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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...

Lyell, Mary Horner, 1808-1873

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Mary Horner Lyell (9 October 1808 – 24 April 1873) was a conchologist and geologist. She was married to geologist Charles Lyell and assisted him in his scientific work. She never became widely known in her own right, although it is believed by historians that she likely made major contributions to her husband's work. Her own known independent work includes her studies in the Canary Islands, in which she studied land snails in 1854....

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...

Stillman, Marie Spartali, 1844-1927

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Marie Stillman (born Marie Spartali, 10 March 1844, London, England – 6 March 1927, London, England) was a British member of the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Of the Pre-Raphaelites, she had one of the longest-running careers, spanning sixty years and producing over one hundred and fifty works. Though her work with the Brotherhood began as a favourite model, she soon trained and became a respected painter, earning praise from Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others....

Stillman, William James, 1828-1901

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William James Stillman (born June 1, 1828, Schenectady, New York – died July 6, 1901, Frimely Green, Surrey, England) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. Educated as an artist, Stillman subsequently converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a war correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer. For a time, he also served as United States consul in Rome, and afterward in Crete during the Cretan insurrecti...

Coppée, Henry, 1821-1895

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Henry Coppée was born in Savannah, Georgia, to a family of French extraction that had formerly settled in Haiti. He studied at Yale University for two years, worked as a civil engineer, and finally graduated from West Point in 1845. He served in the Mexican–American War as a lieutenant and was brevetted captain for gallantry at the battles of Contreras and Churubusco.[1] During the American Civil War, he edited the United States Service Magazine. Coppée was assistant professor of French at We...

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...

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...

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...

Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966

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Epithet: American photographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x00002a Photographer; New York, N.Y. From the description of [Alfred Stieglitz] / [graphic] Alvin Langdon Coburn. [ca. 1907] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220205528 ...

Dwight, Edmund, 1824-1900

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Edmund Dwight (1824-1900) married Ellen Randolph Coolidge, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, in 1855. They had no children....

Curtis, George William, 1824-1892

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George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. A Republican, he spoke in favor of African-American equality and civil rights. Curtis, the son of George and Mary Elizabeth (Burrill) Curtis, was born in Providence on February 24, 1824. His mother died when he was two. At six he was sent with his elder brother to school in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, where he remained for fi...

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English author and poet. His best-known works include the novels and short story collections The Jungle Book (1894), Just So Stories (1902), Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), and Kim (1901), as well as a number of poems such as "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If-" (1910). Kipling was born in Bombay, India, into an artistic family: his father was a sculptor, pottery designer, and professor of architectural sculpture and tw...

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...

Scott, Clement W., 1841-1904

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Clement William Scott was born in 1841 in London, England; attended Marlborough College, and became a clerk at the War office in 1860; became author and drama critic, contributing pieces to the Daily telegraph, Sunday times, Weekly dispatch, London Figaro, The observer, and others; after retiring from the civil service in 1879, he joined the staff of the Daily telegraph as drama critic, and also became editor of the Theatre in 1880; adapted French plays for the London stage; published works incl...

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

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U.S. railroad commissioner, army officer, and diplomat. From the description of James Longstreet papers, 1858-circa 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980713 James Longstreet, military man, businessman, diplomat, and railway commissioner, was born 8 January 1821, in Edgefield District, South Carolina, and died 2 January 1904, in Gainesville, Georgia. He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (1842) and served in the Mexican War before he resigned from the U.S. Army ...

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...

Baring Brothers & Co. (London, England)

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Barings Bank was founded in 1762 as the John and Francis Baring Company by Francis Baring, with his older brother John Baring as a mostly silent partner. They were sons of John (né Johann) Baring, wool trader of Exeter, born in Bremen, Germany. The company began in offices off Cheapside in London, and within a few years moved to larger quarters in Mincing Lane. Barings gradually diversified from wool into many other commodities, providing financial services for the rapid growth of international ...

Ward, Anna Hazard Barker, 1813-1900

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The courtship of Anna Barker and Samuel Ward has been immortalized by the author Eleanor M Tilton in her article titled "The True Romance of Anna Hazard Barker and Samuel Grey Ward", published in the journal Studies in the American Renaissance in 1987. Anna and Samuel had at least 4 children: Anna Barker Ward who married Joseph Thoron, Lydia Gray Ward who married Richard Von Hoffman, Thomas Wren Ward who married Sophia Read Howard, and Elizabeth Barker Ward who married Ernst Augustus Shoenber...

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 ...

Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892

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Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts) was an American dentist and poet. Parsons was educated at the Boston Latin School, and visited Italy to study Italian literature in 1836-7. His translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, which eventually comprised all the Inferno, two-thirds of the Purgatorio and fragments of the Paradiso, began to appear in 1843. After practicing dentistry in Boston, he lived for several years in England before returning...

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...

Ward, Samuel Gray, 1817-1907

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Samuel Gray Ward (October 3, 1817 – November 17, 1907) was an American poet, author, and minor member of the Transcendentalism movement. He was also a banker and a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among his circle of contemporaries were poets and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller who were deeply disappointed when Ward gave up a career in writing for business just before he married. Ward was born on October 3, 1817 in Portland, Maine. He was the son of Lydia ...

Dall, Caroline Healey, 1822-1912

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Caroline Wells Healey Dall (June 22, 1822 – December 17, 1912) was an American feminist writer, transcendentalist, and reformer. She was affiliated with the National Women's Rights Convention, the New England Women's Club, and the American Social Science Association. Her associates included Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller, as well as members of the Transcendentalist movement in Boston. Caroline Healey was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Mark Healey, a merchant and ...

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...

Curtius, Ernst, 1814-1896

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Ernst Curtius (/ˈkʊərtsiˌʊs/; 2 September 1814 – 11 July 1896) was a German archaeologist and historian.He was born in Lübeck. On completing his university studies he was chosen by C. A. Brandis to accompany him on a journey to Greece for the prosecution of archaeological researches. Curtius then became Karl Otfried Müller's companion in his exploration of the Peloponnese, and on Müller's death in 1840 he returned to Germany. In 1844 he became an extraordinary professor at the University of Berl...

Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929

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German art historian. From the description of Letters, 1918. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81610145 Born in Hamburg and educated in Germany, Aby Warburg was a German art and cultural historian. He was a renowned scholar of the Florentine Renaissance and who worked over the course of his career to develop a method to study the cultural history of different periods in a scientific manner by tracking the survival of iconographical motifs in art. Specif...

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...

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...

Bancroft, George, 1800-1891

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George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman, and an active promoter of secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. As U. S. Secretary of the Navy under James K. Polk, Bancroft established the Naval Academy at Annapolis and later served as U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1846-1849), Prussia (1867-1871), and the German Empire (1871-1874). He is best remembered however for his 10-volume History of the United States, a work which fellow historian Leop...

Morse, John Torrey, 1840-1937

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American lawyer and historian. From the description of John Torrey Morse letters to Houghton Mifflin Company [manuscript], 1885, 1897. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648019902 ...

Torrey, H. W. (Henry Warren), 1814-1893

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Henry Warren Torrey graduated from Harvard in 1833, taught history, law and elocution and served as Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Henry Warren Torrey, ca. 1844. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972903 ...

Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867

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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterpart. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America. On July 19, 1806 Alexander Dalla...

Lesley, J. Peter, 1819-1903

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When J. Peter Lesley (1819-1903) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, he intended for the Presbyterian ministry, but when ill health intervened, he was set off on a path that would make him one of the most influential geologists in 19th century Pennsylvania. In order to help rebuild his strength and restore his health, Lesley accepted an appointment with the first Pennsylvania Geological Survey under the direction of Henry Darwin Rogers and engaged in structural a...

Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882

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George Perkins Marsh was born in Woodstock, Vermont, educated at Dartmouth, and taught Greek and Latin in a local academy, then studied and practiced law. He was elected to the Vermont legislature, then to Congress in 1843, where he actively supported the Library of Congress and the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution. He was appointed Minister to Italy, 1861-1862. He was an active lecturer, and his book Man and Nature (1864) earns him credit today as the first environmentalist...

Marsh, Caroline Crane, 1816-1901

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Caroline Crane Marsh was the wife of George Perkins Marsh, Dartmouth College Class of 1820, envoy to Turkey, 1849-1853. From the description of Letters, 1849-1851, to Susan Marsh. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237352265 American poet. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Scarsdale and Rome, to John W. Field (3) and his wife (1), 1886 Apr 26-1886 Oct. 21 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270608646 ...

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...

Dole, Nathan Haskell, 1852-1935

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Nathan Haskell Dole was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University. He worked as a teacher and journalist in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and California, and as advisor and editor for the publishing firms Crowell and Appleton. He also wrote poetry, and was a prolific translator of Russian works into English, including Tolstoy's works and numerous songs and lyrical pieces. From the description of Nathan Haskell Dole letter to Dear sir and poem, 1894-1895. (...

Burne-Jones, Georgiana, 1840-1920

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Wife and biographer of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Joan Severn, 1889 May 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756940245 ...

Kipling, John Lockwood, 1837-1911

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Father of Rudyard Kipling. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lahore, to General Maclagan, 1886 Apr. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270487812 ...

Apurva Krishna, Raja, 1815-1867

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Willard, Joseph, 1798-1865

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Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909

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Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian minister. Hale was involved in many social reform movements, including abolition and popular education. He is best known for his 1863 short story, "The Man Without a Country," which promoted patriotic support of the Union. From the guide to the Edward Everett Hale Letters, 1884-1897, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

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...

Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871

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Lawyer, politician, antiquary, diplomat employed as secretary by the United States Legation to Mexico, and author and editor of works on the history of Florida and the Spanish colonies of North America; resident of Florida. From the description of Buckingham Smith papers, 1613-1941. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 475929980 ...

Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

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Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, was educated at Harvard and served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, when he was Minister to England. He rejected a political career to teach history at Harvard and edit The North American review, 1870-1877, then returned to Washington. He wrote prolifically on many subjects and is best known for his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) and The education of Henry Adams (1907). From the description of Henry Adam...

Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900

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Sir Henry Wentworth Acland (1815-1900) was a physician. In 1834 Acland matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1840, M.A. in 1842, M.B. in 1846, and M.D. in 1848. In 1840 he was elected fellow of All Souls' College and, in the same year, commenced the study of medicine, entering himself at St. George's Hospital, London. It was for his services to medicine and medical education that Acland was accorded his Baronetcy in 1890. See the Dictionary of National Biogra...

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...

Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886

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American diplomat, lawyer, and biographer; son of John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts 1859-61, U.S. Minister to England, 1861-68; U.S. Arbitrator at the Geneva Tribunal ("Alabama" claims), 1871-72. From the guide to the Charles Francis Adams letters, 1844-1878, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Folsom, Charles, 1794-1872

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Charles Folsom (Harvard, A.B., 1813) taught Italian and served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Folsom, 1829. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972777 ...

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 ...

Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881

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John Gorham Palfrey was a Unitarian minister, professor at Harvard Divinity School, editor of the North American Review, congressman from Massachusetts (1847-1849), postmaster of Boston (1861-1867), and historian, best known for his multi-volume History of New England. From the description of Letters to William Taylor Palfrey, 1818-1866. (Harvard University, Wadsworth House). WorldCat record id: 77703801 ...

Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1798-1862

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Samuel Atkins Eliot was born in Boston, Mass., March 5, 1798; attended the Boston Latin School; was graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and from the divinity school in 1820; member of the State house of representatives 1834-1837; mayor of Boston 1837-1839; served in the State senate in 1843-1844; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert C. Winthrop and served from August 22, 1850, to March 3, 1851; declined to be a candidate for...

Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1794-1867

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Loring was a prominent Boston lawyer and a Massachusetts State Senator in 1862. He married Anna Pierce Brace (d.1836) in 1818 and was a Harvard College fellow from 1838-1857. From the guide to the Papers, 1768-1866., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

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...

Chase, Thomas, 1827-1892

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Thomas Chase was the son of Anthony and Lydia (Earle) Chase of Worcestor, Ma. He began teaching philosophy, classical and English literature at Haverford College in 1855 and was named president in 1875. In 1885 he resigned due to failing health. He served on the American Committee for the revision of the Bible from 1881-1894. From the description of Papers, 1843-1947 (bulk 1843-1892). (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 26445069 ...

Ticknor, Anna Eliot, 1823-1896

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Ticknor, George, 1791-1871

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George Ticknor (1791-1871), educator and author, served as the first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1817 to 1835. After his arrival at Harvard, Ticknor became disenchanted with the school curriculum, characterizing the College as a well-disciplined high school, and began an effort to reorganize the College around four main goals: the division of students in courses according to academic proficiency and merit; the division of the ...

Walcott, Henry Pickering, 1838-1932

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Walcott, (Harvard, A.B. 1858; Bowdoin, M.D. 1861) was chairman of the Massachusetts State Board of Health from 1886 to 1916 and was president of Massachusetts General Hospital from 1910 to 1928. Following medical school he studied in Vienna and Berlin (1861-1863) and in Paris and London (1865-1866). He practiced in Cambridge, Mass. He had a long association with Harvard University in various administrative positions (Overseer, 1887 to 1890; Fellow, 1890-1927; and acting president, 1900 to 1901)....

Bradford, Gamaliel, 1831-1911

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Copway, George, 1818-1869

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George Copway (1818 – June 27, 1869) was a Mississaugas Ojibwa writer, ethnographer, Methodist missionary, lecturer, and advocate of indigenous peoples. His Ojibwa name was Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh (Gaagigegaabaw in the Fiero orthography), meaning "He Who Stands Forever." In 1847 he published a memoir about his life and time as a missionary. This work made him Canada's first literary celebrity in the United States. In 1851 he published The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of The Ojibway...

Silsbee, E. A. (Edward Augustus), 1826-1900

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Paine, John Knowles, 1839-1906

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Paine (1839-1906) was an American composer, organist, educator at Harvard University, and held the first chair of music in an American university. He was a charter member of the American Guild of Organists. From the guide to the Additional musical compositions, 1859-1939 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Paine received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1869 and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of...

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...

Morris, William, 1834-1896

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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...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866

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Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was the President of Harvard University from February 1, 1849 to February 10, 1853. He was also a Unitarian minister, editor, and historian. Jared Sparks was born to Joseph Sparks and Elinor (Orcut) Sparks on May 10, 1789 in Willington, Connecticut. Sparks was one of nine children and came from a family of modest means. When he turned six years old, Sparks went to live with an aunt and uncle in Camden, New York, to help relieve the family of a mout...

Pringle, Edward Jenkins, 1826-1899

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Born into an aristocratic Charleston family, Edward J. Pringle attended the South Carolina College in 1841 and transferred to Harvard, where he graduated with honors in 1845. He was admitted to the bar in 1847, but first decided to enjoy his wealth, and embarked on a two-year grand tour of Europe. Strong to his family business of being wealthy planters, he wrote in defense of slavery in 1857 with a work titled, "Slavery in the Southern States." Finding insufficient legal work in Charleston, he e...

Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1809-1894

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Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809 – November 16, 1894) was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a descendant of John Winthrop. Robert Charles Winthrop was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760–1841), the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple (1769–1825), who were married on July 25, 1786. He was the youngest of 13 children born to his parents. Winthrop attende...

Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893

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James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881. Blaine twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889–1892), one of only two persons to hold the position under three separate presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and...

Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901

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William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 18...

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...

Clifford, Lucy, d. 1929

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Lucy Clifford was born Lucy Lane in London, the daughter of John Lane of Barbados. She married the mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford in 1875. After his death in 1879, she earned a prominent place in English literary life as a novelist, and later as a dramatist. Her best-known story, Mrs Keith's Crime (1885), centres on euthanasia.[2] It was followed by several other volumes, such as Aunt Anne (1892). She also wrote The Last Touches and Other Stories (1892) and Mere Storie...

Taussig, Frank William, 1859-1940

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Taussig graduated from Harvard in 1879, and taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Frank William Taussig, 1890-1946 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973196 ...

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x00005f Irish writer, poet, and playwright. From the description of Collection, 1851-1957 (bulk 1877-1957). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122625016 Irish poet, dramatist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Beadle and company, New York, pub.

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Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919

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Epithet: Director, Harvard Astronomical Observatory British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000342.0x0000b9 Pickering (Harvard, S.B., 1865) taught astronomy at Harvard and was director of the Harvard College Observatory. From the description of Papers of Edward Charles Pickering, 1850-1918 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972845 ...

Boice, Mrs. May G

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Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, duke of, 1823-1900

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George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll in the peerage of Scotland, and 1st Duke of Argyll in the peerage of the United Kingdom, politician and scientist. From the description of George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll manuscript material : 1 item, 1891 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 80786960 From the guide to the George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll manuscript material : 1 item, 1891, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collectio...

Phelps, Lincoln, Mrs., 1793-1884

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Stanley, Augusta, Lady, 1822-1876

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Chamberlain, Paul C

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Lyttelton, Sybella (Clive) Mildmay Lyttelton, baroness, 1836-1900

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Brace, Charles Loring, 1826-1890

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American Philanthropist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Children's Aid Society" New York, to Gordon Lester Ford, 1874 Nov. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131493 American philanthropist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Children's Aid Society," New York, to Gordon Lester Ford, 1868 May 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131492 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Children's Aid Society" New Yor...

Farlow, W.G. (William Gilson), 1844-1919

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American botanist. Educated at Harvard University (B.A. 1866, M.D. 1870). Assistant Professor of Botany at Harvard, 1874-1879; Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, 1879-ca. 1919. Also taught at Bussey Institution, Jamaica Plain, 1874-1879. From the description of Papers of W. G. Farlow. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069233 Epithet: American botanist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0...

Sheldon, E.S. (Edward Stevens), 1851-1925

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Sheldon graduated from Harvard in 1872 and taught Romance and modern languages at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Edward Stevens Sheldon, 1890-1921 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972883 ...

