James Russell Lowell additional papers, 1767-1898

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...

Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804

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Philip John Schuyler (November 20 [O.S. November 9] 1733 – November 18, 1804) was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a United States Senator from New York. He is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his son is usually known as Philip J. Schuyler. Born in Albany, Province of New York, into the prosperous Schuyler family, Schuyler fought in the French and Indian War. He won election to the New York General Assembly in 1768 and to the Continental Congress in 1775. He planned the...

Lowell, John, 1743-1802

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John Lowell (June 17, 1743 – May 6, 1802) was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation, a Judge of the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture under the Articles of Confederation, a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the First Circuit. Born on June 17, 1743, in Newburyport, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Lowell graduated from Harvard University before re...

Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894

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Alexander Ireland (1810–1894) was a Scottish journalist, man of letters, and bibliophile, notable as a biographer of Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as a friend of Emerson and other literary celebrities, including Leigh Hunt and Thomas Carlyle, and the geologist and scientific speculator Robert Chambers. His own most popular book was The Book-Lover's Enchiridion, published under a pseudonym in 1882. Ireland was born at Edinburgh on 9 May 1810; his father was a businessman. As a young man he had a...

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 ...

Wister, Sarah Butler, 1835-1908

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Sarah Butler Wister (1835-1906), daughter of Pierce Butler and Fanny Kemble, married Dr. Owen Jones Wister of Grumblethorpe in 1859. According to her granddaughter, Fanny Kemble Wister Stokes, "Sarah was fine looking, nearly beautiful... She is remembered as regal when she received at the Philadelphia assemblies... She was the great lady of her neighborhood. Sarah a writer, published travel writing, translations of French poetry, and a volume entitled Worthy Women of Our Century. She also jou...

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

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Anti-slavery advocate. From the description of Circular and letter, 1848 Jan. 21, Boston, to Rev. Mr. Russell, South Hingham. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 231311718 Abolitionist and reformer William Lloyd Garrison was founder of the Boston abolitionist paper, The Liberator, and the New England Anti-Slavery Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1873 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007257 Abolitionist and lectur...

Childs, George W. (George William), 1829-1894

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George W. Childs (1829-1894) was the founder and editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and a noted philanthropist. Born in Baltimore, he moved to Philadelphia to work for a bookseller at age fourteen and soon went into business for himself at the age of eighteen. In 1849, he became a partner in the publishing firm of R. E. Petersen & Company, and in 1860 he formed a partnership with the influential publisher J. P. Lippincott. In 1864, he purchased the Philadelphia Public Ledger, in which Anth...

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) ...

Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835

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Benjamin Vaughan lived through all the vicissitudes of an enlightened life during the age of revolution. Born in Jamaica to Samuel Vaughan, a merchant and planter, and Sarah Hallowell, a native Bostonian, Vaughan was raised in London and educated at Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn. At university, he fell in with the coterie of Joseph Priestley, Benjamin Franklin, Jeremy Bentham, and William Petty, the Earl of Shelburne, and imbibed many of their unorthodox, perhaps radical political, s...

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880

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Lydia Maria Child was born Lydia Maria Francis in Medford, Massachusetts on February 11, 1802. She was born into an abolitionist family and was greatly influenced by her brother, Convers, who would later become a Unitarian Clergyman. After the death of her mother in 1814, Child moved to Maine to live with her sister and began teaching in Gardiner in 1819. While living in Maine, Child became increasingly interested in Native Americans and visited many nearby settlements. Child began actively writ...

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...

Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

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Julia Ward Howe, née Julia Ward, (born May 27, 1819, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 17, 1910, Newport, Rhode Island), American author and lecturer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward came of a well-to-do family and was educated privately. In 1843 she married educator Samuel Gridley Howe and took up residence in Boston. Always of a literary bent, she published her first volume of poetry, Passion Flowers, in 1854; this and subsequent works—including a poetry collec...

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...

Clifford, Lucy, d. 1929

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

Holmes, John, 1812-1899

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Waters, Henry F. (Henry Fitz-Gilbert), 1833-1913

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Macmillan, Alexander, 1818-1896

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Scottish publisher. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Macmillan & Co., 29 & 30 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, W.C., [London], to Arthur Sullivan, 1868 Dec. 1 to 1877 Sept. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270126572 ...

