George Nichols Correspondence, 1827-1885

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (b. June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut – d. July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American abolitionist and author. She is the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher who preached against slavery. She is best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. It became an instant and controversial best-seller, both in the United States and abroad. The novel had a major impact on Northerners' attitudes toward slavery and by the beginning of the Civil War had sold more than a million copi...

Little, Brown and Company, 1932, 1966, 1978

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Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908

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Ainsworth Rand Spofford (September 12, 1825 – August 11, 1908) was an American journalist and the sixth Librarian of Congress. Spofford was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Ill health prevented him from attending Amherst College. He instead, at age 19, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became a bookseller, publisher, and newspaper man. In 1849 Spofford founded the Literary Club of Cincinnati with John Celivergos Zachos, Stanley Matthews (judge) and 9 others founded. One year later Ruthe...

Torrey, H. W. (Henry Warren), 1814-1893

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Henry Warren Torrey graduated from Harvard in 1833, taught history, law and elocution and served as Overseer at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Henry Warren Torrey, ca. 1844. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972903 ...

Atlantic Monthly

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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) ...

Ticknor and Fields

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Ticknor and Fields of Boston, Massachusetts was the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ticknor and Fields originated in the firm of Allen and Ticknor established in 1832. The partners in Ticknor and Fields were William D. Ticknor (one of the partners in Allen and Ticknor) and James T. Fields, who entered the firm as a junior partner in 1843. Fields edited the Atlantic monthly from 1861-1870. Fields was also a wri...

Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859

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

Parsons, Theophilus, 1797-1882

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Parsons, a lawyer, was a professor at the Harvard Law School (1848-1869) and the author of numerous legal texts and religious essays. From the description of Papers, ca. 1848-1913 (inclusive), 1870-1881 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122590226 ...

Palfrey, John Gorham, 1796-1881

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John Gorham Palfrey was a Unitarian minister, professor at Harvard Divinity School, editor of the North American Review, congressman from Massachusetts (1847-1849), postmaster of Boston (1861-1867), and historian, best known for his multi-volume History of New England. From the description of Letters to William Taylor Palfrey, 1818-1866. (Harvard University, Wadsworth House). WorldCat record id: 77703801 ...

Ticknor, William D. (William Davis), 1810-1864

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American publisher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Mr. Clark, 1859 Sept. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572593 ...

Ticknor, George, 1791-1871

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George Ticknor (1791-1871), educator and author, served as the first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1817 to 1835. After his arrival at Harvard, Ticknor became disenchanted with the school curriculum, characterizing the College as a well-disciplined high school, and began an effort to reorganize the College around four main goals: the division of students in courses according to academic proficiency and merit; the division of the ...

Saltonstall, Leverett, 1783-1845

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Lawyer; speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; president of the Massachusetts Senate; first mayor of Salem, Mass., 1836-8; member of the U.S. Congress, 1838-43. From the description of Letter : Salem, to Sir, 1832, Mar. 30. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 57352026 ...

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...

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866

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Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was the President of Harvard University from February 1, 1849 to February 10, 1853. He was also a Unitarian minister, editor, and historian. Jared Sparks was born to Joseph Sparks and Elinor (Orcut) Sparks on May 10, 1789 in Willington, Connecticut. Sparks was one of nine children and came from a family of modest means. When he turned six years old, Sparks went to live with an aunt and uncle in Camden, New York, to help relieve the family of a mout...

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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

Pierce, Edward Lillie, 1829-1897

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Supporters of President Grant removed Sumner as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate in 1871. Edward L. Pierce defended the reputation of Sumner after this episode became a matter of fresh historical controversy in 1877. Others involved in the controversy were Lothrop Motley, John Jay, and Hamilton Fish. From the description of Clippings concerning Charles Sumner and President U.S. Grant : album, 1877-1878. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612815430 ...

Colman, James Freeman

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Bacon, William Thompson, 1812-1881

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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 ...

