Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott, 1579-1893.

Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848

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Italian composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris], to "il principe di Colobrano" in Naples, 1841 July 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565897 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Vienna, 13 June 1843], to [Gaetano] Cobianchi in Paris, 1843 June 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565892 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Naples, 13 October 1831, to his father, Andrea Doniz...

Godwin, William, 1756-1836

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William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. In the conservative reaction to British radicalism, Godwin was attacked, in part because of his marriage to the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and his candid biography of her after her death from childbirth. Their daughter, later known as Mary Shelley, would go on to writ...

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...

Pratt, John Bridge, 1833-1870

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John Bridge Pratt was the husband of Anna Bronson Alcott and brother-in-law of Louisa May Alcott. In 1858, the year the Alcotts moved to Orchard House in Concord, Louisa and Anna helped form the Concord Dramatic Union. Another member of the group was John Bridge Pratt. He and Anna fell in love while playing opposite each other in a play called "The Loan of a Lover." The couple announced their engagement in spring 1858 and married at Orchard House in May 1860. Their wedding provided the bas...

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the for her novel Little Women (1868) and the sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Born in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May. Like her famous literary counterpart, Jo March, she was the second of four daughters. The eldest, Anna Bronson (Al...

Fourier, Charles, 1772-1837

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French social scientist and reformer. From the description of Letter, 1823 Jan 16, to the editor of the newspaper LE CONSTITUTIONNEL. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500132 From the description of Letter, 1829 Mar. 21, to Baron de Férussac. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122369503 From the description of Indication de cinq planètes inconnues : manuscript, 1820 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510613 ...

Lane, Charles, 1800-1870

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Charles Lane was born on 31 Mar 1800 in England. Very little is known about the first 30 years of his life. During the 1830s he worked in London as a commercial journalist and as editor and manager of the London Mercantile Price Current. During this time Lane met John Pierrepont Greaves and became part of the reform circle led by Greaves. The group was interested in spiritual affairs and communal education. In 1838, Greaves opened an experimental school at Ham Common in Surrey; he named the scho...

Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897

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Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New-York Tribune until 1862. During the American Civil War, he served as Assistant Secretary of War, playing especially the role of the liaison between the War Department and General Ulysses S. Grant. In 1868 he became the editor and part-owner of the New York Sun. He at first ...

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...

Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888

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James Freeman Clarke (April 4, 1810 – June 8, 1888) was an American theologian and author. Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on April 4, 1810, James Freeman Clarke was the son of Samuel Clarke and Rebecca Parker Hull, though he was raised by his grandfather James Freeman, minister at King's Chapel in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Boston Latin School, and later graduated from Harvard College in 1829, and Harvard Divinity School in 1833. Ordained into the Unitarian church he first became...

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 ...

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850

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Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850) was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent, writing for Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune, and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Born Sarah Margaret Fuller in Cambridge, Massa...

Alcott, John Sewall Pratt, 1865-1923

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John Sewall Pratt Alcott (1865-1923) was the nephew and adopted son of Louisa May Alcott. John Sewall Pratt Alcott was born on June 24, 1865, in Massachusetts, to John Bridge Pratt and Anna Bronson Alcott, sister of Louisa May Alcott. He and his brother, Fredrick, were the basis for Daisy and Demi (respectively) in Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women. His aunt legally adopted him in 1888, making him her heir, shortly before her death. He changed his name to "John Alcott" in deference to he...

Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale, 1824-1904

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Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (June 27, 1824 – November 19, 1904) was an American writer, reformer, and philanthropist. She was born on Beacon Hill, Boston, June 27, 1824; and was educated in private schools in Boston. Cheney served as secretary of the School of Design for Women in Boston from 1851 till 1854. She married portrait artist Seth Wells Cheney on May 19, 1853. His ill-health limited his volume of work and after a winter trip abroad (1854-1855) he died in 1856. They had one child, Mar...

Transon, Abel, 1805-1876

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Abel Étienne Louis Transon (25 December 1805 – 23 August 1876) was a French mathematician, utopian socialist and journalist. Abel Transon was born in Versailles on 25 December 1805 (Christmas Day). In 1823 he won a mathematical competition and was admitted to the prestigious École Polytechnique, from which he graduated with top honours in 1825. Like many of his fellow Polytechniciens, (e.g., Prosper Enfantin, Olinde Rodrigues, Jules Lechevalier, Michel Chevalier and others), he was attracted ...

Alcott, Abigail May, 1800-1877

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Abigail "Abba" Alcott (née May; October 8, 1800 – November 25, 1877) was an American activist for several causes and one of the first paid social workers in the state of Massachusetts. She was the wife of Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott and mother of four daughters, including Civil War novelist Louisa May Alcott. Abigail May came from a prominent New England family. On her mother's side, she was born into the families of Sewall and Quincy. Her mother, Dorothy Sewall, was the great-grand...

Nieriker, Abigail May Alcott, 1840-1879

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Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (July 26, 1840 – December 29, 1879) was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Amy (an anagram of May) in her sister's semi-autobiographical novel Little Women (1868). She was named after her mother, Abigail May, and first called Abba, then Abby, and finally May, which she asked to be called in November 1863 when in her twenties. Abigail May Alcott was born July 26, 1840, in Concord, Massachusetts, the y...

Pratt, Anna Bronson Alcott, 1831-1893

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Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt (March 16, 1831 – July 17, 1893) was the elder sister of American novelist Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Margaret "Meg" of Little Women (1868), her sister's classic, semi-autobiographical novel. Anna Bronson Alcott was born in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia on March 16, 1831. She was the first of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abby May. She was named after both her paternal grandmother (Anna) and her father (Brons...

Pratt, Frederic Alcott, 1863-1910

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Pratt was the nephew of the writer Louisa May Alcott and the son of her sister Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. Under Louisa May Alcott's will, he became the Trustee of her literary estate after her death in 1888. ...

Pratt, Frederic Wolsey, 1902-1957

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Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875

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Sir Charles Lyell, first baronet, (1797-1875, APS, 1842) was a geologist and lawyer, whose Principles of Geology explained “former changes of the earth’s surface” by means of “modern causes.” Critical of the “catastrophist” views of many contemporary geologists, Lyell considered the earth “a system of balanced antagonistic processes,” a theory later described as uniformitarian. Although he rejected Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of species mutability early in his career, later he favorabl...

Dwight, Timothy, 1752-1817

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Congregational clergyman and president of Yale; b. in Northampton, Mass. From the description of Deed, 1796. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976415 Timothy Dwight was born on May 14, 1752 in Northampton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1769 (B.A.) and 1772 (M.A.). He served Yale as tutor (1771-1777), Livingston Professor of Divinity (1795-1817), and President (1795-1817). He died on January 11, 1817 in New Haven, Connecticut. From the desc...

Harris, Thaddeus William, 1795-1856

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Harris (Harvard, A.B. 1815; M.D. 1820) served as Librarian of Harvard, 1831-1856 and also lectured on natural history at Harvard, 1837-1842. He published about 100 articles on insects and insect-related diseases, compiled indexes to major works on entomology, and also wrote on squashes and pumpkins for the New England farmer. From the description of Papes of Thaddeus William Harris, 1818?-1852 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 40961354 ...

James Munroe and Company

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James Munroe and Company, publishers and booksellers, were located at 134 Washington Street in Boston and also in Cambridge, Mass., during the middle part of the nineteenth century. The head of the company was James Munroe (1808-1861), who was born in Lexington, Mass., the son of James Munroe (1775-1848) and Margaret Watson Munroe ( - ). In 1834 he married Sarah Russell Mason Fiske (1808- ). They had two daughters. From the description of Correspondence, 1833-1866. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

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Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) and a senator from Massachusetts (1855–73). Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery. Wilson devoted his energies to the destruction of the "Slave Power" – the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country. Originally a Whig, Wil...

Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754-1835

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Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1st Baronet, PC MP FRS FRSE FSA (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835) was a British politician, a writer on both finance and agriculture, and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes. First president of the Board of Agriculture, member of Privy Council (1810), appointed to the post of Commissioner of Excise. (From the description of Letters : Coles [Park] to Thomas...

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...

Schwegler, Albert, 1819-1857

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Cowper, William, 1731-1800

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William Cowper, English poet. From the guide to the William Cowper manuscript material : 32 items, ca. 1784-1799, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Weston Underwood, to William [i.e. Walter] Churchey, 1786 Dec. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531182 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Olney], to Lady Austen, 1782 Aug...

May, Samuel, 1810-1899

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Miss Fullers

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Paul, C. Kegan (Charles Kegan), 1828-1902

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Charles Kegan Paul, British publisher and writer. From the guide to the C. Kegan Paul manuscript material : 6 items, 1873-1877, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001300.0x000185 ...

Pratt, Frederick A., 1828-1880

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Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742

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Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901

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American poet. From the description of Morrice Lake : autograph manuscript of the poem signed, [1872]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270630812 Channing was a transcendentalist poet and the first biographer of Thoreau. From the description of Notebooks and journals, 1852-ca. 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612371953 Concord poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Concord, to James Munroe & Co., 1850 May 6. ...

Maty, Matthew, 1718-1776

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J. B. De Freval.. .

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Barnard, S.

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Gleïzès, J.-A. (Jean-Antoine), 1773-1843

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Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 1503? -1542

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Cornaro, Luigi, 1467-1566

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Austen, Ralph, d. 1676

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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...

Cato, Marcus Porcius, 95 B.C.-46 B.C.

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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599

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Epithet: of Add MS 31626 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001392.0x000373 ...

Melebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715

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Mistral, Frédéric, 1830-1914

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Provençal poet and nationalist. From the description of Notes, [ca. 1875]-1913. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122589673 ...

Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897

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Scougal, Henry, 1650-1678

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Pinnock, William, 1782-1843

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Walt Whitman

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Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873

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Lytton was an English statesman and writer. From the description of Lithograph of Lord Lytton, circa 1800s-1870s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367947106 Edward Bulwer Lytton, first Baron Lytton, writer and politician. From the description of Edward Bulwer Lytton manuscript material : 26 items, 1828-1872 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 718729173 From the guide to the Edward Bulwer Lytton manuscript material : 26 items, 1828-1872, (The New...

Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837

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Samuel Egerton Brydges was an editor of early English literature and a genealogist. From the description of Papers, 1679-1837 (inclusive), 1789-1837 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122335955 From the description of Letters and other papers, 1782-1837. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122575058 From the guide to the Papers, 1679-1837 (inclusive), 1789-1837 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Bry...

Vaughan, Henry, 1621-1695

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Epithet: MD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000563.0x00014d Epithet: architect British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000563.0x00014c ...

Sir Thomas More.

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R. W. Emerson

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Adamson, Robert, 1852-1902

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Philotheos Physiologus pseud.

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Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?

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Louise Caroline Ely

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Cooke, Josiah P., Jr. (Josiah Parsons), 1827-1894

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Cooke (Harvard, A.B., 1848) taught chemistry and mineralogy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Josiah Parsons Cooke, 1859-1893 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069349 ...

Evans, Edwin, 1844-1923

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Epithet: Merchant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x00029b Epithet: Dr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x000299 Epithet: junior British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x00029a Epithet: of Add MS 38307 British Library...

Willmott, Robert Aris, 1809-1863

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Jacob Blanck

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Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678

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Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713

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Pacini, Giovanni, 1796-1867

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The opera was first performed in Venice at S. Benedetto, 14 January 1819; rev. version in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala, 1 August 1819. Cf. New Grove. From the description of Sinfonia nell'opera La sposa fedele : del Mro. Giovanni Pacini : manuscript, [1819?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612848038 Italian composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Viareggio, 16 January 1860, to Vincenzo Jacovacci in Rome, 1860 Jan. 16. (Unknown). WorldC...

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x000089 Opera with a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, based on Friedrich von Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe, premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, on December 8, 1849. From the description of Luisa Miller : melodramma tragico in tre atti / sinfonia musica del Sigr. Mo. Giuseppe Verdi. [ca. 1850] (Yale University). WorldCat record id...

Horner, Joanna B.

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Fletcher, Mrs. (Eliza Dawson), 1770-1858

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Epithet: autobiographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001242.0x00002c ...

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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Henry David Thoreau (b. July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts-d. May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts), American author, lecturer, naturalist, student of Native American artifacts and life, transcendentalist, land surveyor, and life-long resident of Concord, Massachusetts. He was an active opponent of slavery and a social critic. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837....

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...

Forster, John, 1812-1876

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John Forster was born and raised in Newcastle by Unitarian parents, and educated at Cambridge and London's Inner Temple. He became an important literary critic and editor, and wrote numerous books of his own, notably several biographies. Forster's greatest contribution may have been as literary adviser and advocate for some of the key authors of his day, including Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, and Carlyle. His support, advice, and promotion of authors and writing helped define Victorian taste. Fo...

William Swinton.

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Hardy, R. Spence (Robert Spence), 1803-1868

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J. H. Oxon.

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Hugh Doherty's

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Petrarchus. Eng. 1809.

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Sarah Austin

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Joe

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This letter is an example of the type of historically important material that can be found on occasion in local second hand stores. Neither the sender nor the recipient can be identified, but the content makes it a worthwhile item in the historical collection. From the guide to the Joe to Annie Letter, 1889, (Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives) Joe was a bus...

Greenwood, F. W. P. (Francis William Pitt), 1797-1843

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Dwight, Nathaniel, 1770-1831

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Denton J. Snider.

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H. S. Olcott

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Cheyne, George, 1671-1743.

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Scottish physician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Bath.", to "Doctor Cunyngham" [Sir Alexander Dick], 1740 [Oct.?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270621999 ...

Eckermann, Johann Peter, 1792-1854

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German poet and author; friend of Goethe. From the description of Autograph letter signed : W[eimar], to "Wolf" [Maximilian Wolfgang von Goethe, grandson of the poet], 1851 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742928 From the description of Autograph letters signed (6) : Linden near Hannover, Weimar, etc., to Privy Councillor, Mephisto Marshall, secretary to the Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, 1845 Aug. 8-1853 Jul. 21, and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742934...

Francis, S.

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Belsham, William, 1752-1827

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N. Brady.. .

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Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678

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English poet & satirist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Westminster, to the Mayer and Aldermen of Kingston upon Hull, 1673/4 Jan. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607885 ...

Mayo, Charles, 1792-1846

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Tansillo, Luigi, 1510-1568

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Thomas, à Kempis, 1380-1471

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Boyse, Samuel, 1708-1749

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Mill Bank, to Daniel McKercher, 1744 May 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131621 From the description of The faithful few. An Ode : poem : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript signed, "First written in the year MDCXXXIII, [1735]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870168 Epithet: Poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000473.0x0001f4...

Pestalozzi's

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Ward, Thomas Humphry, 1845-1926

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Epithet: journalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x00033c Epithet: of Add MS 39041 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001188.0x0003db English poet. From the description of Thomas Humphry Ward correspondence, no year May 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981310 Epithet: author British ...

More, Henry, 1614-1687

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II, Praz

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Cooper, John Gilbert, 1723-1769

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Epithet: Major British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x000234 ...

Shenstone, William, 1714-1763

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [The Leasowes], to J.S. Hylton, 1758 Aug. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270663776 From the description of Autograph letter signed in another hand : [The Leasowes], to J.S. Hylton, [1759 Aug. 6]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662690 From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p.], to Mrs. Southwell, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664476 From the description of Autograph...

Porphyrius. Eng. 1823. Taylor.

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Bridgeman, William, 1916-

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Epithet: of Add MS 36028 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000629.0x000041 ...

Paley, William, 1743-1805

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William Paley, English theologian and moralist. From the guide to the William Paley manuscript material : 2 items, 1790-1802, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) William Paley was born in July 1743 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, to William Paley (d. 1799) and Elizabeth Clapham (d. 1796). The elder Paley was the vicar of Helpston, as well as headmaster of Giggleswick grammar school. The younger Paley was th...