Nerincx, Alffed, 1872-

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Crosby, Eleanor Francis (Davis) 1845-

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Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900

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American art critic. From the description of A portrait : ms. poem, 1877. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122380599 Cook was an art critic and columnist for the New York Tribune. Hassard was a literary critic for the New York Tribune and author of lives of Archbishop Hughes and Pope Pius IX. From the description of Letter from Clarence Cook to John Rose Greene Hassard, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 70292697 ...

Reber, Franz ˜vonœ 1834-1919

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Cleveland, Lilly

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Whitmore, James Herman.

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Slater, W. A.

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Witte, Karl, 1800-1883

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Steele, G. M. (George McKendree), 1823-1902

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Bunsen, Frances, Baroness, 1791-1876

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Valentine, Robert G. (Robert Grosvenor), 1872-1916

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Hazard, Rowland Gibson, 1801-1888

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Financier and manufacturer; b. in South Kingson, R.I. From the description of Papers, 1860-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973309 Rowland Gibson Hazard was born in South Kingstown, Rhode Island on October 9, 1801, the son of Rowland and Mary (Peace) Hazard. He was raised in the home of his maternal grandfather, Isaac Peace, in Bristol, Pennsylvania and attended school in Burlington, New Jersey. He returned to Rhode Island in 1819 and, togethe...

Taylor, Thomas Fenton.

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Smyth, Herbert Weir, 1857-1937

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Smyth graduated from Harvard in 1878, taught Greek and served as Dean at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Herbert Weir Smyth, 1876-1930 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972887 ...

Godwin, Parke, 1816-1904

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American newspaper editor, writer, and historian. From the description of The Pacific railroad and how it is to be built, 1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79602363 From the description of The Pacific railroad and how it is to be built, 1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702150541 American journalist and author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : [n.p.], to a member of the Harper firm, [1858-1860 Nov.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record...

Low, Seth, 1850-1916

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Mayor of Brooklyn, Mayor of New York, and President of Columbia College (later Columbia University), 1890-1901. From the description of Papers, 1870-1930. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482691 President of Columbia University. From the description of Typed letter : New York, to Ida B. Forbes, 1898 Jan. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270593321 Mayor of N.Y.C. and President of Columbia University. From...

Marriott, Richard

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Epithet: of Courten Hall, co. Northt., gentleman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000838.0x000002 ...

Baldwin, John D. (John Denison), 1809-1883

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John Denison Baldwin (1809-1883). From the description of Papers, 1834-1883. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191316986 ...

Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909

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American astronomist and political economist. From the description of Typed letter : [Washington, D.C., to the editors of The Critic, Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder, 1884 Aug. 19]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 645229686 American astronomer. From the description of Typewritten letters signed (3) : Washington, D.C., to Harper & Brothers, 1886 Mar. 16-1883 Apr. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612661 Astronomer, mathematician, and economist. ...

Blook, Alfred J

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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...

Pell, Duncan C

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Prindle, James Dwight.

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Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904

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Emilia Francis Strong Pattison Dilke (1840-1904), a daughter of Henry Strong and his wife Emily Weedon, was the granddaughter of Samuel Spry Strong, a Loyalist from Augusta and Savannah. She married (1) the Rev. Mark Pattison and (2) Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart. Her accomplishments in the fields of art and literature were extensive, and she was the author of a number of works on French 18th century decorative arts, etc. As well, she was an ardent suffragette, and an eloquent speaker. ...

Sheffield, Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th baron, 1839-1925

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Eliot, Charles William

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Epithet: President of Harvard University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000980.0x00005d ...

Howard, William Guild, 1868-1960

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Howard graduated from Harvard in 1891, and received his A.M. in 1892. From the description of Notes in Fine Arts 4, 1891-1892. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073802 Howard graduated from Harvard in 1891. From the description of Notes and papers in Philosophy 4, 1890-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073616 From the description of Notes in Fine Arts 3, 1890-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073705 From...

Hilliard, Laurence I., d. 1887

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Carl Schurz

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Bigelow, Marshall Train, 1822-1902.

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Ross, John, Dr.

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Epithet: of Belfast British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000161.0x000189 Epithet: Bishop of Exeter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000161.0x00016e Epithet: of Philadelphia British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000161.0x00018b John Ross, Book collector. ...

Stimson, John Ward, 1850-1930

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Jackson, Annabel (Grant Duff) 1870-

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Morse, Edward Leland Clarke.

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Putnam, Herbert

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Herbert Putnam (b. Sept. 20, 1861, New York City–d. Aug. 14, 1955, Woods Hole, MA) was the eighth Librarian of Congress from 1899 to 1939. Putnam was born in New York City to parents Victorine and George Palmer Putnam; his father owned publishing house, G. P. Putnam's Sons. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Munroe and had two daughters, Shirley and Brenda Putnam. Putnam graduated from Harvard University in 1883. He served as librarian at Minneapolis Athenaeum, later Minneapolis Public Library, a...

White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885

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American man of letters, author, critic. From the description of Papers of Richard Grant White, 1842-1884. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31685639 Child was a professor of rhetoric and English at Harvard, best known for his compilation The English and Scottish popular ballads. Charles Eliot Norton was a scholar, professor of art history at Harvard, and a founder of "The Nation." Richard Grant White was a journalist, writer, and Shakespearean scholar. ...

More, Paul Elmer, 1864-1937

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Paul Elmer More, American essayist and critic, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 12, 1864. More taught Sanskrit at Harvard (1894-1895) and Bryn Mawr (1895-1897). He was literary editor for The Independent for three years and associated with the New York Evening Post for six years. During 1919 he lectured on Plato at Princeton University. More was associated with Irving Babbitt (founder and champion of humanism) of the modern humanistic movement. He authored many critical ...

Lushington, Godfrey, Sir, 1832-1907

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Epithet: of the Home Office; GCMG British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000705.0x0002a7 English civil servant. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to William Cowper-Temple, 1878 Apr. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 769140906 ...

Wilson, David Alec, 1864-1933

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Epithet: of the Burma Civil Service British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x0002d7 Carlyle scholar and biographer. Author of Life of Thomas Carlyle. London : Kegan Paul, 1929-1934. 6 v. From the description of [Extracts and working notes / David Wilson.] [ca. 1930?] (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 32407841 ...

Sanborn, Sarah F. (Sarah Fifield)

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Conger, Arthur Latham, 1872-

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Garrison, William Lloyd, 1838-1909

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Clough, Blanche M (Smith) d. 1904

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Bridgman, S E

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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...

Starr, Merritt, d. 1931

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Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873

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Epithet: of Add MS 37311 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x00006e John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher known for his writings on social and political theory, particularly utilitarianism. From the guide to the John Stuart Mill Letters, 1851-1889, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) British philosopher. From the description...

Gordon, George Angier, 1853-1929

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George Angier Gordon (born January 2, 1853, Aberdeenshire, Scotland–died October 25, 1929, Brookline, Massachusetts), Protestant clergyman and author. An estate overseer's son, he worked several manual trades before emigrating to America in 1871. He graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary, then from Harvard (1881). From 1884 until his death he was pastor of Old South Church, Boston. His The Christ of Today (1895) expressed a liberal theological doctrine, and he became an important champion of...

Silsbee, William.

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Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901

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

Story, Emelyn (Eldridge)

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Hyde, William De Witt, 1858-1917

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Congregatoinal clergyman and president of Bowdoin College. From the description of William De Witt Hyde manuscript pages [manuscript], 1888. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 760307584 ...

Wyman, Morrill, 1812-1903

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Adams, W.

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Epithet: of Parkstone British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0001b0 ...

Mackail, John William, 1859-

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Kirkup, Seymour Stocker, 1788-1880

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Epithet: artist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000695.0x000292 Seymour Stocker Kirkup, English painter and antiquarian. From the description of Seymour Stocker Kirkup manuscript material : 10 items, 1823-1877 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 518381001 Epithet: artist, d1880 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_...

Severn, Lily.

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Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914

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Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917

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Lawyer, author, and diplomat. From the description of Joseph Hodges Choate papers, 1745-1929 (bulk 1852-1917). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79700965 Prominent New York lawyer, diplomat, and leader in humanitarian and cultural affairs. From the description of Letter : New York, N.Y., to John H. Stephens, Chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1916 Apr. 3. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 34241616 Choate...

Garner, John Leslie

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Reay, Maria (Fagel) Mackay, baroness, d. 1886

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Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910

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History professor and journalist. From the description of Wellington [manuscript], post 1871. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647922784 Goldwin Smith was a British-Canadian educator, historian and journalist. From the description of Goldwin Smith Papers [manuscript]. 1875-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225564891 British-Canadian historian and journalist. From the description of Berlin and Afghanistan : autograph manuscript...

Ford, J. D. M. (Jeremiah Denis Matthias), 1873-1958

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Ford graduated from Harvard in 1894 and taught Romance languages at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, 1896-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973038 ...

Leeds, Josiah Woodward, 1841-1904.

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Hutchings, Hubert.

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Apthorp, R E

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Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939

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Astronomer, superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From the description of Henry S. Pritchett papers, 1876-1967 (bulk 1900-1939). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061298 Biographical Note 1857, Apr. 16 Born, Fayette, Mo. 1875 A.B.,...

Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

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Professor of Greek. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, 1884 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864416 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to John Nichol, 1878 Oct. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864411 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to W.A. Knight, 1893 Mar. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864440 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], t...

Hill, Adams Sherman, 1833-1910

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American professor of rhetoric. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, Mass., to Harper and Brothers, 1878 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270466553 Hill graduated from Harvard in 1853 and taught rhetoric and oratory at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Adams Sherman Hill, 1849-1902 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972789 Journalist and professor at Harvard University. From the des...

Gurney, Ephraim Whitman, 1829-1886.

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Davis, William Elliott.

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Keet, A E

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Fullerton, William Morton, 1865-

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Educated Phillips Academy, Harvard. In 1880 he began working in the Paris office of the London Times. Met Edith Wharton when she moved to France in 1907. Their love affair lasted from 1908-1910. He later joined the staff of Le Figaro. From the description of William Morton Fullerton letter to Mrs. B. M. Fullerton [manuscript], 1907 April 22. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 278864337 William Morton Fullerton graduated from Harvard in 1886. From the d...

Kensett, John Frederick, 1816-1872

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Landscape painter; b. Cheshire, Conn. From the description of John Frederick Kensett papers, 1806-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78162865 John Frederick Kensett (22 March 1811 - 14 December 1872), was a noted artist of the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting. His career from 1828 to 1840, was as an engraver, having worked in several engraving firms at various times in New York, New Haven, CT, and Albany, NY. By 1840, Kensett's disenchantment with the engraving pr...

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

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Wife of Ruskin's physician, Dr. John Simon. From the description of Letter : to Mrs. John Simon, [18--] (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 31272017 British writer, artist, and critic. From the description of John Ruskin papers, ca. 1837-1904. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80934993 John Ruskin was born on 8 February 1819 in London. Ruskin was educated by his mother and by various tutors before attending Oxford University. H...

Norcross, Grenville Howland, 1854-1937

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Grenville Howland Norcross (1854-1937), one of eight children of Otis Norcross (1811-1882) and Lucy Ann (Lane) Norcross (1816-1916), was born on 2 February 1854 in Boston, Mass. After graduating from Harvard University in 1875, Grenville acquired his Harvard law degree in 1879 and practiced law in Boston for many years. He was active in numerous historical and literary organizations, including the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American A...

Sutherland, James

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Epithet: private, 78th Foot British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000679.0x0000da Epithet: Botanist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000679.0x0000d7 Epithet: Major British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000679.0x0000d9 ...

Goodwin, William Watson, 1831-1912

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Goodwin graduated from Harvard in 1851 and taught Greek literature at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Watson Goodwin, 1853-1929 (inclusive), 1879-1911 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069361 Epithet: Professor of Greek at Harvard University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x0001d2 ...

Barlow, Ellen (Shaw)

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Taunton, T. H.

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Cumberland, Stuart C

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Jasigi ? J

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Marsh, Henry

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Epithet: MD, of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x00034a ...

White, Stamford.

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Shaw, George W.

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Santayana, George, 1863-

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Norton, Jane, 1824-1877.

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Crocker, S. R.

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Helps, Edmund Arthur.

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Beck, Charles, 1798-1866

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Beck received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1865 and taught Latin at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Beck, 1820?-1830 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069227 ...

Bonnar, D A

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Goudy, Henry

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Thayer, Sarah S.

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Ward, Dorothy Mary.

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Lovering, Joseph, 1813-1892

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Lovering graduated from Harvard in 1833 and taught mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Joseph Lovering, 1889. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972823 ...

Hodges, George Clarendon.

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Bridges, John Henry, 1832-1906

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Reed, Charles T

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Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895

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British poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rowfant, Crawley, to Jeannette L. Gilder, 1884 Oct. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644685614 From the description of Doctor Oliver W. Holmes : autograph poem signed : [London?], 1884 Aug. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644709797 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to the editors of The Critic [Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder], 1884 Aug. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591...

Samson, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1819-1896

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Clergyman, pastor of the E Street Baptist Church, and president of Columbian College, both in Washington, D.C. From the description of G.W. Samson family papers, 1815-1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982827 Samson was president of Columbian College, Washington, D.C., and a trustee of the Seminary. From the description of [Letter] 1858 May 10, Washington, D.C. to [John Albert Broadus] / G.W. Samson. 1858. (SBTS Library). WorldCat record id: 48253130 ...

Clark, Charlotte Coltman, lady.

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De Witt, John, 1842-1923

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Moran, Charles

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Fox, Rector Kerr.

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Coolidge, Sidney, 1830-1863.

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Long, John Davis, 1838-1915

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U.S. secretary of the navy and U.S. representative and governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Letters and signature of John Davis Long, 1885-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014961 ...

Jackson, Richard C. (Richard Charles), 1851-1923

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Epithet: LLD, DCL British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x0000bb Epithet: FR Hist. S British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x00014e ...

Maricle, Cora Letts.

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Washburn, William Tucker, 1841-1916

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Freeman, Edward Augustus, 1823-1892

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English historian. From the description of Letters, 1881-1895, to Charles Henry Hart. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34491671 Historian. From the description of Edward Augustus Freeman letter, 1872. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450338 English historian best known for his "The History of the Norman Conquest." From the description of Bulgaria and Servia : an original manuscript / by Eward A. Freeman. [1885?] (State Historical...

Felsenthal, Bernhard, 1822-1908

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Rabbi and author, of Chicago, Ill.; b. Muenchweiler, Germany; emigrated to the U.S. in 1854. From the description of Papers, 1847-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70958882 ...

Dexter, Philip, 1868-1934

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Wedderburn, David, Sir, 1835-1882

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3rd Baronet (succeeded 1862). Officer in the Royal South Gloucestershire Militia. Liberal M.P. for South Ayrshire (1868-74) and Haddington Boroughs (1879-82). From the description of Papers. 1874-1985. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225829837 ...

Hurlbut, Byron Satterlee, 1865-1929.

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Hurlbut graduated from Harvard in 1887, taught English and served as Dean of Harvard College. From the description of Papers of Byron Satterlee Hurlbut, ca. 1916. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973075 ...

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....

Fernald, James Champlin, 1838-1918

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Little documentation is available regarding the life or career of Philadelphia architect James C. Fernald (fl.1884–1929). His name is found in the Philadelphia city directory, where he is listed from 1884–1886 as a carpenter, and after 1887 as an architect. As represented in this collection, most of his projects were relatively small-scale, such as designs for stores or residential structures for individuals. However, other of his works were of public buildings, such...

Smith, Edwin Burritt, 1854-1906

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Lindsay, Lady Caroline Blanche Elizabeth

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Akers, Charles.

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Darwin, Sara (Sedgwick)

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Farragut, Loyall, 1844-

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Tokutomi, J

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Whitmore, William Henry, 1836-1900

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Whitmore was an American writer and editor. Praed was an English poet and politician. From the description of William Henry Whitmore scrapbook on Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 1835-1864. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612761521 From the guide to the William Henry Whitmore scrapbook on Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 1835-1864., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Genealogist, editor, and public official of Boston, Mass. From ...

Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898

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Burne-Jones, English painter and designer, was a friend of William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who influenced him in his art. From the description of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones collection, 1881-1907. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 449884953 English painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to John Ruskin, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 757841354 From the description of Autograph letter signe...

Briggs, Charlotte P

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Smith, Charles Card, 1827-1918

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Bagwell, Louisa (Shaw)

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Devens, W H

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Nobili, A C

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Musgrave, Anthony, Sir, 1828-1888

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Governor of S.A. 1873-1877 and of Queensland 1883-1888. His nephew, also Anthony Musgrave, was the first Government Secretary of Papua. From the description of Papers. 1873-1913. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225819503 British colonial official, of East Grinstead, Sussex, England. From the description of Sir Anthony Musgrave papers, 1739-1966. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19647034 Sir Anthony Musgrave. Born 17 ...

Thayer, James Bradley, 1831-1902

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Attorney, teacher, legal scholar. LL.B. Harvard Law School, 1856; LL.D., 1894; Royall Prof. 1874-1883; Weld Prof. 1883-1902. Law practice in Boston, 1856-1874. Chairman, Committe on Indian Legislation, 1887-1892. Consultant on Dakota Constitution of 1889. Author of Preliminary Treatise on the Law of Evidence at Common Law (1898), John Marshall (1901), A Western Journey with Emerson (1884). From the description of Papers of James Bradley Thayer, 1787-1902 (inclusive), 1850-1902 (bulk)...

Ross, Mary

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Epithet: wife of Sir A Ross British Ambassador to Portugal British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000210.0x00015e Epithet: wife of Sir Charles Ross, Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000161.0x0001e8 ...

