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Robinson, Therese, 1797-1870

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Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob Robinson was an author, linguist and translator. She published under the pseudonym Talvj, an acronym derived from the initials of her birth name. She was born 1797 in Halle and accompanied her father's appointment to the University of Charkow, Russia, where she studied Slavic languages. In 1816, the family moved back to Halle. She translated Walter Scott's Old Mortality and The Black Dwarf, which she published under the pseudonym Ernst Berthold. Talvj was the pe...

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...

Burgmüller, Friedrich, 1806-1874

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Dempster, William R. (William Richardson), 1809-1871

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Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

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Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American revolutionary, statesman and Founding Father of the United States. Hamilton was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution, the founder of the Federalist Party, as well as a founder of the nation's financial system, the United States Coast Guard, and the New York Post newspaper. As the first secretary of the treasury, Hamilton was the main author of the economic policies of the administration of P...

Balfe, M. W. (Michael William), 1808-1870

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Irish composer and singer. British composer. Michael William Balfe (15 May 1808 – 20 October 1870) was an Irish composer, best remembered for his operas, especially The Bohemian Girl. (Wikipedia contributors, "Michael William Balfe," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_William_Balfe&oldid=1100078344 (accessed September 9, 2022). M. W. (Michael William) Balfe was an Irish composer, singer, and conductor. Balfe began his musical career as a ...

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847

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Felix Mendelssohn, composer of the early Romantic period. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio St. Paul, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, the mature Violin Concerto and the String Octet. A grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a prominent Jewish family. He was brought up without religion until the age of seven, when he was bapt...

Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856

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Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry set to music by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. He is considered a member of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities—which, however, only added to his fame. He spent the last 25 years of his life as...

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general. As a scientist, he was a major figure in ...

Griswold, Rufus Willmot, 1815-1857

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Rufus Wilmot Griswold (February 13, 1815 – August 27, 1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic. Born in Vermont, Griswold left home when he was 15 years old. He worked as a journalist, editor, and critic in Philadelphia, New York City, and elsewhere. He built a strong literary reputation, in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America. This anthology, the most comprehensive of its time, included what he deemed the best examples of American poetry. He produc...

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...

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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

Ford, Emily Ellsworth Fowler, 1826-1893

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Emily Ellsworth (Fowler) Ford (1826-1893), a granddaughter of Noah Webster (1748-1843) the lexicographer, and daughter of William Chauncey Fowler (1793-1881) a professor of rhetoric and oratory and English literature at Amherst College (1838-1843), grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved to Brooklyn, New York in late 1853 upon her marriage to Gordon Lester Ford (1823-1891), a businessman and lawyer. Ford came from a prominent family, well-connected within both social and literary ...

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

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

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

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Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted co...

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 ...

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898

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Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodson was born in England at Daresbury, Cheshire, to Charles Dodgson, an Anglican clergyman, and his wife Frances Jane Lutwidge on January 27, 1832. In 1851, Dodgson matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1855 was appointed to a mathematical lectureship in that college, of which he remained a member for the rest of his life. A lifelong interest in writing, combined with a predisposition for story telling, word play, and games, led to a unique liter...

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

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

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...

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...

Adams, John, 1735-1826

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John Adams (1735-1826) was the second president of the United States, born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. He served as defense counsel for British soldiers accused of Boston Massacre in 1770; as delegate to Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778; as member of committee charged with drafting Declaration of Independence in 1776; as congressional commissioner to France from 1778 to 1779; as minister to United Provinces in 1780; and negotiated a loan from Dutch bankers in 1782. Adams join...

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.) ...

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859

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William Hickling Prescott, born in Salem, Massachusetts to a prominent family, wrote romantic and highly-regarded works of Spanish and Latin American history. From the guide to the Letters to Richard Bentley, 1837-1858., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

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 ...

Guizot, François, 1787-1874

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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) was a French historian and statesman. A constitutional monarchist, he was one of the most significant politicians during Louis Philippe's July Monarchy, holding various offices including Minister of Education (1832-1837) and Prime Minister (1847-1848). He was forced to resign from politics during the Revolution of 1848 and afterward focused on his work as a historian. From the guide to the François Guizot Letter, 1848, (Special Collection...

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...

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834

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Charles Lamb was born to John and Elizabeth (Field) Lamb in London on February 10, 1775. Two of his siblings survived to adulthood, John (1763-1821) and Mary Ann (1764-1847). Charles Lamb studied at Christ's Hospital but left the school at the age of fifteen due to his chronic stammering. He began working as a secretary and later entered the mercantile trade, joining the East India Company as a clerk in the accounting department in 1792. Mental illness ran in the Lamb family, and C...

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

Dickinson (Family : Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886)

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These objects, most of which are on permanent display in the Dickinson Room at Houghton Library, were included as part of the acquisition of the Dickinson papers in 1950. At the time of the purchase, the artifacts were physically located at The Evergreens, many displayed in "The Emily Room" created by Martha Dickinson Bianchi to memorialize her aunt, the poet Emily Dickinson. Most of these artifacts were originally located at the Homestead prior to its sale by Martha Dickinson Bianchi in 1916. ...

Sinclair, John (composer), active 1844

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Composer of the music to The Bonnie Clay Flag. From Dickinson family library: https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/archival_objects/1787936 ...

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...

Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564

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Epithet: sculptor, painter, poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x0002d2 ...

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875

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Danish author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (29) and letter signed, to Richard Bentleyand an autograph letter signed to George Bentley : Copenhagen, etc. 1848 July 12-1873 Mar. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131871 Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish writer, especially famed for his fairy tales. From the description of Stories translated from the German of Hans Andersen by S.C. Winthrop, ca. 1850-1900. (Pennsylvania State University Li...

Dickinson, Susan Huntington, 1830-1913

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Harris, John, 1802-1856

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Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900

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

Parker, Joel, 1795-1875

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Parker, jurist, was professor of law at Harvard Law School (1848-1868). In 1861, he published his Personal Liberty Laws (Statutes of Massachusetts) and Slavery in the Territories which was probably based on this and other articles for the Boston Journal. From the description of Letters, 1853-1866 (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235078843 American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge [Mass.], to William M. Evarts, 1...

Gasparin, Valerie

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Livie

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Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859

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English essayist and poet. From the description of [Letters] / Leigh Hunt. [1848-1856] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 234302986 From the description of Criticism on female beauty : notes, ca. 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510755 Leigh Hunt moved from Chelsea to Kensington in 1840. From the description of Leigh Hunt, letter : Kensington, England : Autograph note signed, [1840?] Nov. 22. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...

Dan D. Emmit.

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L. W. Stanton

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Aunt Matty.

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Ernesti, Johann Heinrich Martin, 1755-1836

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Cummings, Preston, 1800-1875

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Susan Gilbert Dickinson.

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Wilson, John, 1785-1854

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Scottish poet and critic, "Christopher North." From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to an unidentified correspondent, 1842 Oct. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270587437 "Christopher North". Scottish author. From the description of Autograph note signed with initials : [n.p.], to his wife, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588898 John Wilson (1785-1854) was a Scottish author, the "Christopher North" of Blackwood's Magaz...

Mrs. Edward Dickinson A present from Prof. Fiske Nov. 1844.

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Savage, Minot J. (Minot Judson), 1841-1918

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Minot Judson Savage was an American Unitarian clergyman and writer. He led congregations throughout the United States, including California, Chicago, Boston, and New York, openly supporting Darwin's evolutionary theories and social reform. Some of his most popular books discussed his views on life after death. From the description of Minot J. Savage letter to Mrs. King, 1904. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51590010 Church of the Unity minister...

Trench, Richard C.

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Massachusetts. General Court

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The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It consisted of colony freemen (company stockholders); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants (magistrates) chosen by them. The latter group met separately as a Court of Assistants, but in 1634 its legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole (Ma...

Parks, Edwards Amass, ed.

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Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train), 1824-1906

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Whitney was an author and opponent of women's suffrage. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letter, 1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007365 American author, chiefly of books for girls; also published several volumes of verse. From the description of Papers of A.D.T. Whitney [manuscript], 1866-1905. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837187 Poet and writer of b...

D. Ross.

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Lavinia Dickinson

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Herbert, George, 1593-1633

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Epithet: Reverend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000447.0x0000a5 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x0002dd Epithet: of Chelsea British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x0001a4 Epithet: of Add MS 37881 British L...

Webster, Noah, 1758-1843

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American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, word enthusiast, and editor; b. in Hartford, Conn.; attended Yale and taught school in the Hartford area; moved to New Haven, Conn., in 1798. From the description of Noah Webster papers, 1786-1980. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 319706045 Noah Webster (1758-1843) was an American lexicographer, author and editor. He is best known for his spellers (early spelling textbooks) and his ...

T. Dickinson

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, and philosopher. From the description of Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 36 items, 1792-1832 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122919490 From the guide to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 37 items, 1792-1832, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: poet and philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscript...

Rev. W. Emerson.

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Fowler, J. A.

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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848

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Emily Bronte was a British poet and novelist. Born on July 30, 1818, she began writing poetry at the age of eighteen and continued throughout her life although the poems were not intended for publication. Her only novel, Wuthering Heights, was published in 1847....

Sumner, Charles

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Epithet: US statesman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x000103 ...

Greenleaf, Simon, 1783-1853

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Simon Greenleaf was born on December 5, 1783 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he attended the Latin School from 1790-1799. In 1801, he entered apprenticeship in Ezekiel Whitman's Gloucester, Maine law office. In June 1806, Cumberland County, Maine admitted Greenleaf to the Bar. On September 18, 1806, Greenleaf married Hannah Kingman, daughter to Capt. Ezra Kingman of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. From 1807-1817, Greenleaf practiced law in Gray, Maine before moving his law practi...

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644

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Rev. B

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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...

Sprague, William B. (William Buell), 1795-1876

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Clergyman and autograph collector from Albany, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1830-1843. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 33203510 American pastor, collector, and biographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Albany, N.Y., to [Andrew Preston Peabody?], 1866 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 751989045 William Buell Sprague (1795-1876) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and author. A graduate of Yale and of Pri...

Huntington, F. D. (Frederic Dan), 1819-1904

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Huntington graduated from Harvard in 1842, taught Christian morals and served as Preacher at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Frederic Dan Huntington, 1869. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972795 Frederick Dan Huntington (1819-1904) graduated from Amherst College in 1839. In 1842, he graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was ordained to the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) in Boston. In 1855, he became a preacher at Harvard College and joine...

U.S. Congress. Joint select committee on condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states.

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E. W. Storrs

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Mrs. Samuel Farrar

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Putz, Wilhelm, 1806-1877

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Crowell, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1830-1911

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Davis, Mrs Sarah Matilda

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O. H. Wilson

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Emily Dickinson

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Emily E. Dickinson

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Massachusetts. General Court. 1842.

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Babington Macaulay

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Dickinson, Mrs. Ellen E.

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Williamson, ...

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Epithet: of Add MS 12496 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001295.0x00003e ...

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.,...

Crabb, George, 1778-1851

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Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

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Amy Crowe (1831-1865) was a family friend who lived with Thackeray as his adopted daughter and later married Thackerays̓ cousin Edward Talbot Thackeray. From the description of [Letter] to Amy Crowe, 27 September [1854], 36 Onslow Sqr. Brompton. [1854] (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 35091085 Thackeray was an English novelist and satirist. J. Pearson and Co. and George William Childs were booksellers in London. Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchi...

Wilson, John

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x00034f Epithet: LLD, Town-Clerk of Congleton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000349 Epithet: Dr; of Trinity College, Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000345 Epith...