Arnold, Sir Edwin, 1832-1904

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Channing, William Henry

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Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654

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Epithet: of Add MS 39805 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000844.0x000227 ...

Francke, August Hermann, 1663-1727

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Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916

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Epithet: Mrs; of Add MS 37312 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x0001da American author, editor and war correspondent. From the description of Richard Harding Davis Letters concerning South Africa and the Boer War [manuscript], 1899-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 611582020 American newspaperman, war correspondent and novelist. From the description of Letter to Arthur...

Burgh, James, 1714-1775

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Doherty, Hugh, -1891

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Epithet: formerly 23rd Light Dragoons British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000440.0x0003d1 ...

E. P. Peabody's

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Stirling, James Hutchison

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Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender), 1836-1911

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Brackett was an American author. From the description of Letter and an envelope, 1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83921063 ...

Elton, Charles Abraham, Sir, 1778-1853

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Title: 6th Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000226 ...

Ørsted, Hans-Christian, 1777-1851

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William. L. Garrison

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Holyoke, Edward, 1689-1769

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Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) was pastor of the Second Church of Marblehead, Massachusetts, from 1716 to 1737 and the ninth president of Harvard College, serving for thirty-two years from 1737 to 1769. From the description of Infant linen shirt worn by Harvard President Edward Holyoke, ca. 1693. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 670307379 Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) was President of Harvard College from 1737 to 1769. From the description of Letter from Edward...

Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592

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Epithet: dramatist and poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000757.0x0003bd ...

Claxton, Florence

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Eleanor Grove.. .

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Selden, John, 1584-1654

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John Selden (1584-1654) was a lawyer, parliamentarian and a scholar. His De Diis Syris (1617) established his credentials as an orientalist, which were consolidated by his later studies in rabbinical law. Further details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography . From the guide to the Oriental manuscripts of John Selden, 13th-17th century, (University of Oxford, Department of Oriental Collections, Bodleian Library) English jurist. From the description of...

Juliana, anchoret, 1343-1443

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Bronson, Henry, 1804-1893

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Dixon, William Hepworth, 1821-1879

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Historian. From the description of Letters 1845-1876. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 702669699 Dixon was born on June 30, 1821 at Great Ancoats in Manchester, England; wrote a five-act tragedy, The Azamoglan, which was privately printed; editor of Cheltenham Journal, 1846; called to bar in London, 1854, but never practiced law; contributor to the Athenaeum and the Daily News; wrote Life of William Penn (1851); editor of the Athenaeum, 1853-69; traveled widely and ...

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894?

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Philip Gilbert Hamerton was an English artist, critic, and author, perhaps best known for writing The Intellectual Life. Born in Lancashire, his mother died in childbirth, and Hamerton was raised by aunts. Although prepared for Oxford, he eschewed higher education, and studied painting, specializing in landscapes. He found himself more suited to writing, and wrote essays, articles, criticism, autobiography, and even a few novels, writing about many topics but chiefly painting. He was also editor...

Grosvenor, B. (Benjamin), 1676-1758

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Hermes, Trismegistus

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Bartlett, Samuel Ripley, 1837-

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Bruin, Claas, 1671-1731

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Rust, George, bp. of Dromore, d. 1670

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Heinrich Stilling.. .

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Thomas Taylor.

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Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661

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Epithet: of Add MS 29283 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000301.0x000372 Epithet: of Egerton Ch 7412 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000301.0x000378 Epithet: atte personage British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x000131 Epithet: of Add MS 32...

Jung-Stilling, Johann-Heinrich (1740-1817).

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Hill, Caroline Southwood.

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Greck, Louis

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Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682

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Smith, Adam, 1723-1790

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Scottish political economist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to William Johnstoune [Sir William Johnstone Pulteney], Monday [1752 Mar.-1763 Apr.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662595 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to William Johnstoune [Sir William Johnstone Pulteney], 1762 Mar. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662605 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to "Dear Johnstoune" [Sir ...

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....

Plutarchus. Eng. 1882. King.

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D. S. Maurice

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Robert brothers

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George Nicholson.

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Angell, Henry C. (Henry Clay), 1829-1911

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Ayres, Alfred

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Higgins, P. L. H.

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Arnim, Bettina ˜vonœ 1785-1859

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German author and composer; friend of Goethe. From the description of Autograph manuscript signed of seven songs with piano accompaniment : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132380 German writer. From the description of Letter to K. A. Mende, ca.1845. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82458924 German poet, composer, singer, and sculptor. From the description of [Miscellaneous music manuscripts] [manuscript]. [1843?...

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...

May, John, 1748-1812

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More, Hannah, 1745-1833

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Hannah More, one of five sisters, taught at her family's school in Bristol, England. She became prominent in London's Bluestocking circle from 1774 onward, and was also a friend of Samuel Johnson. Her work soon moved from poetry and drama to the production of numerous popular religious books and tracts. In 1789, she moved to Mendip, Somerset, where she and her sister Patty founded several schools. In 1801, she and her sisters moved to the Barley Wood estate in nearby Wrington. From t...

Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885

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Engraver (of both copper and wood), topographical draftsman, and historian. Born February 2, 1798 in East Windsor, Conn.; apprenticed to Abner Reed, engraver; operated his own engraving business in New Haven; studied history and traveled the eastern U.S., gathering information for the books which he wrote and then illustrated with his engravings; died in New Haven on June 22, 1885. From the description of John Warner Barber scrapbook pages, 1832-1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 1...

Huddleston, George, 1869-1960

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Hugh Doherty.

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Rev. Wm. H. Channing

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William Roscoe.

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James, Henry, 1811-1882

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Henry James Sr. and his wife Mary Walsh James (1810-1882) were the parents of the novelist Henry James Jr., the philosopher William James, the diarist Alice James, Robertson James, and Garth Wilkinson James. From the guide to the Letters from Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James to various correspondents, 1827-1878., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry James Sr. was an American philosophical theologian. He and his wife Mary Robertson Walsh J...

Emilius

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Jerome Cardan.. .

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Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621

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Signor Antonio Cervini was the cousin of Roberto Francesco Romolo. From the description of Autograph letter signed from Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint Bellarmino, to Signor Antonio Cervini, Montepulciano, 1617 December 23. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 438926431 Epithet: Jesuit, Cardinal 1599 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001150.0x00023f Italian Jesuit. ...

J. Barnesius

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Jos. May

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Wilson, Effingham, 1783-1868

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Wright, Henry G. (Henry Gardiner), 1813?-1844?

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Walthoe, John, 1657 or 1658-1744

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Jesuits, psued.

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A. B. Alcott

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Orcutt, Samuel, 1824-1893

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Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898

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German Egyptologist and novelist. From the description of Autograph note signed : Leipzig, to an unidentified recipient, 1882 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870715 German author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Leipzig and Lugano, to unidentified recipients, 1881 Nov. 30 and 1892 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742925 German Egyptologist and novelist. He was born in Berlin, March 1, 1837 and died in Tutzing, ...

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809

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Political theorist, New York. From the description of Letter, 1779 Jan. 17. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476963318 Thomas Paine, English author and revolutionary. From the guide to the Thomas Paine manuscript material : 1 item, 1788, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Revolutionary pamphleteer, author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man. From the description of ALS, [1803] ...

Zimmermann, Johann Georg, 1728-1795

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German physician. From the description of Letter, 1784, June 27 : Hannover. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35527603 ...

Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

Bysshe, Edward, fl. 1712

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mr. Gardiner.

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Leonora

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Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715

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Biber, George Eduard, 1801-1874

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E. P. Peabody

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Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811

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Thomas Percy was the editor of the Reliques of ancient English poetry and of The Regulations and establishment of the household of Henry Algernon Percy (London, 1770). From the description of Thomas Percy letter, Northumberland House [London], to Dear Sir, [1767] Saturday, May 9. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38929735 Epithet: Bishop of Norwich British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/...

Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723

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Richardson, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1851-1913

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Richardson was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1871. He was Winkley Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English language and literature at Dartmouth College from 1882 until 1911. From the description of Papers, 1911-1926. (Dartmouth College Library). WorldCat record id: 237352964 Editor, poet, author, and Dartmouth professor. From the description of Letter to Professor Page [manuscript], 1908 November 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647977909 ...

B. Green

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John Chalmers.. .

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Goldsmith, Oliver

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Oliver Goldsmith was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on February 21st, 1827. At sixteen years of age Mr. Goldsmith moved to New York City. In 1847 he concluded to travel west. He moved to Detroit with Colonel Isaac S. Miller, working in the manufacturing of tobacco until the winter of 1848. It was then that he purchased a share in a joint stock company, the "Wolverine Rangers", and with a party from Marshall, Michigan started for California. He would later author a book about the period of his lif...

MacDonald, James M. (James Madison), 1812-1876

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T. R. Sewall

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Anthon, Charles, 1797-1867

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Professor of Greek at Columbia College. Anthon was involved in a controversy about the authenticity of the script of the Book of Mormon when Martin Harris got him to examine copies of some of the characters. From the description of Letter, portrait, and a newspaper clipping, 1849-1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367566945 American classical scholar. From the guide to the Charles Anthon letters, 1856, 1859, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archive...

Gilman, Samuel, 1791-1858

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Unitarian minister in Charleston, S. C., and author of "Fair Harvard"; husband of noted author Caroline Howard Gilman. From the description of Samuel Gilman letters [manuscript], 1826-1843. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648019813 Gilman graduated from Harvard in 1811. He was a tutor at Harvard and was author of Fair Harvard. From the description of Papers of Samuel Gilman, 1811-1952 (inclusive), 1811-1858 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat rec...

Hippocrates. Eng. 1708.

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Barges.

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Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884

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William Henry Channing, Unitarian minister and reformer, was born in Boston, Mass. He was the editor of The western messenger, 1838-1839, spent time at Brook Farm, wrote a memoir of his uncle, William Ellery Channing (1848), and with Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Freeman Clarke, wrote a memoir of Margaret Fuller (1852). He later accepted positions as minister in several Unitarian churches in England. From the description of W.H. Channing letter to Dear Sir, 1852 Mar. 29. (Pennsylvani...

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644

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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...

Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828

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Scottish philosopher. From the description of Letter signed : Kinniel House, to Thomas Jefferson, 1824 Sept. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580884 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Catrine, Kilmarnock, to an unidentified peer, before 1809?. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574573 Dugald Stewart was born on November 22, 1753 in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the age of 13, he studied at the University of Edinburgh where his father was th...

Plinius Caecilius Secundus. Eng. 1796. Melmouth.

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Wm. Russell

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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683

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English statesman. From the description of Document signed : Whitehall, 1672 July 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664799 ...

Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771

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British poet. From the description of Collection of notebooks containing Thomas Gray's notes on his reading, a catalog of his library, and a copy of his will : [England], 1740s-1770. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612342648 From the description of Autograph notes on Lysias and Isocrates, 1747 Mar. 20-1748 Mar. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270508038 From the description of Autograph notes on Thucydides and Xenophon : [England], [174-?]. (Unknown). WorldCat recor...

Young, Edward, 1683-1765

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Welwyn, Herts.], to [Samuel Richardson], 1750 Apr. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584539 Edward Young was a poet, dramatist and satirist, born at Upham near Winchester. He was the son of Edward Young, the rector of Upham, (who was later Dean of Salisbury and chaplain to William and Mary). In 1702 Young went to New College, Oxford, but moved to Corpus Christi, and then to a law fellowship at All Souls in ...

S. E. Sewall.

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Dryden, John, 1631-1700

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John Dryden, 1631-1700, was an influential English poet, literary critic, and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England. From the description of John Dryden Letter to Elizabeth Steward, 1698-1699. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 147971227 From the guide to the John Dryden Letter to Elizabeth Steward, 1698-1699, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) Epithet: poet and dramatist...

E. Sibly's

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Concord Schools

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Tachenius, Otto, -approximately 1670

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Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826

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Lindley Murray was born at Harper Tavern, Pennsylvania, on 7 June 1745. His father, Robert Murray, a member of an old Quaker family, was one of the leading New York merchants. Murray was the eldest of twelve children, all of whom he survived, although he was puny and delicate in childhood. When six years old, he was sent to school in Philadelphia, but soon left to accompany his parents to North Carolina, where they lived until 1753. They then moved to New York, where Murray was sent to a good sc...

Boswell, James, 1740-1795

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James Boswell (1740-1795) was the author of one of the most influential biographies in the English language, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. He also wrote two successful travel books: An Account of Corsica, and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. He worked intermittently as a lawyer, and in 1782 succeeded his father as Laird of Auchinleck in Scotland. From the description of James Boswell letters, 1762-1795. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612839330 Boswell wa...

W. T. Harris

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Society of the Adelphi

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Ricketson, Daniel, 1813-1898

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Ricketson was a friend to Emerson, Thoreau and other Concord Transcendentalists. From the description of Correspondence to Miss Kenyon, 1879. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 183653388 ...

Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680

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English divine and psychical investigator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Henry More, at Cambridge, [1668?] Sept. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870879 English philosopher, born at Plymouth and educated at Oxford. In 1666, he published Philosophical Considerations Concerning the Existence of Sorcerers and Sorcery, which was based on the story of the drum alleged to have been heard every night in a house in Wiltshire (Tedworth, beloning to...

Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852

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Lowell, Anna Cabot Jackson, 1819-1874

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Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784

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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was one of the leading literary figures of eighteenth-century England. He is best remembered for compiling the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, published in 1755. Prominent among his diverse other works, he also wrote the satirical History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (1759), edited The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare (1765), and produced the important Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets (first collect...

Cohausen, Johann Heinrich, 1665-1750

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Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900

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American educator. From the description of Papers, 1832-1900. (Trinity College Library). WorldCat record id: 50031643 American educator; first US Commissioner of Education 1867-1870. Includes material from Gordon Ford. From the guide to the Henry Barnard letters, 1853, 1856, 1881, 1884, 1888, 1889, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American educationalist; born Hartford, Conn., January 24, 1811; died Hartford, Con...

Brown, Thomas, 1778-1820

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Medical doctor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to John James Ruskin, 1807 Feb. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756675939 ...

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699

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Jean Racine, playwright. From the description of Andromache : typescript, 1987, 26 February. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122456127 From the description of Berenice : tragedy : typescript, 1988, 4 November. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122580860 William Carpenter was born in Cornwall, and matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1753. He received his B.A. in 1757; his M.A. in 1759; and his B.D. and D.D. in 1772. Fr...

Aristotle. English. 1801. Taylor.

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Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827

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Helen Maria Williams was an English and French writer. From the description of Helen Maria Williams preface to a translation of Mr. Humboldt's Personal narrative etc., ca. 1814. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49014664 Epithet: authoress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x000332 ...

Wells, ...

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Casaubon, Méric, 1599-1671

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Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626

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Sir John Davies (1569-1626) was a lawyer and poet. Much admired for his poem, Nosce teipsum, Davies made his way into the court of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. He became solicitor-general for Ireland in 1603, and attorney general in 1606. From the description of [The question concerning impositions, tonnage, poundage, prizage, customs, &c., temp Jac. I] circa 1656. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702177426 John Davies was born in 1569. He became a barr...

Barrett, Jonathan Fay, 1817-1885

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Pindar. Eng. 1837. Wheelwright.

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Cicero. 1841. Nuttall.

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Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804

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Joseph Priestley was an English clergyman, political theorist, and physical scientist whose work contributed to advances in liberal political and religious thought and in experimental chemistry. He is best remembered for his contribution to the chemistry of gases. He relocated to Northumberland, Pa. From the description of Joseph Priestley papers, 1777-1835. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 53101438 Priestley and Vaughan, amongst others, founded...