French, Harry W. (Harry Willard), 1854-

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Welch, Bigelow

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Hodges, R. M

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Houghton, Henry Oscar, 1823-1895

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Houghton was an American printer and publisher, proprietor of the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass. and partner, successively, in the publishing firms of Hurd and Houghton; Houghton, Osgood ? and Houghton, Mifflin & Company. From the description of Papers, 1773-1932 (inclusive) 1833-1895 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505871 Houghton was an American printer and publisher, proprietor of the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass., and partner, successi...

Henry, Ware

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Abbott, Julian

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Cutter, Charles A. (Charles Ammi), 1837-1903

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Boston Athenaeum librarian and library systematizer. From the description of Letters received, 1880-1883. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166325294 Athenaeum librarian, 1869-1892. From the description of Letters : from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 1878. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41479582 ...

Brewster, John

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Epithet: Beadle of the Apothecaries' Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000567.0x000312 Epithet: of Ashwellthorpe, county Norfolk British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000567.0x000315 ...

Little, Charles C. (Charles Coffin), 1799-1869

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Hilliard, George Stillman, 1808-1879,

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Whorter, John

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Barlow, David H. (David Hatch), 1805-1864

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Pierce, L. R

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Perkins, Elisha, 1741-1799

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Elisha Perkins was a physician and inventor of metallic tractors. From the description of Elisha Perkins letter and account book [microform], 1788-1816 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 56789048 ...

Brooks, W. H.

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Day, John Q.

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Haupt, Herman, 1817-1905

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Herman Haupt was born in Philadelphia in 1817 and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835. He resigned his commission to become a civil engineer. He was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad and in 1856 undertook work on the Hoosac Tunnel for the Troy and Greenfield Railroad in Massachusetts. From 1862 to 1863 he served as chief of construction and transportation on the United States military railroads and retired with the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1876 he und...

Ingraham, Edward D. (Edward Duncan), 1793-1854

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Philadelphia lawyer and bibliophile; commissioner under fugitive slave law; general director of the United States Bank. From the description of Letter to Rufus Wilmot Griswold, 1849 September 10. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 62383428 ...

Harris, William Thaddeus

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Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864

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Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts; United States and Massaschusetts legislator; and, President of Harvard University. From the description of Josiah Quincy letter, portrait and autograph, 1839-1889. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 63118297 President of Harvard. From the description of Autograph note signed : [Cambridge, Mass.], addressed to the Rev. John Pierpont, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616000 From the description of Autograph note ...

Clarke, S. G.

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Folsum, Charles, 1794-1872

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Cordis, Francis T

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Putman, Allen, 1802-1887

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Ware, Henry, 1794-1843

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Henry Ware Jr., 1784-1843, born Hingham, Mass. Attended Harvard, assistant teacher at Exeter Academy. Ordained Unitarian minister in 1817 and became pastor of the Second Church of Boston. 1829-1842 professor in the Divinity School at Harvard. His memoir and works were published after his death. Wrote hymns, among them "All Nature's Works His Praise Declare" and "Lift Your Glad Voices in Triumph on High." From the description of Letter, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record i...

Heard, J

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Underwood, Francis Henry, 1825-1894

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Francis Underwood was U.S. consul at Glasgow between 1886 and 1888. From the description of Letter, 1889 June 19, Glasgow, Scotland to Martha Howe. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 19416441 Author and editor. From the description of Papers of Francis Henry Underwood [manuscript], 1859?-1874? (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813203 ...

Webster, John White, 1793-1850

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Harvard professor; murderer of Dr. Parkman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1824 May 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270586850 Murderer of Dr. George Parkman. From the description of Letter : to William Hickling Prescott, 1850 Aug. 29. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41415981 Professor of chemistry at Harvard University. From the description of Letter, 1845, Sept. 24 : Cambridg...

