Sarah Orne Jewett correspondence, 1861-1930.

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Sarah Orne Jewett correspondence, 1861-1930.

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Abstract

Correspondence of American author Sarah Orne Jewett.

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8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

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eng,

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Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6383531

Houghton Library

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Elizabeth "Lisbeth" Anne Maud McCracken (c. 1871–1944), a unionist suffragette and author from Northern Ireland. She wrote under the pen name LAM Priestley. She was a member of the Women's Suffrage Society, the Belfast's Irish Women's Suffrage Society and the Women's Social and Political Union. She is buried at Bangor New Cemetery, Co Down, Northern Ireland, following several years of illness. Sources provide conflicting information about Elizabeth's birth and childhood. The 1901 census recor...

Thomas Gardner

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Pratt, Miriam Choate.

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Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892

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

Pitblade, Jane E.

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K., Caroline H.

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Morton, Helen

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Helen Morton was born June 5, 1898 and grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, spending summers at the family home on Yarmouth Island, Maine. After graduating from Vassar College she received a Master of Science degree from the Simmons College School of Social Work in 1923 and was involved in settlement work in Boston and internationally. From 1933 to 1940 Morton was executive secretary of the National Student Council of the YWCA, a position in which she traveled widely and was involved i...

Gerrish, Frederic Henry, 1845-1920

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Physician and instructor, Portland School for Medical Instruction, Portland, Me. From the description of Autograph letter signed from Frederic Henry Gerrish to Dr. Walter E. Tobie, 1905 June 12. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 187983725 ...

Fox, Alice, -1988

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Torrey, Bradford, 1843-1912

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

Clark, Natalie (Rice) 1867-

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Pattee, Fred Lewis, 1863-1950

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Fred Lewis Pattee was an American author, poet, teacher, scholar, and a leading authority on American literature. He was Professor of English and Rhetoric at Pennsylvania State College, and later became Professor of American Literature. In 1891 Pattee published his first book, LITERATURE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and his first published verse collection was THE WINE OF MAY (1893). Pattee's most important critical work was the first volume of HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1870 (1915), which w...

W., A. A.

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Perry, Lucretia (Fiske) 1826-1896

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Helen (Bigelow) Merriman

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Houghton, Mifflin & Co., firm, publishers, Boston.

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Orne, Benjamin.

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Murfree, Mary Noailles, 1850-1922

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Mary Noilles Murfree, author, was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on 24 January 1850, and died there on 31 July 1922. She never married and was first published in 1873. Under the pseudonym of Charles Egbert Craddock, she published short stories in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY and other magazines (1878- ); a volume of short stories, IN THE MOUNTAINS (1884); and at least nine novels, including WHERE THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT, PHANTOMS OF THE FOOT BRIDGE, HIS VANISHED STAR, and PROPHET OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUN...

Wasson, George Savary, 1855-1932

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Jewett, William Durham, 1813-1887

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Bynner, Edwin Lassetter, 1842-1893

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

H., Josephine F.

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Thérèsia, Sister L.

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Johnston, Richard Malcolm, 1822-1898

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Richard Malcolm Johnston was an author, lawyer, and educator. He was born near Pawellton, Georgia on "Oak Grove" plantation. He was law partners with Eli W. Baxter in Sparta, Georgia. In 1844, Johnston married Mary Frances Mansfield. He was elected chair of rhetoric and belles-lettres at the University of Georgia in 1857; he remained in Athens until 1861. From 1862 until 1867, Johnston ran a school for boys in Rockby, Georgia. After the Civil War, he moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he contin...

Terry, Dame Ellen, 1848-1928

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John Jewett

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Marr, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 33977 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x000293 ...

Alice Greenwood Howe

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Sarton, George, 1884-1956

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Historian of science, George Alfred Leon Sarton was born on August 31, 1884, in Ghent, Belgium. He studied the natural sciences at the University of Ghent, and received his D.Sc. in 1911. Escaping to England before World War I, Sarton then came to the United States in 1915. After spending some time in lecturing positions, Sarton came to Harvard University in 1920, was made a full professor there in 1940 and retired in 1951 when he was made professor emeritus. He was founder of th...

Tyler, A. M.

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Loring, Margaret Fuller Channing, 1844-

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Pike, Walter S.

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Doe, Mrs recipient.

