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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (b. June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut – d. July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American abolitionist and author. She is the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher who preached against slavery. She is best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. It became an instant and controversial best-seller, both in the United States and abroad. The novel had a major impact on Northerners' attitudes toward slavery and by the beginning of the Civil War had sold more than a million copi...
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
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James Laughlin was an American publisher and poet, and founder of the New Directions press. The son of a steel manufacturer, Laughlin attended Choate School in Connecticut and Harvard University (B.A., 1939). In the mid-1930s Laughlin lived in Italy with Ezra Pound, a major influence on his life and work; returning to the United States, he founded New Directions in 1936. Initially he intended to publish writings by ignored yet influential avant-garde writers of the period; Pound’s The Cantos ...
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
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Wilbur Wright, born April 16, 1867 in Indiana, and his brother, Orville, were inventors of the airplane. The brothers were in the printing and bicycle business in Dayton before they became interested in solving the problems of powered flight. After a series of kite and glider experiments at Kitty Hawk, N.C., the brothers built and successfully flew the first heavier-than-air powered machine on Dec. 17, 1903. The Wrights spent the next years improving their invention and in 1909, formed a company...
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac, Auvergne, in 1757, to an old, illustrious family of the provincial and military nobility. He lost both his parents early: his father was killed by the British at the Battle of Minden when Lafayette was two years old (1759), and when he was thirteen and attending the prestigious Collège de Plessis in Paris both his mother and grandfather died (1770). The latter's death left Lafayette with a si...
Laurens, John, 1754-1782
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John Laurens was American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War. Son of the prominent merchant and planter Henry Laurens; best known for his criticism of slavery and his efforts to help recruit slaves to fight for their freedom as U.S. soldiers. He was killed in a skirmish on the Combahee River on August 27, 1782. ...
Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804
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Philip John Schuyler (November 20 [O.S. November 9] 1733 – November 18, 1804) was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a United States Senator from New York. He is usually known as Philip Schuyler, while his son is usually known as Philip J. Schuyler. Born in Albany, Province of New York, into the prosperous Schuyler family, Schuyler fought in the French and Indian War. He won election to the New York General Assembly in 1768 and to the Continental Congress in 1775. He planned the...
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
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George III was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George's long life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Furt...
Field, William Bradhurst Osgood, 1870-1949
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William Bradhurst Osgood Field (1870-1949) was a landowner, collector and philanthropist from a New York family. He was the son of William Hazard Field and Augusta Currie Bradhurst Field, and the nephew of Osgood Field, a society figure in London and Rome. William's sister, Mary Pearsall Field, was also a socialite.In 1902 he married Lila Vanderbilt Sloane Field, the great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt. They divided their time between their three family properties, 645 Fifth Avenue in Ma...
Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 1882-1966
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Epithet: American photographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x00002a Photographer; New York, N.Y. From the description of [Alfred Stieglitz] / [graphic] Alvin Langdon Coburn. [ca. 1907] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220205528 ...
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022
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Elizabeth II (April 21, 1926, London, England - September 8, 2022, Balmoral Castle, Scotland) was Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand since February 1952. Additionally, she is Head of the Commonwealth and queen of 12 countries that have become independent since her accession: Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Eliza...
Little, Brown and Company, 1932, 1966, 1978
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Fearing, Daniel B. (Daniel Butler), 1859-1918
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Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, Rhode Island, was a member of the Grolier Club from 1887 until his death in 1918. From the description of Collection of Japanese and Chinese imprints, [ca. 1800-1900]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122592404 Fearing was a book collector from Newport, Rhode Island. From the guide to the Daniel B. Fearing logbook collection, 1816-1882., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Daniel B. Fearing ...
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
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Felix Mendelssohn, composer of the early Romantic period. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio St. Paul, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, the mature Violin Concerto and the String Octet. A grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a prominent Jewish family. He was brought up without religion until the age of seven, when he was bapt...
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823
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John Philip Kemble (1 February 1757 – 26 February 1823) was a British actor. He was born into a theatrical family as the eldest son of Roger Kemble, actor-manager of a touring troupe. His elder sister Sarah Siddons achieved fame with him on the stage of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. His other siblings, Charles Kemble, Stephen Kemble, Ann Hatton, and Elizabeth Whitlock, also enjoyed success on the stage. He was manager of the Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres in London, where his reforms ...
Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856
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Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry set to music by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. He is considered a member of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities—which, however, only added to his fame. He spent the last 25 years of his life as...
Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825
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Henry Fuseli was a Swiss painter who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works deal with supernatural subject matter. His style had a considerable influence on many younger British artists, including William Blake....
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38, eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. This daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, became an accomp...
Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832
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Charles Carroll (September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832), known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III, was an Irish-American politician, planter, slaveholder, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was the last surviving person to sign the Declaration of Independence, dying 56 years after signing the document, in addition to being the only Catholic signatory. Considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Carroll was known contemporaneously as the...
Plater, George, 1735-1792
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George Plater III (November 8, 1735 – February 10, 1792) was an American planter, lawyer, and statesman from Saint Mary's County, Maryland. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1780, and briefly served as the sixth Governor of Maryland from November 1791 until his death. Born at Sotterley, his family's plantation near Saint Mary's County in the Colony of Maryland, Plater received his early schooling at home before attending the College of William and Mary in Willia...
Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821
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Elias Boudinot (May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and served as President of Congress from 1782 to 1783. He was elected as a U.S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War. He was appointed by President George Washington as Director of the United States Mint, serving from 1795 until 1805. Born in Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, Boudinot received a classica...
Jay, John, 1745-1829
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John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, Founding Father, abolitionist, negotiator, and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783. He served as the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States. He directed U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an important leader of the Federalist Party after the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. Jay was born into a wealthy family of merchants and...
Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
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Painter; Dublin, New Hampshire. From the description of Abbott Handerson Thayer papers, 1861-1936 [microform]. 1962. (Defense Special Weapons Agency). WorldCat record id: 79732064 American painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dublin, N.H., to Mr. Clark, [no year] Jun. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571900 Artist Abbott Handerson Thayer was born in Boston and raised in rural New Hampshire, where he became an avid outdoorsman a...
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
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Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general. As a scientist, he was a major figure in ...
Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803
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Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. Adams was b...
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
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John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term John Hancock or Hancock has become a nickname in the United S...
Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984
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Philip Hofer (1898-1984) was a librarian, book collector, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library at Harvard University. Hofer graduated from Harvard College and spent a few years in business. He began collecting a wide variety of printed books in 1917. By 1933 he focused on illustrated and decorated books, thus entering into a serious study of book arts. He served as curator of the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library, and in...
Patti, Adelina, 1843-1919
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Adelina Patti was one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the 19th century. From the description of Adelina Patti letters, 1889-1891. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 269476576 Spanish-born soprano trained in New York City; by 1861 Adelina Patti was the leading operatic prima donna. In 1886 she married tenor Ernest Nicolini, who had sung opposite her in La traviata at her castle in Wales. He died in 1898. From the description of ALS, Yst...
United States. Army of the Potomac. Corps, 6th (1862-1865)
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Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893
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Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre. In 1834, Kemble married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Mease Butler, grandson of U.S. Senator Pierce Butler, whom she had met on an American acting tour with her father in 1832....
Curtis, George William, 1824-1892
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George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. A Republican, he spoke in favor of African-American equality and civil rights. Curtis, the son of George and Mary Elizabeth (Burrill) Curtis, was born in Providence on February 24, 1824. His mother died when he was two. At six he was sent with his elder brother to school in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, where he remained for fi...
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...
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English author and poet. His best-known works include the novels and short story collections The Jungle Book (1894), Just So Stories (1902), Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), and Kim (1901), as well as a number of poems such as "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If-" (1910). Kipling was born in Bombay, India, into an artistic family: his father was a sculptor, pottery designer, and professor of architectural sculpture and tw...
Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933
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American essayist. From the description of Essay, 1915 May 25, London, on Stilton cheese. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166330051 Writer on subjects of moral philosophy, ancient Greek literature, and events of historical and social significance. From the description of Letters, 1922-1934, bulk 1927-1928, to Henry Chester Tracy. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 12486594 John Jay Chapman was an American essayist, poet, playwright,...
Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941
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George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860 – July 23, 1941) was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also involved in American folklore studies and was instrumental in the formation and management of the Harvard University Press. One of his better-known books concerned witchcraft in England. Kittredge was born in Boston in 1860. His father, Edward "Kit" Lyman Kittredg...
Aldrich, Talbot Bailey, 1868-1957
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Son of Thomas Bailey Aldrich who was a New Hampshire-born author and poet. His mother was Mary Elizabeth "Lillian" Woodman....
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...
Heard, Augustine, 1785-1868
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Augustine Heard (March 30, 1785 – September 14, 1868) was an American entrepreneur, businessman and trader, and founder of the Augustine Heard & Co. firm in China. Augustine Heard was born into a wealthy merchant family of Ipswich, Massachusetts. His father, John Heard (1744-1834), had made his fortune by trading with the West Indies, and his half-brother Daniel (1778-1801) also worked in foreign trade with the West Indies and China. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, Augus...
Ward, Anna Hazard Barker, 1813-1900
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The courtship of Anna Barker and Samuel Ward has been immortalized by the author Eleanor M Tilton in her article titled "The True Romance of Anna Hazard Barker and Samuel Grey Ward", published in the journal Studies in the American Renaissance in 1987. Anna and Samuel had at least 4 children: Anna Barker Ward who married Joseph Thoron, Lydia Gray Ward who married Richard Von Hoffman, Thomas Wren Ward who married Sophia Read Howard, and Elizabeth Barker Ward who married Ernst Augustus Shoenber...
Parsons, Thomas William, 1819-1892
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Thomas William Parsons (August 18, 1819, Boston – September 3, 1892, Scituate, Massachusetts) was an American dentist and poet. Parsons was educated at the Boston Latin School, and visited Italy to study Italian literature in 1836-7. His translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, which eventually comprised all the Inferno, two-thirds of the Purgatorio and fragments of the Paradiso, began to appear in 1843. After practicing dentistry in Boston, he lived for several years in England before returning...
Ward, Samuel Gray, 1817-1907
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Samuel Gray Ward (October 3, 1817 – November 17, 1907) was an American poet, author, and minor member of the Transcendentalism movement. He was also a banker and a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among his circle of contemporaries were poets and writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller who were deeply disappointed when Ward gave up a career in writing for business just before he married. Ward was born on October 3, 1817 in Portland, Maine. He was the son of Lydia ...
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
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Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...
Alcott, A. Bronson (Amos Bronson), 1799-1888
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Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a plant-based diet. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights. Born in Wolcott, Connecticut in 1799, Alcott had only minimal formal schooling bef...
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
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William Cullen Bryant (b. November 3, 1794, Cummington, Massachusetts-d. June 12, 1878, New York, New York), American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post....
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
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Anti-slavery advocate. From the description of Circular and letter, 1848 Jan. 21, Boston, to Rev. Mr. Russell, South Hingham. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 231311718 Abolitionist and reformer William Lloyd Garrison was founder of the Boston abolitionist paper, The Liberator, and the New England Anti-Slavery Society. From the description of Papers, 1835-1873 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007257 Abolitionist and lectur...
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...
Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
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George Bancroft was an American historian and statesman, and an active promoter of secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. As U. S. Secretary of the Navy under James K. Polk, Bancroft established the Naval Academy at Annapolis and later served as U.S. Minister to Great Britain (1846-1849), Prussia (1867-1871), and the German Empire (1871-1874). He is best remembered however for his 10-volume History of the United States, a work which fellow historian Leop...
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898
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William Ewart Gladstone, prime minister and author, was born in Liverpool, on Dec. 29, 1809; the fifth child and youngest son of Sir John Gladstone and Anne Mackenzie Gladstone. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, in preparation for a future in the British political world. He married Catherine Glynne, whom he met in Rome, in 1839, and together they had eight children. Gladstone was first elected to Parliament in January 1833, and over the next sixty years was involved i...
Rockhill, Edward Augustus, 1824-1876
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Rockhill, William Woodville, 1854-1914
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Rockhill was an American scholar-diplomat known especially as the first Westerner to befriend and advise a Dalai Lama of Tibet. He was U.S. Minister to Greece, Romania, Serbia, China, Russia, and Turkey. From the guide to the William Woodville Rockhill papers, 1826-1941., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929
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(William) Bliss Carman (1861-1929) was a Canadian poet and editor. Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he studied at the universities of New Brunswick and Harvard. He is usually grouped with the Confederation Poets, who developed a distinctively Canadian poetic voice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Yet this identification with the Confederation group is somewhat misleading as Carman spent much of his life in New England and many readers assumed that he was American. Carman ed...
Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940
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California poet. Raised near Vacaville, became a schoolteacher in Coloma and later in Oakland. Became famous overnight with publication of "The Man with a Hoe," his protest against brutalization of labor, in "San Francisco Examiner" (January 15, 1899). Following this success Markham moved to New York where he scored another triumph with "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901). He became a well-known reader of his own poems and lecturer of idealistic views, but his creative output for remainder of life ...
Napoléon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
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Napoleon Bonaparte was a general of the French Revolution (1789-1799); the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic from November 11, 1799, to May 18, 1804; Emperor of the French and King of Italy under the name Napoleon I from May 18,1804, to April 6,1814; and briefly restored as Emperor from March 20 to June 22, 1815. He conquered much of Europe but lost two-thirds of his army in a disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. After his final loss to Britain and Prussia at the Battle of...
Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849
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Shelburne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl, 1737-1805
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British politician. Born William Fitzmaurice, assumed surname Petty in 1751, succeeded his father as Earl of Shelburne 1761, created Marquis of Lansdowne 1784. Worked in the House of Lords to repeal the Stamp Act and continued to pursue a conciliatory policy toward the American colonies, though opposed to their independence. He became prime minister in 1782, directed peace negotiations with the United States, France, and Spain, and resigned from office shortly thereafter. ...
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...
Erskine, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron, 1750-1823
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Thomas Erskine, first Baron Erskine, British lord chancellor. From the guide to the Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine manuscript material : 2 items, ca. 1820's-1823, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Erskine won fame for his defence work in many of the show trials of the 1790's and was considered England's greatest practicing advocate in libel and adultery litigation. From the description of Correspondence...
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
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Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian minister. Hale was involved in many social reform movements, including abolition and popular education. He is best known for his 1863 short story, "The Man Without a Country," which promoted patriotic support of the Union. From the guide to the Edward Everett Hale Letters, 1884-1897, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
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John Quincy Adams (b. July 11, 1767, Braintree, Massachusetts-d. February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C.) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, United States Senator, member of the House of Representatives, and the sixth President of the United States. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. He was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. As a diplomat, Adams played an important role in neg...
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
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Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, was educated at Harvard and served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, when he was Minister to England. He rejected a political career to teach history at Harvard and edit The North American review, 1870-1877, then returned to Washington. He wrote prolifically on many subjects and is best known for his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) and The education of Henry Adams (1907). From the description of Henry Adam...
Adams, John, 1735-1826
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John Adams (1735-1826) was the second president of the United States, born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. He served as defense counsel for British soldiers accused of Boston Massacre in 1770; as delegate to Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778; as member of committee charged with drafting Declaration of Independence in 1776; as congressional commissioner to France from 1778 to 1779; as minister to United Provinces in 1780; and negotiated a loan from Dutch bankers in 1782. Adams join...
Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859
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William Hickling Prescott, born in Salem, Massachusetts to a prominent family, wrote romantic and highly-regarded works of Spanish and Latin American history. From the guide to the Letters to Richard Bentley, 1837-1858., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...
Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...
Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907
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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and college president, was born in Boston, December 5, 1822 and married the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850. She was an educational reformer, member of the Woman's Education Association, but never an advocate of women's suffrage or of co-education. ECA administered the Agassiz School for Girls from 1855 to 1863. She was one of the managers of the program for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (also known as the Harvard Annex); was p...
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
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Rammohun Roy, Raja, 1772-1833
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Bradford, Gamaliel, 1863-1932
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Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932) was an American biographical essayist, poet, dramatist, and critic of Wellesley, Mass. He was the sixth of seven Gamaliel Bradfords in unbroken succession, of whom the first was a great-grandson of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. He entered Harvard College with the Class of 1886, but withdrew after a few weeks due to fragile health, a problem that was to plague him his entire life. He married Helen Hubbard Ford. Bradford attempted virtua...
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786
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Hale, Charles, 1831-1882
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Charles Hale (1831-1882) was a Boston journalist and politician who graduated from Harvard in 1850. He was junior editor of his father's newspaper, the Boston Daily Advertiser, and in 1852 he founded the Boston literary journal, Today. From 1864 to 1870, Hale was U.S. Consul-General to Egypt, and was active in the development of Egypt's Assembly system. After 1870, he held various Massachusetts political offices. His publications include: All Men Are Born Equal ... (Boston, 1856); Our Houses Are...
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
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Epithet: DD, bibliographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x00034c Thomas Frognall Dibdin was born in Calcutta, and orphaned at a young age; he was raised by relatives in England, and educated at Oxford. He trained to practice law, but took holy orders instead. Throughout his enigmatic and somewhat controversial life as an author, librarian, bibliographer, and bibliophile, Dibdin contribute...
Hayes, Lucy Webb, 1831-1889
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Lucy Ware Webb Hayes served as First Lady of the United States as the wife of the 19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881). Nicknamed affectionately both “Mother Lucy” and “Lemonade Lucy”, she was well known for caring for wounded infantrymen in her husband’s command during the Civil War and for her staunch support of the temperance movement, respectively. She came to the White House well loved by many. Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, daughter of Maria Cook and Dr. James Webb, she lost her ...
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
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Julia Ward Howe, née Julia Ward, (born May 27, 1819, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 17, 1910, Newport, Rhode Island), American author and lecturer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward came of a well-to-do family and was educated privately. In 1843 she married educator Samuel Gridley Howe and took up residence in Boston. Always of a literary bent, she published her first volume of poetry, Passion Flowers, in 1854; this and subsequent works—including a poetry collec...
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948
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Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, Republican Party politician, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was also the 36th Governor of New York, the Republican nominee in the 1916 presidential election, and the 44th United States Secretary of State. Born to a Welsh immigrant preacher and his wife in Glens Falls, New York, Hughes pursued a legal career in New York City. After working in private practice for several ye...
Crawford, William Harris, 1772-1834
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William Harris Crawford (February 24, 1772 – September 15, 1834) was an American politician and judge during the early 19th century. He served as United States Secretary of War and United States Secretary of the Treasury before running for president in the 1824 election. Born in Virginia, Crawford moved to Georgia at a young age. After studying law, Crawford won election to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1803. He aligned with the Democratic-Republican Party and U.S. Senator James Jac...
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951
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Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker, general, diplomat, composer, and Republican politician who was the 30th vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929. For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations, he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. Born in Marietta, Ohio, Dawes attended Cincinnati Law School before beginning a legal career in Lincoln, Nebraska. After serving as a gas plant executive, he managed William M...
