-1861. Papers, ca. 1853.

Title: Papers, ca. 1853.

Draft of a petition or speech on the decision of the Boston Common Council that the Catholics could not build a church on lands owned by them in Leverett St. (5 p.). With a letter from Charles Cleveland regarding charity rendered to Irish immigrants (3 p.).

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15173837 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

Bowditch family. Bowditch Family Papers, 1712-1927.

Title: Bowditch Family Papers, 1712-1927.

This collection of correspondence, business papers, pamphlets, family history, and photographs spans nine generations.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes, 12 volumes (12 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/646068916 View

Endicott Family. Endicott Family Papers, 1638-1936.

Title: Endicott Family Papers, 1638-1936.

Salem and Danvers, MA and Windsor, VT family. Collection contains personal papers of shipmaster Charles M. Endicott (1793-1863), account books of Elias Endicott's (1767-1848) shoe and leather working business, and Mary Endicott's (1800-1877) diary. Also includes shipping, personal and business papers of other family members.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes (3 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/636642898 View

Frazee, John, 1790-1852. Letters received, 1834-1838.

Title: Letters received, 1834-1838.

From prominent Bostonians, regarding busts of themselves and others; they write to arrange for sittings, and to compliment Frazee on finished work. Some of the pieces are in the Boston Athenaeum collection. Includes extracts from Frazee's autobiography on the busts of John Marshall and Daniel Webster. The existence of the originals of these letters cannot be verified.

ArchivalResource: 21 items, in box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14549526 View

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

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867. Papers of Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1835-1866.

Title: Papers of Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1835-1866.

The collection contains several poems, an essay and a quotation by Willis. Subjects in his correspondence include his travels in England, 1831-1836; publication matters, particularly involving the Home Journal; his literary work and the writings of others; financial success of his plays; and his family and health. Briefer topics include a portrait of James T. Fields by Mathew Brady; his narrowly averted duel with Captain James Marryat; meeting Jane Porter; help from Henry Tuckerman; and duty on books published in England. Recipients include Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Almont Barnes, Ann Lynch Botta, Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Theodore Sedgwick Fay, James T. Fields, James Henry Hackett, Fitz-Green Halleck, Abraham Hart, Harper & Brothers, Asa Hutchinson, Benson John Lossing, Thomas R. Lounsbury, Mary Russell Mitford, George Pope Morris, John Gorham Palfrey, John Williamson Palmer, James Parton, E[phraim?] Peabody, Samuel B. Ruggles, Epes Sargent, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Osmond Tiffany, Teresa Vielé, George Virtue, and Catherine Ann Warfield. There is also one letter written by Cornelia Willis for her husband. In addition the collection contains a photograph, two engravings, and a magazine drawing of Willis, and an engraving of a house, "Ashland."

ArchivalResource: 70 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54395077 View

Bowditch family. Papers, 1834-1882.

Title: Papers, 1834-1882.

A small collection of papers relating to the Bowditch family, including a volume of poetry by Nathaniel I. Bowditch; printed genealogical charts with manuscript additions; a petition (signed by N.I. Bowditch, among others) regarding the fugitive slave George Latimer (1842), and a few Goddard and Fay family items.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26725546 View

Dawes, Thomas, 1757-1825. Letters to Margaret Greenleaf Dawes, 1781-1830.

Title: Letters to Margaret Greenleaf Dawes, 1781-1830.

Poetry and courtship letters written by Mass. Supreme Judicial Court judge Thomas Dawes to his fiancě and later wife Margaret Greenleaf Dawes, ca. 1781-1825. Also, a summary of Dawes' estate written in 1830 by Nathaniel I. Bowditch; and a letter written by Margaret to her aunt, Mrs. James T. Hayward describing travel with Thomas in Northampton, Mass., ca. 1781.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51181078 View

Various. American and Canadian Ciphering Books 1727-1864.

Title: American and Canadian Ciphering Books 1727-1864.