Sawyer, James

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The collection primarily contains Civil War correspondence and diaries of James H. Sawyer, a soldier in the Connecticut Infantry, 18th Regiment (Vol.), Co. B [for information relating to the 18th, see: William Carey Walker, History of the Eighteenth Regiment Conn. Volunteers in the War for the Union (1885)]. From the description of James H. Sawyer Papers, 1861-1865, 1879-1882 (Bulk dates 1861-1865) (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 156998038 Epit...

Balch, F. V. (Francis Vergnies), 1839-1898

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Putnam, George, 1807-1878

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George Putnam was the pastor of the Unitarian church in Roxbury, Mass., from 1830 until his death. From the description of Our lamps are gone out : manuscript, 1848 Sept. 29. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612816398 ...

Nichols, George, 1809-1882

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Nichols was a proofreader and editor. He worked chiefly for the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Additional letters from various correspondents, 1824-1882. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122412022 From the description of Letters : from various correspondents, 1869-1883. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84185804 From the description of Correspondence, 1827-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82576143 ...

Skipper, Henry

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Metcalf, C. R

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Stearns, W. G.

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Hopkinson, C. A

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Hyde, Henry H.

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Barnard, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1808-1884

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Clergyman; West Newton and Boston, Mass. From the description of Charles Barnard letter to Mr. Stoddart, [no year] July 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571549 ...

Brooks, Charles Timothy, 1813-1883

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Clergyman. From the description of Charles Timothy Brooks correspondence, 1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451563 American clergyman, poet and translator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Newport, to Harper & Brothers, 1855 Sept. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133560 Charles Timothy Brooks was a minister, translator, and editor of Dial magazine. From the description of Charles Timothy Brooks letters, hymns, a...

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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

Goodwin, L. G. (Leonard George)

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Hill, Adams Sherman, 1833-1910

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American professor of rhetoric. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, Mass., to Harper and Brothers, 1878 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270466553 Hill graduated from Harvard in 1853 and taught rhetoric and oratory at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Adams Sherman Hill, 1849-1902 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972789 Journalist and professor at Harvard University. From the des...

Oliver, M. R. (Michael R.), 1943-

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Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869

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American teacher and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1839 Nov. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609829 ...

Peirce, Jonathan

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Foster, George

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Epithet: Citizen of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x0001e3 ...

Carter, James L.

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Sibley, John Langdon, 1804-1885

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John Langdon Sibley (1804-1885) served as Harvard's Assistant Librarian from 1825 to 1826 and 1841 to 1856, Librarian from 1856 to 1877, and Librarian, Emeritus from 1877 to 1885. He was the editor of the Harvard Triennial Catalogue from 1839 to 1875 and of the Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue from 1875-1885. A noted biographer, Sibley is best known for his "Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University", an extensive collection of biographical material on Harvard graduates. Sibley was ...

George Nichols

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Read, George W. (George Washington), 1810-

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Abbott, A. W.

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Wheeler, William A. (William Adolphus), 1833-1874

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Philologist and librarian. From the description of Letters to William A. Wheeler, 1861-1871. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 63167590 ...

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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

Babbidge, Charles, d. 1898

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Walker, Charles

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From the guide to the Charles Walker Papers, 1958, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc]) ...

Gurney, Ephraim Whitman, 1829-1886.

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Atlantic Monthly. Proofreader

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Heard, George W

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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 ...

Gray, Francis Calley, 1790-1856

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Connected to the U.S. legation to St. Petersburg. Resident of Boston, Mass. From the description of Diary, 1811-1815. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270616 From the description of Diary, 1811-1815. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19657416 Harvard benefactor. From the description of Letters, ca. 1809-ca. 1829. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 14967883 ...

Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland, 1804-1886

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American clergyman; noted for funeral sermon of Gray Otis. From the description of Samuel K. Lothrop letter [manuscript], 1851 December 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 780088380 American pastor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 12 Chestnut Street [Boston], to Rev. Dr. A[ndrew] P[reston] Peabody, 1865 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 751991761 Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1892-1965) devoted his career to th...