Jode, Gérard de 1509-1591

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R. S. Edes-Bolton

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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...

Kirby, William, 1759-1850

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English entomologist. From the description of William Kirby letters to [James?] Sowerby, 1797-1809. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 123759061 ...

Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881

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English author and adventurer. From the description of Edward J. Trelawny collection, 1824-1890. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70925559 From the description of ALS : Lerici, Italy, to Lord Byron, Pisa, [1822 July 13]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122591848 Epithet: of Add MS 36461 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0000af ...

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 1712-1778.

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Miss Abby Deane

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Ménestrier, Claude-François, 1631-1705

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Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869

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English physician and scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Thomas Smith of Tetbury, 1819 Dec. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657072 ...

Berquin, M. (Arnaud), 1747-1791

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French author, especially of children's books. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Passy, to Madame Montreuil, 1785 May 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870315 ...

Percy, Sholto, 1788-1852

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Epithet: editor of the Mechanics' Magazine British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001302.0x00009a ...

Will, C.

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Banett., B. L.

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Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890

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Frederic Henry Hedge was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1805, the son of Levi Hedge, a professor of logic at Harvard, and Mary Kneeland Hedge, the granddaughter of Edward Holyoke, president of Harvard (1737-1769). After spending 4 years studying in Germany he attemded Harvard University starting in 1822 and graduated in 1825. He studied theology in the Divinity School in Cambridge and was ordained in 1829. He served as pastor in West Cambridge, Massachusetts; Bangor, Maine; Providence, Rhod...

Todd

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Epithet: Monk of Durham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000211.0x000001 ...

Roberts bros.

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Akenside, Mark, 1720-1770

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Mr. Doherty's

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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...

Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte, 1648-1717

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Mahaffy, J.P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919

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Classical scholar, philosopher, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. From the description of Autograph letters signed (18 including 1 postcard) : to Prof. William A. Knight, 1879-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270608004 ...

Ellis, Charles M. (Charles Mayo), 1818-1878

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Mr. Wm. J. Niles

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Thomson, James, 1700-1748

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Thomson was a Scottish poet and dramatist. From the guide to the Copyright documents, 1729-1750/1., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Myers and Co. From the description of Autograph letters signed (12) : to Miss Elizabeth Young, 1743 Mar. 10-1745 Nov. 4 [one undated]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572239 English poet and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to [William Cranstou...

Locke, John, 1632-1704

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Bills for general naturalization of groups of immigrants were proposed several times during the later Stuart period. Locke's paper most likely relates to a bill introduced in December 1693. From the description of For a generall naturalization : manuscript, 1693. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612887619 Philosopher. From the description of Letter of John Locke, 1698. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014952 English philosopher. From...

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

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A general outline of the life and works of the poet Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, can be found in the Dictionary of National Biography, but there are numerous biographical and critical evaluations if more detailed information is required From the guide to the Verse translation of Book III, metre 9 of Boethius's, De consolatione philosophiae, by Alexander Pope, ca.1703-1704, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) A general outline of the life and works of the poet Alexander Pope can ...

Law, William, 1688-1761

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Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864

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British poet. From the description of Kisses in former times : autograph mansucript copy of the poem signed : [Siena], 1860 July 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598966 Epithet: of Add MS 36513 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001298.0x000290 Walter Savage Landor was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and translator. From the description of Walter Savage Landor collection...

Keble, John, 1792-1866

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John Keble, Church of England clergyman and poet. From the description of John Keble manuscript material : 2 items, 1830-1859 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 502708787 English divine and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed; incomplete : Hursley, to an unidentified correspondent, "Whitsunday", 1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270487661 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hursley, to an unidentified lady, ...

Iamblichus Chalcidensis. Eng. 1818. Taylor.

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Roberts brothers

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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850

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British poet. From the description of Letters, 1827 Jan. 12-1836 Feb. 20. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315953362 Wordsworth, English poet. From the description of [Letters, 1826-1848] / Wm. Wordsworth. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 501844796 Wordsworth was an English poet. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1801-1853. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122372656 From the guide to the William Wordsw...

Pluche, Noël Antoine, 1688-1761

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Epithet: French writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000408.0x0001f2 ...

A. B. Alcott Esq

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Holloway, Benjamin

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Epithet: LL.B British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x0001d9 ...

Collins, W. Lucas (William Lucas), 1817-1887

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Donald Wing

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Grabern, Johann Georg.

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Newton, John Frank, 1766-1837

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John Frank Newton, English author and proponent of vegetarianism. From the guide to the John Frank Newton manuscript material : 2 items, 1817-1818, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: vegetarian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001390.0x0002e9 ...

Milton, John, 1608-1674

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English poet. From the description of Documents relating to Kensington mortgage, 1651-1700. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122475458 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x00012e John Milton (1608-1674), the poet. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography. From the guide to the English translat...

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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Robert Browning was a British poet. Born on May 7, 1812, Browning wrote his first major work,"Pauline: a fragment of a confession" at the age of twenty. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826 and with her encouragement went on to become one of the major Victorian poets. From the description of Robert Browning collection of papers, [1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615581 Browning was an English poet. From the descri...

Gertrude

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Plutarchus. Eng. 1821. Langhorne.

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Thomas Carlyle.

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Ocellus Lucanus. 1831. Taylor.

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Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758

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Thomas Prince (1687-1758) was a graduate of Harvard College, a clergyman, scholar, historian, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, Mass. from 1718 to 1758, and author of A Chronological History of New England, in the Form of Annals (1736). From the description of Thomas Prince letters, 1721-1738. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 660848206 From the guide to the Thomas Prince letters, 1721-1738, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke U...

Ovidius. Eng. 1826.

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Ramage, Crawford Tait, 1883-1878

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Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805

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Dramatist and poet. From the description of Friedrich Schiller collection, 1883-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980966 German poet and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letter signed "Sch." : Weimar, to W.G. Becker, 1804 Feb. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634316 From the description of Wilhelm Tell. Act I, Scene 4 : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript unsigned, [ca. 1804]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270635377 From the des...

Phi beta kappa

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Collegiate scholastic honor society founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. From the description of Phi Beta Kappa records, 1776-2006 (bulk 1900-2000). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983375 The national Phi Beta Kappa Society, America's oldest and most prestigious honor society, was founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Membership in the national society is a significant achievement, which honors excellen...

Scot, Reginald, 1538?-1599

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Tusser, Thomas, 1524?-1580

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Krüsi, Herm.

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Browne, William, 1590-approximately 1645

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Snider, Denton Jaques, 1841-1925

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Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm, 1762-1836

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Augustinus, Aurelius, saint, bp. of Hippo.

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Mr. Niles.

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Richardson, Nathaniel Smith, 1810-1883.

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American clergyman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Bridgeport, Conn., to Messrs. Harper, [1868 Jan. 9] and 1868 Nov. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617475 ...

Aristotle. English. 1813. Giles.

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Williams, Stephen W. (Stephen West), 1790-1855

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Tayler, W. Elfe (William Elfe)

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Tschiffely, Frederick D.

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Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696

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Bhagavad-gītāa. English. 1867. Wilkins.

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Hamilton, Lady Augusta.

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Robert Walpole

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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 ...

Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703

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La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680

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Eliz. Harris

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H. Hall.

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Plato. Eng. 1848-1854

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b. August 29, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt-d. March 22, 1832, Weimar) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, and natural scientist. He is often ranked with Shakespeare and Dante as one of the three most important poets in history. Goethe gained early fame with The Sorrows of Young Werther, published in 1774, but his most famous work is Faust, a poetic drama in two parts....

Phillips, Henry, 1775-1838

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Wilhelm Meister's

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Wither, George, 1588-1667

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Poet. From the description of Justicarius Justificatus : contemporary manuscript copy of his libellous pamphlet againt Sir Richard Onslow, published in 1646, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270589214 ...

Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1682-1772

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Sholto Percy

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Vaughan, Robert Alfred, 1823-1857

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S. M. Fuller.

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Diogenes Laërtius. Eng. 1853. Yonge.

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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

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Prolific poet, Florentine exile, and advocate of the Italian vernacular's destined role in the diffusion of literature, philosophy, and political thought. Dante's Divine Comedy proves its importance as a testimony to the beliefs, customs, and the contemporary experience of the late medieval period whose sense of vision prefigures the first signs of Renaissance civilization. This collection original works, criticial works, and memorabilia remains the largest of its kind outside of Italy (Enciclop...

Cooke, George Willis, 1848-1923

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Patmore, Coventry, 1823-1896

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Coventry Patmore was a British poet. He was appointed assistant in the printed book department of the British Museum in November 1846 and retired some time after 1865. From the description of Coventry Patmore letters and photograph, 1842-1865. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 38273331 English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to William Makepeace Thackeray, 1863 Mar. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 27...

Aesopus. English. 1797.

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Call, Wathen Mark Wilks, 1817-1890

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x000035 ...

Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus, emperor of Rome. 1747.

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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 ...

Berkeley, George, bp. of Cloyne, 1685-1753

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Lane, Charles R.

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Epithet: Hon Treasurer Hindhead Congregational Church British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x00028e Biographical/Historical Note American journalist. From the guide to the Charles Lane papers, 1986-1997, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Morris, Bessie C.

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Goodwin, Nathaniel, 1782-1855

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Sir Eldred of the bower.. .

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Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536

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doctor Everard.

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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 ...

Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 1746-1827

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Lacy, John, 1664-

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Burton, Robert, 1577-1640

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Brown, Leonard, 1837-1914

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Poet, educator, socialist crusader. Leonard Brown came to Iowa in 1853 at the age of 13. Due in large part to a mentor, John Anson Nash, he was able to secure an education. Despite his education Brown struggled financially throughout his life, working on and off as a blacksmith and as a teacher in Iowa's rural schools. Brown was an ardent spokesman for social and economic equality, rights for Black Americans and Indians, the temperance movement, and improvements in education. He was equally as p...

Dana, Charles A.

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H. D. Thoreau.

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Randolph, Thomas, 1605-1635

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Wesley, John, 1703-1791

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John Wesley, evangelist and founder of Methodism, was born 17 June 1703, in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England, and died 2 March 1791, in London, England. He was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford (1724); was ordained a deacon in the Church of England (1725); and was elected a fellow of Lincoln College (1726). He eventually embarked upon a new ministry, along with his brother, Charles (b. 1707), which resulted in their separation from the Anglican church; they and other "Methodists" served as...

Krummacher, Frederic Adolphus, 1767-1845

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Gill, William Fearing, 1844-1917

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de Jode.

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Emerson, Ellen Tucker

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Burman, Pieter, 1668-1741

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Dutch classical scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Leyden, to an unnamed correspondent, 1729 Jan. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270520614 ...

Reed, Sampson, 1800-1880

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W. Michelson

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Heraud, John A. (John Abraham), 1799-1887

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Epithet: Dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000447.0x00005e Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x000276 Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000447.0x00005f ...

Hoare, Mrs. Louisa (Gurney)

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Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658

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Protector. From the description of Letter signed "Oliver P" : Westminster, to Colonel Underwood, 1657 Feb. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270537898 Epithet: Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000357.0x0002c4 Army officer, Puritan, and statesman of Great Britain. From the description of Oliver Cromwell papers, 1874. (Unknown). World...

Greaves

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Drake, Lawrence

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Lee, Eliza Buckminster, 1794-1864

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Eliza Buckminster Lee was born in New Hampshire and gained a classical education and appreciation for literature from her father, Rev. Joseph Buckminster. She lived most of her life in the Boston area, achieving success as both a writer and translator. From the description of Eliza Buckminster Lee letter to James Munroe & Co., 1846 Jan. 14. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51262672 American author. From the description of Letter ...

Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142

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Epithet: philosopher, poet, musician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x00019a ...

Taylor, Thomas, 1758-1835

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Whitlaw, Charles

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Cottin, Madame (Sophie), 1770-1807

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Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 1795-1854

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English judge and author, friend and executor of Charles Lamb. From the description of ALS : London, to Andrew Willis, 1847 Aug. 30. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122690123 Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854) was an English judge and author. From the description of Letters to Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, 1835-1844 (bulk 1835-1836). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122396791 English j...

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the aboli...

Allcock, John

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James Redpath.

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Giles, Fletcher

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Colquhoun, John C. (John Campbell), 1803-1870

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000156 ...

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 ...

Russell, William, 1798-1873

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Lemprière, John, 1765?-1824

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English classical scholar. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Exeter, to Cadell and Davies, 1816 July 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270595760 ...

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. English. 1688. L'Estrange.

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Noyes, Rufus King, 1853-

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Bailey, Philip James, 1816-1902

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F. B. Sanborn.

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Swinton, William, 1833-1892

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Journalist and author. From the description of Papers, [18--] (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40093301 American war correspondent and journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to an unidentified correspondent, 1866 May 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575196 Born near Edinburgh; author, educator (English professor at University of California, 1869-1874), and correspondent (during Civil War and on staff at...

Edward Taylor.. .

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Ellen S. Hooper.

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W. H. Channing

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Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of, 1517?-1547

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John A. Heraud's

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Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665

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Epithet: of Add MS 38175 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000440.0x0000bc ...

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...

Barry, Mrs. William.

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Sophia Thoreau.

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Harris, James, 1709-1780

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James Harris, English philosopher and musical patron. He is best remembered for his Hermes, or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar (1751). From the description of James Harris manuscript material : 2 items, 1743-1765 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 300092941 ...

Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886

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American essayist and critic. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Boston, to Harper and Brothers, 1858 Mar. 5 and 18-1878 Apr. 1 and 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588778 Edwin Percy Whipple was an influential 19th century American literary critic and lecturer. A prolific reader, he worked at several disparate jobs while publishing critical essays in diverse periodicals. He gained the reputation as one of the most important young critics of his gener...

Dacier, André, 1651-1722

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Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800

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Shepherd, Richard Herne, 1775-1850

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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 ...

More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535

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Epithet: of Seal CLXVIII British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000069 Epithet: MD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x000059 English saint, lord chancellor and author. From the description of Autograph signature on a lease : London, [1523] June 1, XV year of the reign of Henry VIII. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

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...

De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859

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Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0002d6 De Quincey was an English essayist and critic. From the description of Compositions, 1818-185-. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80714484 From the guide to the Compositions, 1818-185-?., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) English Romantic author Thomas De Quincey was a brilliant cl...

Taylor, Jeremy, bp. of Down and Connor, 1613-1667

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Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649

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Hesiodus. Eng. 1740. Cooke.

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Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1561-1626, English philosopher, statesman and essayist best known for theories on scientific experimentation; knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and created Viscount St Alban in 1621; Lord Chancellor, 1618; died 1626. From the guide to the A Coppy of a letter Conceived to bee writt to the late Duke of Buckingham..., c1650-1700, (Senate House Library, University of London) ...

Hervey, James, 1714-1758

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James Hervey (1714-1758) was born and brought up in Northamptonshire where his father was a village clergyman. He entered Lincoln College, Oxford at the age of 18 and graduated with a B.A. in 1736 after a not very distinguished career. Following several minor clerical appointments in 1740 he became the curate of Bideford, North Devon, where he started work on the drafts of his famous Meditations and Reflections . The latter works appeared in 1745-1746, to be followed in 1747 by his Contemplation...

Edel

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Forster, Thomas

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Epithet: General; Jacobite British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x0000f4 Epithet: Marshal of Berwick British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x00010a ...

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688

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Clergyman and author. From the description of Warrant of John Bunyan, 1674. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452264 Epithet: of Egerton MS 2414 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000875.0x0002cf ...