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Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930

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George Haven Putnam (1844-1930) was a publisher and author best known for his commitment to the establishment of national copyright legislation in the U.S. and to American adherence to the international copyright Convention of Berne. After serving in the U.S. Civil War, he entered his father's publishing house, G.P. Putnam's Sons. He assumed the presidency of the firm in 1872 and became an authority on the legal implications of copyright. In 1886 he formed the American Publishers' Copyright Leag...

Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928

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

Ward, Dorothy Mary.

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Dexter, Josie.

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Long, Mary O.

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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 ...

Mary Rice Jewett

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Fairbank, Calvin, 1816-1898

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American abolitionist. From the description of Autograph entry signed : Salem, Ohio, 1864 Oct. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 639971628 ...

Howells, Elinor Gertrude (Mead) d. 1910

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Shafter, E. S. J.

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Manning, Jacob Woodward

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Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912

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American Shakespeare scholar. From the description of Letters : to Dr. John C. Rolfe, 1910. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79028412 Shakespearean scholar. From the description of Papers of Horace Howard Furness, 1872-1899. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56349747 Horace Howard Furness was a lawyer and Shakespeare scholar. From the description of Scrapbook, 1869-1911. (American Philosophical Society Library). Wor...

Aylesworth, Barton O.

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Douglas, Sophie B.

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Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898

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Mary Cowden Clarke was a British author and actress and one of the first significant female Shakespearean editors. Her family were intimates of Keats, Dickens, Fielding, and the Lambs. Working with her husband, Charles Cowden Clarke, and on her own, she compiled an impressive body of work including the major Shakespearean concordance of her day. From the description of Mary Cowden Clarke letters and poem, 1872-1882. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49848...

Hayes, James A., 1921-

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James A. Hayes, a lifelong Republican, served on the Long Beach City Council (1963-1966). He then represented the Thirty-ninth District in the California State Assembly. He chaired the Committee on the Judiciary. He authored landmark legislation reforming California's divorce laws, and sponsored laws creating a consumer protection agency and a coastal management body to protect California's coastal areas. In 1972 he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, serving as its chair...

St. Nicholas, the editors.

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Barrow, Mary A. D.

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Eva

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Gardiner, J. H. (John Hays), 1863-1913

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Gardiner taught English at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Hays Gardiner, ca. 1900-1914 (exclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069356 ...

Orne, Sally, recipient

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Biem, Charles.

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King, Wilson.

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Herford, Helen Brooke, 1887-1972

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Helen Brooke Herford (1887-1972) was the daughter of John ("Jack" Brooke Herford and Susan Whitney Herford of Yellowstone County, Montana. Jack Herford (1857-1923) was one of nine children of Rev. Brooke Herford (1830-1903), an English clergyman. Jack's oldest brother, William, immigrated to the United States in the early 1870s where he established a New Mexico sheep ranch. By 1876 the rest of the Herford family temporarily settled in Chicago. Jack soon joined William in New Mexico while two oth...

Lawton, William Cranston, 1853-1941

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American poet and classical scholar, professor of Greek and Latin literature. From the description of My fatherland [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 256490798 ...

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

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

Mrs Tyler

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Hyde, William De Witt, 1858-1917

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

Eastman, Caroline Augusta (Jewett) 1855-1897

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Bradbury, Kate

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Bülow-Wendhausen, Bertha, freiin von, 1848-

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Porter, Mary M.

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Quincy, Eliza Susan, 1798-1884

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Eliza Susan Quincy (1798-1884) was the daughter of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), congressman, Massachusetts state senator, and president of Harvard University. Her great-grandfather was Colonel Josiah Quincy (1710-1784). His fortune was increased when the merchant vessel Bethell, of which he was part owner, captured a Spanish treasure ship. In 1770, he built a large house in that part of Braintree, Massachusetts, which later became Quincy. Eliza Susan and her sisters Abigail Phillips (1803-1893) an...

Douglas, David, 1823-1916

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W. A.

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Putnam, Annie Cabot

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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 ...

Blanc, Thérèse (de Solms) 1840-1907

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Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935

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Gaskell, M. E.

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Houghton & Co., H.O.

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Barrell, Mary.

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Maillard, Agnes C.

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Blaze de Bury, Yetta.

