Alcott family additional papers, 1707-1904 (inclusive), 1821-1888 (bulk).

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...

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...

Niles, Thomas, Jr., 1825-1894

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Roberts Brothers (1857–1898) were bookbinders and publishers in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1857 by Austin J. Roberts, John F. Roberts, and Lewis A. Roberts, the firm began publishing around the early 1860s. The Roberts Brothers were "bookbinders" from 1857 until 1862 (offices successively at: 120 Washington St.; Temple Place; 149 Washington St.) Beginning in 1862 they were also makers of "photograph albums." In 1863 Thomas Niles, Jr. began working at the firm. He beca...

Pratt, John Bridge, 1833-1870

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John Bridge Pratt was the husband of Anna Bronson Alcott and brother-in-law of Louisa May Alcott. In 1858, the year the Alcotts moved to Orchard House in Concord, Louisa and Anna helped form the Concord Dramatic Union. Another member of the group was John Bridge Pratt. He and Anna fell in love while playing opposite each other in a play called "The Loan of a Lover." The couple announced their engagement in spring 1858 and married at Orchard House in May 1860. Their wedding provided the bas...

Lane, Charles, 1800-1870

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Charles Lane was born on 31 Mar 1800 in England. Very little is known about the first 30 years of his life. During the 1830s he worked in London as a commercial journalist and as editor and manager of the London Mercantile Price Current. During this time Lane met John Pierrepont Greaves and became part of the reform circle led by Greaves. The group was interested in spiritual affairs and communal education. In 1838, Greaves opened an experimental school at Ham Common in Surrey; he named the scho...

Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897

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Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribune until 1862. During the American Civil War, he served as Assistant Secretary of War, playing especially the role of the liaison between the War Department and General Ulysses S. Grant. In 1868 he became the editor and part-owner of the New York Sun. He at first ...

Emerson, Lidian Jackson, 1802-1892

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Lidian Jackson Emerson (born Lydia Jackson; September 20, 1802 – November 13, 1892) was the second wife of American essayist, lecturer, poet and leader of the nineteenth century Transcendentalism movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and mother of his four children. An intellectual, she was involved in many social issues of her day, advocating for the abolition of slavery, the rights of women and of Native Americans and the welfare of animals, and campaigned for her famous husband to take a public stan...

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 ...

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850

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Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850) was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent, writing for Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune, and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Born Sarah Margaret Fuller in Cambridge, Massa...

Alcott, John Sewall Pratt, 1865-1923

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John Sewall Pratt Alcott (1865-1923) was the nephew and adopted son of Louisa May Alcott. John Sewall Pratt Alcott was born on June 24, 1865, in Massachusetts, to John Bridge Pratt and Anna Bronson Alcott, sister of Louisa May Alcott. He and his brother, Fredrick, were the basis for Daisy and Demi (respectively) in Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women. His aunt legally adopted him in 1888, making him her heir, shortly before her death. He changed his name to "John Alcott" in deference to he...

Alcott, Abigail May, 1800-1877

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Abigail "Abba" Alcott (née May; October 8, 1800 – November 25, 1877) was an American activist for several causes and one of the first paid social workers in the state of Massachusetts. She was the wife of Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott and mother of four daughters, including Civil War novelist Louisa May Alcott. Abigail May came from a prominent New England family. On her mother's side, she was born into the families of Sewall and Quincy. Her mother, Dorothy Sewall, was the great-grand...

Nieriker, Abigail May Alcott, 1840-1879

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Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (July 26, 1840 – December 29, 1879) was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Amy (an anagram of May) in her sister's semi-autobiographical novel Little Women (1868). She was named after her mother, Abigail May, and first called Abba, then Abby, and finally May, which she asked to be called in November 1863 when in her twenties. Abigail May Alcott was born July 26, 1840, in Concord, Massachusetts, the y...

Pratt, Anna Bronson Alcott, 1831-1893

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Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt (March 16, 1831 – July 17, 1893) was the elder sister of American novelist Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Margaret "Meg" of Little Women (1868), her sister's classic, semi-autobiographical novel. Anna Bronson Alcott was born in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia on March 16, 1831. She was the first of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abby May. She was named after both her paternal grandmother (Anna) and her father (Brons...

Pratt, Frederic Alcott, 1863-1910

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Pratt was the nephew of the writer Louisa May Alcott and the son of her sister Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. Under Louisa May Alcott's will, he became the Trustee of her literary estate after her death in 1888. ...

