Sparks, Jared (1)

* Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. 377 letters [to John Gorham Palfrey]; 1810-1865 & n.d., 1810-1865
* Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. 1 letter to the President and Fellows of Harvard College; 1863., 1863.
* Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. 6 letters to Mary Ann (Hammond) Palfrey; 1829-1838., 1829-1838.
* Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. 1 letter to Sarah [Hammond] Palfrey; 1848., 1848.
* Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Last will. MS. (unsigned copy); [ Cambridge, 15 Jun 1855 ], 1855
* Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. [Biographical notes on Col. William Palfrey ] A.MS.s.; [n.p.] 9 Feb 1835., 1835.
* Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. [ Kidd's Essay on the doctrine of the trinity ] A.MS. (unsigned); [n.p., 1820 ], 1820
* Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Reciprocal influence of literature and morals. A.MS. (unsigned); [n.p., 1815 ], 1815
* Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. [ Poem written at Exeter Academy ] A.MS. (unsigned); [n.p., n.d.]
* Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886. 1 letter to Jared Sparks; 1855., 1855.
* [Notes on a dispute between Jared Sparks and George Ticknor ] A.MS. (unsigned); [n.p.] 1828., 1828.
* Bakewell, Benjamin. 1 letter to Jared Sparks; 1827., 1827.
* Palfrey, John Gorham. Fellowship of the church to [Jared] Sparks. A.MS. (unsigned); [n.p., 1819 ], 1819

Letter from Benjamin Peirce to John Thornton Kirkland, November 15, 1827. About Jared Sparks procuring books in Europe for the College Library.

.... The letters concern U.S. relations with Spain, the Netherlands, and most of the countries of Europe; Everett's service as assistant to John Quincy Adams at the U.S. embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia; and his editorship of the North American Review. Correspondents include ... Jared Sparks ....

Family correspondence and papers of educator and naturalist George B. Emerson .... Additional correspondents include ... Jared Sparks ....

Sparks, Jared Letter to Prof. [Cornelius Conway] Felton, 12 Feb. 1847

Madison, James, pres. U. S.,1731-1836. A.L. (file copy), unsigned) to Jared Sparks; Montpellier, 27 Jun 1831., 1731-1836.

Printed volumes, 1844-1895 .... Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D., by George E. Ellis, 1869, with letters of Jared Sparks and others and a manuscript memorial by Ellis pasted in, 1844-1888

The manuscripts described in the following catalogue ... consist mainly of articles published in the North American Review between 1836 and 1843, the years of John Gorham Palfrey's editorship, ....
* Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866, Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881, and Perkins, James Handasyd, 1810-1849. Travels of Father Hennepin. A.MS. (unsigned); [n.p., 1839] 8s. (9p.), 1839

This collection consists of autograph letters written to Rev. Edward B. Hall of Providence, R.I.... Sparks, Jared (1789-1866) - 4 July 1822; 25 Jan. 1850; 1 May 1850; 26 Apr. 1852

This collection consists of the papers of historian and diplomat George Bancroft of Massachusetts, New York, and Newport, R.I.... It contains letters on political and historical matters from many of the most prominent persons in the 19th century, including ... Jared Sparks ....

Letters of introduction, 1840-1845. This subseries contains letters of introduction written to Everett by various correspondents. Each volume has two indexes, one of the writers of the letters, the other of the people introduced. Correspondents include .... Jared Sparks ....

.... letters to the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The letters are mostly replies to invitations to deliver lectures before the Society. The respondents include ... Jared Sparks ....

Manuscript copies of speeches delivered at a banquet held 31 May 1859 at the Revere House in Boston, Mass. organized by the Boston Chess Club to honor chess player Paul Morphy on his return from a chess tour in Europe. Essays were delivered by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jared Sparks, Charles Hale and others; and recorded by Boston Chess Club secretary J. B. Rhodes.

Correspondence, diaries (1816-1820), expense book (1817-1820), and miscellaneous papers of Charles Folsom, diplomat, librarian, and editor .... Folsom’s literary correspondents included ... Jared Sparks ....

f. 227 Jared Sparks: Letter to Rev. J. Hutchinson: 1829.

Curson, Samuel, recipient. Letters from various others, 1825-1827., 1825-1827. One letter is from Jared Sparks.