Fairbanks, Charles W. (Charles Warren), 1852-1918
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Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was an American politician who served as a senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909. He was also the Republican vice presidential nominee in the 1916 presidential election. Born near Unionville Center, Ohio, Fairbanks moved to Indianapolis after graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University. He became an attorney and railroad financier, working under railroad magnate Jay Gould. F...
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Indiana's 9th congressional district as a member of the anti-slavery Indiana People's Party in 1854, Colfax joined the Republican Party during his first term. He served as ...
Evarts, William Maxwell, 1818-1901
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William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 18...
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911
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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author, poet, and critic. In 1834 Poe married his cousin Virginia, who was not quite fourteen at the time, and began seriously seeking a means of supporting "his family." In the spring of 1835, the family moved back to Richmond where Poe took a position with the Southern Literary Messenger . Poe used the opportunity to publish several of his poems and short tales in the paper, but he also began developing his reputation as a pugnacious critic by contr...
Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861
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Born as Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth in Malta, New York, Ellsworth grew up in Mechanicville, New York, and later moved to New York City. In 1854, he moved to Rockford, Illinois, where he worked for a patent agency. In 1859, he became engaged to Carrie Spafford, the daughter of a local industrialist and city leader. When Carrie's father demanded that he find more suitable employment, he moved to Chicago to study law and work as a law clerk. In 1860, Ellsworth moved to Springfield, Illinois, to work...
Massachusetts Historical Society
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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...
Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught, 1850-1942
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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He served as the Governor General of Canada. he earned the rank of General in the British Army. On 13 March 1879, Arthur married Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, the daughter of Prince Frederick Charles....
Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863
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Shaw was born in Boston to abolitionists Francis George and Sarah Blake (Sturgis) Shaw, who were well-known Unitarian philanthropists and intellectuals of Scottish descent. The Shaws had the benefit of a large inheritance left by Shaw's merchant grandfather and namesake Robert Gould Shaw (1775–1853). Shaw had four sisters—Anna, Josephine (Effie), Susanna, and Ellen (Nellie). When Shaw was five years old, the family moved to a large estate in West Roxbury, adjacent to Brook Farm. During his te...
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837
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William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover. The third son of George III, William succeeded his elder brother George IV. He served in the Royal Navy in his youth, spending time in North America and the Caribbean, and was later nicknamed the "Sailor King". In 1789, he was created Duke of Clarence and St Andrews. In 1827, he was appointed as Britain's first Lord High Admiral since 1709. As his two older brothers died without leaving legitimate issue, ...
Gutenberg, Johann, 1397?-1468
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Johannes Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany sometime between 1394 and 1404. He is best known for the invention of the moveable type printing press which ushered in the modern period of human history. Prior to his invention, Gutenberg lived in Strasbourg and appears to have been a goldsmith member enrolled in the Strasbourg militia. By 1448, he was back in Mainz and took out a loan from his brother-in-law Arnold Gelthus; by 1450 the press was in operation. Gutenberg then received a loan from we...
Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715
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Louis, king of France, 1643-1715. From the description of [Documents and letters] 1665-1705 / Louis. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259485448 Louis XIV was king of France between 1643 and 1715. From the description of Louis XIV decree, 1665. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 190570499 A lawyer in New Orleans, Louisiana, Edward Alexander Parsons (1878-1962) married and had at least one daughter. A bibliophile, he briefly...
Warren, Charles Turner
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Epithet: Engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x00024a ...
J. Cundee
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Jacobus Houbraken.
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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 ...
Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis.
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Mackenzie, Alexander
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Epithet: Captain; of Breda British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000876.0x0003c8 Epithet: Lieutenant-Colonel British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000876.0x000002 Epithet: Lieutenant; 60th Regt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000876.0x0003ca Epithet: Lie...
Cameron, Archibald, 1707-1753
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J. Notman
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Summers, Charles, 1827-1878
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Norton, Andrews, 1786-1853
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Andrews Norton received his A.B. from Harvard in 1804. Norton became a tutor in 1811, was Librarian of the Harvard College Library 1813-1821, Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature 1813-1819, and Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature, 1819-1830. From the description of [Student themes] , ca. 1803. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072624 Author, Biblical scholar, and educator Andrews Norton was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard in 1804. Aft...
James Fraser
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Allen & Rowell
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Allen & Rowell was a photographic studio in Boston, Massachussetts active between 1874 and 1892. From the description of Allen & Rowell photographs of Civil War paintings, circa 1870s-1890s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367890955 ...
Henry Inman.
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Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931
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Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio – died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial...
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1829
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Hunt, Ward
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Wodhull, Michael, 1740-1816
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Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792
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At the time of the letters Sandwich was the first Lord of the Admiralty. Douglas was editor of Cook's journals; Shepherd was an astronomer; Harris was British Ambassador at St. Petersberg; Burney was a friend of Sandwich and father of James; King was captain of the Discovery after the death of Clerke; Barrington was a lawyer. From the description of Papers [microform]. 1771-1784. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225828440 From the description of Papers of John Mont...
Edwin Landseer.
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Lowell, Maria, 1821-1853
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American poet; married to poet and satirist James Russell Lowell. From the description of Correspondence, 1844, nd. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122530575 ...
Lowell, Charles Russell, 1835-1864
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Kröger, Timm, 1844-1918
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Jacques Reich.
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Grew, Mary, 1757-1834
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Max Beerbohm.
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Farwell.
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Derby
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S. Higuchi.
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Holm, Frits, 1881-1930
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Boutran.
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William Holl.
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Poitiers, Diane de, Duchess of Valentinois, 1499-1566
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French noblewoman and courtier at the courts of kings Francis I and his son, Henry II of France. From the description of Household accounts : manuscript signed, 1565 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535303 Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and constant in the courts of Francis I and Henri II of France. At the age of 15 she married Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, 39 years her senior; she bore him two daughters. She assisted in the education of Francis I a...
Great Britain. Parliament
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The Ashantee (also spelled Ashanti) Invasion of Britain's Gold Coast protectorates began in December 1872. British forces responded with their own expedition and invasion of the Ashantee nation in January 1874, resulting in the Battle of Amoaful and the destruction of Kumasi. From the description of British Parliamentary papers on the Ashantee Invasion, 1873-1877. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 586073390 With the execution of Charles I on January 30, 1649, th...
Parton, James, 1822-1891
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English-American writer. From the description of Papers of James Parton [manuscript] 1860-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647934391 Author. From the description of Letter of James Parton, 1875. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454871 Parton was an American biographer. His The life of Horace Greeley : editor of "The New-York tribune", from his birth to the present time was published in 1872 and his Life of Voltaire was published in 188...
American Bank Note Company
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Ch. (Charles) Courtry.
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A. C. Platt
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J. E. Purdy Company
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Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848
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Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), British naval captain and author of novels, essays and articles. From the description of Frederick Marryat papers, 1830-1842. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863317 English naval officer and novelist. From the description of Mr. Midshipman Easy : [n.p.] : autograph manuscript unsigned of the novel, lacking the first five chapters, ca. 1835. (Morgan Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 83187870 From the description o...
C. Currier.
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Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952
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Winship graduated from Harvard in 1893 and taught history of printing and served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Parker Winship, 1899-1953 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973222 Winship (A.B. 1893) was the first Librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection. From the description of Bibliographical notes, compositions, and other papers, [19--] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612868810 ...
Louis Godey
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Elliott & Fry
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London portrait photographers Joseph John Elliott and Clarence Edmund Fry established a talbotype photography studio in Baker St. in 1863. From the description of Letters received, ca. 1832-1894. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79626125 ...
Leblanc, Georgette, 1869-1941
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Max Rosenthal.
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Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
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Epithet: US President British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000128 James Buchanan, Jr. (1791-1868) was the 15th President of the United States, serving from 1857–1861. Prior to his presidency, Buchanan represented Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives and later the Senate, and served as Secretary of State under President James K. Polk (1845-1849). Source : About the White Hous...
André, John, 1751-1780
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British army officer. From the description of The American times, a satire, in three parts : poem, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070981 John André, a British army officer during the American Revolutionary war. In January 1777, he became captain of the 26th Regiment of Foot ; in early summer he became the aide-de-camp to Charles Gret, 1st Earl of Grey (1729-1807). and in 1778 was promoted to major. In 1779 André became adjutant general of the British Army and wa...
Benson Lossing
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B. Hall.
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Holmes, John
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Epithet: of Sloane MS 4056 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x00025e Epithet: Captain; of Add MS 35668 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x000254 Epithet: archeologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x000252 Epithet: Clerk ...
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
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Naturalist, ornithologist, and artist, known for his Birds of America. From the description of Letters received, 1831-1853. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56506202 Audubon was an American artist and ornithologost. From the guide to the John James Audubon letters and drawings, 1805-1892 (inclusive), 1805-1847 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) John James Audubon was a painter and ornithologist. Born in ...
Joshua Reynolds.
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Metcalf & Welldon
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Henry Colburn
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Sharpe, John, 1769-1859
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Epithet: brewer, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x00002c Epithet: formerly Chaplain to the Queen's forces in New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x00002d ...
Richard Hicks.
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Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
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Gwin, William McKendree, 1805-1885
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Member, California Constitutional Convention, 1849, and U.S. senator from California. From the description of Papers, 1841-1885. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 28419864 William M. Gwin was born in Tennessee. In 1833 he was appointed U.S. marshal, district of Mississippi by President Jackson; in 1840 he was elected to the House of Representatives for one term. Coming to California in 1849, he worked to form a state government, representing San Francisco ...
Thomas Doney.
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Woolsey, Theodore Dwight, 1801-1889
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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000439.0x000244 President of Yale College. From the description of Autograph letter of recommendation signed : New Haven, 1862 Jan. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584067 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to W. Hayes Ward, 1872 Feb. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584074 From the descrip...
Elmer Chickering.
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Black
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Albert Rosenthal.
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La Trémoille, Louis de II, 1460-1525
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Musscher.
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Robert Freebairn.
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J. Newton.
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J. Alexandrovsky
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Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990
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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...
D'Aulby, (Mrs.) Francesca.
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Thayer, William Roscoe, 1859-1923
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Thayer was a biographer and historian. From 1892 to 1915 he was editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. From the description of Additional papers, 1796-1927 (inclusive), 1877-1927 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505841 From the description of Papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive) 1872-1921 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505824 From the guide to the William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)., (Houghton...
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
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Abolitionist; orator; pastor of Plymouth Church, 1847-1887. From the description of Papers, [ca.1847]-1937, 1847-1887 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155459715 American Congregational clergyman, lecturer, reformer, and author. From the guide to the Henry Ward Beecher papers, 1851-1896, n.d, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Congregationalist minister. From the description of Sermon notes, [n.d.], 1893, 18...
Reay, Donald James Mackay, Baron, 1839-1921
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Pound, Daniel J., sec. XIX
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Crocker, Marcellus Monroe, 1830-1865
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Crocker was born in Franklin, Indiana. He entered the United States Military Academy in 1847, but left at the end of his second year. He subsequently studied law and practiced in Des Moines, Iowa. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the army as the captain of the 2nd Iowa Infantry in May 1861. He was promoted to colonel of the 13th Iowa Infantry on December 30, 1861. Crocker fought with distinction in the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, where he assumed command of a brigade during ...
Evans, Mrs. William.
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Chapman, Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler.
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Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Mass., From the description of Houghton Mifflin Company records, 1832-1944. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612205133 Houghton Mifflin Company, publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts, traces its roots back to the firm of Ticknor and Fields, the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century; and to the Riverside Press, Henry Oscar Houghton's printi...
Abernethy, John, 1764-1831
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Abernethy lectured on anatomy, physiology and surgery at St. Bartholomew's, and as a result, became the founder of the medical school. From the description of Notes from lectures by John Abernethy, 1805. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 50003146 ...
Bachrach, Ernest A.
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Townshend, George Townshend, marquis, 1724-1807
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English soldier. From the description of Letter signed : Rainham, to an unidentifiedcorrespondent, 1798 Jan. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572968 English military officer-One of Wolfe' 3 brigadiers at siege of Quebec. From the description of Autograph signature to a document, 1779 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572971 George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend, was educated at Cambridge and fought at Culloden (1746), re...
Brunetta, Ernesto
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G.P. Putnam
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Wesley, Samuel
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Epithet: Rector of Epworth, county Lincolnshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x000398 Epithet: Reverend; the younger British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001028.0x00039a ...
Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851
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British statesman and First Lord of the Admiralty. From the description of Letters, 1809-1849. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 40329063 From the description of Papers, 1811-1842. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019756 From the description of Papers, 1796-1842 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122509876 Lord Privy Seal of Scotland. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Melville Cas...
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
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English novelist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (15) and autograph documents signed (3) : to Edward Chapman, [ca. 1848] Mar. 21-1859 Apr. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269589125 From the description of Letter, n.y. August 31, [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 122625403 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Manchester, to [the Rev. John Pierpont], 1841 June 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269573768 ...
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
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Epithet: president of the United States British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x00001d Calvin Coolidge's son John married John Trumbull's daughter Florence. From the description of Letter, 1931 March 16, Northampton, Mass., to John H. Trumbull, Plainville, Conn. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 25622017 For information on Pres. Coolidge, see an encyclopedia. No information is...
Louis Prang & Co.
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Roscoe, William, 1753-1831
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William Roscoe was born in 1753 in Liverpool. Although he trained to become an attorney and worked in that capacity for 20 years, his true passion was literature and the arts, particularly the study of Italy. In 1781, Roscoe married Jane Griffies, to whom he was happily married for over 40 years. Their family of seven sons and three daughters was a close and loving one, something that is well-reflected in the correspondence collected here. Beginning when in his teens, Roscoe had published and ci...
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...
McIntosh
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Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812
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Poet, author, statesman, army chaplain, merchant, publisher, and lawyer. From the description of Joel Barlow collection, 1787-1887. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70953035 Barlow was an American poet and statesman. He served as American consul in Algiers and as Minister to France (1811-1812). From the description of Papers, 1775-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122419312 From the description of Papers, 1775-193...
? Robinson
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W. Shaw Warren
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Brewster, David, 1781-1868
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Natural philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Autograph letters, 1819-1867 and n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78354815 Scottish physicist. From the description of David Brewster papers, 1836-1857, [Edinburgh]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847956 Educated for the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh University, but due to a form of nervousness gave up a clerical life and in 1802 became editor of the 'Edinburgh Ma...
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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During the Revolutionary era, Philadelphia's Independence Hall was commonly known as the State House of the Province of Pennsylvania. It was constructed between 1732 and 1756. The Second Continental Congress held their meetings in the State House during the Revolution, and in 1787, delegates gathered in the Assembly Room to write the United States Constitution. From the guide to the Independence Hall Receipts, 1778-1779., (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Found...
Fairlie, James, d. 1830.
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Lieutenant in the 2nd New York Militia during the American Revolution. From the description of Diary, 1779. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 50564533 ...
Varnum, James M. (James Mitchell), 1748-1789
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James Mitchell Varnum (December 17, 1748 – January 9, 1789) was an American legislator, lawyer, general in the Continental Army, and a pioneer to the Ohio Country. Born in Dracut in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, as a young man, Varnum matriculated at Harvard College only to transfer to the college in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly known as "Rhode Island College" (the college later named Brown University), graduating with honors in their first...
Manzoni, Alessandro, 1785-1873
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Italian statesman and writer. From the description of Sonetto : autograph manuscript signed of a poem : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858335 Italian novelist. From the description of Autograph note on calling card conveying greetings : to the Rector, Masters and pupils of the Collegio di Merate, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270608721 Italian novilist and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated ...
S.A. Thomas
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Samuel Lover.
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H. Dawe.
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Samuel Grayward
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Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943
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Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927) were Italian immigrants who were tried and executed for robbery and murder of payroll guards Frederick Albert Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. The case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Sacco and Vanzetti quickly became one of America's most complicated and notorious political trials. They were found guilty on July 14, 1921, but the legal struggle to save them extended until 1927. By April 9, 1927, all appeals in the Massachu...
L. Prang & Co.
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In the 1880s, L. Prang & Co. was commissioned by W.T. Walters to prepare 116 color plates for a book on his collection of oriental ceramics. It took three artists from the firm and nearly ten years to produce the chromolithographic plates. Five hundred copies of the book, Oriental Ceramics Art, were published in 1896. From the description of Proof book, 1891. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122555724 L. Prang & Co. made and published greeting cards for appr...
Marc & Schlum
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Henry Meyer.
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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870
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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...
Mathew Brady.
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Thomas Tegg
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Harding, Warren Gamaliel, 1865-1923
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Warren Gamaliel Harding (b. November 2, 1865, Blooming Grove, Ohio-d. August 2, 1923, San Francisco, California) was an American politician who served as the 29th President of the United States from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923....
Rotch, Elizabeth Barker.
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Illman Brothers
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Fournier
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Epithet: of Egerton MS 1746 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x0002d2 Epithet: merchant, of Marseilles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x0002d0 ...
N.Y. Photogravure Co.
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Schmeller, Johann Andreas, 1785-1852
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Pickersgill, Henry William, 1782-1875
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English painter. From the description of Letters, ca. 1828-1869. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 83101655 ...
N.Y. Photo-Gravure Co.
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C. Hullmandel.
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Kelly, Thomas, 1966-
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Epithet: coach-painter, of Birmingham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x000305 Epithet: Justice of the Common Pleas, Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x000306 Epithet: of the National Union of Life Assurance Agents British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:...
Sykes, Mark Masterman, Sir, 1771-1823
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English bibliophile, picture collector, and member of Parliament for Sledmore in Yorkshire where his estate was located. Sykes' library was considered one of the finest in England and was especially strong in early printed editions of the Greek and Roman classics, incunables, and 16th century English poetry. The collection was sold after his death in three lots in May-June 1824. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1813-1825], (bulk 1823-1825). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 12253064...
Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling.
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Duncan, Chesney, b. 1854
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Barmore, Charles
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Forbes, W. Cameron
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Johann Veit Schnorr
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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), highly influential Prussian philosopher, famous for his Critique of pure reason, as well as other works such as Critique of practical reason and Critique of judgement . From the guide to the Immanuel Kant, preparatory draft for, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, [c.1785]., c.1785, (University of St Andrews) German philosopher. From the description of Autograph codicil to his last will and testament signed twice : Königsberg, 1801 Nov. 20. (U...
James Andrews.
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Rembrant Peale.
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McArdell.
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J. Dickinson
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Thomas, Lawrence
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Frederick Hendrick van Hove.
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William Hoogland.
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Page & Son.
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Lee, Charles, 1731-1782
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Lee was a veteran British Army officer who settled in America in 1773 and was appointed a major general in the Continental Army at the outbreak of the Revolution. In 1778, he was appointed to lead the attack at the Battle of Monmouth, but instead retreated without warning, apparently ignored orders from George Washington, and afterward demanded an apology from him. Lee was suspended and later dismissed from the Army. From the description of ALS, 1776 Jan. 30, Stamford, Ct...
Federowitz, Michael.