Francis, Convers, 1795-1863

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American theologian and educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1854 Aug. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270138877 Francis and Parker were both ministers. From the description of Letters : to Theodore Parker, 1836-1839. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612802278 ...

Hazewell, Charles Creighton

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Carter, Robert, 1819-1879

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Carter was an editor and author and an active figure in the Free Soil and Republican parties in Massachusetts in the 1850's. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1851-1898 (inclusive), 1851-1862 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505758 From the guide to the Robert Carter letters from various correspondents, 1851-1898 (inclusive), 1851-1862 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) From the gui...

Gilman, Arthur, 1837-1909

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Arthur Gilman was an author, editor, and founder of Radcliffe College. For biographical information, see Who Was Who in America. From the description of Scrapbook, 1876-1914 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009465 Arthur Gilman, banker, educator, and historian, was instrumental in founding Radcliffe College; he served as Secretary (1879-1894) and Regent (1894-1896). He was also founder (1886) of the Gilman School for Girls (later names: the Cambridge...

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...

Swett, J. A

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Dabney, Frederick

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Williams, J. (John), 1817-1899

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Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor (1851-1865) and Bishop (1865-1899) of the Diocese of Connecticut and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (1887-1899). From the description of John Williams papers, 1843-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 664653138 ...

Shattuck, Lemuel, 1793-1859

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Statistician; genealogist; public servant in Concord and Boston, Mass.; bookseller/publisher; historian of Concord. From the description of Draft portions of and notes compiled in preparing Lemuel Shattuck's 1835 printed A History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, [ca. 1830-1835]. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 34379162 Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859), American author, statistician and public health reformer. Shattuck settled in Concord, Mas...

Smead, Morgan I

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Whitman, B.

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Durant, William, 1847-1914

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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 ...

Dana, J. R

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Holmes, J. A.

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Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854

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Abbot, Ezra, 1819-1884

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Ezra Abbot (1819-1884) is considered to be one of the most preeminent scholars of New Testament textual criticism in the nineteenth century. He was the Bussey Professorship of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Harvard Divinity School from 1872 to 1884. From the description of Ezra Abbot. Papers, 1870-1882. (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 421962685 Ezra Abbot (1819-1884) is considered one of the most preeminent scholars of New Te...

Cambridge, Committee

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Cordis, M. T

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Treadwell, John White

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Saunders, Cheryl

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Willis, William, 1794-1870

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Naval historian & lawyer. From the description of Letter and portrait : of William Willis, 1822, n.d. [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812178 Lawyer, mayor of Portland, Me., local historian, and director of many local clubs and business enterprises. From the description of Scrapbooks, 1839-1869. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978864 Lawyer, mayor of Portland, Me., and director of many local clu...

Putnam, Mary Lowell, 1810-1898

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Jackson, Edward (Edward Oliver)

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Epithet: yeoman, of Beighton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x0000d5 Epithet: of Add MS 32702 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x0000d0 Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x0000ce Epithet: b 1812, incumbent ...

Nichols, George, 1778-1865

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Cambridge, Lyceum.

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Hutchins, Samuel, 1806-1884

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Cross, Joseph Warren, 1808-1906

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Dwight, Theodore, 1764-1846

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American lawyer and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [New York], to John Griscom, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742709 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Washington, to his son, Theodore, 1807 Jan. 25 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742715 ...

Taylor, James

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Epithet: surgeon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x0002f5 James Taylor was alive in the late 17th and early 18th century. From the guide to the Commonplace book of James Taylor, c 1686-1759, (University of Dundee) Epithet: Brigadier-General British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x000239 Epithet: Re...

Deane, Charles, 1813-1889

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Charles Deane was a merchant with the firm of Waterston, Pray & Company. He retired from the firm in 1864 and devoted himself to researching early American history. From the description of Letter, 1879 Oct[obe]r 17, Cambridge, Mass., to Samuel Eliot [Boston, Mass.]. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 15143373 American historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, Messrs. Bartlett & Welford, booksellers in New Yo...

Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862

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Cornelius Conway Felton (Harvard AB 1827) was a tutor from 1829 to 1832, University Professor of Greek from 1832 to 1834, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature from 1834 to 1860, Regent from 1849 to 1857, and President of Harvard University from 1860 to 1862. From the description of Lectures on Greek history and literature, 1855-1861. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072875 In 1857, Felton expelled Keene from the Harvard Divinity School for practicing as a medium. ...

Phillips, Stephen C. (Stephen Clarendon), 1801-1857

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U.S. representative from Massachusetts, public official of Massachusetts, mayor of Salem, Mass., and businessman. From the description of Letter of Stephen C. Phillips, 1831. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450059 ...

Crosby, William

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

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

Ticknor, Howard Malcolm, 1836-1905,

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Bigelow, Marshall Train, 1822-1902.

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Huidekoper, Frederic, 1817-1892

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Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898

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President of Trinity College, philanthropist, author. From the description of Samuel Eliot letter to Count Adam de Gurowski [manuscript], [18__] Dec 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 182579807 American historian and educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to J. Pierpont Morgan, 1895 Jan. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270743938 Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Cata...

Brownell, S. E

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Copeland, R. M

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Gilman, John T

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Morse, Royal

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Frothingham, Richard, 1812-1880

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American historian. From the description of Papers of Richard Frothingham, 1876-1877. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34566923 ...

Crosby, Nichols

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Wasson, A. S

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Leads, George

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Williams, Moseley H. (Moseley Hooker), 1839-1917

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Brown, Shattuck

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Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856

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Ephraim Peabody (1807-1856) was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, graduated from Bowdoin College in 1827 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1830. He served parishes in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Bedford and Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1846 until 1855 he was the pastor of King's Chapel, Boston. He helped plan the Boston Public Schools system and was a founder of the Prudent Institution for Savings, a forerunner of modern savings banks. He also served as an editor of the W...

Alger, Horatio, 1832-1897

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White, John E.

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Foote, C

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Crafts, Frederick

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Bartlett, John, 1820-1905

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Author of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" From the guide to the John Bartlett letters, 1891, 1894, 1901, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Huidekoper, Harm Jan, 1776-1854

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American businessman and lay theologian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Meadville, Penna., to the Rev. John Pierpont, 1829 May 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269530201 ...

Sullivan, W. J. A

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Ticknor, firm, publisher, Boston

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Welch, Bigelow, and company.

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Flint, James, 1779-1855

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Lodge, Giles, Henry, 1805-1888.

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American physician and translator. From the description of Autograph memorandum of debts, signed, [1816]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591854 ...

Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard), 1812-1889

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Vail was Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Kansas. From the guide to the Letters, 1872-1874, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) Thomas Hubbard Vail was the first Episcopal Bishop of Kansas, and founded Topeka's first hospital, Christ Hospital, in 1882, as well as the College of the Sisters of Bethany in Topeka. Vail was born in Richmond, Virginia on October 21, 1812. His parents were from New England, and on the death of his father in ...

Schalf, Morris, 1840-1929

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Glen, D

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Wood, H.

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Epithet: book-binder British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000296.0x000137 ...

Kay, I

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Carter, S. N

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Brighton, Mass.

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Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890

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Surgeon of Boston, Massachusetts. From the description of Henry Jacob Bigelow note, undated, [Boston]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847379 Bigelow (Harvard, M.D. 1841) taught surgery at Harvard Medical School from 1849 until 1882, and was appointed visiting surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846 from which he resigned in 1886. Bigelow was the leading surgeon in New England during his lifetime, the first in the U.S. to excise the hip joint, and know...

Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892

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James R. Osgood was a native of Maine who went to work for the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields. He eventually founded the subsidiary group James R. Osgood & Co. which was associated with many fine writers. The firm struggled financially, and when Osgood stepped down, was dissolved into Houghton, Mifflin. From the description of James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54667691 Publisher....

Bowditch, J. I A. L.