Jadrell, T ? J P

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Hill, Thomas, 1818-1891

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Thomas Hill was President of Harvard College from 1862-1868. From the description of Letter to Rev. William Henry Furness, ca. 1862-1868. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883609 Thomas Hill (1818-1891) earned his Harvard AB 1843 and served as President of Harvard University from 1862-1868. From the description of Bond to Harvard College, August 30, 1839. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064762 Thomas Hill (1818-1891...

Norton, Eliot, 1863-1932.

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Carpenter, George Rice, 1863-1909

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Professor of English and Rhetoric, Columbia University, 1893-1909. From the description of George Rice Carpenter letters, 1886-1908, 1893-1908 (bulk). (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 472459552 ...

Bates, Arlo, 1850-1918

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American author and professor of English literature at the Massachussets Institute of Technology. From the description of Letter, envelope, and magazine clipping, 1887-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367406765 ...

Warren, Gretchen (Osgood)

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Robinson, Edward, 1858-1931

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Kozaki, Nariaki.

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McKenzie, Alexander, 1830-1914

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Vitzthum von Eckstädt, Karl, Graf (Karl Friedrich), 1819-1895

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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

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English museum director, art historian and collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge to Hugh W. Davies, 1911 Jan. 05. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899880 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hammersmith, to Mackenzie Bell, 1896 Nov. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899382 From the description of Autograph letter signed (retained copy) : Cambridge, to Lord Henry Bentinck, 1909 Feb. 17. (Unknown). ...

Bent, Joseph A

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Pollock, Georgina Harriet (Deffell) Lady, d. 1935

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Bonaparte, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1851-1921

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United States Secretary of the Navy under President Theodore Roosevelt. From the description of Charles J. Bonaparte letter, 1905. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 265034455 Lawyer, municipal and civil service reformer, and U.S. attorney general and secretary of the navy. From the description of Charles J. Bonaparte papers, 1760-1921 (bulk 1874-1921). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83459229 Biographical Note ...

Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898

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Philanthropist, abolitionist. Contributed to the building of the railroad system in the United States. From the description of John Murray Forbes letter to George William Curtis, [manuscript], 1891 January 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 263078000 Forbes was a Boston businessman who was engaged in the China trade early in his life and later involved in railroad development in the American West. From the description of Letters from various corres...

Williams, John Joseph

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Lugard, Flora Louisa Shaw, Lady, 1852-1929.

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Goepp, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1864-1936

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Thayer, Joseph Henry, 1828-1901

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Professor of New Testament criticism and interpretation at Harvard Divinity School, 1884-1901. From the description of Letter, 1892 September 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54859893 Thayer (Harvard, A.B., 1850) taught New Testament criticism and interpretation at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Joseph Henry Thayer, 1883-1901 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972898 Joseph Henry Thayer (182...

Dicey, A.V. (Albert Venn), 1835-1922

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Dicey, a legal scholar and jurist, taught law at Trinity College, was considered a master at tax law, and wrote books on conflict of law and the British constitution. From the description of Law of contract part II, 1892. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236001955 Legal scholar and jurist. Dicey taught law at Trinity College for twenty-seven years and was considered a master at tax and revenue cases. His books on conflict of laws and the British constitution...

Thayer, William Roscoe, 1859-1923

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Thayer was a biographer and historian. From 1892 to 1915 he was editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. From the description of Additional papers, 1796-1927 (inclusive), 1877-1927 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505841 From the description of Papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive) 1872-1921 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505824 From the guide to the William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)., (Houghton...

Smith, J. LeRoy

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Kingsley, Elbridge, 1842-1918

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Wood engraver; Hadley, Mass. From the description of Elbridge Kingsley papers, 1842-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78793621 ...

Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822-1901

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First Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Minnesota. From the description of Henry Benjamin Whipple papers, 1856-1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 664364247 Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota. From the description of Papers, 1863. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 18086096 Epithet: Bishop of Minnesota British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000000007...

Merriam, Augustus C. (Augustus Chapman), 1843-1895

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Darwin, Emma Wedgwood, 1808-1896

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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 ...

Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin), 1816-1889

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American author and biographer of important literary figures. From the description of Letter, 1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367564811 Samuel Austin Allibone, American lexicographer and librarian, author of A Critical Dictionary of English Literature. From the guide to the S. Austin Allibone manuscript material : 1 item, 1879, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Literary lexicographer, biographer...

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Eliot served as president of Harvard University (1869-1909). From the description of Correspondence of Charles W. Eliot, 1870-1920. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339031 Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educa...

Watson, Francis Sedgwick, 1853-1942

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Surgeon and Harvard Medical School instructor. From the description of Correspondence, 1879-1881. (New England Historic Genealogical Society). WorldCat record id: 47635214 ...

May, Samuel, 1810-1899

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Shearman, Thomas Gaskell, 1834-1900

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Morris, May, 1862-

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Wing, Albert L

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Lemmon, Nannie S

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Walters, W. T. (William Thompson), 1819-1894

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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...

Gaskell, William, 1805-1884

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Epithet: Unitarian minister, husband of E C Gaskell British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x00014c Husband of author. From the description of Autograph agreements and receipts signed (6), 1848-1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269561208 ...

Pocock, Crawford J.

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Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

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American clergyman, author, and editor who worked with Henry Ward Beecher as co-editor of the "Christian Union." From the description of Autograph, 1897. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367554802 American author. From the description of Letter : Cornwall on Hudson, [N.Y.] to Mr. Bok, 1908 Oct. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 33376379 Lyman Abbott was an influential American pastor and author. Born in Massachusetts and educated i...

Perry, Arthur Latham, 1830-1905

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Perry was a professor of history and political economy (beginning in 1853) at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. From the description of Housebook : manuscript, 1867-1872. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612759695 ...

Clark, John S.

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Parker, E. A. (Edward Adams)

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Roe, Charles, 1715-1781

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Webster, J Clark

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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...

Walston, Sir Charles, 1856-1927

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Annis, Frank M

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Arnim, Armgart ˜vonœ 1821-1880

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Patton, A T

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Everett, William, 1839-1910

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Classicist William Everett was born in Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard and Cambridge; he took one degree in law, and also studied for the ministry. He held positions as an educator at Harvard, Adams Academy, and other institutions, and served in Congress as a Democrat, completing the term of the resigned Henry Cabot Lodge. He also ran an unsucessful campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. He was a prominent speaker and published numerous lectures and orations. From the descrip...

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

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Epithet: President of Columbia University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x000180 Butler was a philosopher, diplomat, and educator; president of Columbia University from 1901-1942. From the description of Nicholas Murray Butler letter, 1942 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 777002021 President of Columbia University. From the description of Letters to F.W. Wile and...

Wendell, Jacob, d. 1911

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Porter, Samuel, 1810-1901

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Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889

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Born in New Hampshire, Gage graduated from Harvard in 1853. He was pastor of the Pearl Street Congregational Church, Hartford, Connecticut. From the description of Papers, 1855-1915. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 57616819 Born in New Hampshire, Gage graduated from Harvard in 1853. He was pastor of the Pearl Street Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut. From the description of William L. Gage papers, 1855-1915. (Hartford Public Library). ...

Greene, Frederick L., 19..-....

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Adams, John Chester

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Welford, Charles

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Epithet: of Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers, of New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x000162 ...

Perkins, Norton.

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Simpson, M. C. M. (Mary Charlotte Mair)

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Nott, Charles C.

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Epithet: American judge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000269.0x0001c4 ...

Jamsetjee, Sorabjee.

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Crane, Aaron Martin, 1839-1914

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Williams, Charles J.

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MacVeagh, Eames.

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Denison, John Evelyn, viscount Ossington.

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Siena. Uffizio communale.

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Kashiwai, En

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Wood, Charles James, d. 1906

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Forbes, Edith (Emerson)

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Upham, George Baxter.

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Payson, George Shipman, 1845-1923

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Brown, George William, 1812-1890

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Baltimore, Md. resident. From the description of Letter, 1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38247202 ...

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 ...

Herbert, Auberon, 1838-1906

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Kipling, Caroline Starr (Ballestier)

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Fuller, Henry Blake, 1857-1929

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Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1929) was an American poet, essayist, and novelist. His works include The chevalier of Pensieri-Vani, The cliff-dwellers, and With the procession. From the description of Letters to Louise Lawrence Venus Washburn, 1873-pre-1929. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122584605 American author. From the description of Papers of Henry Blake Fuller, 1866-1904 (bulk 1886-1904). (University of Virgin...

Severn, Arthur

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Epithet: painter British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000800.0x0001c3 ...

Reed, Charles J. (Charles John), 1858-

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Fowler, Samuel.

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Patten, William

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Epithet: Muggletonian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000560.0x00000f ...

Lewis, Richard C.

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Pollock, Juliet (Creed), Lady, d. 1899

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Closson, William Baxter Palmer, 1848-1926

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American painter and engraver. From the description of Manuscript memorandum of agreement between William B. Closson and Harper & Brothers : New York, 1884 Jan. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129904 ...

Pierce, Edward Lillie, 1829-1897

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Supporters of President Grant removed Sumner as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate in 1871. Edward L. Pierce defended the reputation of Sumner after this episode became a matter of fresh historical controversy in 1877. Others involved in the controversy were Lothrop Motley, John Jay, and Hamilton Fish. From the description of Clippings concerning Charles Sumner and President U.S. Grant : album, 1877-1878. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612815430 ...

De Vinne, Theodore Low, 1828-1914

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Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914) was apprenticed to the printer's trade in Newburgh, N.Y. but came to New York City in 1848, where he eventually became a partner in the shop of Francis Hart. On the death of the latter in 1877, De Vinne became possessed of the business eventually known as the De Vinne Press. He was recognized as a master printer and developed a comprehensive knowledge of the history of typography, which he distilled in several publications. He was a founder (1884) and president ...

Scheffer, Sophie, d. 1856

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Washburn, Francis T. (Francis Tucker), 1843-1873

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Sedgwick, Arthur G. (Arthur George), 1844-1915

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Loyson, Paul-Hyacinthe, 1873-1921

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French author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Rome and Coppet, to Dr. Baldwin, 1899 Apr. 17 and 1904 June 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270859909 ...

Tibbals, N. and co., publishers, New York.

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Manly, John R

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Burnham, James A

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Harrison, Frederic, 1831-1923

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A contemporary of John Ruskin and John Stuart Mill, Frederic Harrison strongly influenced English politics and philosophy in the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth-century. The positivist movement gained prominence through Harrison's political activity, writings and teachings. He was also very active in the labor movement and fought for greater worker's rights in England. Harrison was introduced to positivism as a student at Oxford. Venerating humanity over deity, positivism created controversy i...

Mercer, Henry C., 1856-1930

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Archaeologist, historian, ceramist, collector, and founder of the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pa. From the description of Papers, 1863-1930. (Bucks County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70924616 Archaeologist, collector, and historian, of Bucks County, Pa. From the description of Index, [undated]. (Bucks County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70966771 Archaeologist, collector, and historian; of Bucks County, Pa. From the d...

Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864

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Hall, Anne S

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Hunt, Seth

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Hunt was a New York merchant. From the description of Account book, 1825. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122380402 ...

Maisch, John M. (John Michael), 1831-1893

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Morley, John, 1838-1923

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English statesman and author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (7) : to Prof. Knight, 1876-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613155 1886 and 1892-1895 Chief Secretary for Ireland; 1905-1910 and 1911 Secretary of State for India. Epithet: statesman Title: Viscount Morley of Blackburn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x0001f0 ...

Houghton Mifflin company.

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Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873

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Adam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Later, he proposed the Cambrian period, based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata. Though he had guided the young Charles Darwin in his early study of geology, Sedgwick was an outspoken opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. From the description of Letter to Richard Owen, [1860?], January 8. (Huntington Library, Art Collections &...

Wild, Hamilton Gibbs.

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Davidson, Thomas, 1840-1900

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Thomas Davidson: taught Latin and Greek in Tunbridge Wells and Wimbledon, England, 1863-1866; taught and became a principal in the public school system of St. Louis, beginning in 1868; active in circle of Hegelian philosophers in St. Louis; in 1875 moved to Boston and became freelance writer and teacher at private schools; from 1878-1884 spent much time in Italy in close contact with the Rosminian order; in 1883 founded the Fellowship of the New Life in London; later founded a Breadwinners' Coll...

Holmes, John, 1812-1899

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Conze, Alexander, 1831-1914

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Clements, H. H.

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Fitzwilliam, Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Earl, 1786-1857

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Smith, George H.

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Dana, O F

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Phear, Samuel George, b. 1829

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Butler, J E

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Winslow, Erving, 1839-1922

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Secretary, Anti-Imperialist League. From the description of Anti-Imperialist League papers, 1903-1922. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34366041 ...

Haughton, James, 1929-

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James Haughton was a labor leader, social worker, and community activist who, in 1964, founded Fight Back (originally the Harlem Unemployment Center) after being frustrated by what he perceived as a lack of aggressiveness by established organizations in attacking racial barriers in employment, especially the trade unions and construction industry. He had worked as a community organizer for the Lower Eastside Neighborhood Organization and served as chairman of the Labor and Industry Committee of ...

MacVeagh, Wayne, 1833-1917

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Howard, George James, Earl of Carlisle, 1843-1911

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British artist and politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Naworth Castle, Brampton, to Joseph Crawhall, 1878 Dec. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 460949966 Art connoisseur. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Castle Howard, York, to professor Knight, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133333 ...

Bancroft, John C.

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Dwight, Theodore Frelinghuysen.

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Trowbridge, David

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Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924

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Classical scholar, born in Charleston, S.C. Professor at University of Virginia, 1856-76; first professor of Greek at Johns Hopkins (1876-1915). Served in Confederate Army during Civil War; wounded in Shenandoah campaign. Founder and editor (1880-1920) of American Journal of Philology. Author of "The Historical Syntax of Classical Greek" (1900-11); "Hellasand Hesperia" (1908); "The Creed of the Old South" (1915). From the description of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers, 1847-1925. (...

Bowman, S. M. (Samuel Millard), 1815-1885

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Colonel in the 84th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment; from February until mid-September 1864, he served as chief mustering and recruiting officer for the United States Colored Troops in Baltimore, Md.; from mid-September until December 1864 he was commandant of the military district of Delaware; promoted to brevet brigadier-general, 1865. From the description of Samuel M. Bowman letterbook, 1864 Feb.-Dec. (Historical Society of Delaware). WorldCat record id: 70978033 ...

Darwin, George Howard, sir, 1845-1912

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George Howard Darwin was an astronomer and mathematician. From the description of On meteorites and the history of stellar systems, [1889]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86138587 From the description of Letters, 1834-1881. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523566 Sir George Howard Darwin (1845-1912), mathematician and astronomer, was the son of Charles Darwin. He was educated at Clapham Grammar School an...

Hall, Fitzedward, 1825-1901

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Everett, Arthur Greene, 1855-1925

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Searle, George

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Lenggenhager, F

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Russell, Sarah Elizabeth Ballister

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Lee, John R., M.D.

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Van Nostrand, David, 1811-1886

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Ferrers, N. M. (Norman Macleod), 1829-1903

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Epithet: Master of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x0002e4 ...

Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925

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George Washington Cable, an American author and critic, was born in New Orleans and fought for the South in the Civil War. His first collection of tales of life in the south was Old creole days (1879). In 1884 he went on a reading tour with Mark Twain. He moved to Northampton, Mass., in 1885. He is chiefly known for his early works describing picturesque Louisiana Creole life and courageous essays on civil rights. From the description of George Washington Cable papers, 1865-1918. (Pe...

Dentcher ? Charles.

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Robinson, Joseph H

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Piddington, Henry, 1797-1858

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Brodrick, George C. (George Charles), 1831-1903

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Jenkins, H

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Romeike, Henry, 1855-1903.

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Bourne, Wm. Oland (William Oland), 1819-1901

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Clergyman and journalist; chaplain at Central Park Hospital, New York City, during the Civil War, and editor of The Soldier's Friend. From the description of Wm. Oland Bourne papers, 1841-1885 (bulk 1856-1867). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981797 William Oland Bourne (1819-1901), social reformer, editor, and author in New York City. From the description of Papers, 1855-1866. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58660309 ...

Tracy, Stephen

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Thwing, Charles Franklin, 1853-1937

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Charles Franklin Thwing, author and president of Western Reserve University's Adelbert College. Robert Ellis Thompson, educator, editor, and author; editor of Encyclopedia American and lecturer at Harvard and Princeton. Glen Walton Blodgett, autograph seeker. From the description of Letters to Prof. R.E. Thompson and Glen W. Blodgett, 1882 May 20, 1902 November 10. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55230946 ...

Brooks, Datus C

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Weil, Samuel H

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Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

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The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...

McAllister, W C

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Irwin, George Francis.

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Cornwallis, Caroline Frances, 1786-1858

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Albana Mignaty, Marguerite, 1821-1887

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x000384 ...

Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888

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Matthew Arnold's reflective, urbane poetry and novels thoughtfully express the social issues and religious confusion of Victorian England. He worked as a school inspector, and his belief in liberal education is a theme in his poetry and essays. From the description of Matthew Arnold letters, 1875-1886. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50209290 British poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Williams [manuscript], n.y. March 21. (...

Glover, Samuel T. (Samuel Taylor), 1813-1884

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American lawyer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Louis, Mo., to President Lincoln, [18]61 Mar. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269581196 ...

Nields, John P., 1868-1943

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Whitehill, Jane Coolidge.

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Schiff, Jacob H. (Jacob Henry), 1847-1920

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Banker; m. Theresa Loeb; member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; director of Central Trust Co., Western Union Telegraph Co., and Wells Fargo; president of Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids; founded Jewish Theological Seminary and Semitic Museum, Harvard Univ.). From the description of Jacob Henry Schiff papers, 1900-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 436305005 Jewish-American banker and philanthropist. From the description of Correspondence ; 1914-1920 [microform]. ...

