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O'Connell, William Henry, 1859-1944

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William Henry O'Connell was born on December 8, 1859 in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest of eleven children of John O'Connell and Brigid Farley. He became interested in art and music as a child, and continued painting watercolors and playing piano throughout his life. He entered the College of St. Charles in Maryland in 1876, where he became a pupil of John Bannister Tabb. He returned to Boston a few years later, and graduated from Boston College in 1881. That same year, O'Connell left to stu...

Hubbard, Elbert Green, 1856-1915

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Elbert Green Hubbard was born in Bloomington, Illinois to Silas Hubbard and Juliana Frances Read on June 19, 1856. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a salesman for the Larkin Soap Company in Buffalo, New York. In 1895, he founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York. This community developed following Hubbard's purchase of a private press, which he named the Roycroft Press. The printing business was initiated in collaboration with Hubbard's first wife...

Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920

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Louise Imogen Guiney was born on January 7, 1861 in Roxbury, Massachusetts to Patrick R. Guinea, an Irish-born American Civil War officer and lawyer, and Jeanette Margaret Doyle. She was educated at the Notre Dame convent school in Boston, Massachusetts and Elmhurst Academy of the Sacred Heart in Providence, Rhode Island. Her father died in 1877, a result of the significant injuries he had sustained in the war. Guiney graduated two years later, and would spend the next 20 years living in Boston ...

Russell, George William, 1867-1935

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George William Russell was born on April 10, 1867 in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland to Thomas and Marianne (Armstrong) Russell. The family moved to Dublin in 1878, and Russell attended Dr. Power’s School in Harrington Street and night classes at the Metropolitan School of Art, before entering Rathmines School, which he left in 1884. He would later recall experiencing visions and trances during his youth, experiences which would cement his life-long interest in the supernatural. Those visions als...

Sitwell, Edith Louisa, Dame, 1887-1964

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Edith Sitwell was born on September 7, 1887 in Scarborough, England to Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison. In 1913, one of her earliest poems, “Drowned Suns”, was published in The Daily Mirror. Three years later, Sitwell began editing Wheels, an anthology of new verse that sparked controversy among conservative critics. In the 1920s, Sitwell and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, became known for their avant-garde literary work. Sitwell ...

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939

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Biography Letters of Ford Madox [Hueffer, aftw.] Ford (1873-1939), English author, to the literary agent who handled his novels, James B. Pinker. Some of the letters are in Ford's handwriting, but many are written or typewritten by a secretary and signed by Ford. Most of the letters for 1901-1915 are undated. In the early part of the correspondence there are a few references to Conrad. In general the correspondence relates almost entirely to ...

Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940

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Hamlin Garland, also known as Hannibal Hamlin Garland, (born September 14, 1860, West Salem, Wisconsin – died March 4, 1940, Hollywood, California), an author who put his own part of the country on the literary map, is best remembered by the title he gave his autobiography, Son of the Middle Border. Gaining his spurs with a successful collection of grimly naturalistic 'down home' stories in 1891, Garland came to prominence just as the "frontier" mentality was losing out to the waves of settlemen...

Gray, Asa, 1810-1888

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Often called the “Father of American Botany,” Asa Gray was instrumental in establishing systematic botany as a field of study at Harvard University and, to some extent, in the United States. His relationships with European and North American botanists and collectors enabled him to serve as a central clearing house for the identification of plants from newly explored areas of North America. He also served as a link between American and European botanical sciences. Gray regularly reviewed new Euro...

Markham, Beryl, 1902-1986

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Beryl Markham (born Clutterbuck; 26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) born in Ashwell, England. At four years old, she moved with her father to Kenya, which was then colonial British East Africa; he built a horse racing farm in Njoro. Markham was married three times, taking the name Markham from her second husband, the wealthy Mansfield Markham, with whom she had a son, Gervase. In 1928, while pregnant with Gervase, she entered into an affair with Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. Returning to En...

James, William, 1842-1910

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William James (born January 11, 1842, New York City – died August 26, 1910, Tamworth, New Hampshire) was the preeminent American philosopher of his day. His reinterpretations of psychology and pragmatism were among his major contributions to world thought, and his work continues to reward study and inspire analysis. ...

Mitchell, Silas Weir, 1829-1914

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Silas Weir Mitchell was a Philadelphia physician and author. After graduating from medical school, he studied in Europe, joined his father's practice, and ran Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia during the Civil War, becoming the preeminent American neurologist of his generation. In addition to numerous medical papers and texts, he published popular novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Born on 15 Feb. 1829, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of physician John Kear...

Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948

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Wilfrid Meynell was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Yorkshire on November 17, 1852. Birth registry and census records indicate that he was probably born Wilfrid Isaac Mennell, to George and Hannah (Tuke) Mennell, but documentation of his name change to "Meynell" is lacking. His family was Quaker, but at the age of eighteen Wilfrid converted to Catholicism and moved to London to pursue a career in journalism. He also wrote poetry, contributing verses to Emily Priestman's Simple Tales (1873), and he ...

Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930

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Born in the Netherlands, Edward Bok came to the United States with his family at the age of six. He worked in publishing from the age of thirteen. He founded the Brooklyn magazine and 1886 he established the Bok Syndicate Press. Bok became editor of Ladies' home journal in 1889. In 1896 Bok married Mary Louise Curtis (1876-1970), the daughter of Ladies' home journal publisher, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis (1850-1933). He worked as an editor at Curtis publishing for thirty years retiring at th...

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Wharton was from birth a part of the wealthy New York society she depicted so vividly in her fiction. Through her father, George Frederic Jones, and her mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, she could claim descent from three families whose names were synonymous with wealth and position: the Stevenses, Rhinelanders, and Schermerhorns. Educated at home with tutors and exposed at an early age to the classics in her fath...

Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945

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Maurice Baring was born on April 27, 1874, as the eighth child and fifth son of Edward Charles Baring, first Baron Revelstoke and Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel. Born in the West End of London, Baring attended Eton College and then Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1898, he joined the diplomatic service. In 1904, he became a journalist and reported on the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria for the Morning Post. Later, he was a correspondent in Russia and Istanbul (Constantinople). During World War ...

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (b. June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut – d. July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American abolitionist and author. She is the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher who preached against slavery. She is best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. It became an instant and controversial best-seller, both in the United States and abroad. The novel had a major impact on Northerners' attitudes toward slavery and by the beginning of the Civil War had sold more than a million copi...

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997

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James Laughlin was an American publisher and poet, and founder of the New Directions press. The son of a steel manufacturer, Laughlin attended Choate School in Connecticut and Harvard University (B.A., 1939). In the mid-1930s Laughlin lived in Italy with Ezra Pound, a major influence on his life and work; returning to the United States, he founded New Directions in 1936. Initially he intended to publish writings by ignored yet influential avant-garde writers of the period; Pound’s The Cantos ...

Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948

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Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was the second wife and First Lady of her childhood companion and the 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909). Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne. Born in Connecticut in 1861, daughter of Charles and Gertrude Tyler Carow, she grew up in an old New York brownstone on Union Square — an environment of comfort and tradition. Throughout childhood she and “Teedie” were in and o...

Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975

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Curator of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1941 to 1963; noted expert on print-making; founded in 1919 and directed the Weyhe Gallery in New York; contributed to and edited the Modern School Magazine in the second half of the 1910s. First wife: Florence King; child: Carola (born 1917). Second wife: Laura Canadè (married in 1946). Zigrosser died in 1975. From the description of Carl Zigrosser papers, circa 1891-1971. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record...

Crowell, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1857-1931

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John Franklin Crowell was an educator, economist, and journalist. He served as President of Trinity College (Randolph County, N.C. and later Durham, N.C.) from 1887-1894. From the description of John Franklin Crowell records and papers, 1883-1932. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 55635813 Clergyman, economist. Columbia University Ph.D., 1897. From the description of J. Franklin Crowell papers, 1894. (Columbia University In t...

American Library Association

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The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. Founded in 1876, it is the oldest and largest library association in the world....

Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943

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Albert Bushnell Hart (1854-1943), American historian, writer, and editor, taught history and government at Harvard University and Radcliffe College from 1883 to 1926. Hart was born on July 1, 1854 in Clarksville, Pennsylvania to physician Albert Gaillard Hart and Mary Crosby Hornell Hart. He had a brother, Hastings Hornell Hart, and two sisters, Helen Marcia Hart and Jeannette M. Hart. The family moved to Ohio in 1860, eventually settling in Cleveland, where Hart graduated from West High Sc...

Little, Brown and Company, 1932, 1966, 1978

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Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-1977

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Author and illustrator Hans Augusto Rey was born September 16, 1898, in Hamburg, Germany, immigrated to the US in 1940, became a citizen in 1946 and spent the majority of his life until his death in 1977, writing and illustrating children's literature, his best known works being the Curious George books, featuring the monkey Curious George. He created over forty children's books, many with his wife Margaret, and a few under the pseudonym Uncle Gus....

New Republic, LLC

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The New Republic a is journal of opinion and commentary, often on politics, culture, and the arts, edited in Washington, D.C. and later New York City, was founded in 1914. Its early political leanings were progressive, but its political stance has shifted over time and throughout a variety of owners and editors. Martin Peretz, who purchased the magazine in 1974, held the title of editor in chief from 1978 to 2011. By the end of the twentieth century, The New Republic was publishing a broader arr...

Muir, John, 1838-1914

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John Muir (born April 21, 1838, Dunbar, Scotland – died December 24, 1914, Los Angeles, California), Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which h...

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925

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Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her brother, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, was president of Harvard University. At age 36, Lowell had her first poem published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1912, her first book of poems, A dome of many colored glasses was published. She became associated with the Imagists poets when Ezra Pound, whom she had met on a trip to England, included one of her poems in his anthology, Des imagistes. Lowell wrote critical articles for periodicals in add...

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. Raised in Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a me...

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893

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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....

Cary, Phoebe, 1824-1871

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Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824 – July 31, 1871) was an American poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820–1871). The sisters co-published poems in 1849, and then each went on to publish volumes of their own. After their deaths in 1871, joint anthologies of the sisters' unpublished poems were also compiled. phoebe Cary was born on September 4, 1824, in Mount Healthy, Ohio near Cincinnati, and she and her sister Alice were raised on the Clovernook farm in what is now North College H...

Botta, Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lynch), 1815-1891

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Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (November 11, 1815 – March 23, 1891) was an American poet, writer, teacher and socialite whose home was the central gathering place of the literary elite of her era. She was born Anne Charlotte Lynch in Bennington, Vermont. Her father was Patrick Lynch (died 1819), of Dublin, Ireland, who took part in the United Irishmen Rebellion of 1798. For this, he was imprisoned and then banished from Ireland. He came to the United States at the age of 18, eventually making his...

Weeks, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1898-1989

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Edward A. Weeks (1898-1989) was an author, essayist, and editor for the Atlantic Monthly . He was also author of more than 10 books, including: Breaking into Print: an Editor's Advice on Writing (1962); In Friendly Candor [1959]; and Writers and Friends (1981). Weeks opposed censorship and, during the 1920's, served as chairman of the Massachusetts Committee to Reform Book Censorship. From the guide to the Edward Weeks Letter to Mrs. Henry Pettit (MS 235), 16 June 1961...

Webb, Walter Prescott, 1888-1963

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Walter Prescott Webb (April 3, 1888 in Panola County, Texas – March 8, 1963 near Austin, Texas) was an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he launched the project that produced the Handbook of Texas. He is also noted for his early criticism of the water usage patterns in the region. In 2012, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy &#38 Western Heritage Museum. Webb w...

Rogers, Will, 1879-1935

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The youngest of eight children, William Penn Adair Rogers was born on November 4, 1879 at Rogers Ranch in Oologah, Indian Territory (what is now Oklahoma). His parents, Clement Vann Rogers and Mary Schrimsher, were partly of Cherokee descent. While growing up on the family ranch, Will worked with cattle and learned to ride and lasso from a young age. He grew so talented with a rope, in fact, that he was placed in the Guiness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once. One went ar...

Marks, Jeannette Augustus, 1875-1964

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Jeannette Augustus Marks (August 16, 1875 – March 15, 1964) was an American professor at Mount Holyoke College. Born on August 16, 1875 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, her parents were Jeannette Holmes (née Colwell) and William Dennis Marks, who was the president of the Philadelphia Edison Company, after working at University of Pennsylvania, where he taught engineering. As her parents were estranged, Marks grew up mainly in the company of her mother and younger sister, Mabel, alternating homes be...

Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933

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American essayist. From the description of Essay, 1915 May 25, London, on Stilton cheese. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166330051 Writer on subjects of moral philosophy, ancient Greek literature, and events of historical and social significance. From the description of Letters, 1922-1934, bulk 1927-1928, to Henry Chester Tracy. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 12486594 John Jay Chapman was an American essayist, poet, playwright,...

Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941

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George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860 – July 23, 1941) was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also involved in American folklore studies and was instrumental in the formation and management of the Harvard University Press. One of his better-known books concerned witchcraft in England. Kittredge was born in Boston in 1860. His father, Edward "Kit" Lyman Kittredg...

Channing, Grace Ellery, 1862-1937

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Grace Ellery Channing (December 27, 1862 – April 3, 1937) was a writer and poet who published often in The Land of Sunshine.Grace Ellery Channing (December 27, 1862 – April 3, 1937) was a writer and poet who published often in The Land of Sunshine.Grace Ellery Channing (December 27, 1862 – April 3, 1937) was a writer and poet who published often in The Land of Sunshine. She was born to William Francis Channing and Mary Jane (née Tarr) on December 27, 1862 in Providence, Rhode Island. Channing...

Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937

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Theatrical manager, producer, director and writer, Winthrop Ames was born on November 25, 1870 into a wealthy and socially prominent family in North Easton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard and began a career in publishing because of his family's strong opposition to a career in theater. In 1904, however, he traveled to Europe to study the "new stagecraft" and on his return became joint manager of the Castle Square Theatre in Boston with Loren F. Deland. This led to his appointment in 1...

Darrow, Clarence S. (Clarence Seward), 1857-1938

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Clarence Seward Darrow, prominent Chicago trial lawyer, was born in Kinsman, Ohio on April 18, 1857. He attended Allegheny College, after which he studied one year at the University of Michigan Law School. He then worked as a lawyer in Youngstown, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1878. He practiced in Ohio for nine years, before moving to Chicago, where he practiced privately before being appointed assistant corporation counsel for the City of Chicago. For four years he served as Chi...

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Aldrich, Talbot Bailey, 1868-1957

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Son of Thomas Bailey Aldrich who was a New Hampshire-born author and poet. His mother was Mary Elizabeth "Lillian" Woodman....

Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888

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James Freeman Clarke (April 4, 1810 – June 8, 1888) was an American theologian and author. Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on April 4, 1810, James Freeman Clarke was the son of Samuel Clarke and Rebecca Parker Hull, though he was raised by his grandfather James Freeman, minister at King's Chapel in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Boston Latin School, and later graduated from Harvard College in 1829, and Harvard Divinity School in 1833. Ordained into the Unitarian church he first became...

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 ...

Wister, Owen, 1860-1938

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x000028 Born in Pennsylvania, raised in South Carolina, and educated at Harvard, Owen Wister travelled in the Western U.S. as a young man. Although he returned to the East and Harvard law school, he acted upon a friend's suggestion and began writing thrilling Western stories for Harper's. His well-researched stories, particularly The Virginian, he...

Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

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Army officer, statesman, journalist, legislator, and U.S. Secy. of the Interior, of Missouri. From the description of Papers, 1870-1901 (bulk 1870-1890). (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 70953302 German-American army officer, author and politician. From the description of Papers of Carl Schurz, 1862-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136358 U.S. cabinet officer, diplomat, and senator from Missouri, Union Ar...

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...

Greene, Belle da Costa, 1883-1950

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Belle da Costa Greene (December 13, 1883 – May 10, 1950) was the librarian to J. P. Morgan. After Morgan's death in 1913, Greene continued as librarian under his son, Jack Morgan. In 1924 the private collection was incorporated by the State of New York as a library for public uses, and the Board of Trustees appointed Greene first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Born Belle Marion Greener in Washington, D.C., Greene grew up there and in New York City. Her biographer Heidi Ardizzone lis...

Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1899-1979

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Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American writer, monologist, and actress. Born on either May 30, 1899 or 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, Skinner was the daughter of actors Otis Skinner and Maud Durbin. Skinner attended Bryn Mawr College, but left during her sophomore year to move to Paris, where she attended the Sorbonne and studied acting at the Jacques Copeau School and the Comedie Francaise. Skinner began her acting career in 1921, debuting as Dona Sarasate in the stage adapt...

Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

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William Cullen Bryant (b. November 3, 1794, Cummington, Massachusetts-d. June 12, 1878, New York, New York), American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post....

Bigelow, John, 1817-1911

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John Bigelow was born in Malden-on-Hudson, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1838. From 1849 to 1861, he was one of the editors and co-owners of the New York Evening Post. He was active in the Republican Party and in 1860, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him American Consul in Paris in 1861 and later served as American ambassador to France. After the Civil War's conclusion, he returned to New York, where he assisted Samuel J. Tilden in opposing the corruption that flourished in New ...

Dodd, Mead & Company

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In 1839 Moses W. Dodd purchased an interest in a New York publishing firm established by John S. Taylor. The following year he severed his connection with Taylor and continued alone until his retirement in 1870. He was succeeded by his son, Frank H. Dodd, who, with his cousin Edward S. Mead, formed the firm Dodd & Mead. A retail department was added to the firm and in 1876 Bleecker Van Wagnen was taken as a partner. The firm was then renamed Dodd, Mead & Company. From the guide to t...

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Crofton, F. B. (Francis Blake), 1841-1911

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Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929

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(William) Bliss Carman (1861-1929) was a Canadian poet and editor. Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he studied at the universities of New Brunswick and Harvard. He is usually grouped with the Confederation Poets, who developed a distinctively Canadian poetic voice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Yet this identification with the Confederation group is somewhat misleading as Carman spent much of his life in New England and many readers assumed that he was American. Carman ed...

Atlantic Monthly

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Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939

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American journalist. From the description of Letter : New York City, to M. D. Wechsler, 1930 Mar. 5. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122625143 ...

Burton, Richard, 1861-1940

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Richard E. Burton was an editor, author, and educator. He was born in Connecticut and educated at Trinity College and Johns Hopkins. He was literary editor of the Hartford Courant for several years before accepting a position at the University of Minnesota as English professor and department head. He wrote poetry and biography, and edited several publications. From the description of Richard E. Burton letter and poem, 1915. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record ...

Hale, Edward Everett, Jr., 1863-1932

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Hale was Professor of English from 1895-1932. From the description of Edward Everett Hale Jr, 1863-1932 papers, 1895(ca.)-1932(ca.). (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155435623 ...

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

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Woodrow Wilson (b. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia-d.February 3, 1924, Washington, D.C.), was the twenty-eight President of the United States, 1913-1921; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-1913; and president of Princeton University, 1902-1910. Biographical Note 1856, Dec. 28 Born, Staunton, Va. 1870 ...

Baker, Christina Hopkinson, 1873-1959

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Historian and genealogist, of New Haven, Conn.; b. Christina Hopkinson. From the description of Christina Hopkinson Baker papers, 1932-1963. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 319540491 Christina Hopkinson Baker graduated from Radcliffe College in 1893 and the same year married George Pierce Baker, then involved in the "47 Workshop" in Cambridge. She was acting Dean at Radcliffe from 1913 to 1914 and again from 1922 to 1923. From 1919 to 1938 ...

Adams, J. Q. (Joseph Quincy), 1881-1946

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Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915

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Soldier, businessman, civic leader and historian. Descendant of two presidents and the son of a noted diplomat, Adams served with distinction as a Union officer during the Civil War. After the war, he became a nationally recognized authority on the railroad industry, chairing the Massachusetts Railroad Commission from 1869 to 1879, and ultimately taking on the presidency of the Union Pacifc Railroad for six stormy years, 1884-1890. From 1890 to 1915, Adams was content to be a man of a...

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union

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The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union was founded in 1853 by Ann Pamela Cunningham. The purpose of the Association was to purchase Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, in order to restore the property and open the grounds to visitors and admirers who desired to see Washington's house and tomb. Ann Pamela Cunningham became interested in the preservation of Mount Vernon when her mother, traveling down the Potomac River in 1853, saw the house in its neglected and dilapidated sta...

Ticknor and Fields

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Ticknor and Fields of Boston, Massachusetts was the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ticknor and Fields originated in the firm of Allen and Ticknor established in 1832. The partners in Ticknor and Fields were William D. Ticknor (one of the partners in Allen and Ticknor) and James T. Fields, who entered the firm as a junior partner in 1843. Fields edited the Atlantic monthly from 1861-1870. Fields was also a wri...

Parsons, Theophilus, 1797-1882

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Parsons, a lawyer, was a professor at the Harvard Law School (1848-1869) and the author of numerous legal texts and religious essays. From the description of Papers, ca. 1848-1913 (inclusive), 1870-1881 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122590226 ...

Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950

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Samuel Atkins Eliot earned his Harvard AB 1884. He served as secretary to the President of Harvard from 1884-1885 and as Preacher to the University 1906-1909. He was the son of Harvard President Charles W. Eliot. From the description of Harvard memorabilia of Samuel Atkins Eliot, Class of 1884, 1876-1909 (inclusive), 1876-1885 (bulk) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77063916 American Unitarian clergyman and historian. From the description of Samuel A. El...