Rebecca Lowell

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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...

Gordon, Caroline E. W.

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Zelman, Richard.

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Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of, 1826-1893

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Harcourt, E. C. Vernon.

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Lloyd, Henry

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Epithet: of Add MS 4312 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x0003d1 Epithet: Captain; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x0003cd Epithet: of Add Roll 5138 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000443.0x0003d2 Epithet: Reverend; DD, Regi...

Harlin, Thomas

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Oliphant, Laurence, 1829-1888

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English author and mystic. From the description of Autograph letters signed (6) : London, Edinburgh, etc., to various members of Harper and Brothers, 1880 Oct. 23-1886 Nov. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611570 English novelist and mystic. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : London, to Madame Blaze de Bury, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270846176 Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888) was a British author, traveller...

Bancroft, Aaron, 1755-1839

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Aaron Bancroft (1755-1839), father of George Bancroft (1800-1891), was settled in the First Unitarian Church of Worcester in 1786. He remained until his death. Bancroft was a liberal theologian, a founder and first President of the American Unitarian Association, active member of the American Antiquarian Society, and Trustee and President of Leicester Academy. From the description of Papers, 1789-1839. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207112704 ...

Bowen, Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Baron, 1835-1894

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English justice. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : the Royal Courts of Justice, Atheneum Club [London], and Colwood, Hayward's Heath [Sussex], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870391 ...

Rebecca Russell (Tyng) Lowell

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Harriet Bracket (Spence)

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Tierney, Emma.

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Jebb, R. C. (Richard Claverhouse), 1841-1905

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English classical scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to W.A. Knight, 1891 Oct. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864344 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to W.A. Knight, 1896 July 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864373 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Glasgow University, to W.A. Knight, 1888 Feb. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864309 From the description of Autograp...

Field, John W.

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Lowell, Harriet Bracket (Spence) d. 1850

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Gascoigne, Caroline Leigh, 1813-

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Robert Traill Spence Lowell

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Curtiss, Abby (Allin)

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Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904

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English critic and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (24) : London, etc., to W.E. Henley, 1876-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580328 From the description of English thought in the eighteenth century : autograph manuscript, [187-]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580765 Stephen was a British critic, man of letters and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. From the description of Photograph album of Le...

Lowell, London

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Harcourt, Lily Vernon.

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Holy Thursday

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Leighton of Stretton, Frederic Leighton, baron, 1830-1896

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British painter; president of the Royal Academy of Arts. From the description of Letters from Frederic Leighton, ca. 1875-1894. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80461091 English painter. From the description of Autograph signature : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270846652 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Lucas, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270846660 From the description of Autog...

Miller, Friedrich Max, 1823-1900

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Carnarvon, Elizabeth (Howard)

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Montagu, Gordon.

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Lowell; Saratoga

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Sackville, Lionel Sackville Sackville-West, Baron, 1827-1908

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De Vere, Aubrey, 1814-1902

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Irish poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Adare, Ireland, to Mr. John W. Field, 1886 Feb. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462144372 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Ambleside, to Mr. John W. Field, 1878 Dec. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462090133 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Adare, Ireland, to Mr. John W. Field, 1872 Mar. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 461318026 From the description of Aut...

Challemel, P.

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Aguirre, A. A.

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Pollock, W. F. (William Frederick), 1815-1888

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English author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mr. Merritt, 1868 Mar. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617841 ...

Thomson, R.

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Epithet: Captain; of the Cinque Ports Volunteers British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0001d4 ...

Burnett, Mabel Lowell, 1847-1898,

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Lois (White) Howe

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Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915

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James Augustus Henry Murray was a Scottish lexicographer, best known for his pioneering work on A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Already a well-known philologist, he began work on an inventory of words used in English from the 12th century onward, a monumental undertaking, made possible by his knowledge and organizational skills. He worked on this groundbreaking dictionary for more than thirty years, completing about half of the project; today, the work is known as the Oxford E...

Martinez, M.

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Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

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Wendell Phillips (born November 29, 1811, Boston, Massachusetts – died February 2, 1884, Boston, Massachusetts), orator and reformer, was one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement in Boston, Massachusetts, wrote frequently for William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator, and eventually became president of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He contributed much to the cause through inflammatory speeches favoring the division of the Union and opposing the acquisition of Texas and the war with Mexico. ...