This collection contains 201 ciphering books, arranged in three series: Mathematics, Navigation and Textbooks. Mathematics includes Arithmetic, Geometry, Trigonometry, and other subjects. The books are arranged chronologically within each series, with undated books falling at the end of the series. Many books contain more than one subject. There are also three textbooks included. Most of the ciphering books were created in New England, but one is from Canada and three are from England. Not all volumes are true ciphering books; a few are exercise books containing mathematical calculations with headings similar to the ciphering books. The Navigation books usually start with Geometry or Trigonometry and then cover different types of sailing, compass calculations, and a real or imagined log of a voyage.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes, 1 volume (8.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/441853867 View

Greenough, William Whitwell, 1819-1899. Letters received, 1850-1892.

Title: Letters received, 1850-1892.

Many of the letters relate to his activities on behalf of the Boston Public Library. Included are letters of prominent Massachusetts merchants, politicians and writers. Some earlier family papers are included.

ArchivalResource: 22 items, tipped-in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14707184 View

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859. Papers of William Hickling Prescott [manuscript], 1836-1858.

Title: Papers of William Hickling Prescott [manuscript], 1836-1858.

The papers are comprised chiefly of letters to Theodore Dwight, Henry Hart Milman, and American and European publishing firms. Subjects discussed include books by Dwight, Milman, George Bancroft and Thomas Babington Macauley, business relations with Richard Bentley, the anti-Catholic uprising in England, 1850, the U.S. presidential campaign of 1852, family matters, and the writing and publication of several of Prescott's books. Other topics include Prescott's trip to England, his British and American friends, and access to manuscript materials in Italian libraries and the archives of the Spanish legation. Fourteen engravings of Prescott are included.

ArchivalResource: 85 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647833980 View

Bartlett, John, 1820-1905. Letters of John Bartlett, 1859-1891.

Title: Letters of John Bartlett, 1859-1891.

In a letter, 1859 September 5, to Nathaniel I. Bowditch, Bartlett acknowledges the receipt of Bowditch's book and sends one in return. In a letter, 1891 September 22, to Theo[dore?] M. Barber, Bartlett discusses in detail the ninth edition of "Familiar Quotations" which he will soon send.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53795359 View

Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856. Correspondence, 1812-1856

Title: John Collins Warren correspondence, 1812-1856 (inclusive).

Most of the collection consists of autograph letters by prominent physicians and scientists in America and abroad to Warren. There is one letter from his son, John Warren. Two letters are by Warren, one to David Hosack, a copy made by Warren, and the other ia letter to Philip Syng Physick.

ArchivalResource: 36 items (1 box).

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/6602696 View

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. Papers of Henry Wadworth Longfellow [manuscript], 1764-1887 (bulk 1832-1882).

Title: Papers of Henry Wadworth Longfellow [manuscript], 1764-1887 (bulk 1832-1882).

The collection contains manuscripts of three poems by Longfellow and one by Samuel Longfellow. The bulk of the collection consists of Longfellow's letters to a varitey of friends and business associates including Richard Bentley, N. I. Bowditch, Willis G. Clark, N. Cleaveland, G. W. Curtis, J. T. Fields, Paul Hamilton Hayne, George S. Hillard, George Pope Morris, Charles Eliot Norton, James R. Osgood, Andrew Preston Peabody, George Lewis Prentiss, and George Ticknor Thomas Gold Appleton, Alice Longfellow, Fanny Longfellow , Samuel Longfellow, and Edith Longfellow Dana are also correspondents. The collection also contains two legal documents signed by Longfellow's grandfather Stephen, 1764, 1804. In a letter, 1840 September 28, Longfellow sends affectionate greetings to Julie Hepp a young lady in Heidelberg.

ArchivalResource: ca. 85 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647976785 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId, 1837-1844

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId 1837-1844

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IId-ead.xml View

Bowditch, N. I. (Nathaniel Ingersoll), 1805-1861. Letters received, 1848-1861.