* Documents copied or collected by Jared Sparks in the course of his editorial and historical work
* Armstrong, John, 1758-1843. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Red Hook, 14 Dec 1834., 1834
* Armstrong, John, 1758-1843. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Red Hook, 11 Jan 1837., 1837.
* Armstrong, John, 1758-1843. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; [Red Hook, 2 Sep 1837], 1837]
* Armstrong, John, 1758-1843. 16 A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Red Hook, 13 Oct 1831 - 16 Jul 1842., 1842.
* Hosack, David, 1769-1835. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; New York, 8 Apr 1834.
* Tallmadge, Benjamin, 1754-1835. 2 A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Litchfield, 16 Nov 1833 and 17 Feb 1834., 1833
* Thacher, James, 1754-1844. 3 A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Plymouth, 6 Feb - 4 Mar 1834., 1834.
* Dickinson, John D. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Troy, 12 Jul 1834., 1834.
* Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1801-1889. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; New Haven, 1 Feb 1834., 1834.
* Eddy, Samuel. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Providence, 3 May 1834., 1834.
* Lanman, James. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Norwich, 7 Apr 1834., 1834.
* Stedman, James. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Norwich, 8 Apr 1834., 1834.
* Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1801-1889. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; [New Haven, 15 Feb 1834], 1834]
* Abbot, Joseph H. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Boston, 25 Jun 1834., 1834.
* Bronson, J. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Greenfield Hill, 23 Sep 1834., 1834.
* Shimmin, William. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Boston, 11 Dec 1834., 1834.

Jared Sparks; May 10, 1789 [Willington, CT] – March 14, 1866 [Cambridge, MA]. Spouses: 1832, Frances Ann Allen,
d. 1835. 1839, Mary Crowninshield Silsbee. Schoolteacher, then tutor in Havre de Grace, Maryland, teacher in Lancaster, MA; attended Phillips Exeter Academy 1809-1811; lifelong friend of John G. Palfrey; attended Harvard University (A.B. 1815, A.M. 1818); as an undergraduate, member of the Hasty Pudding. First pastor of the newly organized "First Independent Church of Baltimore", serving from 1819 to 1823; ordained by William Ellery Channing; Unitarian theorist; one of the founders of the American Unitarian Association; founder and editor of the Unitarian Miscellany and Christian Monitor; served as chaplain of the United States House of Representatives from 1821 to 1823 (preceded by John Nicholson Campbell, followed by John Brackenridge [c. 1772-1844]). Acting editor of North American Review 1817-1818; contributed to the National Intelligencer; bought the North American Review in 1824, edited it until 1830; founded and edited in 1830, the American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1825; a member of the American Antiquarian Society 1827, served as its secretary for foreign correspondence 1846-1866. Research trips to London and Paris in 1828-1829; publications: The Writings of George Washington, Life of George Washington; controversy (charged with altering Washington's words) with Philip Henry Stanhope (Lord Mahon). Extensive conversation and correspondence with Alexis de Tocqueville, considerable influence on Democracy in America. Aided Henry D. Gilpin in preparing an edition of the Papers of James Madison (1840). In 1842 Sparks delivered 12 lectures on American history before the Lowell Institute in Boston. In 1838–1849 he was the first McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard. President of Harvard College 1849-1853 (preceded by Edward Everett [1794-1865] and followed by James Walker [1794-1874]), resided in the Treadwell-Sparks House. For several years he was a member of the Massachusetts Commonwealth Board of Education. Buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Portrait photographs of members of "The Club," made up of various graduates of Harvard College, classes of 1810-1817. Subjects include Samuel Atkins Eliot, Theophilus Parsons, Franklin Dexter, Charles Folsom, Jared Sparks, and William Hickling Prescott, among others.

Felton, Cornelius Conway, 1807-1862. D.s.; Cambridge, [ca. 1850], 1850]. Fragment, signed also by Jared Sparks.

Family and personal correspondence, documents, and other papers relating to Parker’s law practice in Ohio (1822) and to his term as Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University .
* Letter from Jared Sparks, Cambridge, Mass., to Joel Parker, Theophilus Parsons and Edward G. Loring, Cambridge, [Mass.], 21 March 1853. Thanks professors for their cooperation during Sparks’ term as President of Harvard University.
* Letter from Jared Sparks, Cambridge, [Mass.], to Joel Parker, 25 October 1855. Thanks Parker for a gift of apples.

This series contains correspondence and papers relating to the Smithsonian Institution and its executive officers .... Some notable items include: .... 6 letters from prominent historians, including George Bancroft, Washington Irving, and Jared Sparks , urging publication by the Smithsonian of some Spanish documents relating to the history of the Southwest.

Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891. A.L.s. to Jared Sparks; Philadelphia, 20 Feb 1849., 1849.

[Letter] from Jared Sparks, May 17, 1852.

Scrapbooks of Harvard University memorabilia compiled by Nathan Appleton .... Correspondents include ... Jared Sparks ....