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

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

Rasim, Louisa May "Lulu" Nieriker, 1879-1975

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Daughter of Abba May Alcott Nieriker, and Ernest Nieriker. She was 6 weeks old when her mother died and she was sent the following year to live with her aunt Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, in Concord, Massachusetts. This was her mothers final request so her daughter could live a quiet life with a woman who would love her as much as she had wanted to. When her aunt Louisa passed away in 1888 Ernest returned to America and took his daughter to Vienna, Switzerland to live with him. L...

Alcott, Ambrose V., 1820-1900

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Born September 10, 1820 in Wolcott, Connecticut to Joseph Chatfield Alcox and Anna Bronson. Ambrose was the brother of Amos Bronson Alcott. He died December 17, 1900 in New Haven, Connecticut....

Alcott family (Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888)

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Part of the family papers of the Alcott family of Concord (Mass.). Parents were Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), the New England transcendentalist, and Abigail [Abba] May Alcott (1800-1877). Their four daughters were: Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt (1831-1893) [who married John Bridge Pratt (1833-1870)], the writer Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), Elizabeth Sewall [Lizzie] Alcott (1835-1858), and Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (1840-1879), an American artist [who married Ernest Nieriker (1856-1935)]. Chil...

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

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Anti-slavery advocate. From the description of Circular and letter, 1848 Jan. 21, Boston, to Rev. Mr. Russell, South Hingham. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 231311718 Abolitionist and reformer William Lloyd Garrison was founder of the Boston abolitionist paper, The Liberator, and the New England Anti-Slavery Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1873 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007257 Abolitionist and lectur...

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

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Lydia Maria Child was born Lydia Maria Francis in Medford, Massachusetts on February 11, 1802. She was born into an abolitionist family and was greatly influenced by her brother, Convers, who would later become a Unitarian Clergyman. After the death of her mother in 1814, Child moved to Maine to live with her sister and began teaching in Gardiner in 1819. While living in Maine, Child became increasingly interested in Native Americans and visited many nearby settlements. Child began actively writ...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

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...

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...

Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 1841-1910

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Edward VII (born Albert Edward, 9 November 1841, London, United Kingdom,-d. 6 May 1910, London, United Kingdom) was the the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He hoped to pursue a career in the British Army, but his mother vetoed an active military career. He married Alexandra of Denmark in 1863. During Queen Victoria's widowhood, Edward pioneered the idea of royal public appearances as they are understood today; he was regarded worldwide as an arbiter of men's fash...

Alcott, Chatfield, b. 1801

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Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908

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Evans was a professor at Tufts College, 1900-1912. From the description of Letter [between 1900 and 1912] Oct. 28, Boston, to Prof. [L.B.] Evans [Medford, Mass.]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34367729 Louise Chandler Moulton was a minor American poet who lived in Boston, Massachusetts. From the description of Louise Chandler Moulton letters to and about E.C. and Laura Stedman, 1873-1894. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record ...

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...

Peabody, L. M.

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Jacobi, Elizabeth Pongracz

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Osborne, Edward, 1530?-1591

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Epithet: son of Sir Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000442.0x000236 Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000442.0x000235 ...

Ripley, S. E. W.

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Parker, Lydia D.

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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet and author. From the description of Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702172830 Poet, journalist, essayist. From the description of Letter, 1863 July 27-1863 Sept. 9. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477038304 American author. From the description of Letter to Mary E. Van Nostrand, 1890 November 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49377819 America...

Quincy Mrs. Josiah.

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Alcock-Alcox-Alcott

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Garrison, William Lloyd, 1838-1909

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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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Scottish historian and social critic considered the most important philosophical moralist of the early Victorian age. From the description of Letter, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461042 Scottish essayist and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gt. Malvern, to Robert Browning, 1851 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133400 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to William Tait, 1834 S...

Carrie Pratt

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Benedict, Sir Julius, 1804-1885

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Brooks, Charles, 1795-1872

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Brooks was a Unitarian clergyman born in Medford, Massachusetts. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1816; A.M. 1819. He was the pastor of the 3rd Congregational Church in Hingham (1821-1838) and later professor of Natural History at the University of the City of New York. He was central to the work of establishing normal schools in the United States and is credited with having introduced the term "normal schools" to America. Brooks married Cecilia Williams (d.1837) in 1827, then Charlot...

Mrs. F. A. Pratt

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Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809?-1871

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Wife of American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Ellen Sturgis Hooper, 1843 Dec. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870979 Sophia Hawthorne Peabody was a painter and illustrator as well as the wife of American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. She also published her journals and various articles. From the description of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne letters, 1827, 1868. (Middlebury College). WorldCat record id: 654...