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Daughter of Ange-Henri Blaze de Bury. From the description of Calling cards (11) : [n.p.], to various recipients, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270881338 ...

Bowditch, Margaret S.

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Howe, Alice (Greenwood) 1835-1924

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Houston, Dorothy Webb.

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Tyler, T. E.

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Morton, Johnson.

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Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923

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American author and educator. From the description of Papers of Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, 1887-1923. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 31083790 Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Robert N. Smith and Helen E. Dyer. Her father died when she was three. She and her mother then moved to Maine, the setting of most of her future books. Three years later, her mother married Albion Bradbury. At 17, she moved with her family to Santa Barbara (Calif.). There ...

Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908

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

Birkhead, Kate de C.

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Gaskell, Julia

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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...

Bell, Helen

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Hunt, Helen

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Hill, John M.

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Houghton, Mifflin and Co. firm, publishers

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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...

Newman, Mattie S.

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Merriman, Helen (Bigelow) 1844-1933

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Dugdal, Alice.

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Bourne, Edward E. (Edward Emerson), 1797-1873

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Helen, Aunt

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Buzzell, John, 1767-1863

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Fields, Annie, 1834-1915

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

Whitman, Sarah Wyman, 1842-1904.

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Sarah Wyman Whitman lived in Boston. She was "a member of the [Radcliffe College] Council since Radcliffe College was established, and for eight years previous a member of the corporation of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women." From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, 1895. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155883824 ...

Perry, G. B.

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Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937

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Edward Garnett was an English writer, critic and literary editor. He was married to Constance Garnett. -- B. W. Huebsch was an American publisher. From the description of [Letters to Huebsch] / Edward Garnett. [between 1926 and 1938] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 231350092 Author. From the description of Letters, 1935. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36945314 From the description of Letters, 1895-1957. (Indiana University). WorldCat reco...

Atkinson, J. C. (John Christopher), 1814-1900

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Epithet: Reverend; antiquarian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001187.0x0002f9 ...

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894

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American poet and water-colorist. From the description of Letters, 1872-1894. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233101484 Celia Laighton Thaxter was an American poet and essayist who lived much of her life in the Isles of Shoals, at first on White Island and later in a large cottage her brothers built for their parents on the island of Appledore, in which she eventually died. The family ran a hotel, Appledore House, which, along with Celia's cottage, burned...

Villari, Linda, 1836-1915

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Epithet: of Add MS 45564 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x000376 ...

Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943

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The daughter of Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe, Richards was the author of more than eighty books, most of them for young people. She and her sister, Maude Howe Elliott, wrote Life and Letters of Julia Ward Howe (1910), which received the first Pulitzer Prize for biography. For additional biographical information, see American Women Writers (1981). From the description of Letter, 1904. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008342 ...

Dix, Morgan, 1827-1908

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Episcopal clergyman, theologian, and author; associated with Trinity Church, New York, N.Y., for over 50 years. From the description of Morgan Dix letter to H. H. Boyeson [manuscript], 1882 October 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 469622379 American clergyman. From the description of Clipped signature : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565859 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Trinity Rectory [New York], to ...

Houghton, Mifflin & Co., firm, publishers, Boston, recipient.

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Morse, Harriet J.

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Ellis, Mrs. recipient.

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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909

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Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897

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Scottish novelist and historial writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Windsor, to Mr. Grove, 1877 Mar. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611471 Margaret Oliphant was born in Scotland, and published her first novel at age twenty-one. After the death of her husband, she took to writing to support her young family, and showed remarkable industry, ultimately publishing more than one hundred books and more than two hundred articles, chiefly in Blackwood's E...

Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel), 1858-1919

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American novelist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) and typewritten letter signed : New York, to F.A. Duneka, 1903 Dec. 27-1910 Apr. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270507434 ...

G.M.M.

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S., Bertha W.

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Hobbs, George S.

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Buell, Augustus C., 1847-1904

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Augustus Caesar Buell was born in 1847, and fought in the Civil War as a member of Company L of the 20th New York Cavalry, having enlisted in August 21, 1863. Although he was promoted to corporal the following November, by April 1864 he had been demoted back to private. He was mustered out of service at the end of July 1865 and returned to New York. Buell was living in the area of Chittenango and Utica in upstate New York, near Syracuse, when he kept his diary/sketchbook, which contains entries ...

