Miscellaneous letters, 1825-1894.

Charles Sumner

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Griswold, Rufus Willmot, 1815-1857

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Rufus Wilmot Griswold (February 13, 1815 – August 27, 1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic. Born in Vermont, Griswold left home when he was 15 years old. He worked as a journalist, editor, and critic in Philadelphia, New York City, and elsewhere. He built a strong literary reputation, in part due to his 1842 collection The Poets and Poetry of America. This anthology, the most comprehensive of its time, included what he deemed the best examples of American poetry. He produc...

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...

Folsom, Charles, 1794-1872

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Charles Folsom (Harvard, A.B., 1813) taught Italian and served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Folsom, 1829. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972777 ...

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 ...

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...

Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1809-1894

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Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809 – November 16, 1894) was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a descendant of John Winthrop. Robert Charles Winthrop was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760–1841), the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple (1769–1825), who were married on July 25, 1786. He was the youngest of 13 children born to his parents. Winthrop attende...

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...

Wm. Bentinck-Smith

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Dr. Harold Bowditch

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Perkins, Norton

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Winslow Lewis

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Mary Page Mansfield

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Abiel Holmes

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Edward Jackson Holmes

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Dearborn, Frederick M. (Frederick Myers), 1876-

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Frederick Myers Dearborn (1876-1960), who formed this collection, was a dermatologist of New York City. From the description of Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana : Part III: The Civil War and the Union, 1804-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84192475 From the description of Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana : Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCa...

Farms, Beverly

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Hill, Peter Murray.

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W. & F.

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Mrs. Carolyn K. Cushing

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E. Vagele Heins

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Maud (Howe) Elliott

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Chadwick, James R. (James Read), 1844-1905

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Chadwick (Harvard, M.D. 1871) assisted in the foundation of the gynecological department of the Boston City Hospital in 1874, taught gynecology at the Harvard Medical School, and was president of the American Gynecological Society. He established the Boston Medical Library in 1875, founded the Harvard Medical Alumni Association in 1890, and served as its first president. He was a collector of medical books and journals. From the description of Papers of James Read Chadwick, 1830-1909...

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Wendell, Evert Jansen, 1860-1917

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Mrs. Hammond

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E. Evans

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Forbes, John Murray, 1813-1898

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

Nichols, James R. (James Robinson), 1819-1888

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Louisa B. Stickney

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Edward Freiberger

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Col. Louis J. Colb

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Mrs Wingate Rollins

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D. J. C. Peters

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Bowditch, Vincent Yardley, 1852-1929

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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 ...

Mrs Katy Muldoon.

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Anne (Holmes) Upham

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Kilgour, Bayard Livingstone, Jr

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Boston Advertiser

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Dr. Harris Kennedy

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Mayor of Cambridge

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Sessler, Charles

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Harold T. White

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Peter Muray Hill

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Dresel, Louisa L.

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Dresel, Louisa L.

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Justin Winsor

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P. D. Howe

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Caroline (Campbell) Kellogg

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Goodspeed's Book Store

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John, Owen, 1918-

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Miss M. A. Potter

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Morse, Isaac Edward, 1809-1866

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Radcliffe library

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George B. Hoyt

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John Elderkin

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William I. Morse

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Miss M. Currier

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Miss Rosalind Richards

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Mrs. Dorr

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Mrs Woods

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Mrs. Edward Jackson Holmes

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Solomon Lincoln

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Harvard University. Archives

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The Harvard University Archives was established in 1939 as a department of the University Library during the administrations of James Bryant Conant as President and Keyes Dewitt Metcalf as Director of the Library. For a number of years prior to this date, the Library had collected and preserved historical records and other material relating to the history of the University. From the description of Correspondence files, 1896-2004 (inclusive), 1955-2004 (bulk) (Harvard University). Wor...

Eliot, Charles William

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Epithet: President of Harvard University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000980.0x00005d ...

Warren, George Washington, 1813-1883

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Warren, a lawyer, state legislator, and first mayor of Charlestown, Mass., was active in the Bunker Hill Monument Association, serving as president, 1847-1875. From the description of Correspondence, 1781-1910 (inclusive), 1846-1882 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122419303 From the guide to the George Washington Warren correspondence, 1781-1910 (inclusive), 1846-1882 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

J. C. Peters

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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...

Frederic Rathbone

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Neiburg, Jack

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Edes, Henry Herbert, 1849-1922

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Laura H. (Brownell) Collier

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Mrs. Parsons Plummer

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Phineas Barnes

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Mary C Hammond

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W. B. O. Field

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Frederich Henry Hedge

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Thomas Hill

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Benjamin Pollard Winslow

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Miss C. A. Dunn

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Clark, Austin Hobart, 1880-1954

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Amelia Lee (Jackson)

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Samuel May

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Mrs. Samuel Hammond.

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Amelia Lee (Jackson) Holmes)

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Mrs. M. A. Potter.

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Miss Margaret Currier

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Frederick Henry Hedge

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Tilton, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marguerite), 1913-

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Professor of English, Barnard College, 1959-1979, scholar of American literature, editor & authority on Ralph W. Emerson. Columbia University Ph.D., 1947. From the guide to the Eleanor M. Tilton Papers, 1770-1991, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Professor of English, Barnard College, 1959-1979, scholar of American literature, editor & authority on Ralph W. Emerson. Columbia University Ph.D., 1947. ...

Rogers, Grace D.

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Mrs. Hugh D. Marshall

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