Lane, Charlton G.

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Clay, Thomas Hart, -1907

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Gallo, Luis

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Lowell, Charles, 1782-1861

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Charles Lowell (1782-1861) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard College in 1800. After studying law for a year he decided to pursue a career in ministry, and he traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied for the ministry until 1805. He then returned to the United States, and in 1806 was ordained as minister and pastor at the West Church in Boston . He married Harriet Spence in 1806, and the couple had six children, two of whom - Robert Trail Spence and James Russe...

Black, Charles Christopher

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Preston, Daniel Swan.

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Davis, Valentine David

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Epithet: Minister of the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Liverpool British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x000123 ...

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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

Hudson, Marie Donaldson.

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Bellows, John Thomas, 1831-1902

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Howe; Dresden

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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...

Russell, M. A.

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Silvela, F.

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Smith, W. Robertson (William Robertson), 1846-1894

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Pastor of the Palmer Memorial (Methodist) Church. From the description of William Smith papers, 1889. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34422053 ...

Knight, William Angus, 1836-1916

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Epithet: formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy, St. Andrews British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000753.0x000070 Scottish author and professor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edgecliffe, St. Andrews, N.B., to Mr. Tulloch, 1886 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270487143 Epithet: Professor of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews University British Library Archives a...

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 ...

Putnam, Mary Lowell, 1810-1898

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Martinez, Blas.

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Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903

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Born in Philadelphia, humorist Charles Godfrey Leland wrote quality material in a variety of literary forms, but is best remembered for his light comic verse, often written in a German dialect. He graduated from Princeton, and continued his education in Germany and Paris, eventually making contributions as linguist, folklorist, editor, educator, and aesthete. From the description of Charles Godfrey Leland letters and poems, 1854-1866. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldC...

John Lowell

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Frere, Mary, 1845-1911

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Sarah Shaw

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Mabel (Lowell) Burnett

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Maria (White) Lowell

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Vaughan, George

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Forster, W. E. (William Edward), 1818-1886

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English statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to S. Berget?, 1867 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270469099 Epithet: politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x000398 ...

Joseph Whipple

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Laishley, Richard, 1844-1907

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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...

Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 1813-1892

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American poet and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, Mass., to Joseph B. Gilder, 1884 Aug. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644204873 Cranch was a Unitarian minister, poet, author, artist, editor, humorist, and member of the New England transcendentalist group. From the description of Christopher Pearse Cranch illustrations of the New Philosophy, ca. 1837-1839. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612709068 Artist...

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

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

Morison, Mary, 1851-1917

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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...

Tangye, H. Lincoln (Harold Lincoln), 1866-1935

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King, Wilson.

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Bright, John, 1811-1889

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British statesman, from Rochdale, Lancashire, England. From the description of Papers, 1840-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19276561 John Bright (1811-1889), British reformer, Liberal statesman, free-trade advocate, and one of the most eloquent public speakers of his time, was born near Rochdale, England. A Quaker textile manufacturer, Bright was elected to Parliament in 1843 and formed the Anti-Corn Law League with Richard Cobden to repeal the Corn Laws...

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

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

Hurtado, José.

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Aldenham, Henry Hucks Gibbs, baron, 1819-1907

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Lothian, Constance (Talbot) Kerr, marchioness of, 1836-1901

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Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir, 1843-1911

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British politician, from London. From the description of Papers, 1875-1904 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122509864 From the description of Papers, 1875-1904. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19405887 Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, second baronet, English writer and politician. From the description of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke manuscript material : 1 item, 1872 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 17369120...

Roby, Henry John, 1830-1915

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Lyttleton, Arthur Temple

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Burton, Isabell (Arundell)

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Coldwell, Charles S.

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Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865

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Fredrika Bremer was an internationally-known Swedish writer and feminist. Her early domestic novels and travel writings were popular in Swedish and English, and her later novels, advocating the emancipation of women, influenced reforming legislation that advanced the status of women in Sweden. From the description of Fredrika Bremer letters, 1848-1859. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49848570 Author. From the description of Fredrika...

Cruikshank, Alfred Byron (1847-1933)

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Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 1843-1905

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

Story, Charles W.