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A. Pujos
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Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899
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Composed 1854.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Nachtfalter Walzer, Op. 157 / Johann Strauss (the younger). [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 55503504 From the operetta in 3 acts with libretto by Josef Braun, "F. Zell" (pseudonym of Camillo Walzel), and Richard Genée after Victorien Sardou's comedy, Piccolino. Composed circa 1872. First performance Theater an der Wien, Vienna, 1 March 1873.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. F...
Oliver Pelton.
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Rückert, Friedrich, 1788-1866
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German poet. From the description of Autograph manuscript book of poems : [Neuses, near Coburg, Germany], 1846. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619235 ...
Jarvis, John Wesley, 1780-1840
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Albert Gallatin Worthington (1804-1834) was the fourth child of Ohio Governor Thomas Worthington and his wife Eleanor Swearingen Worthington. Portrait painter John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840) was born in England and moved to the United States as a child. He was the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. John Wesley Jarvis was trained as an artist by engraver Edward Savage and set up a portrait painting business with his contemporary Joseph Wood. From ...
Rouse, E. C.
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T. Stewardson.
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Song, Eli.
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John S. Notman
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A. Quantin.
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Southey, Robert, 1774-1843
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English poet, literary scholar, historian and biographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to an unidentified man, 1836 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 603582965 English poet and man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to Moxon, 1837 July 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662734 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Keswick, to an unidentified correspondent, 1837 Mar. 2....
Robert Nanteuil.
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Auguste Étienne Guillaumot.
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P. Kramer.
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Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719
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Françoise d' Aubigné, the marquise de Maintenon, was a member of the Court of Louis XIV of France and became the morganatic wife of Louis XIV in 1685 or 1686. From the description of [Letter, 1710? Aug. 23 to] Madame du Perou / FA. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 271111196 Second wife of King Louis XIV of France. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to [Madame de Caylus], undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...
Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941
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English novelist. From the description of Hugh Walpole collection, 1910-1939. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70925561 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Brackenburn, Keswick, to [James] Bain, 1931 Apr. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270658346 From the description of Sons and Lovers. A Preface : autograph manuscript signed, fair copy with a few revisions : [n.p.], 1923 June 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270658363 ...
Fratelli Alinari.
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Italian photographic firm specializing in works of art. From the description of I Bassorilievi del Duomo di Orvieto. [between 1860 and 1899?] (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84944929 Founded in 1852, Fratelli Alinari (Florence, Italy) began as a commercial photographic studio specializing in travel views of Italy. The company eventually expanded to include an archive and a museum. From the description of Fratelli Alinari Collection. [ca. 1850-1880...
James, Prince of Wales, 1688-1766
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James Stuart, also known as "The Old Pretender," was the son and heir of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland), who was deposed in 1688. Raised in exile in France, Stuart never gave up his claim to both crowns, and after Jacobites in Scotland rose in rebellion against the new Hanoverian king in 1715, James landed in Scotland in hopes of seizing power. The rebellion failed, and James returned to France in 1716. He died in Rome in 1766. From the description of Coppie of the ...
Adolph von Menzel.
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Charles Lamb
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Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company
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Kilburn & Cross
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Sill, Joshua Woodrow, 1831-1862
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J. Sewell
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, baron, 1788-1824
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British poet. From the description of George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron papers, 1812-1819. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452083 English Romantic poet and satirist. From the description of George Gordon Byron Collection, 1642-1968 (bulk 1798-1830). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 145405980 Major George Gordon de Luna Byron, alias de Gibler, Spanish-born forger of British Romantic litera...
Noël Le Mire.
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Vansittart, Nicholas, 1766-1851
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British public official. From the description of Nicholas Vansittart correspondence, 1800 January 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981259 ...
T. Kelly.
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Paterson Silk Textile Institute.
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Louis Boilly.
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Lupton Refe
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Carvalho, Solomon Nunes, 1815-1897
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Alexander Nasmyth.
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Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
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Epithet: of Add MS 34580 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x00030c American Indian fighter and president of the United States. From the guide to the William Henry Harrison letter, 1795, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) U.S president, Mar.-Apr. 1841; territorial governor of Indiana, 1801-1813; Ohio congressman, 1816-1819, state senator, 1819-1821, senator 1825-1828. From ...
Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722
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David Edwin Pingree, Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University, was one of America's foremost historians of the exact sciences in antiquity. He attended Harvard University, where he earned his doctorate in 1960 with a dissertation on the transmission of Hellenistic astrology to India. A master of the "dead" languages, Pingree was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, he was a member of the Society of Fellows ...
Belavenet︠s︡, Ivan Petrovich, 1829-1878
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Darwand Stein.
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Romilly, Samuel, 1757-1818
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Romilly, an English lawyer and law reformer, practiced mainly on the Chancery side. He served as Solicitor General in All-the-Talents Administration (1806), and secured repeal of an Elizabethan statute making it a capital offense to steal from a person (1808). From the description of Letter and notes, 1809, 1812, and undated. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339909 Epithet: of Add MS 37949 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : P...
Thérèse Boucher.
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Louis Le Nain.
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Annin & Smith
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Kościuszko, Tadeusz, 1746-1817
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Polish patriot and army officer. From the description of Commission and letter of Tadeusz Kościuszko, 1776-1777. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014909 Polish patriot and American general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Thomas Jefferson, 1814 Jan. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270596972 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Philadelphia?], to Thomas Jefferson, [n.d., 1798 Apr.?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record...
Reed, Ira B.
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O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964
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Sean O'Casey was born John Casey on March 30, 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, to Michael and Susan (Archer) Casey, a lower-middle class Protestant family. His father died in 1886. As a child, O'Casey suffered from trachoma, which affected his sight and made it difficult for him to succeed scholastically. He worked periodically throughout his adolescence as a stock boy, a van driver, and railway laborer. During this time, he became interested in Irish working class culture, as well as socialism and labo...
Rowley, John C.
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Fuller, Dorothy
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Thomas Phillips.
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J. Chapman.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kv11rc (person)
Mandel, Henri
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Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1795-1858
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American lawyer and politician; Attorney General. From the description of Letter signed : New York, to A.J. Bleecker, 1840 July 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132632 American lawyer and politician; Atty. General. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to C.H. Waddell, 1840 July 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131665 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to William L. Marcy, Secretary of War, 1845 Ma...
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. ...
Kennedy, Mildred
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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 ...
Charles Warren.
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Pannwitz, Rudolf, 1881-1969
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Rudolf Pannwitz was a German writer. From the description of Rudolf Pannwitz compositions, 1926-1952. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612221960 From the guide to the Rudolf Pannwitz compositions, 1926-1952., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...
Grafton, Joseph, 1757-1836
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Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899
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Bookseller. From the description of Letter, 1885 July 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497058 From the guide to the Bernard Quaritch letter, 1885, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...
George Kibbe
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Maffitt, John Newland, 1819-1886
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John Newland Maffitt (1819-1886) was a United States Navy officer, Confederate Navy officer, blockade runner, and author. Maffitt was born in Connecticut; grew up in Fayetteville, N.C.; and retired to Wilmington, N.C. From the description of John Newland Maffitt papers, 1833-1911, 1976. WorldCat record id: 24599972 John Newland Maffitt (1819-1886) was the son of Ann Carnic and the Reverend John Newland Maffitt, a Methodist minister. Young Maffitt lived in Connec...
Barrie, J.M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
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James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) was a playwright and novelist who is chiefly remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. Barrie was born in Scotland and moved to London in 1885 where he would reside for the remainder of his life. His first successful novel, Auld licht idylls, was published in 1888 and Barrie continued to write fictional and autobiographical tales until the late 1890s. In 1897 Barrie became focused on writing for the theatre, producing Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up, in 190...
Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893
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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 ...
Downman, Mrs. Hugh.
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Narris & Ewing.
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Record.
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Francis Hart.
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Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1594-1612
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Son of James I. From the description of Portion of a Latin exercise signed : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270891835 From the description of Document : Westminster, to the treasurer of the exchequer, 1606 Feb. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270890484 Places: Wales Epithet: son of James I Title: Prince of Wales British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_...
Ambroise Tardien.
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Theodor van Merlen.
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J. Morrison.
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J. Dwight Thacher
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Michael Hayee.
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Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837
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Robert John Thornton was a British botanist and medical writer. From the description of Letter, Hinde Pl., to dear friend [Thomas Maurice], 1804 November 30. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 34242053 ...
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...
Wallace, William Hervy Lamme, 1821-1862
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Niccolini, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1782-1861
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Ware, Henry, 1794-1843
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Henry Ware Jr., 1784-1843, born Hingham, Mass. Attended Harvard, assistant teacher at Exeter Academy. Ordained Unitarian minister in 1817 and became pastor of the Second Church of Boston. 1829-1842 professor in the Divinity School at Harvard. His memoir and works were published after his death. Wrote hymns, among them "All Nature's Works His Praise Declare" and "Lift Your Glad Voices in Triumph on High." From the description of Letter, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record i...
Philippe de Champaigne.
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Hans Holbein.
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Dodd, William, 1729-1777
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William Dodd (1729-1777) attended the University of Cambridge, and was ordained as a minister in 1752. He published a wide variety of works from 1747 onward, including poetry, a novel, theological writings, and his most successful work, The Beauties of Shakespeare (1752). In 1767, he founded Pimlico Chapel in London behind Buckingham House, in an effort to attract royal patronage. Dodd grew increasingly desperate for money to pay debts. On 1777 Feb. 1, he forged the name of a former pupil on a b...
Samuel Ward.
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Fowler, Lulu.
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Francesco Bartolozzi.
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Peabody, Endicott, 1920-1997
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Endicott Peabody (b. 1920), lawyer and Massachusetts political figure, was Governor of Massachusetts from 1963 to 1965, Assistant Director of the Office of Emergency Planning from 1967 to 1968), and a Vice Presidential candidate in 1972. From the description of Peabody, Endicott, 1920-1997 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10571317 Also known as "Chub," born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, February 15, 1920; attorney; Democratic leader in Massachusetts a...
F. E. Jones.
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Hinton, Isaac Taylor, 1799-1847
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Franz von Holder.
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Walker & Boutall.
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Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
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James Wolfe (1727-1759), a British army officer. His victory at the battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759, Sept. 13) and his death on the battlefield made him a hero in Great Britain. From the description of Collection of letters, autographs, and drawings related to James Wolfe, 1740-1859. , (bulk ) (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 552281903 British general. From the description of ALS and reply : to Major Walter...
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...
Clifford, Nathan, 1803-1881
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Jurist, U.S. representative from Maine, and U.S. attorney general. From the description of Nathan Clifford signature, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453765 Jurist, U.S. representative, and U.S. Attorney General, of Portland, Me. From the description of Papers, 1831-1881. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 71014279 American lawyer, judge, and politician, attorney general of Maine from 1834-1838, U.S. attorney general fr...
Neander, August, 1789-1850
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Herring, James, 1794-1867
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Portrait painter, New York City and elsewhere. From the description of Autobiography of James Herring, 1863. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58757444 Artist. From the description of Letter of James Herring, 1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450882 Portrait painter and engraver; New York City. Born in London, moved to U.S. in 1805. Worked as teacher, distiller, librarian, gallery operator and painter. Died in Paris. ...
Elbeuf, Charles, duc d', 1596-1657
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Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661
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Italian by birth, Cardinal Mazarin became a French citizen in Apr. 1636, served under Cardinal Richelieu and became First Minister of France upon Richelieu's death in Dec. 1642. He remained in this position until his death, serving as co-regent with Anne of Austria for Louis XIV until his majority. From the description of [Letter] 1646 oct. 21, Paris [to] Monsieur / Je. Card. Mazarini. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 287166417 French cardinal and statesman. ...
Bartlett, John, 1820-1905
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Author of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" From the guide to the John Bartlett letters, 1891, 1894, 1901, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...
Lind, Jenny
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Swedish singer. From the description of Autograph letters signed : Oak Lea, Wimbledon Park, S.W., to Arthur Sullivan, 1883 Feb. 11, and 9 incompletely dated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125245 Swedish soprano. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Mannheim Dec. 7 1846, to an unidentified recipient, 1846 Dec. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270667419 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London Apr. 27 1874, t...
J. H. E. (John Henry Ellsworth) Whitney.
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Thrupp, Robert W. 18..-19..? photographe
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Jackson, Richard
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Epithet: of Add MS 36061 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000152 Epithet: Reverend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000153 Epithet: of Add MS 35797 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000151 Epithet: cursitor ...
Richard Griffin & Co.
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Elliott, Charles Loring, 1812-1868
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Moras, Ferdinand
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Blandy, Mary, 1720-1752
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Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669
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Daughter of Henry IV of France and sister of Louis XIII. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to "La Reine, Madame ma mere"[Marie de Medici, second wife of Henry IV], [ca. 1630]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864072 Henrietta Maria, was the daughter of Henri IV of France. She married Charles I in 1625. He named the state of Maryland in her honor. From the description of [Letter to] monsieur le duc d'Orléans / Henriette Marie. [between 16...
Jesse, Edward, 1780-1868
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zd11pd (person)
Epithet: Commissioner of hackney coaches British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000268.0x0002f4 Epithet: writer on natural history British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000268.0x0002f6 ...
A. Robertson
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H. Quig.
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Charles Wilson Peale.
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Gray, John Chipman, 1793-1881
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Broussel, Pierre
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Pach Brothers
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Walter Pach was a painter, critic, and art historian; New York,N.Y. He was the son of Gotthelf Pach, a commercial photographer who, along with his family, ran the New York firm of Pach Brothers. Walter Pach often accompanied his father on photographic assignments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From the description of [Walter Pach] / [graphic] Pach Bros. [192-] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477618 ...
Charles D. Fredericks & Co.
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Squires, Mary, -1762
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Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829
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Elizabeth Farren [married name Elizabeth Smith Stanley, countess of Derby], English actress. From the description of Elizabeth Farren manuscript material : 1 item, 1820 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 217299771 Irish actress. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Mrs. Piozzi, 1797 May 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270529790 ...
Godwin, Parke, 1816-1904
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American newspaper editor, writer, and historian. From the description of The Pacific railroad and how it is to be built, 1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79602363 From the description of The Pacific railroad and how it is to be built, 1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702150541 American journalist and author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : [n.p.], to a member of the Harper firm, [1858-1860 Nov.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record...
Black & Batchelder
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Wilcox, John Angel James, 1835-
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Strathcona and Mount Royal, Donald Stirling Palmer Howard, 1891-1959
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Sitting Bull, 1831-1890
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Sitting Bull, also known as Tatanka Iyotake or Tatanka Iyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotan, was a Native American shaman and leader of the Hunpapa Sioux. He was born in 1831 in South Dakota. He fought against the Crow Indians and was wounded in battle on several occasions. Sitting Bull greatly opposed the encroachment of the white men. He led Sioux and Cheyenne warriors against U.S. soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at the battle of Little Bighorn. After the battle, in which many were killed, Sitting Bull le...
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...
Ives, John, 1751-1776
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John Ives (1751-1776) was an antiquarian and officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. In 1771 he was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1773. From the description of Memoir & letters of John Ives Esq. F.R. & A.S. : Suffolk Herald together with portions of his journal & album & the sale catalogue of his library, 1771-1804. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702184202 From the description ...
Stone, Benjamin 1838-1914
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E. Finden.
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Dearborn, H.A.S. (Henry Alexander Scammell), 1783-1851
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Massachusetts politician, resident of Boston. From the description of Papers, 1802-1848. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19405827 U.S. representative from Massachusetts, lawyer in Portland, Me., and army officer. From the description of H.A.S. Dearborn autograph letter signed, 1806. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 71129499 Henry Dearborn (1751-1829), an officer in the Continental Army, was U.S. Secretary of War and ...
G. Adcock.
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Marshall & Co.
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Richard Bentley, & Son
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G. P. (George Perfect) Harding.
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G. T. Keller
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Topley.
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Brandt, Kaspar, 1653-1696
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Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, 1776-1831
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Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
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Sarah Orne Jewett was one of America's foremost regional writers. She produced novels, stories, and sketches, generally concerned with the lives and traditions of women in the rural areas of coastal New England. Her gentle, well-observed, respectful style transcends the limitations of genre and continue to make her work relevant. From the description of Sarah Orne Jewett letter to Loulie, ca. 1890. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54429003 ...
Cochrane and Pickersgill
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Wander Werff.
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Thomas Woolnoth.
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Bewick.
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Taylor, Walton & Maberly
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A. Smith.
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Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879
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Henry Carey, American economist, was born in Philadelphia and initially devoted himself to the publishing business, which he inherited from his father. He was also interested in economics and in 1836 he published an article entitled, Essay on the rate of wages - subsequently expanded into a 3 vol. work: The principles of political economy, 1837-1840. Carey published numerous other books and essays and his writings were read worldwide, especially in Europe. Other works include, The slave trade......
Marston, Westland, 1819-1890
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E. B. Krietz.
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Robert Tims.
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Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
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Washington Irving (b. April 3, 1783, New York City-d. November 28, 1859, Sunnyside, Tarrytown, New York), American author, wrote his first popular work, A History of New York, under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker. He continued to write stories and essays which made him the outstanding figure in American literature of his time and established his reputation abroad. In 1826 Irving went to Spain to work at the American embassy in Madrid, then at the American legation in London, before returni...
Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950
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Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, novelist, biographer, and essayist. From the description of Edgar Lee Masters collection of papers, 1919-1949. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164224 From the guide to the Edgar Lee Masters collection of papers, 1919-1949, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Masters was an Illinois poet best known for the Spoon River Anthology. F...
C. Richardson.
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Warren's
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Federico Zuccaro.
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George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
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George Augustus Frederick was born August 12, 1762, the eldest son of George III of England and Queen Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. He was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on September 8, 1762. George Augustus became a knight of the Garter on December 28, 1765, and was presented to the public in October, 1768. In August 1783, George Augustus came of age and assumed his seat in the House of Lords on November 11. He aligned himself with the Whig party which soon fell from fa...
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...
Edme de Boulonois.
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E. Paul
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Hampden, Walter, 1879-1955
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American actor, director, manager, promoter, and critic. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1890-1955] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155508085 Hampden was an American actor. From the description of [Letter] 1930 Jun. 19, 16 Gramercy Park, New York [to] Marjory P. Nield / Walter Hampden. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 231685962 ...
H. B. Hall.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w607235g (person)
Macdonald, George, 1824-1905
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b57js7 (person)
MacDonald was British poet and novelist. From the guide to the George MacDonald papers, ca. 1851-1905., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) MacDonald was a British poet and novelist. From the description of George MacDonald papers, ca. 1851-1905. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612373115 This Scottish children's author and novelist was the son of a weaver who attended Aberdeen University before training as a Congrega...
P. Gerard.
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Naldi, Giuseppe, 1770-1820
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Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823-1890
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Epithet: dramatist poet and diplomat British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x000139 Writer and diplomat. From the description of Letters, 1859-1869. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31526788 George H. Boker was U.S. Minister to Russia and Turkey. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1874-1886. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id:...
Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1540-1614
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Cambridge, George William Frederick Charles, Duke of, 1819-1904.
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Son of George III. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Barry, 1877 Mar. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270876556 Grandson of George III. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to "My dear Quin", 1876 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269571791 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to "My dear Quin, ", 1876 Nov. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133451 ...
Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nv9g84 (person)
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora around the world. Celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature. ...
Hoare.
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Sir Nathaniel Dance.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rg9pgf (person)
Brown, Jamews
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Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66m49bm (person)
Cooper, William
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Epithet: Bookseller, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x000296 Epithet: of Sloane MS 3452 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x00029c Epithet: plate-glass manufacturer to the Queen British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000445.0x00029d ...
Pigeot.
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Gimber, Stephen Henry, 1810-1862
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Sebastianutti & Benque.
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Mrs. Quintard.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gc6s7w (person)
J. Willey & Co.
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Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6096vcg (person)
James Knox Polk followed a career path which was blazed by Andrew Jackson. Both men hailed from southwestern North Carolina. Both migrated to Tennessee, where they practiced law and entered politics, and both were elected president of the United States. As similar as their paths were, James Polk was a different personality from his fiery predecessor. His life and career were marked by a relentless pursuit of his goals instead of the dramatic aura that perpetually surrounded Jackson. The effect...
Allen &Horton
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H. Robinson.
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Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940
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Author. From the description of Letter : to Henry Ravenel Dwight, 1931 Jan. 4. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37521975 From the description of Letters to Robert N.S. Whitelaw, 1940. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37522020 Author, of Charleston, S.C. From the description of Peter Ashley promotional poster [picture] ; [1932]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 38943426 Po...
Western Biographical Publishing Company
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mt707g (corporateBody)
Karl August Schwerdgeburth.
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Bathurst, Henry, 1744-1837
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A prelate of England. From the description of Letter and a portrait, 1816-1836. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82833583 Epithet: Archdeacon Of Norwich British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000983.0x000241 ...
R. Roffe.
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Whistler, W. Mac Neill (William Mac Neill), 1836-1900
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rd0k18 (person)
J. Bonney
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kb6fp5 (corporateBody)
H. Cook.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69f0wfp (person)
Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
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Edmund Quincy, author and abolitionist, was the son of Josiah Quincy, President of Harvard University. He graduated from Harvard, and wrote several novels and a biography of his father. He was an active member of the anti-slavery movement, and published numerous articles on the topic. From the description of Edmund Quincy letters, 1855-1868. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 57759735 Edumund Quincy, author and reformer, was born in Boston, Mass.,...
Lucy Bowditch Stone
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nb139t (person)
David Newell Smith.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mt7dwz (person)
Jackson, Joseph C.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zm8dpp (person)
Mason Chamberlin.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rk8g1s (person)
Grew, Randolph & Henry.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ts064g (person)
John, Russell
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Mistral, Frédéric, 1830-1914
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rf66j2 (person)
Provençal poet and nationalist. From the description of Notes, [ca. 1875]-1913. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122589673 ...
Bedloe, William, 1650-1680
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zg7bc2 (person)
Graves, Richard, 1715-1804
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Epithet: Reverend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x0003ab Epithet: DD, Senior Fellow of Trin. Coll., Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x0003a8 English author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bath, to Robert Barton in Shrewsbury, 1772 May 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2695...
Pierre Audouin.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hk0n7b (person)
John Ruskin
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61t06q9 (person)
M. & N. Hanhart
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Boynton & Co.
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Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891
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Served with the New England Women's Auxiliary Association of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1866; Freedmen's Aid Society, 1866-1873; founded the New England Women's Club, 1868; Boston School Committee representative, 1875-1878; member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1879-1888; president of the Massachusetts School Sufrrage Association, 1880-1888; member and president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, 1880-1886; and member of the Association...
Allen
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Theodore Jewett Eastman
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Wayland, John, d. 1863
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E. W. Histed.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r34wng (person)
Thomas Phillibrown.
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Lucca, Pauline, 1841-1908
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Epithet: soprano British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x0003e3 ...
Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van 1547-1619
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Gilbert, Stuart.
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M. Sharp.
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G. (Gottlieb) Boettger.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64k4wzr (person)
King, James G. (James Gore), 1791-1853
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Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000695.0x00006f Epithet: Secretary, United Government-Workers' Federation British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000695.0x000070 ...
Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792
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Naval hero of the United States Revolutionary War and founder of the United States Navy. From the description of Typescript, [19--]. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58758919 John Paul Jones, American naval officer. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy in 1775, and captain in 1776. In 1778 he began rading the English coast; a year later he commanded the Bon Homme Richard in its victory over the Serapis. After the Revolution, he went t...
Geoffroy ...
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Century Co.
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Fratelli Vianelli
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Bogardus Souvenir Card
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Adèle Ethiou.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6197tcr (person)
Loeb, Carl M.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68b4rmf (person)
Antonio Pencini.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k78nds (person)
Harper & Brothers.
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Correspondence (129 letters) and typescript (unsigned) revisions and notes, 1954, (23 p.) concerning the publication of The Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius. Includes 22 letters from Gropius. From the description of Correspondence with Walter Gropius, 1952-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612369957 Publishing firm in New York City. From the description of Harper & Brothers Records 1817-1929. (Columbia University In the City of New ...
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne (1627-1704).
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French bishop and theologian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Louis II, prince of Condé, 1682 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526635 From the description of Autograph notes for a work on canon law, undated [but after 1681?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270534156 From the description of Satisfaction de Jésus-Christ : autograph manuscript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270538767 ...
Miss Mildred Howells
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Probst, George
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q09kq6 (person)
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...
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...
T. Badger.
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Henri Le Lieure
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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 ...
Hall, Charles B., approximately 1844-1914
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Cullen, William, 1710-1790
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Scottish physician and professor of medicine and chemistry at the universities in Glasgow and Edinburgh; regarded as the father of graphic chain formulas. From the description of Dr. Cullen's practice of physic, October 30, 1771. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28981471 Professor of medicine, Glasgow and Edinburgh. From the description of Papers, 1769 and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35007139 James Tatham was a surgeon of ...
J. Scott.
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Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877
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British author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Catherine Dickens, [between 1842 and 1846]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610489 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Catherine Dickens, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610487 English author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mrs. Fonblanque, Thursday [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610490 From ...
Beckford, William, 1760-1844
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William Thomas Beckford, English writer and art collector. In 1782 he published his best known literary work, Vathek, first in French. His budding political career was derailed in 1784 by scandal surrounding his relationship with William Courtenay (1768-1835). He is perhaps best remembered for his biggest failure -- his lavish but hastily built home, Fonthill Abbey -- which collapsed twice, earning it the nickname "Beckford's Folly." From the description of William Beckford manuscrip...
Winner, Septimus, 1827-1902
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pk0txx (person)
American composer, teacher, and publisher. From the description of Autograph note signed : [n.p.], 1895 Aug. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910518 ...
Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776
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Scientist, New York colonial official. From the description of Cadwallader Colden Papers, 1677-1832 (bulk 1711-1775). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476912237 Governor of New York (Colony) and scientist. From the description of Cadwallader Colden family papers, 1686-1830. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453882 Colonial New York philosopher and scientist, and political official. From the description of Letter : New York, [N.Y.], t...
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6057m30 (person)
English novelist and journalist. From the description of Daniel Defoe letters, 1702-1730. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937101 ...
Thomas Johnson.
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Cromwell, Elizabeth, d. 1665
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sp42tz (person)
Blaisot
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Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848
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French author. From the description of Francois-Rene Chateaubriand letter, 1826 Dec. 14. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937057 Chateaubriand (1768-1848) was a French author and statesman. From the description of Letter from Chateaubriand to Paul Buessard, 16 July 1840 (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 768252758 François-René Chateaubriand was born in Brittany, France on September 4, 1768, the tenth child of René Auguste....
Clinton, Henry, Sir, 1738?-1795
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British troops under the command of Sir Henry Clinton mounted attacks on Fort Sullivan (close to the later site of Fort Sumter) in Charleston Harbor, S.C. by both land and sea in June, 1776, believing its defenses to be incomplete. Repulsed in this effort, they did not launch subsequent assaults on Charleston until 1780. From the description of Henry Clinton Collection, 1776. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 479547858 British general in American Rev...
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b56h3g (person)
Title: King of Great Britain and Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001084.0x0001b0 John Bennett of Symondsbury, Dorset, yeoman, was the grandfather of John Every, the ward of the Prince of Wales. Barbara Every was the widow of John Every, deceased, and mother of John Every, ward of the Prince of Wales. From the description of Lease from Charles, Prince of Wales, to John Bennett of Symondsbury,...
Lowell, John, 1824-1897
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Lowell graduated from Harvard College (1843) and the Law School (1846). From 1856 to 1860 he edited the Monthly Law Reporter in which he criticized the Dred Scott decision. In 1865, President Lincoln appointed him United States district judge for Massachusetts and in 1878 he became circuit court judge for the first circuit focusing on common law and patents. From the description of The judicial opinions of John Lowell, 1878-1882. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 7844...
Roxburghe, John Ker, Duke of, 1740-1804
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sq94kw (person)
Bibliophile. From the description of Letter of John Ker, Duke of Roxburghe, 1788. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015432 Book collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London] to an unidentified bookseller, 1791 Feb. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619199 From the description of Autograph note signed : London, 1789 Feb. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619195 ...
Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nq2tck (person)
Charles Curtis "God-Sent into Politics" A champion jockey in his youth, Charles Curtis recalled that once before a race in Texas, a horse owner called him over for final instructions. The man, seated with a rifle across his lap, said, "Son, the last dollar I have in the world is on this race. If you don't win, don't stop when you cross the finish line. Keep right on going." Curtis won that race and many more. Famous for his one-eighth Native American ancestry, he rose to prominence in the ...
Jesus Christ
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w628066c (person)
Dubourjal, Savinien Edme (French painter, born 1795 or 1797, died 1853)
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c96sx7 (person)
Leney, William Satchwell, 1769-1831
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sb7v7j (person)
F. Chantry.
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Morse, William Inglis, 1874-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67948s7 (person)
William Inglis Morse (1874-1952) was an author, historian, minister, collector of Canadiana, and philanthropist. From the description of William Inglis Morse papers, 1938-1949 (bulk), 1780-1949 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612808431 Morse was a Nova Scotian and historian of the Maritime Provinces. He was a collector of Canadiana. From the description of William Inglis Morse collection of manuscripts concerning Canada, 18---1937. (Harvard...
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g0ks9 (person)
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)....
Kellogg, Clara Louise
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6251q41 (person)
Epithet: singer and impresario British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000562.0x0000ff ...
Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g0jrf (person)
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 ...
R. Hinshelwood.
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Edwards, W. Joseph, active 1843-1867
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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Abbotsford, Melrose, to the Marchioness of Abercorn, [1818] Mar. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 747107129 From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified to Charles [Sharpe], [1817 or later?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 745119219 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edinburgh, to [William Slade], 1803 June [3]. (Unknown). W...
Edward Finden.
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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...
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
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British statesman and prime minister. From the description of Papers, 1762-1884 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122417293 From the description of Papers, 1762-1884. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019673 Chancellor of the Exchequer. From the description of Document signed : [London], 1784 Apr. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270890755 From the description of Document signed : [London], 1787 Nov. 23. (U...
Fred N. Robinson.
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Dean & Munday
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Carter, Robert Brudenell, 1828-1918
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Lippman, Walter, 1889-1974.
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Lowes Dickinson.
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Ernst Hader.
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F. H. Campbell.
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The Edgeworth family.
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Edmonston Studio.
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Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903
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Born 1820; educated at Hinton Charterhouse near Bath, 1833-1836; assistant schoolmaster at Derby, 1837; worked as a draftsman and engineer during the building of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, 1837-1841; sub-editor of the Pilot , the organ of the Complete Suffrage Movement, 1844; occupied himself anew with engineering, 1844-1846, and experimented with mechanical inventions, 1846-1847; sub-editor of The Economist in London, 1848-1853; visited house of John Chapman, the advanced publisher,...
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) ...
Washington Allston.
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D. Appleton & Co.
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C. C. Little
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J. Partridge.
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Berthault, Pierre-Gabriel, 1737-1831
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Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935
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Peterborough (Hillsborough Co.), N.H. poet. From the description of Papers, 1928. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36405152 Robinson was an American poet. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1882-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365637 From the description of Letters to Harry de Forest Smith, 1888-1936 (inclusive), 1890-1900 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505878 From the description...
Happel, Eberhard Werner, 1647-1690
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W. L. Germon
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Wells, Susanna, -1763
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Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787
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Albert, le Grand, saint, 1193?-1280
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Achille Devéria.
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Curtis Studio
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Gore, Christopher, 1758-1827
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Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894
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Josiah Dwight Whitney was born on November 23, 1819 in Northampton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1839 (B.A.) and studied geology in Europe. He participated in the Lake Superior region survey (1847-1849) and several other expeditions through the 1860s. Whitney taught at Harvrd University and published several works on geology. He died in Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire on August 19, 1896. From the guide to the William Dwight Whitney family papers, 1778-1951, 1814-1912,...
Margaret Thomas
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Angelidis
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Photogravure Co.
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Henry, James.
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G. Sanders.
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Mary, of Modena, Queen, consort of James II, King of England, 1658-1718
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913
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Edwards, William Camden, 1777-1855
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Gio. Battista Nocchi.
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Illman, Thomas
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John Brain.
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Mote, William Henry
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Borden, Robert Laird, Sir, 1854-1937
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Sir Robert Laird Borden was a Canadian political leader and prime minister between 1911-1920. He guided Canada through World War I and, through astute bargaining, achieved equal status for Canada with England within the Commonwealth. From the description of Robert Laird Borden papers. 1886-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225144426 Robert Laird Borden was born in Grand Pr,̌ Nova Scotia in 1854. Educated in his home province, Borden accepted a teaching position in New Jer...
Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814,
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Born Marie Josephe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie on the island of Martinique, she was married to Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais in 1779. He was guillotined in 1794. She was introduced to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1795 and married him in 1796. He made her his empress in 1804, but divorced her in 1810. She retired to Malmaison, her country home, where she died in 1814. From the description of [Letters] / Josephine. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 171160047 ...
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 1619-1683
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Colbert was the controller general of finance under King Louis XIV of France from 1665-1668. From the description of Memoires sur les ordonnances en général, [166-]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 71062398 Jean Baptiste Colbert served as the French minister of finance under King Louis XIV and achieved a reputation for his work of improving French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from bankruptcy. He created a favorable balance of trade and incr...
Simon van de Pass.
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Barnes, Albert, 1798-1870
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Prominent New School Presbyterian pastor, theologian, abolitionist, and temperance advocate; Barnes authored a complete series of New Testament Commentaries. From the description of Papers, 1834-1880 (bulk, 1834-1870). (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 47855997 American abolitionist. From the description of Albert Barnes letter, 1863 July 10. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936487 American Presbyterian clergyman. ...
Henry James III
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Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion), 1854-1909
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Novelist. From the description of Letter and photographs [manuscript] 1894 April 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647943005 From the description of Letters to James Rennell Rodd, Baron Rennell [manuscript] 1884-1887. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647943002 Francis Marion Crawford was born in 1854 in Bagni di Lucca (Italy), to American parents: the sculptor Thomas Crawford (1813?-1857), and Louisa Cutler Ward Crawford (later Terry), Ju...
David, Edwin
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W. T. Mote.
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Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686
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Treasurer of the navy, 1667. From the description of Signature to documents issued from the Navy Office, 1667 Jan. 3-1668 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132689 British statesman. Was born at Dublin July 1614, was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1634. Having made the grand tour he returned to Ireland; and being employed by the parliament in a mission to the Duke of Ormonde, he succeeded in concluding a treaty ...
Appleton, Jesse, 1772-1819
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Jesse Appleton (1772-1819), a theologian and educator, was elected the second president of Bowdoin College in 1807. From the description of Letters, 1792-1813. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259114 American clergyman and educator. From the guide to the Jesse Appleton letter to Rev. Jedidiah Morse, 1806, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...
George Rockwood
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Lambert Weston & Son
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Marquis Fayette King.
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Leighton, Charles Blair (British painter and engraver, 1823-1855)
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H. Y. Robinson.
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Thorndike, Israel, 1755-1832
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Shipping merchant of Beverly, Mass. For many years Thorndike was a partner with his brother-in-law Moses Brown and George Dodge in the shipping firm of Brown and Thorndike, engaged in trade with the West Indies, the East Indies, and Calcutta, as well as with England and the Mediterranean ports. Business was moved to Boston in 1810. Thorndike served in the state legislature and was an early investor in manufacturing enterprises in New England. In 1818 he secured the important library of Americana...
J. Thomson.
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Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843
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Son of George III. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Kensington Palace, to Admiral G.C. Berkeley, 1811 July 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270887054 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to the Rev. William Douglas, "about 1824." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270887059 From the description of Autograph extracts from the Psalms : Kinmel, 1836 Oct. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129660 From the description of Aut...
Hall, Nathan Kelsey, 1810-1874
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U.S. postmaster general, U.S. representative from New York, lawyer, and jurist. From the description of Appointments of Nathan Kelsey Hall, 1851. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450716 Born in Marcellus, Onondaga County, N.Y.; moved to Wales, Erie County, N.Y. in 1826. Became a clerk and student in Millard Fillmore's law office in Aurora. Held many positions in local government between 1830 and 1840. Entered into law partnership with Fillmore and Solomon G. Haven in 1836. A...
Coleman & Remington
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Milnor, James, 1773-1845
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Milnor was a Representative to Congress from Pennsylvania; he had been a student at the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1812. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 190872851 U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, lawyer, and later, an Episcopal clergyman in Philadelphia, Pa., and New York, N.Y. Variant spelling James Milner. From the description of James Milnor papers, 1811. (Unknown). WorldCat re...
Rotch, Benjamin
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Bascom, H. B. (Henry Bidleman), 1796-1850
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Mirabeau, Víctor de Riquetti, marquis de, 1715-1789
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French economist associated with the Physiocratic school. From the description of Letter, 1787 September 14, to the députés of Nemours. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122644793 From the description of Letter, 1783 June 14, to M. le Banneret d'Ostervald. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866737 ...
McQueen.
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Hy Dawe.
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Marceau
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Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870
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Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810.
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The Chevalier d'Eon was a French diplomat and spy, who lived first as a man and later as a woman. From the description of Additional papers, 1762-1802. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612844422 From the guide to the Additional papers, 1762-1802., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Eon de Beaumont was a French diplomat, writer, spy, and cross-dresser. From the description of Papers, 1769-1797. (Harvard University). W...
Page, William, 1811-1885
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Portrait and figure painter. From the description of Letter : New York, to John Sartain, 1875 Dec. 9. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28489467 Portrait, figure painter; New York. Page was married three times; his first wife was Lavinia Twibill, sister of painter,? divorced c. 1843, second was Sara A. Dougherty. In 1857 he married Sophia Candace Stevens Hitchcock, daughter of Henry Stevens, an important bibliographer and bookseller. William a...
François Séraphin Delpech.
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Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
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H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells (b. September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England-d. August 13, 1946, London, England), best remembered for imaginative novels such as The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, prototypes for modern science fiction, was a prolific writer and one of the most versatile in the history of English letters. He produced an average of nearly three books a year for more than fifty years, in addition to hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. His works ranged from f...