Short, Charles, 1821-1886

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Epithet: of the Melbourne Argus British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x0002e0 Epithet: Director of the E India Co British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x000095 Epithet: Clerk of the Rules in King's Bench British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x00...

Anderson, Melville Best, 1851-1933

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American literary scholar, primarily of Dante. From the description of Melville Best Anderson papers, 1926-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122552958 Head of English Dept. at Stanford University and Dante scholar. From the description of Melville Best Anderson letters to Franklin E. Perham and other papers, 1901-1928. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 215099758 Biography Me...

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...

Underwood, Francis Henry, 1825-1894

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Francis Underwood was U.S. consul at Glasgow between 1886 and 1888. From the description of Letter, 1889 June 19, Glasgow, Scotland to Martha Howe. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 19416441 Author and editor. From the description of Papers of Francis Henry Underwood [manuscript], 1859?-1874? (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813203 ...

Mackail, Margaret (Burne-Jones) 1866-

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Bloede, Gertrude, 1845-1905

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Lamb, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1853-1926

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Fehn ? J B

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Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von, 1791-1860

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Prussian diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Sir John Coleridge, [1839 Jun. 5]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270521926 ...

Germanic museum association, Cambridge, Mass.

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St. Cyres, Stafford Harry Northcote, viscount, 1869-1926

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Coan, Titus Munson, 1836-1921.

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Bernardi, F.

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Rogers, William B.

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Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus), 1819-1869

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American naval officer, author. From the description of Papers of Henry Augustus Wise, 1852-1860. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31685642 Henry Augustus Wise (1819-1869) entered the Navy as a midshipman in 1834. During the Civil War he was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, the agency responsible for the Navy's armaments and the shore stations where they were produced and tested. He became acting chief in 1863 and was appointed chief in 1864. ...

Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931

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Lord, Charles Eliphalet, 1817-1902

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Congregational clergyman, of Cape Elizabeth, Me., and other New England locations. From the description of Charles E. Lord letters, 1855-1856. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 316855902 ...

Kroeger, A. E. (Adolph Ernst), 1837-1882

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Bencini, Frederigo.

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Biddle, Horace P. (Horace Peters), 1811-1900

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Horace P. Biddle was an American lawyer and poet. From the description of Horace P. Biddle letter : to Benj. W. Austin, 1885 Dec. 10. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936613 ...

Wilson, James Grant, 1832-1914

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Founder of Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. From the description of Letters, 1853 Nov.-1908 Feb. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 172709192 American author and editor. From the description of Letters received, 1878 Feb. 25-1902 Mar. 31. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33937785 Scottish-born newspaperman, author, and editor, who served in the Union army during the Civil War, and then settled in New York City. F...

Jacks, Lawrence Pearsall, 1860-

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Epithet: Editor of 'The Hibbert Journal' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000096 Epithet: principal of Manchester College Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x0000de ...

Richardson, Elizabeth Perry.

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Bishop, Samuel H

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Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 1843-1905

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Josephine Shaw Lowell, civic volunteer, born in West Roxbury, Mass., in 1843, brother of Robert Gould Shaw and widow of Colonel Charles Robert Lowell, was active as a social reformer in New York City. She was the first woman appointed to the New York State Board of Charities and founder of the New York Charity Organization Society and the Woman's Municipal League of New York City. From the description of Papers, 1906-1909 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 2320073...

Ward, J. H. (Julius Hammond), 1837-1897

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Julius Hammond Ward, b. Charlton, Mass. Episcopal clergyman, author. Yale 1860. Berkeley Divinity School 1862. Rector of parishes at Cheshire, Conn., Rockland and Thomaston, Me., and Marblehead, Mass. Beginning in 1878, he was chiefly engaged in literary work. On staff of Boston Herald. Author of The Bible in Modern Thought, The Church in Modern Society, etc. From the description of Manuscript fragment, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 60358850 ...

Wolcott, Roger, 1847-1900

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Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923

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Quaker pacifist, suffragist, reformer, and temperance leader; superintendent of the Department of Peace and Arbitration of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1887 to 1916; president and business manager of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association, the publishing arm of the WCTU; president of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association (1891-1899), and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. From the description of Papers, 1858-1923. (Swarthmore ...

Bates, Gilbert H

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Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932

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Physicist and chemist; Nobel Laureate. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77865733 ...

McKay, Gordon, 1821-1903.

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Inventor and manufacturer. Developed machinery to apply the principles of the sewing machine to the manufacture of boots and shoes. See biography in Dictionary of American Biography. From the description of Investment papers, 1887-1928 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 229894244 McKay received an honorary degree (A.M.) from Harvard in 1896 and was a Harvard benefactor. From the description of Papers of Gordon McKay, 1878-1904 (inclusive)...

Herschel, Margaret (Brodie) Lady, 1810 or 1811-1884

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Fiske, Willard, 1831-1904

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The coins were purchased by Willard Fiske from H. H. I. Lynge of Copenhagen in 1899. From the description of Runic coins, circa 1047-1076. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 489960820 Linguist, bibliophile, chess expert. First university librarian at Cornell University. Assembled impressive collections of Dante, Petrarch, Icelandia, etc. From the description of Willard Fiske letters [manuscript], 1875 and 1879. (University of Virginia). WorldCat re...

Wells, David Ames, 1828-1898

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Economist, author, and public official. From the description of Papers of David Ames Wells, 1795-1898 (bulk 1860-1886) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067851 American economist. From the description of Papers of David Ames Wells [manuscript], 1851-1887. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812256 Biographical Note 1828, June 17 Born, Sp...

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...

Fairman Rogers Furness

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Burgess, W W

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Parks, Samuel C.

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Howells, Mildred, 1872-....

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Poet and short story writer; daughter of William Dean Howells. From the description of God's will [manuscript], 1913. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 741786541 William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American author, editor, and critic. Mildred Howells was an author and Howells' daughter. In 1959, Van Wyck Brooks published a biography of Howells: Howells, his life and world. From the description of Mildred Howells correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks...

Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878

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Epithet: author; of Add MS 37193 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000361.0x000125 English author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to the Reverend M.D. Conway, 186? Friday. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590727 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Alexander Main, 1871 Sept. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590731 From the de...

Fitch, Joshua G. (Joshua Girling), Sir, 1824-1903

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Educator. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : to Prof. Knight, 1894-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270532962 ...

Craven, Augustus, Mme., 1808-1891

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Epithet: Secretary of Legation at Stuttgart British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000756.0x00000b ...

Loyal legion of American citizens. Chicago.

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Holden, Charles C. P., 1827-

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Pauly, L H

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Reay, Donald James Mackay, 11th Baron, 1839-1921.

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Scottish educator. From the description of Autograph letters signed (6 including 1 post card) : to Prof. William A. Knight, 1893 Nov. 11-1906 Mar. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616461 ...

Wines, E. C. (Enoch Cobb), 1806-1879

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Waddington, W. H. (William Henry), 1826-1894

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Young, George Henry, 1841-

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Ellis, John Harvard

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Dulash, Veneaty.

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Norton, Catherine Eliot, 1793-1879,

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Stone, James Kent, 1840-1921

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Dow, Charles M. (Charles Mason), 1854-1920

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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...

Brown, William P.

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Chamberlaine, A P

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Hart, John S. (John Seely), 1810-1877

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American educator and editor, co-editor of Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art from 1849-1851; founder and first editor of the Sunday School Times (1859-1871), and an influential writer in the Sunday-school movement; principal of several schools; and professor of rhetoric and English literature at the College of New Jersey (which later became Princeton University) from 1872-1874. From the description of John S. Hart letters, 1834-1877. (Cornell University Library). WorldCa...

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861

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Arthur Hugh Clough, English Victorian poet. From the description of Arthur Hugh Clough manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1851-1856 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122379976 From the guide to the Arthur Hugh Clough manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1851-1856, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Downing Street [London], to A...

French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931

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Sculptor and artist. From the description of Daniel Chester French papers, circa 1848-1968 (bulk 1911-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450719 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. and Glendale, Mass. From the description of Daniel Chester French letters, 1908-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122648173 Biographical Note 1850, Apr. 20 Born, Exeter, N.H....

Thurber, George, 1821-1890

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Botanist on the Mexican Boundary Commission, 1850; he was a specialist on grasses. His herbarium was acquired by the Missouri Botanical Garden in the autumn of 1891. From the description of George Thurber papers, [184-?-189-]. (Missouri Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 61773035 Thurber (Brown University, S.M.) was a chemist and self-educated botanist who served with the U.S. Boundary Commission, 1850-1854. He also edited American Agriculturist for 22 years...

Calvert, George Henry, 1803-1889

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Poet and author, grandson of Lord Baltimore. From the description of Letter to N[ahum?] Capen, 1875 June 23. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49050145 George Henry Calvert was an American scholar and author. Born into an aristocratic Baltimore family, he attended Harvard but was denied his degree for protesting the strict rules of student conduct. He immersed himself in Germanic studies, and became a key figure in popularizing Germanic thought and literature in ...

Procter, Anne Benson Skepper, 1799-1888.

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Schroff, Max.

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Schouler, James, 1839-1920

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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 ...

Reed, George P

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Phelps, J. W. (John Wolcott), 1813-1885

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Phelps was an officer in the US military. His career began as a cadet at West Point in the 1830s. He retired as a brigadier general in 1862. From the description of Papers, 1833-1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79136348 From the description of Diary, [19--?]. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 60355023 John Wolcott Phelps (1813-1885), Brigadier General in the U.S. Army was a native of Vermont. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Poi...

Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906

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Epithet: LLD, Keeper of Printed Books British Museum British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000835.0x00015c English librarian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : British Museum, to F.J. Dreer, 1892 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269566963 Librarian of the British Museum. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to W.A. Knight, 1889 Oct. 11. (Unk...

Trent, William P. (William Peterfield), 1862-1939

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Author, editor of the Sewanee Review from 1892 to 1899, and professor of English literature at Columbia University from 1900 to 1929. From the description of Papers, ca.1800-1941. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122529084 William Peterfield Trent was born in Richmond, Va. He received the M.A. degree from the University of Virginia in 1884 and a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University. He was professor of English at the University of...

Lowell, Maria, 1821-1853

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American poet; married to poet and satirist James Russell Lowell. From the description of Correspondence, 1844, nd. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530575 ...

Noailles, Paul, duc de, 1802-1885

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Allen, Charles, 1827-1913

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Falconer, W

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Gleason, A A

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Hill, C. H. (Clement Hugh), 1836-1898

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Yeaman, George H. (George Helm), 1829-1908

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U.S. representative from Kentucky. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to President Arthur, 1883 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584470 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Owensboro, Kentucky, to James Speed, 1865 Jul. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584473 ...

Browne, Elizabeth (Carlyon)

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Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908

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American educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to W. Reid, 1871 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269584399 Biographical Note: Daniel Coit Gilman was an educator and first president of The Johns Hopkins University. From the description of Daniel Coit Gilman papers, 1773-1925. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 48134620 Daniel Coit Gilman: president of the University of California, 1872-1875; president of Johns Hop...

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...

Cogswell, Joseph Green, 1786-1871

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Joseph Green Cogswell was a native of New England and graduate of Harvard. Throughout his long and active life, he was a scholar, educator, editor, bibliographer, and author, as well as superintendent of the Astor Library. Through his reputation, connections, and extensive travelling, he was known by many of the most notable figures of the nineteenth century, including Goethe, Irving, Byron, Scott, and Humboldt. From the description of Joseph Green Cogswell letter, 1852 April 5. (Pen...

Walker, James P.

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Watts, Ridley.

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Walker, George, 1824-1888

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Beaman, Gamaliel.

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Weiss, John, 1818-1879

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Boston clergyman and author. From the description of Letter and photograph of John Weiss, 1876 February 23. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 62383380 John Weiss was a radical New England Unitarian minister and author. He was an ardent abolitionist and advocate of women's rights, and a Transcendentalist. His many lectures and literary works include commentaries on Shakespeare, American literature, modern religion, and Greek religion; he was a pivotal figure in tr...

Endicott, William, d. 1941

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Reade, William Winwood, 1838-1875

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Epithet: junior British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000392 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x000106 Epithet: of Wingham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000877.0x00016e ...

Hilgard, J. E. (Julius Erasmus), 1825-1891

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Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an important scientific reformer during the early nineteenth century. From his position as superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and through leadership roles in the scientific institutions of the time, Bache helped bring American science into alignment with the professional nature of its European counterpart. In addition, Bache fostered the reform of public education in America. On July 19, 1806 Alexander Dallas Bache wa...

Mackail, Angela.

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Armstrong, Charles D.

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Vaughan, Berkeley Deane, 1906-

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Epithet: 1st wife of John, 2nd Viscount Lisburne British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000563.0x00012d ...

Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924

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American collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Fenway Court," to an unidentified recipient, [1908?] Dec. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269568468 Art collector and patron; Mrs. Jack Gardner. From the description of Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum collection, [18--]-[19--]. (University of Mobile Library). WorldCat record id: 70925322 Art historian, critic, collector, and teacher; Flo...

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...

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 ...

Honcharenko, Agapius, 1832-1916

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Brown, John, 1810-1882

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Brown was a Scottish physician and author. From the description of Autograph, ca. 1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77997853 Scottish physician. From the description of John Brown papers, 1816-1881, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34848066 ...

Harrison, W H, d. 1874

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Duckworth, Gerald.

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

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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...

Harrington, George L ?

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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 ...

Victor, Orville J. (Orville James), 1827-1910

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Davidson, D or A?

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Green, Samuel Swett, 1837-1918

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Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954

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American educator, author and editor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Greensboro, Vt., 25 July 1904, and Boston, 10 October 1904, to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1904 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674901 American educator, essayist, and editor of the Atlantic Monthlyfrom 1899-1909. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Cambridge, Mass., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1936 Jan. 28 and 1938 Apr. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat...

Merivale, Herman, 1806-1874

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Colburn, J

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Blight, Atherton.

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Mansfield, Howard, 1849-1938

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Compiler of a catalogue of an exhibition of etchings and dry-points by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. From the description of Howard Mansfield letter, 1909 March 23. (Defense Special Weapons Agency). WorldCat record id: 122333579 ...

Janes, Lewis G. (Lewis George), 1844-1901

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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. ...

Fowler, William J., 1945-

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Spedding, James, 1808-1881

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Schwartz, Jozua Marius Willem, 1858-1915

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The University press, Cambridge, Mass.

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Abbot, Edwin Hale, 1834-1927

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Edwin Hale Abbot was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1834. He received the A.B. (1855), the A.M. (1858) and the LL.B. (1862) from Harvard. In 1859 Abbot married Mary Carter, who died the following year. His marriage to Martha T. Steele in 1866 produced two sons, Philip Stanley and Edwin Hale, Jr., and an adopted daughter, Constance. Abbot practiced law in Boston from 1862-1876. After 1876 railroad and corporate litigation and affairs in the midwestern United States dominated his legal practice...

Eliot, Emily Marshall (Otis)

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Wood, Eliphalet.

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Esdaile, James, 1808-1859

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

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Pickering, William H. (William Henry), 1858-

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Epithet: Inspector of Mines, York and Lincoln district British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000342.0x0000d9 Pickering later became Director of JPL. From the description of Eratosthenes No. 4 and other articles, 1924 Feb. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: 733097453 Pickering was Director of JPL. From the description of Recommendation to delay Ranger...

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...

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

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Carolyn Wells published under the pseudonym Rowland Wright. From the description of Autograph postcard signed from W.D. Howells to Carolyn Wells, Rahway [manuscript], 19th or 20th century. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 694525270 Author, editor, critic. From the description of Letters chiefly to Alexander? Black [manuscript] 1888-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647943111 William Dean Howells was an American novelist...

Schofield, Henry, 1866-1918

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Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909

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Philadelphian; principal in the publishing firm Lea & Blanchard, later Blanchard and Lea and afterward Henry C. Lea; scholar of Medieval and Ecclesiastical History. From the description of Family letters, 1872-1883, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 79958713 ...

Greene, George Washington, 1811-1883

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Educator and historian. From the description of Letter of George Washington Greene, 1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452579 ...

Cabot, James Elliot, 1821-1903

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Son of Samuel Cabot, Jr., brother of Edward Clarke Cabot. Graduated Harvard Law School, 1845. Practiced law with Francis E. Parker, 1847. Accompanied Agassiz on his tour of Lake Superior region in 1848 and upon his return published a narrative journal of the expedition. Worked as architect with E.C. Cabot, 1849-58 and 1862-65. Assisted Emerson in preparing for press his Letters and social aims. Trustee (1857-1885, 1899-1902) and vice-president (1886-1898) of the Boston Athenaeum. Fro...

Phillips, Willard, 1784-1873

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Phillips graduated from Harvard in 1810, was assistant editor of the North American Review, a member of the Massachusetts Legislature (1825-1827), a probate judge for Suffolk County (1839-1847), president of the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company (1843-1873). From the description of Letter to Charles Sumner, 16 May 1839. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339781 Willard Phillips received his A.B. from Harvard in 1810. From the description...

Curtis, James G

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Brooks, Alfred Mansfield, 1870-1963

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Palmer, Julius A. (Julius Auboineau), 1840-1899

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Whiting, William B.

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Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919

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Henry Mills Alden, American writer and editor for 50 years of Harper's Magazine and descendent of John and Priscilla Alden of the Mayflower fame, was born in Mount Tabor, Vermont, on November 3, 1836. From the description of Henry Mills Alden papers, 1862-1907. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record id: 667714420 American editor and critic; editor, Harper's Monthly, 1869-1919. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Metuchen, New Jersey, to F...

Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912

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Painter, author, war correspondent, and illustrator. From the description of Letter : Washington, D.C., to [Edward E.] Ayer, 1910 Dec. 3. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 38860956 Artist. From the description of Letter of Francis Davis Millet, 1912. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454555 The American painter, draftsman, lithographer, muralist and writer Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Mass. He served in the Union army in 1864, and ...

Peixotto, George D M

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Hamilton, Peter, 1817-1888

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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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Robert Browning was a British poet. Born on May 7, 1812, Browning wrote his first major work,"Pauline: a fragment of a confession" at the age of twenty. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826 and with her encouragement went on to become one of the major Victorian poets. From the description of Robert Browning collection of papers, [1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615581 Browning was an English poet. From the descri...

Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles), 1801-1871

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American Unitarian divine. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Messrs. Monroe & Co., 1850 May 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269564796 Ezra Stiles Gannett (1801-1871) graduated from Harvard College in 1820, and from Harvard Divinity School in 1823. He served as an overseer of the University from 1835 to 1858. Ordained in 1824, Reverend Gannett became an assistant minister at the Federal Street Church (Unitarian) in Boston and became its pastor...

Greenough, Horatio, 1805-1852.

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Sculptor. From the description of Letter of Horatio Greenough, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450551 Journalist, anthologist, author. From the description of Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold [manuscript], ca. 1851. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647880477 From the description of Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, ca. 1851. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 35035734 Greenough was a Boston sculptor influenced gre...

Carrington, Fitz Roy, 1869-1954

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Fitz Roy Carrington first met Carl Zigrosser when the latter was hired by Frederick Keppel & Co. Their correspondence began when Carrington became curator of prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Zigrosser went to Weyhe Gallery. Their friendship continued after Carrington went back to a commercial print dealer, M. Knoedler & Co., and on into Carrington's retirement. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1917-1953, n.d. (University of Pennsylvani...

Moore, Mary (Hanford)

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Dicey, Edward, 1832-1911

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English author and journalist. From the description of Autograph letters signed : 29 Piccadilly, [London], to Mary Frances Ronalds, 1900 Nov. 27 and 1900 Dec. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125436 From the description of Autograph letter signed : 26 Jermyn Street, piccadilly, [London], to Arthur Sullivan, [n.y.] May 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125378 ...

Tucker, St. George, b. ca. 1823

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Paur, Theodor, 1815-1892

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Gregory, Caspar René, 1846-1917

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Wells, John

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Epithet: of Leighton Buzzard; Sheriff of county Bedfordshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x0001d6 Epithet: of Add MS 35790 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x0001d3 Epithet: librarian and writer of poetry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...

Zenahn, Franz E

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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...

Bates, Albert Carlos, 1865-1954

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Dixon, Thomas, 1864-

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Wells, B. W. (Benjamin Willis), 1856-1923

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Bruce, George A. (George Anson)

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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 ...

Ruskin, John James

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Father of John Ruskin. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London , to Catherine Ruskin, 1810 Feb. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 755812129 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mrs.Thomas Richmond, 1858 June 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 746219605 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to John Thomas Ruskin, 1808 Feb. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 755734801 From the description of Autogr...

Hahn, Andrew

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Goodwyn, Alfred S ?

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Cox, Wilmot Townsend.

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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902

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A native of Vevay, Ind., Eggleston was a Methodist preacher (1857-1866), a journalist, and beginning in 1871, a novelist. In the 1880s and 1890s he turned to history as a writing topic, and served as president of the American Historical Association. From the description of Papers, 1884-1912. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 27970058 American author and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lake George, to the editor...

Gould, John M. (John Melville), 1848-1909

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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...

Adams, C. F. (Charles Francis)

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Pychowska, Lucia D. (Lucia Duncan)

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Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911

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American author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston Highlands, to Mr. Ward, 1872 Nov. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659301 American author, Mary Grey Phelps, used her mother's name for her pseudonym. After her marriage in 1888 to Herbert Dickinson Ward, she occasionally used his surname in her publications. Charles Addison Richardson was the managing editor of the Congregationalist for 40 years. From the description of [Letter] 1869 ...

Kenyon, Edward

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Epithet: son of George Kenyon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000576.0x000150 Edward B. Kenyon was a forty-niner from Tarry Town, N.Y. From the description of Edward B. Kenyon letters : ALS, 1849-1876. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122453582 ...

Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896

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British novelist and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Whitley, to Clarence McIlvaine, 1891 Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270744874 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Clarence McIlvaine, 1895 May 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270744995 From the description of Autograph notebook : [n.p., ca. 1890]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742657 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Lon...

Atkinson, William P. (William Parsons), 1820-1890

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Cunliffe, Robert E

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Lowell, Francis C. (Francis Cabot), 1855-1911

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Petzholdt, Julius, 1812-1891

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Clark, A. S.

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Monroe, John, and co., Agra.

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Bryce, Elizabeth Marion (Ashton) Bryce, viscountess, 1854-

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McPherson, Ross, 1876-1935

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Weeden, John E.

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Sorabjee Jamsetjee.

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Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw

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Russell, Frances Anna Maria Elliot, 1815-1898

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Wardle, George Y

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Fluegel, Maurice, 1831?-1911

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Rabbi and doctor born in Germany; author of a wide range of books and articles covering Jewish theological and philosophical topics; rabbi of several congregations in the United States, the last being the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation from 1881 to 1884. From the description of Maurice Fluegel writings, 1866-1905. (Jewish Historical Society of Maryland Library). WorldCat record id: 70961801 ...

O'Reilly, Henry, 1806-1886

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Journalist and inventor. From the description of Articles of Henry O'Reilly, 1845-1872. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454793 Editor and telegraph pioneer. Born in Ireland; came to the United States with his family in 1816. Editor of the Rochester (N.Y.) Daily Advertiser, 1826; involved with S. F. B. Morse and Amos Kendall in construction of telegraph lines from eastern Pennsylvania to St. Louis in the 1840s. In later life, he spelled his name "O'Rielly" instead of O'Reill...

Carter, Alice H

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Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862

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Cornelius Conway Felton (Harvard AB 1827) was a tutor from 1829 to 1832, University Professor of Greek from 1832 to 1834, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature from 1834 to 1860, Regent from 1849 to 1857, and President of Harvard University from 1860 to 1862. From the description of Lectures on Greek history and literature, 1855-1861. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072875 In 1857, Felton expelled Keene from the Harvard Divinity School for practicing as a medium. ...

Thompson, George Western, 1806-1888

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Sprague, Philo W. (Philo Woodruff), 1852-1927

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Kling, Flora Gardiner, 1858-

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Swothey, S H

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Dunbar, James Robert, 1847-1915

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Sandys, John Edwin, 1844-1922

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Epithet: classical scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x000047 Epithet: of MS Facsimile Suppl. III British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x000098 ...

Doumic, Max, 1863-1914

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Kirkwood, Daniel, 1814-1895

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Astronomer and Indiana University professor of mathematics. From the description of Daniel Kirkwood papers, 1864-1895. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 45063101 Daniel Kirkwood was an astronomer and professor of mathematics at Indiana University almost continuously from 1856 until 1886. He was born 27 September 1814 in Harford County, Maryland to John and Agnes (Hope) Kirkwood. After attending school in his home county, Kirkwood began his ca...

Webb, DeWitt, 1839-

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Roundell, Charles Savile

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000296.0x0003aa ...

Jenckes, Thomas A. (Thomas Allen), 1818-1875

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Jurist, state legislator and adjutant general, and U.S. representative from Rhode Island. From the description of Papers of Thomas A. Jenckes, 1836-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449305 Thomas A. Jenckes, a Representative from Rhode Island; born in Cumberland, R.I., November 2, 1818; attended the public schools; was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1838; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Providence, R.I.; cler...

Beaman, C C

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Stearns, George Warren.

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Beach, Seth Curtis, 1837-1932

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Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888

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Ephraim George Squier (1821-1888) and Dr. Edwin Hamilton Davis (1811-1888) of Chillicothe, Ohio were antiquarian authors who became authorities in the field of Indian antiquities. Mr. Squier was editor of the Scioto Gazette in Ohio when he began investigating the moundbuilders of the Scioto Valley under the tutelage of Dr. Davis, an Ohio physician who wrote for several historical and medical journals. Squier was later appointed Charge d'affaires to Guatemala and other Central American states and...

Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919

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London, England resident. From the description of Letter, 1902. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36854760 ...

Denizen, A

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Pearson, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1830-1894

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Historian and politician. Appointed lecturer in history at Melbourne University, 1874. First Headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, 1875-77. Conducted commission of inquiry into education in Victoria, 1877. Minister for Public Instruction, 1886-90. Returned to England, 1892. From the description of Letters [microform]. [undated] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223046008 From the description of Correspondence. 1872-1907. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat rec...

Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914

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American author, artist and diplomat. From the description of Letters and photograph of S.G.W. Benjamin, 1873-1893, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 48823060 American author and artist. From the description of Letter, an envelope, and a newspaper clipping, 1895. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81112297 American author, painter, and diplomat. From the description of Autograph card signed : New York, to F.B. Schell of Harper's,...

Mason, George C. (George Champlin), 1820-1894

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George C. Mason, Jr. (1849-1924) was born on August 8, 1849, in Newport, Rhode Island, the son of prominent Newport architect, George C. (1820-1894) and Frances (Dean) Mason. At the age of eighteen, George C. Mason, Jr. entered his father’s successful architectural firm and by 1871 was made a full partner of the firm. George C. Mason and Son remained in operation until his father’s death in 1894. In January 1888, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after marrying Sa...

Ritter, C. G.

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Esdaile, Mrs. Sophia.

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White, Horatio Stevens

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Blanchard, Amos, 1800-1869

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Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938

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George Foster Peabody, banker and philanthropist, was born in Columbus, Ga. in 1852 and died in Warm Springs, Ga. in 1938. He was the son of George Henry and Elvira Canfield Peabody and husband of Katrina N. Trask. From the description of Cherokee Indian language letters, 1907. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 259719021 Banker and philanthropist. From the description of Papers of George Foster Peabody, 1894-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 8410865...

Morse, Sidney Henry.

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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 ...

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 ...

Whittemore, George H

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Sawyer, Leicester A. (Leicester Ambrose), 1807-1898

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Howell, Charles Augustus, 1840?-1890

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McCright, R

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Williams, Alfred M. (Alfred Mason), 1840-1896

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Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914

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American journalist and editorial writer, noted as a highly influential architecture and advocate of modern designs and the skyscraper. From the description of Schuyler Montgomery letter to Jerome B. Stillson [manuscript], 1876 May 6. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 781302963 American journalist; reader for Harper & Brothers. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, NY, to Mr. Schell of Harper & Brothers, 1891 May 12. (Unk...

Bassett, Burnell Finley.

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Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886

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Author and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letters (2) signed : the Roost, Bournemouth, to Prof. Knight, 1880 May 12-1885 Feb. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580206 ...

Bourget, Paul, 1852-1935

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Critic and author. From the description of Soir d'été : manuscript poem, 1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451155 ...

Mahon, J ? W

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Lee, Sidney, Sir, 1859-1926

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English biographer and literary critic. From the description of [Cards] / Sidney Lee. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 244252362 Epithet: formerly Solomon Lazarus; Editor of the 'Dictionary of National Biography'; Knight 1911 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000219.0x0002cb English editor and scholar. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : London, to W.A. Knig...

Saisons ? Herbert C

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Crane, Thomas Frederick, 1844-1927

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Professor of Romance language and literature, dean and acting president at Cornell University. From the description of Thomas Frederick Crane papers, 1888-1926. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073364 ...

Paoli, Cesare, 1840-1902

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Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926

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American music critic. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 21 March 1893, to [Robert Underwood?] Johnson, 1893 Mar. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270577334 ...

Baldwin, Elbert Francis 1857-1927

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Brooks, Charles Timothy, 1813-1883

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Clergyman. From the description of Charles Timothy Brooks correspondence, 1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451563 American clergyman, poet and translator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Newport, to Harper & Brothers, 1855 Sept. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133560 Charles Timothy Brooks was a minister, translator, and editor of Dial magazine. From the description of Charles Timothy Brooks letters, hymns, a...

McClurg, Alexander C. (Alexander Caldwell), 1832-1901

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Bookseller, publisher and Union general during the Civil War. From the description of Letter, November 14, 1871. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52576660 ...

Toynbee, Paget Jackson, 1855-1932

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Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932) was a Dante scholar. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography . From the guide to the Paget Toynbee's concordances to Dante's, Convivo, Vita nuova, and part of the, Canzoniere, 1898, (University of Oxford, Taylor Institution Library) ...

Stearns, John.

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Franklin, M B

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Stephen, Julia (Jackson), d. 1895

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Jeejeebhoy, Sir Jamsetjee, b. 1783

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Miles, Henry A. (Henry Adolphus), 1809-1895

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Gubernatis, Angelo de, comte

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Henderson, J. B. (John Brooks), 1870-1923

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John Brooks Henderson, Jr. (1870-1923), the son of John Brooks and Mary Foote Henderson, graduated from Harvard University in 1891 and Columbian Law School (now George Washington University) in 1893. From 1896-1897, Henderson was secretary to John W. Foster, a diplomatic advisor to the Chinese government. In 1897, he traveled with General Nelson A. Miles on a tour of Europe and the Ottoman Empire as a civilian observer of the armies of the great European powers. He was appointed a citizen member...

Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876

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Physician, reformer, and husband of Julia Ward Howe. From the description of Papers, 1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46344998 Humanitarian crusader for many causes including Greek freedom, education for the disabled, prison reform, abolition, and black suffrage, Howe founded the Perkins School for the Blind and was the chairman of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities. When just out of the Harvard Medical School, he went to Greece as an army surgeon...

Lee, Henry, 1817-1898

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Harvard overseer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Boston], to "my dear Doctor," [18--?] Mar. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 743860470 Lee graduated from Harvard in 1836 and served as Overseer of Harvard. From the description of Papers of Henry Lee, 1868-1894 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972818 ...

Jackson, D ? G

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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 ...

Shaw, Francis George, 1809-1882

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Burt, S. W. (Silas Wright), 1830-1912

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Railroad engineer and civil service reformer, New York State and elsewhere. From the description of An ancestral quest, ms., 1887 / by Silas W. Burt. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58660732 From the description of My personal reminiscences, ms., 1883 Sept.-1911 Nov. 1. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58660734 Railroad engineer, civil service reformer. From the description of Correspondence, 1870-19...

Thayer, Henry Adams.

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Read, John Meredith, 1837-1896

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John Meredith Read, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1837; graduated from Brown University and Albany Law School; served as Adjutant-General of the State of New York, 1860-1866; United States Consul-General for France and Algiers, 1869-1873; Acting Consul-General of The German Government in France, 1870-1872; United States Minister to Greece, 1873-1879; died in Paris, France, 1896. Read was one of the original members of Cornell University's Board of Trustees listed in the University's Chart...

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Hosmer, B G

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Dolby, George, -1900

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Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916

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American novelist. From the description of Typed letter signed : West Point, N.Y., to Helen F. Levy, 1899 Feb. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270614065 Author, teacher, & superintendent in Trenton, N. J. From the description of Edward [Sylvester] Ellis quote from John Greenleaf Whittier [manuscript], 1905 Dec 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648007814 American author. From the description of Letter, 1901. (Unknown). W...

Bury, J.B. (John Bagnell), 1861-1927

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Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, to Mr. Levinson, [19--] June 26. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28985497 Professor of modern history at Cambridge University. From the description of Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1915. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 624302952 ...

Bradley, C. S. (Charles Smith), 1819-1888

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Irving, David, 1778-1860

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Scottish biographer and librarian. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London], 7 December 1805, to Mr. Park, 1805 Dec. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270578531 ...

Haden, Francis Seymour, 1818-1910

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English etcher and surgeon. From the description of Letter signed : [London], to Philippe Burty, 1874 Oct. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270510200 After the painting, "Edwin the Minstrel," by Joseph Wright of Derby (1778). From the description of [Thomas Haden of Derby] [graphic] / Seymour Haden. [1864] (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 370809331 Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910) was an English etcher and surgeon. From the descript...

Barrows, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1853-1918

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Edward F. Costello was born in Keshcarrigan, Ireland, in the mid-1860s, and lived with his maternal grandparents after losing his father at the age of 7. In 1879, they sent him to the United States, where he lived for a time in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, working at a succession of factory jobs. He moved to Palmer, Massachusetts, in 1886, and obtained employment as a brakeman with the New London Northern Railroad; he later had an accident that cost him a leg. He married Adelaide Victoria Burns (b....

Janeway, Edward Gamaliel, 1841-1911

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Bunsen, G

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Jaccaci, Augusto Floriano, 1857-

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Cutter, Charles A. (Charles Ammi), 1837-1903

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Boston Athenaeum librarian and library systematizer. From the description of Letters received, 1880-1883. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166325294 Athenaeum librarian, 1869-1892. From the description of Letters : from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1878. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41479582 ...

Croswell, James Greenleaf (1852-1915).

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Lowell, Augustus, 1830-1900

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Brewer, T. M. (Thomas Mayo), 1814-1880

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Banchi, Luciano, 1837-1887

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Dickens family.

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Clarke, D J

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Young, James Carleton, 1856-1918

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Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877

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American naval officer. From the description of Autograph telegram signed : "Bureau of Navigation," Washington, to A.D. Frye in New York, 1864 Jun. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535940 American Naval Officer. From the description of Telegram signed : "Bureau of Navigation", to George W. Blunt, 1863 Apr. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270539134 Louis Agassiz (1807-1873, APS 1843) was a zoologist and geologist. A student of Georges C...

Acland, Mary Lydia.

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Atwood, Samuel Adams.

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Dickens, Mamie, 1838-1896

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Epithet: elder daughter of Charles Dickens, novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x0003cf Daughter of Charles Dickens. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to George W. Childs, 1874 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270529483 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified recipient, [after 1870]. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Scully, Thomas J., 1932-

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Towle, Eleanor A.