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and college president, was born in Boston, December 5, 1822 and married the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850. She was an educational reformer, member of the Woman's Education Association, but never an advocate of women's suffrage or of co-education. ECA administered the Agassiz School for Girls from 1855 to 1863. She was one of the managers of the program for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (also known as the Harvard Annex); was p...

Ticknor, Anna Eliot, 1823-1896

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Ticknor and Co.

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Ticknor, Reed & Fields

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Bradford, Gamaliel, 1863-1932

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Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932) was an American biographical essayist, poet, dramatist, and critic of Wellesley, Mass. He was the sixth of seven Gamaliel Bradfords in unbroken succession, of whom the first was a great-grandson of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. He entered Harvard College with the Class of 1886, but withdrew after a few weeks due to fragile health, a problem that was to plague him his entire life. He married Helen Hubbard Ford. Bradford attempted virtua...

Bradford, Helen F. (Helen Ford), 1865-1954

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Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 when President John Adams signed a bill providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. The legislation described a reference library for Congress only, containing "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress - and for putting up a suitable apartment for containing them therein…" The original library was housed in the Washington, DC until August 1814, ...

Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt, 1872-1961

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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was second wife of the 28th President, Woodrow Wilson. She served as First Lady from 1915 to 1921. After the President suffered a severe stroke, she pre-screened all matters of state, functionally running the Executive branch of government for the remainder of Wilson’s second term. “Secret President,” “first woman to run the government” — so legend has labeled a First Lady whose role gained unusual significance when her husband suffered prolonged and disabling illnes...

Cleveland, Frances Folsom, 1864-1947

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Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland became the youngest First Lady at age 21 as the first woman to marry a president in the White House. She served as the 23rd and 25th First Lady of the United States while married to President Grover Cleveland. “I detest him so much that I don’t even think his wife is beautiful.” So spoke one of President Grover Cleveland’s political foes–the only person, it seems, to deny the loveliness of this notable First Lady, first bride of a President to be married in the ...

United States. Department of State

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The Department of Foreign Affairs was established by an act of July 27, 1789 (1 Stat. 28) and redesignated the Department of State by an act of September 15, 1789 (1 Stat. 68). It was the agency of the United States created by law to assist the President in the formulation and execution of the Nation's foreign policy, and in the conduct of foreign affairs and of certain domestic affairs. The Department made plans for peace and security among all nations, participated in the United Nations and o...

Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

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Julia Ward Howe, née Julia Ward, (born May 27, 1819, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 17, 1910, Newport, Rhode Island), American author and lecturer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward came of a well-to-do family and was educated privately. In 1843 she married educator Samuel Gridley Howe and took up residence in Boston. Always of a literary bent, she published her first volume of poetry, Passion Flowers, in 1854; this and subsequent works—including a poetry collec...

Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971

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Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician. Raised in Owosso, Michigan, Dewey was a member of the Republican Party. He served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. In 1944, he was the Republican Party's nominee for president, but lost the election to incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections. He was again the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, but lost to President Ha...

Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955

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John William Davis (April 13, 1873 – March 24, 1955) was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served under President Woodrow Wilson as the Solicitor General of the United States and the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was the Democratic nominee for president in 1924 and lost to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge. Born and raised in West Virginia, Davis briefly worked as a teacher before beginning his long legal career. Davis's father, John J. Davis, had been a ...

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

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William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. Just before his death, he gained national attention for attacking the te...

Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965

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Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, and farmer who served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the 33rd vice president of the United States, and the 10th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was also the presidential nominee of the left-wing Progressive Party in the 1948 election. The oldest son of Henry C. Wallace, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1921 to 1924, Henry A. Wallace was born in Adair County, Iowa in...

Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951

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Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker, general, diplomat, composer, and Republican politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929. For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations, he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. Born in Marietta, Ohio, Dawes attended Cincinnati Law School before beginning a legal career in Lincoln, Nebraska. After serving as a gas plant executive, he managed William M...

Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937

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Newton Diehl Baker Jr. (December 3, 1871 – December 25, 1937) was an American lawyer, Georgist, politician, and government official. He served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915. As U.S. Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921, Baker presided over the United States Army during World War I. Born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Baker established a legal practice in Cleveland after graduating from Washington and Lee University School of Law. He became progressive Democratic ally of...

Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905

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Lewis "Lew" Wallace was born on April 10, 1827, in Brookville, Indiana. He was the second of four sons born to Esther French Wallace (née Test) and David Wallace. Lew's father, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, left the military in 1822 and moved to Brookville, where he established a law practice and entered Indiana politics. David served in the Indiana General Assembly and later as the state's lieutenant governor, and governor, and as a member of Congress. Lew Wal...

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...

Tibbets, Fred W.

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Crosby, Caresse, 1891-1970

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Caresse Crosby was born Mary Phelps Jacob on April 30, 1891 in New Rochelle, New York, daughter of a prominent New England family. After a brief marriage to Richard Rogers Peabody, she married Harry Crosby in 1922 and soon after moved to France. In April, 1927, they founded a publishing company soon to become The Black Sun Press. The publications included a Hindu Love Book, The Fall of the House of Usher, and letters by Harry's cousin, Henry James, to Walter Berry. Other contributors to the Blac...

Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937

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Koopman was a librarian at Brown University. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, 1896. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226052120 Brown University librarian from 1893 to 1930. Poet, journalist; essayist; amateur astronomer. From the description of Papers, 1872-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122615406 ...

Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927

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Unitarian minister. A.B. Princeton, 1874. Graduated from Union Theological Seminary, 1877. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1877 and served churches in Nevada and California (1877-1881). He became a Unitarian and served churches in Brattleboro, Vt. (1882-1886) and St. Paul, Minn. (1886-1894). In 1894 he became minister at the First Parish in Cambridge, Mass., serving until his death in 1927. He was the author of several popular volumes of essays. From the description of Sermons, 1...

Kirkbride, Franklin Butler, 1867-1955

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Fiske, John, 1842-1901

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Historian, philosopher, and librarian. Name originally Edmund Fiske Green; at age thirteen, took name of maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske. From the description of John Fiske papers, 1867-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 163614392 Philosopher, historian, librarian. From the description of Papers of John Fiske [manuscript], 1872-1900. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647805107 John Fiske was a American author, best known for popular ...

Granville-Barker, Harley, 1877-1946

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Granville-Barker was an English actor, producer, dramatist, and critic. From the description of Papers, 1877-1937. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122468875 From the guide to the Papers, 1877-1937., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Harley Granville-Barker began his stage career as an actor in a provincial company, before first appearing in London in 1892. He went on to have a career on the stage, acting with many well known n...

Hunt, Clara Whitehall, 1871-

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C. S. Kendall

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Brown, Francis, 1849-1916

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American Semitic scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Union Theological Seminary [New York], to the editors of The Critic [Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder], 1884 Aug. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 643576295 President of Union Theological Seminary in New York, 1908-1916; trustee of Dartmouth College, 1905-1916. From the description of [Sermons and addresses] 1883-1911. (New Hampshire Newsp Project). WorldCat record id: 77834648 ...

Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951

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American author and humorist Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) was educated as an engineer and worked briefly for a railroad. He taught topographical drawing between 1891 and 1894 at the University of California, Berkeley until he lost his position after deliberately toppling a campus statue he found to be an eyesore. Burgess founded the Lark, a humour magazine based in San Francisco, published from 1895 to 1897. Burgess created nonsense rhymes and cartoons such as "The Purple Cow: Reflections on a Myt...

Chesney, J. Portman (Jesse Portman)

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Bethea, Jack, 1892-

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Ropes, Gray and Loring, firm, lawyers, Boston.

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Essary, J. Frederick (Jesse Frederick), 1881-1942

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Sullivan, Mark, 1874-1952

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Journalist and author. From the description of Sullivan scrapbooks, 1940-1941. (Maryland Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70953441 From the description of Mark Sullivan papers, 1900-1935 (bulk 1919-1935). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80376365 American author and journalist. From the description of Typed letters signed (2) : Washington, D.C., to Dr. Francis Harvey Green, 1920 Aug. 4 and 1933 May 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875010 ...

Hall, Wilbur.

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Paul Wilber Chapman

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Brown, Kenneth, 1868-

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Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929

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Henry Arthur Jones was the son of a tenant farmer, and worked in the drapery business for some twenty years after leaving school. He developed a passion for drama, and found success with The Silver King, a play he co-authored with Henry Herman, which gave him the financial security to become a full-time writer. A prolific author, he wrote many plays, chiefly melodramas, and had great success in England and America. His themes and influences were chiefly British, and he is considered a pioneer of...

Henderson, Alice Corbin, 1881-1949

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American poet, editor, and writer on Southwestern topics. From the description of Papers, 1861-1987 (bulk 1920-1949). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122349020 Note: The initials ACH for Alice R. Corbin Henderson, WPH for her husband, William Penhallow Henderson, and AHR for her daughter, Alice Oliver Henderson Evans Rossin Colquitt are used throughout this inventory. AHR identified herself in h...

Russell, A. P. (Addison Peale), 1826-1912

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Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956

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Rupert Hughes was born in Lancaster, MO on January 31, 1872, and grew up in Keokuk, Iowa. He attended the Western Reserve Academy, and received a BA from Adelbert College, Cleveland, in 1892, and an MA from Yale University in 1893. His writing career began with a book for boys which was serialized in the highly regarded St. Nicholas magazine, and he was an assistant editor for several magazines. He eventually wrote more than 50 books. Hughes served in the New York National Guard during the Spani...

Chipman, Stone and company.

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James, Henry, 1843-1916

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James was an American novelist, short story writer, critic and dramatist. From the description of Henry James transcripts of letters to others, 1873-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612731792 From the guide to the Henry James transcripts of letters to others, 1873-1915., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry James was born in New York, NY, in 1843. During his lifetime, he was a literary and art critic (writing for Natio...

Merriam, G and C., company, publishers.

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Pinero, Arthur Wing, Sir

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Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962

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Richard Aldington, British poet, novelist and essayist. From the description of Richard Aldington collection, 1918-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81650599 From the description of Richard Aldington collection, 1918-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148171 Richard Aldington was born in Hampshire in 1882. Educated at Dover College and London University he founded the "Egotist journal "in 1913. He joined the British Army and served on the Western Front in 19...

Bret Harte, Geoffrey

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Harper and bros.

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Laughlin, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1892-

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Epithet: of Houghton Mifflin Co Boston British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001150.0x00038d ...

Michael Sadleir

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Medim, Rosena.

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Lavrin, Janko, 1887-1986

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Janko Lavrin (1887-1986) was a Slovene scholar of Russian literature who was professor of Russian at the University of Nottingham From the guide to the Nikolai Gogol: a study of his mind and work, by Janko Lavrin, 1967, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...

Rolfe, John Carew, 1859-1943

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Professor Rolfe was on the faculty of the Classical Studies department at the University of Pennsylvania. He edited The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius for the Loeb classical library. From the description of Letter : to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1927. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884427 ...

Lothrop, Margaret Mulford, 1884-1970

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Russell, William E. (William Eustis), 1857-1896

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Christian, Bertram

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Page, Curtis Hidden, 1870-1946

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Curtis Hidden Page was an American educator and translator born in Greenwood, Missouri, in 1870. The Pages trace their roots back to some of the founding members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, including Gov. John Winthrop. Page graduated from Harvard University in 1892 with a doctorate in English Literature and a concentration in French. He taught French and English at Harvard for fifteen years. In 1911, after a brief stint at Columbia and Northwestern Universities, Page became a ...

Jenkins, Herbert, ltd., publishers, London.

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Lodge, John E

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882

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Lawyer and author. From the description of Richard Henry Dana correspondence, 1843-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449368 Author and lawyer Richard Henry Dana was the privileged son of an aristocratic Massachusetts family. Taking time from Harvard because of medical problems, he went to sea, where his experiences as a sailor inspired him to write Two Years Before the Mast. A sea story that was part memoir and part social commentary, the novel proved to be popular with...

Coleman, Kitty Ives.

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Crowell, Thomas Y., company, New York.

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Bartley, W T

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McCord, Lida, and company.

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Davis, Kenneth S. (Kenneth Sydney), 1912-1999

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Kenneth S. Davis (1912-1999) was a writer and historian. He worked for the Topeka Daily Capital in Topeka, Kansas in 1934, and was an instructor in journalism at New York University from 1945 to 1947. He served on the U.S. Commission for UNESCO as the public relations assistant to chairman Milton S. Eisenhower from 1947 to 1949. During World War II, Davis was a war correspondent for Doubleday & Co., and was attached to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) in London and No...

Lippincott (J. B.) company, Philadelphia.

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Lawton, Mary

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Child, Francis Sedgwick, 1868-1935

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Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

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Born in Ontario, Canada, Dr. Osler was received his medical from McGill University in 1872. He became Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's first professor of medicine in 1889. Author of The Principles and Practices of Medicine (1892), Osler has been celled the father of psychosomatic medicine and the "most influential physician in history." From the description of Sir William Osler press clippings, 1905-1920. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14312601 ...

Holmes, John

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 4056 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x00025e Epithet: Captain; of Add MS 35668 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x000254 Epithet: archeologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x000252 Epithet: Clerk ...

Rice, Grantland, 1880-1954.

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American sportswriter. From the description of Letter to Lola L. Kovener, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50998045 ...

Nordhoff, Charles, 1887-

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Murfree, Fanny Noailles Dickinson

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Fast, Lisette F

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Swartout, Norman Lee

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Chapman, and Hall, ltd., publ., London.

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Tardieu, André, 1876-1945

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Allen, Henry T. (Henry Tureman), 1859-1930

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Army officer. From the description of Papers of Henry T. Allen, 1806-1933 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 66095804 Henry Tureman Allen (1859-1930), U.S. Army officer, was born at Sharpsburg, Kentucky, the thirteenth child and ninth son of Ruben Sanford and Susannah Shumate Allen. The immigrant ancestor on his father''s side went to Virginia in 1636; his mother descended from a Huguenot settler in Virginia whose name, de la Soumatte, was transformed to Shumate. Al...

Smith, Walter S.

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Putnam, George Rockwell, 1865-

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Larsson, Marjorie Flack.

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Corneau, Octavia Roberts.

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Watkins, A.

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Asher and company, publishers.

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O'Kane, Walter Collins, 1877-....

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Lane, John, company, publishers, London.

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Herbert M. Dawley, Inc.

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Perkins, Dwight H. (Dwight Heald), 1934-

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Phelan, James J

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Knowlton, Helen M. (Helen Mary), 1832-1918

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Washburn, Charles G. (Charles Grenfill), 1857-1928

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Charles Grenfill Washburn (1857-1928) was a lawyer, Worcester manufacturer, author, and U.S. Congressman. He was the grandson of Charles Washburn (1798-1875), twin brother of Ichabod Washburn (1798-1868). A graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1875, and Harvard College, 1880, he married the daughter of Horatio Nelson Slater (1808-1888). Like his father and grandfather, Charles G. Washburn was active in the Washburn and Moen Company. He also served for eight years as president of his wife...

Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956

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Epithet: Editor `The Dial' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000068 Lovett was the chairman of the Sacco-Vanzetti National League, New York, N.Y. From the description of Letter, 1927 Dec. 9, New York, N.Y. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41876163 ...

Trend, J.B. (John Brande), 1887-1958

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Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz', 1842-1921

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Wightman, Hazel (Hotchkiss).

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Brett, George Platt, 1893-

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Schultz, Ediom W

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Benchley, Robert Charles, 1889-1945

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Wallace, Henry Lane, 1853-1926

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Blatchford, J S

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957

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Indiana-born American book designer for the Riverside Press. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Danbury, Conn., to Mary Herrick f the Boston University Library, 1950 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270865113 Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), American typographer and book designer. From the description of Photoengravings used in The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri, 1955. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 435687901 From the description of ...

Woodward, William E., 1874-1950

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Author and historian noted for biographies of George Washington and Ulysses Grant. From the description of W.E. Woodward letters, 1926, 1944. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 78610982 ...

Mann, Cameron, 1851-1932

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Poole, William Frederick, 1821-1894

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Librarian of the Newberry Library. From the description of Letter : Chicago, to Sarah K. Bolton, Cleveland, 1890 Oct. 24. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 550365576 American librarian and bibliographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chicago, to Mr. Ford, 1887 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617952 Historian, librarian, and first Librarian of the Newberry Library. Born in Massachusetts in 1821...

Rhees, Harriet Chapin (Seelye).

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Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953

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Franco-British writer. From the description of Letters : to Miss Penn, 1917 Nov. 24 and 1929 Mar. 15. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122601939 English historian, essayist, poet and novelist born La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France July 27, 1870; died Guildford, England July 16, 1953. Belloc wrote biographies of Robespierre (1901) Marie Antoinette (1909) and numerous works on English political history. From 1920-19...

Tenggren, Gustaf, 1896-

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Gustaf Tenggren was born November 3, 1896 in Magra, Sweden. He attended the Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg, Sweden and in 1917 began illustrating Bland Tomtar Och Troll, an annual serial of fairy tales published for children. In 1920, Gustaf Tenggren came to the United States and in 1923 illustrated his first work for children in America, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book [and] Tanglewood Tales. Throughout his long career as an artist and illustrator, Tenggren illustrated ...

Wells, Sumner, 1892-

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Beach, Stewart

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Aldrich, Eleanor L

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Wells, Amos R. (Amos Russel), 1862-1933

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Harper, Joseph W. (Joseph Wesley), 1830-1896

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Son of Joseph Wesley Harper, 1801-1870, who was one of Brothers of the Harper & Brothers firm; worked for firm for approximately 45 years, as selector of primarily literary writing for last 25 years or so; trustee of Columbia University for 20 years. From the description of Letters of Joseph W. Harper [manuscript] 1888-1895 ca. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874671 ...

Judd, E P

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Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971

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Historian, journalist and educator. He attended the University of Illinois where he earned a B. A. 1912 and an M. A. in English, 1913. Nevins moved to New York to work and eventually was made a Professor of History at Columbia University. Wrote numerous biographies and articles on history. President of the American History Association in 1959. Helped found the Society of American Historians. From the description of Commencement address, June 1953. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Librar...

Erskine, John, 1879-1951

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Epithet: Reverend; DD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001087.0x000214 Title: 9th Earl of Mar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001087.0x000219 John Erskine, educator, writer and musician, was born in New York on October 5, 1879. He received an A.B. in 1900, an A.M. in 1901, a Ph.D. in 1903 and an LL.D. in 1929 from Columbia Univ...

Pollak Foundation for Economic Research

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Lyon, Walter Hastings, 1876-

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Gay, Robert M. (Robert Malcolm), 1879-1961

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Wadsworth, Eliot, 1876-

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Sheldon

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Walden, John H

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Weygandt, Cornelius, 1871-1957

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Cornelius Weygandt, born December 13, 1871 in Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.), graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1891. He worked as a reporter for the Philadelphia Record, 1892-1893, and for the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, 1893-1897. In 1897 he joined the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania as Instructor. In 1901 Weygandt received his Ph.D. writing his dissertation on the "Tendencies of Contemporary Poetry," and in 1931 Weygandt recieved an Litt.D. His caree...

Shute, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1856-1943

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Shute was an American lawyer and writer, noted for his book: The real diary of a real boy (1902). From the description of [Autograph signature] / Henry A. Shute. [between 1900 and 1943] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 437427419 Humorist. From the description of Henry A. Shute autograph, 1930 January 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983946 Epithet: Reverend Lecturer of Whitechapel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : P...

Clarke, George Herbert, 1873-1953

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University of Virginia Summer School professor, editor of Sewannee Review. From the description of Articles of George Herbert Clarke [manuscript], 1927. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 397814242 ...

Curtiss, Mina Stein (Kirstein) 1896-

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Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935

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Peterborough (Hillsborough Co.), N.H. poet. From the description of Papers, 1928. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36405152 Robinson was an American poet. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1882-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365637 From the description of Letters to Harry de Forest Smith, 1888-1936 (inclusive), 1890-1900 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505878 From the description...

French, Samuel, firm, New York.

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Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth Munson, 1838-1912

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Margaret Elizabeth Sangster was a writer and editor of Harper's Bazar. From the description of Letter, 1904. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007931 Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster (1838-1912) was an author, editor, and poet. She was born in New Rochelle, N. Y., received her early education in Vienna, and showed signs of literary talent at an early age. Her writing career began when she was sixteen, with the publication of a small collection of religious poems...

Johnson, R. Brimley (Reginald Brimley), 1867-1932

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R. (Reginald) Brimley Johnson was a biographer, critic, and editor specializing in nineteenth century English literature and literary figures. Johnson edited Shelley-Leigh Hunt: how friendship made history and extended the bounds of human freedom and thought which was published in 1928. Johnson, in connection with his work editing Shelley-Leigh Hunt, collected correspondence related to the period after Shelley’s death. The epilogue of his boo...

Flack, Marjorie, 1897-

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Houghton, Henry Oscar, 1856-1906,

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Dempsey, Paul Wheeler.

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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892

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The recipient was Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria, with whom Tennyson had an extensive correspondence. From the description of Alfred Tennyson letter to Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 1867 Oct. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865322 British poet. From the description of Papers, 1831-1909. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188602 Tennyson was Poet Laureate of England during much of the latter part of...