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...
Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth.
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Augustus, John, 1785-1859
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Augustus frequented the Municipal and Police Courts but was not a member of the Massachusetts bar. A shoemaker by trade, he devoted himself to the reclamation of offenders and offered himself as bondsman in exchange for the good behavior of the individual charged. From the description of Bail records for the police court of Boston, Massachusetts made by John Augustus, 1841-1854. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235092957 ...
George Baxter.
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Freeman, H. W. (Harold Webber), 1899-
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John, Graham
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The Russian émigré painter and writer John Graham, born Ivan Dombrowsky, was born in Kiev in 1886, 1887, or 1888. All three conflicting dates are found on various legal papers, licences, and passports. His parents were of minor nobility but with little means. He attended law school and served in the Circassian Regiment of the Russian army, earned the Saint George's Cross during World War I, and was imprisoned as a counterrevolutionary by the Bolsheviks after the assassination of Cza...
Harding and Lepard
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J. Sartain.
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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 ...
James Cochrane & Co.
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Martin and Johnson
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Collier, David S.
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H.B. Hall's Sons
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Michelet, Jules, 1798-1874
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Hubard, William James, 1807-1862
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rj5h42 (person)
Richmond, Va., artist. From the description of Papers : of William James Hubard, 1822-1933. (Valentine Richmond Historical Center). WorldCat record id: 29551574 ...
J. E. Purdy
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Anthony Van Dyck.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dk98r0 (person)
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ns0s96 (person)
American painter, etcher and author. From the description of Autograph letters, signed with his name : Lindsey Houses, Chelsea, and 28 Wimple Street, to [James Key] Caird and J.E. Millais, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588842 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Miss Cobden, [May 1881/1884]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270587769 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to Waldo Story, the sculptor, pos...
Madame Meyer.
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Barker, Elizabeth Hazard, 1783-1871
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Sarah Moorhead.
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Shuttleworth, Janet, 1817-1872
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Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902
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Godkin was an editor and political writer. He was founder and first editor of The Nation (founded in 1865) and later also editor of the New York Evening Post. From the description of Edwin Lawrence Godkin papers, 1845-1927. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612368182 American journalist and essayist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, Wednesday 12th. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269587330 Edwin Lawrence Godkin was an author, journ...
J. Rogers.
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Cox, George C. (George Collins), 1851-1902
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Mach, Ernst, 1838-1916
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Austrian physicist and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Prague, to Wilhelm von Beetz, 1876 July 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606981 No letterhead; sent from Vienna. From the description of Typed form letter, signed, 1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122546275 ...
Black & Case
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Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868
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Lawyer from Pennsylvania who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1859 and served as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. After the war, he led the Radical Republicans, opposing both Lincoln and then Andrew Johnson, endorsing military occupation of the South. When Johnson opposed ratification of the 14th Amendment, Stevens led the call for his impeachment. From the description of Letter, Dec. 7, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record i...
Toronto Eng. Co.
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Pach Bros
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J. W. Cook.
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Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ft8q53 (person)
George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) was an American portrait painter. He studied in Paris and painted in the U.S. and Europe. His best known works were portraits of Daniel Webster, Longfellow, and a series of U.S. presidents. From the guide to the G.P.A. Healy papers, 1843-1953, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Portrait and historical painter. Healy painted in the U.S. and Europe. From the description of George Peter Alexande...
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849
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Irish novelist and educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Edgeworth's Town, Ireland, to August Louis, Baron de Staël-Holstein and Achille-Léon-Victor, Duc de Broglie, 1826 May 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270994866 Irish-English novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Dominique François Jean Arago, the French scientist, [n.d., paper is watermarked 1818]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742984 ...
F. Bonneville.
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Miss S. Goodrich.
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, (born September 29?, 1547, Alcalá de Henares, Spain—died April 22, 1616, Madrid), was a Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet. He is the author of Don Quixote. Britannica (2 April 2018): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Miguel-de-Cervantes ...
Guy Ayrault.
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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...
Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900
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Charles Dudley Warner was an American editor, essayist, and novelist. Born in Plainfield, Mass., Warner spent most of his childhood years in Charlemont, Mass. Following graduation from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and legal training at the University of Pennsylvania, Warner practiced law in Chicago, returning to the East Coast to assume editorial positions at The Hartford press (later Hartford courant) and Harper's magazine. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and ...
Augustus Halbert.
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Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642
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French bishop and cardinal, he served as the French Secretary of State, 1616-1618 and as the chief minister of France under Louis XIII, King of France, 1624-1642. From the description of [Note] 1627 may 14 / Armand Card de Richelieu. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 320955000 ...
Arthur Dexter.
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Merigot
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Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683
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Epithet: writer, author of 'The Compleat Angler' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x0003e1 Epithet: of Seal CVIII British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x0003e4 ...
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
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Joseph Conrad, a major British writer, was born in Poland and became a British subject in 1887. After a twenty year career at sea, he published his first novel, "Almayer's Folly" (1895), successfully launching his writing career. From the description of Letters-Manuscripts, 1908-1913. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122588887 Novelist and short story writer who was born Jozef Konrad Teodor Korzeniowski in Berdichev, Ukraine, and became a British citizen in...
Pietro Carloni.
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L. Tallis
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Godets Freres
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Stevenson, M. I. (Margaret Isabella), 1829-1897
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Epithet: mother of R L Stevenson British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000411.0x0002b6 ...
E. W. Smith
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Edward Morin.
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George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
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King of England from 1727-1760. From the description of Writ, 1748 February 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122629412 George Augustus was born in Hanover, Germany on November 10, 1683, the only son of the elector of Hanover. In 1705 he married Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and they had nine children. During his reign as King of England, George II granted the charter to James Edward Oglethorpe, allowing for the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733. George ...
Montgomery, James, 1771-1854
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The poet James Montgomery was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, on 4 November 1771. He was sent to the Moravian school (the Moravians are a religious community) at Fulneck, near Leeds, and while there began writing poetry. Work followed in a bakery and then in a store, and then to the offices of the Sheffield Register . Facing prosecution, the proprietor and editor of the journal - a reformer - escaped to America, and Montgomery became the working editor and then the owner of the title which ...
Joseph Brown.
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W.W. Hughes & Edmonds
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
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Rowlandson, an English painter, satirist and caricaturist illustrated life in 18th century England depicting comic images and social types. From the description of A Glee; How shall we mortals spend our hours? : engraving. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863497 Epithet: draper British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000161.0x00037b Epithet: painter British Library Archives and Manuscr...
Roland de la Platière, Jean-Marie, 1734-1793
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French Revolutionary statesman. From the description of Letter signed (in the hand of Mme. Roland) : [Lyons], to an unidentified official, 1787 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657146 From the description of Letter signed : Paris, to customs officials, 1792 Nov. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657176 From the description of Letter signed : Paris, to the Commissioners of the Treasury, 1792 Oct. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657164 ...
Thomas Uwins.
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Bennett, William Mineard 1778-1858
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Bentley, Richard
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Epithet: of Add MS 11357 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x000384 Epithet: I publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x0002dd Epithet: of Add MS 32903 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x000387 Epithet: grandson of Dr. Ri...
M. Weekes.
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Tingley, George E.
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Buckingham, William A. (William Alfred), 1804-1875
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U.S. senator and governor of Connecticut. From the description of Letter of William A. Buckingham, 1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452131 Gov. of Connecticut. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Hubert P. Main, 1870 Mar. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530879 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Norwich, Connecticut, to O.D. Barrett, 1873 Nov. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526212 From...
Mayall, J. E. (John Jabez Edwin), 1813-1901
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Tucker, Samuel, 1747-1833
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Continental navy officer. From the description of Papers of Samuel Tucker, 1777-1781. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80033141 Tucker was a commodore in the American navy during the Revolutionary War. From the description of Papers, 1774-1847. (Harvard University, Wadsworth House). WorldCat record id: 84883442 From the description of Papers, 1774-1847. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612373261 From the guide to the Papers, 1774-1847., (...
A & J Bool
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Caroline Watson.
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J.W. Black & Co.
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John Johnston.
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Johnson, Fy & Co.
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Georgie Yeats.
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Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.
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Novelist. From the description of Papers, 1952-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155457225 Henry Miller (1891-1980) was an American author. He was known for his experimental, surrealist novels, such as Tropic of Cancer, which mixed fiction and autobiography. His writing was controversial for its graphic depictions of sexuality, leading to a 1964 obscenity trial in the United States, Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein. From the guide to the Henry Miller Letter, unda...
Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768
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Thomas Secker (1693-1768) was born at Sibthorpe, Nottinghamshire. He was educated under Samuel Jones (c. 1680-1719), and studied medicine in London and Paris, 1716-1720 (M.D., Leyden, 1721). He graduated at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1721, and was ordained deacon in 1722, and priest in 1723. He became a prebendary of Durham in 1727, and was Bishop of Bristol, 1735-1737, and of Oxford, 1737-1738. He became Dean of St Paul's, London, in 1750, and was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1758 until his de...
W. B. O. Field
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Henry Richards.
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Monteith, Wilhemina.
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Amy Lowell.
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Grave, Robert
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Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687
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Epithet: poet and writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000572.0x000327 Epithet: Dr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000572.0x000326 Epithet: senior British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000572.0x000328 Charles Cotton (1630-1667) was a poet, satiri...
C. Dittmarsch
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D. Kimberly.
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Drummond, Henry, 1851-1897
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Scottish, evangelist, writer, lecturer. Noted for the published sermon "The greatest thing in the world." From the description of Henry Drummond letters to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894, undated. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 636067773 ...
Montgomery, Richard, 1738-1775
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Brigadier General Montgomery was killed five months later during the siege of Quebec. From the description of ALS, 1775 July 21 : Philadelphia, to James Duane. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 13785649 Army officer. From the description of Papers of Richard Montgomery, 1775. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070613 From the description of Orderly book of Richard Montgomery, 1775. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070906 From...
Barbiano, Giacomo de.
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J. Wright
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Strong, William
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Gurnen
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Gambetta, Léon, 1838-1882
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Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814
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Helmholtz, Hermann von 1821-1894
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Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German scientist and philosopher. From the guide to the Letters to various correspondents, 1847-1891., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German scientist and philosopher. From the description of Letters to various correspondents, 1847-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405116 German physicist. From the descrip...
John Hoppner.
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Photography Incorporated
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James Frothingham.
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Lowes, John Livingston, 1867-1945
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Lowes was an American scholar of English literature, especially the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. At the time of these letters he was professor at Harvard University. Grace Hazard Conkling was a professor of English at Smith College (1914-1947) and the author of many books of poetry. From the description of [Letters to Mrs. Conkling, 1920-1922] / John L. Lowes. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259487545 Lowes received a doctorate from Harvard in 1903 and taught Engl...
Waldo & Jewett.
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Esson, James
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Van Horne, William Cornelius, Sir, 1843-1915
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Adolphe Alphonse Géry-Bichard.
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Thayer's Lithographers
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Mrs. Conant.
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Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...
Hillhouse, James, 1754-1832
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Albert Newsam.
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Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560
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Humanist and reformer; friend and colleague of Martin Luther. From the description of Paulus spricht zu den Colossern, 1551. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122576370 German theologian and Protestant reformer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Nuremberg, to his son-in-law Caspar Peucer, [1555] Feb. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270637323 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wittenberg, to an unidentified recipient year not...
Samuel Freeman.
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Elliott, Maud Howe, 1854-1948
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American writer married to John Elliott, an English artist. Author of 20 books and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for a biography of her mother. From the description of Maud Howe Elliott letters and manuscripts [manuscript], 1896-1932. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 182831112 Newport author. Wife of artist John Elliott (1859-1925). Daughter of Julia Ward Howe (abolitionist, suffragist, author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic") and Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe (founder...
Francis, Philip, 1740-1818
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British civil servant. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : to his wife, London, Aire and Brussels, 1765 May 25-1767 Aug. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270750268 From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1788 Feb. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270750282 From the description of Autograph letters signed (12) : London and Calcutta, to Philip Baggs , 1770 Dec. 11 to 1776 Sept. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270750252 From ...
Brown, William Garrott, 1868-1913
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William Garrott Brown was a historian, biographer, and essayist, of Marion, Alabama, and Cambridge, Massachusetts who graduated from Harvard College in 1891. From the guide to the William Garrott Brown papers, 1898-1917, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) Brown (1868-1913) taught history at Harvard and served as Deputy Keeper of University Records at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Garrott Brown, 1898. (Ha...
H. Landseer.
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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...
C. Ferranti
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Campbell, Thomas, 1777-1844
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Thomas Campbell was a poet known for his war poems, including "Hohenlinden," "The Battle of the Baltic," and "Ye Mariners of England." He also published "The Pleasure of Hope" in 1799, "Gertrude of Wyoming" in 1809, and "Theodric" in 1824. From the description of Thomas Campbell papers, 1821-1846. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702147203 Thomas Campbell was born in Glasgow, studied law in Edinburgh (1797), and became Lord Rector of Glasgow University, 1826-1829, as well as a...
Beaufort, François de Bourbon, duc de, 1616-1669
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M. Arnault.
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Charles Akers.
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Zimmerman Bros.
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the foremost philosophers of the Enlightenment period. From the description of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Papers [manuscript]. [174-]-1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225564187 Swiss philosopher, writer, music theorist and composer. From the description of Collection of autograph letters : France, England, Switzerland, to various recipients, 1756-1789. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 714645189 From the description of Autogr...
Fratelli D'Alessandri (Firm)
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John Trumbull.
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Masséna, André, prince d'Essling, 1758-1817
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print, albumen
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Wendell, Evert Jansen, 1860-1917
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White, Henry Kirke, 1785-1806
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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....
J. E. (John Jabez Edwin) Mayall.
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Upton, George B. (George Bruce), 1804-1874
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Prance, Miles, fl. 1678-1689
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Gould and Lincoln
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Zorn & Co.
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Jean Audran.
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Adolphe Mouilleron.
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Hall, Arthur.
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Epithet: Reverend; of Hastings, county Sussex British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x0001b5 ...
Whitlock, Brand, 1869-1934
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U.S. minister to Belgium, 1914-1920. From the description of Letters from schoolchildren of Ghent, Belgium, 1915 March. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 14084889 Toledo mayor, lawyer, author, and diplomat. From the description of Letter, 1916 April 11, Brussels, to Alexander L. Smith, Toledo, Ohio. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13994096 Lawyer, author, mayor of Toledo, ambassador to Belgium. From the description of Le...
James II, King of England, 1633-1701
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Son of King Charles I, created Duke of York in 1634, and crowned King of England in 1685. From the description of Letter : Windsor, England, to the Earl of Rochester, 1684 Jul 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83918980 From the description of Letter : Windsor, England, to the Earl of Rochester, 1684 Jul 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148272 James II, king of England, 1675-1688. From the description of [Documents] / James R. (Smith College). WorldCa...
Conti, Armand de Bourbon, prince de, 1629-1666
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T. Johnson.
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John Taylor.
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Lawson, Prof
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Bowle, John, 1725-1788
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Sonrel, Antoine
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Wells, William, 1837-1902
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Alfred Johannot.
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Lèon Cogniet.
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Adolphe Varin.
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Mimoli Crawford.
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Wade, Allan, 1881-1955
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Johann, King of Saxony, 1801-1873
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Harcourt, Henri de Lorraine, comte de, 1601-1666
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Robert White.
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S. Keyser
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Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820
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Decatur was a U. S. naval officer known for his actions during the War of 1812 and against the North African pirates in the western Mediterranean. From the description of Letter, December 26, 1810. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 434841894 American naval officer. From the description of ALS : Washington, D.C., to John Bullus, 21 Feb. 1816. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122626164 American naval hero of t...
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist. From the description of Catharine Maria Sedgwick letters and portraits, 1837-1855. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 35155329 American author, pioneered the American domestic novel. From the description of Papers of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1801-1865 (bulk 1834-1865). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136087 American author. From the description of ...
Brooks, Charles Franklin, 1891-1958
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Brooks graduated from Harvard in 1911 and taught meteorology at Harvard. From the description of Letters from Harvard undergraduate Charles Franklin Brooks to his parents, 1908-1910. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77067776 Charles Franklin Brooks (1891-1958) earned his Harvard AB in 1911, his AM in 1912, and his Ph.D. in 1914 and taught meteorology at Harvard. He was born on May 2, 1891 in St. Paul, Minnesota to Morgan Brooks and Frona Marie Brooks. His Harvard Ph...
Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849
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Marguerite Gardiner, countess of Blessington, Irish-born British writer. Best remembered for her Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron, she was active in British literary circles of the first half of the 19th century. From the guide to the Lady Blessington manuscript material : 92 items, 1820-1849, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Irish writer and wife of the Earl of Blessington. From the description of L...
Henderson, John, 1747-1785
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English actor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Liverpool, to Isaac Reed, 1782 Aug. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270469020 ...
Potter, Alfred C.
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Boris
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Title: of Russia British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000302.0x000111 ...
B. (Benjamin) Cole.
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Ward, Thomas W. (Thomas Wren), 1786-1858
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Businessman. From the description of Thomas W. Ward correspondence, 1841 February 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981311 ...
Howells, Mildred, 1872-....
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Poet and short story writer; daughter of William Dean Howells. From the description of God's will [manuscript], 1913. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 741786541 William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American author, editor, and critic. Mildred Howells was an author and Howells' daughter. In 1959, Van Wyck Brooks published a biography of Howells: Howells, his life and world. From the description of Mildred Howells correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks...
Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844
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Writer, politician and financier, of Pennsylvania. From the description of Nicholas Biddle letters, 1817-1840, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34992389 José Francisco Correia da Serra was a Portuguese scholar, naturalist and diplomat. From the guide to the José Francisco Correia da Serra letters, 1810-1823, 1810-1823, (American Philosophical Society) William Clark requested that Nicholas Biddle, scholar, statesman, and financier, writ...
Oliver Ditson &Co.
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Vistus Balch.
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Thou, Jacques-Auguste de, 1553-1617
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French lawyer, magistrate and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Isaac Casaubon in London, 1611 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572452 Jacques Auguste de Thou was a French writer, historian, statesman, and a principal architect of the Edict of Nantes and signer of the Treaty of Loudun in 1616. His political offices included Counsellor of State and Director of Finances. He served as the head of the Royal Library ca. 1591. ...
Ransome, George
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Hill House (Hamilton, Bermuda Islands).
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Norton, Jane.
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Moore
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A. Marshall
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J. Cochran.
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George Richmond.
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E. Mackenzie.
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Davis, William Morris, 1850-1934
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Epithet: American geographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x0001d0 William Morris Davis (1850-1934) earned his Harvard S.B. in 1869. He taught geology and geography at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Morris Davis, ca. 1878-ca. 1930 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069254 Frank Spooner Churchill served as the resident physician on this exc...
Henty, G.A. (George Alfred), 1832-1902
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English author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to "Dear Lassie" [Helen F. Levy], [no year] May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270469481 ...