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Paget, James, Sir, 1814-1899

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British surgeon and physiologist. From the description of Papers, 1880-1898. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31716044 English surgeon. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 21 September 1872, to an unidentified recipient, 1872 Sept. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270674194 From the description of Autograph letter signed : 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square [London], to Arthur Sullivan, 1884 June 7. (Unknown). WorldCat r...

Leveson-Gower, Edward Frederick 1819-1907

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Stokes, Henry Sewell, 1808-1895

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Epithet: Cornish poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000106 ...

Elton, Charles Isaac, 1839-1900

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Burnett; Randolph

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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909

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Sarah Orne Jewett was one of America's foremost regional writers. She produced novels, stories, and sketches, generally concerned with the lives and traditions of women in the rural areas of coastal New England. Her gentle, well-observed, respectful style transcends the limitations of genre and continue to make her work relevant. From the description of Sarah Orne Jewett letter to Loulie, ca. 1890. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54429003 ...

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882

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Trollope was born on Apr. 24, 1815 in London, England; attended Winchester and Harrow; worked as a junior clerk in the General Post Office and was then transferred as a postal surveyor to Ireland; in 1859 he moved back to London, resigning from the civil service in 1867; stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for Parliament in 1868; became a novelist, known for his Barsetshire and Palliser series of novels, among others; individual novels include: Barchester Towers (1857), Can you forgive h...

Smith, Peter

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Epithet: CB, of the Colonial Office British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000317 ...

Benson, Edward White, 1829-1896

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Benson was the archbishop of Canterbury and an English author. From the description of Correspondence, [ca. 1875]-1896? (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78872214 ...

Liddell, Henry George, 1811-1898

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Waddington, Mary King, 1833-1923

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MacCarthy, Denis Florence, 1817-1882

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Denis Florence McCarthy, Irish poet and translator of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681), lived most of his life in Dublin, where he was born and educated. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, the "Mystics," and several political associations. His career started in the 1840's with his contributions to "The Nation" and the publication of "The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland" (1846), which he edited. In 1853, he began his translations of Calderón. From the description of D...

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...

Davis, Laura M, 1960-

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Spencer, Edward

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Epithet: of Add MS 39864 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x00014b ...

Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison, 1825-1899

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Scottish divine. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to an unidentified correspondent, 1867 Dec. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131534 ...

Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce, Baron, 1815-1895

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Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, barrister and politician, Liberal M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil (1852-1868) and for Refrewshire (1869-1873); Undersecretary (1862-1864) and Secretary of State for Home Affairs (1869-1873); admitted to the Privy Council in 1864 as Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education; a charity commissioner for England and Wales (1864); peer (1873) appointed by Gladstone Lord President of the Council; the first president (1883-1895) and first chancellor (1895) ...

Gregory, Caspar René, 1846-1917

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Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896

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

John Harvard.

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Goschen, George Joachim Goschen, viscount, 1831-1907

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Statesman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : to Prof. Knight, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269589453 Goschen was Chancellor of the Exchequer. From the description of Letter to Mr. Engleton : 69 Portland Place, W. : ALS, [undated]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26561356 English statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to an unnamed correspondent, 1902 June...

Derby, Mary Catherine Stanley

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Silvela, Manuel, 1830-1892

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Griffin, Hamilton.

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Castelar, Emilio, 1832-1899

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Statesman and author who was one of the most powerful champions of Spanish Republicanism in the latter half of the 19th century and would serve as president of the first Spanish republic from September 1873 to January 1874. From the description of Letters : Madrid, to Rojas, 1877-1880. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 39534242 Emilio Castelar was a university professor and politician, who wrote and fought for democracy against the Spanish monarchy. After the revolutio...

Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, 1838-1903

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Historian and essayist. From the description of Letter of William Edward Hartpole Lecky, 1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014892 Irish historian and essayist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : London, to W.A. Knight, 1886 Apr. 5-1901 Oct. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598501 From the description of Democracy and liberty : autograph manuscript, 1896 Feb. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598803 From the descript...

Nettleship, Richard Lewis, 1846-1892

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Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909

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Gilder authored the book, THE NEW DAY, A POEM IN SONGS AND SONNETS... (New York : Scribner, Armstrong and Company, 1876) in which this is tipped in. It contains the bookplate of Brainerd. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Ira Hutchinson Brainerd, [1876?] Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398276 Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909), American poet and editor, served as editor-in-chief of Scribner's Monthly and its successor The Century Illustrated Monthly...

Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895

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

Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865

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Fredrika Bremer was an internationally-known Swedish writer and feminist. Her early domestic novels and travel writings were popular in Swedish and English, and her later novels, advocating the emancipation of women, influenced reforming legislation that advanced the status of women in Sweden. From the description of Fredrika Bremer letters, 1848-1859. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49848570 Author. From the description of Fredrika...

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...

Toynbee, Paget Jackson, 1855-1932

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

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

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Machin, Will F.

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Lowell, Anna Cabot Jackson, 1819-1874

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Knight, William

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Epithet: LL.D British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000753.0x000077 Epithet: of Add MS 43011 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000753.0x00007d Epithet: Bishop of Bath and Wells; of Sloane MS 3839 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vd...

Lathrop, George Parsons, 1851-1898

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American author and editor. From the description of Letter : New York, to "Dear Joe," 1898 Mar. 23. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28900980 George Parsons Lathrop, American critic, writer, and literary historian, was the son-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne. His defense of the novel as the most powerful and popular form of literature, and his support of a realistic approach to writing helped define turn-of-the-century American literature. He is also remembered for his...

Bruce, John A.

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Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

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

Peabody, Andrew P. (Andrew Preston), 1811-1893

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American author, clergyman and editor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : Portsmouth, N.H., to Madame [Blaze] de Bury, 1856 Oct. 1-1860 Jan. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270851342 Peabody graduated from Harvard in 1826, taught Christian morals and served as preacher and Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Andrew Preston Peabody, 1839-1890 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972834 Clergyman...

Charles Lowell

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Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st baron, 1809-1885.

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to W.A. Knight, 1885 July 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864121 From the description of Autograph letter signed : 9 Wilton Crescent, to W.A. Knight, [no year] June 23 or 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864132 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Fryston?], to W.A. Knight, [no year] Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864124 From the description of Autog...

Swanwick, Anna, 1813-1899

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Anna Swanwick was a British author and translator of German works. From the description of Anna Swanwick papers, 1851-1897, n.d. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 36730963 English scholar, author and poet. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Bath, to Prof. Knight, 1892 Nov. 17-1892 Nov. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580413 From the description of Autograph letters (4) signed : Regents Park n. w., to...

Cowper, Katrine (Compton)

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Pugh, Elizabeth

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Epithet: innholder at Bridgnorth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000706.0x0002c4 ...

Lois (White)

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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...

Airlie, H. B.

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Shairp, John Campbell, 1819-1885

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English critic and man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cuilaluinn, to W.A. Knight, 1876 Sept. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270867080 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cuilaluinn, to W.A. Knight, 1885 July 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270867093 From the description of Autograph letter signed : St. Andrews, to W.A. Knight, [no year] Mar. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270867107 From the description ...

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 ...

Duffield, A. J. (Alexander James), 1821-1890

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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901

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Queen Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on May 24, 1819 at Kensington Palace in London and she became heir to the throne when her father died. In 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18. During the early part of her reign, she was influenced by two men: her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and then her husband, Prince Albert, whom she married in 1840. Both men taught her much about how to be ...

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893

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American statesman; Secretary of State. From the description of Letter signed : Washington, to Thomas J. Durant, 1870 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270538114 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to F.B. Schell, 1890 Jan. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526181 American statesman and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to William B. Snell, Esq., (18)76 Dec. 19. (Unknown). World...

Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933

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Editor, publisher, bibliographer, author, literary promoter, and industrial director. From the description of R.R. Bowker papers, 1831-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009857 Richard Rogers Bowker (1848-1933) was editor of the New York Evening Mail newspaper, editor and publisher of Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal, and executive with several power companies, including the Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New York. He was active in political reform and was ...

Sir Leslie Stephen.

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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....

Russell, James Graves.

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Rollins, Alice Wellington, 1847-1897

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American writer. From the description of The silent tribute : autograph poem signed, [1884 Aug.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 645246716 Alice Wellington Rollins (1857-1897). Author, published frequently in the 1880s and 1890s in such magazines as The Century, Harper's and Scribner's, writing both prose and poetry. Samuel Sydney McClure (1857-1949). Editor, publisher, founder McClure's Magazine. From the description of Letter to S.S. Mc...