Title: Letters received, 1848-1861.

Letters and other documents relating to the "ether controversy;" whether Dr. Charles T. Jackson or Dr. William Thomas Green Morton should be credited with the first successful use of ether as an anesthetic in surgical operations. Morton had used ether on a patient in Boston in 1846, at the suggestion of Jackson. Includes letters of the principals in the dispute, as well as testimony for and against them.

ArchivalResource: ca. 30 items, in folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14756033 View

Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880. Papers, 1871, July 21-Aug. 9, Boston.

Title: Papers, 1871, July 21-Aug. 9, Boston.

ALS and two clippings. The first clipping puts forth W. T. G. Morton's claim to the discovery of the anaesthetic properties of ether. In a letter to Joseph Hale Abbot, Jackson remarks bitterly on this public campaign, led by Drs. Bowditch and Bigelow. Jackson counters in the second clipping with his own claim to the discovery, as substantiated by several foreign juries.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35149330 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

Bowditch, N. I. (Nathaniel Ingersoll), 1805-1861. Bowditch collection of Boston conveyances, 1827-1859.

Title: Bowditch collection of Boston conveyances, 1827-1859.

Collection of Boston and Cambridge real estate conveyances, transcribed from Suffolk County records by Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, as part of his ongoing work and interest in real estate law and genealogy. The collection consists of 53 volumes of real estate conveyances (most relating to Boston properties), 2 volumes of real estate dockets, 1 volume of cases regarding real estate, and 4 index volumes (which remain onsite). The dates of the collection reflect when titles were examined and researched. The contents of the volumes span a much wider range of dates.

ArchivalResource: 11 record cartons (stored offsite); 4 v. and 2 boxes of indexes (stored onsite, Bowditch titles)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16150647 View

Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Title: Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Papers of the Palfrey family of New England. The material of this collection encompasses over 150 years of American history and many items of interest besides those documenting the life and works of John Gorham Palfrey, who is its central figure. A few of these may be briefly mentioned here. The papers of William Palfrey include letters between John Wilkes and the Sons of Liberty and William Palfrey's personal correspondence with Wilkes at the time of the latter's imprisonment in 1769-1770, including Palfrey's description of the Boston Massacre. William Palfrey's business account and financial papers are extensive and range in subject from accounts of trade with Virginia in 1763 to the disposition of funds of the Continental Army during the time Palfrey was Pay Master General. His close association and correspondence with John Hancock should be noted. Several interesting items pertain to the dispute between Hancock and the Boston printer, John Mein, which resulted in Thomas Longman's suit against Mein and the latter's imprisonment. The papers of John Palfrey deal mainly with his business affairs and the management of his plantation at Attakapas. However, several letters by his sons, Edward, William Taylor, and Henry William give first-hand accounts of battles in the war of 1812. Letters to John Gorham Palfrey from over 1000 corespondents form the largest single section in the collection. Of special importance are 377 letters from Jared Sparks and 148 letters from Charles Sumner.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet (130 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00387/catalog View

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838. Bowditch family business letters, 1826-1861.

Title: Bowditch family business letters, 1826-1861.

Small collection of letters to Nathaniel Bowditch and his son Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, including business letters related to Nathaniel Bowditch's role as actuary for the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, acknowledgments of donations to the Harvard University Library and the Boston Public Library, and letters related to the acquisition of John Singleton Copley's portrait of Charles I for the Boston Public Library. Correspondents include Harvard president Josiah Quincy, Joseph W. Revere, and Edward Everett.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670129552 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

Emerson, George B. (George Barrell), 1797-1881. Letter, 1839 June 20, Boston, to N.I. Bowditch, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1839 June 20, Boston, to N.I. Bowditch, Boston.

Regarding Bowditch's memoir of his father, Nathaniel Bowditch.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.), in folder ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166330238 View