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Dillingham, John H. (John Hoag), 1839-1910

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Dillingham was a professor, librarian and superintendent at Haverford, 1865-78. From the description of Papers, 1889-1907. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 29397121 ...

Mosby, Thomas Speed, 1874-

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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...

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

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Florence 1856-1925 London. From the description of Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925) [painting]. [ca. 1905] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906593 Anglo-American painter. From the description of Letters, 1881-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81028068 Sargent was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France, England and elsewhere. From the description of [Letter] Sunday, 33, T...

Burne-Jones, Philip, 1861-1926

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English painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Joan Severn, 1911 May 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 764754471 ...

Toy, Crawford Howell, 1836-1919

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Assistant to John Hart, principal of the Albemarle Female Institute, Professor of Hebrew, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1869-79. From the description of [Letter] 1856 July 21, Norfolk to [John Albert Broadus] / Crawford H. Toy. 1856. (SBTS Library). WorldCat record id: 48225499 Professor of O.T. interpretation, 1869-1879. Resigned over his critical views of Scripture. Later on the faculty of Harvard University. From the description of [Letter] 1879 May, ...

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...

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908

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American poet, critic, and journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to F.B. Sanborn, 1881 Jul. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575155 Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) was poet, critic, editor, and stockbroker in New York City. He published his first volume in 1860, entitled Poems Lyrical and Idyllic, followed by a succession of works and anthologies. Stedman was also a member and officer of many national and local literary associations....

Talbot, W R

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Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878

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Author, translator, and traveler. From the description of Papers of Bayard Taylor, 1856-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71064729 American journalist. From the description of Papers of Bayard Taylor [manuscript], 1847-1878. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972079 From the description of Poem and letter, 1877 June 26, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647972081 From the description of Letter to a member of the...

Pringle, William B

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Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 1846-1920

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Peabody, Francis, 1854-1938

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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...

Rutson, Albert.

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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...

Howes, Frederick G., 1832-

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Creighton, M. (Mandell), 1843-1901

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Hillard, George Stillman, 1808-1879

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George Stillman Hillard was a Boston lawyer, politician, and author. As a lawyer he practiced practiced in partnership with Charles Sumner, and served both in the Massachusetts legislature as well as U.S. district attorney for Massachusetts. He also wrote extensively and edited a number of periodicals. From the description of George Stillman Hillard letters, 1840-1866. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 711612596 American lawyer and biographer. ...

Fairchild, Elisabeth

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Nash, Bennett Hubbard.

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Burlton, Frank.

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Dubois, Mrs. E E

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Del Mar, Alexander, 1836-1926

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Epithet: American economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000267.0x0001ea Alexander Del Mar (1836-1926) was an American mining engineer, economist, author, and historian, who served as the director of the Bureau of Statistics from 1866 to 1869. Born in New York on August 9, 1836, the oldest son of Jacques and Belle Del Mar, Del Mar's spent some of his adolescence in England and Spain....

Miller, S. H

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Stanley, Hiram Miner

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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...

Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924

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According to Oliver, this house, which Goodhue designed for himself, was never built. In 1920 Goodhue enlarged a small house in Montecito. From the description of [Proposed house for the architect at Montecito, California] [graphic] : [perspective rendering set in evening landscape with figures] / B. G. G. ; figures by Donn Barber (under protest). 1919. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 80787120 At the time of this project the address of B.G....

Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877

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Edmund Quincy, author and abolitionist, was the son of Josiah Quincy, President of Harvard University. He graduated from Harvard, and wrote several novels and a biography of his father. He was an active member of the anti-slavery movement, and published numerous articles on the topic. From the description of Edmund Quincy letters, 1855-1868. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 57759735 Edumund Quincy, author and reformer, was born in Boston, Mass.,...

Perry, Albion A

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Lowell, John Amory, 1798-1881

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Spalding, James Field, 1839-1921

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Darwin, Sir Francis, 1848-1925.

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Ford, Ellery C

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Miller, Charles Kingsbury, 1850-

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Milburn? Joseph A

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

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Dickens, Henry F. (Henry Fielding), Sir, 1849-1933

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Epithet: son of Charles Dickens, novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x000013 ...

Freeland, Edward Bowman, 1833 or 1834-1867

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Blodgett, William T

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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.) ...

Melton, Wightman Fletcher, 1867-1944

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Wightman Fletcher Melton (September 26, 1867-November 10, 1944) was the son of Rev. Isaac Quimby and Fanny Louise (Ellis) Melton. He was born at Ripley, Tennessee, graduated from Peabody College, Nashville in 1889; A.B., Blount College, Blountsville, Alabama, 1890; Ph. D., Johns Hopkins, 1906. He married Oliver Keller on September 19, 1889. He taught at various colleges and was professor of English language and literature at Emory University, 1908-1924. Besides The Rhetoric of John Donne's Verse...

Bonner, John

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Le Geyt, A B

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Geyer, Philipp Joseph.

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Gayangos de Ria¤o, Emilia.

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Hale, Edward, d. 1918

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Turnbull, Lawrence.

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Taylor, Virginia C

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Pickering, Mary G W

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Sturges, Charles M.

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Cupples, J G

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Evans, Thomas G.

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Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912

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Stackpole, Joseph Lewis, 1838-1904

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Caratti, Giuseppe.

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Tiffany, Osmond, 1823-

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Maitland, Frederic William, 1850-1906

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Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906), son of John Gorham Maitland, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the moral sciences tripos (B.A., 1873; M.A. 1876). He was called to the bar in 1876, and thereafter became reader in English law at Cambridge in 1884, and Downing professor, 1888-1906. He was the founder of the Selden Society, which sought to encourage the study of the history of English law, and served as its literary director in 1895. He became Ford's lecturer ...

Church, William Conant, 1836-1917

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Editor and journalist. From the description of William Conant Church papers, 1862-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450560 William Conant Church (1836-1917) was co-editor with his brother, Francis P. Church, of The Galaxy, a literary monthly, and The Army and Navy Journal, a weekly newspaper devoted to the interests of the U.S. military. The Galaxy was absorbed in 1878 by Atlantic Monthly. From the description of William Conant Church papers, 1863-1909, bulk...

Schmidt, Erich, 1853-1913

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McCulloch, Hugh, 1808-1895

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Banker. Served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. From the description of Letter, 1885 August 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122379137 Epithet: Secretary to the USA Treasury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000220.0x000128 American Banker and Statesman. From the description of Letter signed : Treasury Department, to E. Cooper, Acting Private Secretary, 1866 Apr. 25. (Unknown)....

Ashburner, S

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Cambridge, Mass. Holy Ghost hospital for incurables. Hospital aid society.

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Leoni, Nestori.

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Welsh, Margaret.

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Rosengarten, J. G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921

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A.B., A.M. and LL.D. (hon.), U. of Pennsylvania, (1852, 1855, 1907); Trustee, Penn, (1896-1918); Civil War veteran; a founder and Trustee, The Free Library of Philadelphia; author and historian. From the description of Papers. 1886-1921. (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122614749 ...

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881

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Dean of Westminster; historian. From the description of Autograph letters (6) only four of which have signatures : Westminster, to Prof. Knight, 1874 Jul. 7-1880 Jul. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580241 Dean of Westminster. From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Petersburg, to Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1874 Jan. 21/Feb. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575881 Dean of Westminster-Historian. From the description of Autogr...

Morgan, W. L.

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St. Thomas's Mount, India. Artillery. Officers.

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Winlock, Joseph, 1826-1875

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Joseph Winlock was an astronomer and mathematician. Winlock was the superintendent of the "American Ephemeries and Nautical Almanac" (1858-1859), head of the Department of Mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy (1859), and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, as well as being a professor of astronomy at Harvard (1866-1875). From the description of Letterbook, 1857-1875. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523480 From the guide to the Josep...

Fenwick, John Edward Addison.

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Goodyear, W.H. (William Henry), 1846-1923

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William Henry Goodyear (1846-1923) was an art and architectural historian and the Brooklyn Museum of Art's first Curator of Fine Arts from 1899-1923, an appointment he accepted soon after serving as curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1881-1888). In addition to his responsibilities of developing and maintaining the fine arts collection at the Museum, Goodyear published extensively on art history and pursued research in architectural history. He developed a theory, based on direc...

Johnson, William Hannibal, 1860-1934

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Childe, Blanche Lee.

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Bradish, Frank Eliot, d. 1914

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Brune, F W

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Crawford, Thomas, 1814-1857.

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Norton, Andrews, 1786-1853

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Andrews Norton received his A.B. from Harvard in 1804. Norton became a tutor in 1811, was Librarian of the Harvard College Library 1813-1821, Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature 1813-1819, and Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature, 1819-1830. From the description of [Student themes] , ca. 1803. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072624 Author, Biblical scholar, and educator Andrews Norton was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1804. Aft...

Palmer, Bertha Honoré, 1849-1918

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Social leader and philanthropist. Appointed President of the Board of the Worlds Columbian Exposition and went to Europe to represent the Fair and was particularly successful in Belgium and Italy. McKinley appointed her to a committee for the Paris Exposition and was later awarded the French Legion of Honor. At her death she left a million dollars to charity. From the description of Bertha M. H. Palmer letter to Samuel Sidney McClure [manuscript], 1891 Dec 18. (University of Virginia...

Crompton, Charles

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Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894

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Unitarian clergyman, divinity professor and historian. From the description of George E. Ellis manuscript [manuscript], undated. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191117953 George Ellis was a Unitarian minister from Boston who wrote Sketches of Bunker Hill Battle and Monument in 1844. From the description of George E. Ellis papers, 1707-1872. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id: 232304387 ...

Bass, W. L. (William Louis), 1865-

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O'Neil, James

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Vose, George L. (George Leonard), 1831-1910

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Leslie, Alexander von Wolffersdorf, d. 1923

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Walker, Charles Howard, 1857-1936

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Architect; Boston, Mass. Full name Charles Howard Walker. From the description of C. Howard Walker papers, 1877-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118576 Professor. From the description of Charles L. Walker papers, 1880(ca.)-1920. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155426264 ...

Hutchinson, Harold

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Helps, Arthur, sir, 1813-1875

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English historian. From the description of Letter signed : Vernon Hill, Bishop's Waltham, to an unidentified correspondent, 1855 Sept. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270482766 English essayist and antiquary. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chester Sq., to W. Pickering, 1845 Jun. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270472342 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bishop's Waltham, 1847 Aug. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...

Frith, David

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Borden, F W

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Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930

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Kuno Francke (1855-1930) taught German and was curator of the Germanic Museum at Harvard. He received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1912. From the description of Papers of Kuno Francke, ca. 1890-1930 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069241 From the description of The new Germanic museum : manuscript prepared for Harvard Graduate's Magazine, 1911. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064181 Kuno Francke was a German-born U.S. histo...

Toppan, Robert Noxon, 1836-1901

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Livingston, Cambridge

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Gray, R Fletcher.

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Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896

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English reformer and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Old Square [London], to John Ruskin, 1866 Oct. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269516755 Thomas Hughes, English social reformer and children's writer, best known for his Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857). From the description of Thomas Hughes manuscript material : 2 items, 1871-1872 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 430711041 From the guide to the Thomas Hughes man...

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Emerson, Anne Shepard (Keyes)

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American ethnological society, New York.

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King, Andrew, 1957-....

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Chandler, Peleg W. (Peleg Whitman), 1816-1889

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Boston lawyer and politican. From the description of Letters received, 1866-1874. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 39273758 Lawyer, Journalist, and legislator, of Massachusetts; Boston city solicitor (1846-1853); served in Massachusetts House of Representatives (1844-1846, 1862-1863); and on Governor's Council (1850); b. in New Gloucester, Me. From the description of Correspondence, 1845-1880. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 5...

Gallup, Ezra S

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Doumic, Ren?, 1860-

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Greenslet, Ferris, 1875-

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Speth, baroness de.

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Crane, Winthrop Murray, 1853-1920

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Hume, Mrs.

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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865

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English novelist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (15) and autograph documents signed (3) : to Edward Chapman, [ca. 1848] Mar. 21-1859 Apr. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269589125 From the description of Letter, n.y. August 31, [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 122625403 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Manchester, to [the Rev. John Pierpont], 1841 June 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269573768 ...

Smith, Florence Elizabeth (De Quincey)

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McClure, Samuel Sidney, 1857-

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Remensnyder, J. B. (Junius Benjamin), 1841-1927

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Marseilles, Charles.

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Schofield, William Henry, 1870-1920

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Schofield (Harvard, Ph.D., 1893) taught English and comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Henry Schofield, 1910. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972876 ...

Washburn, M L

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Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth, 1845-1921

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Ernest Longfellow was a noted landscape painter and son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Harriet Longfellow, his wife, was a painter also. They resided in New York City and in Magnolia, Mass. From the description of Ernest Wadsworth and Harriet S. Wadsworth Longfellow sketchbooks 1867-1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455496 ...

Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, 1809-1874

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Curtis was a graduate of Harvard College (1829), attended Harvard Law School (1829-1830, 1832), was associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1851-1857) and acted as counsel to Andrew Johnson during his impeachment trial (1868). From the description of Legal opinions, ca. 1858-1868. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338978 Epithet: Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person :...

Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867

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Lawyer, founder of Free Soil Party in Massachusetts, governor of Massachusetts, 1861-1866. From the description of ALS, 1861 Oct. 19, New York, N.Y., to an unknown correspondent. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122524861 Prominent anti-slavery lawyer and Civil War governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1772-1895, [microform]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 25618330 Andrew was Governor of Massachusetts ...

Stillman, Charles Chauncey.

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Barlow, Henry Clark, 1806-1876

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Epithet: MD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000814.0x00003e ...

La Farge, John, 1835-1910

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John LaFarge (1835-1910) was president of the Society of American Artists. From the description of John La Farge letter to Frank B. Bigelow, 1904 Oct. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613316806 John La Farge (1835-1910) was a painter, muralist, sculptor, and stained glass artisan. In 1904 he was serving as president of the Society of American Artists. From the description of John La Farge letter to Frank B. Bigelow, 1904 Oct. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7...

Allard, Louis

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Shofroth, John F

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Haerne, chanoine de, 1804-1890

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McCall, Samuel W. (Samuel Walker), 1851-1923

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Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909

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American architect Russell Sturgis (1836-1909) was a leading figure in the development of architectural criticism at the turn of the 20th century. During his formative years in New York, Sturgis gained an appreciation for architectural history and modern design. An advocate of the American Pre-Raphaelites, Sturgis sought much inspiration in the written works of English architect and critic John Ruskin. Upon his return to New York after extensive travel abroad, Sturgis opened his own architectura...

McCagg, Louis B., 1929-

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Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928

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Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), book-collector, was born at Dingle Cottage, near Liverpool, on 15 December 1838. He attended Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1862), and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1867. He was private secretary to the viceroy of Ireland, the 5th Earl Spencer, between 1868 and 1873, and travelled widely from 1862 to 1875. Thompson was the Sandars reader in bibliography at Cambridge University in 1901 and 1904. He formed a large collection of illuminate...

Chase, George Henry, 1874-1952

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Chase (Harvard, A.B., 1896) taught classical archaeology and served as Dean of the Graduate School at Harvard from 1925 to 1939. From the description of Papers of George Henry Chase, 1926-1951 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973285 ...

Bixby, James Thompson

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Beesly, Edward Spencer, 1831-1915

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Epithet: Professor of History at University College, London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001164.0x0000f7 ...

Ward, Thomas Humphrey

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Rice, Harriet Langdon Pruyn, 1868-

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Wife of William Gorham Rice and daughter of John V.L. and Anna F.B. Pruyn. From the description of Collection, 1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122459120 Harriet Pruyn was married to William Rice; they were prominent in political and social circles of Albany. From the description of Papers, 1858-1939. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155448925 ...

Chandler, John Rice.

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West, Andrew Fleming, 1853-1943

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Andrew Fleming West graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in the Class of 1874. In 1883 he was called to Princeton by President McCosh to fill the newly founded Giger chair in Latin. He was president of the American Philological Association, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome, one of the founders of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, and the principal founder of the American Classical League, which he organized in an effort to stem...

Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904

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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 ...

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

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Grover Cleveland, born in Caldwell, NJ, 18 March 1837; moved to Buffalo, NY in 1855; Erie County Sheriff, 1871-1874; Mayor of Buffalo, 1882; Governor of New York, 1883-1884; President of the United States, 1885-1889, 1893-1897; married Frances Folsom, 1886; died at Princeton, NJ, 24 June 1908....

Longfellow, Frances Elizabeth (Appleton) d. 1861

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Chanler, John W. (John Winthrop), 1826-1877

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Simon, John B.

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Epithet: KCB British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x000111 Epithet: Prebendary of Kirton, diocese Exon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x00035e Epithet: KCB; President of the Royal College of Surgeons British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x...

Clark, Sir John Forbes, 1821-1910

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Arnold, Frances Lucy (Wightman)

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Wilson, Jacob, 1831-

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Fl? gel, Ewald, 1863-1914

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Miles, William Porcher, 1822-1899

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William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) was a South Carolina educator, mayor of Charleston, S.C. (1855-1857), United States Representative (1857-1860), member of the Confederate House of Representatives and chair of its Military Affairs Committee. After the Civil War, he was a planter in Virginia, then president of South Carolina College, then a planter again, this time in Louisiana. Miles married Betty Bierne (d. 1874), the daughter of Oliver Bierne, a wealthy Virginia and Louisiana planter, in 1863....

Dinsmore, Charles Allen, 1860-1941

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Arnot, Raymond H.

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Epithet: attorney of Rochester USA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x0000ad ...

Cowles, Alfred Abernethy, 1845-1916

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Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930

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Wilcox, J A J

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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-

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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. ...

Howe, W Macy.

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Volkonskii, Mikhail, kniaz.