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

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Poet and author, Cornell University non-resident professor. From the description of James Russell Lowell letter and portrait, 1871 July 12. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 123412650 Lowell was an author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat. He edited The Atlantic Monthly, and with Charles Eliot Norton, The North American Review ; was professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard; and U.S. minister to Spain and to England. Aldrich was ...

Princess Helena

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Fawcett, Henry

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British statesman and economist. From the description of Henry Fawcett papers, 1883-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450213 ...

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the aboli...

Philbrick, John D. (John Dudley), 1818-1886

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Mme. Rollande

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Bridget

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Epithet: of Add MS 40767 Title: Saint British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000629.0x0000a1 Epithet: of Add MS 35298 Title: Saint British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000629.0x0000a0 Epithet: St. (d. 523) British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person...

Taylor, Martin, 1943-

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Sewall, H. W.

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Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930

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Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

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Wendell Phillips (born November 29, 1811, Boston, Massachusetts – died February 2, 1884, Boston, Massachusetts), orator and reformer, was one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement in Boston, Massachusetts, wrote frequently for William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, and eventually became president of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He contributed much to the cause through inflammatory speeches favoring the division of the Union and opposing the acquisition of Texas and the war with Mexico. ...

Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901

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

Collier, Robert Laird, 1837-1890

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Pratt, Frederick A., 1828-1880

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...

Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, 1835-1905

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Author; pen name "Susan Coolidge." From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Dr. Ward, 1872 July 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584064 ...

Charlotte Wilkinson

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Hannah Robie

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Goddard, Martha L.

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Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905

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George Sewall Boutwell (1818-1905) was an active political figure and lawyer all his life. Initially a Democrate, his antislavery leanings made him a prominent Free Soiler who was elected Governor and susequently reelected by the dominant Massachusetts Free Soil coalition in 1851-1852. He became a lawyer and founder of the Massachusetts Republican Party, later being a Radical Republican in Congress and among the most forecful opponents of President Andrew Johnson. Boutwell served as Secretary of...

Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896

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William Henry Furness, Unitarian minister, was born 20 Apr. 1802 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1825 Furness was ordained minister of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia. He became pastor emeritus of the congregation in 1875 and continued to preach occasionally until his death 30 Jan. 1896 in Philadelphia. Furness published numerous books on the New Testament, translated German poetry, and wrote original hymns. In the years before the Civil War, Furness tried to comprehend a Christian's dut...

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....

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...

Amberley, Katharine Louisa Stanley Russell, viscountess, 1842-1874

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Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916

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Author and lecturer. From the description of Clara Erskine Clement Waters correspondence, 1887 February 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981221 ...

Davis, Elizabeth (Garrett).

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Hancock

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Rogers, William Barton, 1804-1882

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Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Virginia from 1835-1853. In the years following his departure, he founded and was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston. From the description of Papers of William Barton Rogers [manuscript], 1843 December 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837261 Shields was a student from Cumberland County, Va.; afterwards a captain and surgeon, C.S.A., then physician and farmer in Union Count...

May (Family : May, Joseph, 1760-1841)

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Roberts, Ian W., 1927-

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Epithet: Mrs; of Add MS 38310 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001195.0x0002f9 Epithet: Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001195.0x0002f5 Epithet: Lieutenant; of H M S ' Orion.' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001195.0x0002f7 Epithet: Co...

Orchard House

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James, Henry, 1811-1882

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Henry James Sr. and his wife Mary Walsh James (1810-1882) were the parents of the novelist Henry James Jr., the philosopher William James, the diarist Alice James, Robertson James, and Garth Wilkinson James. From the guide to the Letters from Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James to various correspondents, 1827-1878., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry James Sr. was an American philosophical theologian. He and his wife Mary Robertson Walsh J...

May, Joseph 17

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Frederick W. G. May

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Holley School (Lottsburgh, Va.)

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Mrs. Taylor

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Very, Jones, 1813-1880

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Very was a transcendentalist poet and essayist. From the description of Sermons, 1843-1868. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365530 Very was a Transcendentalist poet and essayist. From the description of Jones Very poems and essays, 1840-1880. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612870024 American poet and preacher. From the description of Nature : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1839 or later]. (Unknown). Wor...

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...

Emerson, Ellen Tucker

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Fruitlands

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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...

Samuel Gridley Howe.

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Emerson, George B. (George Barrell), 1797-1881

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American educator. From the description of Letter, 1839 June 20, Boston, to N.I. Bowditch, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166330238 Educator and pioneer of women's education. Cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. From the description of George Barrell Emerson letters [manuscript], 1851-1866. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191118233 ...