Freeman, James, 1759-1835

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Benson, Eugene, 1837-

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Greenwood, James, d. 1737

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John Pierpont

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Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826

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Congregational clergyman and geographer of Connecticut and Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1783-1826. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770513 From the description of Account book, 1816-1820. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58770209 Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), a Congregational clergyman, was known as "the father of geography". His lectures on geography included Geography Made Easy (1784), the fir...

Theocritus. Eng. 1853. Banks.

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Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782

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Concord school of philosophy

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Educational institution. The Concord Summer School of Philosophy was founded in 1879. It offered lectures on a variety of subjects over the course of several weeks. Officers included A. Bronson Alcott, F. B. Sanborn and S. H. Emery. From the description of Concord School of Philosophy Collection, 1824-1903. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 35823601 ...

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic, and philosopher. From the description of Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 36 items, 1792-1832 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122919490 From the guide to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript material : 37 items, 1792-1832, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: poet and philosopher British Library Archives and Manuscript...

Redpath, James, 1833-1891

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Journalist, educator, and abolitionist. From the description of Papers of James Redpath, 1861 [microform] (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 173183825 From the description of Papers of James Redpath, 1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455130 American journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Henry C. Bowen, 1871 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616506 James Redpath was a journalist and acti...

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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Scottish historian and social critic considered the most important philosophical moralist of the early Victorian age. From the description of Letter, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461042 Scottish essayist and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gt. Malvern, to Robert Browning, 1851 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133400 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to William Tait, 1834 S...

Varro. Eng. 1800. Owen.

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Wallace, William, 1844-1897

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Philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (7) : to Prof. Knight, 1881-1892. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270586413 ...

Carové, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1789-1852

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author. From the description of Nathaniel Hawthorne manuscript material : 1 item, ca. 1853-1857 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 301761440 American author, writer of romances, stories, and juvenile works. Born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass.; died May, 1864, in Plymouth, N.H. Sometime resident of Concord, Mass. Graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. Hawthorne's association with the Boston publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields began ...

Laurence, ...

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Epithet: Frater; Minister of St. Michael, Wall Knoll, Newcastle-upon-Tyne British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000133.0x000061 Epithet: the Tuscan British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000133.0x000064 Epithet: Prior of Durham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : ...

Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650

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Janet Gertrude (Nettie) Palmer, writer and critic was committed to the development of a national Australian literature,.but she also wrote widely on world literature, based on her international education and knowledge. In 1925, she and her husband Vance, moved to Caloundra, Queensland, and in 1932, they camped for 8 months on Green Island. From the description of 27338 Phineas Fletcher Poem, 1930-1939. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 755779827 ...

N. Seaver

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Reuben Percy

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Atwater, Edward E. (Edward Elias), 1816-1887

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Christopher Marlowe.. .

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Geo. H. Harrison.

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Clara Bell.. .

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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. ...

Harris, William T.

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Evelyn, John, 1620-1706

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Evelyn was an English diarist. From the description of Papers, 1650-1704. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122613646 From the guide to the Papers, 1650-1704., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) English diarist. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : [n.p.], to [Thomas Tension], 1680 Nov. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531563 From the description of Autograph signature cut from ...

Hugo, Herman, 1568-1629

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Plutarchus. Eng. 1694.

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Lees, Frederic Richard, 1815-1897

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Horatius. Eng. 1779. Francis.

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Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius ˜vanœ 1614-1699

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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was at the center of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. Although she wrote and published many works, she is best remembered for her support and friendship of Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and many others. She published the journal Dial, founded the famous West Street Book Shop and Publishing House, and introduced kindergarten to America. From the description of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters, 1846-1854. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546

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German religious reformer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wittenberg, to Wolfgang Fabricius, 1524 [May 25]. (Morgan Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 81019871 Ottensassen, Burgermeister of Hersfeld, was held in bonds along with Heinrich Reiz in Spangenberg after the capture of Hersfeld. They were released but not allowed to return to Hersfeld. From the description of Letter : to Hans von Ottensassen, 1527 [Feb 5]. (Harvard University)....

Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, St. Johns [College], to his uncle, Sir William Herrick, ca. 1615/16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270472202 Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000270 ...

col. Samuel Stone.. .

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Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917

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Author and journalist. From the description of F.B. Sanborn correspondence and essays, 1852-1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84163242 Massachusetts journalist. From the description of Song / words by Mr. F.B. Sanborn, music a part of Brignal Banks. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 62350218 American journalist and reformer. From the description of Letter, 1889 March 21, Concord, Mass., to E.D. Walker, New York. (Boston Athenaeum). W...

Winthrop, John, 1588-1649

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Governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Description of John Winthrop, 1631 March 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067142 John Winthrop (1588-1649), a Puritan lawyer, one of the founders and the governor of the colony of Massachusetts. In March 1630, Winthrop began his journal that he kept until January 1649. By the early 1640s, the entries became more irregular and retrospective, and the narrative was more of a history than a personal journal. There were three ...

Owen, John, 1766-1822

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O. W. Holmes

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Godwin, Thomas, d. 1642

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Wm. Arthur Ely.

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J. S. Dwight

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Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877

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Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790

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Poet laureate. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to an unidentified recipient, 1785 Mar. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659694 Poet laureate, and historian of English poetry. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Winchester, Winton, and Oxford, to Benjamin Forster, 1785 May 20-Dec. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270659685 ...

John Milton.. .

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Mr. Emerson's Family.

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Schmid, Christoph ˜vonœ 1768-1854

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Geo. B. Emerson

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Armstrong, John, 1709-1779

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English physician and essayist. From the description of John Armstrong papers, 1775, [1779], and undated, to Mrs. Coutts. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31389253 ...

Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852

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Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer. Moore was a friend and acquaintance of many of the English Romantics, including Lord Byron. He met Mary Shelley in the late 1820s, while researching his biography of Byron. From the description of Thomas Moore manuscript material : 220 items, 1811-1846 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 76835859 Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer. From the guide to the Thomas Moore manuscript material : 254 items, 1811-1846, (...

Matéaux, Clara L.

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Vergilius. Eng. 1850. Davidson.

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Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860

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Anna Brownell Jameson, née Murphy, British writer and art historian. From the description of Anna Jameson manuscript material : 2 items, 1838-1850's? (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 437139681 Irish writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mrs. [John] Austin, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269528745 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Paris and Orléans, to Lady Noel Byron, ...

John Oxenford.. .

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Milner, John, 1628-1702

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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 ...

Green, John Richard, 1837-1883

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English historian. From the description of Letter : Capri, to H.R. Haweis, London, 1873 March 22. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 316062282 ...

Thomas Bourne.

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Foster, John, 1770-1843

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Forfex

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William Cowper.. .

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Ferdinando Gorge.

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Langhorne, John, 1735-1779

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Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris de

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Cary, John, 1754(ca.)-1835.

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Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert,‏ baron, 1583-1648‏

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Homerus. Eng. 1808. Pope.

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Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788

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Osmun, Thomas Embley, 1826? -1902

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Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902

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Attorney. From the description of Letters, 1858-1881. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 13549063 Soldier who served in Co. G 144th O.V.I. during the Civil War. From the description of Letter 1864 August 5. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 47003250 American author and lawyer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Yonkers, to John Foord of Harper and Brothers, 1890 Dec. 28. (Unknown). WorldC...

Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard, 1821-1873

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Tuckerman was a poet of Greenfield, Mass. From the description of Compositions, 1830-1872. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 80523677 From the description of Correspondence, 1833-1873. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122402854 From the guide to the Compositions, 1830-1872., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) From the guide to the Frederick Goddard Tuckerman correspondence, 1833-1873., (Houghton Library, Harvard...

Fox, William Johnson

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Epithet: MP, Unitarian minister British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000698.0x0002a3 Epithet: Reverend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x00032f ...

Very, Jones, 1813-1880

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Very was a transcendentalist poet and essayist. From the description of Sermons, 1843-1868. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365530 Very was a Transcendentalist poet and essayist. From the description of Jones Very poems and essays, 1840-1880. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612870024 American poet and preacher. From the description of Nature : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1839 or later]. (Unknown). Wor...