Cheever, George Barrell, 1807-1890

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American author, clergyman, reformer. From the description of Letters of George Barrell Cheever [manuscript], 1837-1859. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833549 George Barrell Cheever was born into a prosperous family in Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College. He was torn between Unitarian and Congregational beliefs but, influenced by his mother, he joined Andover Theological Seminary and became a minister, eventually embracing Congregationalist principles. H...

Dickinson, Samuel Fowler, 1775-1838

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Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895

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Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885

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Epithet: Major-General; of Add MS 44147 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000766.0x0000f0 British general who became a national hero for his exploits in China and his ill-fated defense of Khartuom against Sudanese rebels. From the description of Letter, 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 363531820 "Chinese" Gordon. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Southampton, t...

Morse, Sidney E. (Sidney Edwards), 1794-1871

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ks6vxr (person)

Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933

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English author and statesman. From the description of Good taste : an address delivered at a place of secondary education in England : autograph manuscript, [19--?]. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 53203384 British author. From the description of Letter of Augustine Birrell, 1921. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32960300 From the description of Letter to "Dear Seton" [manuscript], 1921. (University of Virginia). WorldCat re...

Gung'l, Josef, 1810-1889

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gf160h (person)

Hungarian bandmaster and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Kassel, 8 December 1883, to an unidentified recipient, 1883 Dec. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270578454 Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000544.0x000149 ...

Scott, John, Lady, 1810-1900

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Homerus, 1854. English. Backley.

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Adams, Nehemiah, 1806-1878

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American Congregational Minister. Author of "A South-side View of Slavery" which argued on behalf of a solution by the South of the problem of slavery. From the guide to the Nehemiah Adams letters, 1858-1862, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Mrs. Price Blackwood.

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Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867

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American journalist and poet. From the description of Letter : to "My dear fellow," [18--] July 12. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28900949 Willis was a journalist and writer of plays, poems and short stories. From the description of Letter, to Maunsell B. (Maunsell Bradhurst) Field, 1854 March 31. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122493287 Nathaniel Parker Willis was one of the highest paid periodical writers of his day, a poet, ...

Samuel Bowles

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Legendre, A. M. (Adrien Marie), 1752-1833

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H.G.

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G. L. F.

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Coleman, Lyman, 1796-1882

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Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592

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Epithet: dramatist and poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000757.0x0003bd ...

Curtis, Ariana Wormeley, 1833-1922

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Mr. Webster

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Dickinson Amherst

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Jenkins, Mac Gregor, 1869-

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Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885

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Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist and playwright. From the description of Victor Hugo collection, 1816-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702159680 From the description of Victor Hugo collection, 1816-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84010646 French writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to M. Cassin, 1831 Dec. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 759121359 French poet, novelist, dramatist. ...

La Motte Fouque, Friedrich, freiherr de, 1777-1843

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Faber, George Stanley, 1773-1854

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Epithet: Rector of Long Newton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x000040 ...

Baird, James Skerret Shore.

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Martha Gilbert Dickinson

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[Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.]

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English non conformist theologian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to his brother (Enoch?), 1731 Dec. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661040 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Daniel Gerdes, 1745/6 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661048 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to his brother Enoch, 1731 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661031 Minister and hymn writer. ...

Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680

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English satirist. From the description of Commonplace Book, [ca. 1640-1675]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122591840 ...

Dwight G. Cutler.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jv408h (person)

Williston, Seth.

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S. H. Susan Huntington Dickinson.

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Susan Huntington Dickinson D. G. C.

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Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923

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Oscar Browning (1837-1923), historian, was born in London on 17 January 1837. He attended Eton from 1850, and entered King's College, Cambridge, in 1856, where he became a fellow in 1859. He was assistant master at Eton, 1860-1875, before returning to King's, where he was appointed a lecturer in history in 1880. He became a university lecturer in 1883, and was principal of the Cambridge University day training college for teachers, which he was chiefly responsible for founding, 1891-1909. He lef...

Mrs. Emily N. Dickinson

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Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 1795-1854

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English judge and author, friend and executor of Charles Lamb. From the description of ALS : London, to Andrew Willis, 1847 Aug. 30. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122690123 Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854) was an English judge and author. From the description of Letters to Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, 1835-1844 (bulk 1835-1836). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122396791 English j...

Charles Mackay.

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Jackson, Catherine Charlotte, Lady

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Susan Coolidge

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Duncan

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Bailey, Philip James, 1816-1902

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M. D. Bianchi

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xt97tj (person)

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Oliver Goldsmith was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on February 21st, 1827. At sixteen years of age Mr. Goldsmith moved to New York City. In 1847 he concluded to travel west. He moved to Detroit with Colonel Isaac S. Miller, working in the manufacturing of tobacco until the winter of 1848. It was then that he purchased a share in a joint stock company, the "Wolverine Rangers", and with a party from Marshall, Michigan started for California. He would later author a book about the period of his lif...

Imogen Willis.

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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...

Waites, Alfred

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Martha I. Gilbert

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Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich

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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...

Olds, M. L.

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Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771

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British poet. From the description of Collection of notebooks containing Thomas Gray's notes on his reading, a catalog of his library, and a copy of his will : [England], 1740s-1770. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612342648 From the description of Autograph notes on Lysias and Isocrates, 1747 Mar. 20-1748 Mar. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270508038 From the description of Autograph notes on Thucydides and Xenophon : [England], [174-?]. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

Roberts, William, 1767-1849

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Barrister and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Geneva], to his sister, Mary, 1791 May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270972370 ...

Dickinson, Edward

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Seelye, Julius H. (Julius Hawley), 1824-1895

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1849 graduate of Amherst College. Clergyman, educator, author and politician. Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Amherst College, 1858-1877; President, 1877-1890. Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 44th Congress, 1875-1877. Trustee, Mount Holyoke College, 1872-1895. Member, Board of Visitors, Andover Theological Seminary, 1874-1892. Married Elizabeth Tillman James in 1854 and had four children: Anna, Mabel, Elizabeth and William. From the description of Seelye papers, 1824...

Herring, James, 1794-1867

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Portrait painter, New York City and elsewhere. From the description of Autobiography of James Herring, 1863. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58757444 Artist. From the description of Letter of James Herring, 1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450882 Portrait painter and engraver; New York City. Born in London, moved to U.S. in 1805. Worked as teacher, distiller, librarian, gallery operator and painter. Died in Paris. ...

Smith, Henry Goodwin, 1860-1940

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Thomas, Benjamin Franklin, 1813-1878

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Tourgée, Albion W. 1838-1905

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American politician and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to an unidentified recipient, 1882 Jun. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572884 Author, civil rights leader, and jurist Albion W. Tourgée was born May 2, 1838 in Williamsfield in the Western Reserve of Ohio, then a center of abolitionist activity. He attended the University of Rochester in New York, but left to enlist in the Union army during the Civil War. Wounded in battle...

Bloutt, Paul, 1848-1903

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Griffin, George, 1778-1860

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Fowler, William Chauncey, 1793-1881

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Rev. William Chauncey Fowler was a graduate of Yale and came to Middlebury College as Professor of Chemistry and Natural History (1827-1838) which included responsibility for obtaining laboratory supplies, and as Treasurer of the college (1830-1837) was involved in the first fund raising undertaken outside Vermont. From the description of William C. Fowler papers, 1828-1841. (Sheldon Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 609599933 ...

Trench, Marin

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Mrs. L. H. Sigourney

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Hattie Dickinson

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Kimball, Richard B. (Richard Burleigh), 1816-1892

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Author and lawyer. From the description of Letter of Richard B. Kimball, 1874. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423810 ...

Anthon, Charles, 1797-1867

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Professor of Greek at Columbia College. Anthon was involved in a controversy about the authenticity of the script of the Book of Mormon when Martin Harris got him to examine copies of some of the characters. From the description of Letter, portrait, and a newspaper clipping, 1849-1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367566945 American classical scholar. From the guide to the Charles Anthon letters, 1856, 1859, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archive...

Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ft929d (person)

Canon of St. Paul's; essayist and wit. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Paris], to Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, [no year]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270663579 Canon of St. Paul's. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Archibald Allison, [no year] Jan. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872261 English divine and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : C[ombe], Florey, Taunton, to M...

B. Dickinson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63d04rd (person)

Arnim, Bettina ˜vonœ 1785-1859

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German author and composer; friend of Goethe. From the description of Autograph manuscript signed of seven songs with piano accompaniment : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132380 German writer. From the description of Letter to K. A. Mende, ca.1845. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82458924 German poet, composer, singer, and sculptor. From the description of [Miscellaneous music manuscripts] [manuscript]. [1843?...

Lyman, Laura E. (Laura Elizabeth), 1831-1912

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Mathews, William, 1818-1909

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Epithet: of Thurles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000135.0x00003c ...

Edwin Drood.

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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 ...

Stophens, John Lloyd, 1805-1852

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S. B.

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Bayley, A. W.

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Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729

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Epithet: Lexicographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x00012a ...

Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich, 1763-1825.

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Bentham, Jerémy 1748-1832

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Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher, jurist, and reformer. From the description of Jeremy Bentham manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1828 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76698683 From the guide to the Jeremy Bentham manuscript material : 6 items, 1784-ca. 1828, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Jurist and philosopher. From the description of Jeremy Bentham memoranda, 1830. (Unknown). Wo...

Powell, F. York (Frederick York), 1850-1904

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E. G. Bowdoin.

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Cushing, Luther Stearns, 1803-1856

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Hutchinson Family.

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Lardner Gibbon.

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Keith, Thomas, 1759-1824

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Dix, John Ross, 1800?-1865

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E. L. White.

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Thomson, James, 1700-1748

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Thomson was a Scottish poet and dramatist. From the guide to the Copyright documents, 1729-1750/1., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Myers and Co. From the description of Autograph letters signed (12) : to Miss Elizabeth Young, 1743 Mar. 10-1745 Nov. 4 [one undated]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572239 English poet and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to [William Cranstou...

Bianchi, Martha Dickinson, 1866-1943

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

Blackburn, Henry, 1830-1897

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F.J.G.

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Massachusetts. General court. 1845.

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Creasy, Edward Shepherd, 1812-1878

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Tangalla [Ceylon], to Captain Baldwin Hall, 1866 Mar. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270527841 Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian. From the description of Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy manuscript material : 1 item, 1853 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 132680499 From the guide to the Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy manuscript material : 1 item, 1853, (The New York P...

Saunders, Frederick, 1807-1902

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Anglo-American librarian and author, international copyright advocate. From the description of Frederick Saunders letter to Dr. J. W. Francis [manuscript], ante 1859. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 781303445 American librarian and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to J.W. Harper, 1852 Aug. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634017 ...

Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902

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Scudder was an editor with Houghton, Mifflin and Company and editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1890-1898). From the description of Papers, 1879-1901. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612370549 From the description of Additional papers, 1859-1903. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82251260 From the guide to the Additional papers, 1859-1903., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Scudder was an editor with Houghton, Mi...

Blackstone, William

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Epithet: Justice of Common Pleas British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x0002cf ...

Chas. H. Sweetser

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Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857

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Elisha Kent Kane was an American naval surgeon and explorer who commanded the second Grinnell Expedition to the Arctic, 1853-1855. From the description of Elisha Kent Kane letter, Philadelphia, Pa., to Bayard Taylor, 1856. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 34242180 Elisha Kent Kane was a physician and explorer. From the description of Papers, 1830s-1860s. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122616028 ...

Hageman, Richard, 1882-

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Hampden County (Mass.) Bar Association

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Porter, Jane, 1776-1850

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Jane Porter (1776-1850) was a best selling British historical novelist and the author of Thaddeus of Warsaw (1804) and The Scottish chiefs (1810). From the description of Papers of Jane Porter, 1760-1850. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122559985 Francis Legatt Chantrey was a popular and successful sculptor who made portrait busts of many of the most distinguished men of his time, including George IV, Sir Walter Scott, Willi...