Cary, Alice, 1820-1871

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American poet and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [New York, N.Y.], to Horace Greeley, 1868 Sept. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133539 Poet. From the description of Papers, 1870. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 42584184 Author Alice Cary was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, to Robert and Elizabeth (Jessup) Cary. She lived with her sister Phoebe, also a writer, in Ohio and New York City. Both women wrote an...

Bartley, James Avis, b. 1830

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Harris, George, 1844-1922

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George Harris was born in Brisbane in 1845 and grew up in Ipswich. He worked on bullock teams delivering goods, and then worked in the timber trade, hauling and rafting timber. He set up his own timber business and bought a selection of land at Cabbage Tree. He retired to Ipswich. From the description of Reminiscences of my early days in Ipswich / by George Harris. [1923?] (The University of Queensland Library). WorldCat record id: 62539008 Professor of Christian theology at...

Noyes, A. D.

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Bellamann, Henry, 1882-1945?

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Author and Dante scholar. From the description of Papers, 1914-1945. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20839525 ...

Stone, Melville Elijah, 1848-1929

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Melville Elijah Stone was born in Hudson, Illinois on August 22, 1848. His father, Reverend Elijah Stone, was a Methodist minister, and his mother was Sophia Creighton. In 1860, the family moved to Chicago where Stone attended high school and began his journalism career. From 1864 to 1875, Stone held various journalistic positions, working at different times as a reporter, correspondent, editor, and publisher for various Chicago newspapers. During some of these years Stone was the ...

Holling, Holling Clancy.

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Howard, Arthur L., 1859 or 1860-1937

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Avery, Mary A

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Patton, Cornelius H. (Cornelius Howard), 1860-1939

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet. Cornelius H. Patton (1860-1939), Amherst class of 1883 and Trustee of the College from 1905-1939, was a clergyman, author, and collector of Wordsworthiana. Patton published The Rediscovery of Wordsworth in 1935 and The Amherst Wordsworth Collection: A Descriptive Bibliography in 1936. From the guide to the William Wordsworth Manuscript Collection MA. 00247., 1815-1850, (Amherst College Archives and ...

Warren, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1873-1945

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Warren was a professor at the Harvard Law School (1904-1945). From the description of Letter to John Kingsley Thorne, 1 November 1935. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235163134 ...

Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock, 1867-1936

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Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950

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American poet and critic. From the description of Correspondence, works, and clippings, 1910-1952, nd. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122453062 John Gould Fletcher, born in Little Rock, Arkansas and educated at Phillips Academy and Harvard (1903-1907), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author. Fletcher lived in England for years before returning home to Arkansas where, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was act...

Davies, Mary Carolyn

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Child, Abbie B. (Abbie Bullock), 1840-1902

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Brown, Abbie Farwell, 1871-1927

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Brown (1871-1927) wrote children's books and lectured about them. From the description of Papers, 1859-1927 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 86145633 ...

La Farge, Mabel Hooper, 1875-

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Mabel Hooper La Farge was an amateur painter. From the guide to the Drawings, 1893-1917 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938

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American writer and illustrator, one of the finest western local-color realists of the late 19th century. From the description of Letter, 1896 Nov. 28, Grass Valley, to Charles P. Scott. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387683 American author and illustrator. From the description of Letter to Julia Finch, 1917 August 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55531434 Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) was an American novelist and short story writer....

Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930

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Author and teacher, of Worcester, Mass. From the description of Eva March Tappan collection no. 1, [18--]-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70971139 Author of children's literature, teacher. Vassar College Class of 1875. From the description of Eva March Tappan papers, 1881-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576659 Author of children's literature, teacher. Vassar College Class of 1875. ...

Richards, Gertrude.

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Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon, 1874-1936

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Troubetzkoy, Amlie (Rives) Chanler, 1863-

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Bruce-Porter, Sir Bruce.

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Robinson, Edgar Eugene, 1887-1977

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American historian. From the description of Edgar Eugene Robinson miscellaneous papers, 1921-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872031 Margaret Byrne Professor of History at Stanford (1911-1952; emeritus, 1952-1977) and chairman of the History Department (1935-1952). Director of Independent Studies and of the Institute of American History. Especially well known for his work on American political parties, voting behavior, and presidential leadership, Professor Robinson p...

Kieffer, Henry Martyn, 1845-1930

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Parker, Gilbert, 1862-1932

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Canadian born British novelist and politician. From the description of The battle of the strong, 1898. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54022853 From the description of Gilbert Parker papers, 1898-1922. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647975976 Parker was a Canadian novelist. After emigrating to England he became involed in British affairs as a Conservative member of Parliament. From the description of [Letter] 1919 May 13, 24....

Stevenson, Egbert, 1872-1962

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Anthologist, author, and librarian. From the description of Papers of Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1900-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449581 Biographical Note 1872, Nov. 9 Born, Chillicothe, Ohio 1890 1893 Attended Princeton University...

Wood, Barry

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Warren, T. Robinson (Thomas Robinson), 1828-1915

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New York City merchant, ships captain, and writer. Author and illustrator of Dust and foam; or, Three continents and two continents (1858) and Shooting, boating and fishing (1871); author of The yachtsman's and amateur sailor's primer (1863) and On deck; or, Advice to a young Corinthian yachtsman (1888). From the description of Letter : [New York, N.Y.], to T.E. Pond, Chicago, [Ill.], 1888 June 22. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 35662719 ...

Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Elihu Vedder letters, 1870-1880 and [undated]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502860 Elihu Vedder was an American artist, known for his mystical and imaginative works, probably best remembered for his illustrations for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Born in New York and raised in Schenectady and Cuba, Vedder apprenticed with an architect and studied with a painter before travelling to Europe to study painting. He returned to ...

Porter and Coates.

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Mordell, Albert, 1885-

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Bigelow, Poultney, 1855-1954

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Poultney Bigelow (b. September 10, 1855, New York City-d. May 28, 1954, Malden-on-Hudson, New York), was the son of John Bigelow, American Ambassador to France under Abraham Lincoln. He grew up in France, and also in Germany, where he became friends with Prince William, later emperor of Germany. Bigelow studied at Yale University, and began practicing law, but was more interested in politics and writing. He is perhaps best remembered as a journalist. He was editor of Outing magazine and later co...

Cassels, Brock and Kelley, firm, lawyers, Toronto.

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Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933

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Sarah Teasdale, an American poet, was born in 1884 in Saint Louis, Missouri to John W. Teasdale and Mary E. Willard. She was tutored at home and then graduated from a local private school in 1903. In 1905 she visited Europe and in 1907 she published her first collection of poems. In 1911, the publication of "Helen of Troy" introduced her to Louis Untermeyer, who, with his wife Jean, was to become a lifelong friend. On December 19, 1914, she married Ernst B. Filsinger. They divorced fifteen years...

Deems, Charles F. (Charles Force), 1820-1893

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Clergyman, writer, and college president. From the description of Papers, 1855-1891. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38518969 Clergyman and educator. From the description of Charles F. Deems correspondence, 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423590 American clergyman and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wilmington, N.C., to Messrs. Harper, 1858 Apr. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531327 ...

Bancroft, H H

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Houghton, Alberta.

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Cooke, George Willis, 1848-1923

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Coolidge, Louis A. (Louis Arthur), 1861-1925

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Gibbons, James, 1834-1921

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Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore; second American Cardinal. From the description of Letter : Baltimore, to A.P. Gorman, 1892 March 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22476270 James Cardinal Gibbons (1834-1921) was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a leader of the American Catholic community. His 1876 book, The Faith of Our Fathers was a best-selling apologetic and explanation of the Catholic faith. From the guide to the James Cardinal Gi...

Wright, Cecil A.

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Taylor, Marie

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Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946

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First director, United States Forest Service (1905). He changed the name of protected "forest preserves" to "national forests" and advocated a controversial "wise use" policy for the resources of the national forests, whereby a greater use of forest resources, such as tree harvests and grazing rights could be permitted. From the description of Correspondence, 1905-1945. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 40804560 Forester and governor of Pennsylvania. F...

Mrs. J. B. Aldrich

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Hurt, Charles S

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Noble, Edmund, 1853-

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Ellwood Patterson Cubberly.

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Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943

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Laurence Binyon was an English writer. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire literary papers. From the description of Laurence Binyon fonds. [1941]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 660202804 Binyon was born Aug. 10, 1869 in Lancaster, England; British Museum official for 40 years, as well as art historian, critic, translator, playwright, and poet; author of numerous works on art, including Painting in the Fa...

Hall, Charles Cuthbert, 1852-1908

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Forbes, Edith E

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Pope, O. C. and company.

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Portland

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Hallowell, Richard P. (Richard Price), 1835-1904

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Davis, Oscar K. (Oscar King), 1866-1932

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Sinclair, May

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Epithet: FRSL; author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x000084 May Sinclair (1863-1946) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer. From the guide to the May Sinclair collection of papers, 1901-1928, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) British writer. From the description of May Sin...

Pertwee, Roland, 1885-1963

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Schoonover, Frank E.

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Rosen, Ingeborg, grevinna von, 1901-

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Pillsbury, Albert E. (Albert Enoch), 1849-1930

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Hutton, Clarke, 1898-1984

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Lionel Trilling

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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907

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New Hampshire-born author and poet. From the description of Letter : Redman Farm, Ponkapog, Mass. to John M. Milson, 1904 May 25. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103796 From the description of Letters and ephemera, 1879-1891. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103833 From the description of Letters to Israel Tisdale Talbot, 1868-1875. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103776 During the Civil War Aldrich worked a...

New York Public Library

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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...

Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 1813-1894

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American writer, editor and biographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cooperstown, to "My young friend", 1884 Apr. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517935 ...

Saint Gaudens, Homer, 1880-

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Shotwell, James T., 1874-1965

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of James Thompson Shotwell : oral history, 1952. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734188 From the description of Reminiscences of James Thompson Shotwell : oral history, 1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608356 American historian. From the description of A visit to the Canadian battle fields : typescript, 1919. (Unknown). WorldC...

Holt, Henry, 1840-1926

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American author and publisher. From the description of Papers of Henry Holt [manuscript], 1905 April 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816422 ...

Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950

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Agnes Repplier was an American author known for her urbane, conservative essays. Born in Philadelphia, she began writing to help support her family, developing an ironic style to present her conservative values. She soon became a regular contributor of serious essays to The Atlantic Monthly, generally defending traditional values with a European, almost aristocratic, perspective. A significant and eloquent voice for her generation, her old-fashioned values lost favor after World War I and her po...

Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909

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Gilder authored the book, THE NEW DAY, A POEM IN SONGS AND SONNETS... (New York : Scribner, Armstrong and Company, 1876) in which this is tipped in. It contains the bookplate of Brainerd. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Ira Hutchinson Brainerd, [1876?] Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398276 Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909), American poet and editor, served as editor-in-chief of Scribner's Monthly and its successor The Century Illustrated Monthly...

Baird, Henry Carey, 1825-1912

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American publisher and writer on economics. From the guide to the Henry Carey Baird letters, 1853-1895, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American publisher, author, and economist. From the description of Letter, an autobiography, and an envelope, 1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367573273 ...

Robart, Louis.

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Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930

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William Howard Taft (1857-1930) was an American politician who served as U.S. President (1908-1912) and Chief Justitce of the Supreme Court (1921-1930). 1857 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 15th 1878 Graduated from Yale University 1880 Graduated from Cincinnati Law School ...

Mr. and Mrs. Cugat

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Barnes, Thurlow Weed, 1853-1918

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Aldington, Hilda (Doolittle) 1886-1961

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Kittredge, Winifred.

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Edward Bellamy.

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Harris, Corra (White), 1869-

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King, Rufus, 1817-1891

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Lawyer and dean of the faculty at the Cincinnati College Law School, Cincinnati, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1843-1850. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19865921 ...

Putnam, Elizabeth

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Whitty, J. H. (James Howard), 1859-1937

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Journalist, businessman, and scholar, of Richmond, Va. From the description of Papers, 1792-1943. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20273947 ...

Ussher, Clarence D.

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Greene, Henry Copley, 1871-

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Robinson, Howard, 1885-

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Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin), 1847-1926

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American author and educator. From the description of Letters, 1886-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83587872 ...

Meloney, William Brown, 1905-1971

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Mrs. Meloney (Marie Mattingly Meloney) was editor of the HERALD TRIBUNE SUNDAY MAGAZINE. From the description of Curie papers, 1920-1943. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122453553 ...

Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917

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Author and journalist. From the description of F.B. Sanborn correspondence and essays, 1852-1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84163242 Massachusetts journalist. From the description of Song / words by Mr. F.B. Sanborn, music a part of Brignal Banks. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 62350218 American journalist and reformer. From the description of Letter, 1889 March 21, Concord, Mass., to E.D. Walker, New York. (Boston Athenaeum). W...

Frothingham, Robert, 1865-1937

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Hoppin, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1906

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Murdock, Harold, 1862-1934

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J Dicks

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Riverside Press

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Montoliu, Cebrià, 1873-1923

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Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...

Waldman, Milton, 1895-1976

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Overton, Grant M.

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Caine, William, 1873-1925

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Natalie E Norris

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Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., London.

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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Sinclair Lewis (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, MN–d. January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. ...

Basil Blackwell

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Mach, Edmund ˜vonœ 1870-1927

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Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933

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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson was the sister of Theodore Roosevelt. From the description of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson photograph album, not before 1898. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612794212 Corinne (Roosevelt) Robinson, younger sister of American president Theodore Roosevelt and wife of Douglas Robinson, was a published poet and active member of the Republican Party. From the description of Papers, 1847-1933. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id:...

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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James Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. After embarking on an academic career, he joined the Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and in 1863 was appointed Major General in the same regiment. He served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, when he was elected President. His inauguration took place on March 4, 1881, but his term of office was unfortunately brought to an abrupt end with his assassination by C...

Longhead, Flora Haines.

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Manatt, J. Irving (James Irving), 1845-1915

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Robbins, Reginald L

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Brown, Alice, 1857-1948

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American author. From the description of Letter, Boston : to Mrs. George Edward Barton. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14402745 Writer of short stories, novels, and plays. From the description of Alice Brown papers, 1876-1947. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32576984 Alice Brown, American poet, novelist, and dramatist, was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, on December 5, 1857 to Levi Brown and Elizabeth Lucas. She...

Bell, Charles Upham, 1843-

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Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892

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James R. Osgood was a native of Maine who went to work for the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields. He eventually founded the subsidiary group James R. Osgood & Co. which was associated with many fine writers. The firm struggled financially, and when Osgood stepped down, was dissolved into Houghton, Mifflin. From the description of James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54667691 Publisher....

Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron, 1864-1945

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British author; Abraham Lincoln biographer. From the description of Letter: [London], to J.H. Edge, 1926 June 4. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28165770 From the description of Letter: New York, [N.Y.], to [Jessie Palmer] Weber, 1918 Oct. 7. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28165783 From the description of Letters: to [Jesse W.] Weik, 1917 Sept. 10-1920 Jan. 11. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat ...

Santayana, George, 1863-1952

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Poet, philosopher, and educator. From the description of George Santayana correspondence and poem, 1937-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981741 Santayana (A.B. 1886) taught philosophy at Harvard 1886-1912. From the description of The realm of matter : manuscript, [ca. 1930] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612860176 From the description of The judgment of Paris : or how the first-ten man chooses a club : manuscript, 1892 Oct. 28. (Harvard ...

Arthur, Dora (Fowler).

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Lownsbery, Eloise

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Williams, Dan, 1957-....

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King, Basil, 1859-1928

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Canadian clergyman and writer. From the description of Basil King letter to Mr. Baxter [manuscript], 1917 Mar 30 (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 174964628 Canadian author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) and typewritten letter signed : New York, Paris, and Berlin, to F.A. Duneka, 1909 Jun. 2-1910 Jun. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270492192 ...

Cobb, Ann.

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Alexander, De Alva Stanwood, 1845-1925

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U.S. Congressman from New York, 1897-1911 From the guide to the De Alva Stanwood letter to Mr. N. McDonald, 1910, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Saroyan, William, 1908-

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Biography Goldie Weisberg was a fellow writer whose work Saroyan had discovered in a literary magzine. Saroyan initiated the correspondence, which focuses on their respective reading, writing, and work lives. From the guide to the Saroyan, William, 1908- . Correspondence with Goldie Weisberg, 1930-1938, (Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.) ...

Sherman, Frank Dempster, 1860-1916

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American author and poet. From the description of Poems, 1905-1906. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58776294 Frank Dempster Sherman was an American architect, mathematician, poet, and genealogist. He studied at Columbia and Harvard, and later taught architecture at Columbia, but also emerged as a popular and proficient poet of light verse. Noted for his wit, sympathy, and diverse interests, Sherman also wrote children's verse under the pseudonym F...

Stowe, Lyman Beecher, 1880-1963

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Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974

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Physicist, engineer, government official, and science administrator. From the description of Vannevar Bush papers, 1901-1974 (bulk 1932-1955). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980014 Administrator, engineer. From the description of Reminiscences of Vannevar Bush : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569580 Biographical Note ...

Hadley, Emma Bellamy.

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Drinkwater, Daisy.

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Rice, John H.

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Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921

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Wendell graduated from Harvard in 1877 and taught English at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Barrett Wendell, 1873-1921 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972920 From the description of Lecture notes in Comparative Literature 1, 1905-1917. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074707 Harvard English professor. From the description of Ralegh in Guiana, 1897. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 172663314 ...

Independent Vermont.

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Murray, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1960-

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Epithet: wife of G G A Murray British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x0002d0 ...

Jones, Grace Latimer.

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Buswell, Leslie, 1890-

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Finley, John H. (John Huston), 1863-1940

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President of City College, 1903-1911. From the description of Papers, 1907-1964, 1963-1964 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155502699 American editor, educator, and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [New York], 28 January 1934, to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1934 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270577340 John Huston Finley (1863-1940) was an educator, editor, author, and civic leader. He was president of Knox Colle...

JohnHaynes Holmes

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White, William Allen, 1868-1944

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American journalist known as the "Sage of Emporia"; owner and editor of the "Emporia Gazette." From the description of Papers of William Allen White, 1890-1940 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837106 Journalist. From the description of Letters, 1889-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122644557 Pulitzer Prize-winning Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor and author. From the description of William Allen White letter...

Phillips, John C. (John Charles), 1876-1938

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Peabody, Robert Swain, 1845-1917

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James J. Hill (1838-1916) became one of the leading railroad barons in America in the closing decades of the 19th century and first decade of the 20th. Allied with banking magnate J.P. Morgan, Hill worked to control a vast railroad network stretching from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest and including three railroads: the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Burlington. Born in Canada, Hill moved to St. Paul before the Civil War and by 1879 was part owner of a local railroad compan...

Hall, Ruth, 1858-

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Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937

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Drinkwater, a British playwright and poet, worked for an insurance company. In 1909 he became manager of the Birmingham Repertory Company, and his most successful plays included "Abraham Lincoln," "Mary Stuart," and "Bird in Hand." Drinkwater also published several critical literary biographies. From the description of Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1914-1916. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122612764 John Drinkwater was an English author and actor, proba...

Perry, Lilla Cabot, 1848-1933

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Painter. Born in 1848 in Boston, Mass., Perry studied at Cowles Art School under D.M. Bunker and R.W. Vonnoh in Boston. She also studied at the Julian and Colarossi academies and at Alfred Stevens' studio in Paris. She died in 1933 in Hancock, N.H. From the description of Lilla Cabot Perry photographs, [ca. 1889-1909]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79870424 Painter. Born in 1848 in Boston, Mass., Perry studied at Cowles Art ...

Beals, Helen Abbott, 1888-

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Buchan, Susan (Grosvenor) 1882-

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Nichols, Rose Standish

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Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1960) was one of America's first professional female landscape and garden designers, a writer of garden history and criticism, a lifelong pacificist, and a women's rights activist. She was the daughter of Dr. Arthur Howard Nichols (1840-1923) and Elizabeth Fisher Homer Nichols (1844-1929) of Boston, Massachusetts. She published three books and many articles on European garden design, helped found the Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom, and...

Bartlett, John, 1820-1905

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Author of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" From the guide to the John Bartlett letters, 1891, 1894, 1901, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Poole, Murray Edward, 1857-

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Villa, Francisco

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Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882

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Trollope was born on Apr. 24, 1815 in London, England; attended Winchester and Harrow; worked as a junior clerk in the General Post Office and was then transferred as a postal surveyor to Ireland; in 1859 he moved back to London, resigning from the civil service in 1867; stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for Parliament in 1868; became a novelist, known for his Barsetshire and Palliser series of novels, among others; individual novels include: Barchester Towers (1857), Can you forgive h...

Brandt and Brandt, New York.

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Allen, Caroline Stetson

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Brander, Matthews

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Chase, Lewis

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Longfellow, Annie A

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Perkins, Maxwell E. (Maxwell Evarts), 1884-1947

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Editor at and vice-president of Charles Scribner's Sons. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, 1938-1943. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122629156 Maxwell Evarts Perkins was one of the most importnat editors in American literary history. Belinda Dobson Jelliffe, born in Asheville, N.C., became a friend of Thomas Wolfe in 1933. In 1935, Charles Scriber's Sons published her only book, a semi-autobiographical work titled Fo...

Savage, Raymond

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Conger, A L

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Holliday, Marilla.

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Welles, Alice.

