Oliver Wendell Holmes letters from various correspondents, 1891-1892.

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...

Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892

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

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...

Morton, Levi P. (Levi Parsons), 1824-1920

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Levi Parsons Morton (May 16, 1824 – May 16, 1920) was the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France, as a US representative from New York, and as the 31st governor of New York. The son of a Congregational minister, Morton was born in Vermont and educated in Vermont and Massachusetts. He trained for a business career by clerking in stores and working in mercantile establishments in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. After rel...

James, George Abbot.

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Lehmann, Rudolf, 1855-1927

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Creed, George.

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Adams, Mrs O. H.

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Whiting, Lilian

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Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911

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American illustrator and writer of children's books. From the description of Howard Pyle letter to Elmer Reynolds July 2, 1887. (Ohio University). WorldCat record id: 13054039 Illustrator, muralist, writer, art teacher, of Wilmington, Del. From the description of Howard Pyle manuscript collection, 1898-1988. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70977558 Illustrator and children's book author; Wilmington, Del. From the description of Howard Pyle let...

Hawes, Charlotte W.

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Hellier, John Benjamin, 1853-1924

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Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association.

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Bodington, Alice

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Bowen, Clarence Winthrop, 1852-1935

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Williams, B. W. (Benjamin W.), 1815-

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Maitland, James, of Chicago, Ill.

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Priestley, Eliza (Chambers) lady.

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Whitla, W.

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Medway Church.

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Cooke, Joseph B.

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Paul, W. A. O.

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Clark, Thomas M. (Thomas March), 1812-1903

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Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island. From the description of Thomas March Clark papers, 1840-1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 656252888 ...

Flower, Charles E.

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Willett, Henry

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Epithet: of Brighton; of Add MS 42582 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x000235 ...

Gairdner, William, of Glengoyne.

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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...

Marble, Earl.

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Wigglesworth, Henrietta M.

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Houston, Willis.

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Bailey, Arthur C.

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Rand & Crane.

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Farrar, F.W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903

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English ecclesiastic and writer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : [London], to Henry Yates Thompson, [no year] Oct. 8 and 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870785 British clergyman and dean of Canterbury, Kent, England. From the description of Papers, 1885-1886. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19646990 Clergyman and author. From the description of Frederic William Farrar correspondence, undated. (Unkno...

Bellows, John Thomas, 1831-1902

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Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928

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Edmund Gosse, a well known man of letters, librarian to the House of Lords (1904-1914), and author of the autobiography, Father and Son (1907), was a pioneering translator of Ibsen and author of numerous volumes of poetry, criticism and biography. Charles Edmund Merrill was an active member of the Grolier Club from 1910 until his death in 1942. From the description of Letters : to Charles E. Merrill, 1910-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122577035 English poet and man of...

Graham, Elizabeth T.

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Smith, Samuel Francis, 1808-1895

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America (My country 'tis of thee) was premiered on 4 July 1831, at a children's celebration in the Park Street Church of Boston. It was written approximately 6 months earlier. From the description of My country 'tis of thee : manuscript, [1831] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612783134 Writer of the words to song America also called My Country Tis of Thee. From the description of One stanza of America. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat re...

Wheat, J. H.

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Sheldon, Eva J.

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Ferguson, Munro

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Works, Ethel Reed.

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Orr, Harriette G.

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Shippen, Joseph.

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Mackay, Agnes Maude.

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Crowell, Kate S.

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Gaines, Elie.

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Ladd, William H.

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Russell, H. S.

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King, Frances E.

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Chambers, Julius, 1850-1920

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Smith, Jessie Holmes.

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Phelps, E. A.

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Doyle, Dr .

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Collins, Harry

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MacNaughton, Eleanor LeSueur, b. 1846

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Vernon-Harcourt, Lily.

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Cupples, J. G.

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Whitman, Sarah (Wyman) d. 1904

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Pinck, Pearse.

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Estimauville, Jeanne d'.

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Crissey, Ella Virginia.

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Carpenter, Cyrus Clay, 1829-1898

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Cyrus Clay Carpenter came to Iowa in 1854 and settled in Fort Dodge. There he was a teacher, surveyor and lawyer. He served in the first legislature elected after the state constitution of 1855 was adopted. During the Civil War he served in the Quartermaster's Corps. In 1866 he was elected Register of the State Land Office, then in 1871 he began the first of two terms as Iowa's governor. He later served as Second Comptroller of the Treasurey, Railroad Commissioner, and U.S. Congressman. He also ...

SILLARD, ROBERT M.

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Craigie, Abigail Emmeline

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Sanford, E.

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Hillard, James L.

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Dexter, Annie Breen.

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Joy, A. Bruce.

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Jobes, Esther Allen.

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Hoar, E. R. (Ebenezer Rockwood), 1816-1895

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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, a 1839 graduate of Harvard Law School, was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (1849-1855), associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1859-1869), served as U.S. Attorney General (1869-1870) and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1873-1875). From the description of Letters to Joseph Willard and Henry Vose, 1840-1858. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339043 American jurist. From the de...

Dexter, Susan Breen.

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Dana, Elizabeth Ellery, 1846-1939

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Genealogist of the Dana family; of Cambridge, Mass.; d. 1939. From the description of Personal papers of Elizabeth Ellery Dana, 1829-1940 (bulk 1860-1939). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976326 From the description of Dana collected correspondence, 1808-1938 (bulk 1857-1934). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976324 Elizabeth Ellery Dana (1846-1939) was the daughter of Sarah Watson Dana (1814-1907) and Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815-1882), maritime lawyer and author...

Buckley, J. M. (James Monroe), 1836-1920

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Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912

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Early life Carrington was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. An ardent abolitionist in his youth, he was graduated from Yale University in 1845. He was professor of natural science and Greek at the Irving Institute in Tarrytown, New York from 1846 to 1847. Under the influence of the school's founder, Washington Irving, he subsequently wrote Battles of the American Revolution, which appeared in 1876. In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the...

Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898

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

Brownell, Thomas Franklin.

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Croot, George.

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Stewart, George, 1848-

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Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of, 1784-1860

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Epithet: of Add MS 38309 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x000111 British general and statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to the Duke of Wellington, 1841 Oct. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270587479 ...

Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915

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American author, illustrator, and novelist. From the guide to the Francis Hopkinson Smith Collection, 1883-1915, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Author, painter and engineer. From the description of The arm-chair at the inn and other papers [manuscript] 1896-1910. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647976900 From the description of Tom Grogan [manuscript] 1896. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: ...

Morse, J. T.

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Dodge, Theodore Ayrault, 1842-1909

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Army officer, military historian, and author. From the description of Journal of Theodore Ayrault Dodge, 1862-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068496 ...

Goss, E. F. C.

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