Mozley, Arthur.

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Campbell, Anna

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Rossiter, W.

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Fiske, John, 1842-1901

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Historian, philosopher, and librarian. Name originally Edmund Fiske Green; at age thirteen, took name of maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske. From the description of John Fiske papers, 1867-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 163614392 Philosopher, historian, librarian. From the description of Papers of John Fiske [manuscript], 1872-1900. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647805107 John Fiske was a American author, best known for popular ...

Hughes, Frances (Ford)

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Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896

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William Henry Furness, Unitarian minister, was born 20 Apr. 1802 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1825 Furness was ordained minister of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia. He became pastor emeritus of the congregation in 1875 and continued to preach occasionally until his death 30 Jan. 1896 in Philadelphia. Furness published numerous books on the New Testament, translated German poetry, and wrote original hymns. In the years before the Civil War, Furness tried to comprehend a Christian's dut...

Porter, Noah, 1811-1892

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Noah Porter: Congregational clergyman, educator, president of Yale College; B.A., Yale, 1831; studied at the Yale Divinity School with Nathaniel W. Taylor; ordained in 1836; from 1843-1846 pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Springfield, Massachusetts; president of Yale from 1871-1886. From the description of Noah Porter papers, 1781-1889 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702169079 Congregational minister, metaphysician, author, and president of Yale. ...

Estes Howe

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Payne, John, 1842-1916

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John Payne was a minor Pre-Raphaelite poet and prolific translator of oriental literature. From the description of John Payne letter, 5 Upper Gloucester Place, to Mr. Rossetti, 56 Euston Square, 1874 August 8. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 37230484 ...

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet and author. From the description of Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702172830 Poet, journalist, essayist. From the description of Letter, 1863 July 27-1863 Sept. 9. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477038304 American author. From the description of Letter to Mary E. Van Nostrand, 1890 November 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49377819 America...

Frances (Dunlap) Lowell

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Maria (White)

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Pollock, Juliet (Creed)

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Price, Bartholomew, 1818-1898

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Selborne, Roundell Palmer, Earl of, 1812-1895

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Selborne served in a variety of political and judicial positions including Solicitor General (1861-1863), Attorney General (1863-1866), and Lord Chancellor (1880-1885). From the description of Letters, 1886, 1893. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338398 Roundell Palmer Selborne was a British statesman and jurist. He entered Parliament in 1847 and held a number of important offices under several Prime Ministers. Politically, he may be characterized as a co...

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...

Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887

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Born on July 22, 1849 in New York City, Emma Lazarus was the fourth of seven surviving children to Sephardic-Ashkenazi parents Moses and Esther (Nathan) Lazarus. Lazarus was most likely privately tutored; she was proficient in German, French, and Italian. Her Jewish education consisted of knowledge of the Bible and observing a form of Sabbath and holidays, but as one of Lazarus’ associates said “the religious side of Judaism had little interest for Miss Lazarus, or for any member of her family.”...

Horne, John

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Epithet: of Louisburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x000016 ...

Compton, Florence.

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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...

Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles

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Rose, Alexander

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Epithet: Bishop of Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001391.0x0003b6 Alexander Rose was born in Crieff, Scotland in 1875. He was the architect for the "Buckingham Hotel" in Minneapolis and possibly the Commodore Hotel in St. Paul. From the guide to the Alexander Rose papers, 1919, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Northwest Architectural Archives, Manuscripts Division [naa]) Epith...

Knowles, James, Sir, 1831-1908

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Professor of Greek. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Clapham Common, to W.A. Knight, 1873 Mar. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864480 English editor and architect. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Clapham Common, to W.A. Knight, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864508 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Clapham Common, to W.A. Knight, 1876 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864494 ...

Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl, 1815-1891

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British Colonial Secretary. From the description of Correspondence, 1869. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36200109 British politician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Cyrus W. Field, 1885 July 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 541028513 ...

Pembroke, Gertrude Frances Herbert, Countess of, 1840-1906

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Lane, Thomas, CM

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Epithet: of Add MS 20233 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001298.0x000302 Epithet: of Ecton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001298.0x000307 Epithet: Bursar of Merton College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001298.0x0002fb Epithet: of B...