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Sayre, Francis Bowes, 1885-1972

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Diplomat. From the description of Reminiscences of Francis Bowes Sayre : oral history, 1952. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309725093 Diplomat and statesman. From the description of Papers of Francis Bowes Sayre, 1861-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060652 Biographical Note 1885, Apr. 30 Born, South Bethleh...

Hollister, G. H. (Gideon Hiram), 1817-1881

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Lawyer, historian and author; served as U.S. minister to Haiti, 1868-1869. Perhaps best known for his History of Connecticut published in 1855; also published several books of fiction and poetry. From the description of Gideon Hollister papers, 1850-1892. (Litchfield Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 771916821 ...

Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907

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Wendell Phillips Garrison was editor of The Nation. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1865-1906. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365054 Wendell Phillips Garrison was editor of The Nation. His father, William Lloyd Garrison, was a prominent New England abolitionist and editor of the Liberator magazine. His brother Francis Jackson Garrison (1848-1916) was associated with Riverside Press and Houghton Mifflin Company. From the ...

Furness, William H.

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London, Jack, 1876-1916

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Jack London was born in San Francisco January 12, 1876. He led an adventurous life, only beginning his career as an author in the 1890s. He wrote short stories, serials, essays, articles, verse and novels. He died November 22, 1916 in Sonoma County, CA. From the description of Jack London papers, 1897-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387554 American novelist and short story writer. From the description of Chronometer method [navigational documents] [1907?]...

Morris, Elizabeth Woodbridge.

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Brent, Charles Henry, 1862-1929

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Episcopal bishop, missionary, author; chief of chaplain services, Amer. Exped. Forces during WWI. From the description of Letter to Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes [manuscript], 1927 May 6. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647953607 Clergyman and missionary. From the description of Papers of Charles Henry Brent, 1860-1991 (bulk 1901-1929). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449272 Biographical Note ...

Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928

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Fanny Garrison Villard, daughter of the abolitionist William LLoyd Garrison, was a social reformer and champion of woman's suffrage and international peace. She married the journalist Henry Villard in 1866. After her husband's death in 1900 she devoted herself to such organizations as the NAACP, Diet Kitchen Association, and Women's Peace Society. From the description of Fanny Garrison Villard correspondence and papers, 1857-1928. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367604 ...

Clark, Rufus W. (Rufus Wheelwright), 1813-1886

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Barlow, Jane, 1857?-1917

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Epithet: wife of S Barlow, commission agent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000814.0x000042 Irish novelist and poet From the guide to the Jane Barlow note, 1899, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Warre Cornish, Blanche Ritchie

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Whitman, Sarah (Wyman) d. 1904

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Dinby, Edwin.

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Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935

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Jessie Willcox Smith was born in Philadelphia in 1863. She originally studied to be a kindergarten teacher and actually served in that capacity before accidentally discovering a propensity for drawing. She's one of the few illustrators I've profiled who wasn't an astonishing child prodigy. She was probably around 20 before she took up a pencil. Initial studies were quickly replaced with formal courses at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she learned from Thomas Eakins, and others. ...

Horton, Caroline W.

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Monkhouse, Allan, 1858-1936

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English playwright, critic, essayist and novelist. From the description of Allan Monkhouse letter to Glen Walton Blodgett [manuscript], 1921 October 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 436148119 ...

Pinker, James B.

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Henry James (1843-1916) was an American novelist, short story writer, critic, and dramatist. William James (1842-1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, a professor of psychology and philosophy at Harvard University, and the brother of novelist Henry James. James Brand Pinker (1863-1922) was the founder of James B. Pinker and Son, a firm of literary agents in London. Pinker was literary and dramatic agent to both Henry and William James. From the description of James B. P...

Kendall, Moore and Burbank.

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Washburn, Robert Morris, 1868-

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Whittier, Albert R

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Davie, W. O., and company.

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Goethals, George W. (George Washington), 1858-1928

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Born in 1858 in Brooklyn, New York, Goethals graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1880. Goethals was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1907 when he was appointed chief engineer for the construction of the Panama Canal.. Under his management construction was completed in 1914, about one year early. From the guide to the George Washington Goethals Letter MSS. 0575., 1918 March 27, (University Libraries Division of Special Collecti...

Leland Hayward

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Hamilton, Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac, 1878-1961

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J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton (1878-1961) was a historian; founder of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C.; and professor and chair of the History Department at the University of North Carolina. From the description of Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton papers, 1895-1961. WorldCat record id: 27190178 Joesph Gregoire de Roulhac Hamilton, son of Daniel Heyward and Frances Gray Roulhac Hamilton, was born in Hillsb...

Little & Brown

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Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944

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Ida M. Tarbell was an investigative journalist best known from her The History of the Standard Oil Company published in 1904. She wrote for American Magazine, which she also co-owned and co-edited, from 1906 to 1915. From the guide to the Ida M. Tarbell papers, 1916-1930, (Ohio University) Historian, journalist, lecturer, and muckraker, (Allegheny College, A.B., 1880). For further information, see Notable American Women (1971). From the description of The nationa...

Potter, Alfred Claghorn, 1867-1940

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Rue, Joseph, Ph.D

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Trower, Still and Keeling.

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Schelling, Felix Emmanuel, 1858-1945

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Felix Emmanuel Schelling joined the faculty of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 1886. He was curator of the H. H. Furness Memorial Library from 1933 to 1945. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, [1895]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884799 From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1890-1928. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884801 A.B., LL.B...

Bates, Charles H

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Rehmann, Elsa

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De Forest, Emily Johnston, 1851-1942

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La Farge, John

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GARST, SHANNON

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Pyne, Mable, 1903-

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American author and illustrator from Mount Vernon, New York, born in 1903 and died in 1969. From the description of Mable Pyne papers, 1941. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 41261829 ...

Thorp, Willard, 1899-1990

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Educator, editor, writer, and advocate of American Literature. Thorp received degrees from Hamilton College, and Harvard University. He taught at Smith College and later Princeton University. From the description of Papers, 1980-1983. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39100518 ...

McIntosh and Otis, Inc.

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Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913.

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Nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; noted architect; adjunct professor of architectural design at M.I.Y.; author of "Encyclopedia of Italy, Greece and the Levant. From the description of William P. P. Longfellow letter to Miss Waring [manuscript], 1898 November 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 775601541 ...

Perkins, Eleanor Ellis, 1893-1969

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Author, chiefly of children's plays, book reviewer, and lecturer, of Evanston, Ill. From the description of Papers, 1893-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70967411 She was the daughter of Lucy Fitch Perkins, a writer and illustrator of children's books. From the description of Eleanor Perkins Collection no date. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 460039886 ...

Inglis, Alexander James, 1879-1924

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Spring-Rice, Florence.

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Scott, Miriam Finn

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Littell, Philip, 1868-1943

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Henderson, C. Hanford (Charles Hanford), 1861-1941

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Professor of Engineering at the University of Virginia. From the description of Oral history interview of Charles Henderson by Michael Plunkett [manuscript], December 11, 1974. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920231 From the description of Oral history interview of Charles Henderson by Charles E. Moran [manuscript], November 9, 14, 30 and December 2, 1977. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920235 ...

Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900

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Professor of English Literature at University of Michigan. Editor of The Christian Union. From the description of Postcard, 1899, December 10, to "Dear Sir". (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384204 Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. From the description of Moses Coit Tyler papers, 1864-1897 and 1920-1921. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419205 American author. From the description of A...

Thompson, Charles Miner 1864-1941

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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...

Ellsworth, William Webster, 1855-1936

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Publisher and lecturer on literary topics. From the description of William Webster Ellsworth letters to Byron Johnson Rees [manuscript], 1919-1920. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191118031 ...

Boyer, Wilbur Sarles, 1876-

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Kay, Mary P

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Pulsifer, Harold Trowbridge, 1886-1948

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PICKARD, GREENLEAF W.

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Shaw, Albert D. (Albert Duane), 1841-1901

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Consular official and business executive. From the description of Albert D. Shaw papers, 1878-1896, 1891-1896 (bulk) (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935188 New York State Assemblyman. From the description of Papers, 1830-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122433980 ...

Hazard, R G

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Ross, Edward Alsworth, 1866-1951

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Professor of Sociology at Stanford (1893-1900; dismissed in 1900). From the description of Edward Alsworth Ross papers, 1892-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 703381594 Biographical/Historical Sketch In the late 1890s, sociology professor Edward A. Ross gained notoriety following several years of political activism in favor of the free silver movement, municipal ownership of utilities (including the railroads), and Jap...

Woolson, J A

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Ross, Denman Waldo, 1853-1935

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Ross earned his Harvard Ph.D. 1880. He was a lecturer on theory of design at Harvard from 1899 to 1909 and member of the Dept. of Fine Arts from 1909 to 1935. From the description of Biographical and general information relating to Denman Waldo Ross, ca. 1880-ca. 1935? (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064512 Teacher, artist and collector. Educated at Harvard (Ph.D., 1880). Lecturer on theory of design, Architectural School, Harvard from 1899 to 1909; Appointed mem...

Boyd, Ernest Augustus, 1887-1946

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A portion of this correspondence is with Madeleine Boyd, wife of Ernest Boyd. From the description of Correspondence with Theodore and Helen Dreiser, 1919-1936. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155895933 Irish critic and essayist, editor of AMERICAN SPECTATOR, 1932. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Mr. B.F. Hart, 1932 Sept. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384138 ...

Harlow, W. S. (William Sturtevant), 1838-1914?

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Perkins, Lucy Fitch, 1865-1937

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Author and illustrator of children's books; of Evanston, Ill.; b. Lucy Fitch; married Dwight Perkins, 1891. From the description of Papers, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70967415 Lucy Fitch Perkins was born July 12, 1865, in Maples, IN. She was a writer and illustrator of children's books, and was also an editor. Her "Twins of the World" series told of the lives of children from more than 20 different countries and cultures. Throughout her writing career, Perkins work...

Lawrence, William, 1850-1941

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7th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. From the description of William Lawrence letter to Mrs. Forbes [manuscript], 1930 Apr 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 256490554 Bishop of Massachusetts. From the description of Draft petition to Governor Fuller, 1927 April 11-12. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 67836461 ...

LANE, ANNE W.

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Dorsey, Florence L.

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Williams, Stanley Thomas, 1888-1956

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Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. From the description of Stanley Thomas Williams Papers, 1921-1955. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20274084 Stanley Thomas Williams was a Professor of English at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.). From the guide to the Stanley Thomas Williams Papers, 1921-1955, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Stanley T. Williams (1888-1956): educator; B.A., Y...

White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946

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Author, graduate of the University of Michigan (Ph. B., 1895; M.A., 1903). From the description of Papers, 1901-1941. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34365123 Author, graduate of the University of Michigan (Ph.B., 1895; M.A., 1903). From the description of Stewart White papers, 1901-1941. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68304307 American author. From the description of Stewart Edward White papers, 1910-1913. (Unive...

Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1842?-1928

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Kenney is a Mormon author and historian. From the guide to the Scott G. Kenney research materials, 1820-1984, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Ina Coolbrith was born as Josephine Donna Smith (niece of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith) in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1841or 1842 (accounts differ). Following her father's death, which roughly coincided with the Mormons' expulsion from Illinois, Josephine's mother took her to St. Louis and married William Pickett. In 1850 the family ...

Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920

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Mary Augusta Ward was an English writer, and wife of critic Humphry Ward. She began writing literary criticism, and soon progressed to writing novels. Although not stylistically distinguished, her novels were popular because they explored interesting questions of the day. Her earnest approach was admired, and her literary attempts to bring human drama to political, sociological, or religious issues continue to provide an interesting perspective on Victorian society. From the descript...

Ames, Azel, 1845-1908

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Physician, sanitary engineer, author, and autograph collector, of Boston, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1854-1907. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 43790095 ...

Alexander Wedderburn

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Litell's living age.

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Shortridge, Virginia

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Barclay, Thomas, Sir, 1853-1941

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Stearns, Frank W

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Hawes, John B. (John Bromham), 1877-1938

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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

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American novelist and short-story writer. From the description of Letters, 1926-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122494991 Willa Cather was an American novelist and short story writer. From the guide to the Willa Cather literary manuscripts, 1926-1940, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American novelist, journalist, and editor. From the description of Collection, 1908-1963. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research...

Barrows, Samuel J. (Samuel June), 1845-1909

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Unitarian clergyman, congressman, and prison reformer. Appointed International Prison Commissioner, 1895, by Grover Cleveland. From the description of Papers, 1897-1910 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52247523 ...

Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957

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American author and journalist. From the description of Letter to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1940 October 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810653 Christopher Morley was an American editor, an author, and a Rhodes scholar. Morley was one of the founders of the "Saturday Review of Literature," of which he was an editor from 1924 to 1940. A prolific author, he wrote more than 50 books. His novels include PANASSUS ON WHEELS (1917), THE HAUNTED BOOKS...

Beardsley, E. Edwards (Eben Edwards), 1808-1891

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Episcopalian clergyman and author, of New Haven, Conn. From the description of E.E. Beardsley address, 1878 Nov. 25. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 71129304 ...

The American legion.

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Gourio, M E

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Kirk, Ellen Warner (Olney) 1842-

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O'Shea, Michael Vincent, 1866-1932

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Day, John, company, publishers, New York.

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Douglas, David, 1949-....

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Epithet: afterwards 7th Earl of Augus, eldest son of Sir J Douglas, of Pittendreich British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000508.0x00029d ...

Stackpole, Pierpont L.

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MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-

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MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitizer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard. From the guide to the Plays, 1957-1968., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor of Rhetoric...

Stearns, Eliza C

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Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934

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Briggs (Harvard, A.B., 1875) taught English and served as Dean of Harvard College and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Overseer. From the description of Papers of Le Baron Russell Briggs, 1907-1929 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972766 Educator. Harvard: A.B. 1875, A.M. 1882, LL.D. 1900. Assistant professor of English at Harvard, 1885-1890; professor of English, 1890; Dean of Harvard College, 1891-1902; Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 190...

Morison, Samuel Eliot

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Morison graduated from Harvard in 1908 and taught American history at Harvard. From the description of Course material for History 161b, the discovery of America, 1940. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512193 Morison earned his Harvard AB in 1908, his Harvard AM in 1909, and his Harvard PhD in 1912. He taught history at Harvard. From the description of Notes in English 28, second half year, 1904-1905. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074686...

Tilestone and Hollingsworth, recipient.

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Bowen-Merrill company, firm, publishers, Indianapolis.

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Monnier, Mathilde

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Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1945

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Curtis, Bridgham.

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Cresson, W. P. (William Penn), 1873-1932

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Chase, J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton), 1864-

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Possibly Joseph Smeaton Chase, naturalist, adventurer, and author; wrote California Coast Trails. From the description of Handwritten note, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 57596292 ...

Longfellow, Mary King, 1852-1945

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hallington Hall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1934 Jan. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573149 Epithet: OM, historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000331 George Trevelyan was an English historian and educator. From the description of Letters, 1929-1935. (College of Charleston). W...

The incorporated society of authors, playwrights and composers.

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Adams, John Wolcott, 1874-1925

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Brown, Demetra (Vaka) 1877-1946

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Farquharson, John

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Epithet: of Egerton MS 2000 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x000249 Epithet: of Add MS 35523 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x000198 ...

McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941

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Lawyer, business executive, Democratic Party leader, U.S. secretary of the treasury, Director General of Railroads, and U.S. senator from California. From the description of Papers of William Gibbs McAdoo, 1786-1941 (bulk 1880-1941). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063506 McAdoo was born near Marietta, Cobb County, GA, on Oct. 31, 1863; attended the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; admitted to TN bar in 1885 and began law practice in Chattanooga, TN; moved to NYC, 1892; devel...

Sedgwick, R S, recipient.

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Perkins, Frederic B. (Frederic Beecher), 1828-1899

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American author, historian. From the description of Letter to John Adams Dix [manuscript], 1856 March 27. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814563 ...

Parton, James, 1822-1891

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English-American writer. From the description of Papers of James Parton [manuscript] 1860-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647934391 Author. From the description of Letter of James Parton, 1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454871 Parton was an American biographer. His The life of Horace Greeley : editor of "The New-York tribune", from his birth to the present time was published in 1872 and his Life of Voltaire was published in 188...

Byrd, Richard Evelyn Jr., 1888-1957

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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. Byrd claimed that his ex...

Siringo, Charles A., 1855-1928

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Siringo was a cowboy and author who also worked for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in the early 20th century. From the description of Charles Siringo papers 1896-1928. (Museum of New Mexico Library). WorldCat record id: 37235952 Siringo wrote A Texas Cowboy, A Cowboy Detective, Two Evil Isms, Lone Star Cowboy, and Riata and Spurs. Pinkerton's Detective Agency suppressed the publication of Two Evil Isms, and charged Siringo with criminal libel, causing him to flee Chic...

Peck, Walter Edwin, 1891-1954

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Author; M.A., Columbia, 1918; Ph. D., Oxford, 1922; 1924-1926, taught at Wesleyan University; 1926-1927, head of the English Department of Washington State College; 1927-1929 taught at Hunter College. From the description of Walter Edwin Peck papers, 1830-1930 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166254 Epithet: bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x00026f Author; M....

Millis, Walter, 1899-1968

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Schultz, James Willard, 1859-1947

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James Willard Schultz (1859-1947) lived in and wrote about the northwestern portion of Montana now included within the Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park. In 1877, at the age of 18, he traveled from his birthplace in Boonville, New York to Fort Benton, Montana Territory. He became interested in American Indians, and lived for many years with the Blackfeet Indians as an accepted member of their nation. Drawing upon his experiences on the western frontier he later wrote thrilling and ...

Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922

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James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, was a British writer, historian and statesman. Born in Belfast, he was educated at Glasgow University and later Oxford, he practiced law briefly, but returned to Oxford as a professor of civil law. He served in Parliament for many years, and held several government positions, including Ambassador to the United States. A renowned historian, he was also a productive writer of travel books, law tracts, and political theory. Universally admired and liked, an obituary...

Saltus, Edgar, 1855-1921

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American writer. From the description of Edgar Saltus letter to the American Press Co. [manuscript], no date (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 781300416 Edgar Saltus was a novelist, essayist, and poet. He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and Yale College in 1876 and 1877, before studying abroad and receiving the degree of LL.B. from Columbia College in 1880, though he never practiced law. Saltus was married three times: to Helen Sturgis Read i...

Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927

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General (GEN) Leonard Wood was stationed at Headquarters, Eastern Department, Governor's Island, NY on 16 November 1914. From the description of Leonard Wood papers, 1914. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 61241654 Leonard Wood was a physician who served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (1910-1914), military governor of Cuba (1899-1902) and Governor-General of the Philippines (1921-1927). His son Osborne (sometimes spelled Osborn) at the time of this lette...

Rittenhouse, Jessie B. (Jessie Belle), 1869-1948

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Poet and editor. From the description of Papers of Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, 1902-1927. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793757 ...

Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921

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American poet and writer of fiction. From the description of Evanescence : Texas, to Mr. Gladwin : poem in autograph, signed, sent with a letter signed (initials), 1881 May 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580777 From the description of High days and holidays : poem in the author's autograph, signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580825 Spofford was born in Calais, Maine; she was educated in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. With encouragement from T...

Coates, Robert M. (Robert Myron), 1897-1973

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American writer and art critic. From the description of Papers of Robert Myron Coates [manuscript], [1933], 1954. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647993427 American novelist. From the description of Letter : Bayside, NY, to Mr. Mills, [194-?] June 25. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122545950 Robert M. Coates was a writer and art critic. He was associated with the "New York...

Howard, Oscar

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Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945

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David Lloyd George (b. January 17, 1863, Manchester, England–d. March 26, 1945, Wales) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party. As Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908–1915), Lloyd George was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state. His most important role came as the highly energetic Prime Minister of the Wartime Coalition Government (1916–22), during and immediately after the First World War. He was a major player at the Paris P...

The junior literary guild.

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Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society

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Houghton, E Otis.

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Stimson, Frederic Jesup, 1855-1943

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Stimson was assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts (1884-1885) and wrote many novels about and reference works on the law. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1915-1924. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79617709 From the guide to the Letters from various correspondents, 1915-1924., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Stimson graduated from Harvard in 1876, and taught law at Harvard. From ...

Fuess, Claude Moore, 1885-1963

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Claude Moore Fuess : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742883 Educator, author. Headmaster Phillips Academy 1933-1948. Books include "Stanley King of Amherst" and "In My Time." From the description of Claude Moore Fuess letter to Alfred R. Hussey [manuscript], 1947 May 7. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 278802605 Claude Mo...

Fields, Osgood and co.

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Pedersen, J.

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Prang and co.

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Blake, William M

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Terman, Lewis M. (Lewis Madison), 1877-1956

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Lewis Madison Terman was a professor of psychology at Stanford from 1916 to 1956 (emeritus 1942-1956). He was a member of numerous national education, psychology and science organizations and was the author or co-author of a number of books. Terman was born in Johnson County, Indiana, January 15, 1877. He received an A.B. and A.M. from Indiana University and his Ph.D. from Clark University. He died December 21, 1956. From the description of Lewis Madison Terman papers, 1910-1959. (Un...

Weston, Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay), 1850-1928

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Marks, Lionel S. (Lionel Simeon), 1871-....

