James family additional papers, 1858-1947.

James, William, 1842-1910

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

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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

William James

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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

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

Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933

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

James family

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The James family was especially prominent in the intellectual life of New England. Henry James was an American novelist, short story writer, critic and dramatist, and his brother was William James, an American philosopher and psychologist, a leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism and of the psychological movement of functionalism. William James' wife was Alice Howe Gibbens James. From the guide to the James family papers, ca.1846-1916., (Houghton Library, Har...

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...

Jacks, Lawrence Pearsall, 1860-

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

Greene, Jerome D. (Jerome Davis), 1874-1955

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Greene graduated from Harvard in 1896, was Secretary to the President, Secretary to the Corporation and served as Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Jerome D. Greene, 1894-ca. 1955 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973049 ...

Miller, Dickinson Sergeant, 1868-1963

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Miller was professor of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College. From the description of Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 226054851 Dickinson Sergeant Miller (1868-1963) was a professor of philosophy and a writer. In 1889 received an A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania and an A.B. and A.M. in 1892 from Harvard. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Halle in 1893. After returning to the United States...

Stumpf, Carl, 1848-1936

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Pratt

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Epithet: Commissaire de Police, Tahiti British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000614.0x0002f4 ...

Morse, Frances Rollins, 1850-1928

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A social work volunteer, Morse helped establish Associated Charities of Boston and was associated with the School of Social Work at Simmons College. From the description of Papers, 1831-1929 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006748 Frances Rollins Morse (1850-1928) was the daughter of Samuel Tapley and Harriet Jackson (Lee) Morse. She was very active in the field of social work. She helped establish Associated Charities of Boston and was associated wi...

James, Robertson, 1846-1910

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Henry James, 1811-1882

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James, Garth.

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Moore, John Bassett, 1860-1947

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Lawyer, educator, and jurist. From the description of Papers of John Bassett Moore, 1866-1949 (bulk 1885-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455667 ...

Wembridge, Eleanor Harris Rowland, 1882-

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Blackwood, William, 1776-1834

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Editor of Blackwood's Magazine. From the description of Letters : Edinburgh, to Henry Prevost, New York, 1817 and undated. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 27497238 ...

William James, 1842-1910

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Alice James

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Carrel, Alexis, 1873-1944

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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...

Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) U.S. ph...

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

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Elihu Root, born in Clinton, NY, attended Hamilton College (A.B., 1864, A.M. in course, 1867) and University Law School of New York. He served as member Alaskan Boundary Tribunal; United States District Attorney, Southern New York, 1883 - 85; Secretary of War, 1899 - 1904; Secretary of State, 1905 - 09; U.S. Senator from New York, 1909 - 15; Senior Counsel for the U.S., North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration, The Hague, 1910; Ambassador at Head of Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia, 1...

Gibson, Hugh, 1883-

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Whitlock, Brand, 1869-1934

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U.S. minister to Belgium, 1914-1920. From the description of Letters from schoolchildren of Ghent, Belgium, 1915 March. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 14084889 Toledo mayor, lawyer, author, and diplomat. From the description of Letter, 1916 April 11, Brussels, to Alexander L. Smith, Toledo, Ohio. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13994096 Lawyer, author, mayor of Toledo, ambassador to Belgium. From the description of Le...

MacMillan, Sir Frederick, 1851-1936

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James, Henry, 1879-1947

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

James, Henry, 1811-1882

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

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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

Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe

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George Dorr

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Henry, James.

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James, John (Vocalist)

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Thomas Varker Keam was born in Kenwyn, England on August 6, 1842. He went to sea as a young man and served in several branches of the British and then American military. Honorably discharged at Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1868, Keam stayed on becoming a liscenced trader with the Indian Bureau. By 1879 he had left the tading post he and and William Leonard had established together, to what is now called Keam's Canyon. There he traded with both the Hopi and Navajos, learning both their languages fluen...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Grenville Clark

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Henry James, 1843-1916

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Henry James, 1879-1947

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Margaret Mary

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Perry, Ralph Barton, 1876-1957

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Perry graduated from Harvard in 1897 and taught philosophy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Ralph Barton Perry, 1891-1957 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973152 Perry received his A.M. in 1897 and his Ph.D in 1899 from Harvard, and taught philosophy at Harvard. From the description of Public opinion and the Civil War : paper for History 20e, 1896-1898. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074149 ...

C. W. Eliot

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Alice Howe (Gibbens) James

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Tobens, Austin

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James, Jake.

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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...

Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911

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E. A. Abbey was a painter. Born in Philadelphia, he was self-taught and initially employed in a wood engraver's shop. In 1872, Abbey began working as an illustrator for Harper's. He also painted murals, including those for the Boston Public Library and Pennsylvania Capitol. From the description of Letter, 1874 November 26 : to L. Prang. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 84665753 Abbey was an American artist and illustrator who moved to England in 1878 and remained th...