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830 to Edward Dickinson (AC 1823) and Emily Norcross Dickinson. She attended Amherst Academy from 1840 to 1847, then enrolled at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from 1847 to 1848. She remained in Amherst for the rest of her life, and traveled only briefly to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. For virtually her entire adult life, Emily lived in the Dickinson home at 280 Main Street with h...

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796

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Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world. Celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature. ...

Andrew Evans

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Zollner, Johann Carl Friedrich, 1834-1882

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...

Neill, Heman Humphrey, 1862-

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Creighton, Louise (von Glehn) 1850.

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C. C. Dennis

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Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1930

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Mistral, Frédéric.

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Bruyssel, Ernest van, 1827-1914

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Valentine, T.

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Day, Jeremiah, 1773-1867

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President of Yale College. From the description of Jeremiah Day letter, 1837 Mar. (Litchfield Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 747722580 From the description of Autograph, signed : Yale College, 1838 Apr. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535739 Author of Algebra (1814). President of Yale University, 1817-1846. From the description of Letter of recommendation, Connecticut, [18--?]. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122529651 ...

Fullerton, Lady Georgiana Charlotte

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Lempriere, John

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[The Hutchinson Family.]

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Woolsey, Jane Stuart

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M. G. D.

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U.S. 32d Congress, 2d sess., 1852-1853.

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Labitzky, Joseph

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Yale College

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Charles Wilson.

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Patmore, Coventry, 1823-1896

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Coventry Patmore was a British poet. He was appointed assistant in the printed book department of the British Museum in November 1846 and retired some time after 1865. From the description of Coventry Patmore letters and photograph, 1842-1865. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38273331 English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to William Makepeace Thackeray, 1863 Mar. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 27...

Davis, William T. (William Thomas), 1822-1907

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Boswell, James, 1740-1795

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James Boswell (1740-1795) was the author of one of the most influential biographies in the English language, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. He also wrote two successful travel books: An Account of Corsica, and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. He worked intermittently as a lawyer, and in 1782 succeeded his father as Laird of Auchinleck in Scotland. From the description of James Boswell letters, 1762-1795. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612839330 Boswell wa...

Smellie, William, 1697-1763

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Dickinson, Samuel Fowler, 1775-1838

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Underhill, H. B.

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Lavinia Norcross Dickinson's

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Mrs. W. A. Dickinson.

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Leighton, Robert Fowler

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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...

Massachusetts. General Court. 1838.

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Scott, Sir Walter, bart.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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

Meredith, George, 1828-1909

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George Meredith (1828-1909), the novelist and poet. For a full account and assessment of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography From the guide to the Miscellaneous letters, manuscripts, and press-cuttings relating to George Meredith, ca.1890-1914, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x00013f George Meredith w...

Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, 1804-1869

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French man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified correspondent, 1852 Aug. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634160 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Monsieur Bourcher de Perthes in Abbeville, 1842 Mar. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634157 Sainte-Beuve was a French literary critic and historian. From the description of [Letters] / Sainte-Beuve. [1856-1868] (Smith Colle...

Hanna, William, 1808-1882

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Scottish theologian. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : to Prof. Knight, 1867-1869. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270507320 ...

Massachusetts. General Court. 1839.

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Edward Ned Dickinson.

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Ted Dickinson

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Maj E Dickenson

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Warland, John H. (John Henry), 1807-1872

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Llewellyn Williams.

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Smith, J. Hyatt (John Hyatt), 1824-1886

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 1700 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x000090 Epithet: Pastor of Nijmegen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x000097 Epithet: of Add MS 36190 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x00007e Epithet: of Egerto...

Mrs. Atkinson.

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Massachusetts. General court. 1874.

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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. ...

Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719

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English essayist, poet and statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : postmarked Rugby, to Ambrose Philips, 1713 Nov. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270904667 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Oxford], to Jacob Tonson, [1694-5] Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270904668 From the description of Document signed : Whitehall, authorizing payment of expenses of George Bubb [Dodington] in Spain, 1717 Aug. 31. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Bright, J. Franck (James Franck), 1832-1920

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Hinsdale, Grace Webster.

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Dutton, George

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Whitlock, William

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Mrs. Austin Dickinson

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Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849

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Anne Brontë (b. January 17, 1820, Thornton, Yorkshire, England–d. May 28, 1849, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England), English novelist and poet, was the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She is best known for her her novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, published under her pseudonym, Acton Bell....

K. Dickinson

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Edw. Dickinson 1845

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Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894

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Distinguished historian James Anthony Froude was born at Dartington rectory, Devon, in 1818. He was the brother of William Froude (1810-1879), engineer and naval architect, and of Richard Hurrell Froude (1803-1836), divine. The younger Froude was educated at Westminster School from 1830, and then privately in the village of Merton. He studied at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1835, and graduated B.A. in 1842, and took his M.A. in 1843. After briefly writing on the life of St. Neot for the Lives of ...

Cowan, P. D. (Perez Dickinson), 1843-1923

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J. Z. Hesser.

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F. Romani.

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Johnson, Andrew, pres. U. S., 1838-1875

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Mrs. Isaac McGaw

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Moody, Dwight Lyman

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Björnson, Björnstjerne, 1832-1910

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Hickey, William, Colonel.

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Cowper, William, 1731-1800

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William Cowper, English poet. From the guide to the William Cowper manuscript material : 32 items, ca. 1784-1799, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Weston Underwood, to William [i.e. Walter] Churchey, 1786 Dec. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531182 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Olney], to Lady Austen, 1782 Aug...

P. K. Moran.

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Matty G. Dickinson

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Locke, John, 1792-1856

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Epithet: merchant, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000569.0x00017c Epithet: of Stowe MS 748 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000569.0x000180 Epithet: MA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000569.0x00017b Epithet: author of 'Ireland's Re...

Choate, Rufus, 1799-1859

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Choate practiced law Essex County, Mass. (1822-1834) and Boston (1834-1850) and served in the United States Senate (1841-1845). From the description of Papers, 1829-1869. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234337959 Choate was an American lawyer and politician, U.S. senator from Massachusetts from 1841-1845. From the description of Rufus Choate letter : to Joseph B. Boyer, [18--]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937076 ...

Diaz, Abby (Morton), 1821-1906

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Mason A. Fisher

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Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877

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Wilkes was a career U.S. naval officer who, as captain of the San Jacinto, provoked the Trent Affair in 1861. From the description of Letter, November 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 61770003 Charles Wilkes, American naval officer and explorer, was born on April 3, 1798 in New York, NY. He surveyed Narragansett Bay in 1832-1833, which led to his appointment to a depot of charts and instruments, which later became the Naval Observatory. In 18...

Locke, John, 1632-1704

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Bills for general naturalization of groups of immigrants were proposed several times during the later Stuart period. Locke's paper most likely relates to a bill introduced in December 1693. From the description of For a generall naturalization : manuscript, 1693. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612887619 Philosopher. From the description of Letter of John Locke, 1698. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014952 English philosopher. From...

Edw. Dickinson

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Johnston, Alexander, 1849-1889

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Epithet: of Add MS 37874 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000356.0x0002ca American historian and economist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Princeton, to the Secretary of State, 1887 Dec. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270489491 Epithet: of Add MS 35530 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000356.0x...

Winthrop, John New.

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Joseph W. Turner.

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Bishop Huntington.

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Sargent, Henry Winthrop, 1810-1882

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Howe, David, 1711-1776

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McCarthy, William H.

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Keble, John, 1792-1866

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John Keble, Church of England clergyman and poet. From the description of John Keble manuscript material : 2 items, 1830-1859 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 502708787 English divine and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed; incomplete : Hursley, to an unidentified correspondent, "Whitsunday", 1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270487661 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hursley, to an unidentified lady, ...

Humphrey, Heman, 1779-1861

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First President of Amherst College (1823-1845). Humphrey was born in Hartford County, Conn. and graduated from Yale University in 1805. He was ordained a Congregational minister on March 16, 1807. He pastored in Fairfield, Conn., 1807-1817 and Pittsfield, Mass., 1817-1823. After leaving Amherst College he relocated to Pittsfield and continued to preach and give lectures. From the description of Humphrey sermons, 1813-1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 52218792 ...

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731

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English novelist and journalist. From the description of Daniel Defoe letters, 1702-1730. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937101 ...

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author. From the description of Nathaniel Hawthorne manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1853-1857 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 301761440 American author, writer of romances, stories, and juvenile works. Born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass.; died May, 1864, in Plymouth, N.H. Sometime resident of Concord, Mass. Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. Hawthorne's association with the Boston publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields began ...

Sue H. Gilbert's

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Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870

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French man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?, n.d.], to [Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873526 French author and administrator of antiquities. From the description of Letters, 1826-1870. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80148610 ...

Bismarck, Otto

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McIntosh, Maria J. (Maria Jane), 1803-1878

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Milton, John, 1608-1674

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English poet. From the description of Documents relating to Kensington mortgage, 1651-1700. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122475458 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x00012e John Milton (1608-1674), the poet. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography. From the guide to the English translat...

Thomas, Robert Bailey, 1766-1846

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Robert Bailey Thomas (1766-1846), of Sterling and West Boylston, Mass., was the son of William and Azabah Thomas. From an early age, Thomas desired to publish an almanac, but found he lacked the needed mathematical skill. He became an apprentice book binder and soon began a career as a bookseller. This in turn renewed his interest in publishing almanacs, so Thomas attended a mathematics school in Boston. In 1793, he published his _Farmer's Almanack_. Thomas had a good sense of what his subscribe...

MacDonald, George

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x000212 Epithet: of Hastings British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x0002f1 ...

Barry, P. (Patrick), 1816-1890

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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...

Barnard, Mary A. (Mary Anna), 1828-1865

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Geissler, Rudolf

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Holland, J.G. (Josiah Gilbert), 1819-1881

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Josiah Gilbert Holland was a doctor, an educator, and a popular author, but is best remembered as the first editor of Scribner's. After brief careers in medicine and education, he became editor of the Springfield Republican in his native Massachusetts. In 1870, he became the founding editor and co-owner of Scribner's. His many published works include poetry, regional short stories, history, and popular philosophical essays. He sometimes used the pseudonym "Timothy Titcomb." From the ...

Samuel Breese.

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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Abbotsford, Melrose, to the Marchioness of Abercorn, [1818] Mar. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 747107129 From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified to Charles [Sharpe], [1817 or later?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 745119219 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to [William Slade], 1803 June [3]. (Unknown). W...

Master Edward Dickinson

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Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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

Lemoine, Henry

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French music publisher and piano teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 17 November 1845, to M. Henri, 1845 Nov. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873505 ...

Moran, P. K.

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Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859

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Physician and professor of Connecticut. From the description of Letter, 1838, Sept. 22 : New Haven, Connecticut, to Thomas Cushing. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35201351 Denison Olmsted taught mathematics, natural philosophy, and astronomy at Yale College from 1825-1859. From the description of Notes taken from Profr. Olmsted's lectures on natural philosophy, 1827-1829. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122689401 Fro...

Russell, Henry

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Epithet: Resident at the Peshwa's court British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x0002c1 ...

Tyler, William Seymour, 1810-1897.

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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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

Green, Mason Arnold

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Whately, Richard

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Epithet: Archbishop of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x00002a ...

Bianchi, Martha Dickinson, 1866-1943

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

Wm. Wood, Jnr.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682

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New York (State) Constitutional Convention (1821)

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Fisher, Richard Swainson

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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642

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Astronomer and physicist. From the description of Letter signed (the concluding page only) : Florence, to an unidentified correspondent, 1612 Aug. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269597521 ...