Plat, Eng.

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Dr. Heldenmaier.

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Pratt, Frederick A., 1828-1880

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Dyer, George, 1755-1841

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George Dyer, English author and advocate of political reform. He wrote several works in the interest of England's poor, and counted many notable literary figures among his social circle, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Godwin, and Southey. From the description of George Dyer manuscript material : 17 items, 1792-1824 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 174137726 Epithet: of Add MS 36806 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Desc...

William Winthrop.

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Blake, H. G. O.

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Boehme, Jakob, 1575-1624

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Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535

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Margaret Swan Cheney.

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Starkey, George, d. 1666

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Bellini, Vincenzo

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Music by V. Bellini, Italian libretto by F. Romani after Carlo Tedaldi-Fores's play Beatrice di Tenda; opera first performed in Venice at the Teatro La Fenice, 16 March 1833. Cf. New Grove online. From the description of Cavatine für eine Bassstimme aus der Oper Beatrice di Tenda : mit Piano Forte Begleitung : manuscript, [185-?] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 671538604 Italian composer. From the description of Autograph letter (incomplete), dated : [...

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878

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William Hazlitt.. .

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Cudworth, Ralph, 1617-1688

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Dodd, Stephen, 1777-1856

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Coleridge, Mrs. Sara (Coleridge), 1862-1852

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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 ...

John Sullivan Dwight

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Killikelly, Sarah H.

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Hasta

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Worthington, Erastus, jr.

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Spence, Thomas, 1750-1814

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Epithet: of Add MS 32688 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001392.0x0003ba Epithet: of Egerton Ch 7487 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001392.0x0003bc Epithet: of Manchester, bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001392.0x0003bd Epithet: o...

Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550

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Italian jurist; author of Emblemata. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bourges, to the printer Christian Wechel in Paris, 1533 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131570 ...

Geo. Conners

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Caird, Edward, 1835-1908

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Scottish philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (54) : Glasgow, Oxford, etc., to W.A. Knight, 1875 July 20-1904 Jan. 4 and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270134468 ...

N. Tate.. .

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Guthrie, William, 1708-1770

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Cicero, English. 1681. L'Estrange.

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Morgan, John Minter, 1782-1854

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Epithet: philanthropist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x00016f Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000754.0x00016d ...

Barham, Francis Foster, 1808-1871

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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. ...

Emerson, George B. (George Barrell), 1797-1881

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American educator. From the description of Letter, 1839 June 20, Boston, to N.I. Bowditch, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166330238 Educator and pioneer of women's education. Cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. From the description of George Barrell Emerson letters [manuscript], 1851-1866. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191118233 ...

Ramsey, Andrew Michael, 1686-1743

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Lord Bacon.. .

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John Darby

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Wedgwood, Hensleigh, 1803-1891

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Norris, John, 1657-1711

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Xenophon. Eng. 1788. Fielding.

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Henry Barnard.

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May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871

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Samuel May was a Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to anti-Slavery, temperance, and suffrage, among others. From the description of Samuel J. May diary, 1867. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64691611 Samuel May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to Freedman's Relief, Temperance, and Suffrage, among others. From the descripti...

D. H. Thoreau

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Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe, 1651-1715

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Archbishop of Cambray. From the description of Autograph letter : place not specified, to the Duc de Beauvilliers, [169-?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531629 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambray, to Father Le Tellier, confessor to the King, 1714 May 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517449 From the description of Autograph letter : place not specified, to the Duc de Beauvilliers, 1703 Feb. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270531656 ...

Francis Bacon.. .

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Plato. Eng. 1868.

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Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864

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British poet. From the description of Kisses in former times : autograph mansucript copy of the poem signed : [Siena], 1860 July 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598966 Epithet: of Add MS 36513 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001298.0x000290 Walter Savage Landor was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and translator. From the description of Walter Savage Landor collection...

Maria S. Porter.

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Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801

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German author and physiognomist. From the description of Vermischte physiognomische Regeln : Manuscript fuer Freunde, 1789. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497464 From the guide to the Vermischte physiognomische Regeln : Manuscript fuer Freunde, 1789, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Swiss physiognomist. From the description of Letter, 1781, Mar. 16 : Zürich. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35130848 Swiss scholar. From th...

T. B. Janson and co.

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Paracelsus

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German physician, born Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim. From the description of De tartaro et eius origine in corpore humano, et quod ex eo podagra, calculi in renibus et vesica et quamplurime aliae aegritudines oriu[n]tur : ms., [between 1561 and 1572]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122442930 ...

Waterville College

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Rapin, René, 1621-1687

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Epictetus. Eng. 1721. Stanhope.

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Fraser, Alexander Campbell, 1819-1914

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Philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (30) : to Prof. Knight, 1879-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270751486 ...

Livermore, Abiel Abbot, 1811-1892

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Abiel Abbot Livermore (1811-1892) graduated from Harvard College in 1833 and the Cambridge Divinity School in 1836. Ordained in 1836 to the Congregational Church of Keene, New Hampshire, Rev. Livermore also served parishes in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Yonkers, New York. He was the president of Meadville Theological School ( Pennsylvania) from 1863 to 1890, and also served as the publisher of the Christian Inquirer from 1856 to 1863. He published a multivolume commentary on the New Testament between ...

Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894

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Distinguished historian James Anthony Froude was born at Dartington rectory, Devon, in 1818. He was the brother of William Froude (1810-1879), engineer and naval architect, and of Richard Hurrell Froude (1803-1836), divine. The younger Froude was educated at Westminster School from 1830, and then privately in the village of Merton. He studied at Oriel College, Oxford, from 1835, and graduated B.A. in 1842, and took his M.A. in 1843. After briefly writing on the life of St. Neot for the Lives of ...

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814

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Hone, William, 1780-1842

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English publisher and antiquary. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to William Howitt, 1826 Feb. 5-1826 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269527023 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Ludgate Hill, 1824 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269530121 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Islington, to Walter Wilson, 1829 Sept. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269526852 From the description of Autogr...

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909

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British poet. From the description of The descent into hell [manuscript poem], 1873 Jan. 9. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41416044 From the description of Autograph quotation, [ca. 1890?]. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315968127 Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English lyric poet, dramatist, and critic of the Victorian era. He was famous for the innovative versification of his poetry and infamous for his violent attacks on Victorian morality. ...

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859

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English essayist and poet. From the description of [Letters] / Leigh Hunt. [1848-1856] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 234302986 From the description of Criticism on female beauty : notes, ca. 1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510755 Leigh Hunt moved from Chelsea to Kensington in 1840. From the description of Leigh Hunt, letter : Kensington, England : Autograph note signed, [1840?] Nov. 22. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record...

Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876

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Redelius, Augustinus Casimirus

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Maggie W. Luckens.

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Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860.

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Unitarian minister and reformer. From the description of Letter, 1850 Nov. 5, Boston, to Charles Mason. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 170925855 Rev. Theodore Parker (1810-1860), Unitarian minister, social reformer, and publicist, was born in Lexington, Mass., a grandson of Captain John Parker (1729-1775) of Revolutionary fame. Parker graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1836, became minister of West Roxbury, and proceeded to develop his theological and social ...

Frederic Wolsey Pratt

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[Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.]

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English non conformist theologian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to his brother (Enoch?), 1731 Dec. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661040 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Daniel Gerdes, 1745/6 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661048 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to his brother Enoch, 1731 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661031 Minister and hymn writer. ...

Pordage, Samuel, 1633-1691?

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Epithet: of Lincoln's Inn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000491.0x0001ce ...

Chambaud, Louis, d. 1776

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Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 1832-1916

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Stopford Augustus Brooke, British preacher and writer. His sermons reflected his liberal Christianity and social commitment. Brooke was also a lecturer and a literary critic. His English Literature (1876) is a primer which covers the work of literary figures from Caedmon to Shelley. From the guide to the Stopford A. Brooke manuscript material : 1 item, 1886, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) British clergyman and literar...