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Potts, William, 1838-1908.

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Harvard university. Students.

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Beaufort, Alicia Magdalena (Wilson) lady.

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Stephen, James Fitzjames, 1829-1894

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English judge. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to William Makepeace Thackeray, 1860 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270854480 English jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Henry Yates Thompson, 1890 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872302 Epithet: judge and writer Title: 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : ...

Pringle, Jane.

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Slack, Charles W.

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Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910

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Alexander Agassiz(1835-1910), marine biologist, oceanographer, and industrial entrepreneur, was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the son of Louis Agassiz. In 1860 Agassiz began a lifetime occupation of administering the business affairs of the Harvard museum, a task made difficult by his father's penchant for excessive collecting and expenditures. After Louis's death in 1873, Agassiz succeeded to the directorship of the Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and completed the physical...

Ropes, William Ladd, 1825-1912.

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Stetson, Amos William.

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Curtis, James Burrill, 1821-

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Holst, Hermann von, 1841-1904

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Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897

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Historian, cartographer, and librarian of the Boston Public Library. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Henry Harrisse, Paris, France, 1891 Oct. 10. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 40998446 Winsor graduated from Harvard in 1853 and was a librarian at Harvard and at the Boston Public Library. From the description of Papers of Justin Winsor, 1847-1897 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972933 Winsor was libr...

Boice, Sanford H

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Morgan, M. H. (Morris Hicky), 1859-1910

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Morgan (Harvard, A.B., 1881) taught classical philology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Morris Hicky Morgan, 1887-1909 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972814 ...

Hemans, Henry William, d. 1871

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Bancroft, A.

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Belloc, Bessie Rayner, 1829-1925

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Bessie Rayner Parkes (later Belloc), 1829-1925, was the only daughter of Joseph Parkes, a Birmingham Unitarian, and Elizabeth Parkes, granddaughter of Joseph Priestley. She was a lifelong friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and with her was an active supporter of the campaigns for women's work, suffrage, legal rights and education. Bessie Parkes was born in Birmingham on 16 June 1829. Both her father and mother were from long-established Unitarian families. However, despite their radical libe...

Macmillan, George A. (George Augustin), 1855-1936

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Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871

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Tuckerman was an American critic, essayist, and poet. From the description of ALS: to Mr. Norton, [no year] Jan 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122648060 American critic, editor, author. From the description of Correspondence and manuscripts, 1842-1864. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530583 Tuckerman was an American critic, essayist and poet. From the description of Col...

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

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Charles Dickens, English novelist. From the guide to the Charles Dickens manuscript material : 7 items, 1842-1851, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the Victorian novelist. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography . From the guide to the Correspondence of Charles Dickens, with related material, ca. 1834-1955, (Leeds University Librar...

Stoll, Washington.

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Converse, John Holmes, 1837-1904

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Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget,, marquis de, 1818-1904

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Irwin, Agnes, 1841-1914

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Agnes Irwin was dean of Radcliffe College from 1894-1909. From the description of Letters, 1875, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007310 Agnes Irwin, school and college administrator, descendent of Benjamin Franklin, was born and educated in Washington, D.C. After teaching in New York, she became principal of the Penn Square Seminary, later the Agnes Irwin School in Philadelphia (1869-1894). Appointed Dean of Radcliffe College in 1894, she maintained excelle...

Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893

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Lee, Henry, 1782-1867

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Boni, Giacomo, 1859-1925

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Italian architect and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Foro Romano", to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1901 Dec. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270518896 From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : Venice, to John Ruskin, 1883 Sept. 24-1884 July 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270533389 ...

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...

Woodbury, John

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Munro, H. A. J. (Hugh Andrew Johnstone), 1819-1885

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Severn, Agnew Ruskin.

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Sidgwick, Henry, 1838-1900

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English philosopher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to William Cowper-Temple, 1878 May 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 770685787 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to an unidentified recipient, 1900 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872245 Henry Sidgwick was educated at Rugby, and had a brilliant academic career at Trinity College, specializing in classics and mathematics. He became a fellow at Trinit...

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 ...

Frere, William Edward 1811-1880

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Berenson, Bernhard, 1865-

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Hooper, Minot.

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Gray, Horace, 1828-1902

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American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Charles P. Lyman, 1891 Oct. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 753969918 Gray graduated from Harvard College (1845) and Harvard Law School (1849), and served as reporter of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1854-1861) and was appointed as a justice in 1864. In 1881 he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. From the description of Letters, 1858-1897. (Harvard Law School Libr...

Ely, Smith, 1825-1911

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Born in Hanover, N.J. 1825; entered hide & leather business 1849; elected N.Y. state senator 1857; elected to congress 1870 and 1874; resigned congressional seat when elected mayor of N.Y.C. 1876; obit. dated 2 July 1911. From the description of Smith Ely note to Benjamin Perley Poore, between 1870 and 1876. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 645663901 ...

Carlyle, J. W.

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Hagen, Hermann August, 1817-1893

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Epithet: of the Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x00004e ...

D'Ooge, Martin Luther, 1839-1915

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D'ooge was a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. From the description of Papers, 1911. (Joint Archive of Holland, History Research Center). WorldCat record id: 30535663 Professor of Greek at the University of Michigan. From the description of Martin Luther D'Ooge papers, 1862-1915 (scattered dates). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 84010423 From the description of Papers, 1862-1915 (scattered dates). (University of Michigan...

Ossington, John Evelyn Denison, Viscount, 1800-1873

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John Evelyn Denison was a British politician holding office for more than fifty years. He was Speaker of the House of Commons, and a friend and ally to many significant conservatives of his day. He was made Viscount Ossington in 1872, a title which ended with his death. From the description of John Evelyn Denison, Viscount Ossington, letter to My dear sir, 1870 Apr. 6. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 53432460 Speaker of England's House of Commo...

Clough, Florence, 1858-

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Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

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Abbot, Francis Ellingwood, 1836-1903

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American philosophical writer. From the guide to the Francis Ellingwood Abbot letters, 1870-1885, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) F. E. Abbot received his A.B. from Harvard in 1859. From the description of College themes and forensics, 1856-1857. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072877 Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1836-1903), was a Unitarian minister and a radical religious philosopher. Abbot founded the Free Rel...

Bowditch, Vincent Yardley, 1852-1929

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Wells, Edgar Huidekoper, 1875-1938,

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Edgar Huidekoper Wells, '97, was a long-time friend of the Harvard College Library and an active and loyal alumnus. He held various positions at Harvard, including instructor in English (1902-1906); curator of modern English literature in the library (1903-1913); and assistant dean (1905-1907). In the first World War he served first in the American Red Cross and then as an army officer attached to the U.S. Embassy in London. After the war he was instrumental in establishing the Lionel DeJersey H...

Curtis, Anna Shaw

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Wife of George William Curtis. From the description of Autograph letter signed : West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, to Rose (Hawthorne) Lathrop, 1896 May 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531196 ...

Guild, Charles Eliot, 1827-1905.

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Rudolph C. Lehmann

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x0000b7 Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000270.0x000059 ...

Wilder, Burt G. (Burt Green), 1841-1925

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Epithet: Professor of Physiology, Cornell University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x00008a Lecturer on physiology at University of Michigan and professor at Cornell University. From the description of Burt Green Wilder papers, 1876-1881. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 82799847 From the description of Burt Green Wilder papers, 1876-1881. (University of Michigan). Wor...

Gray, David, 1870-

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

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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...

Cockrell, Robert Spratt, 1866-

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Shuckburgh, Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley), 1843-1906

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Wheeler, James Rignall, 1859-1918

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Foster, Joseph, 1841-1930

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O'Brien, Florence Vere, 1896-1970

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Woodruff, J B

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Dyer, Louis, 1851-1908

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Epithet: of Harvard University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000752.0x000227 ...

Thompson, W. H. (William Hepworth), 1810-1886

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English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Harrogate, to Robert Hindes Groome, 1883 Jun. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572178 ...

Howe, Archibald Murray

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Little, Brown & Co., firm, booksellers, Boston.

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Noyes, George R. (George Rapall), 1798-1868

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Noyes graduated from Harvard in 1818 and taught Hebrew and Biblical literature at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Rapall Noyes, ca. 1850-ca. 1868. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972816 ...

Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877

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John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877) was an American author. From the description of John Lothrop Motley notes on New England history, ca. 1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122640035 From the guide to the John Lothrop Motley notes on New England history, ca. 1840, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) John Lothrop Motley was born on 15 April 1814 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA. He was educated at Harvard College, 1827-1831. After graduat...

Kenyon, John, 1784-1856

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John Kenyon (1784-1856), was a British poet and philanthropist. Other important addressees in the collection are: Robert Johnston Barton (d. 1879), was a British Captain in the Coldstream Guards, killed in action in Zululand in 1879; James Booth (1796-1880), was a British Barrister and Secretary of the Board of Trade, and his wife, Jane Noble Booth (d. 1872); Thomas Milner Gibson (1806-1884), was a British politician; Henry Bellenden Ker (1785?-1871), British legal reformer. From the...

Davenport, William Edwards, 1862-

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Richards, Theodore W. (Theodore William), 1868-1928

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Theodore W. Richards graduated from Harvard in 1886. From the description of Chemistry notebooks and bluebook, 1885-1886. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073083 From the description of First forensic and forensic thesis, 1885-1886. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073084 Harvard professor and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry. From the description of Letter to Sally Fairchild, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 5120...

Cox, Fred Henry

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Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909

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Army officer and railroad builder; founder of Colorado Springs. From the description of Papers, 1862-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 11375487 Army officer and railroad builder. From the description of Papers, 1878-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 11408547 American railroad president, pioneer of the West, founder of a number of towns including Colorado Springs, Colorado, and developer of mining and industrial projects. From the descri...

Vernon, William Warren, 1834-1919

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Councilman, W. T. (William Thomas), 1854-1933

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Councilman (University of Maryland, M.D., 1878) was a pathologist and taught at Harvard from 1892 to 1923. From the description of Papers of William Thomas Councilman, 1914-1951 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281427949 ...

Hogarth, Georgina, 1827-1917

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Sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Higham, to an unidentified recipient, 1863 Jan 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270476275 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Charles B. Shepheard, 1899 Jun. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269605841 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mr. [Charles?] Reade, 1878 June 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 471792184 From the ...

Nutting, I H

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Marquand, Henry Gurdon, 1819-1902

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New York financier Henry Gurdon Marquand (1819-1902) was a member of the Provisional Committee to establish a museum of art in New York City (1869), an early Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1871-1902), Treasurer (1883-1889), and its second President (1889-1902). For over three decades Marquand spent his fortune carefully acquiring artwork to decorate his Madison Avenue mansion and to enlarge the Metropolitan{u2019}s then modest holdings. From the description of Henry Gurdo...

Warren, SalomÈ (Machado)

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Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903

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Landscape architect. From the description of Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952 (bulk 1838-1903). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979908 American landscape designer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Charles A. Dana, 1876 July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872066 Landscape architect. Related material in Biography and Genealogy Files under 'F.L. Olmsted.' From the description ...

Lewis, Frederic Thomas, 1875-

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Norton, Rupert, 1867-

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Gage, Mabel Carleton.

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Trover, Allen.

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Akers, Paul.

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Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910

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Epithet: Italian scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001109.0x0000a4 ...

Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902

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Godkin was an editor and political writer. He was founder and first editor of The Nation (founded in 1865) and later also editor of the New York Evening Post. From the description of Edwin Lawrence Godkin papers, 1845-1927. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612368182 American journalist and essayist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, Wednesday 12th. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269587330 Edwin Lawrence Godkin was an author, journ...

Colburn, William Gardner, d. 1875

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George, A G

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Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 1833-1902

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American-born bookseller and bibliographer in England. From the description of Facsimile of an autograph letter signed, with an appended autograph note signed : London, to J.W. Dean of Boston, librarian and genealogist, 1886 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874706 Machinist and Union soldier serving in the band of the 1st Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers; from Tilton (Belknap Co.), N.H. From the description of Papers, 1861-1879. (Duke University Librar...

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...

Dunn, Robinson Potter, 1825-1867

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Class of 1843. From the description of Letters, 1857-1858, Providence, R.I., to Samuel Coffin Eastman. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122545705 Robinson Potter Dunn (1825-1867), son of Theophilus Colhoun Dunn ( -1871) and Elizabeth Robinson Potter Dunn ( - ), was born in Newport, R.I. He graduated from Brown University in 1843 and was assistant librarian and French instructor at Brown from 1843 to 1845. He graduated from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1848 an...

Gardner, Dorsey, 1842-1894

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Eames, Charles E

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Garrison, Lloyd McKim, 1867-1900

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American lawyer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, Mass., 1890 Mar. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269567055 ...

McKim, James Miller, 1810-1874

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Bright, Henry Arthur, 1830-1884

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Epithet: shipowner British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000629.0x000121 English merchant and author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (6) : mostly Liverpool, to Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1860 Sept. 8-1865 Nov. 7 and [no year] Sept. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270134470 ...

Cambon, Jules, 1845-1935

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Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914

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Adolph Bandelier was a prominent archaeologist in the Southwest and Latin America. His second wife Fanny Ritter Bandelier was intimately involved with his professional career, most often as a translator. The Bandeliers' were in Spain, locating and translating Spanish documents pertaining to the Southwest, at the time of Adolph's death in 1914. Fanny Ritter Bandelier finished the work in Spain, returned to the United States, and taught at Fisk University until her death in 1936. From ...

Rayner, Tyrrell.

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Butler, James Davie, 1815-1905

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Blodget, Lorin, 1823-1901

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Lorin Blodget was a statistician, climatologist, and publicist. From the description of Observers and correspondents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1854. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122347494 From the guide to the Observers and correspondents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1854, 1854, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Forbes, Isabella

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Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902

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Editor, Harper's Weekly. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, New York, to Eben Hannaford, 1863 Dec. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270502740 American editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, [to Harper & Brothers], 1854 Oct. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270502749 ...

McGrath, Bernard, d. 1907

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Dickson, Frederick Stoever, 1850-1925

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Frederick Stoever Dickson, Sr. (Yale 1871) collected and wrote in the area of 18th century English literature, especially regarding Henry Fielding. He also had an interest in Abenaki languages. From the description of Frederick Stoever Dickson papers relating to Abenaki languages, 1883-1923 (bulk 1917-23). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702181250 Frederick Stoever Dickson (1850-1925), lawyer and author. From the description of Frederick Stoever Dickson collection...

Patterson, Robert Fletcher.

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Jones, Samuel Arthur, 1834-1912

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

Smith, J.

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Epithet: of Add MS 38304 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x0003d1 Epithet: of Add MS 38251 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x0003cf Epithet: of Add MS 32865 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x0003cb Epithet: of Tidworth, n...

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...

Flamini, Francesco, 1868-1922

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Cleveland, Sarah Perkins, 1818-1893

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Sarah Perkins Cleveland, wife of Henry Russell Cleveland, was prominent in social, literary, and political circles in 19th-century Boston. Catherine Eliot Norton was the mother and Grace Norton, the sister of the American author and Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton. From the guide to the Letters to Catherine Eliot Norton and Grace Norton, 1847-1898 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Sarah Perkins Cleveland, wife of Henry Russe...

Hazewell, Charles Creighton.

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Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895

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William Wetmore Story was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1840, left the United States in 1847 and spent the rest of his life in Rome. There he began his career as a sculptor, working mostly in marble. From the description of Letters sent, 1860, 1875. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77798425 American expatriate William Wetmore Story had talent and success in diverse pursuits. After graduating from Harvard, he practised law in Bo...

Acland, Thomas Dyke, Sir, 1809-1898

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Title: 10th Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x000021 ...

Stebbins, Rufus P. (Rufus Phineas), 1810-1885

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Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904

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English sanitary reformer and pathologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Folkestone, to John Ruskin, 1884 July 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664101 ...

Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

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U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. From the description of George Frisbie Hoar letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694733616 George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts (1877-1904). From the description of Autograph collection, 1598-1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405022 From the guide to the George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-194...

Hazeltine, Mayo Williamson, 1841-1909

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Editor, journalist, and lawyer. From the description of Letter of Mayo Williamson Hazeltine, 1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453688 ...

Keene, H.G. (Henry George), 1825-1915

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Wilder, David, 1949-....

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Johnson, Thomas Moore, 1851-1919

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Clough, Arthur Hugh

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Epithet: son of the poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x00024e Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x0001c0 ...

Hudson, C W

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Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932

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American author and educator; professor of history of art, Rutgers University. From the description of Autobiography, 1929. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28743604 Librarian, art historian and critic, and professor of art at Rutgers College, of New Brunswick, N.J. From the description of My golden age : personal narrative of American life from 1861 to 1931, 1931. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70958363 ...

Dwight, John Sullivan, 1813-1893

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John Sullivan Dwight was a Transcendentalist writer and critic on literature, social concerns, and, especially, music. A sometime resident of Brook Farm, he also taught music and Latin, and translated French and German literature into English. He is perhaps most respected for founding and editing the influential and long-lived music periodical, Dwight's Journal of Music. From the description of John S. Dwight letter to Thomas Carlyle, 1838 Oct. 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

Alger, William Rounseville, 1822-1905

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Unitarian minister and poet. From the description of Letters and poem, 1863 Aug. 24-1872 Aug. 4. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166329703 Massachusetts clergyman and author. From the description of Note, 1847. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31187642 American author. From the description of ALS, [1874 August], North Hampton, N. H., to Mr. Morrell. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935455 Will...

Longfellow, Alice M. (Alice Mary), 1850-1928

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Born 22 September 1850 to Henry Wadsworth and Frances Appleton Longfellow, Alice Longfellow lived a privileged life with her family in Cambridge, enjoying her studies and developing a love of travel after a visit to Maine in 1863, when she was only 12 years old. After the death of her mother in 1861, Longfellow took on something of a caretaker role to her two younger sisters, earning her the depiction of "grave Alice" in her father's famous poem, The Children's Hour. At the age of 21, Alice Lo...