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Marks (1871-1955) taught mechanical engineering at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Lionel S. Marks, 1894-1947 (inclusive), 1913-1947 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973115 ...

Burton, Theodore E. (Theodore Elijah), 1851-1929

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U.S. Representative (1889-91, 1895-1909, and 1921-28) and Senator (1909-15 and 1928-29) from Cleveland, Ohio. While in Congress, Burton was involved in a number of important issues of the day, and was also a prominent figure in Republican Party politics. He maintained a lifelong involvement in the international peace movement. Burton was a candidate in the 1907 Cleveland mayoral election, losing to Democrat Tom L. Johnson. A bachelor, he was close to his niece, Grace Burton, who became a politic...

Howells, Mildred, 1872-1966

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Church, William C

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Fitzpatrick, John Clement, 1876-1940

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Archivist, librarian, historian, and editor. From the description of Papers of John Clement Fitzpatrick, 1927-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79827739 Biographical Note 1876, Aug. 10 Born, Washington, D.C. 1894 Graduated,Washington High School, Washington, D.C. ...

Holls, Frederick William, 1857-1903

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Holls, a lawyer, publicist, and expert in international law and negotiation, was the secretary of the U.S. delegation to the First International Peace Conference at the Hague in 1899. From the description of Papers, 1879-1938 (inclusive), 1897-1903 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122404990 From the guide to the Papers, 1879-1938 (inclusive), 1897-1903 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American lawyer, publicis...

Bodwell, Mrs. Lewis.

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Naar, Constance.

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Macdonald, Alexander, 1889-

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Smith, E. Boyd

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Stanley, Dorothy (Tennant) lady.

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Goldsborough, J.

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Bartholomew (John) andSon, ltd.

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Hammond, John Hays, 1855-1936

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Engineer. From the description of Letter of John Hays Hammond, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450745 John Hays Hammond, Sr., (1855 March 31-1936 June 8) was a mining expert and superintendent of mines in California and Mexico, 1881-1893; worked for Cecil Rhodes and others in South Africa, 1893-1899; consultant in England, 1896-1900, and in Mexico, 1900; general manager and consulting engineer for Guggenheim Exploration Co., 1903-1907; chairman Engineers, Exploration ...

Andrews, Siri.

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Brown, T. A. H.

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Scaife, Roger Livingston, 1875-

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Estes and Lauriat, Boston,

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Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916

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Agassiz, George R. (George Russell), 1862-1951

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Fleming, Polly.

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Herford, Oliver, 1863-1935

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American author, illustrator, wit. From the description of Papers of Oliver Herford, 1899-1904. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32135326 American author. From the description of Letter, n.d., N.Y. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80850053 Artist and author. From the description of Papers of Oliver Herford, 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452089 ...

Hutchins and Wheeler, firm, lawyers, Boston.

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Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952

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Lawyer and U.S. secretary of the interior. From the description of Harold L. Ickes papers, 1815-1969 (bulk 1933-1951). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980130 Harold Ickes (1874-1952) was a United States administrator and politician. He served as Secretary of the Interior for 13 years, from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office, and afterwards he became a syndicated columnist writing on political topics. From the guide to the Harold Ickes ...

Huntington, Constant.

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Winant, John G. (John Gilbert), 1889-1947

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John Gilbert Winant (1889-1947) was born in New York City. He attended St. Paul''s School in Concord, New Hampshire, and entered Princeton University as a member of the Class of 1913. After withdrawing from Princeton in late 1912, Winant returned to St. Paul''s School as a history teacher. He became active in local politics and was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1917. When the United States entered World War I, Winant enlisted in the American Expeditionary Forces and wa...

Rothschild, Victor Sydney, 1870-

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Collier, David

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Gilman, Nicholas Paine, 1849-1912

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Frank Heywood Hodden

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Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906

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Shaler (Harvard, S.B., 1862) taught paleontology and geology at Harvard and was Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School. From the description of Papers of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, 1872-1914 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972881 Prominent geologist and scholar, served with the Kentucky Geological Survey, and as a professor at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. From the description of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler : paper...

Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903

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Methodist bishop. From the description of Letter, 1889 Aug. 28. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70953443 ...

Simmons, George Henry, 1852-1937

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Schapiro, J. Salwyn (Jacob Salwyn), 1879-1973

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Historian. From the description of Autograph letters signed (7) : [n.p.], to Herbert J. Seligmann, 1947 Nov. 7-1965 Feb. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872229 ...

Lent, De Witt C

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Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929

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American educator and poet, author of "America the Beautiful." From the description of Typed letter signed : Wellesley, Mass., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1928 Nov. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270867999 American educator and author. From the description of America the beautiful : autograph manuscript signed : [n.p.], n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672042 American author and poet. From the description of Letters, 1901-1918. (Unknown)...

Crockett, Robert E

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Lee, Mary Catherine

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Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940

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English medical missionary. From the description of Letter, 1914, Apr. 26 : Dr. Lee. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31674044 Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. Horace Parker Chandler was a real estate broker, journalist, editor, and publisher, of Boston, Mass. From the description of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell letter and photographs, 1909 Dec. 25. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 7083...

Prouty, Lewis I

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Thomas, Charles Swain, 1868-1943

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Thomas (1868-1943) graduated from Harvard in 1897 and taught education at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Swain Thomas, 1930?-1940 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973201 ...

Thomas, Lowell, 1892-

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Clements, Rex, 1885-

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Rand, Edward Kennard, 1871-1945

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Rand (B.S. 1894) taught at Harvard, 1901-1942, and was appointed Pope Professor of Latin in 1931. From the description of Correspondence, 1915-1949. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612881980 Rand was an American classicist and medievalist. Educated at Harvard (B.S. 1894) and the University of Munich (Ph.D. 1900), he taught at Harvard (1901-1942), where he was Pope Professor of Latin (1931-1942). He founded the Medieval Academy of America (1925) and the journal Spec...

Lockwood and company.

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Bates, William W. (William Wallace), 1827-1912

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Cassell and co., ltd., London.

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Osgood, Elisabeth B

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Rinehart, Alan G

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Hackett, P J

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Gladden, Washington, 1836-1918

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Congregational clergyman, author, and lecturer. From the description of Washington Gladden papers, 1884-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435826 From the guide to the Washington Gladden papers, 1884-1894, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) American Congregational minister and social reformer, as well as the author of many books and hymns. From the description of Washington Gladden letters to Riverside Press [manuscript], 1899 Oct 2 and 7. (Universi...

Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937

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Boston lecturer and writer on social and historical topics; Editor of the New England Magazine (1889-1901). From the description of Edwin Doak Mead letter to Mrs. Leland and Christmas card [manuscript], 1911 Dec 19 and n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 299067309 Epithet: of Boston, Mass., USA; founder of the World Peace Federation British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000220.0x0002fa ...

Warren, S. D. and co., Boston.

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Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886

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American essayist and critic. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Boston, to Harper and Brothers, 1858 Mar. 5 and 18-1878 Apr. 1 and 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588778 Edwin Percy Whipple was an influential 19th century American literary critic and lecturer. A prolific reader, he worked at several disparate jobs while publishing critical essays in diverse periodicals. He gained the reputation as one of the most important young critics of his gener...

Fry, Smith D. (Smith Dunbar), 1851-1929

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Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898

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Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898), merchant, U.S. Representative and Senator from Vermont, authored the Morrill Tariff Act (1861) and the Land Grant College Act (1862). He chaired the Senate Finance Committee for many years (1877-79, 1881-93, 1895-98). From the description of Justin Smith Morrill Papers, 1825-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387635 Justin S. Morrill was a congressman and financier. From the guide to the Justin S. Morrill papers, 1814-1937, ...

Benét, William Rose, 1886-1950

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American poet, novelist, and editor. From the description of Letter to a dealer [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806176 Editor of The Chimaera. From the description of ALS, [1915]-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500150 This may not really be Benét's writing. Although the verse appears to be signed by him the writer's intent may have been simply to ascribe the verse to him. Also, it is on letterhead engraved "MM...

Lyon, Irving P

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Landor, Arnold Henry Savage, 1865-1924

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Artist and traveler. From the description of Letter of Arnold Henry Savage Landor, 1892. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014871 ...

Palmer, George Herbert, 1842-1933

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Palmer (Harvard, A.B., 1864), taught philosophy and served as Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Herbert Palmer, 1931-1932 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972831 Professor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1873-1913. From the description of Lectures on the historical development of ethics, chiefly in England. Delivered in 1885-1886 at Harvard College, by G.H. Palmer. Reported by M.C. Ayres [1885-1886]. (University of Mich...

Lemon, Fields and company.

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Weeks, John W. (John Wingate), 1860-1926

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John Wingate Weeks (April 11, 1860-July 12, 1926) was an American politician in the Republican Party. He served as a United States Representative for Massachusetts from 1905 to 1913, as a United States Senator from 1913 to 1919, and as Secretary of War from 1921 to 1925. Weeks was born and raised in Lancaster, New Hampshire. He received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1881, and served two years in the United States Navy. Weeks made a fortune in banking during the...

Cunningham, Eugene, 1896-

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Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908

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Edward Gaylord Bourne was born on June 24, 1860. He received a B.A. from Yale in 1883 and a Ph.D. in 1892. During his graduate study at Yale he taught medieval history (1885-1887) and political science (1886-1888). He went to Adelbert College in Cleveland, Ohio in 1888, and remained on the faculty there until 1895 when he returned to Yale. Bourne was active in the American Historical Association and was known for his historical criticism and editions of historical texts. He died in New Haven on ...

Stone, Irving, 1903-

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Frey, Albert R. (Albert Romer), 1858-1926

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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....

Hubler, Richard Gibson, 1912-

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Hoffmann, Ralph, 1870-

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Clarke, Ida Clyde, 1878-1956

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John Burroughs Memorial Association

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Barnes, Cecil.

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Norton, Grace Fallow, 1876-1926

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Morgan, James Morris, 1845-1928

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James Morris Morgan (1845-1928) was a Confederate naval officer; a soldier in Egypt, 1870-1871; a businessman in Washington, D.C.; and author. From the guide to the James Morris Morgan Papers, ., 1776-1950, (bulk 1900-1925), (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Confederate naval officer. From the description of Literary manuscript of James Morris Morgan, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83552522 C...

Spring, Leverett Wilson, 1840-1917

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Duncan, Mary

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Epithet: mother-in-law of Captain Hon. H Duncan, RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000684.0x0002fc ...

Lounsbury, Thomas R., 1838-1915

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American author and philologist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) and typed letter signed : New Haven and Washington, D.C., to F.A. Duneka, 1909 Apr. 2-1913 July 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591809 Thomas R. Lounsbury was born in Ovid, New York on January 1, 1838. He graduated from Yale (B.A., 1859) and served in the Civil War (1862-1865). He taught in New York and returned to teach at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1870. He served as prof...

Foerster, Norman, 1887-1972

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Foerster was professor of English at the University of North Carolina, professor of English and director of the School of Letters at the University of Iowa, prominent New Humanist, and author of books on American literature and higher education; d. 1972. From the description of Papers of Norman Foerster, 1930-1971 (bulk 1930-1944). (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233113536 Author and editor. Foerster was also a professor and a proponent of the New Humanis...

Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945

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Author Margaret Wade Campbell Deland was born in Allegheny, Penn. She became interested in the plight of unmarried mothers, taking them into her home until they could find proper jobs. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letters, 1884-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007073 Margaret Deland was born in Western Pennsylvania, was educated in New York, and lived much of her adult life i...

Bartlett, Vernon, 1894-1983

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Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett was born on April 30 1894 at Westbury, Wiltshire and educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton. After being invalided out of the army during the First World War, he began his career as a journalist, joining the Daily Mail as a general reporter. In 1917 he joined the staff of Reuters, which later sent him to cover the Paris peace conference. Subsequently he became a foreign correspondent for The Times, and it was his experiences in reporting from post-w...

Fairbanks, Janet.

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Zara, Louis, 1910-2001

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Clara Barrus

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Reynolds, Paul R.

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Epithet: of New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0001a0 ...

Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959

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Forbes was an American business and government executive. He served as governor-general of the Philippines, 1909-1913, and ambasador to Japan, 1930-1932. From the description of W. Cameron (William Cameron) Forbes images of the Philippines, 1907-1946. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612734531 From the guide to the W. Cameron (William Cameron) Forbes images of the Philippines, 1907-1946., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Busin...

Greene, Jerome Davis, 1874-

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United States. Post Office Department

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On July 26, 1775, members of the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, agreed: That a postmaster general be appointed for the United Colonies, who shall hold his office at Philada, and shall be allowed a salary of 1000 dollars per an: for himself, and 340 dollars per an: for a secretary and Comptroller, with power to appoint such, and so many deputies as to him may seem proper and necessary. That a line of posts be appointed under the direction of the Postmaster general, from Fal...

Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918

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Editor and American ambassador to Great Britain; of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1889-1917. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20077806 Walter H. Page was editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 1895-98. Prior, he was with the Forum. Robert Johnson worked at the Century magazine. From the description of TLS, 1896 July 1, Boston, Mass. to Robert Underwood Johnson / Walter H. Page. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 37228165 ...

Clark, Gean.

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King, Stanton H. (Stanton Henry), 1867-1939

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Bentley, John, 1908-

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James R. Osgood and Co.

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Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929

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Distinguished Italian archaeologist, specializing in the topography of Rome. Author of "Forma Urbis Romae." From the description of Rodolfo Lanciani essay fragment [manuscript], 1891 Apr 6. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 213469101 ...

Mills, Esther Burnell

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Holbrook, Florence, 1860-1932

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Florence Holbrook was an educator and author involved in the peace movement during the early years of the 20th century. She was a member of the Chicago Peace Society, chair of the Women's Peace Committee of the Chicago Political Equity League, and President of the Chicago Division of the Illinois State Teachers Association. Holbrook managed Rosika Schwimmer's antiwar lecture tour of the United States after the outbreak of war in Europe. Holbrook was also an occasional speaker on the theme of pea...

Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896

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Artist. From the description of Letter of Augustus Hoppin, no year Mar. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451015 ...

Hughes, Richards, Hubbard and Ewing, firm, lawyers, New York.

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Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933

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Editor, publisher, bibliographer, author, literary promoter, and industrial director. From the description of R.R. Bowker papers, 1831-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009857 Richard Rogers Bowker (1848-1933) was editor of the New York Evening Mail newspaper, editor and publisher of Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal, and executive with several power companies, including the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. He was active in political reform and was ...

American Play Company

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The American Play Company was a business organization that handled the licensing of plays. Prior to 1914 it was involved in play production and script purchase, but after that time it dealt exclusively in representing dramatists. From the description of Records, 1924-1934. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122531775 From the guide to the American Play Company Records, 1924-1934, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and ...

Dudley; n. d..

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Gilman, Benjamin Ives, 1852-1933

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Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960

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Douglas Goldring was born in Greenwich, England, and died in Deal, Kent. He left Oxford University without a degree in 1906 and subsequently served on the editorial staff of "Country Life", "The English Review", and his own literary magazine, "Tramp". He enlisted in 1914, but was invalided. From 1916 on, he was a conscientious objector. He started to develop anti-American/pro-Soviet attitudes prior to World War II. He was a lecturer in English at Gothenburg, Sweden, 1925-1927, visited New York a...

Widdemer, Margaret

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Margaret Widdemer, novelist and poet. From the description of The Dark Cavalier : the collected poems of Margaret Widdemer, 1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702186208 Margaret Widdemer (1889?-1978) was an American author, novelist and poet. Born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Ms. Widdemer attended Drexel, Bucknell, and Middlebury College. She began writing as a child and by 1916 had received the Trimmed Lamp prize for the best lyric. That same year...

Aldrich, Lilian Woodman, d. 1927

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Flexner, Hortense, 1875-

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O'Donnell, Mary Paula (King) 1909-

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Bates, H.E. (Herbert Ernest), 1905-1974

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Resident of Kent, England. From the description of Letters, 1930-1968. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34122419 Bates was an English writer and novelist. From the description of [Letters to] Miss. Heilburn / H. E. Bates. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 156913081 English author. From the description of In view of the fact that ... : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript signed of the short story, 1926? Mar. 6 [in a publisher's note...

Patrick, George Thomas White, 1857-1949

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George Thomas White Patrick was born August 19, 1857, in North Boscawen, New Hampshire. He grew up in Lyons (Clinton), Iowa, where he attended high school. He received his A.B. degree in 1878 from the State University of Iowa. After graduation he served as temporary high school principal in Marengo, Iowa, for three months. Following that position he was asked to teach for six months in Cedar Falls, Iowa, public schools. When that position ended he moved to Leadville and Crested Butte, Colorado, ...

Torrey, Bradford, 1843-1912

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Ornithologist and author. From the description of Papers of Bradford Torrey [manuscript], 1887-1912. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647887893 ...

Olcott, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1864-1935

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Peabody, Francis Greenwood, 1847-1936

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Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847-1936) graduated from Harvard College in 1869 and Harvard Divinity School in 1872. Ordained in 1874, Peabody served the First Parish (Unitarian) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until 1879. Peabody then joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School teaching theological students Christian ethics, specializing in pioneer applications of religion to social problems. He was the Parkman Professor of Theology from 1881 to 1885 and then the Plummer Professor of Christian Mora...

George, Eliot

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Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, baron, 1852-1928

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Son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Harringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, to Arthur Sullivan, 1886 Apr. 8 to 1886 Apr. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270126568 Appointed Governor of South Australia in 1899. Governor General of Australia, 1902-1904. From the description of Papers. 1893-1913. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225718906 English politician and writer - son of Lord Tennyson. ...

Mills, Enos Abijah, 1870-1922

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Colorado naturalist and author. Active in establishing Rocky Mountain National Park. From the description of Enos Mills papers, 1896-1954 [manuscript]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13659487 ...

Ives, George Burnham, 1856-1930

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Bantam books, inc.

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Mitchell, Marion Strobel.

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Lake, Stuart N.

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Frothingham, Eugenia Brooks, 1874-

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Author of The Turn of the Road as well as Her Roman Lover. From the description of Eugenia Brooks Frothingham essay titled "A Plea for the Unimaginative" [manuscript], [?] June 17. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 276781798 Eugenia Brooks Frothingham (1871-1971), author, was born on November 17, 1874, in Paris, France. She lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and published six works of fiction between 1901 and 1937. Eugenia Brooks Frothingh...

Mathers, E. Powys (Edward Powys), 1892-1939

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Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960

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James Montgomery Flagg (b. June 18, 1877, Pelham Manor, N.Y.-d. May 27, 1960, New York City), American artist and illustrator, worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning. He is best remembered for political posters, such as the Uncle Sam recruitment poster. From the description of Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10568600 American artist and illustrator. From the description of Sketch ...

Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907

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Clergyman, editor, and abolitionist. From the description of Moncure Daniel Conway correspondence, 1889-1895. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453541 American author and clergyman. From the description of Moncure Daniel Conway papers, 1847-1907. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 489376233 American author, publisher, clergyman. From the description of Papers of Moncure D. Conway [manuscript], 1859-1906. (Univer...

Krey, Laura (Smith).

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Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950

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Matthiessen was an American literary scholar, teacher, and critic. From the description of Papers, 1929-1950. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122468863 From the guide to the Papers, 1929-1950., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) F.O. Matthiessen was an American literary critic and a Harvard professor of history and literature. From the description of Correspondence with Hugh T. Cunningham, 1946-1950. (Harvard Univer...

Frank Herbert Simonds

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Thorvald Solberg

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Austin, Mary, 1868-1934

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Mary Hunter Austin has variously been identified as a feminist, naturalist, mystic, author, and even "woman of genius." She was one of the leading literary figures of her time, the author of 27 books and more than 250 articles, stories, poems and other short pieces. In 1900, Mary Austin settled in Carmel and became one of the founders of the literary colony. In 1918, Austin traveled to New Mexico, hoping to continue on to Mexico to conduct research on folk traditions. In New Mexico she was contr...

Sharp, William, 1855-1905

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William Sharp was a noted English author, writing prolifically in every conceivable genre. After his death, it was surprisingly revealed that he was also "Fiona MacLeod," a popular mystical writer whose work became a keystone of the Celtic Renaissance. Sharp's themes of mysticism, alienation, symbolism, and spiritual exhaustion fuse mythology with modernism, anticipating the work of Eliot, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence. From the description of William Sharp letters, 1889-1894. (Pennsylvan...

Jarrold and sons, publishers.

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West, Rebecca, 1892-1983

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Rebecca West was a British author and journalist. Born Cicily Fairfield, of Scots-Irish heritage, she adopted the name of the strong-willed heroine of Ibsen's play, Rosmershmolm. She trained as an actress, but concentrated on writing and contributed to various liberal journals. In addition to social commentary and literary criticism, she wrote novels; her writing was distinguished by passion, intelligence, and style. Her personal life included a decade-long affair with H.G. Wells, affairs with C...

Colegrove, William, 1824-

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Clark, John S.

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Victor Weybright

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Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Grace.

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Bryant, Silas.

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Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, viscount, 1865-1922

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British newspaper publisher; owner of London Daily News and founder of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror; Director of Propaganda under Lloyd George. From the description of Articles and letters by Lord Northcliffe [manuscript], 1914-1918. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647998226 ...