Randall, George M. (George Maxwell), 1810-1873

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Episcopal Bishop of the Missionary Jurisdiction of Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico. From the description of George Maxwell Randall papers, 1848-1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 663903927 Randall was missionary bishop of Colorado for the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1865-1873. From the description of Biography of George M. Randall, 1884. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 25935588 ...

Walford, Lucy Bethis (Calquhorn).

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Spear, Charles, 1801-1863

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The title refers to the murder of Dr. George Parkman of Harvard Medical School. John White Webster was convicted and hanged for the gruesome murder in 1850. The trial caused a sensation and was the subject of a great deal of publicity due, at least in part, to the fact that both the victim and killer were affiliated with Harvard and part of the brahmin ranks of Boston society. From the description of The Parkman tragedy, 1850. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228509900 ...

Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 1813-1894

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Reddy Dickinson

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Marcy, Randolph Barnes 1812-1887

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American army officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to William W. Belknap, 1871 Sept. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606727 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Orange, to "Dear General" [William W. Belknap?], 1872 Aug. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606801 ...

D. B. Stedman

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Hitchcock, Roswell D. (Roswell Dwight), 1817-1887

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Epithet: American hymnologist and biblical scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x000289 Roswell D. Hitchcock was a theologian of New York. From the guide to the Roswell D. Hitchcock Letters, ., 1861, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Butler, Joseph, bp. of Durham.

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Hutchinson, J. J.

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Robertson, W. R. (William Robert), 1860-1933

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Epithet: Lieutenant-Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001302.0x0000c0 Epithet: Scottish merchant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001302.0x0000c8 William Robertson was a contemporary of the Arctic explorer and whaler William Penny (b 1809) From the guide to the William Robertson collection, 1852-1854, (Scott P...

Uncle John

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Lee, Hannah Farnham (Sawyer)

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Kreutzer, Rodolphe

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From the opéra bouffon in 1 act, libretto by Sewrin; first performed in Paris by the Opéra Comique in the Théâtre Feydeau, 29 October 1808. Cf. New Grove online. From the description of Jadis et aujourd'hui, finale : manuscript, [after 1808] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 754376652 From the opéra bouffon in 1 act, libretto by Sewrin; first performed in Paris by the Opéra Comique at the Théâtre Feydeau, 29 October 1808. Cf. New Grove online. Fro...

Sue H. Dickinson.

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Coolbrith, Ian Donna, 1842-1928

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Mrs. Edward Dickinson

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W. A. Dickinson

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F. D. Huntington

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Bayne, Peter, 1830-1896

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Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923

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Poet. From the description of Correspondence, 1845-1922. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963863 Edna Dean Proctor was a 19th century American poet and short story writer. She was born in New Hampshire and lived in Framingham, Mass., and wrote patriotic verse and inspirational poetry, often on themes of social change. From the description of Edna Dean Proctor letter to Mr. Butterworth, 1894 Nov. 13. (Pennsylvania State University ...

Sargent, John

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Epithet: Clerk of the Survey at Deptford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000492.0x000218 Epithet: of Add MS 32972 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000492.0x00021a Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x0001b9 Epithet: MP for Midh...

Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886

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

Young, Edward, 1683-1765

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Welwyn, Herts.], to [Samuel Richardson], 1750 Apr. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584539 Edward Young was a poet, dramatist and satirist, born at Upham near Winchester. He was the son of Edward Young, the rector of Upham, (who was later Dean of Salisbury and chaplain to William and Mary). In 1702 Young went to New College, Oxford, but moved to Corpus Christi, and then to a law fellowship at All Souls in ...

Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 1828-1893.

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J. E. K.

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Jenks, William, 1778-1866

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William Jenks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on November 25, 1778. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1797, an A.M. in 1800 and an S.T.D. in 1842. He also received two degrees from Bowdoin College: an S.T.D. in 1825 and an L.L.D. in 1862. Jenks served as pastor of churches in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Bath, Maine before joining the faculty of Bowdoin College as professor of Oriental and English literature. He later returned to Boston, where he founded a mission for seamen and took...

Nelson, S.

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S. E. Dickinson.

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Trench, Richard Chenevix

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Epithet: Archbishop of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x00027a ...

Clarke, Rebecca Sophia, 1833-1906

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Amherst Mass

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Mrs Grimmidge.

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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet and translator. Born on March 6, 1806, Barrett Browning became proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and other European languages. At the age of eleven she wrote a verse "epic" in four books of rhyming couplets, "The Battle of Marathon," which was privately printed in 1820 at her father's expense. She went on to write such works as "An essay on mind," "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh." In September of 1846, she secretly marr...

Richardson, Abby Sage, 1837-1900

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American actress, author and playwright. From the description of Letters and incomplete manuscript of Abby Sage Richardson [manuscript], 1871-1888. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647926398 ...

Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824

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British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...

Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788-1845

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Richard Harris Barham, English writer and Church of England clergyman, better known by the nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby. From the description of Richard Harris Barham manuscript material : 1 item, 1839 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 436943712 English comic poet. From the description of The jackdaw of Rheims : autograph manuscript, undated [ca. 1836-1837]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 414567334 From the description of Autograph letter s...

N. Dickinson

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Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, 1848-1895

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American author and educator. From the description of The little chap : autograph manuscript of the first page only, unsigned, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132652 Norwegian born American author. From the description of Papers of Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen [manuscript], 1867-1895. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833514 Boyesen was an American author. From the description of Letters, 1889-1893. (Unknown). WorldCat rec...

Dickinson W

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Miss R. H. Loomis

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Woodhouseles, Alexander Fraser Tytler, lord.

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Frederic Trenck.

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Macaulay, Thomas

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Musard.

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Headley, P. C. (Phineas Camp), 1819-1903

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Dr. Stearns.

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Huntington, Susan, 1791-1823

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Martell, Martha.

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Andrews, Georgiana

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Bridgman, Thomas, 1795-

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Smith, William

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Epithet: of Add MS 32490 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001304.0x000022 Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001304.0x000011 Epithet: of Banham county Norfolk British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001304.0x000035 Epithet: at Lisbon ...

Greenleaf, Moses, 1777-1834

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Moses Greenleaf, Jr., surveyor, cartographer, writer, and pioneer settler, of Williamsburg, Me. From the description of Moses Greenleaf letters to Daniel Dewey, 1808-1809. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 317286468 ...

Malleson, G.B. (George Bruce), 1825-1898

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Bender, Hermann, 1835-1897

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Mortimer, Favell Lee, 1802-1878

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Bradford, Thomas Grayson, 1784-

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Willam Austin Dickinson.

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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 ...

Guild, C. S. (Caroline Snowden), 1827-1898

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Smith, Adam

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Epithet: of Add MS 34416 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x000121 Epithet: economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0001fa Epithet: LL.D British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x0001e1 Epithet: Commissioner of Customs for Sco...

Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741

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Mrs. William A. Dickinson.

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Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901

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English novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Otterbourne, Winchester, to "My dear Florence", 1874 Sept. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584507 Novelist and children's writer. From the description of Letters, 1866-1893. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233117781 Charlotte Mary Yonge was born and lived all her life at Otterbourne, near Winchester. Her father had, on marrying, renounced a military career and m...

Mac Leod, Donald

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Pope

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Library of Amherst Academy

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Lowenberg, Carlton

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Carlton and Territa Lowenberg spent years of their lives avidly collecting materials that relate to the poet Emily Dickinson. Their enthusiasm for Dickinson and her work assisted in the creation of the collection. The Lowenbergs collaborated with Carla L. Brown to create the work Emily Dickinson's Textbooks. Carlton Lowenberg also wrote Musicians Wrestle Everywhere: Emily Dickinson and Music. From the guide to the Carlton and Territa A. Lowenberg, Collection on Dickinson...

Hesser, J. G.

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Edward Payson

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Hopkins, Samuel, 1807-1887

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Samuel Hopkins lived in Northampton, Mass. From the description of The Puritans : or the church, court, and Parliament of England, during the reigns of Edward the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth : manuscript, [ca. 1859] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612754145 ...

Maj Dickinson.

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Jonathan Leavitt

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Therese Albertine Louise (von Jacob).

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Begon, Fanny

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Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 1810-1889

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Martin Farquhar Tupper was born in London, and a severe stutter ended his academic advancement and hopes for a career as a clergyman or lawyer. He turned to writing poetry, and his third book, Proverbial Philosophy, proved to be a best-seller in England and America. Tupper's output was stupendous, and among his works can be found ebullient verses on almost any early Victorian popular concern. Despite his early popularity among the middle-class Victorians, Tupper's only real value, as the Athenae...

Steele, S. S.

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Smyth, Newman, 1843-1925

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Served in Union Army during the Civil War; ordained as a minister in 1863, he served in three churches: First Congregational Church of Bangor, Maine (1870-1875), First Presbyterian Church of Quincy, Ill. (1875-1882), First Church of Christ of New Haven, Ct. (1882-1908); after 1908 devoted himself to protestant unity and theology. From the description of Newman Smyth papers, 1874-1924 (inclusive), 1908-1924 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166732 From the description...

F. Dickinson

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Mrs. Woolsey

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Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863!

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American preacher and revivalist; also famous as reformer, educator, and central figure in theological controversies; b. in New Haven, Conn.; in 1799 ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in East Hampton, N.Y.; in 1810 accepted the pulpit of the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, Conn., where he attracted large crowds. In 1826 became pastor of the Hanover Street Church in Boston where his reputation for defending orthodoxy against Unitarianism became widespread. During his years ...

More, Hannah, 1745-1833

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Hannah More, one of five sisters, taught at her family's school in Bristol, England. She became prominent in London's Bluestocking circle from 1774 onward, and was also a friend of Samuel Johnson. Her work soon moved from poetry and drama to the production of numerous popular religious books and tracts. In 1789, she moved to Mendip, Somerset, where she and her sister Patty founded several schools. In 1801, she and her sisters moved to the Barley Wood estate in nearby Wrington. From t...

Stephens, John L., 1805-1852

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New Jersey author. From the description of Letter to [ ? ] Sargeant [manuscript], 1841-1843. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812236 Appointed Special Ambassador to Central America by United States president Martin Van Buren, Stephens arrived in Belize in October 1839, and he traveled through Zacapa, Guatemala not long after. From the description of Some words of the Chorti language of Zacapa / collected by John L. Stephens, 1839. [between 1851 an...

Plato, Engl. 1859. Whewell.

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Hooker, Richard, 1553 or 1554-1600

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E. S. Snell.

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The Century magazine.

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Matty Dickinson.

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M. G. Dickinson.

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De Quincey, Thomas, 1795-1859

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Radcliffe, Anne Ward, 1764-1823.

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Edward Dickinson's

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Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852

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American horticulturist and landscape architect. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Newburgh, N.Y., to James Arnold, 1844 Apr. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526124 Landscape architect, horticulturalist, and writer. From the description of Papers, 1830-1850. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 122583167 Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) of Newburgh (N.Y.). Architect, gardener, author and nursery owner. A. J. Downing was i...

Eliza M. Coleman

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Emily Dickinson's

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet, was born at Field Place, Warnham, on 4 August 1792, and attended the Sion House academy at Brentford, and then Eton. He entered University College, Oxford, in 1810, but was sent down the following year after writing the pamphlet The necessity of atheism . He eloped to Scotland with Harriet Westbrook, whom he married in Edinburgh in 1811. Shelley spent 1812 in Ireland, addressing meetings and writing pamphlets. In 1814 he left his wife and fled to the conti...

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 ...