Ingelow, Jean, 1820-1897

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English poet and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : All Saints, Lewes, to Arthur Sullivan, 1868 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125503 Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist. From the description of Letter, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007454 Jean Ingelow, English poet and writer. From the description of Jean Ingelow manuscript material : 2 items [ca. 1880's-1890's] (New York Pub...

Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892

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Longfellow was an Unitarian clergyman and hymn writer. He was the younger brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the description of [Poem, Mar. 1877] / Sam.l Longfellow. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 245202647 American clergyman and hymn writer; brother of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the description of Autograph postal card signed : [Boston?], to A.V. Anthony, [postmark 1887 Mar. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 649496781 America...

Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884

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William Henry Channing, Unitarian minister and reformer, was born in Boston, Mass. He was the editor of The western messenger, 1838-1839, spent time at Brook Farm, wrote a memoir of his uncle, William Ellery Channing (1848), and with Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Freeman Clarke, wrote a memoir of Margaret Fuller (1852). He later accepted positions as minister in several Unitarian churches in England. From the description of W.H. Channing letter to Dear Sir, 1852 Mar. 29. (Pennsylvani...

Deland, Margaret (Campbell) 1857-1944

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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was at the center of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. Although she wrote and published many works, she is best remembered for her support and friendship of Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and many others. She published the journal Dial, founded the famous West Street Book Shop and Publishing House, and introduced kindergarten to America. From the description of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters, 1846-1854. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

Concord school of philosophy

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Educational institution. The Concord Summer School of Philosophy was founded in 1879. It offered lectures on a variety of subjects over the course of several weeks. Officers included A. Bronson Alcott, F. B. Sanborn and S. H. Emery. From the description of Concord School of Philosophy Collection, 1824-1903. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 35823601 ...

Cook, Joseph, 1838-1901

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Joseph Cook was an author and minister. He travelled extensively throughout the world, to study and to lecture. His Boston Monday Lectures, delivered on a variety of topics, were wildly popular, and were later issued in print. His most consistently popular theme was the relationship between science and religion, wherein he attempted to find harmony between modern science and Biblical teaching. From the description of Joseph Cook letter to Mr. Garrison, 1880 Jan. 22. (Pennsylvania Sta...

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York in 1815. She organized the first Women's Rights Convention at Senecca Falls, New York, in 1848 and for more than fifty years thereafter was a crusader for women's rights, especially women's suffrage. She died in New York City in 1902....

Warren, William, 1812-1888

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Actor. From the description of William Warren correspondence, 1874 January 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981315 ...

Maria Pratt

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Mme. ; Osborne

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Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879

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American reformer and linguist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Birmingham, to [Freeman H. Morse], 1869 May 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131472 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Springfield, Massachusetts, to Freeman H. Morse, 1854 Jan. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131738 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Britain, Connecticut, to the Rev. W.H. Ward, 1873 Jan. 04. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2...

Dr. Winship

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Birch, H. M.

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John Brown.

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Pardee, Betsy (Alcott), b. 1808

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Burroughs, John, 1837-1921

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American naturalist and writer. From the description of Poem 1917. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 49995946 One of America's great naturalist authors. From the description of Memorabilia, 1905-1931. (Hartwick College). WorldCat record id: 27057683 American teacher, naturalist, poet, and essayist of national prominence. Friend of Walt Whitman; influenced by Thoreau, Carlyle, and Emerson. Employed accurate observations of nature, scientific re...

Norman, Henry

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English journalist and liberal politician. Travelled extensively in the East and took photos. From the description of Henry Norman letters to Samuel Sidney McClure [manuscript] (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 176633150 Epithet: of Beeley, co. Derby, yeoman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000615.0x0001a6 ...

Quincy, Josiah Phillips, 1829-1910

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Rolande

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Thoreau House

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Bartol, C. A. (Cyrus Augustus), 1813-1900

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Cyrus August Bartol, 1813-1900, Unitarian minister, graduated from Harvard Divinity School 1835, received D.D. from Harvard College in 1859. Ordained in 1837, pastor at the West Church in Boston from 1837-1889. From the description of C.A. Bartol. Sermons, 1859-1888 (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 423214618 The Rev. Cyrus Augustus Bartol, DD, was born in Freeport, Maine, April 30, 1813. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1832 and from Har...

Pratt, Minot

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Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894?

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Philip Gilbert Hamerton was an English artist, critic, and author, perhaps best known for writing The Intellectual Life. Born in Lancashire, his mother died in childbirth, and Hamerton was raised by aunts. Although prepared for Oxford, he eschewed higher education, and studied painting, specializing in landscapes. He found himself more suited to writing, and wrote essays, articles, criticism, autobiography, and even a few novels, writing about many topics but chiefly painting. He was also editor...