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Hellman, George S. (George Sidney), 1878-1958

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George Sidney Hellman (1878-1958) was an author, editor, and art, book, and manuscript dealer and collector of New York City. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Columbia University in 1899 and 1900 and maintained a close connection with that institution. With fellow student William Aspenwall Bradley he founded and edited the literary magazine, East & West, 1900-1901, and remained a prolific freelance writer and editor for most of his life. However, he earned his living as a rar...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the for her novel Little Women (1868) and the sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Born in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May. Like her famous literary counterpart, Jo March, she was the second of four daughters. The eldest, Anna Bronson (Al...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts– April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.Epithet: American essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x000365 ...

Alcott, A. Bronson (Amos Bronson), 1799-1888

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Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a plant-based diet. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights. Born in Wolcott, Connecticut in 1799, Alcott had only minimal formal schooling bef...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Brown, William G. (William Gay), 1800-1884

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Rep. from Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to President Lincoln, [1861]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270903161 ...

Sanborn, F. B.

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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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Henry David Thoreau (b. July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts-d. May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts), American author, lecturer, naturalist, student of Native American artifacts and life, transcendentalist, land surveyor, and life-long resident of Concord, Massachusetts. He was an active opponent of slavery and a social critic. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837....

Hosmer, Ella

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Ricketson, Walton

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Ricketson, Ann

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Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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James Thomas Fields, American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1817. At the age of 17, he went to Boston to clerk in a booksellers shop. While clerking, he often wrote for newspapers and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of several prominent contemporary American and British writers. Besides just publishing the authors, h...

Blood, H. A.

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Hosmer, Horace, 1830-1894

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Jones, Samuel Arthur, 1834-1912

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Physician, organizer and first Dean of the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College, 1875-1880, editor, and book collector, especially of Carlyle and Thoreau. From the description of Samuel Jones papers, 1878-1919. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68795930 From the description of Papers, 1878-1919. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34369504 ...

Ricketson, Daniel, 1813-1898

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Ricketson was a friend to Emerson, Thoreau and other Concord Transcendentalists. From the description of Correspondence to Miss Kenyon, 1879. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 183653388 ...

Thoreau, Sophia E.

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Dunbar, Louisia

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Ricketson, Daniel, 1813-1898

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Ricketson was a friend to Emerson, Thoreau and other Concord Transcendentalists. From the description of Correspondence to Miss Kenyon, 1879. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 183653388 ...

Carr, Joanne C.

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Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901

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American poet. From the description of Morrice Lake : autograph manuscript of the poem signed, [1872]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270630812 Channing was a transcendentalist poet and the first biographer of Thoreau. From the description of Notebooks and journals, 1852-ca. 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612371953 Concord poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Concord, to James Munroe & Co., 1850 May 6. ...

Hosmer, Alfred H.

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Dunbar, Cynthia

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New York Tribune

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Thoreau, John

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Thoreau, Jane, 1784-1864

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Thoreau family

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Dudley, E. G.

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Minot, Mrs.

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Jones, Samuel Arthur, 1834-1912

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Physician, organizer and first Dean of the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College, 1875-1880, editor, and book collector, especially of Carlyle and Thoreau. From the description of Samuel Jones papers, 1878-1919. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68795930 From the description of Papers, 1878-1919. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34369504 ...

Greene, Calvin H.

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Lownes, Albert Edgar, 1899-1978

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Brown class of 1920. Book collector, textile executive, naturalist. From the description of Manuscript Collection, 1549-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145429908 Brown University class of 1920; honorary M.A., 1940; honorary doctorate, 1970. At different times President and then Chairman of the Board of American Silk Spinning Company of Providence; collector of books and manuscripts; Lecturer in History of Science at Brown for thirty years; interests included astronomy, ...

Thoreau, Maria, 1794-1881

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Hosmer, Alfred W. (Alfred Winslow), 1851-1903

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Born and died in Concord, Mass., Alfred Winslow Hosmer (1851-1903) was a dry goods merchant, photographer, naturalist, and an early admirer of Thoreau and collector of his writings. His Thoreau library is now part of the Special Collections of the Concord Free Public Library. From the description of Alfred Winslow Hosmer papers relating primarily to botany, [1872]-1902 (bulk 1887-1902). (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 36288044 Alfred Winslow Hosmer (1851-1903) ...

Dorgan, John A.

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Blake, Harrison G. (Harrison Gray), 1818-1876

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Vose, Henry

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Babson, Emma Mortimer

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