Gardner, Dorothy

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Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893

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There is no biographical information available to support this archive. From the guide to the Mary Kirby archive, c1955, (Crafts Study Centre) ...

Trollope, Frances Eleanor, -1913

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English novelist; 2nd wife of T.A. Trollope. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Florence, to W.H. Wills, 1868 Mar. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573260 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Rome, to Mrs. John W. Field, 1877 Jan. 15 and 1885 Dec. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573257 English novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Shepperton House, Shepperton, Middlesex, to Arthur Sullivan...

Mitchel, Ornsby McKnight.

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S. V. Dickinson

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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859

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Washington Irving (b. April 3, 1783, New York City-d. November 28, 1859, Sunnyside, Tarrytown, New York), American author, wrote his first popular work, A History of New York, under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. He continued to write stories and essays which made him the outstanding figure in American literature of his time and established his reputation abroad. In 1826 Irving went to Spain to work at the American embassy in Madrid, then at the American legation in London, before returni...

S. V. N.

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Herndon, William Lewis, 1813-1857

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Author was lieutenant in U. S. Navy. From the description of Our stately warship marches on the deep : poem, 1855, April 15, U. S. S. San Iacinto, off Cape Hatteras, N. C. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122631260 Naval officer and father-in-law of President Arthur. From the description of Extracts from my journal, 1828 Nov. 1-1850 Apr. 5. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58757429 ...

Massachusetts. General court. 1828.

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Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephan, Cardinal.

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Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott was born on September 18, 1805, in Brunswick, Maine. After attending Bowdoin College, Abbott studied at Andover Theological Seminary; following his graduation, he led several congregations in Massachusetts. Abbott wrote several books on history and on Christianity during his lifetime, and died in 1877. From the guide to the John Stevens Cabot Abbott autograph book, Abbott, John Stevens Cabot autograph book, 1851-1860, 1851-1853, (William L. Clements Library,...

Willson, Marcius

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Sue H. Gilbert

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Lyman, Joseph B. (Joseph Bardwell), 1829-1872

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Publisher and founder of abolitionist newspaper. From the description of Papers, 1850-1853 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 33203515 ...

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 ...

Giles, Henry, 1809-1882

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Henry Giles was a Unitarian minister and critic. Born in Ireland, he converted to Unitarianism and spoke throughout Great Britain, finally emigrating to the United States. He spoke to Unitarian congregations in New England, and began publishing essays, mostly on literature, but also on history and social issues. His criticism is observant and in many ways ahead of its time, but perhaps because of his duties as minister, his writing seems patterned and somewhat unfinished. From the de...

Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894?

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

Tomkins, K., publisher, New York.

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Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869

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American journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1850 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616358 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, 1848 Aug. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616356 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to President Lincoln, 1864 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616354 American journalist and politician. From the description of Autograph let...

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...

D.C.

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Norcross, Emily

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Ellis Bell

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Busch, Morits

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Jeffrey, Francis, lord, 1773-1850.

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Wm Austin Dickinson

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William Otis Norcross.

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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...

Carter, Franklin

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Michelet, Jules, 1793-1874

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[Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.]

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English non conformist theologian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to his brother (Enoch?), 1731 Dec. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661040 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Daniel Gerdes, 1745/6 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661048 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to his brother Enoch, 1731 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661031 Minister and hymn writer. ...

Richard Gibson.

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Mabel Loomis Todd New

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Sue Dickinson

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Jones, J.G.

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Thos. Gilbert Dickinson

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McCulloch, John Ramsey

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Récamier, Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, 1777-1849

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Mme Récamier, known as Juliette, was a beauty known for her literary and political salons in early 19th-century Paris. From the description of [Note and document / Mme. Récamier] [1849?] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 352921064 ...

S. V. Norcross

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Bartlett, Samuel Colcord, 1817-1898

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Minister, educator. President, Dartmouth College, 1877-1892. From the description of Letter, 1887 June 20, to the Vermont Secretary of State. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 239650358 ...

Hickey, William, 1798-1866

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Charles Karl Czerny.

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Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

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Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) was a German-born French composer and cellist of Jewish ancestry. He had a strong influence in popular music in Europe, and was one of the originators of the operetta, of which he wrote more than one hundred. His works were noted for their elements of satire and parody; two for which he is particularly known are the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld and the opera The Tales of Hoffman . From the guide to the Jacques Offenbach Letter, undated (after 1844)...

Tancredi. Di Tanti Palpiti.

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Smith, Sydney

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Sydney Smith (1911-88), zoologist and Darwin specialist, attended St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1929-32. He later became a Fellow, 1939-88, and University Lecturer in Zoology. From the guide to the Sydney Smith: Papers on Charles Darwin, 1967-1988, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives) Epithet: Dr praelector St Catharine's College Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description ...

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805

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Dramatist and poet. From the description of Friedrich Schiller collection, 1883-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980966 German poet and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letter signed "Sch." : Weimar, to W.G. Becker, 1804 Feb. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634316 From the description of Wilhelm Tell. Act I, Scene 4 : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript unsigned, [ca. 1804]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270635377 From the des...

E. Dickinson

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Diarnell, Isaac. 1766-1848

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Charles, Jeffrey, 1957-

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J. De Anguera.

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Preston, H. W. (Harriet Waters), 1836-1911

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American author and translator. From the description of Papers of Harriet Waters Preston, 1872-1904. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136611 ...

Guild, Caroline Snowden

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Bullock, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1816-1882

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Governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Letters of Alexander H. Bullock, 1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452224 Massachusetts governor. From the description of Letter to Mr. [George William?] Curtis, 1867 September 7. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52883830 Alexander Hamilton Bullock (1816-1882) graduated from Amherst College in 1836 and remained loyal to the College, serving on the Board of Trustees for many years. He st...

Dickinson, Edw

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Dwight, Edward S., 1853-1940

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Physician, of Smyrna, Del.; received medical degree from Yale, 1876; post-graduate work in Paris, 1879-1881; established medical practice in Smyrna in 1887 which he continued until 1939. From the description of Edward S. Dwight diary, 1879 Oct.-1880 Feb. (Historical Society of Delaware). WorldCat record id: 70979572 ...

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1782-1858

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Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) was a Missouri Democrat who served as a senator from 1821 to 1851. He opposed both abolitionism and the extension of slavery into new territories, but was a staunch advocate of westward expansion of the United States. He died in 1858. From the guide to the Thomas Hart Benton letter, 1846 May 14, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) Lawyer; Tennessee state senator, 1809-1811; aide-de-camp to Andrew Jackson; colonel of a regiment of ...

Anne B. Francis

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Auerbach, Berthold, 1812-1882

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Auerbach, German novelist. Charles W. Eliot, C.C. Felton, and Edward Everett, Presidents of Harvard College. From the description of Letters, 1847-1872. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41417354 Author, 1812-1882 From the guide to the Berthold Auerbach Collection, circa 1844-1992, (Leo Baeck Institute Archives) ...

Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931

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Rossiter Johnson (1840-1931) was an American author and editor. In addition to editing historical and reference works, he wrote biographies, histories and poetry. He and his first wife, Helen Kendrick Johnson (1844-1914), were ardent anti-feminists who belonged to various organizations opposed to women's suffrage. Helen Johnson was also an author and editor. From the guide to the Rossiter and Helen Kendrick Johnson papers, 1851-1929, 1883-1900, (The New York Public Library. Manuscrip...

Wood, Alphonso, 1810-1881

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Seymour, Mary H. (Mary Harrison), 1835-1913

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Eward Dickinson

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U. S. 33rd Congress.

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Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist. From the description of Catharine Maria Sedgwick letters and portraits, 1837-1855. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 35155329 American author, pioneered the American domestic novel. From the description of Papers of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1801-1865 (bulk 1834-1865). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136087 American author. From the description of ...

Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo), 1783-1838

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Editor, orator, author. From the description of Letters to John Wakefield Francis [manuscript], 1836. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647811984 ...

Lawrence, Amos, 1786-1852

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Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870

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Elisha Kent Kane was a physician and explorer. From the guide to the Elisha Kent Kane letters, 1853-1857, (American Philosophical Society) American Secretary of Navy (1852-53), lawyer, and author known for his political satire. From the description of Manuscript and correspondence, 1842-1866. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122547449 American novelist and Congressman from Maryland; Secre...

Gregory, John, 1724-1773

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Alexander, Archibald, 1772-1851

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Archibald Alexander, 1772-1851; Presbyterian pastor and educator; in 1794, pastor of Briery Church (Hampden, Va.). In 1796 he became president of Hampden-Sydney College. In 1807 he accepted a call to Old Pine Street Church in Philadelphia. Later that year he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly. In 1812 he became president of the newly established theological seminary at Princeton. From the description of Papers, 1819-1851. (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record ...

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400

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William Morris' Kelmscott Press published The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now newly imprinted [edited by F. S. Ellis; ornamented with pictures designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and engraved on wood by W. H. Hooper] in 1896. From the guide to the Proofs and drawings for, The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now newly imprinted, 1892-1896., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) William Morris' Kelmscott Press published The works of Geoffrey Chaucer: now ne...

Dana, Charles A.

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S. H. Dickinson

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Hickok, Laurens P. (Laurens Perseus), 1798-1888

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Hickok was born in 1798 in Bethel, Connecticut. His teaching career began even before his career as a college student when he opened a small private school in Bethel. When he was twenty, Hickok entered Union College as a junior. Upon returning home he married his former student in Bethel, Elizabeth Taylor. Through this marriage he became related to Mrs. Hickok's brother-in-law, Julius Seelye. Hickok then decided to become a minister. He received no formal education in theology, but instead appre...

Brooks, Phillips

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Burdett, Mrs C. D.

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Bayne, Peter, 1830-1898

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Livermore, S. T. (Samuel Truesdale), 1824-1892

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Brown, John, 1722-1787

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John Brown, born in 1722, served as a soldier in the Edinburgh garrison in 1745. He was also a professor of divinity at Haddington, 1781. Brown died in 1787. From the description of Autograph letter signed from John Brown, 1722-1787, to James Hastie Builder, March 23, 1781. (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 50658733 ...

Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471

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Grimm, Herman Friedrich, 1828-1901

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German art historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.] to a poet, 1860 Dec. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270502272 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.] to Georg Moritz Ebers, 1863 Dec. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270502255 From the description of Letter, 1874 Dec. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82910806 Grimm was a German polymathic scholar, literary historian, art critic and philosopher. He and hi...

Martha Dickinson Bianchi's

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B. F. Newton

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Gardiner, Bertha Meriton (Cordery).

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Gilfillan, George, 1813-1878

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George Gilfillan was a Scottish author and minister. Born in Comrie and educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, he became minister of a Dundee congregation in 1836 and remained there for the rest of his life. He published sermons, theology, essays, and criticism, notably A Gallery of Literary Portraits, and established a good literary reputation for himself. However, he was often conflicted between his literary interests and his religious beliefs, and his work and personal life so...

Bartlett, Samuel Colcord, 1865-1937

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Michigan, Laws

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Unger, Ferdinand.

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Pollok, Robert, 1798-1827

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Toser, Henry Fenshowe.

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Leverett, F. P. (Frederick Percival), 1803-1836

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Christlieb, Theodore

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Bushnell, Horace, 1802-1876

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Horace Bushnell was born in Bantam, Connecticut on April 14, 1802. He was educated at Yale (B.A., 1827; M.A., 1830; B.D., 1833), and received degrees from Wesleyan University (D.D., 1842), Harvard (S.T.D., 1852) and Yale (LL.D., 1871). He served as pastor of North Church, Hartford, CT from 1833-1859. He was the author of "God in Christ" (1849) and "Christ in Theology" (1851), as well as other works uncongenial to the orthodox theology of his times. From the description of Horace Bush...