Bennett, Edmund H. (Edmund Hatch), 1824-1898

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Brown, Moses True, 1827-1900

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Reid, Hannah T

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Shephard, Harry J

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Jordan, Elizabeth

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Peattie, Donald Culross, 1898-1964

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Naturalist and author. From the description of Flowering plants of Kennicott's Grove : manuscript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132214 Donald Culross Peattie, author and botanist, was born in 1898 in Chicago. He was the son of journalist parents. His career was determined by a hiking trip in the Appalachians and a visit to the famous "glass flower" at Harvard. He studied botany at Harvard. Louise Redfield Peattie, author, was born in 190...

Wiswatz, John D

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Roosevelt, Nicholas, 1893-....

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Condé, Bertha.

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Crowninshield, Bowdoin Bradlee, 1867-

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Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928

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United States secretary of state, 1915-1920. From the description of Robert Lansing miscellaneous papers, 1916-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866993 Robert Lansing (b. Oct. 17, 1864, Watertown, New York-d. Oct. 30, 1928, New York, New York) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Legal Advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I, and then as Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1915 to 1920. He was married to Eleanor ...

Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951

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Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964

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Born Nancy Witcher Langhorne, of Richmond, Va., and "Mirador," Albemarle co., Va. Married Robert Gould Shaw, 1897; divorced, 1903; one son, Robert Gould. Married Waldorf Astor (1879-1952) of Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, Eng., 1906; five children: William Waldorf (b. 1907), Nancy Phyllis Louise (b. 1909), Frances David Langhorne (b. 1912), Michael (b. 1916), and John Jacob (b. 1918). Elected first woman to Parliament, 1919, serving twenty-five years. From the description of Pa...

Garden, Mary

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Scottish singer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Paris and Aberdeen, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1947 Sept. 16 and 1951 July 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863977 American soprano of Scottish birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p.], 1958 or 1959, to Miss Burkman, 1958 or 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270967492 From the description of Typewritten document signed, dated : Paris, 8 June 1907, 19...

Small, Austin J.

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Huntington, F J

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Snow, Royall H. (Royall Henderson), 1898-

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Faculty member, Department of English, The Ohio State University, 1928-1963. From the description of Playscripts, 1932-1953. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 20762973 ...

Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944

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American artist and illustrator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Small, Maynard & Co., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269577087 Charles Dana Gibson was an American graphic artist, noted for his creation of the "Gibson Girl", an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century. Gibson owned a 700-acre estate in Islesboro, Me., where he and his wife spent an increasing amount of tim...

Bianchi, Martha Dickinson, 1866-1943

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Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1866-1943) was the niece of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), and daughter of William Austin Dickinson (1829-1895) and Susan Huntington Dickinson (1830-1913). As the sole surviving member of the Dickinson family, she edited several collections of Emily Dickinson's work, and wrote two Dickinson biographies. A poet in her own right, Bianchi published several volumes of her own work as well. From the description of Martha Dickinson Bianchi correspondence concerning ...

Raine, William MacLeod, 1871-1954

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Writer, Denver, Colo.; wrote western novels and non-fiction from 1900s to 1940s. From the description of Book sales record 1916-1933. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 37152405 Raine was a journalist and writer of adventure stories, especially westerns. For his works available in the Kansas Collection, see the KSRL card catalog. From the guide to the Letters, 1934-1938, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Libr...

Peabody, Endicott, 1920-1997

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Endicott Peabody (b. 1920), lawyer and Massachusetts political figure, was Governor of Massachusetts from 1963 to 1965, Assistant Director of the Office of Emergency Planning from 1967 to 1968), and a Vice Presidential candidate in 1972. From the description of Peabody, Endicott, 1920-1997 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10571317 Also known as "Chub," born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, February 15, 1920; attorney; Democratic leader in Massachusetts a...

Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954

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P. S. du Pont was president of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1915 to 1919 and chairman of the board from 1919 to 1940. He was also president of General Motors (1920-1923) and chairman (1920-1929), as well as a member of many other major corporate boards. He was also an avid collector of documents on the early history of the Du Pont family and company. From the description of The P. S. du Pont Office Collection, 1749-1939. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 16...

Ottinger, Hanna Maria

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Maverick, Stephan and company.

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Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965

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American literary critic, author, and professor of English at Princeton University from 1951. From the description of Manuscripts. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122529910 Blackmur was an American literary critic and poet. From the description of Poems, 1921-1964. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505745 From the guide to the R. P. (Richard P.) Blackmur poems, 1921-1964., (Houghton Library, Harvard College L...

Wagenknecht, Edward, 1900-2004

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Professor of English; author; book reviewer. Born Mar. 28, 1900, in Chicago. Graduated from University of Chicago, 1923, M.A. 1924. Ph. D., University of Washington (Seattle), 1932. Teaching: University of Chicago, 1923-1925 (assistant); University of Washington, Seattle, 1925-1943 (associate, assistant professor, associate professor); Illinois Institute of Technology, 1943-1947 (associate professor); Boston University, 1947-1965 (professor). Literary editor of Seattle Post-Intellig...

Willa Cather

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Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893

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Horsford (Harvard, A.B., 1847) taught chemistry at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Eben Norton Horsford, ca. 1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972793 Engineer, college professor and industrial chemist; president of Wellesley. From the description of E. N. Horsford letter to a Miss Reid [manuscript], 1884 February 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 713898870 David Zeisberger served as a Moravian minister. ...

Gay and Hancock, firm, publishers, London.

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Herring, Hubert Clinton, 1889-1967

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Goldman, Morton.

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Hanus, Paul H. (Paul Henry), 1855-1941

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Hanus taught education at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Paul Henry Hanus, 1891-1941 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973057 ...

Richardson, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1851-1913

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Richardson was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1871. He was Winkley Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English language and literature at Dartmouth College from 1882 until 1911. From the description of Papers, 1911-1926. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237352964 Editor, poet, author, and Dartmouth professor. From the description of Letter to Professor Page [manuscript], 1908 November 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647977909 ...

Farrand, Max, 1869-1945

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Max Farrand was born in Newark, N.J., into the family of Samuel Ashbel Farrand and Louise Wilson Farrand. He graduated from Princeton University, where he also received his Ph.D.; later he continued further graduate work in Leipzig and Heidelberg, and at Wesleyan and Yale Universities. He became professor of history at Wesleyan, Stanford, Cornell, Harvard, and Yale Universities (1896-1925), Incorporator and Director of the Commonwealth Fund (1918-1927) and Director of the Huntington Library (192...

MacDonald, Jessica Nelson (North) 1894-

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Davis, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1845-1921

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Rear admiral, U.S.N. Author of his father's biography, "Life of Charles Henry Davis, Rear-Admiral, 1807-1877.". Superintendent of U.S. Naval Observatory, 1897-1902. From the description of Charles Henry Davis letters to Henry Oscar Houghton, Jr. and Houghton Mifflin & Co., [manuscript], 1899 Mar 24 and Apr 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 247517738 ...

Knight, Charles A.

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Banks, S A .

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Cazenove, Charles D

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Houghton, G. W. W. (George Washington Wright), 1850-1891

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Oxford University Press, Inc., 1964, 1971

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Gade, John A. (John Allyne), 1875-1955

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Mannix, William F.

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Welch, Galbraith

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Brininstool, Earl Alonzo, 1870-

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Willis, Drake.

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Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939

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Richard Clarke Cabot, 1868-1939, AB, 1889, Harvard College; MD, 1892, Harvard Medical School, was Professor of Clinical Medicine and Social Ethics at Harvard. Cabot led the teaching of Social Ethics at Harvard from 1920 to 1934. Cabot also served as one of two chiefs of staff at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1912 until his retirement in 1921. Cabot established medical social work at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1905, and also introduced autopsy teaching at the institution; Cabot's cli...

Chamberlain, Allen, 1867-

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Pinker, Eric S

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Omori, Annie Shepley

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Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton), 1853-1934

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Epithet: travel writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x000106 ...

Payne, Edward F.

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Noyes, Carleton Eldredge, 1872-

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Wiese, Kurt, 1887-1974

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Kurt Wiese was born April 22, 1887, in Minden, Germany and died May 27, 1974, in Idell, New Jersey. He married Gertrude Hansen (a realtor), June 26, 1930. He was a Freelance writer and illustrator of books, including almost four hundred books by other authors. From the guide to the Kurt Wiese papers, 1929-1962, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) German children's author/illustrator, born in Minden, Germany in 1887. He moved to the U...

Adams, Andy, 1859-1935

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Western correspondent and author. From the description of Andy Adams collection 1935-1939. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 52421649 ...

Taylor, Douglas

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Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892

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James R. Osgood was a native of Maine who went to work for the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields. He eventually founded the subsidiary group James R. Osgood & Co. which was associated with many fine writers. The firm struggled financially, and when Osgood stepped down, was dissolved into Houghton, Mifflin. From the description of James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54667691 Publisher....

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909

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Sarah Orne Jewett was one of America's foremost regional writers. She produced novels, stories, and sketches, generally concerned with the lives and traditions of women in the rural areas of coastal New England. Her gentle, well-observed, respectful style transcends the limitations of genre and continue to make her work relevant. From the description of Sarah Orne Jewett letter to Loulie, ca. 1890. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54429003 ...

Bartlett, Frederic Clay, 1873-1953

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Tripp, Wilson.

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Aston, Sir George Grey, 1861-

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Hendrick, Burton Jesse, 1870-1949

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000390.0x000306 Writer, editor. From the description of Reminiscences of Burton Jesse Hendrick : oral history, 1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740824 ...

Maxwell Perkins

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Hall, G. Stanley (Granville Stanley), 1844-1924

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Psychologist and educator. From the description of G. Stanley Hall correspondence, 1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984299 Professor of psychologyat Clark University. From the description of Collected papers / G. Stanley Hall. (Clark University). WorldCat record id: 192074947 President of Clark University, Worcester, MA. From the description of Papers / G. Stanley Hall. (Clark University). WorldCat record id: 497070511 From the...

Stephens, H. Morse (Henry Morse), 1857-1919

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Professor of history, Cornell University. From the description of Henry Morse Stephens pictures, [ca.1894-1902]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073764 Biography Henry Morse Stephens, professor of history and founder of the University of California Extension, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 3, 1857. He attended Radley College School, then studied with a private tutor while in France. He late...

Nathan Sheppard

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Azan, Paul, 1874-1951

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American News Company

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Shephard, Edward Morse, 1850-1911

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Bigelow, William Sturgis, 1850-1926

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Bigelow (Harvard M.D. 1874) was briefly an instructor in surgery at the Harvard Medical School. From 1881 to 1888 he studied art in Japan, and later donated his collections of Oriental art to the Boston Museum of Fine Art. From the description of Buddhist notes : typescript, 1922 January-February. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612790985 Bigelow (Harvard, M.D. 1874) was briefly an instructor in surgery at the Harvard Medical School. From 1881 to 1888 he studied ar...

Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931

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Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

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Blair, Helen

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Helen (Smith) Blair taught in Alaska's rural schools. From the description of Papers of Helen D. Blair, 1938-1973. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 42928271 ...

Henry Greenough

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Gilder, Rosamond.

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Drama critic; New York, N.Y. Born in 1896. Died in 1986. From the description of Rosamond Gilder interview, 1965 Apr. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220193723 From the description of Oral history interview with Rosamond Gilder, 1965 Apr. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312025691 Rosamond Gilder (1896-1986), an American author and theatre figure in New York, was founder and president of the International Theater Institute. She wrote about the theatre and edited ...

Rich, Edwin Gile, 1879-

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Harper, Wilhelmina

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Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996.

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Crockett, Sarah Gates.

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Hornibrook, Isabel.

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A. F. Yasinski.

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Thomas G. Cassady

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Pottinger, David T. (David Thomas), 1884-1958

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Pottinger earned his Harvard AB in 1906 and his Harvard AM in 1914. From the description of Papers and notes in courses in English, Economics and Fine Arts, 1902-1906. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074562 Pottinger graduated from Harvard in 1906 and served as Associate Director of Harvard University Press. From the description of Papers of David T. Pottinger, 1902-ca. 1908 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973156 Davi...

Maurois, André, 1885-

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Everett, Laura Bell

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Townsend, William H. (William Henry), 1890-1964

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Lawyer and Lincoln scholar. Author of Abraham Lincoln, Defendant; Lincoln the Litigant; Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town; Lincoln and Liquor; and Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky, among others. Owner of large collection of Lincolniana. From the description of Papers, 1928-1955 (bulk 1928-1934, 1953-1955) (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 25256090 ...

Hurd, Melancthon Montgomery, 1828-1912

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Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928

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William Elliot Griffis was an American orientalist, congregational minister, lecturer, and prolific author. From the description of William Elliot Griffis collection, [1873]-1903. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 298180709 Pastor of the First Congregational Church (Ithaca, N.Y.). From the description of William Elliot Griffis papers, 1897-1908. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63938002 Clergyman, author, educator and l...

Elliott, Maud Howe, 1854-

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Algase, Gertrude.

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Smith Elder company, recipient.

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H G Williamson

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Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948

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Josephus Daniels, son of Josephus and Mary (Cleves) Daniels, was born in Washington, North Carolina, May 18, 1862. He attended the Wilson Collegiate Institute. On May 2, 1888, he married Addie W. Bagley. At the age of eighteen, he was editor of the "Wilson Advance"; admitted to the bar in 1885; state printer for North Carolina, 1887-1893; chief clerk, Department of the Interior, 1893-1895; editor of the "Raleigh State Chronicle", 1885; editor of the "Raleigh State News and Observer", 1894-1919; ...

Dickinson, Thomas Herbert, 1877-

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Resident of Abbeville District, S.C. From the description of Thomas Dickinson papers, 1828-1875. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 775503721 ...

Shephard, Odell, 1884-1967

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Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900

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Charles Dudley Warner was an American editor, essayist, and novelist. Born in Plainfield, Mass., Warner spent most of his childhood years in Charlemont, Mass. Following graduation from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and legal training at the University of Pennsylvania, Warner practiced law in Chicago, returning to the East Coast to assume editorial positions at The Hartford press (later Hartford courant) and Harper's magazine. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and ...

Hackney, Louise Wallace

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Hopkins, Ernest Martin, 1877-1964

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Ernest Martin Hopkins, the eleventh president of Dartmouth College, was born in Dunbarton, N.H. in 1877. He received his AB from Dartmouth in 1901 and his AM from Dartmouth in 1908. From 1901 to 1905 he was secretary to the president of College, and from 1905 to 1910 he was secretary of the College. He served as president from 1916 to 1945. He died in 1964. From the description of Papers, 1916-1945. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237296423 ...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

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Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmospher...

Rinehart, Stanley M

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Bolles, Blair, 1911-1990

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Blair Bolles was a journalist and writer during the twentieth century. From 1935 to 1944, Bolles was a writer for the "Washington Star". He served as a war correspondent for this newspaper in 1943-1944, covering World War II from Sweden. Bolles returned to the United States in 1944 and worked for the Foreign Policy Association (1944-1953). He moved to the "Toledo Blade" in 1953 and went on to serve as this newspaper's European Correspondent (1953-1957) and Associate Editor (1957-1959). Bolles wa...

Lee and Shepard company.

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Snyder, Ethel

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Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922

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Peabody was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. After the death of her father in 1882, the family moved to Dorchester, Mass. She attended Latin School in Boston, and was a special student at Radcliffe College, 1894-1896. She published fourteen volumes of poems and verse plays, and lectured on poetry and literature at Wellesley College, 1901-1903. A pacifist and feminist, she joined the Fabian Society in 1909, and wrote a prose play, Portrait of Mrs. W. (Mary Wollstonecraft). She died in Cambridge, Mass. For ...

MacKenzie, Orgill.

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Howe, Winifred E. (Winifred Eva), 1876-

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Fedden, Katherine Waldo (Douglas) d. 1939

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Story, Edith Mary Steane 1861-

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Spears, Mary.

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Swift, Lindsay, 1856-1921

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Swift was an editor and author. He worked in the Catalogue Department of the Boston Public Library (1878-1896) and then served as editor of library publications (1896-1921). From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1874-1920 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80830557 From the guide to the Letters from various correspondents, 1874-1920 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Edward Henry S...

Lithbush

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Herter, Christian Archibald, 1895-1966

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American statesman; assistant to Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, 1919-1924; secretary of state, 1959-1961. From the description of Christian Archibald Herter miscellaneous papers, 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123458502 Christian Archibald Herter (1895-1966) was born in Paris, France. He was a diplomat, politician, publisher, editor, and author. In 1959 Herter, who served as governor of Massachusetts during the mid-1950's, was appointed by President Dwight Eisen...

Lippmann, Walter, 1889-

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Fortescue, Winifred (Beech), lady, 1888-

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Thompson, Eben Francis, 1859-1939

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Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir, 1854-1932

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Reformer and irish public official. From the description of Papers of Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, 1881-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068419 ...

Smith, J. Russell (Joseph Russell), 1874-1966

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J. Russell Smith was a geographer who influenced the teaching of geography after 1920 through his many elementary texts. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1888]-1966. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122684053 From the guide to the J. Russell (Joseph Russell) Smith papers, [ca. 1888]-1966, Circa 1888-1966, (American Philosophical Society) Oliver Edwin Baker (1883-1949) was an agricultural geographer and population expert ...

Standing Bear, Ponca chief

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By 1789, when Juan Baptiste Munier acquired trading rights with the Ponca, they had villages along the Niobrara River near its mouth, and ranged as far east as present-day Ponca, Nebraska, at the mouth of Aowa Creek. A smallpox epidemic had reduced their numbers from approximately 800 to 100 at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1807. When Standing Bear was born circa 1829, the Ponca traditionally raised maize, vegetables, and fruit trees in these sites during the summer. They rang...

Page, Alice W

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Thorley, Wilfred Charles, 1878-

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Curtis, Henry

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Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943

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William Lyon Phelps was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on January 2, 1865. He received a B.A. degree from Yale in 1887, an A.M. degree from Harvard in 1891, and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1891. Phelps taught English at Yale from 1892 until 1933 and was a popularizer of literature through his public lectures, radio addresses, and syndicated newspaper columns. He died in New Haven on August 21, 1943. From the description of William Lyon Phelps papers, 1826-1944 (inclusive), 1887-1943 (bulk)...

Bailey, Henry Turner, 1865-1931

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American art educator and author. From the description of Letter, 1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367574263 ...

Richman, Irving Berdine, 1861-1938

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Jackson, Anne Makely.

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Scribner, firm, publishers, New York.

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Landon, Judson S. (Judson Stuart), 1832-1905

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Allen and Ticknor

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Tibbles, T H

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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...

National Audubon Society.

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BIRD-LORE later became AUDUBON MAGAZINE. From the description of Account book for Bird-lore, 1901-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155507194 Callison was Executive Vice President of the National Audubon Society, 1966-1970s. From the description of Charles H. Callison records, 1969-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155507203 The Finley and Davis families, related through marriage, lived in Marshall County, Mississippi; in 1834, Mary Ja...

Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942

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In 1887 Cram joined with Charles Wentworth to open an architectural office (Cram and Wentworth) in Boston. In 1891 Bertram G. Goodhue joined them. Shortly thereafter Wentworth died and the firm became Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, which it remained until 1910 when Goodhue left to form his own firm in New York. Cram & Ferguson kept that name even when younger partners joined in 1925 and after Ferguson died in 1926. From the description of [Unidentified church] [graphic] : [perspec...

Keller, Harold

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Jenkins, MacGregor, 1869-1940

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Spofford, C A

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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...

Winter, Milo, 1888-1956

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Milo Winter was born on August 7, 1888 in Princeton, Illinois. He was an illustrator of children's books, employeed as the chief illustrator for the Silver Burdett Co. and as art director of Field Enterprises. Mr. Winter was the illustrator of many classics republished for children, including Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. He died on August 15, 1956. Biographical Source: Something About the...

Gilfillan, John B. (John Bachop), 1835-1924

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Gros, Edmund L.

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Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930

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Moore taught at Harvard, 1871-1909, and was the director of the Fogg Art Museum, 1896-1909. From the description of Composition : concerning painting : manuscript, undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612867010 From the description of Romanesque architecture : manuscript, undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612867050 Artist, professor, architectural historian and first Director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, Charles Herbert M...

Hamlin, Charles Eugene

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Author; grandson of Hannibal Hamlin. From the description of Letter : Bangor, Me., to George Alfred Townsend, 1900 Sept. 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 32880684 ...

Majeska

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Authors' League of America

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Organization founded in 1912 for the protection of copyright. From the description of Letter from the Authors' League of America to an unknown recipient, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136277 From the description of Letter from the Authors' League of America to an unknown recipient [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647844409 ...

Rand, Benjamin, 1856-1934

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Benjamin Rand (1856-1934) graduated from Harvard in 1879, taught philosophy and served as librarian of the Philosophical Library at Harvard from 1906 to 1933....

Nims, H.B., and company.

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Brown, Alexander, 1843-1906

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Born at Glenwood, Nelson County, Va., Alexander Brown was deafened while serving in the Confederate Army in the explosion of a powder-boat near Fort Fisher, N.C. He married Caroline Augusta Cabell and after her death, Sarah Randolph Cabell. He was the author of The Genesis of the United States, The First Republic in America, The Cabells and Their Kin and other works. From the description of Papers, 1748-1900. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 21062305 Alex...

Brown, Ida B.

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Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933

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Schuler, Eric

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Arnold, Edward A., 1969-

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Epithet: Town Clerk of Chichester British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001108.0x0002d1 ...