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...

Cranbrook, Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, Earl of, 1814-1906

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Statesman, lst earl of Cranbrook. From the description of Diary, 1868-1892. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 40601139 Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1814-1906, was a British statesman and the 1st earl of Cranbrook. From the guide to the Johnson, N. mss., 1868-1892, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)) British political official. From the description of Papers, 1867-1892. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19646980 ...

Whipple, Henry Benjamin, 1822-1901

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

Gurney, Ephraim Whitman, 1829-1886.

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Shaw, Sarah B.

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Morley, Henry, 1822-1894

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English man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Prof. W. A. Knight, 1889 May 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612851 The collection comprises photocopies of letters to Henry Morley concerning the business of the periodical Household Words, from William Henry Wills, the assistant editor, 32 dated 1850-51 with 11 more down to 1862; and 9 from other correspondents; and 2 addressed to Charles Dickens, 1851-1868. ...

Procter, Anne Benson Skepper, 1799-1888.

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MacVeagh, Wayne, 1833-1917

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Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902

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

Hodson, Charles.

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Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton, Lady, 1817-1888.

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Allen, Robin

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Epithet: formerly Secretary of the Trinity House British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x000056 ...

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...

Story, Emelyn.

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Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux, Earl of, 1831-1890

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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....

Skelton, John, Sir, 1831-1897

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Scottish civil servant and writer-adopted pseud. Shirley. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : Edinburgh, to Prof. Knight, [18]95 Feb 12-[18]96 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664340 Advocate, Scottish Bar, and contributor to periodical literature. From the description of Letter, 1891 January 24 : Edinburgh, Scot., to Leonard Lindsay. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270523 From the description of Letter, 189...

Smalley, George W. (George Washburn), 1833-1916

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Civil War correspondent; foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune. From the description of Papers of George Washburn Smalley, 1870-1897. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49241413 American journalist. From the description of Autograph letters (2) : London, to Mr. Reid, 1877 Feb. 3-1877 Apr. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664132 From the description of The House of Lords : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript signed of the first page of ...

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 ...

Black, Catherine

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Robert Browning.

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Ashburton, Louisa, Lady, 1827-1903

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Fowler, W.Warde (William Warde), 1847-1921

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Lowell, Maria, 1821-1853

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

Gorham, Susan (Lowell)

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Noel, Roden, 1834-1894

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Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, British poet and essayist. He held the position of Privy Chamber Groom to Queen Victoria from 1867-71. Noel's most popular work was A Little Child's Monument (1881), a poem inspired by the death of his five year old son. His A Life of Lord Byron was published in 1890. From the description of Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel manuscript material : 1 item, 1870 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 80787964 Epithet: poet and essayist ...

Hamilton, Mary A.

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Ward, Mary Augusta (Arnold) 1823-1900

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Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894

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

Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894

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Lord Chief Justice of England; guest of the New York Bar Association in 1883. From the description of Letter to the honorable [J. Byers?], 1883 August [31?]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 63885279 John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, English judge and politician. He was the eldest son of John Taylor Coleridge, English judge, and the great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From the description of John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleri...

Westbury, Lady Florence.

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Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901

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American author and sailor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (7) : Washington, D.C., to Harper & Brothers, 1863-1886 Dec. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611572 Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) was an American journalist and author. He edited the New York Evening Post from 1857 to 1871, was the New York Herald's Washington correspondent from 1874 to 1890, and wrote political works and books about the sea. He advocated the Union cause in the U.S. Civil W...

Tulloch, John, 1823-1886

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Scottish theologian - Principal of the University of St. Andrews. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Strahan, 1875 Apr. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573496 From the description of Autograph letters signed (26) : to Prof. Knight, several undated, the others being dated from 1870 Oct. 20-1885 Nov. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270573493 From the description of Autograph letter : University St. Andrews, N.B., [18]82 Mar. 11. (Unknown)...

Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, baron, 1852-1928

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Son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Harringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, to Arthur Sullivan, 1886 Apr. 8 to 1886 Apr. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270126568 Appointed Governor of South Australia in 1899. Governor General of Australia, 1902-1904. From the description of Papers. 1893-1913. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225718906 English politician and writer - son of Lord Tennyson. ...