Dorr, Julia C. R. (Julia Caroline Ripley), 1825-1913
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Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr was an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism, contributing to Century and Atlantic monthly among others. A graduate of Middlebury College, she lived most of her life in Vermont. From the description of Julia C.R. Dorr poem, 1878 Nov. 4. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49419327 American novelist and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rutland, Vt., to Charles Edwin Hurd, lite...
Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893
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Noted American historian from Massachusetts who traveled the Oregon Trail and published extensively on early America. From the description of Letter, November 27, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 233593490 Francis Parkman, historian, was born in Boston and educated at Harvard, his father's alma mater. Samuel Parkman was a Unitarian pastor who founded The Parkman Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care in The Cambridge Theological ...
Notman, James
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James B. Longacre
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Auguste Bry.
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Ed. Schuler.
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Julius Schnorr.
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Marshall & Chute
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W. Evans.
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Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of, 1826-1902
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Governor-General of India; resident of "Clandeboye," County Down, Northern Ireland. From the description of Papers, 1870-1895; (bulk 1886-1888). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19212583 ...
Roland, Mme (Marie-Jeanne), 1754-1793
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French revolutionary of the Girondist faction; wife of Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière. From the description of Autograph letter : place not specified, to Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, 1783 Jan. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 708090635 From the description of Autograph letter : place not specified, to Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière, [1784 Apr. 24]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 708247795 From the description of Autograph fragment of a letter : place n...
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919
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English novelist; daughter of W. M. Thackeray. From the description of Prayer : autograph manuscript : [n.p.], 1865 June 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858284 Ann Isabella Ritchie was the elder daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1861), a well-known Victorian novelist. Anne was a prolific novelist, essayist and writer of memoirs. By 1875, The Works of Miss Thackeray had been published in eight volumes (Smith, Elder & Company), extended to 15 volumes by 18...
R. Hicks.
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A. L. Merritt.
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Grolier Club
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The Grolier Club was founded in Jan. 23, 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." From its early days the Club has maintained a library related to collecting, bibliography and books about books. A library endowment fund (sometimes referred to as the "Library Fund) for the Grolier Club was first proposed in 1921, and the first fund-raising campaign amo...
Hay, John, 1838-1905
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Brown class of 1858. Secretary to Abraham Lincoln; Ambassador to Court of St. James; Secretary of State; author. From the description of Papers, 1829-1916. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122598680 American diplomat and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cleveland, to the editors of The Critic [Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder], 1884 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644640373 Statesman, poet, Secretary of State. ...
Gissing, George, 1857-1903
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Important late Victorian novelist. From the description of Earl Daniels Collection of George Gissing. (Colgate University). WorldCat record id: 31469731 English novelist. From the description of Letters to Algernon Gissing, 1881-1886. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34566949 Gissing and Roberts were friends from the time that they were classmates at Owens College. From the description of Correspondence from Morley Roberts, 1884-...
J. Hogarth.
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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/...
Richard Rothwell.
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G. C. Cox.
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Lawrence, Abbott, 1792-1855
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Biographical note: Boston merchant; Abbott Lawrence was in partnership with his brother Amos, founded and developed the textile-manufacturing city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, represented his district in Congress (1834-1836, 1838-1840), and was U.S. minister to Great Britain (1849-1852). Richard Henry Wilde (1878-1847) was an American lawyer, scholar and poet. He was Attorney General of Georgia (1811) and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1815-1817, 1825, 1827-1835). From...
Leroux.
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Bowring, Sir John.
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Israel Gollancz
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Rogers, Samuel, 1763-1855
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British poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Catherine Dickens, 1846 Oct. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 469692967 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Catherine Dickens, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 469622382 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Catherine Dickens, 1843 Dec. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657034 Samuel Rogers was born near London to a wealt...
Faÿ, Bernard 1893-1978
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Faÿ (1893-1978) was a French historian of Franc-American relations who wrote extensively against the Masons. He was part of the Vichy government in France during the German occupation. In particular, he is remembered for the assistance he provided in protecting Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Jewish-Americans who remained in France during World War II. From the description of [Autograph fragment] / B. Faÿ. [20th century] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 191100930 ...
Lombardi & Co.
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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...
Michaud, J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.), 1767-1839
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L. Turgis
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Jourdan, Jean-Baptiste, 1762-1833
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J. Andrews
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I. Fielding
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
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Charles Robert Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. His father, Robert Waring Darwin (1766-1848), was a physician, the son of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), a poet, philosopher, and naturalist. Robert established a successful medical practice in Shrewsbury where he was known for his kindness extended to the poor. He was financially quite successful and willing to support his sons in their various endeavors. Although not a prolific writer, he was elected to the Royal Society ...
Cranstoun, William Henry, 1714-1752
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Wolf, Werner, 1945-....
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Longman & Co.
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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...
Fairburn, John
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A. Oleszczynski.
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Derwent Coleridge.
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Thomas Carlyle.
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Halpin, Frederick W., 1805-1880
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Katharine C. Loring
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I. Sewell
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London Printing and Publishing Company
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J. Eastham & Bassano
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Irving, Henrietta.
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Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896
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Mathew Brady was a prominent American photographer, best known for his battlefield photos during the Civil War. From the description of Mathew Brady letter, Washington, D.C., to E.C. Stedman, 1879 March 20. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 82087446 From the description of Letter, Washington, D.C., to E.C. Stedman, 1879 March 20. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50061938 Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1823-1896) was a...
Gutenberg Museum.
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Alois Lang.
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Neal, Daniel, 1678-1743
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Epithet: historian of the Puritans British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001297.0x0002d6 ...
J. Dalton.
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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...
Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643
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Seventeenth century King of France. From the description of Papers, 1610. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36272547 Louis XIII, king of France, 1610-1643. From the description of [Document] 1642 déc. 20, Paris / Louis, Bouthillier. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259484806 ...
W. R. Atkinson.
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
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Dramatist and Parliamentary leader. From the description of Autograph address on an envelope signed : Dublin Castle, to Edmond Malone 1785 Oct. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662003 From the description of Autograph letter in the third person : to Mr. Elliston, the actor, 1795 July 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662070 From the description of Autograph address on an envelope signed : to R.W. Elliston. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270661995 Ep...
Gardner, Amory
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Wagstaff, Charles Edward, 1808-1850
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Epithet: portrait engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000701.0x0001cc ...
W. & D. Downey
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Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881
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Benjamin Disraeli was a prominent British statesman and novelist who served in many positions including Prime Minister of Great Britain. From the description of Letters, 1799-1877. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 276297717 English Prime Minister. From the description of Letter signed : "10 Downing Street, Whitehall, ", to Vice Admiral Erasmus Ommanney, 1877 Aug. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270537555 Benjamin Disraeli (1804-18...
Newton, William John, Sir, 1785-1869
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English miniature painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Argyle St. [London], to David Roberts, 1849 Mar. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609759 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Argyle St. [London], to William Brockedon, 1829 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609761 British engraver. From the description of Letter : London, to George Jones, 1854 May 7. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 785...
Tileston, Edmund Pitt, 1805-1873
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Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847
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English theologian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to Robert Malthus, 1821 July 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270876658 ...
Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of, 1517?-1547
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Punderson, Lemuel Swift, 1782?-
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Attorney and land agent in Burton, Ohio, for William Ely, of Hartford, Conn., Henry Thorndike, of Fitzwilliam, N.H., and John Wyles, of Brimfield, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1810-1826. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22441933 Lemuel S. Punderson: worked as an engraver in New York, 1850-1855; moved to New Haven in 1855 and established an engraving business; author. From the description of Lemuel Swift Punderson papers, 1800-1899 (inc...
W. Jeffrey
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Nilsson, Christine, 1843-1921
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Swedish soprano. From the description of "Neckens Polska" : autograph manuscript, 1881 Dec. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270568067 From the description of Autograph note on her visiting card : [London, n.d.], to [Joseph Bennett], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582969 From the description of Autograph letter in the third person, dated : [n.p., London?], 29 May 1870, to Miss Holden, 1870 May 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873598 Swedish...
Buck, Adam, 1759-1833
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Irish artist. From the description of A collection of drawings and engravings from paintings on Greek vases, 1832 [microform] / drawn and etched by Adam Buck ; selected from various collections now in England. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 82490552 ...
Dallas, Alexander James, 1759-1817
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Lawyer; U.S. district attorney for eastern Pennsylvania, 1801-1814; secretary of the Treasury, 1814-1816. From the description of AL (draft), [ca. 1811 Aug.], Philadelphia, to [Caesar Augustus Rodney?]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122524906 From the description of AL, [ca. 1809 Nov.], Philadelphia, to Albert Gallatin. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122585765 U.S. secretary of the treasury, lawyer, and author. ...
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
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French writer. From the description of Mon salon, corrected proof, 1866. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80803997 From the description of Letters, 1858-1860, to Paul Cezanne. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84387915 Zola was a French novelist, critic, and political activist. The Dreyfus Affair was the controversy that occurred with the treason conviction (1894) of Capt Alfred Dreyfus (1859c1935), a French general staff officer. Zola w...
Grew, Elizabeth S. P.
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Georgina Lowell
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Irving C. Baldwin
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Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, 1717-1780
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Empress of Austria 1740-1780. From the description of Edicts, 1740-1742. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122630318 Mother of Marie Antoinette. From the description of Letter signed, with autograph postscript : Vienna, to the Count de Pallavicini, "Marechal de mes armées", 1761 Feb. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270867803 ...
Blanchard
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Epithet: Mr British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000126.0x0001e6 Epithet: of Add MS 16169 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000126.0x0001e7 ...
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914
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Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) was a physician, neurologist, poet, and novelist. From the description of S. Weir Mitchell correspondence, 1887-1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122570940 From the guide to the S. Weir Mitchell correspondence, 1887-1913, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) From the guide to the Letters from Silas Weir Mitchell to John Hay, 1897-1905, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...
Miss Goodrich.
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Dudley, Joseph, 1647-1720
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Col. Gov. of Mass. From the description of Order signed : Boston, addressed to Capt. William Pickering of the Province Galley, 1712 Apr. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742417 From the description of Order signed : Boston, addressed to Capt. Timothy Clark, 1703 Jun. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742411 Colonial Governor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Roxbury, Mass., to Major Leonard, Judge of the Interior Court of Bristol...
Naegeli.
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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he became the m...
David Gray.
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Poole, William, 1823-1855
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Epithet: Captain; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000491.0x000120 Epithet: Commander of HMS 'Happy Return' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000491.0x000130 Epithet: of Add MS 38204 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...
Peel, Robert, Sir, 1788-1850.
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Welch & Walter
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Hopwood, Derek, 1933-....
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Gush & Ferguson
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C. Corbould.
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Cobbett, William, 1763-1835
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William Cobbett, British journalist, writer and political activist. From the description of William Cobbett collection, 1787-1835. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82678663 From the description of William Cobbett collection, 1787-1835. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702161934 English journalist and political reformer; producer of Cobbett's Weekly Political Register from 1802 to 1835. Threatened with arrest for sedition, Cobbett took refuge in the United States from 18...
Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
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Samuel George Morton was a physician, naturalist, and anthropologist. From the description of Papers, 1819-1850. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122489495 From the description of Diary, 1833-[ca. 1837]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465849 From the description of Papers, 1838-1844. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 17270630 From the description of Letter book : Philadelphia, Pa., 1832-1837. (Peki...
Haeseler Photographic Studios
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F. (Francis) Croll.
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Garneau, F.-X. (François-Xavier), 1809-1866
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Hofmannsthal, Hugo von 1874-1929
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal was a German author, known as perhaps the most important Austrian writer of his era. Born in Vienna to prosperous Jewish parents, he was educated by private tutors and studied law and philology at the University of Vienna. He showed a precocious gift for poetry, and became equally prolific writing drama, fiction, and essays. He was influenced by the Symbolist tradition, and his work was self-consciously aesthetic, but his writing was always infused with his concern for harm...
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
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The German opera composer Richard Wagner was at the beginning of his career at the time of this letter. From the description of Manuscript copy of letter from Richard Wagner, 1832 June 15, Leipzig, addressed to Schott's Söhne, Mainz, [1896?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122571065 From the guide to the Manuscript copy of letter from Richard Wagner, 1832 June 15, Leipzig, addressed to Schott's Söhne, Mainz, 1896?, (The New York Public Library. Music Divisio...
E. H. Alley
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Anand Burt, Swami
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963
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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...
Samuel Cousins.
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Choate, William Gardner, 1830-1920
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Photogravure Co. of America
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Torlet, ...
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Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891
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American pioneer; first Governor of Minnesota. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to William L. Marcy, 1853 Mar. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664016 Fur trader; soldier; politician; Governor of Minnesota, 1850-1860. From the description of Papers, 1815-1830. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17998041 Henry Sibley was a general in the Confederate Army. From the de...
Collignon, François Jules, -1850
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A. & C. Dawson.
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Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806
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English poet and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to her publisher [Cadell], 1798 Jan. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270663279 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Weymouth, to Messrs. Cadell and Davies [London publishing firm], 1796 Sept. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664068 Charlotte Smith was a British poet and novelist. From the description of Letter, Petworth, to Thomas Cadell, and engra...
Charles Turner.
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Rice & Bliss
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Dequevauviller, François-Jacques, 1783-approximately 1848
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Davis, John, 1787-1854
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John Davis (1787-1854) of Massachusetts was serving in the U.S. Senate at the time this letter was written. He served from March 4, 1835 to January 5, 1841, and March 24, 1845 to March 3, 1853. From the description of Letter : Washington, D.C., to J. G. Marshall, Hancock County, West Virginia, [1835?-1853?] February 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122609063 American statesman and Governor of Massachusetts. From the guide to the John Davis testimony and affidav...
Lever, Charles James, 1806-1872
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British novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Bregenz], to Edward Chapman of Chapman and Hall, publishers, 1847 Jan. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590332 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Florence, to Mr. Chapman of Chapman and Hall, 1854 Feb. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590629 Irish novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : La Spezia, to Charles Dickens, 1860 Oct. 21. (Unknown). ...
Michael Dahl.
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Story, Joseph, 1779-1845
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Jurist, politician, and professor of law Joseph Story (1779-1845) was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts on September 18, 1779. He received an AB from Harvard in 1798, an AM in 1801, and an LLD in 1821; he also received law degrees from Brown University and Dartmouth College. In 1802, Story married Mary Lynde Oliver. After Mary's death in 1805, Story married Sarah Waldo Wetmore in 1808. Story practiced law in Salem, Mass. and served as a representative in the state legislature before b...
Tooke, John Horne
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Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
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English field marshal. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Jameson Tennent, 1835 Jan. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270856519 British statesman and army officer. From the description of Papers, 1819-1904; (bulk 1819-1850). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20273724 British general and statesman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : to Messrs. Jones & Co., 1806 Feb. 25-1806 Mar. ...
Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, 1878-1957
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Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany was an author, aristocrat, adventurer, chessmaster, and soldier; he is probably best known for writing fantasy fiction, ghost stories, and drama under the name Lord Dunsany. Raised on the family estate in County Meath, Ireland, he was influenced by Greek mythology and the Bible. A member of the Coldstream Guards, he fought in the Boer War, World War I, and the Easter Rebellion. A prolific and diverse writer, he is considered an early master of high...
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910
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James Frothingham Hunnewell (1832-1910) was the son of Captain James Hunnewell (1794-1869) and Susan Lamson Hunnewell of Charlestown, Massachusetts. His father was the founder of C. Brewer & Co., an international trading business. Hunnewell was a member of his father's business but also was a major New England antiquarian and collector of rare books. From the description of James Frothingham Hunnewell juvenilia and other papers, 1830-1840. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id...
Leeds, Albert Ripley, 1843-1902
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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873
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Lawyer. From the description of Letter, 1845 March 4, Cincinnati, [Ohio], to Robert F. Paine, Columbus, O[hio]. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 13541605 Salmon P. Chase served as the Secretary of the Treasury from 1861 to 1864. He oversaw the creation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (1862) and implemented the introduction of the income tax and the national currency. From the description of Letter press book of the Secretary of the Treasury. 1863, Ju...
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861
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Arthur Hugh Clough, English Victorian poet. From the description of Arthur Hugh Clough manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1851-1856 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122379976 From the guide to the Arthur Hugh Clough manuscript material : 8 items, ca. 1851-1856, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Downing Street [London], to A...
S.G. Williams & Brothers
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Belle, Alexis-Simon, 1674-1734
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Prud'hon.
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John Cochran.
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Longueville, Henri I d'Orléans, duc de 1568-1595
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Norton, Elizabeth G.
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Norton was the daughter of Charles Eliot Norton. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1940. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 182787395 ...
Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840
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English statesman. From the description of Autograph letter, Saturday morning. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269520079 From the description of Autograph letter signed. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269520101 British statesman. From the description of Papers, 1806-1852. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19562184 Holland was a prominent Whig in Lords. From the description of ALS, [1829?] December 6, to John / Vassal Holl...
Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
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Benjamin Smith was a Philadelphia physician and naturalist. From the description of Correspondence, 1786-1815. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122380112 Benjamin Smith Barton was a Philadelphia physician and naturalist. From the description of A comparative vocabulary of Indian languages, [n.d.]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523582 From the description of Volumes, 1791-1812 (bulk). (Americ...
Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804
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Necker, a Swiss born, Protestant French statesman, was the finance minister of France (1776-1781). Necker played an important role in assisting the American Revolution of 1776, by providing finances for the American cause. From the description of [Letters, 1779-1789] / Necker. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 301351545 ...
W. Kurtz
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Cobb, David, 1748-1830
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Revolutionary War soldier and aide-de-camp to General George Washington, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and president of the Senate, physician, judge, member of Congress, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, and a founder of the Society of the Cincinnati and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At the time of this letter, Cobb was a resident of Gouldsboro, Maine. From the description of David Cobb letter, 1806 June 29. (Duke University Library). WorldCat...
G.P. Putnam & Co.
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Dixon, Joshua.
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Condé, Louis, prince de, 1621-1686
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The Condé family formed a branch of the house of Bourbon. Son of Henry II, Louis II was called "the great condé" and bore the title duc d'Enghien. From the description of Statement of protest, 1642 December 31 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647835071 From the description of Statement of protest, 1642 December 31. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 29734056 Louis Condé was a French soldier and representative of the Condé br...
Crowquill, Alfred
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English grammarian. From the description of Pictorial grammar, ca. 1838. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84095050 Pseudonym jointly used by Alfred Henry Forrester (1804-1872) and his brother Charles Robert Forrester (1803-1850). From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Burgess, 1869 June 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270877501 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Clapham Road, to Thomas Compton, 1866 Nov. 24. (Unknown...
Crystal Palace (New York, N.Y.)
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Hoffmann u. Campe
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Bonaparte, Paolina, 1780-1825
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Marie-Pauline was a younger sister of Napoleon I of France. She was married to General Charles Leclerc and after his death to Camillo Borghese. She posed for a partially nude sculpture by Antonio Canova as Venus Victrix. From the description of [Letters] / Pauline. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 172987661 ...
