Miscellaneous compositions, 1848-1891.

Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b4w2m (person)

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memorial Trustees

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64z8dn7 (corporateBody)

Josiah Quincy.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nx40w6 (person)

Henry Irving.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w655664n (person)

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64f1r1g (person)

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 ...

Norton, Charles E.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d34863 (person)

Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bp07kb (person)

Charles E. Goodspeed was the founder of several bookstores in Boston and a dealer in rare books and manuscripts. Most of his writings were bibliographical, compiling A treasury of fishing stories and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Museum of the Salem East India Marine Society, or, The gathering of a virtuoso's collection, both published in 1946. His autobiography, Yankee bookseller, published in 1937, gives a full picture of booksellers, collectors, and authors of his time. From the des...

Mrs. Hugh T. Marshall

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jz2ws8 (person)

Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63r0r3s (person)

The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...

Governeur Morris

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6653q41 (person)

Scoggin, Gilbert Campbell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g77wzj (person)

James Burnett Lowell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6139wzw (person)

Frasier Meadows Manor

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vg17k9 (person)

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vh5qp9 (person)

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 ...

Harold T. White

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sw1hqx (person)

Haynes, Caroline Coventry

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6834ghc (person)

Francis Parkman.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rd1613 (person)

Mrs. Louis Burnett Rantoul

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68j2ptm (person)

Tuckerman, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1813-1871

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6542qgg (person)

Tuckerman was an American critic, essayist, and poet. From the description of ALS: to Mr. Norton, [no year] Jan 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122648060 American critic, editor, author. From the description of Correspondence and manuscripts, 1842-1864. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530583 Tuckerman was an American critic, essayist and poet. From the description of Col...

James R. Lowell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jc0p19 (person)

W. B. O. Fields

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w80gxj (person)

Mrs. Esther Lowell Cunningham

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jz29x1 (person)