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Chapman, Thomas L

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Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875

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Clergyman, politician, author. From the description of Papers: of Charles Wentworth Upsham, 1835-1873 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810940 ...

Metcalf, Keith

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Rice, Nathan Lewis, 1807-1877.

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Hale, Joseph

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Miller, James

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Epithet: Muggletonian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x000377 Epithet: of the I of Man British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0000dd Epithet: Reverend; dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0000de Epithet: of the Ordnan...

Boyd, William

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Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x000114 Epithet: formerly Recorder of Londonderry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x000115 Epithet: of Massachusetts British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x000116 Epithet: Arch...

Owen, James

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Wheatland, Henry, 1812-1893

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Apthorp, Robert East, -1882

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Towle, J. D.

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Lee, N. P.

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Whitman, Jason, 1799-1848

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These diaries, interleaved in Farmer's Almanacks for 1843 and 1844, have been attributed to the Reverend Jason Whitman (1799-1848). A member of the Harvard class of 1825, he graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1831 and served Unitarian societies in Saco and Portland, Maine. He married Mary Fairfield (1799- ) of Saco. From the description of Diaries, 1843, 1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207180114 ...

to George Nichols

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Fairbanks, C. B

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Putnam, Allen, 1802-1887

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Sturart, W. W

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Alexander, Barton Stone, 1819-1878.

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Wells, G. W.

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Richardson, I. (Irvine)

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Coit, Thomas Winthrop, 1803-1885

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Thomas Winthrop Coit (1803-1885) was rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Troy, N.Y., and author of several religious publications, including _Remarks on Norton's Statement of Reasons_, 1832, and a twelve-month Bible in 1834 which was republished in England. Rev. Coit also served as professor at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Lexington, Ky., and later as president of Transylvania University. From the description of Record book, 1837. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCa...

Chapman, John, 1822-1894

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English physician, author, and editor of "The Westminster Review." From the description of John Chapman collection, 1851-1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81538744 From the description of John Chapman collection, 1851-1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148215 Epithet: physician, author and editor of the Westminster Review British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0001e1 ...

Jarvis, Edward, 1803-1884

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Physician; social statistician; author of books and articles on physiology, insanity, and social statistics; late in life, social historian of his native town, Concord, Mass. From the description of Houses and people in Concord, 1810 to 1820 : ms. / by Edward Jarvis, 1882. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 34166787 From the description of Traditions and reminiscences of Concord, Massachusetts, or, A contribution to the social and domestic history of the town, 177...

Longfellow, Anne Allegra.

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Barton, H. P

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Higginson, L

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Peirce, James Mills, 1834-1906

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Peirce graduated from Harvard in 1853, taught mathematics and astronomy and served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. From the description of The character and philosophy of Malebranche, 1856. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972840 From the description of Scrap book, [ca. 1845-1847?] / compiled mostly by James M. Peirce, the first few pages by S.M. Peirce. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: ...

Kuhn, George Horatio, 1795-1879

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Burleigh was the agent for the Great Falls Manufacturing Co., 1838-1861, and Kuhn was the company treasurer, 1834-1840. The company, a cotton manufacturer, was located in Great Falls, N.H. From the description of [Letter] 1838 Sept. 13, Boston : [to] John A. Burleigh, Somersworth, N.H. / [from] Geo. H. Kuhn. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 50774708 ...

Cambridge, Mass.

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Allen, Elizabeth Akers, 1832-1911

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Allen was born Elizabeth Anne Chase on October 9, 1832 in Strong, Maine and grew up in Farmington, Maine, where she attended Farmington Academy (later Maine State Teachers College). In 1851 she married her first husband, Marshall Taylor, but the marriage ended soon in divorce. She served as writer and associate editor for the Portland Transcript beginning in 1855, and in the next year published her first volume of poetry, Forest buds from the woods of Maine, under the pseudonym Florence Percy. S...

Thayer, C. R

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Clarke, John Innes

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Puckett, Walter R

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Wheeler, A. D.

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Barrett, Nathan

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