Béranger, Pierre-Jean de, 1780-1857
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French songwriter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to an unidentified man, 1849 Apr. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 589113115 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Passy, to Juliette Gautier, 1849 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 589077793 Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a French songwriter and satirist. After Napoleon's fall, he composed songs and poems satirizing the restored Bourbon monarchy and its government, lea...
Mrs. Edward S. Dodge
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Monti, Lovro 1835-1898
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A. R. Simmons
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O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847
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Irish politician. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) and annotated documents signed (2) : London and various places, to various recipients, 1826 June 1-1840 Sept. 23 and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270860058 Irish national leader. From the description of Order signed : to Mr. Dike, 1831 Aug. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612583 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dublin, to Edward Wyer, 1829 Feb. 5. (Un...
Fisher, Son & Co.
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Lawson, Andrew C. (Andrew Cowper), 1861-1952
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Biographical Information Andrew Cowper Lawson, geologist and professor, was born in Anstruther, Scotland, July 25, 1861, moving to Hamilton, Ontario when he was five. Graduating from the University of Toronto in 1883, he worked with the Canadian Geological Survey and continued his education, receiving a Masters in 1885. In 1888 he received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He continued work with the Canadian Geological Survey...
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
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Amy Crowe (1831-1865) was a family friend who lived with Thackeray as his adopted daughter and later married Thackerays̓ cousin Edward Talbot Thackeray. From the description of [Letter] to Amy Crowe, 27 September [1854], 36 Onslow Sqr. Brompton. [1854] (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 35091085 Thackeray was an English novelist and satirist. J. Pearson and Co. and George William Childs were booksellers in London. Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchi...
Rouers
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Rodríguez Marín, Francisco, 1855-1943
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Briggs, Henry Perronet, 1792-1844
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Painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1842 July 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132799 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Charles St., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133344 ...
Bolton, Henry Carrington, 1843-1903
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Epithet: American naturalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000217.0x00033c ...
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722
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John Churchill, created the 1st duke of Marlborough, was considered one of the greatest military leaders of Great Britain. He served with great distinction in the European wars of the latter part of the 17th and early 18th century. From the description of [Letter] 1711 Aug. 29 & 1711 Aug. 30, Camp before Bouchain [to] the Earl of Orrery / Marlborough. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 302412231 ...
R. E. Babson.
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J. Pass.
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Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit
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Composer. From the description of D. F. E. Auber miscellany, 1860-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122377121 Auber, French composer noted for his operas, including Manon. From the description of [Letter], 12 Jun. [18--] / Auber. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 152608612 French composer, pupil of Cherubini. Writer of grand operas and comic operas. From the description of Original manuscript copy of Fra Diavolo as sent to the printer b...
Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912
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U.S. politician, historian and newspaper editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cedarville, to Schuyler Colfax, 1863 Sept. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 649441349 American newspaperman, editor, diplomat, and historian. From the description of Papers of Whitelaw Reid [manuscript], 1878-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647879858 From the description of Papers of Whitelaw Reid, 1878-1893. (University of Virginia). ...
Peter Jackson
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George Roberts.
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Boughton, Alice, 1865-1943
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Notman, William
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Billings, Sherward
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Tupper, Charles, Sir, 1821-1915
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Sir Charles Tupper was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, 2 July 1821. He was educated at Horton Academy in Wolfville and graduated from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843 as an M.D. He returned to Canada shortly thereafter and began practicing in Amherst. In 1846 he married Frances Morse with whom he had six children. From the description of Charles Tupper fonds. [1866], 1887. (Dalhousie University, Killam Memorial Library). WorldCat record id: 437572979 ...
Club of Odd Volumes.
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Dupin, M. (André-Marie-Jean-Jacques), 1783-1865.
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Temple, Mary B. (Mary Boyce), 1856-
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Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943
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The daughter of Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe, Richards was the author of more than eighty books, most of them for young people. She and her sister, Maude Howe Elliott, wrote Life and Letters of Julia Ward Howe (1910), which received the first Pulitzer Prize for biography. For additional biographical information, see American Women Writers (1981). From the description of Letter, 1904. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008342 ...
James Lonsdale.
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Louis Rhead.
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Howe, Henry Marion, 1848-1922
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Professor of Metallurgy at Columbia University, 1897-1922. From the description of Henry Marion Howe papers, 1884-1916. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 496102531 ...
Swayne, Noah Haynes, 1804-1884
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Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, state legislator from Ohio, and lawyer. From the description of Noah Haynes Swayne signature, 1873 August 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980563 American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Clinton Rice, 1878 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270579131 Swayne practiced law in Coshocton, Ohio and served as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court (1862-1881). ...
Briggs, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1841-1913
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University of Virginia student; Union soldier, 7th New York; professor, Union Theological Seminary. From the description of Papers pertaining to Charles A. Briggs, 1913, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52627735 ...
Campbell, Amelia
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Evans, Donald, 1884-1921
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Journalist; editor; music; poet. From the description of Papers, 1904-1919. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 145430316 ...
H. Gugeler.
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Matthison, Edith Wynne, 1875-1955
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Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903
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Cassius Marcellus Clay was born to Sally Lewis and Green Clay, one of the wealthiest planters and slaveholders in Kentucky, who became a prominent politician. He was one of six children who survived to adulthood, of seven born. Clay was a member of a large and influential political family. His older brother Brutus J. Clay became a politician at the state and federal levels. They were cousins of both Kentucky politician Henry Clay and Alabama governor Clement Comer Clay. Cassius' sister Elizab...
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...
Cozzens, Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout), 1818-1869
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MacDonald, Pirie
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Pius VI, Pope, 1717-1799
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Giovanni Angelo Braschi; Pope, 1775-1799. From the description of Autograph signature to document, 1776 Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617548 Clergyman. From the description of Brief of Pius VI, Pope, 1775. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453967 Giovanni Angelo Braschi; Pope 1775-1799. From the description of Autograph signature to a document, 1790 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617552 Pope of the Catholic Ch...
Ridley, ...
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Storrs, Richard S. (Richard Salter), 1821-1900
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Richard Salter Storrs (1821-1900) was born in Braintree, MA into a family of clergymen. His great-grandfather, John Storrs (1735-1799), was a pastor in Southold, Long Island from 1763 to 1776, and again from 1782 to 1787. The eldest son of John Storrs, Richard Salter Storrs (1763-1819), was a pastor in Longmeadow, MA. His eldest son, also named Richard Salter Storrs (1787-1873), preached in Braintree, MA. As a fourth generation minister, Richard Salter Storrs (1821-1900)...
Pike, Albert, 1809-1891
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General Albert Pike (1809-1891), grand commander of the Supreme Grand Council, Southern Jurisdiction, of the Scottish Rite, 1859-1891. From the description of Letter to Bro. Hayden /by Albert Pike, 1885 Feb 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702128274 After his work as commissioner to the Indian tribes west of the Arkansas, Pike was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate Army in November, 1861. He recruited Native American troops on the promise that they would o...
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894
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American poet and water-colorist. From the description of Letters, 1872-1894. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233101484 Celia Laighton Thaxter was an American poet and essayist who lived much of her life in the Isles of Shoals, at first on White Island and later in a large cottage her brothers built for their parents on the island of Appledore, in which she eventually died. The family ran a hotel, Appledore House, which, along with Celia's cottage, burned...
Huet Villers.
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Field, Isobel, 1858-1953
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Isobel Field was the step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson. From the description of Isobel Field papers, 1949-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510426 Epithet: née Osbourne step-daughter of R L Stevenson British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001123.0x0002de Step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson. From the description of Typed letters signed (2) : Serena, Carpinteria, Californ...
Taunt's Photographs.
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William Boxall.
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Ferguson, Joseph P.
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Epithet: of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x0003b3 Epithet: Major British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x0003b2 Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000981.0x00039c ...
S. L. Stein
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Francis Holl.
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William Vander Weyde
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Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
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English painter and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 61 Promenade des Anglais [Nice], to Lady Duncan, 1865 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129778 From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : Cairo, Cannes, Paris, San Remo, and Botzen, to Mrs. (later Lady) Digby Wyatt, 1866 Dec. 30-1871 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598498 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Villa Tennyson, San Remo, to Wilkie [Col...
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838
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Epithet: Prince of Benevento, French diplomatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0000f2 French statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Avesne, to Edouard Colmache, his private secretary, 1835 Jun. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574456 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Valençay, to an unidentified "Madame", [no year] Sept. 22. (Unknown). ...
Hollinger & Rockey
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Fay, Theodore S. (Theodore Sedgwick), 1807-1898
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Theodore Sedgwick Fay was an American novelist and poet. In 1828 he joined N. P. Willis and George Pope Morris in the editorship of the New York mirror. In 1833 he began supplying the Mirror with a series of sprightly travel sketches from Europe. Edgar Allan Poe's excoriating review of Fay's popular novel, Norman Leslie, in 1835 launched Poe's career as a critic. After holding various diplomatic posts in London, Berlin, and Switzerland, Fay retired in 1861 to Germany where he died. F...
Benjamini Robert Haydon.
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R. H. Lord
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T. W.
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Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1813-1875
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Epithet: Engraver British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000361.0x00018c ...
Devon Lodge
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Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910
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English draughtsman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : London and Hampton Wick, to F.G. Kitton, 1895 Mar. 5 and Nov. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270851917 ...
Chandler, Charles Frederick, 1836-1925
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Charles Frederick Chandler was an important American chemist and chemical educator. He was deeply involved in issues of chemistry, mining, and public health throughout the last third of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. As a professor at Columbia University, he revolutionized chemical education in the United States and was a major proponent of practical, scientific education. He was deeply involved in professional organizations and kept scrupulously abreas...
Fox, Charles-James, 1749-1806
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Charles James Fox was born in London on January 24, 1749. After attending Eton and Oxford, his first political success came with his election to Parliament in 1768. Though he initially supported the government's efforts against the populist machinations of John Wilkes, Fox's political views began to shift after receiving and resigning a number of political appointments, leading him to increasingly ally himself with the Rockingham Whigs. During the early 1770s, Fox opposed the British economic po...
Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907
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Clergyman, editor, and abolitionist. From the description of Moncure Daniel Conway correspondence, 1889-1895. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79453541 American author and clergyman. From the description of Moncure Daniel Conway papers, 1847-1907. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 489376233 American author, publisher, clergyman. From the description of Papers of Moncure D. Conway [manuscript], 1859-1906. (Univer...
Blackstone Studios
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Geo. Kirchner & Co.
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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...
Mrs. Ralph Flanders.
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Wigglesworth, Mary, 1807-1882
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H. P. Tuttle
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Stereoscopic Co.
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Payne, Roger, 1739-1797
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English bookbinder. From the description of Letter : to Dr. Moseley, [17--]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122472901 ...
Bele, Nimrod.
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Lafayette Ltd.
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T. Blood.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
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Robert Lewis (later changed to "Louis") Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 13, 1850. He attended the University of Edinburgh intending to become a civil engineer like his father, but ill health curtailed his studies and prompted him to travel to warmer climates. This inspired Stevenson to write stories, novels and essays about his travels. While in France he met American artist Fanny Osbourne. The two fell in love, and in 1879 Stevenson traveled to California, where he...
Murray, John
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Epithet: publisher, d1843 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0002e6 Epithet: of Add MS 31910 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x0002a4 Epithet: Ambassador to Turkey (1765) British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000985.0x000298 Epithet: o...
Amhurst, N. (Nicholas), 1697-1742
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George T. Maxwell
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Alfred Croquis.
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John Jackson.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kf6kmz (person)
Montbazon, Hercule de Rohan, duc de, 1568-1654
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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
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Composer. From the description of Ludwig van Beethoven autograph letter to Count Franz von Brunswick, [1813]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 242622425 From the description of Ludwig van Beethoven autograph letter to Josef Blöchlinger, [1819 Aug.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 242622372 From the description of Ludwig van Beethoven autograph letter to the Chevalier Josef de Varena, 1812 July 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 242622275 From the description...
Gardner, Alan Gardner, Baron, 1742-1809
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British admiral; served against the Americans. From the description of Autograph letter in third person : Admiralty, to Messrs. Parker & Son, 1793 Feb. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269563104 British Admiral; served against the Americans. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Admirals Penn, 1787 May 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269563402 ...
Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842
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Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) was an Italian composer and music instructor. He was a child music prodigy who went on to write many popular operas as an adult. He moved to France in 1785, where he continued to live and work, successfully surviving the tumultuous regime changes of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. After the end of the eighteenth century, Cherubini's operatic work was less successful and so he began composing church music. In 1822, he became director of the prestigious Conser...
Butler, Elizur, 1794-1857
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Hopkins, Mark, 1802-1887
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Erlach, Jean Louis d', 1595-1650
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Ellen M. Due
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C. Cooke
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Pierre Mignard.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b98sjr (person)
Richard Lovell.
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Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867
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Lawyer, founder of Free Soil Party in Massachusetts, governor of Massachusetts, 1861-1866. From the description of ALS, 1861 Oct. 19, New York, N.Y., to an unknown correspondent. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122524861 Prominent anti-slavery lawyer and Civil War governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1772-1895, [microform]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 25618330 Andrew was Governor of Massachusetts ...
J. Robins & Co.
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A.W. Elson & Co
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Alonzo Chappel.
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Lowell, Charles, 1782-1861
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Charles Lowell (1782-1861) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard College in 1800. After studying law for a year he decided to pursue a career in ministry, and he traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied for the ministry until 1805. He then returned to the United States, and in 1806 was ordained as minister and pastor at the West Church in Boston . He married Harriet Spence in 1806, and the couple had six children, two of whom - Robert Trail Spence and James Russe...
Morse, William Inglis, 1874-
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William Inglis Morse (1874-1952) was an author, historian, minister, collector of Canadiana, and philanthropist. From the description of William Inglis Morse papers, 1938-1949 (bulk), 1780-1949 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612808431 Morse was a Nova Scotian and historian of the Maritime Provinces. He was a collector of Canadiana. From the description of William Inglis Morse collection of manuscripts concerning Canada, 18---1937. (Harvard...
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935
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Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmospher...
Dolben, John, 1625-1686
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Archbishop of York. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Henry Hynn, 1684 Mar. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270513784 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Mr. Henry Thynne, [ca. 1686-86]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270525550 ...
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...
Samuel Hill.
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Piatt, John James, 1835-1917
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Poet and journalist. From the description of Letter, 1878 January 11, Cincinnati, Ohio, to city editor of Boston evening journal. (University of Toledo). WorldCat record id: 14993504 American poet John James Piatt was born in Indiana, worked for the Ohio State Journal, and attended college in Ohio but did not graduate. He worked variously in journalism and as a civil servant in Washington, D.C., and eventually became United States consul in Cork, Ireland. He produced several...
P. Hill.
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Penn, William, 1644-1718
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The British colony of Pennsylvania was given to William Penn (1644-1718) in 1681 by Charles II of England in repayment of a debt owed his father, Sir Admiral William Penn (1621-1670). Under Penn's directive, Pennsylvania was settled by Quakers escaping religious torment in England and other European nations. Three generations of Penn descendents held proprietorship of the colony until the American Revolution, when the family was stripped of all but its privately held shares of land...
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
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José Francisco Correia da Serra was a Portuguese scholar, naturalist and diplomat. From the guide to the José Francisco Correia da Serra letters, 1810-1823, 1810-1823, (American Philosophical Society) English naturalist From the guide to the Sir Joseph Banks letters, 1802, 1803, 1804, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Scientist and explorer. President of the Royal Society. From the description of Letters and pa...
Bonaparte, François-Charles-Joseph, Herzog von Reichstadt, 1811-1832
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Son of Napoleon I. From the description of Autograph translation of a portion of Caesar and other historical exercises, 1828 Mar. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535983 From the description of Autograph copying book of letters and other writings, 1829 Dec.-1830 Jan. (Morgan Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 81020997 From the description of Autograph signature to military report, 1830 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270535578 ...
Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857
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White, Gilbert, d. 1727?
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Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872
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Publisher of Putnam's Magazine and founder of G. P. Putnam & Son[s]. From the description of George Palmer Putnam letters [manuscript], 1858-1870. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647998826 George Palmer Putnam (1814-1872) was a book and magazine publisher. From the description of George Palmer Putnam correspondence, 1843-1871. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122607941 From the guide to the George Palmer Putnam correspondence, 1843-1871, ...
Powers, Hiram, 1805-1873
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American sculptor. From the description of Horatio Nelson Powers letter to the Rev. W. Ware [manuscript], no year August 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647997942 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Florence, to Bayard Taylor, 1845 Oct. 9 and 1846 Feb. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618884 Sculptor; United States and Italy. From the description of Hiram Powers letters, 1852 Apr. 4-Dec. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat r...
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
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W.B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865-1939), poet and dramatist, born in County Sligo, Ireland. From the description of W.B. Yeats collection, 1875-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863171 British poet. From the description of Letter : to William Weber, Brooklyn, New York : holograph, 12 May [no year]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18786005 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist. From t...
Black and Case
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Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries
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K. Ogawa
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C. Nilson.
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Cory, William Johnson, 1823-1892
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William Johnson, younger brother of Australian novelist Mary Theresa Vidal (Mrs Francis Vidal), married Rosa Caroline Guille. Johnson was in college at Eton, 1832-1842; a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 1842-1845; and then an Eton master from 1845 to Easter 1872. Johnson changed his name to Cory in October 1872 and then lived in Madeira, and later in London. From the description of Correspondence [manuscript]. 1842-1892. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225825739 ...
Wide World Photos, Inc.
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Alman & Co.
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Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945
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Author Margaret Wade Campbell Deland was born in Allegheny, Penn. She became interested in the plight of unmarried mothers, taking them into her home until they could find proper jobs. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letters, 1884-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007073 Margaret Deland was born in Western Pennsylvania, was educated in New York, and lived much of her adult life i...
Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904
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English critic and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (24) : London, etc., to W.E. Henley, 1876-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580328 From the description of English thought in the eighteenth century : autograph manuscript, [187-]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580765 Stephen was a British critic, man of letters and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. From the description of Photograph album of Le...
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
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Naturalist, ornithologist, and artist, known for his Birds of America. From the description of Letters received, 1831-1853. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56506202 Audubon was an American artist and ornithologost. From the guide to the John James Audubon letters and drawings, 1805-1892 (inclusive), 1805-1847 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) John James Audubon was a painter and ornithologist. Born in ...
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, 1543-1608
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Brother-in-law of Charles IX. From the description of Autograph subscription and signature to letter : Nancy, to Charles IX, 1562 Jan. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270592826 ...
Russell, William E. (William Eustis), 1857-1896
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Bouillon, Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de, 1605-1652
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xm61bk (person)
O'Sullivan, Seumas, 1879-1958
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James Starkey (1879-1958), better known as Seumas O'Sullivan, was an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin magazine. From the description of Letters to Seumas O'Sullivan, 1904-1950. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228718402 Seumas O'Sullivan was the pseudonym of Irish writer James Sullivan Starkey. He was also founding editor of the "Dublin Magazine". William Kirkpatrick Magee (1868-1961) was an Irish writer who wrote under th...
H. Richter.
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François Gérard.
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Annan, Thomas
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Smith, Elder & Co.