Higginson, Ida (Agassiz), 1837-1935

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Underhill, Eduale.

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Dexter, Ella L.

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Barnes, John S. (John Sanford), 1836-1911

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John Paul Jones is among the most romantic and written-about figures in Revolutionary history. His raising of the first American flag aboard a naval vessel in 1776, his response to the British call to surrender Bon Homme Richard of "I have not yet begun to fight," and his victory aboard that vessel over Serapis in 1779 are elements of American nation-building with almost mythic significance. John Sanford Barnes's Jones collection was a product of his general interest in naval history (with a foc...

Sargent, Emily, 1857-

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Laighton, Oscar, 1839-1939

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New Hampshire-dwelling brother of American poet, Celia L. Thaxter. Author of "Ninety Years at the Isles of Shoals." Died a mere three months short of his 100th birthday. From the description of Oscar Laighton poem [manuscript], no date. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191118998 ...

Haliburton, Georgina, recipient

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Beill ?, Abbie L.

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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...

Mme. J. A. Fliches

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Thanet, Octave, 1850-1934

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American novelist and short story writer. From the description of Letters, 1888-1921. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233100106 Alice French, author of dozens of "local color" short stories, as well as articles, essays and novels, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, on March 18, 1850. Clover Bend, Arkansas provided the inspiration for many of her local color pieces, as well as her 1910 novel, By Inheritance. Her leading works are: Knitters in the Sun (188...

Chadwick, John White, 1840-1904

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Pastor at the Second Unitarian Church of Brooklyn from 1864-1904. From the description of Letter, 1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155460263 Unitarian minister, Brooklyn, New York; poet and author. From the description of Letter : to Mr. Garrison, 1890 April 12. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28165709 Clergyman. From the description of John White Chadwick correspondence, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79...

King, Grace Elizabeth, 1852-1932

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Grace King was the third child and eldest daughter of William Woodson King, a prosperous New Orleans attorney, and Sarah Ann Miller King. Impoverished by the Civil War, Grace King lived in New Orleans for the remainder of her life with her mother, brother, and two unmarried sisters, although she was able to travel in the United States and Europe and cultivated relationships with notables in the worlds of writing and publishing. Her own novels and short stories examined French Louisiana and Creol...

Mosely, Katherine

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Smith, Nora K.

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Durand, Alice Marie Céleste (Fleury) 1842-1902

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Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937

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Author; United States ambassador to Italy. From the description of Autograph poem signed, entitled "Rheims", 1814 Sep. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270492661 From the description of Autograph poem "The Cost" signed, 1914 Aug. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270492676 Epithet: Editor 'The Century Magazine' New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x000372 Magazine ed...

Cheney, Russell, 1881-1945

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Bainton, George

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Epithet: Reverend of Coventry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000014 ...

Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920

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Mr. Holmes was a editor of the Boston Herald. From the description of Correspondence with Aleck [Abrahams], Arlo Bates, Willa Sibert Cather, George S. Lockwood, Mr. Moody, John H. Holmes, Colonel Higginson, Mr. Collier, Edward Bok, Louise Collier Willcox; 4 holograph poems, 3 typed mimeographed poems, and an album leaf. 1888-1910. (University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Library System). WorldCat record id: 18033356 Poet, essayist, journalist, and librarian. F...

Kimball, Hannah Parker, 1861-

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Templeman, J. G. C.

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Perry, William, 1788-1887

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Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928

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

Abbott, I. G.

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Fiske, William Perry

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Casgrain, H.R. (Henri Raymond), 1831-1904

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Norton, Grace, 1834-1926

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Grace Norton (1834-1926) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Andrew Norton and Catherine Eliot Norton, and the sister of American author and Harvard professor, Charles Eliot Norton. She was privately educated in Cambridge, and developed a great love for the literature of France, especially that of the French essayist, Montaigne. Norton became a Montaigne expert, translating, writing, and lecturing on his works, as well as those of other French authors. Many of her articles appe...

Williams, Francis Churchill, 1869-1945

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Jackson, James Murch.

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Slosson, Annie Trumbull, 1838-1926

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Annie Trumbull Slosson, Stonington, Conn., native, widely acclaimed short story author, and amateur entomologist. From the description of Untitled story [Fishin' Jimmy], 1889?. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 58652520 ...