Dickins, Charles, 1812-1870

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Knight, Helen

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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 ...

Sister Hatty.

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J. H. Lyman

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Mattie Dickinson.

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Balzac, Honore

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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

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Title: Bishop of Hippo British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000299.0x000138 St Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was born in North Africa to a heathen father and a Christian mother, Monica. He reformed his early dissolute life to become one of the most outstanding theologians of the church. He attended the university of Carthage to train as a lawyer but became more interested in literature and then philosophy, influenced...

Lübke, Wilhelm.

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Priestley, Joseph, 1766 or 1767-1852

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Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was born at Fieldhead, Yorkshire, on 13 March 1733. He was educated at Batley Grammar School and at Heckmondwike, before entering Daventry Academy in 1751 to study for the presbyterian ministry. He became Minister at Nantwich, Cheshire, in 1758, and in 1761 was appointed Tutor in Languages and Belles-Lettres at Warrington Academy. He became Minister at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, in 1767. Between 1772 and 1780 Priestley was the Librarian of the Earl of Shelburne. Therea...

Bohlman, Henri.

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Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869).

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Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) was born in Mâcon, France into the aristocracy. His father was imprisoned during the French Revolution but escaped the guillotine. After briefly serving in the military, Lamartine joined the diplomatic corps as secretary to the French embassy at Naples. His first colletion of poetry, Méditations poétiques was published in 1820, establishing him as one of the key figures in the Romantic movement in French literature. Lamartine entered politics and was elected ...

Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855

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British poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Catherine Dickens, 1846 Oct. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 469692967 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Catherine Dickens, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 469622382 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Catherine Dickens, 1843 Dec. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657034 Samuel Rogers was born near London to a wealt...

Storrs, Richard S. (Richard Salter), 1821-1900

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Richard Salter Storrs (1821-1900) was born in Braintree, MA into a family of clergymen. His great-grandfather, John Storrs (1735-1799), was a pastor in Southold, Long Island from 1763 to 1776, and again from 1782 to 1787. The eldest son of John Storrs, Richard Salter Storrs (1763-1819), was a pastor in Longmeadow, MA. His eldest son, also named Richard Salter Storrs (1787-1873), preached in Braintree, MA. As a fourth generation minister, Richard Salter Storrs (1821-1900)...

Moore, Thomas

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Epithet: contributor to the magazine 'Bentley's Miscellany' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x000323 Epithet: theological writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x000337 Epithet: of Add MS 32695 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x0...

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...

Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794

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Austrian military adventurer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified magistrate, 1789 Feb. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573135 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to a M. de Meyer, 1789 Mar. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573131 ...

White, Edward L. (Edward Little), 1809-1851

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Lunt, George, 1803-1885

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Lee, Eliza Buckminster, 1794-1864

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Eliza Buckminster Lee was born in New Hampshire and gained a classical education and appreciation for literature from her father, Rev. Joseph Buckminster. She lived most of her life in the Boston area, achieving success as both a writer and translator. From the description of Eliza Buckminster Lee letter to James Munroe & Co., 1846 Jan. 14. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51262672 American author. From the description of Letter ...

H. G. B. Bianchi

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Edward Dickinson Esq.

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Martha Dickinson

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Clarke, Mary Victoria

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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850

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British poet. From the description of Letters, 1827 Jan. 12-1836 Feb. 20. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315953362 Wordsworth, English poet. From the description of [Letters, 1826-1848] / Wm. Wordsworth. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 501844796 Wordsworth was an English poet. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1801-1853. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122372656 From the guide to the William Wordsw...

Mrs. Wm. A. Dickinson.

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William Austin Dickinson

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S. F. Samuel Fowler Dickinson's

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Edw. I Baker

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Schrevel, Cornelius

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Simmons, Charles, 1798-1856

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Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883

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Former vice-president of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Letter, 1866 Dec. 26, Crawfordville, Georgia, to Henry Bradley Plant. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 260819402 Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America. From the description of Alexander H. Stephens papers, 1844-1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476996 Lawyer, journalist, governor of Geo...

Humphrey, Roman, 1799-1861

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Hopkins, Mark, 1808-1887

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Arnold, Helen H.

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Stewart, Dugald

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Epithet: Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000815.0x00022e Epithet: of Blairhall; brother of James, 1st Earl of Bute British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000362.0x000315 ...

McCheyne, Robert Murray.

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1787-1879

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American essayist and poet. From the description of The buccaneer : autograph manuscript copy of a fragment of the poem signed : Boston, 1865 Feb. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 557604082 From the description of Sonnet: to a garden-flower sent to me by a lady and Song: I saw her once : autograph manuscript copies of two poems signed, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270539184 From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Mr. & ...

Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887

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Abolitionist; orator; pastor of Plymouth Church, 1847-1887. From the description of Papers, [ca.1847]-1937, 1847-1887 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155459715 American Congregational clergyman, lecturer, reformer, and author. From the guide to the Henry Ward Beecher papers, 1851-1896, n.d, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Congregationalist minister. From the description of Sermon notes, [n.d.], 1893, 18...

Weber, Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von.

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Procter, Adelaide Anne, 1825-1864

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Poet Adelaide Anne Procter was born in London and raised in a literary environment that helped nurture and develop her own budding talent. Most of her poems were published in Charles Dicken's magazines, often under a pseudonym. Her life was marked by her conversion to Roman Catholicism, and by her devotion to women's rights. Although much of her verse seems simplistic and sentimental by today's standards, she was perhaps the most popular living poet of her day. From the description o...

Spitta, Karl Johann Philipp, 1801-1859

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Bingham, Hiram, 1789-1869

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New York (City) Academy of Music

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Badger, Mrs.

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Emily Norcross'

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Barrera, Mme A.

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Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881

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English author and adventurer. From the description of Edward J. Trelawny collection, 1824-1890. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70925559 From the description of ALS : Lerici, Italy, to Lord Byron, Pisa, [1822 July 13]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122591848 Epithet: of Add MS 36461 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0000af ...

Creighton, M. (Mandell), 1843-1901

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Campbell, John Campbell, Baron, 1779-1861

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Campbell was involved with various government activities including solicitor general (1832-1834), attorney general (1834-1841), chief justice of Queen's Bench (1850), and lord chancellor (1859-1861). From the description of Letters, 1834-1859. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234337762 ...

Eberty, Felix, 1812-1884

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J. E. Ryland.

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Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903

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American poet. From the description of Manuscript letter : Mattapoisett, to Lafcadio Hearn, 1885 Feb. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 635599094 Army officer. From the description of Abraham Lincoln : poem, 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 748677748 Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903), author, poet, editor, and literary critic, was born in Hingham, Mass., one of three children of sea captain Reuben Stoddard (1800-1827) and Sophia Gurney Stoddard (18...

Library of Academia

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Mr. J. W. Smith

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Eschenburg, Johann Joachim, 1743-1820

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S. Dickinson

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Ollendorff, Heinrich Gottfried, d. 1865.

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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855

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Charlotte Brontë (b. April 21, 1816, Thornton, Yorkshire, England–d. March 31, 1855, Haworth, Yorkshire, England), English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters. She first published her works, including Jane Eyre, under the pen name Currer Bell....

Baker, Lafayette C., 1826-1868

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Baker was born in Stafford, New York, on October 13, 1826. He became a mechanic, moved to Michigan in 1839, returned to New York in 1848, moved to California in 1853, and was a San Francisco vigilante in 1856. He moved to the District of Columbia in 1861. Baker's exploits are mainly known through his book A History of the Secret Service which he published in 1867 after his fall from grace. During the early months of the Civil War, he spied for General Winfield Scott on Confederate forces in V...

Bellini, Vincenzo

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Music by V. Bellini, Italian libretto by F. Romani after Carlo Tedaldi-Fores's play Beatrice di Tenda; opera first performed in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice, 16 March 1833. Cf. New Grove online. From the description of Cavatine für eine Bassstimme aus der Oper Beatrice di Tenda : mit Piano Forte Begleitung : manuscript, [185-?] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 671538604 Italian composer. From the description of Autograph letter (incomplete), dated : [...

Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881

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Benjamin Disraeli was a prominent British statesman and novelist who served in many positions including Prime Minister of Great Britain. From the description of Letters, 1799-1877. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 276297717 English Prime Minister. From the description of Letter signed : "10 Downing Street, Whitehall, ", to Vice Admiral Erasmus Ommanney, 1877 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270537555 Benjamin Disraeli (1804-18...

Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878

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Bowles was an American journalist and publisher. From the description of Letter, a portrait, and newspaper clippings, 1872-ca. 1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80880580 Samuel Bowles was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on February 9, 1826. He was the editor of the daily edition of the Springfield Republican from 1844 to 1878. Noted for his willingness to comment on matters of political corruption, he was the subject of a libel suit. Bowles was involved with the Liber...

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...

Manning, Anne, 1807-1879

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Anne Manning, English writer. From the description of Anne Manning manuscript material : 1 item, [between 1850 and 1878] (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 727160595 From the guide to the Anne Manning manuscript material : 1 item, between 1850 and 1878, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/...

Coolidge, Austin

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Dickinson, Clarence

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Leavitt, Miss

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Wm Norcross

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Dickinson, Emily Norcross, 1804-1882

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Leves, George Henry, 1817-1878

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Friends, Society of. New England yearly meeting.

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Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908

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Donald Grant Mitchell, essayist and novelist, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, graduated from Yale College in 1841 and, after serving abroad briefly as U.S. consul in Venice, Italy, from 1853 to 1854, settled near New Haven, Connecticut. Mitchell wrote literary criticism, travel literature, and volumes of essays on rural themes, including Reveries of a Bachelor (1850), My Farm of Edgewood: A Country Book (1863), and Rural Studies (1867). Other works include the novel Doctor Johns (1866), About ...

Peters, William Cumming.

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Susan H. Gilbert

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Farwell, Arthur, 1872-1952

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Originally composed for two pianos, 1912; this version 1931. Won First Prize and awarded a nationwide broadcast in the National Federation of Music Clubs Competition, 1939. First performance in a broadcast by the CBS Orchestra, New York, May 28, 1939, Howard Barlow conducting, Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Helen Fogel soloists.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symbolistic study, no. 6 : Mountain vision : concerto in one movement for piano, second piano and string orchestr...

Morse, Jedidiah

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Park, Edwards Amasa, 1808-1900

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American clergyman, theologian, and educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Andover, Mass.?], to [Andrew Preston] Peabody, [1866 Apr. 4]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 743829255 Congregational clergyman, theologian, professor at Andover Theological Seminary, editor of Bibliotheca Sacra. From the description of Papers, 1835-1899. (Andover Newton Theological School). WorldCat record id: 11667718 American theologian. From t...

Mary F. P. Dunbar.

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Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895

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Charles Lanman, writer, journalist and amateur painter, was born in Monroe, Michigan, June 15, 1819. He spent much of his career working as a journalist in Monroe and Cincinnati, Ohio. He moved to Washington DC in 1848 and worked as a librarian in various branches of government, including the War Department, the Copyrights Division of the Department of State, the executive library of President Fillmore, and the Interior Department. He wrote several books in his career on topics of travel and wil...

Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872

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English music critic, writer, and lyricist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to "Dear friend", "Saturday morning" [1863 Jan. 24]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270127153 British journalist, music critic, and librettist. From the description of Autograph letters signed : 13 Eaton Place West; and elsewhere, to Arthur Sullivan, 1863 Sept. 19 and 1866 Mar. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125542 Henry Fothergill Chorley, English journa...

Emmons, Richard, b. 1788

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Homerus, Anthon. 1847.