Lock, E

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Campbell, J. G.

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Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

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Educator, author, and naturalist. From the description of Papers of David Starr Jordan, 1861-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068098 Zoologist David Starr Jordan was elected president of Indiana University in 1885. He left IU in 1891 to become Stanford University's first president. Jordan died in 1931. From the description of David Starr Jordan papers, 1874-1929, bulk 1895-1929. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 61225195 American ichthyolog...

Rowse, Samuel Worcester, 1822-1901

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Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, 1822-1895

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Octavius Brooks Frothingham was an American clergyman and author. Born in Boston and educated at Harvard, he began as a Unitarian pastor, although his congregation evolved into the Independent Liberal Church. He was a renowned speaker, and author of numerous religious and secular works. Often controversial, often radical, he was an active abolitionist and early supporter of Darwin. From the description of O.B. Frothingham letter to My dear sir, 1886 Nov. 11. (Pennsylvania State Unive...

Pumpelly, Raphael, 1837-1923

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Raphael Pumpelly (1837-1923), American geologist and explorer, studied at the Royal School of Mines in Freiberg. He accepted a post in 1861 as a geologist for the Japanese government, and served two years in that position before traveling on through China, Mongolia, and Russia. He returned to the U.S. to study iron and copper deposits in Michigan and the Lake Superior district and from 1884-89 served as head of the New England division of the U.S. Geological Survey. In 1903 and 1904 he led exped...

Orcutt, William Dana, 1870-1953

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American author and book designer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) and typewritten letter signed : Boston and Cambridge, to Mr. F. A. Duneka of Harper & Brothers, 1908 Feb. 16-1910 Sept. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611528 Dr. George F. Reynolds (1877-1964), noted Shakespearean and Biblical scholar, was professor of English literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He served as head of the Department of Comparative and ...

Whitmore, Frederic

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King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950

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King was a Canadian politician and served as prime minister of Canada for 21 years (1921-1930 and 1935-1948). Elizabeth Gaskell Norton (b. 1866) was the daughter of Charles Eliot Norton, editor, literary scholar, and professor of fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, 1906-1911. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390084 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F237 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person...

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...

Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882

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Unitarian minister; President, United States Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. From the description of Henry W. Bellows letters, 1861-1863. (Columbia University in the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 62754818 New York City resident and Unitarian clergyman. From the description of Letter, 1844. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31526778 Henry Whitney Bellows (1814-1882) was born in Boston and received a B.A. from Harvard Colleg...

Perkins, Edward Newton, d. 1899.

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Edward Newton Perkins received his A.B. from Harvard in 1841. From the description of Natural history papers, 1838. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072775 ...

Moore, Edward, 1835-1916

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Ashburner, Walter, 1864-1936

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Towse, W. B.

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Wasson, David Atwood, 1823-1887

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David Atwood Wasson was born in West Brooksville, Maine, went to Bowdoin for two years, and then to a theological seminary in Bangor. He moved to Boston and was a protégé of Theodore Parker. Most of his writings were essays and sermons. His Poems (1888), and Essays, religious, social, political (1889), were published posthumously. From the description of Chapter X, the divided house, between 1880 and 1887?. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 61325323 ...

Cleveland, Henry R. (Henry Russell), 1808-1843

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Purcell, A. M., sister.

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Hodge, J T

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Curtis, Augusta Lawler (Stacey)

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Warren, Winslow, 1838-1930

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Warren received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1861) and practiced law in Boston. From 1894-1898 he served as collector for the Port of Boston. From the description of Letters to Winslow Warren, 1886-1908. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235163235 ...

Maitland, Florence (Fisher)

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Lane, John, 1854-1925

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Loeb, James, 1867-1933

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Arnold, W.D. (William Delafield), 1828-1859

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Son of Thomas Arnold Epithet: army officer and novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x000059 ...

Hammond, William B

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Darwin, Leonard, 1850-1943

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Leonard Darwin was born on 15 January 1850, fourth son of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He joined the Royal Engineers as a soldier in 1871 and became a Major in 1890, teaching at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham from 1877 to 1882. Being interested in various branches of science, he had been commissioned to carry out astronomical observations on the Transit of Venus expeditions of 1874 and 1882, and also to observe solar eclipses in distant countries. Darwin went on to ...

Pepoli, C

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Brenner, Victor D. (Victor David), 1871-1924

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Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Victor David Brenner letters, 1909-1914. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557389 ...

Sturgis, Julia Overing Boit

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The Boston transcript, Boston.

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Norton, C. B. Adderley (Charles Bowyer Adderley), Baron, 1814-1905

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English baron. From the description of Letter, 1876. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34070076 ...

Seaver, Benjamin F

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Mariott, L de

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Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876

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American jurist and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Annapolis, Maryland, to Jonathan Meredith, 1841 Feb. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270486276 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Annapolis, Maryland, to Jonathan Meredith, 1830 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270486259 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to "My dear Otho", 1845 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270491319 ...

Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James), 1842-1913

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Wilson, Louis N., 1857-1937

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French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936

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Hazard, Caroline, 1856-

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Planthok, Mrs. Charles.

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Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

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Charles Eliot Norton was an American author, editor, and teacher. He was a professor of the history of fine arts at Harvard. Eliot Norton was his son. From the guide to the Charles Eliot Norton letters to Eliot Norton, 1867-1908., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American author, editor, and educator. From the description of Letter to Edwin D. Mead [manuscript], 1881 May 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814472 ...

Wade, John Ross.

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North, Ernest Dressel, 1858-1945

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Rare-book dealer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 20 November 1914, to Mr. [Harry Harkness] Flagler, 1914 Nov. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582991 ...

Russell, Margaret Manning (Swan)

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Nichol, R.T.

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Davis, Samuel Warren.

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Buswell, Henry F. (Henry Foster), 1842-1919

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Buswell earned his Harvard AB in 1866. From the description of Scrapbook belonging to Henry F. Buswell, 1862-1866. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 236231814 ...

Beaman, Charles C. (Charles Cotesworth), 1840-1900

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Dana, A H

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Boylston, F J

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Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928

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English author and statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland, to T.J. Cobden Sanderson, 1889 Jan. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573152 English author and statesman; nephew of Macaulay. From the description of Autograph letter signed : House of Commons, to Moncure Conway, 1880 Jul. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573156 British politician and author. From the description of [Let...

Ticknor, firm, publishers, Boston.

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Newman, Henry Roderick, 1843(ca.)-1918.

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Smith, Samuel, d. 1880

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Schuyler, Eugène, 1840-1890

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American diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Florence, to Dr. J. H. Ridder, 1887 July 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270860310 Diplomat, scholar, and author. From the description of Eugene Schuyler papers, 1873-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71062318 ...

Hicks, Benjamin D

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Hamilton, James Baillie.

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Ehrich, Louis R., 1849-1911

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Louis Rinaldo Ehrich received his B.A. from Yale in 1869. He was a member of the dry goods firm of Ehrich Brothers in New York City from 1870-1886. Between 1889-1905, Ehrich served as vice-president of the Colorado Springs and Manitou Street Railway Company, the Manitou Mineral Water Company, and the Colorado City Land and Improvement Company. He was president of the Ehrich Galleries in New York City. Louis Ehrich died in London in 1911. From the description of Louis Rinaldo Ehrich p...

Blake, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1840-1907

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Blake was an American author. From the description of Letter, 1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83258150 ...

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 ...

Brimmer, Martin, 1829-1896

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Brimmer was a collector and first president of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Sarah Wyman Whitman was a Boston painter and patron of the arts, born in Baltimore in 1842. She died in Boston in 1904. From the description of Martin Brimmer letters, 1880-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779476819 From the description of Martin Brimmer letters, 1880-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557019 ...

Cowell, Edward B. (Edward Byles), 1826-1903

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Edward Byles Cowell (1826-1903), scholar and man of letters, was born in Ipswich on 23 January 1826. He studied Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic, before training in his father's business as a merchant and maltster from 1842. He entered Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1850 (B.A., 1854), and catalogued manuscripts for the Bodleian Library. Cowell was Professor of English History at Presidency College, Calcutta, 1856-1864, and became Principal of the Sanskrit College in Calcutta in 1858. He returned to En...

Force, Manning Ferguson, 1824-1899.

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cincinnati, to William W. Belknap, 1873 Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517911 ...

Tavern club, Boston.

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Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930

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Woodberry (1855-1930) was an American poet, critic, and educator. From the description of George Edward Woodberry lectures delivered at Bowdoin College, 1912. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612844136 Woodberry (1855-1930) was an American poet, critic, and educator. He graduated from Harvard College in 1877, was professor of English at the University of Nebraska (1877-1878, 1880-1882) and professor in the Columbia University Dept. of Comparative Literature (1891-19...

Fraser, James, 1818-1885

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Boccafurni, Vincenzo

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Romanousky, Colonel

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Wigmore, John Henry, 1863-1943

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Wigmore was a professor of law at Northwestern University and Dean of Faculty of Law from 1901-1929, as well as a prolific author. From the description of Letters, 1926, 1940. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235928469 John Henry Wigmore was born March 4, 1863, at San Francisco, California, one of several children of John and Harriet (Joyner) Wigmore. John Henry Wigmore, called Harry by his parents, received his early education at San Francisco'...

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Loines, Russell Hillard, 1874-1922.

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Crompton, Florence (Gaskell) 1842-1881

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Browne, Albert G. (Albert Gallatin), 1835-1891

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Browne was a 1854 graduate of Harvard Law School, a member of the Massachusetts bar and a reporter of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. From the description of Letter to Mason W. Tappan, 1859. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338944 ...

Welsh, Charles, 1850-1914

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Charles Welsh was born in Ramsgate, Kent, England on December 22, 1850, to Charles and Susannah Welsh. After attending national schools in Ashford, Kent, Welsh trained as a blacksmith in addition to receiving certificates in arithmetic, English literature and French. In 1868, Welsh went to work for The British Trade Journal as a reporter, using his knowledge of mechanics to write about new agricultural machinery. A publishing career soon followed with positions at Henry...

Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904

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American essayist and critic. From the description of A little lord, a little king : Onteora, to Elsie Leslie : autograph poem, 1896 July 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269553663 American essayist and critic; literary editor, Harper's Magazine. From the description of Shakspere's Comedies by E.A. Abbey : autograph manuscript unsigned of the first page of the review : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555409 From the description of Autogr...

Peabody, O W

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Folk, Joseph Wingate, 1869-1923

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Geismar, Adolph.

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Endicott, William, jr.

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Goodman, M F

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Stone, Lincoln Ripley.

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Clarke, George C

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Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892

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Cyrus West Field (1819-1892) was a merchant and capitalist who promoted the laying of the first Atlantic cable linking the U.S. with Europe. He formed a company to build cable communications between Newfoundland and Ireland, helped establish elevated trains in New York City, and participated in the development of the Wabash Railroad. Other business ventures included ownership of a New York newspaper, the Mail and Express. From the description of Cyrus W. Field papers, 1831-1905, bulk...

Mills, Charles D. B. (Charles De Berard), 1821-1900

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Grote, Arthur, 1814-1886

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Babbott, Frank Lusk, 1854-1933

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Fosgate, Blanchard

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Sturgis, J. H. (John Hubbard), 1834-1888

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Architect. Partner in Bryant and Gilman (1861-1866) and principal designer with Charles Brigham (1866-1886). Introduced terra cotta into the design of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Copley Square) in the 1880s. Clients included: Samuel Ward, Ogden Codman, Edward D. Boit, Jr., Henry Cabot Lodge, Edward N. Perkins, Hollis Hunnewell, Charles Sprague Sargent, Frederick L. Ames and Isabella Stewart Gardner. From the description of Papers, 1853-1909. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id...

Holden, Edwin B. (Edwin Babcock), 1861-1906

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Mormon in Kanesville, Iowa. From the description of Letter, ca. 1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122322636 Edwin Babcock Holden was a member of the Grolier Club (a New York City bibliophile society), served on its council, and was president at the time of his death. He was an important book collector whose main interests centered around Americana, English literature, sixteenth and seventeenth century printed books, and French illustrated books. After Holden's death, his ...

Meyer, George von Lengerke, 1858-1918

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U.S. ambassador to Italy and to Russia, U.S. postmaster general, and U.S. secretary of the navy. From the description of George von Lengerke Meyer papers, 1901-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78817587 Biographical Note 1858, June 24 Born, Boston, Mass. 1879 Graduated, Harvard University, Cambridge,...

Humphreys, Charles Alfred, 1838-

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Phyfe, William Henry P. (William Henry Pinkney), 1855-1915

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Chawner, William, 1848-1911

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Kinne, H C

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Howard, Joseph Dana.

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Stone, William L. (William Leete), 1835-1908

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Author and editor; son of William Leete Stone (1792-1844). From the description of William L. Stone letter, [between 1860 and 1880] July 22. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 174141677 Journalist and historian. The son of William L. Stone (1792-1844) and a graduate of Brown (1858), William Leete Stone compiled and edited source works on the history of the American Revolution. From the description of Letter : Saratoga Springs, ...

Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899

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Bookseller. From the description of Letter, 1885 July 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497058 From the guide to the Bernard Quaritch letter, 1885, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Warren, Minton

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Severn, Joan Ruskin (Agnew)

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Tucker, Robert Tudor.

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Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1834-1905

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Deyo, Amanda

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Bainbridge & co., Madras.

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Selby, William Court Gully 1835-

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Lane, Gardiner Martin, 1859-1914.

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Mitchell, Walter, 1826-1908

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Davis, Lily (Armstrong)

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Hoar, Samuel, 1845-1904

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Prothero, sir George Walter, 1848-1922

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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...

Bennett, R. T

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Jennison, M E E

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Larrabee, L L

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Burges ? Arthur.

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Fliot, Amory.

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Davis, Joseph Barnard, 1801-1881

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Epithet: craniologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0003e8 ...

Warren, Wilmot L

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Diaz, Abby Morton, 1821-1904

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Abby Morton Diaz (1821-1904) was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Her father, Ichabod Morton, was a social reformer involved in anti-slavery, temperance, and (with Horace Mann) education movements. Abby was secretary for the Juvenile Anti-Slavery Society as a girl. Her family moved to the Brook Farm Community in 1842, where Abby stayed to teach until 1847. She married Manuel Diaz, a Cuban, in 1845. They later separated. Abby taught singing and opened a dancing school in Plymouth. She published h...

White, Alain Campbell, 1880-1951

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Hutchinson, Charles Lawrence, 1854-1924

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Hutchinson was president of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1882-1924. From the description of Charles L. Hutchinson papers, 1880-1924. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 715307217 Chicago financier, trustee and philanthropist. Charles Lawrence Hutchinson was born in 1854. In 1856 his family moved from Lynn, Massachusetts, to Chicago, where his father, Benjamin P. Hutchinson, became a successful grain merchant, meat-packer, and one of the fo...

Tissot, James Jacques Joseph, 1836-1902

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French artist. From the description of James Tissot Letters, 1878-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81602067 French painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Jerusalem, to his publisher, Maurice de Brunhoff, 1896 Apr. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572668 ...

Cowper, Hon. Henry Frederick, 1836-1887

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Weld, Charles S F

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Stearns, Wallace N. (Wallace Nelson), 1866-

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Griswold, W. M. (William McCrillis), 1853-1899

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Ewing, E C

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Villari, Pasquale, 1827-1917

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Italian historian, statesman and educator. From the description of Autograph letter in Italian signed : [n.p.] to Dr. Baldwin, 1893 June 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270861028 Italian historian and political figure. From the description of Autograph letter signed (while he was deputy) : to an unidentified woman, 1872 Jan. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270585509 ...

Clough, Anne Jemima, 1820-1892.

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English educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hastings, to W.A. Knight, 1891 Dec. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270904351 ...

Wigglesworth, E. (Edward), 1804-1876

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Anderson, Rufus, 1796-1880

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American Congregational clergyman; secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1832-66. From the guide to the Rufus Anderson letters and correspondence, 1826-1874, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Packard, Lewis R. (Lewis Richard), 1836-1884

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Lewis Richard Packard graduated from Yale College in 1856. He taught Greek language and literature at Yale, 1859-1884. From the description of Lewis Richard Packard writings on ancient Greek language and on Immanuel Kant, [18--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79171152 From the description of Lewis Richard Packard writings on ancient Greek language and on Immanuel Kant, [18--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702153238 ...

Tower, James P

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Shea, Thomas Knight.

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Warner, Hermann Jackson, 1831-1916

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Cooke, Josiah P., Jr. (Josiah Parsons), 1827-1894

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Cooke (Harvard, A.B., 1848) taught chemistry and mineralogy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Josiah Parsons Cooke, 1859-1893 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069349 ...

Washburn, Emory, 1800-1877

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Governor of Massachusetts, writer and law teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Worcester, Mass., to Junius S. Morgan, 1841 Nov. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659722 Washburn was a judge on the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas (1844-1847), Governor of Massachusetts (1854-1855), and professor at Harvard Law School (1856-1876). From the description of Letters, 1850, 1866. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234779790 ...

Mundy, A

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Yates, William H

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Pratt, Bela Lyon, 1867-1917

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Sculptor. From the description of Bela Lyon Pratt papers, 1884-1918. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132900 American sculptor. From the description of Bela L. Pratt Letters to Michael S. O'Donnell, 1908, 1909. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 71224886 Sculptor, teacher; Boston, Mass.; b. 1867; d. 1917 Studied at Yale, Art Students League, and with Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Kenyon Cox, and William Merritt Chase, and ot...

Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874

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B. 1818 d. 1874. From the description of Hammat Billings : Artist Files. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228433073 ...

Rawlinson, W. G. (William George), 1840-1928

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Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904