Theodore Jewett Eastman

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Lodge, Mary Greenwood

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Thayer, Annie Edgerly.

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Cora

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Caroline Frances (Perry) Jewett

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Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908

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

Fairchild, Charles

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Sawyer, Mrs. George C.

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Chase, Ellen

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Lassister, Francis R.

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Keeler, Lucy Elliot

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Author, journalist, educator, gardener, and photographer; cousin of U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes and resident of Fremont, Ohio; instructor with Society to Encourage Studies at Home; b. 1864; d. 1930. From the description of Papers, 1885-1930. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 55899913 From the description of Papers, 1885-1930. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 70974069 ...

Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911

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

Drummond, Henry, 1851-1897

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Scottish, evangelist, writer, lecturer. Noted for the published sermon "The greatest thing in the world." From the description of Henry Drummond letters to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894, undated. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 636067773 ...

Travers, Susan

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F., L. N.

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

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

Deland, Margaret (Campbell) 1857-1944

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Gilder, Jeannette L. (Jeannette Leonard), 1849-1916

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Journalist, editor, and literary critic for various publications. From the description of Papers of Jeannette L. Gilder [manuscript], 1879-1909. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810869 Jeannette L. Gilder was an editor, journalist, and critic, best remembered as editor of The Critic, which she co-founded with her brother, Joseph. The Critic was small but respected, and published and encouraged some of the most recognizable names of the day. She continued to c...

Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925

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

Merriman, Roger Bigelow, 1876-1945

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Merriman earned his Harvard AB in 1896, his Harvard A.M. in 1897 and his Harvard Ph.D in 1902, and taught history and political science at Harvard. From the description of Lectures in History 16a, 1913-1914. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075074 From the description of History 1, lectures 1-7, November 24 - December 8, 1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074566 Merriman graduated from Harvard in 1896, received his A.M. in 1897, and taught ...

Beal, Louisa Adams.

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Beale, Miss J. F.

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Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930

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

Avery, John A.

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Elliott, Maud Howe, 1854-

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Cooper, Alexander

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Merriam, E. F.

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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907

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

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...

Lord, John, 1810-1894

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Epithet: of Halifax British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000630.0x0000a5 ...

Smith, S. Wallingford.

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Jewett, Mary Rice, 1847-1930

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Tyson, Emily D.

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Fairchild, Sally

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Arnold, Frances L.

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Ellen Mason.

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Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916

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Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

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

Howland, Mrs , recipient.

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Warren, Mary C

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Horsford, Eben Norton, 1818-1893

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

Potter, Barrett.

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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...

White, Eliza Orne, 1856-1947

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

Wilson, Sarah F. (Sarah Foster), 1975-

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Laurence, E.

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Wolcott, Edith (Prescott) 1853-1934

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Annie Fields.

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Nelly, recipient

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B., L. E.

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Ward, William Hayes, 1835-1916

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William Hayes Ward, 1835-1916, born Abington, Mass. Editor, Assyriologist, author. Educated 1856 Amherst, 1859 graduated Andover Seminary, 1885 LLD Amherst. Ordained Congregationalist minister. Associate editor, later editor-in-chief of "The Independent" (New York weekly) between 1868-1913. Director of Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia 1884-85. President of American Oriental Society. Wrote Biography of Sydney Lanier, What I Believe and Why, etc. Samuel Sydney McClure,1857-19...

Richardson, E. P.

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Bull, Sara Chapman Thorp, 1850-1911

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Sara Chapman Thorpe was born in 1850 in upstate New York. The family moved to Madison, Wis., and became prominent there. Norwegian violinist Ole Bull courted her against her father's wishes, but her mother supported the marriage, and in 1870 took Sara to Europe, where she and Ole were married in secret. She sometimes traveled with her husband on his concert tours, occasionally accompanying him on the piano. In 1879 she moved to Cambridge, Mass., with her daughter and mother, but was with her hus...

Merriam, Mr , recipient.

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Ward, Humphry, Mrs., 1851-1920

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

Sullivan, T. R. (Thomas Russell), 1849-1916

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American novelist. From the description of Papers of T.R. Sullivan [manuscript], 1892-1916. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647805854 Thomas Russell Sullivan, author and playwright, was born in Boston in 1849 and died in that city in 1916. As a young man he was employed in several banks as a clerk and cashier, but after 1888 he retired from business to devote himself to his writing. He dramatized Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the actor Ri...