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Burgh, James, 1714-1775

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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...

Shorthouse, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1834-1903

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English novelist. From the description of Letter, 1890 May 1, to George Bainton. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122601877 English novelist-author of John Inglesant. From the description of Autograph letters signed (25) and autograph letters from which the signatures have been removed (2). : Edgbaston, Prof. Knight, 1880 Dec. 1-1893 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664310 ...

Storrs, Richard S.

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Massachusetts. General court. 1846.

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Taylor, Richard B.

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Morton, John Maddison, 1811-1891

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John Maddison Morton (1811-1891) was an English playwright of one-act farces, including Box and Cox (1847), as well as comic dramas, pantomimes, and other theatrical pieces. ...

Elijah Anderson

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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...

Dodge, Mary Abigail, 1833-1896

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Mary Abigail Dodge wrote under the name Gail Hamilton. From the description of Mary Abigail Dodge letter to [James] Redpath : Hamilton, Mass., 1886 May 4. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122291010 Author. Wrote under name: Gail Hamilton. From the description of Mary Abigail Dodge papers, 1856-1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456046 American writer. From the description of Mary Abigail Dodge letter, 1886 Nov. 24...

Mattie G. Dickinson

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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. (...

Worcester, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1784-1865

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Lexicographer. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Wm. A. Whitehead, New York, 1838 Oct. 1. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28996371 American lexicographer, engaged in a "War of Dictionaries" with Noah Webster. From the description of Joseph Emerson Worcester letters [manuscript], 1821, 1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647999587 ...

Woolsey, Sarah Chauncey, 1835-1905

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

Foster, John, 1770-1843

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Burke, Edmund

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Epithet: of Add MS 12099 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0000a2 Epithet: of Wimbledon; of Add MS 38323 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0000a8 Title: Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x0000dc Epithet: of Wimbled...

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688

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Clergyman and author. From the description of Warrant of John Bunyan, 1674. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452264 Epithet: of Egerton MS 2414 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000875.0x0002cf ...

Burditt, B. A.

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Roscoe, Thomas, 1791-1871

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Epithet: author; of Add MS 40540 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001391.0x00038a ...

U.S. 32d Congress, 1st sess., 1851-1852.

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Fanny N. Sutherland

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Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900

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

Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935

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Vernon Lee was the pseudonym for Violet Paget (1856-1935), a British writer of supernatural fiction, poetry and essays who lived in Italy 1889-1935. From the description of Vernon Lee manuscript fragment [manuscript], [1885-1900?]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648014870 Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget, an enigmatic English author with special interest in history and aesthetics. An English citizen, she was born and spent much of her life outside o...

Cheltnam, Charles Smith

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Epithet: translator and dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x000009 ...

Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902

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Attorney. From the description of Letters, 1858-1881. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 13549063 Soldier who served in Co. G 144th O.V.I. during the Civil War. From the description of Letter 1864 August 5. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 47003250 American author and lawyer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Yonkers, to John Foord of Harper and Brothers, 1890 Dec. 28. (Unknown). WorldC...

Maj E. Dickinson

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Allen, David Oliver.

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Dickinson, Samuel Fowler, 1775-1838

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Ned Dickinson

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Bugbee, James McKellar

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Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820

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Medical doctor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to John James Ruskin, 1807 Feb. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756675939 ...

Mackintosh, Sir James.

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Buck, Edward.

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Mr & Mrs Austin Dickinson

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Herz, Henri, 1803-1888

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French pianist, composer, and teacher. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris Mar. 25 1828, to the Vicomte Sosthène[s] de Larochefoucault [i.e. Louis François Sosthènes de La Rochefoucault, duc de Doudeauville], 1828 Mar. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666202 From the description of Partially printed document, dated : Paris, 23 March 1870, 1870 Mar. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873930 German pianist, composer, and teacher. ...

Lavinia Norcross Dickinson, 1833-1899

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Elder, William, 1806-1885

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Attended Jefferson Medical College. Practiced medicine and in 1842 was admitted to the Bar. Moved to Philadelphia where he wrote, lectured and was editor of the Liberty Herald. From the description of William Elder letter to John P. Kennedy [manuscript], 1858 Jan. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 176633356 William Elder sailed in Viewforth on a whaling voyage to the Davis Strait during the 1835-1836 season. From the guide to the William Elder collect...

Schwegler, Albert, 1819-1857

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Eliza Cook

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Wight, O.W. (Orlando Williams), 1824-1888

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Hayne, Robert Young, 1791-1839

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American statesman; governor of S.C. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Charleston, to M. Carey, 1816 Sept. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270466688 From the description of Autograph letter in third person, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269606184 Charleston and St. Paul Parish, S.C. attorney, South Carolina state legislator and governor, and U.S. senator. From the description of Letter : to M. Kelly, 1825 Sept. 1. (The South C...

Milner, Joseph, 1744-1797

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Joseph Milner was born on 2 January 1745 near Leeds, the son of a weaver. At the age of three, he contracted the measles, and his health remained weak throughout his childhood. The headmaster of Leeds grammar school took a personal interest in Milner, teaching him Greek and Latin. Milner went on to become a private tutor. He attended St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, and earned the BA in 1766. After becoming a deacon, Milner served as afternoon lecturer at Holy Trinity in Hull and as curate of...

Chadwick, L. Thayer

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Vinet, Alexandre Rodolphe, 1797-1847

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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 ...

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875

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English poet, apologist and naturalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Eversley, to Fanny Grenfell, 1842 Nov. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864471 English clergyman, author, teacher. From the description of Letter, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122549986 From the guide to the Charles Kingsley letter, undated, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Author and clergyman of the Church of England. From the de...

Bush, George, 1796-1859

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George Bush was a prominent mid-century biblical scholar, preacher and controversialist. After graduation from Dartmouth in 1818 and study at Princeton Theological Seminary, Bush was ordained at the Salem (Indiana) Presbytery in 1825, and was appointed pastor in Indianapolis. His religious views, described as 'liberal' or 'progressive,' rapidly came into conflict with those of his more conservative parishioners and in 1828, this conflict resulted in his termination. From...

Bowen, A., Mrs.

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Edward Dickinson

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Forster, John, 1812-1876

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John Forster was born and raised in Newcastle by Unitarian parents, and educated at Cambridge and London's Inner Temple. He became an important literary critic and editor, and wrote numerous books of his own, notably several biographies. Forster's greatest contribution may have been as literary adviser and advocate for some of the key authors of his day, including Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, and Carlyle. His support, advice, and promotion of authors and writing helped define Victorian taste. Fo...

Lord, Otis P. (Otis Phillips), 1812-1884

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Otis P. Lord graduated from Harvard Law School in 1836 and served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature at various times from 1847 to 1858, in the Massachusetts Superior Court (1859-1875) and in the Massachusetts Supreme Court (1875-1882). From the description of Letter regarding Bowditch Co. v. Winslow 1 March 1853. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234341682 ...

Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917

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American author, artist, folklorist, and philanthropist in Italy. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Firenze, to "Dear Joanie" [Joan Severn], 1891 Mar. [12-] 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 426166781 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Firenze, to "Dearest Joanie" [Joan Severn], 1889 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 426923784 From the description of Autograph address on an envelope : Venezia, to Mrs. Arthur Severn [Joan Severn]...

Susan Dickinson

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W. Gilbert Dickinson

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Huntington, Dan, 1774-1864

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Storrs, Richard Salter

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Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782

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Haven, Joseph, 1816-1874

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Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867

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American scholar. From the description of Letter to Andrew Preston Peabody, 1862 December 24. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52611803 ...

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...

AD

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Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852

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Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer. Moore was a friend and acquaintance of many of the English Romantics, including Lord Byron. He met Mary Shelley in the late 1820s, while researching his biography of Byron. From the description of Thomas Moore manuscript material : 220 items, 1811-1846 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76835859 Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer. From the guide to the Thomas Moore manuscript material : 254 items, 1811-1846, (...

Samuel H. Dickinson

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Cruden, Alexander, 1699-1770

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Epithet: Bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000844.0x000126 ...

James Parker Kimball

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S. H. Gilbert

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...

Sue Gilbert's

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Paley, William, 1743-1805

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William Paley, English theologian and moralist. From the guide to the William Paley manuscript material : 2 items, 1790-1802, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) William Paley was born in July 1743 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, to William Paley (d. 1799) and Elizabeth Clapham (d. 1796). The elder Paley was the vicar of Helpston, as well as headmaster of Giggleswick grammar school. The younger Paley was th...

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1561-1626, English philosopher, statesman and essayist best known for theories on scientific experimentation; knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Alban in 1621; Lord Chancellor, 1618; died 1626. From the guide to the A Coppy of a letter Conceived to bee writt to the late Duke of Buckingham..., c1650-1700, (Senate House Library, University of London) ...

Hampson, Alfred Leete.

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Alfred Hampson was a Portland, Or. attorney active in lobbying for the Oregon Minimum Deposit Act (Bottle Bill), which went into effect in October 1972. From the description of Alfred Hampson photographic collection [graphic], circa 1929-1940. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 774558399 Hampson was the sole heir to Martha Dickinson Bianchi's Dickinson manuscripts and rights of publication. From the description of Correspondence con...

Webster, Noah, 1758-1843

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American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, word enthusiast, and editor; b. in Hartford, Conn.; attended Yale and taught school in the Hartford area; moved to New Haven, Conn., in 1798. From the description of Noah Webster papers, 1786-1980. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 319706045 Noah Webster (1758-1843) was an American lexicographer, author and editor. He is best known for his spellers (early spelling textbooks) and his ...

Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891

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Historian, author. From the description of Transcriptions of documents, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583022 Wood engraver, author, editor. From the description of Benson J. Lossing papers, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576931 From the description of Papers, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155519295 Benson John Lossing, editor, illustrator, and historian born in New York. Edited the Poughkeepsie Telegraph, Poughk...

M' Donough, Felix, d. 1836

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U.S. 31st Congress, 1st sess., 1849-50.

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Sue. E. Dickinson

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Parton, James, 1832-1891

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Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830

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In October 1812, William Hazlitt was hired by the Morning Chronicle as a parliamentary reporter. Soon he met John Hunt, publisher of the Examiner, and his younger brother Leigh Hunt, the poet and essayist, who edited the weekly paper. Hazlitt began to contribute miscellaneous essays to the Examiner in 1813, and the scope of his work for the Chronicle was expanded to include drama criticism, literary criticism, and political essays. In 1814 the Champion was added to the list of periodicals that a...

Gibert, M.

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A. Dickinson

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Tanner, Henry Schenk, 1786-1852

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Tancock, Osborne William

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Kiallmark, C.

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Pike, Marshall S. (Marshall Spring)

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Composer, performing artist, drum major in the 22nd Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil War. From the description of Papers, 1871-1891. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 25149534 ...

William J. Rolfe.

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Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860.

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Unitarian minister and reformer. From the description of Letter, 1850 Nov. 5, Boston, to Charles Mason. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 170925855 Rev. Theodore Parker (1810-1860), Unitarian minister, social reformer, and publicist, was born in Lexington, Mass., a grandson of Captain John Parker (1729-1775) of Revolutionary fame. Parker graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1836, became minister of West Roxbury, and proceeded to develop his theological and social ...

Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 1795-1854

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English judge and author, friend and executor of Charles Lamb. From the description of ALS : London, to Andrew Willis, 1847 Aug. 30. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122690123 Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854) was an English judge and author. From the description of Letters to Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, 1835-1844 (bulk 1835-1836). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122396791 English j...