Converse, Florence, 1871-

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Storrow, J. J.

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Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936

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William S. Sims, U.S. Navy admiral, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1882. He was president of the naval War College in 1917 and from 1919-1922. During WWI, he was CO, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe From the description of Letter, January 8, 1918. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 731199382 William S. Sims was born in 1858 in Port Hope, Ontario. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1880. He served as president of the naval War College, 1917, 1919-1922 and du...

Bead, Cyrus Townsend.

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Darley, Félix Octavius Carr 1822-1888

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American draftsman and illustrator. From the description of Felix Octavius Carr Darley sketchbooks, [ca. 1840-1860]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64060713 Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Darley distinguished himself as an illustrator. In 1848, he moved to New York and became successful illustrating the works of Irving and Cooper. After his marriage in 1859, he and his wife moved to Claymont, Delaware. From the description of Mrs. Felix Octavius Car...

Crockett, William Day, 1869-1930

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Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955

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Commodore James Barron, born 15 September 1768 in Hampton, Virginia, died 21 April 1851 in Norfolk, served under his father, Commodore James Barron the Elder, in the Revolutionary War. He was made Captain in the Virginia Navy in 1799 and transferred to the newly formed U.S. Navy in 1803. During the War with Tripoli he commanded the U.S. Frigates New York and President when his brother, Commodore Samuel Barron, was commander of the Mediterranean Squadron. He assisted his brother in t...

Little, Charles C. (Charles Coffin), 1799-1869

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Wall, Louise Herrick, 1866-

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Warren, William Fairfield, 1833-1929

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Mansbridge, Albert, 1876-1952

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Gilder, Joseph Benson, 1858-1936

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Joseph Benson Gilder (1858-1936) was an American editor, author and banker. He was a founder and co-editor of The Critic, a New York literary periodical; editor of its successor Putnam's Magazine; and editor of the New York Times Book Review. He served in the diplomatic service and from 1914 to 1928 was secretary of the Industrial Finance Corporation. From the guide to the Joseph Benson Gilder papers, ca. 1880-1919, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Fields, Annie, 1834-1915

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Annie Adams Fields was an author and charity worker, the wife of the Boston publisher James T. Fields. From the description of Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 86143813 From the guide to the Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Eighteen letters written by Annie Adams Fields between the years 1882 and...

Seitz, Don Carlos, 1862-1935

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American journalist, historian and biographer; business manager of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. From the description of Letters of Don Carlos Seitz, 1918 and 1928. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34689876 Seitz was a journalist and editor with the Brooklyn "Eagle" from 1887-1891, the New York "Recorder" from 1892-1893, and the Brooklyn "World" from 1893-1923. He was also the author of several biographies and was married to Mildred E. Blake in 1890. ...

White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918

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The second International Peace Conference was held at the Hague in 1907. From the description of Hague Peace Conference documents, 1907. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64052217 Ambassador to Russia; first president of Cornell University. From the description of Andrew Dickson White papers, 1901-1902. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155410378 Andrew Dickson White was born at Homer, New York, November 7, 1832. ...

Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943

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William Lyon Phelps was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on January 2, 1865. He received a B.A. degree from Yale in 1887, an A.M. degree from Harvard in 1891, and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1891. Phelps taught English at Yale from 1892 until 1933 and was a popularizer of literature through his public lectures, radio addresses, and syndicated newspaper columns. He died in New Haven on August 21, 1943. From the description of William Lyon Phelps papers, 1826-1944 (inclusive), 1887-1943 (bulk)...

Hansen, Harry

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Langfeld, Herbert Sidney, 1879-1958

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Herbert S. Langfeld was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 24, 1879. He graduated from Philadelphia Central High School and attended one year at Haverford College before becoming the Naval Attache at the American Embassy in Berlin, Germany. While in Berlin, Langfeld became interested in psychology and began working with Carl Stumpf. He earned his doctoral degree under Stumpf at the University of Berlin in 1909. He returned to the United States and accepted a posi...

Bull, Harry A

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Collins, William, sons, and company.

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Pinchot, Ann.

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Todd, Helen, 1912-

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Johnson, Wilson and company.

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Griffin, Frank Loxley, 1881-1969

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Frank Loxley Griffin (1881-1969) was the first faculty member selected at Reed College. Graduated from the University of Chicago, he taught mathematics at Reed from 1911 to 1952 and published several popular textbooks for teaching math in high school and college. He returned in 1954 as acting president of Reed for two years upon Ballantine's resignation during the HUAC upheaval. From the description of Loxley Griffin Papers, 1911-1963. 1911-1963. (CORVALLIS BENTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRA...

Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937

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American zoologist; officer in relief organizations in Europe during World War I. From the description of Vernon Lyman Kellogg papers, 1914-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868923 Charlotte Hoffman Kellogg was born in 1874 at Grand Island, Nebraska, and was educated at the University of California, earning a Ph.B. in 1900. She taught English at Miss Head's School in Berkeley, California from 1903 until 1907. During World War I, she participated in civilia...

Peattie, Donald Culross

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Williams, Ben Ames, 1889-1953

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Author. From the description of Letter, 1924 October 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122637153 From the guide to the Ben Ames Williams letter, 1924, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Barlow, Ernesta.

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White, Eliza Orne, 1856-1947

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American novelist. From the description of Letters, 1911 & 1936 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812245 American author. From the description of Collection 1936. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 49208403 ...

Lowry, Edward G. (Edward George), 1876-1943

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London, Charmian (Kittredge).

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Howells, John Mead, 1868-1959

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Architect and collector of autographs. From the description of John Mead Howells collection of correspondence, 1894-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456141 John Mead Howells was a New York-based architect, best-known for his design for the Chicago Tribune Tower (1923), done with partner Raymond Hood. Howells studied architecture at Harvard and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was in practice with architect I. M. Phelps Stokes before joining Hood. During the 192...

Solberg, Thorvald, 1852-1949

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Register of copyrights (1897-1930). From the description of Papers of Thorvald Solberg, 1882-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449810 Thorvald Solberg was associated with the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1884. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884136 Biographical Note ...

Houghton, Oscar Ready.

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Madden, Richard. J.

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Willoughby, Florence (Barrett).

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Walker, Charles

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From the guide to the Charles Walker Papers, 1958, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc]) ...

Laughlin, J. Laurence (James Laurence), 1850-1933

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Economist; professor and head of the Dept. of Political Economy at the University of Chicago and editor of the Journal of Political Economy. From the description of Papers of J. Laurence Laughlin, 1902-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131188 Political economist. Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Chicago, 1892-1916. Founder, Journal of Political Economy. From the description of Papers, 1885-1914 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Lib...

Hill, Edward Burlingame

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Composed 1931. First performance, Boston, 25 April 1932, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conductor, Jesús María Sanromá soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concertino in one movement for piano and orchestra, op. 36 / by Edward Burlingame Hill. 1931. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52297708 Composed 1916-17. First performance, New York, 17 February 1918, New York Symphonic Society, Walter Damrosch conductor.--Cf. ...

Reed, Helen Leah, 1860?-1926

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Clarke, M E

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Bles, Geoffrey.

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Bleyer, Willard Grosvenor, 1873-1935

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Playfair, Robert Smith.

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Masson, Thomas L.

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American humorist and editor. From the description of Letter to Will Orton Tewson [manuscript], [1925]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874649 ...

Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922

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John Wanamaker was founder of a Philadelphia department store. From the description of Collection, 1779-1892. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122632980 John Wanamaker, 1838-1822. Born Philadelphia, created first department store, pioneered use of price tags, money back guarantees, newspaper ads, and white sales. Instituted employee health care, pensions, and fringe benefits. Samuel Sydney McClure, 1857-1949. Founder, editor,...

Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945

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Yard was a conservationist and founded the Wilderness Society in 1935, which promoted the conservation of natural resources. From the description of Papers, 1918-ca. 1942. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 30697567 Robert Sterling Yard (1861-1945) was an American journalist and Sunday editor of the New York Herald Tribune. From the description of Robert Sterling Yard diary, 1893-1906. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record...

Mowat, R.B. (Robert Balmain), 1883-1941

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Jansen, McClurg and company, firm, publishers, Chicago.

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Aldis, Dorothy (Keeley) 1896-

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Wilson, Francis, 1854-1935

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American actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [New York], 8 April 1891, to an unidentified recipient, 1891 Apr. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270679262 Francis Wilson was an attorney working out of his own firm in Santa Fe. From the guide to the Francis Wilson Files, 1927-1962, (School for Advanced Research) Actor, author, lecturer; first president of the Actor's Equity Association. From the description of Franc...

Le Gallienne, Richard, 1866-1947

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Richard Le Gallienne, British journalist and author, was a prolific writer during the late 19th and early 20th century. His early mentor was Oliver Wendell Holmes. Le Gallienne wrote My ladies' sonnets (1887), and the romantic novel, The quest of the golden girl (1896). He published The romantic nineties (1926), while working as a journalist in New York. In 1927 Le Gallienne emigrated to France where he lived out the remainder of his life. From the description of Manuscript-Letters, ...

Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt was America's first important African-American author, and earned a reputation for both his socially conscious work and his literary innovation. Born in Cleveland to free black parents, he was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and travelled throughout the south, as well as New York and Washington, D.C., before settling in Cleveland with his wife. He had worked as a teacher, and in Cleveland started a successful stenography business, learned law, and passed the bar ...

Corelli, Marie, 1855-1924

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Marie Corelli was an enigmatic and compelling personality whose colorful personal life and fertile imagination made her the most popular writer of her time. The narrative drive of her stories, combined with exotic settings and passionate conviction, helped overcome the stylistic concerns of literary critics to make her and her writing a phenomenon of turn-of-the-century popular culture. From the description of Marie Corelli letters and postcards, 1894-1924. (Pennsylvania State Univer...

Barton, Durstine and Osborn, New York.

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Doolittle, Isaac H

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Crabb, W D

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Babcock, John B., 1922-

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Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1879-1954

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Republican politician, namesake of the Hays Code for censorship of American films. Born in Sullivan, Indiana in 1879. Hays served as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1918-1921, managing the successful campaign of Warren G. Harding for the presidency in 1920. Following Harding's election, Hays was appointed Postmaster General in 1921, a post he held until 1922, when he resigned in order to become the first President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America...

Allen, James Lane, 1849-1925

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James Lane Allen was Kentucky's first important novelist. His success came early in his career but when he tried to broaden the themes of his work he lost the audience and critical acclaim which he had previously received. From the description of James Lane Allen : miscellaneous papers, 1890-1924. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46708345 American novelist. From the description of Letters, a newspaper clipping, and an envelope, 1894-1900. (Un...

Samuel Spalding

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Martin, Charles

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Epithet: Major British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x000368 ...

Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925

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American poet. From the description of Doom : autograph poem signed : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572001 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Geneva, Ohio, to John W. Field, 1885 Jul. 1 and 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571998 From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : West New Brighton, Staten Island, etc., to F.A. Duneka, 1909 Oct. 27-1911 Apr. 19, and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571988 ...

Charles Hall

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Forman, Henry James, 1879-1966

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Forman was born Feb. 17, 1879; BA, Harvard, 1903; reporter and staff correspondent for New York sun (1903-05); news editor, Literary digest (1906); assoc. editor, North American review (1906-10); managing editor, Collier's (1913-19); taught creative writing at Temple Univ.; reviewed books for the New York times; writings include: In the footprints of Heine (1910), The enchanted garden (1923), Guilt (1924), The pony express (1925), The Rembrandt murder (1931), The story of prophecy (1936), and Ha...

Laubach, Frank Charles, 1884-1970

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American Board missionary in the Philippines. From the description of Papers, 1930-1938. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122622462 Frank Charles Laubach was Dean of Union College in Manila from 1922 to 1926. During this time he developed his picture literacy word charts and began his literacy program. In 1930 these were incorporated into a world wide literacy program, "Each One Teach One." The rest of his life was spent traveling around the...

Boyden, Polly Chase.

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Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938

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Writer and professor of English. A.B., Harvard University, 1890. Instructor in rhetoric, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1890-1893. Instructor in rhetoric, University of Chicago, 1893-1895; assistant professor, 1895-1901; associate professor, 1901-1905; professor of English, 1905-1923. Government Secretary for the Virgin Islands, 1935-1938. From the description of Papers, 1887-1960 (inclusive), 1887-1938 (bulk). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246301 ...

Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930

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This is Horace Howard Furness, Jr., son of Horace Howard Furness. Both father and son were Philadelphia Shakespeare scholars. From the description of Papers and letters to Horace Howard Furness (Sr.), W. U. Hensel, J. DeWitt Miller, Edward H. Sothern [?] and Mrs. Stevenson, 1882-ca. 1929, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883347 Horace Howard Furness, Jr. was the son of Horace Howard Furness. Both father and son were eminent Shakespeare schola...

Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917

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Sanborn was a teacher, author, and lecturer whose works retained much of the casual, anecdotal manner of conversation. She was the daughter of a Dartmouth College professor and raised in an atmosphere of lively intellectual discussion. From the description of Papers: 1883-1901. (Waverly Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122529763 Katherine Abbott Sanborn was born in 1839 in Hanover, New Hampshire where her father, Edwin David Sanborn, was professor of classics at Dartmout...

McKinley, Albert E. (Albert Edward), 1870-1936

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Bear, Firman E. (Firman Edward), 1884-1967

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Baxter, M L

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Perry, Thomas Sergeant, 1845-1928

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Perry was an American literary critic, scholar, and educator. Fay was an Episcopal clergyman who left the ministry because of poor health. He was a regular contributor of notes and reviews to The Nation and other papers. From the description of Letters to Hercules Warren Fay, 1891-1896. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122564012 From the guide to the Thomas Sergeant Perry letters to Hercules Warren Fay, 1891-1896., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard...

Davidson, Donald, 1893-1968

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Author, poet, teacher, and editor. Member of the Fugitive and Agrarian Groups. From the description of Donald Davidson Papers, 1917-1968. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 17789409 ...

Martin, William C

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Wohlberg, Helen.

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Hadley, Arthur Twining, 1856-1930

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President of Yale University. From the description of Letter to William C. Welling, 1917 September 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50997891 James Hadley: philologist; B.A., Yale, 1842; spent two years at the Yale Divinity School, 1844-1845; appointed tutor in Yale College in 1845, promoted to asst. prof. of Greek in 1848, in 1851 succeeded Theodore Dwight Woolsey, holding the chair of Greek until retirement. Arthur Twining Hadley wa...

Roosevelt memorial association, inc.

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Gebbie and Barrie, firm, publishers, Philadelphia.

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Pomeroy, H M

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Asquith, Margaret.

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Tenison, Eva Mabel

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Epithet: Miss author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000214 ...

Jones, A. Garth (Alfred Garth)

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Houghton Mifflin Company.

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Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Mass., From the description of Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1832-1944. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612205133 Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts, traces its roots back to the firm of Ticknor and Fields, the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century; and to the Riverside Press, Henry Oscar Houghton's printi...

Allen, Frances Newton (Symmes) 1865-

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Barton, William Eleazar, 1861-1930

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Clergyman. From the description of William Eleazar Barton address, 1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453232 Minister First Congregational Church, Oak Park, Illinois, 1899-1924; author; Abraham Lincoln biographer. From the description of Papers, 1920s. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 77514474 Congregational clergyman, author. From the guide to the William E. Barton letter to Mr. Graff, 1900, (The New York Publi...

Bynner, Edwin Lassetter, 1842-1893

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Bynner was an American author. From the description of Letter, 1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81768129 ...

Gilman, Arthur, 1837-1909

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Arthur Gilman was an author, editor, and founder of Radcliffe College. For biographical information, see Who Was Who in America. From the description of Scrapbook, 1876-1914 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009465 Arthur Gilman, banker, educator, and historian, was instrumental in founding Radcliffe College; he served as Secretary (1879-1894) and Regent (1894-1896). He was also founder (1886) of the Gilman School for Girls (later names: the Cambridge...

Havermans, Xavier

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Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939

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Epithet: painter and illustrator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x000074 Arthur Rackham was born September 19, 1867, in London, England. He attended Lambeth School of Art and married an artist, Edyth Starkie, both contributing to his renowned success as a reputable artists/illustrator. Contributing to over seventy titles, Rackham's name appeared in partnership with authors such as Jonathan Swift, Washin...

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930

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Archaeologist and head of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology. From the description of Letter : Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, to Walter Hough, Washington, D.C. 1916 Aug 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702150523 From the description of Letter : Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, to Walter Hough, Washington, D.C. 1916 Aug 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83206603 Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) was born in Newton, Massachusetts. His sc...

Stebbings, H R

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Carnegie, Louise W

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Münsterberg, Hugo, 1863-1916

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Psychologist Hugo Münsterberg studied at Leipzig under Wilhelm Wundt and received further training in medicine at Heidelberg and Freiburg. He met William James at a conference in 1891, and in 1892 James invited him to Harvard University, where Münsterberg lectured and chaired the department of psychology for three years. After a brief period in Germany, he returned to Harvard, which remained his chief institutional affiliation. Münsterberg is best known for his pioneering work in clincal, for...

Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936

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Poet and founding editor of Poetry: a Magazine of Verse. From the description of Papers, 1873-1944 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 56101856 American editor, critic, and poet. Harriet Monroe was born in Chicago in 1860, and she remained identified all her life with the city. After gaining some local recognition as a poet, a newspaper critic and a lecturer on poetry, Monroe's literary reputation was based on her concep...

Hutchinson, Mrs. Woods.

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Coffee, C C

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Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973

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Smith College, Professor, English, 1926-1955. University of Maine, A.B., 1909. University of Minnesota, M.A., 1918; Ph. D., 1922. From the description of Mary Ellen Chase papers, 1893-1995. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 51183526 Maine-born American regional novelist, critic, and memoirist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Northampton, Mass., to Edward Wagenknecht, [no year] Jan. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863385 Mary Ell...

Doran, George H., company, firm, publishers.

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Johnson, Walter Adams

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Prouty, Olive (Higgins) 1887-

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Starbuck, Mary Eliza, 1856-1938

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Love, Helen Clarke.

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Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933

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American clergyman, educator and writer. From the description of Letter to Joseph LeRoy Harrison, 1916 April 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51926632 From the description of Papers of Henry Van Dyke, 1895-1925. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51926567 Clergyman, Princeton University professor of English literature, and sports writer. From the description of Letters to Eugene V. Connett, 1919-1920. (Manchester City Library)...

Wright, Isa L

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Pullman, George M

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Bangs, John Kendrick. (1862-1922).

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Humorist. From the description of Letters to Margaret Sutton Briscoe Hopkins [manuscript] 1895-1904. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647946022 American author. From the description of Letter to Mrs. C.M. Calhoun, [manuscript] 1902 December 16. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647829459 From the description of Letter to Mrs. Hopkins [manuscript],1903 April 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647828072 John...

Osborne, Thomas Mott, 1859-1926

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Prince, W C

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Welch, E Sohier.

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Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941

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Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941) was a book designer and printer in New England. He was born an only child in an old and well-connected New England family, but his father's death in 1877 prevented Updike from pursuing higher education. Updike's Episcopalian background greatly influenced both his character and his later work as a printer, and his intellectual and cultural character was molded by his mother, an antiquary and scholar of French and English literature. Updike's first book-related j...

Beck, James M. (James Montgomery), 1861-1936

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James Montgomery Beck, U.S. District Attorney of Philadelphia and Solicitor General of the United States, was also an amateur Shakespearian. From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness and Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1911-1929. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155868022 James Montgomery Beck was born in Philadelphia on July 9, 1861. Raised in a Moravian home, he graduated from the Moravian College and Theological Seminary in...

Barry, Richard

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Epithet: of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000814.0x00038b Epithet: Deputy to the Muster-Master-General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000814.0x000386 ...

Harding, W. P. G. (William Proctor Gould), 1864-1930

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Taylor, Hannis, 1851-1922

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Born New Bern, N.C., practiced law in Mobile, Ala., and Washington. From the description of Letter fragment from Hannis Taylor, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54674560 ...

Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945

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Dictator, Italy. From the description of Tribute of Benito Mussolini, 1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454676 Premier of Italy, 1922-1943. From the description of Taking care of agriculture : typescript, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122446815 Biographical/Historical Note Premier of Italy, 1922-1943. From the guide to the Benito Mussolini typescript : Taking care of agriculture...

De Jong, David Cornel, 1905-1967

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Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959

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Born Raymond Thornton Chandler in Chicago on July 23, 1888; studied at Dulwich College, London, and privately in France and Germany; began career as contributor of verse, essays, book reviews and special articles to daily and weekly papers in London, 1909; served with Canadian Expeditionary Force and R.A.F. during WWI; afterwards, returned to US to become an officer in various independent oil corporations; began writing fiction contributions to magazines in 1933; published his first novel, The b...

Thatcher, Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph), 1857-1937

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Jewett, H R B

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Day, Holman, 1865-1935

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Bates, William C

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Hoyns, Henry.

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Ward, Frank P.

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Barnett, Mrs. H O.

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Babbitt, Irving, 1865-1933

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Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), a Professor of French Literature at Harvard University, was a social and literary critic, essayist, and philosopher. He was the founder of the New Humanism movement. From the description of Papers of Irving Babbitt, 1855, 1881-1965 bulk dates, 1908-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972760 Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) was a Professor of French Literature at Harvard University. From the description of Lecture notes in Compa...