Jonathan Potts

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P., H. C.

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Morse, Miss recipient.

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Marvin, Sam. W.

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Wormeley, Katherine Prescott, 1830-1908

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Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, the daughter of a naval officer, Katherine Prescott Wormeley emigrated to the United States at a young age. During the American Civil War, she played a role in the work of the United States Sanitary Commission, a civilian agency set up to coordinate the volunteer efforts of women and men who wanted to contribute to the war effort, with noted landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and the Rev. Henry Bellows, . The Commission was a volunteer affiliate of the...

Fairchild, Mrs. Charles

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Thérèse (de Solms) Blanc

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Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925

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Zoologist, ethnologist, and art historian, of Salem, Mass. From the description of Edward Sylvester Morse correspondence, ca. 1860-1900. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 71128459 From the description of Papers, 1858-1925. (Peabody Museum). WorldCat record id: 28416528 American zoologist and orientalist, born in Portland, Me. Prentice C. Manning, of Portland, worked for Bryon Greenough & Co. (hats, caps, and furs). From the desc...

Camp, Eugene M.

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Lee, Henry, 1817 1898.

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Fields, Osgood & Co.

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Hobbs, Franklin W.

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Alexander, Mrs L.

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Roche, James Jeffrey, 1847-1908

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American journalist, consul, and writer; editor of the Boston "Pilot," a Catholic journal. From the description of Papers of James Jeffrey Roche, 1887-1894. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34689952 From the description of Papers of James Jeffrey Roche [manuscript], 1887-1894. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647879907 Irish-born American journalist, author and diplomat. Roche was born in Queens County, Ireland, and...

Emery, George W., 1830-1909

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Sinclair, May

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

Radecki, Olga von, fl. 1882

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

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Norton, Sara, 1864-1922.

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Haliburton, Georgina.

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Smith, Azariah

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

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

Sewall, Frank, 1837-1915

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It is believed that the artist was Frank Sewall (1837-1915), best known as a Swedenborgian clergyman. After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1858, he traveled in Italy and was recognized for his great appreciation of the arts. Sewall held a pastorate in Washington, DC from 1889-1915. The sketches date from this period, with several signed examples also thought to be by his daughters. From the description of Sketches, 1891-1892. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id...

Jewett, Caroline Frances (Perry) 1820-1891

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Upham, Katherine Bell

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Frazer, John G.

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McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

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Journalist, writer of books for boys. From the description of S.S. McClure check to James Barnes, 1898 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53795304 American publisher. From the description of Letter to Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1892 October 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51846140 ...

Jewett, Theodore H. (Theodore Herman), 1815-1878

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Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919

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

Kaighn, Sally A.

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Aldrich, Lilian Woodman, d. 1927

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Flekten, S. J.

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Bean, George W.

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Irwin, Agnes, 1841-1914

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

Miller, Harriet Mann, 1831-1918

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Chapman, Edward Mortimer, 1862-1952

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Brown, Alice, 1857-1948

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

Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930

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American author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Randolph, Mass., to Messrs. Harper & Brothers, 1893 Mar. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270752077 From the description of A humble romance : Autograph manuscript signed : Brattleboro, Vt., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270752081 From the description of Autograph card signed and typed letters signed (11) : Metuchen, N.J., to Messrs. Wells and Briggs at Harper & Brothers, 1927 Aug....

Gill, Henry

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The Century, the editors, recipient.

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Lyon, Jane M.

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Merriman, Daniel, 1838-

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Hulton, Laurence.

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Alice Longfellow.

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Wills, John Howard.

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Kingsley, Rose Georgina, 1845 or 1846-1925

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Jaquis ?, E. D.

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Chase, Ellen, recipient.

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Garrett, Mary E.

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Goodale, George L. (George Lincoln), 1839-1923

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George Lincoln Goodale (1839-1923) earned an AB at Amherst College in 1860 and MD degrees from both Bowdoin and Harvard in 1863; he taught science in various fields at Bowdoin, 1868-1878. He came to Harvard in 1878 as a professor of Botany and became the first Director of the Botanical Museum in 1879. He was appointed Fisher Professor of Natural History in 1888 and retired in 1909, becoming Honorary Curator of the Botanical Museum until his death in 1923. From the description of Pape...

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 ...