Locke, David Ross, 1833-1888

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Petrolueum V. Nasby was the pseudonym of David Locke. From the description of Letter, ca. 1869, Boston, Mass., to Joseph Hawley. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 23247749 American political satirist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Whitelaw Reed, 1874 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591029 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Mr. Reid, 1874 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

Gillies, John, 1712-1796

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Bushnell, Horace, 1802-1876

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Horace Bushnell was born in Bantam, Connecticut on April 14, 1802. He was educated at Yale (B.A., 1827; M.A., 1830; B.D., 1833), and received degrees from Wesleyan University (D.D., 1842), Harvard (S.T.D., 1852) and Yale (LL.D., 1871). He served as pastor of North Church, Hartford, CT from 1833-1859. He was the author of "God in Christ" (1849) and "Christ in Theology" (1851), as well as other works uncongenial to the orthodox theology of his times. From the description of Horace Bush...

Palgrave, Francis Turner, 1824-1897

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Epithet: poet and anthologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x0001d4 Francis Turner Palgrave was raised in London and educated at Oxford; he worked for the Privy Council's Education Office from 1849-1884. In his day, he was known as a poet, critic, and editor, publishing several books of verse and numerous critical essays on art and literature. He is probably best known for the well-considered antholog...

Eastlake, Charles L. (Charles Locke), 1836-1906

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Hubbard, Richard Dudley.

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Mrs. Ethel B. Clark.

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Stearns, William A. (William Augustus), 1805-1876

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Stearns, clergyman and educator, was born in 1805 in Bedford, Mass. He was the son of a minister, Samuel Stearns, and one of eleven children. He was educated at Phillips Academy Andover, Harvard College, and Andover Theological Seminary. His first post as minister was at Cambridgeport, Mass. at the age of twenty-six; he was so successful that he stayed there from 1831 until 1854. In 1854, Stearns was called to be the fourth president of Amherst College, where he served until his death in 1876. H...

Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855

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Mitford was an English author and dramatist. From the description of Letters to various correspondents, 1826-1854. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612374161 From the guide to the Mary Russell Mitford letters to various correspondents, 1826-1854., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Mary Russell Mitford was an English poet, playwright, and short-story writer. From the description of Mary Russell Mitford collection of ...

Sweetser, Charles H. (Charles Humphreys), 1841-1871

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Bradford, Sarah Elisabeth

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Thomas Moore.

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Jacob Holt

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Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824

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British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...

Dickinson, Clarence, 1873-

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Junius, 18th cent.

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Junius, anonymous British political essayist. Marriot Arbuthnot, British naval officer, commissioner of the navy at Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1776, and commander of the North American fleet from 1779 to 1781. William Woodfall, younger brother of Henry Sampson Woodfall, parliamentary reporter and dramatic critic. From the description of Junius letters and William Woodfall letters, [1779]-1802. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77584087 ...

Olmstead, Holton

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Leverett, Frederick Percival, ed.

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Story, Joseph

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Bennet, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 33057 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x0000ac Epithet: musician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x000174 Epithet: of Add MS 41804 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x0000ae ...

Wm B. Reed

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Sue (late)

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Storrs, John, 1801-1854

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Falconer, William, 1732-1769

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Epithet: Reverend; translator of Strabo British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x000209 English poet. From the description of Autograph signature to a receipt for half a guinea : from Governor Ellis, [1768?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535183 ...

Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864

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Geologist and college president, of Amherst, Mass. From the description of Edward Hitchcock letter, 1854 Jan. 5. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 71129604 American geologist; president of Amherst College. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Amherst, to an unidentified recipient, 1850 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269606027 Edward Hitchcock was an eminent 19th-century scientist, minister and educator; pri...

Willson, Charles.

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Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909

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American writer and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to A.H. Rathbone, 1893 Aug. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270470872 Author and diplomat. From the description of Letters of Hinton Rowan Helper, 1860-1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450859 Hinton Rowan Helper, born December 27, 1829 in Davie County, North Carolina, was a Southern critic of slavery whose books inflamed the South. His objection to the syst...

Flint, James

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Comer, T.

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Amherst Agricultural Library

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Selfridge, Thomas Oliver, 1804-1902

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Naval officer. From the description of Papers of Thomas Oliver Selfridge, 1809-1927 (bulk 1809-1870). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80813076 ...

Eliot, George, 1819-1880

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Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, George Eliot was the daughter of a land agent who managed estates in the rural midlands, a formative experience that gave her an insight into country society that later greatly influenced and enriched her first works of fiction. At different times of her life, she also spelled her name as Mary Anne, Marian, and Marianne, adopting the pen-name of Eliot only after her first work of fiction was published in 1857. Eliot was brought up in a narrow...

Bede, Cuthbert, 1827-1889

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Edward Bradley [pseud. Cuthbert Bede], author and Church of England clergyman. He is best remembered for his Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, first published in parts in the 1850's, which he also illustrated. The novel follows the exploits of a fictional undergraduate freshman at Oxford University, and spawned several sequels. From the description of Cuthbert Bede manuscript material : 1 item, 1882 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76944795 From the guide to the...

Wm A. Dickinson

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Parker, Edward G. (Edward Griffin), 1825-1868

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Secretary and treasurer of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad Company. From the description of Edward G. Parker letter, 1859 Oct. 5. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 256811001 ...

Whitney, Louisa (Goddard) 1819-1883

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King, Harriet Eleanor (Baillie-Hamilton), 1840-1875

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Charlotte Sewell Eastman

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Thomas, Gilbert, 1903-

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Harte, Bret, 1836-1902

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Author and journalist. From the description of Papers of Bret Harte [manuscript] 1859-1901. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647940411 Harte served as editor of the Overland Monthly, 1868-1870. From the description of ALS, 1869 April 17 : San Francisco, to Mrs. Emily Gould, Rome. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 16700642 From the description of ALS, 1868 July 5 : San Francisco, to [Emily Gould]. (Copley Press, J S Copl...

D. Huntington

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Sue H. Gilbert in ink on the title page.

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F. Hunten.

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Tooke, Andrew, 1673-1732

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Cicero, 1879.

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Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860

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Author and naval officer. A close friend of Washington Irving, Paulding collaborated with him to produce the satirical periodical, Salmagundi. He also wrote poetry, fiction, and a popular biography of George Washington. President Martin Van Buren appointed Paulding Secretary of the Navy in 1839, in which post he served until 1841. From the description of [Letter] 1839 May 7, Navy Department [Washington, D.C., to] Gilbert Davis, New York. (University of South Florida). WorldCat record...

Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894

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English-Italian poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hastings, to Miss Howitt, [1864 Dec. 26?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657751 Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) was an English poet. From the description of Sirs, ye are brethren, 1870. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 365128412 Christina Georgina Rossetti, English poet. From the description of [Letter and poem] / Christian G. Rossetti. [1876] (Smith College). W...

U.S. 33rd Congress, 2d sess., 1854-1855.

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Merle D'Aubigné, Jean Henri.

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Emerson, B. D. (Benjamin Dudley), 1781-1872

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Glynn, William C.

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Susan, Gilbert

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C. H. Keith

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Blochwitz, Johannes 1842-

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel ˜deœ, 1547-1616

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, (born September 29?, 1547, Alcalá de Henares, Spain—died April 22, 1616, Madrid), was a Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet. He is the author of Don Quixote. Britannica (2 April 2018): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Miguel-de-Cervantes ...

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. ...

Saviour Jesus Christ.

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Chow-Chow.

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Prof. Whitney

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Gilbert Dickinson.

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Phillips, Wendell

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Panormo, Francis.

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Pres. Woolsey

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Austin Dickinson.

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Alison, Archibald, 1792-1867

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Scottish historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Possil House [near Glasgow], to Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, 1839 Feb. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131711 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Glasgow], to Miss Alison in Edinburgh, 1839 Mar. 02. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131555 Scottish advocate and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to an unidentified recipient, 1844 May 30...

Jenkins, J. L.

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Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873

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Lytton was an English statesman and writer. From the description of Lithograph of Lord Lytton, circa 1800s-1870s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367947106 Edward Bulwer Lytton, first Baron Lytton, writer and politician. From the description of Edward Bulwer Lytton manuscript material : 26 items, 1828-1872 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 718729173 From the guide to the Edward Bulwer Lytton manuscript material : 26 items, 1828-1872, (The New...

Glynn, William C.

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Valentine, Thomas

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Carlyle, Thomas

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Evorte, Jeremiah, 1781-1831

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Smith, Alexander, 1830?-1867

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Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871

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Scottish publisher; author of 'Traditions of Edinburgh,' 'History of the rebellion of 1745-46,' 'Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen,' and 'A life of Scott,' among others; acquaintance of Sir Walter Scott. From the description of Robert Chambers papers, [1827-1836?]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 44616234 Publisher and author Robert Chambers was born in a small town in Scotland; after his affluent family lost their fortune, he and his brother Wi...

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. ...

Willis, Richard Storrs, 1819-1900

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Editor. From the description of Richard Storrs Willis note, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981385 ...

Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863

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German philologist and mythologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berlin, to Herr Schlemmer, bookseller in Göttingen, 1843 Feb. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270498403 ...

Blunt, Anne, Lady, 1837-1917

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Anne Isabella Noel Blunt [née King], suo jure Baroness Wentworth, traveller and breeder of Arab horses. She was the only daughter of of William King, first earl of Lovelace, and his wife, Ada King, the only child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke. From the guide to the Lady Anne Blunt manuscript material : 2 items, 1864?, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Anne Isabella Noel Blunt [née King], su...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....

Liefde, Jan De, 1814-1869.

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Morris, William O'Connor, 1824-1904

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Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x0003d6 Epithet: Irish judge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x00014f ...

Miss Gilbert

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Susan Huntington

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Saintine, Joseph Xavier Boniface

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Ames, Fisher, 1838-

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BIOGRAPHY Fisher Ames (1758-1808) was a statesman, Federalist publicist, orator and Congressman. He was elected to Congress in 1789 and served until 1796. In 1805 he was offered the presidency of Harvard, but declined due to poor health and "advancing age" (47). His son Seth Ames married Margaret S. Bradford; their son Pelham Warren Ames served in the navy during the Civil War and was a lawyer. From the guide to the Ames Family Pa...

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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

Erekins, Mrs. Thomas.

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Elizabeth Dickinson

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Macduff, John R. (John Ross), 1818-1895

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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...

Crosby, L. V. H., -1884

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Lord, Otis P. (Otis Phillips), 1812-1884

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Otis P. Lord graduated from Harvard Law School in 1836 and served in both houses of the Massachusetts legislature at various times from 1847 to 1858, in the Massachusetts Superior Court (1859-1875) and in the Massachusetts Supreme Court (1875-1882). From the description of Letter regarding Bowditch Co. v. Winslow 1 March 1853. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234341682 ...

Theremin, Franz, 1780-1846

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Fisher, George Park, 1827-1909

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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...

Cheney, Mary A. (Bushnell), ed.

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Goldschmidt, Meïr, 1819-1887

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U.S. Congress. Joint committee on the conduct of the war.

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Dickinson, Lavinia Norcross, 1833-1899

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Gail Hamilton

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Hunt, William W.

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Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour), 1829-1899

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Dr. Bartlett

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Williams, Henry W. (Henry Willard), 1821-1895

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Williams (Harvard, M.D. 1849) served as a visiting district physician and later as surgeon to the Boston Dispensary, and he taught at the Boylston Medical School, 1850-1855. In 1850 he organized a class of Harvard medical students for instruction in diseases of the eye and became a professor at Harvard in 1871. Williams was one of the first among ophthalmic surgeons to use etherization as a general practice in cataract extraction, and also initiated a reform in ophthalmic therapeutics. ...

Sinnett, A.P. (Alfred Percy), 1840-1921

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William A. Dickinson.

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Harmoneon Family

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A. Mine.

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