James, Alice Howe Gibbens

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Pike, Robert E. (Robert Everding)

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New England author and folklorist; d. 1997. From the description of Sevilla Jones collection, 1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70953553 ...

Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892

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Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, the son of Nathaniel Bowditch and Mary Ingersoll Bowditch, was a physician, author and abolitionist from Salem, Massachusetts. From the description of Life in the woods for a fortnight : or a trip to Katahdin & Moosehead Lake in the summer of 1856. 1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 704274320 U.S. specialist in diseases of the chest. From the description of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch letter, 1882, Apr. 7, Boston, to Dr. S. McMurtry. ...

Carter, Robert Durham.

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Scudder, Samuel Hubbard, 1837-1911

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Epithet: palaeontologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x0001c4 Samuel H. Scudder was an American entomologist and paleontologist. Scudder specialized in the study of Orthoptera, which at that time was defined to include grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches and other insects. He also did extensive work on the classification of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera (beetles), and was a pion...

Grey, Edward, 1st viscount; 1862-1933

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Peterson, Houston, 1897-

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Educator; interviewee d. 1981. From the description of Reminiscences of Houston Peterson :koral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309724566 ...

Hewes, Agnes Danforth

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Alexander Main

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Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934

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Son of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne was also a writer of short stories and novels. From the description of Essays : manuscripts, undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612756082 Second child and only son of Nathaniel and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne was a writer of reviews, articles, and late 19th century American popular fiction. From the description of ALS, 1886 September 16 : Sag Harbor, N.Y., to J.D. Holmes...

Seaver, Henry Latimer,

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Seaver was born in Boston in 1878 and educated at Harvard University (B.A., 1900; M.A., 1914). He taught at Harvard, then joined the Department of English and History at M.I.T. in 1901. He later taught European art history in the Department of Architecture at M.I.T. and in the early 1940s the same at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women. Seaver was a collector of rare books, manuscripts and autographs. He was an amateur printer and photographer, as well as a printmaker and bo...

Gay, H. Nelson (Harry Nelson), 1870-1932

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Harry Nelson Gay (1870-1932) was an American author and scholar who lived in Italy from 1898 until his death. His personal library was renowned for the collection of resources on the history of Italy from 1815 to 1870. He wrote works on the Risorgimento and biographies for Americani Illustri. From the guide to the H. Nelson Gay letters to William Roscoe Thayer, 1907-1923, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Harry Nelson Gay (1870-19...

Tewpe, Frank W

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Sargent, Emily.

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Child, Frank Samuel, 1854-1922

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Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946

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Logan Pearsall Smith, the British essayist, was actually born in Millville, New Jersey into a family of Quakers. Smith studied in England,became a British resident, and spent his life writing about English writers. From the description of Constable Correspondence, 1917-1943. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122491162 American essayist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : London, to Belle da Costa Greene, 1943 Aug. 14-1943 Aug....

Cupples, J

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Kennan, George, 1845-1924

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Noted traveler, lecturer, and investigative reporter. Born in Norwalk, Ohio on 16 Feb. 1845; died at Medina, N.Y. on 10 May 1924. From the description of John Henderson, artist : a psychological study, [between 1900 and 1920]. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 74336703 American journalist. From the description of George Kennan letters, 1888-1892 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812360 From the description of Auto...

Hart, William Surrey, company.

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Stronach, George, -1915

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Harper, Marguerite E

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Badé, William Frederic (1871-1936).

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William Frederic Bade was a Professor at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. From the description of William Bade fonds. [1928]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 660202672 Biographical Note William Frederic Badè, born in Carver, Minnesota on January 22, 1871, attended the Moravian College in Pennsylvania where he obtained his doctorate in 1898, teaching Greek, German, Hebrew and Ol...

Dana, Henry Swan

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Ashton-Wolfe, H. (Harry), 1881-

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Alquist, Hazel Hope Wanamaker.

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Bliss, William Root, 1825-1906

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Writer, apparently on Massachusetts themes. From the guide to the William Root Bliss letters, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1973

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x000343 American poet, short-story writer, novelist, and critic . From the description of Letter, 1969 January 26 (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 148050827 Conrad Aiken was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. From the description of Conrad Aiken collection of papers, 1913-1963. (...

Warren, Dale, 1897-

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Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931

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Artist and naturalist; son of J.E. Millais. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Melwood and Algiers, to Mr. Murray [Charles Fairfax?] and unidentified recipients, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871533 Epithet: son of Sir John Everett Millais British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x000080 ...

Herz, Henriette de Lemos, 1764-1847

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Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944

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Hendrik Willem van Loon was born in Rotterdam, Holland on January 14, 1882. He attended Cornell University, graduating in 1905. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch and began working for the Associated Press in New York City, Washington, D.C., Moscow, and Warsaw. His son Henry Bowditch van Loon was born on June 22, 1907, and Gerard Willem van Loon on January 16, 1911. Hendrik van Loon received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1911, and in 1913 his book THE FALL OF THE DUTCH REPU...

E. H. Harriman.

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Otis, James, 1848-1912

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Harding, Warren Gamaliel, 1865-1923

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Warren Gamaliel Harding (b. November 2, 1865, Blooming Grove, Ohio-d. August 2, 1923, San Francisco, California) was an American politician who served as the 29th President of the United States from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923....

Smith, Roswell.

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Harcourt, Alfred, 1881-1954

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Epithet: Major Bengal Staff Corps British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x000251 Publisher. From the description of Letter, 1920 Sept. 8, New York, to "Dear Folks" [i.e. , T. Debs and associates?, Terre Haute, Ind.?]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364454 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Alfred Harcourt and his wife, Ellen Harcourt. From the description of ...

Olsen, Edwin B

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Prang, Louis, 1824-1909

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Louis Prang was born in Germany where took an active part in the Revolution of 1848. After emigrating to the U.S. Prang served as a mapper during the Civil War and transferred these skill to the business of printingg and lithography. Prang became an innovator in the printing and packaging of greeting cards, and also became interested in art education. From the description of Papers, 1871-1971. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122477111 Louis Prang (1824-190...

Black, Adam and Charles, publishers, Edinburgh.

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Alexander, Mary H T

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Burnham, Daniel H.

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Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927

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Parrish, Anne, 1888-1957

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Sears, Joseph Hamblen, 1801-1885

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Elwell, Robert Farrington, 1874-1962

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Gross, Michael

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Wyndham Lewis

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Peet, Harriet E.

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Barrett, M.

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Gillham, George Halsen.

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Thomas, Bill William H

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Phelan Beale

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Stewart, Charles D. (Charles David), 1868-1960

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Kittredge, Henry Crocker, 1890-1967

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Educator, historian, author and collector. Born Cambridge (Mass.) 1890. Married (1917) Gertrude Livingston, served in U.S. Army in France in 1918; taught English at Adirondack-Florida School and St. Paul's School in Concord (NH); summered on Cape Cod (Mass.) and moved to Barnstable (Mass.) permanently in 1954. Kittredge collected historical documents and conducted research on Cape Cod history. He authored three books. From the description of Henry Crocker Kittredge maritime collectio...

Sylvester, Harry, 1908-

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Clarke, Francis E

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Cox, Henry

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Epithet: of Philadelphia, USA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000680.0x00020f Epithet: Custos of St Ann's Parish Jamaica British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x000239 Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/810...

Hamilton, Cosmo, 1872-1942

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MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956

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Percy MacKaye was a poet and dramatist. From the description of Note, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007259 American poet and dramatist. From the description of Papers, 1909-1912. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36097093 Author Percy MacKaye was born into a theatrical family in New York City. He graduated from Harvard in 1897, and travelled through Europe for a time before taking a teaching job at the Craigie School in N...

Redfield, William Cox, 1858-1932

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U.S. secretary of commerce and U.S. representative from New York. From the description of William Cox Redfield family papers, 1821-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84163550 ...

Barton, Stephen E.

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Singmaster, Elsie, 1879-

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Hoyt, Henry Franklin, 1854-

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Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

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Louis Brandeis (b. November 13, 1856, Louisville, Kentucky – d. October 5, 1941, Washington D.C.) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from 1916 until 1939. Brandeis was the Court’s 67th justice and its first Jewish-American justice. He was the son of immigrants from Bohemia, who came to Kentucky from Prague, then part of the Austrian Empire. He received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1877, and before becoming a judge, served as a lawyer at Warren & B...

Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909

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Frederic Remington was born October 4, 1861 in Canton, New York. He was educated at the Vermont Episcopal Institute and attended Yale University. He worked as a cowboy, scout, and ran a sheep and mule ranch in the west. He married Eva Caten on October 1, 1884. Remington was a painter, sculptor and illustrator of Indians, cowbnoys and the American soldier at war. His travels took him to Germany, Russia, North Africa, Cuba and all over North America. Frederic Remington died December 26, 1909 in Ne...

Robbins, Mary Caroline, 1841-1912

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Author and artist; b. in Calais, Me.; daughter of James Shepherd Pike and Charlotte Pike. From the description of Mary Caroline Pike Robbins watercolors, 1875-1908. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154690978 ...

Eastman, Theodore Jewett.

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Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry), 1859-1941

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Leon Henry Vincent (1895-1901). Born Chicago, AB, Litt. D. Syracuse University. Author and lecturer on literary subjects. Books include: A Few Words on Robert Browning, Moliere, Corneille, and American Literary Masters. From the description of Letter and manuscript fragment, 1901 February 28, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 58435617 Leon H. Vincent (1859-1941) was an American author, literary critic, and lecturer. He taught English and American literature ...

Hurd, A D

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Clark, James E.

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De Roussy de Sales, Reine.

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Heath, Audrey.

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Burbank , Luther, 1849-1926

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Botanist, horticulturist, and naturalist. From the description of Luther Burbank papers, 1830-1989 (bulk 1880-1926). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981669 Luther Burbank began his work in horticulture in his birthplace, Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he raised seeds and vegetables for market. He moved to Santa Rosa, California in 1875 in order to pursue his work in a warmer climate. Burbank became world famous for his timesaving methods of plant breeding and grafting, esp...

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927

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Biography Benjamin ide Wheeler, Greek scholar, philologist and president of the University of California, was born July 15, 1854 at Randolph, Massachusetts. He attended Thornton Academy and Colby Academy prior to entering Brown University. Upon his graduation in 1875, he taught in Providence High School for two years, then became a tutor at Brown from 1879 to 1881. He continued his studies in Germany, at Leipzig, Heidelberg, Jena and Berlin f...

Tomlinson, Everett T. (Everett Titsworth), 1859-1931

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Gipson, E Harriet.

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Barnes, Margaret (Ayer), 1886-

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American society of mechanical engineers

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Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893

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Lucy Larcom wrote poetry about women's factory life in Lowell, Mass. She was a friend and collaborator of John Greenleaf Whittier. From the description of Lucy Larcom letter, poem, and photograph, 1871-1893. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38235776 Poet and writer, from Lowell, Mass. who attended Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Ill. from 1849-1852, and was friends with Henry Spaulding who worked at the Surveyor General's Office in St. Louis. ...

Huard, Mary.

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Meredith, William M.

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Moody, William Vaughn, 1869-1910

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American poet, playwright and teacher. From the description of Papers, 1889-1924 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52248317 Playwright and poet. From the description of Letters of William Vaughn Moody [manuscript], 1896-1923. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814575 William Vaughn Moody [1869-1910], American poet, play write and teacher, studied painting at the Pritchett Institute of Design in 1...

Crocker and Brewster.

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Houghton and Dutton.

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Sedgwick, Ellery, 1872-1960

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Ellery Sedgwick was editor of The Atlantic Monthly. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1920. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884345 ...

Ropes, John Codman, 1836-1899

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John Codman Ropes (1836-1899), co-founded eminent Boston law firm, Ropes & Gray, in 1865, with John Chipman Gray. Co-author (with John Chipman Gray) of War Letters 1862-1865. Samuel Sidney McClure (1857-1949) editor, published McClure's Magazine in 1903, launched muckraking era. From the description of Letters to S.S. McClure, 1892 September 29, 1894 November 17, 1895 January 23, February 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 58750001 ...

Johnson, Francis

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Greenough, J.B. (James Bradstreet), 1833-1901

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James Bradstreet Greenough (1833-1901) taught Latin at Harvard from 1865 until his death. He took a leading role in the establishment and organization of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (Radcliffe College). From the description of Papers of James Bradstreet Greenough, 1856-1946. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064476 ...

Baylor, Frances Courtenay, 1848-1920

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Virginia resident (Frederick County) and author. From the description of Letter, 1898. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34122340 American author. From the description of Autograph, ca. 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80015854 ...

Mason, Albert

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Houghton, Henry Oscar, 1823-1895

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Houghton was an American printer and publisher, proprietor of the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass. and partner, successively, in the publishing firms of Hurd and Houghton; Houghton, Osgood ? and Houghton, Mifflin & Company. From the description of Papers, 1773-1932 (inclusive) 1833-1895 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505871 Houghton was an American printer and publisher, proprietor of the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass., and partner, successi...

Bacon, Leonard, 1887-

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Teall, Gardner, 1878-

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Kready, Laura F

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Bennett, Samuel C. (Samuel Crocker), 1858-1925

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Baker, George Pierce, 1866-1935

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George Pierce Baker was an American drama educator. He graduated from Harvard University in 1887 and from 1888 to 1924 was a faculty member in the English Department. While at Harvard, he played a key role in starting the Harvard Theatre Collection at Harvard University Library; he created the Harvard Dramatic Club; and he founded Workshop 47 to provide a forum for the performance of plays developed for his English 47 class. Baker was unable to convince Harvard to offer a degree in playwrighting...

Sherwood, Margaret Pollock, 1864-1955

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American author. From the description of Daphne : an autumn pastoral : manuscript, [1903?] / by Margaret Sherwood. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 60397436 ...

Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927

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Lawyer; Indiana senator, 1899-1911; historian and author; Abraham Lincoln biographer. From the description of Correspondence, 1924-1928. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27159077 From the description of Letters: to Jesse W. Weik, 1924-1927. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27159080 Beveridge was an Indianapolis, Ind. lawyer, politician, and historical writer. He was elected to the U.S. Senate for two terms, and a...

Fessenden and company.

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Pindyck, Frances.

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Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-

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Wheeler, Henry Nathan, 1850-1905

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Selby, John

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Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x000354 Epithet: friend of G Scott British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x00024b Epithet: of Northampton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000707.0x0003...

Virtue and Company

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Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955

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Coates, Florence Earle, 1850-1927

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William Greenough

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Hosmer, James K. (James Kendall), 1834-1927

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Unitarian minister; after Civil War a librarian, historian, college professor. From the description of J. K. Hosmer letter to F. B. Sanborn [manuscript], 1865 September 7. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 713901241 ...

Tittle, Walter.

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Tucker, Benjamin Ricketson, 1854-1939

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Epithet: US anarchist, editor of 'Liberty' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x000194 Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854-1939) was the publisher of the anarchist publication Liberty from 1881 to 1908, and The Radical Review, 1877 and 1878; owner of the Unique Bookshop in New York City; specialist in and translator of Pierre Joseph Proudhon; and publisher of works considered radical at the time, such as Walt W...

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...

Carr, Lucien, 1829-1915

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Carrie L. Andrews

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O'Conor, Norreys Jophson, 1885-

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Buchan, John

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Epithet: of Nottingham; of Add MS 43688 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000795.0x000383 ...

Southern Pacific Company

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What started as a boycott by the American Railway Union against Pullman's Palace Car Co. in 1894 escalated to a strike covering the area from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. On the premise of interfering with the mails the federal government intervened and crushed the strike. From the description of Journal of incidents in San Francisco resulting from the American Railway Union strike, 1894 June 27-Aug. 31. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record ...

Roof, Katharine Metcalf

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Roof's family had intermarried with both that of James Fenimore Cooper and that of Washington Irving. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1945. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 183883992 ...

Bennoch, Francis, 1812-1890

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British poet and businessman. From the description of Correspondence, 1838-1886. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233127263 English businessman. From the description of Papers, 1839-1890. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 28409538 Francis Bennoch (1818-1890) was a London buisnessman and silk merchant. He was also a patron of the arts and literature. From the description of Letters, 1837-1886. (Huntington L...

Pryce, Richard, 1864-

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Bruce, William Cabell, 1860-1946

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U. S. Senator from Maryland, 1923-1928. From the description of Papers of William Cabell Bruce [manuscript], 1801-1945. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647970471 ...

Brower, Josephine

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Villa Aleazar, Marques de.

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Makino, Yoshio, 1874-1956

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Lee, Dwight Erwin, 1898-....

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Hardy, H.

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Houghton, Harriet C

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Dinsmore, Charles Allen, 1860-1941

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Haultain, Theodore Arnold, active 1910-1911, Canadian author

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Epithet: Canadian author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000303.0x000016 ...

Kay, James Murray.

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Robertson, A. T., 1863-1934

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Robertson entered Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Oct. 1, 1885, Graduated, Th. M., and became assistant instructor of New Testament interpretation in 1888. From the description of Matters personal / A.T. Robertson. 1887 Nov. 10-1890 May 8. (SBTS Library). WorldCat record id: 44857283 Epithet: MD; FRS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001302.0x000030 Archibald Thomas Robertson, student,...

Wells, Edgar H

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MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970

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Leader of the Crocker Land Expedition. From the description of Field note book[s], Crocker Land Expedition, 1913-1915. 1914-1917. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 15046950 From the description of [Lists of photographs of the Crocker Land Expedition]. [between 1913 and 1917?] (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 15046958 From the description of Geographical report of the Crocker Land Expedition / by Donald B. MacMillan. 1...

First National Bank of Boston

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Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911

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American author and brother of Edward Eggleston. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to an unidentified man, 1873 June 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 589323809 George Cary Eggleston was born in Indiana, educated locally, and at age 16 began teaching school. He inherited property in Virginia, moved there, studied law, and served in the Confederate Army. After the Civil War, he moved to New York, was a reporter for the Brooklyn daily union, editor f...

Hale, Nancy

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Nancy Hale, circa 1930s Nancy Hale was born Anna Westcott Hale on May 6, 1908, in Boston, Massachusetts, the only child of painters Philip Leslie Hale and Lilian Clark Westcott. Descended from a distinguished New England family, Nancy Hale's grandfather was the orator, author, and Unitarian clergyman Edward Everett Hale, and two of her great-aunts were the writers Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lucretia Peabody Hale. Philip L. Hale achieved some success as a neo-impressionis...

Barrow, George

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Epithet: of the Geological Survey British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000814.0x000303 ...

Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947

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Irving Fisher (1867-1947) was an economist and professor of political economy at Yale University from 1898 to 1935. He specialized in monetary economics and in the application of mathematical techniques to the solution of economic problems. From the description of Irving Fisher papers, 1932-1938. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122314185 From the guide to the Irving Fisher papers, 1932-1938, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Aldrich, Mildred, 1853-1928

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American novelist. From the description of Mildred Aldrich letters, 1914-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866919 American author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p., to Elsie Leslie], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131626 Journalist, author, and editor, Mildred Aldrich was born in Providence, R.I., to Edwin and Lucy Ayers (Baker) Aldrich. She was raised in Boston, Mass., graduated from Everett [High] Sc...

Bywater, Hector C. (Hector Charles), 1884-1940

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Sturgis, Esther Mary (Ogden).

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Hunt, Galliard, 1862-1924.

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James, Henry, 1879-1947

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Nephew of the novelist Henry James. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Peru, Vt., to Professor [Kenneth B.] Murdock, 1943 Sept. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270693513 United States representative, Inter-Allied Danube River Commission, 1919. From the description of Henry James papers, 1918-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868854 Henry James was the son of William James and nephew of the novelist Henry James. ...

Trübner, firm, publishers, London.

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Perry, Carroll

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Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943

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Epithet: of MS Facsimile Suppl. II British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000172 American financier. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Mrs. Ackermann, 1918 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874981 ...

Bertram, Anthony, 1897-1978

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Bertram was an English novelist and writer on fine arts who died in 1978. From the description of Letters from others to Anthony Bertram, 1920-1971. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612483546 English novelist and writer on fine arts (died 1978). From the guide to the Letters from others to Anthony Bertram, 1920-1971., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

White, A. B.

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Pixton, Eric.

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Hall, Edward H. (Edward Hepple)

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Hall, James Norman, 1887-1951

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Hall was a noted Iowa author and 1910 graduate of Grinnell College. After serving in World War I Hall moved to Tahiti and began his literary partnership with Nordhoff. From the description of James Norman Hall papers, 1906-1954. (Oglesby Public Library District). WorldCat record id: 38313128 American writer best known for his collaboration with Charles Nordhoff on The Bounty Trilogy. From the description of Letters, 1927-1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 12260...

Greenburger, Sanford

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Sherrill, Clarence O.

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Sever, Francis and company.

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Lathrop, Alice Gray.

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C S Donne

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Kent, Henry Watson, 1866-1948

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Henry Watson Kent served as the first professional librarian of the Grolier Club from 1903 to 1906 and originated its classification scheme. He continued to serve the Club during the following decades through its Library, Publications and House committees, and its Council. From 1906 until his retirement in 1940 Kent was Secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. From the description of What I am pleased to call my education : typescript, 1948 / by Henry Watson Kent...

Bellamy, William, 1846-

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Wetmore, Elizabeth (Bisland) 1861-1929