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Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820
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Governor of the Mississippi Territory and army officer. From the description of Winthrop Sargent papers, 1790-1815 (bulk 1798-1799). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980393 Winthrop Sargent was governor of the Mississippi Territory. From the description of Surveys, 1754-1807. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122579743 Soldier and territorial administrator. Born in Gloucester, Mass., and educated at Harvar...
Asperne, James
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Edwards, Matthew, 1838-1859
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Cary, Annie Louise, 1842-1921
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Singer. From the description of Annie Louise Cary correspondence, 1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452803 Grand opera contralto and wife of banker Charles Raymond; toured Europe and U.S. From the description of Letter and letter fragment with autograph, 1880 June 30 and n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54752207 American opera and concert singer. From the description of Annie Louise Cary autograph, 1877 Dec. 13. (Cornel...
S. Hall
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Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909
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Gilder authored the book, THE NEW DAY, A POEM IN SONGS AND SONNETS... (New York : Scribner, Armstrong and Company, 1876) in which this is tipped in. It contains the bookplate of Brainerd. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Ira Hutchinson Brainerd, [1876?] Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398276 Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909), American poet and editor, served as editor-in-chief of Scribner's Monthly and its successor The Century Illustrated Monthly...
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...
Mulgrave, Henry Phipps, Earl of, 1755-1831
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Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865
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Richard Cobden, English textile manufacturer and politician. From the guide to the Richard Cobden manuscript material : 1 item, ca 1843, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Cobden was born in Dunford, Sussex, England on June 3, 1804; became a middle-class manufacturer and MP, advocating free trade, non-intervention in foreign affairs, an end to aristocratic misrule, and a variety of radical political reforms; became intere...
Knight, Charles, 1946-
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Epithet: author and publisher; of Add MS 46632 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000695.0x00039f Epithet: of Add MS 31978 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000695.0x0003e3 ...
Bishop, Anna, 1810-1884
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English soprano. From the description of Autograph letter in the third person, dated : [London, 25 April 1836], to Miss Harris, 1836 Apr. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270672712 ...
Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878
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Epithet: author; of Add MS 37193 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000361.0x000125 English author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to the Reverend M.D. Conway, 186? Friday. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590727 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Alexander Main, 1871 Sept. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590731 From the de...
Boynton & Heald
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Holmes, Harold C.
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Antiquarian bookdealer. Operated Holmes Book Co. in San Francisco and Oakland (Calif.) (1894-1965). Expert in California literary history with special interest in works of Joseph Henry Jackson, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain. Community leader in Alameda County (Calif.). President of Oakland Rotary Club (1946-1947), member of Alameda County Probation Committee (1948). Penned unpublished reminiscences of Bay Area literary life (1894-1945). From the description of Harold C. Holmes papers...
Burdett, Francis, Sir, 1770-1844
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Epithet: of the parish of St Bride London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x0002ec Epithet: Lieutenant-Colonel 17th Lancers, dedicatee of the composer 'Dolores' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000977.0x00021c English politician. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : Willington and [London], ...
Howells, William Dean, II
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Parsons, John
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Epithet: attendant at Philharmonic Society concerts British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000624.0x0001a2 Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001300.0x000033 Epithet: Captain; Commissary of Stores in Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100...
Etienne Carjat & Cie.
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R. Waitz
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Doddridge, Philip, 1702-1751
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English non-conformist divine. From the description of Academical lectures : manuscript notebook, 1740 Sept. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270994247 English non-conformist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Wilson, 1742 May 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270529597 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Northampton, to his wife, 1742 Dec. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526222 Philip Doddridge, Engli...
Reed, John, 1887-1920
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Reed (Harvard, A.B. 1910) was an American journalist and revolutionary. He joined the staff of The Masses in 1913, was a war correspondent in Mexico and Europe for Metropolitan Magazine, publicist for the Russian Revolution, and head of the Communist Labor Party. From the description of John Reed additional papers, 1909-1939. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612376944 From the guide to the John Reed additional papers, 1909-1939., (Houghton Library, Harvard College L...
Albrecht Dürer.
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Monteith, Robert, 1812-1884
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Epithet: of Carstairs British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x0000c8 ...
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...
Berthiaud, ...
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Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895
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Engraver; New York, N.Y. From the description of Alexander Hay Ritchie letter to Rev. Carroll, 1891 May 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122370545 The American engraver and painter Alexander Hay Ritchie was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and studied in Edinburgh. In 1841 he emigrated to America, settling in New York City about 1847. From the description of Letter : Edinburgh, to J.M. Greenhow, before 1841. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84155219 ...
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
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Henry Brougham was born and raised in Edinburgh, attended Edinburgh University, practiced law in the city, and co-founded the influential Edinburgh Review. In 1803 he moved to London, becoming associated with the radical left wing of the Whig Party. He also practiced law in London, and was appointed to the House of Commons in 1810, establishing himself as one of the leading radicals in Parliament and holding several important positions. He supported education reform and the abolition of slavery,...
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...
Muller, ...
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William Haines.
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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 ...
Henri Manuel.
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Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858
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A Boston lawyer and abolitionist who used his legal training to aid runaway slaves, Loring was an organizer of the New England Anti-Slavery Society. He married Louisa Gilman (1797-1868) in 1827. Their daughter, Anna Loring Dresel (1830-1896), was vice president of the Boston Sanitary Commission during the Civil War and president of Vincent Hospital. She married Otto Dresel (1826-1890), a German pianist and composer in 1863; they had two children: Louisa Loring Dresel (1864-195?) and Ellis Loring...
Artlett, Richard Austin, 1807-1873
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Casa Moreno
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Lévis, Pierre-Marc-Gaston, duc de, 1764-1830
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Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882
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Written after Garibaldi left Rome following the collapse of the republic. From the description of Letter : to his troops, 1849 July / Garibaldi. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 36947020 Giacomo Medici was sent ahead to Tuscany on February 2, 1848 to await the arrival of the Garibaldini. From the description of Letter : Montevideo, to General Giacomo Medici, Livorno, 1848 Feb. 20. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 36963139 ...
G. B. Probst.
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Fredricks
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The Jackman Studio.
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Arnold
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Epithet: a Polish Jew British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001108.0x0002bf Epithet: of Add MS 33979 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x000167 Epithet: MD, of Newton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001108.0x0002c0 ...
Graves, Thomas Graves, 1725?-1802
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Caswell, Alexis, 1799-1877
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Sixth president of Brown University, 1868-1872; and professor of natural philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy at Brown, 1828-1863. From the description of Alexis Caswell papers, 1824-1877 (bulk 1860-1877). (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 86167730 ...
Neagle, John B., approximately 1796-1866
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New England Historic Genealogical Society
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Thomas Heathfield Carrick.
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Norman, Charles
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Colburn, Henry
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Epithet: publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x00012d Epithet: of Add MS 15945 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x0003b5 ...
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...
Charles Washburn.
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Butterfield, William Archer
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Vincent Brooks, Day & Son
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Pauquet, ...
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Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 1617-1682
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Urbahns, Ferdinand
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Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945
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French poet and philosopher. From the description of Paul Valéry petition, circa 1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981247 Paul Valéry, French poet, essayist and critic. From the description of Paul Valéry collection, 1896-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78236502 From the description of Paul Valéry collection, 1896-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702153343 Valéry was a French poet. From the guide to the Papers conce...
Messrs. Marion & Co.
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J. Bane.
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Trowbridge, William Pettit, 1828-1892
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Herter, Albert, 1871-1950
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Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819
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Peter Pindar is the pseudonym of John Wolcot, an English satirist. From the guide to the Peter Pindar letter to John Walker, 1805-1812, (Ohio University) John Wolcot studied medicine in London, took his M.D. at Aberdeen, and became physician-general of Jamaica. After returning to England, he met the painter John Opie and in 1780 the two moved from Truro to London, where Wolcot devoted himself to the writing of verse satires, mostly published under the name "Peter Pindar." ...
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820
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Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was a pioneer land settler, Indian fighter and he served in military and political positions in Kentucky. At the time this letter was written, he was on the verge of losing his many tracts of land because the titles were improperly entered. From the description of Letter : to Charles Yanc[e]y, Luecy [i.e. Louisa] County, 1785 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122602570 Indian fighter and scout. From the description of Daniel Boone pa...
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761
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English novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Dr. [Edward] Young, 1749 Sept. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617487 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Thomas Sheridan, 1758 Apr. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617492 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to "Madam" [Frances Grainger], 1748 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270617481 From the description of Autograph lette...
Symmes, Peyton S. (Peyton Short), 1793-1861
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William Bromley.
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Franklin, William, 1731-1813
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William Franklin was born in 1731, the illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin; his mother's identity is unknown. Prime Minister, Lord Bute, named William Franklin to the position of Royal Governor of New Jersey when the office became available in 1762. At first, Franklin was greeted in New Jersey with trepidation, as it was assumed that his famous father had obtained the office for him. In contrast to the low expectations of him, William Franklin became one of the most effective royal governors N...
Rouse, Benjamin.
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Sarony, Napoléon 1821-1896
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Artist and photographer. From the description of Napoleon Sarony correspondence, 1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980397 ...
Davis, David
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Epithet: schoolmaster, of Little Cornard British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x0001ff ...
Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931
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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...
Harrison, Frederic, 1831-1923
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A contemporary of John Ruskin and John Stuart Mill, Frederic Harrison strongly influenced English politics and philosophy in the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth-century. The positivist movement gained prominence through Harrison's political activity, writings and teachings. He was also very active in the labor movement and fought for greater worker's rights in England. Harrison was introduced to positivism as a student at Oxford. Venerating humanity over deity, positivism created controversy i...
J. Brown.
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Rowse, Samuel Worcester, 1822-1901
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J.C. Sharp's Press
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William Owen.
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Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814
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Scientist and inventor; lived in New Hampshire; also known as Sir Benjamin Thompson Rumford. From the description of Family papers, 1747-1852. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963873 Rumford, an applied physicist and inventor, as well as a soldier of fortune, and philanthropist, was born in Massachusetts, but after siding with the British in the American Revolution, lived mostly in England, Bavaria, and France. He studied heat, gunpowder, coo...
Smith, Henry Wright, 1828-
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Coats & Cosine
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François-Pascal-Simon Gérard.
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Revere, Paul, 1735-1818
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Boston goldsmith and engraver. Helped plan and execute the destruction of the tea in Boston harbor; gave notice of the British expedition to Concord on 18 Apr. 1775. From the description of Paul Revere receipt of Nathaniel Appleton, 1786 Aug. 28. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 76893586 Silversmith, patriot, courier famous for his midnight ride announcing British forces. From the description of ADS, 1797 May 5 : Boston. Bill. (Copley Press, J S Copl...
Huth, Henry, 1815-1878
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Rawdon, Clark & Co.
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Grillet & Cie.
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James Bretherton.
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Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
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Epithet: of Add MS 37311 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x00006e John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher known for his writings on social and political theory, particularly utilitarianism. From the guide to the John Stuart Mill Letters, 1851-1889, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) British philosopher. From the description...
Craven, Augustus
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Henry Howe Richards.
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Dawe, George, 1781-1829
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Teagle, John, 1848-
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J.H. Daniels
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Rooke, George, Sir, 1650-1709
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English admiral. From the description of Letter signed : "Nonsuch in the Downes," to an unidentified correspondent, 1677 Oct. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270891758 From the description of Document : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270890773 English naval officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Mr. Townesend, [16]82 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657325 ...
Grew, Henry, 1781-1862
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Gifford, William, 1756-1826
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William Gifford, English satirist and editor. His verse satire The Baviad was published in 1791, and he was the editor of the short-lived tory sponsored Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner. Gifford served as editor of The Quarterly Review from 1809 to 1824. From the description of William Gifford manuscript material : 18 items, 1788-1824 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 233215910 From the guide to the William Gifford manuscript material : 19 items, 1788-1824, (The...
Bierstadt, Edward, 1824-1907
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Pierre Drevet.
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Schumann, Robert
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Originally composed for solo piano, 1833-1835. Collaborative orchestration of the score, 1908-1909, for the use of the Russian Imperial Ballet. No indication is given of each collaborator's contribution. First performance as a ballet St. Petersburg, 1910. First concert performance, Boston, 25 November 1938, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Carnival / Robert Schumann ; orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazounov, Li...
John, Spencer
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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...
Vernor & Co.
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C. D. Mosher
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C. Scott.
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Zolnay, George Julian, 1862 or 1863-1949
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Sculptor and teacher; New York, N.Y., St. Louis, Mo. and Washington, D.C. Born in Hungary, he came to the United States in 1892. Taught at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. From the description of George Julian Zolnay papers, 1899-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77723492 ...
John Downman.
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Hamm, Phineas Eldridge, 1799-1861
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Palmer, G. H.
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J. D. Cogan
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Mrs. Parsons.
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Marchant
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Beck, John B. (John Brodhead), 1794-1851
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F. Roffe.
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Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
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Botanist, ardent supporter of Charles Darwin, first professor appointed to the faculty of the University of Michigan, and Professor of Botany at Harvard University. From the description of Asa Gray collection, 1871-1885. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68802268 Asa Gray is an American botanist. He was made Professor of Natural History at Harvard University in 1842 and held that position until 1873. He was the author of several works including Manual of the bota...
Rosamond Gilder
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J. Oliver.
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University of Cambridge.
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Harvard University celebrated its 250th anniversary in 1886. Many institutions of higher education, governments, and individuals sent greetings and congratulations to commemorate the occasion. This seal accompanied greetings from the University of Cambridge, England, to the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From the description of Sigillum coe cancellarii mror et scholariu Universitat Cantebrigie, 1886. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228509847 The University...
Hans Kohl.
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Morrill, Jettie M., 1855-1887
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Sir T. Lawrence.
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The Outlook Company.
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Le Paon, Jean-Baptiste 1738-1785
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G. Hicks.
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T. A. Dean.
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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....
Jacotin, Charles
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Frederick Gutekunst.
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Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837
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Robert John Thornton was a British botanist and medical writer. From the description of Letter, Hinde Pl., to dear friend [Thomas Maurice], 1804 November 30. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 34242053 ...
Richards, Rosalind, 1874-1964
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Richards was the daughter of Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [between 1940 and 1961]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 183652590 Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and an acquaintance of the Richards family from Gardiner, Maine. From the description of Rosalind Richards collection on Edward Arlington Robinson, ca.1897-1944. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82065...
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...
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
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Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into a...
Col. John Trumbull.
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Sir Thomas Lawrence.
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H.B. Hall & Sons
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Doris Ulmann.
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F. Gutekunst Co.
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Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909
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Army officer. From the description of Henry Clark Corbin papers, 1864-1980 (bulk 1898-1909). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981128 Biographical Note 1842, Sept. 15 Born, Clermont County, Ohio 1860 1861 Studied law ...
A. T. Reynolds
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Conde
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William G. Jackman
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kv0v59 (person)
Richmond, Duke of.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j539qs (person)
Augustus Robin.
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Baudry
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Wale
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Fielding, William Stevens, 1848-
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Sanazarius, Jacobus.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...
Bishop, W. H.
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Epithet: Master of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x000341 ...
Richard R. Burton
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Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910
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D. J. Pound.
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Hyacinthe Rigaud.
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Fletcher, John Gould, 1886-1950
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American poet and critic. From the description of Correspondence, works, and clippings, 1910-1952, nd. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122453062 John Gould Fletcher, born in Little Rock, Arkansas and educated at Phillips Academy and Harvard (1903-1907), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author. Fletcher lived in England for years before returning home to Arkansas where, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was act...
P.S. Duval & Co.
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La Moussaye, François de Goyon de Matignon, baron de, 1620? -1650
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J. W. Campbell.
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Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921
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Wendell graduated from Harvard in 1877 and taught English at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Barrett Wendell, 1873-1921 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972920 From the description of Lecture notes in Comparative Literature 1, 1905-1917. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074707 Harvard English professor. From the description of Ralegh in Guiana, 1897. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 172663314 ...
Thomas, Kelly
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Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940
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Hamlin Garland was the author of Son of the middle border, Daughter of the middle border, and other works. From the description of Papers of Hamlin Garland, 1757-1973 (bulk 1910-1941). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122369311 Novelist and writer. From the description of Hamlin Garland autograph letter signed, 1892. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 214329366 American novelist and d...
Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869).
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Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) was born in Mâcon, France into the aristocracy. His father was imprisoned during the French Revolution but escaped the guillotine. After briefly serving in the military, Lamartine joined the diplomatic corps as secretary to the French embassy at Naples. His first colletion of poetry, Méditations poétiques was published in 1820, establishing him as one of the key figures in the Romantic movement in French literature. Lamartine entered politics and was elected ...
Fiessinger, Franz Gabriel 1723-1807
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hv61wf (person)
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
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James Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. After embarking on an academic career, he joined the Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and in 1863 was appointed Major General in the same regiment. He served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, when he was elected President. His inauguration took place on March 4, 1881, but his term of office was unfortunately brought to an abrupt end with his assassination by C...
N. Emmons.
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Hansen, Mathias
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68r0jn1 (person)
Parepa-Rosa, Euphrosyne, 1836-1874
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m62fhb (person)
B. Rogers.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z46dsf (person)
Mary C. Gray
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f61pjr (person)
Casilear Capewell & Kimmel
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Martin, Benj. N. (Benjamin Nicholas), 1816-1883
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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...
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 1746-1827
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6611vhg (person)
Crabb, George, 1778-1851
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qq0msb (person)
Lemaître, Jules, 1853-1914
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r55qd (person)
Kaneko, Kentarō, 1853-1942
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z33wnz (person)
Kaneko, member of the House of Peers in the Imperial Diet, was a Japanese envoy to Washington, sent to persuade Theodore Roosevelt to mediate between Japan and Russia. From the description of The characteristics of Japanese people : typescript, [ca. 1903] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612810998 ...
Moore, Charles
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60w87vx (person)
Epithet: afterwards MP for Woodstock British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x000246 Title: 6th Earl and (1791) 1st Marquis of Drogheda British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000678.0x000252 Title: 1st Marquis of Drogheda British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000000006...
Peabody, Josephine Preston, 1874-1922
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w37x16 (person)
Peabody was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. After the death of her father in 1882, the family moved to Dorchester, Mass. She attended Latin School in Boston, and was a special student at Radcliffe College, 1894-1896. She published fourteen volumes of poems and verse plays, and lectured on poetry and literature at Wellesley College, 1901-1903. A pacifist and feminist, she joined the Fabian Society in 1909, and wrote a prose play, Portrait of Mrs. W. (Mary Wollstonecraft). She died in Cambridge, Mass. For ...
Saltus, Francis Saltus, 1849-1889
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt2gmg (person)
Sheil, Richard Lalor, 1791-1851
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Epithet: Irish politician and dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x000183 Epithet: MP; QC British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x000186 Epithet: MP; of Add MS 37194 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x000185 Richard Lalor...
Romney (Family : 1969- : (Romney, Mitt))
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H. B. Hall, Jr.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64s1zng (person)
Colton, Calvin, 1789-1857
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mm1091 (person)
Morgan, Daniel, 1736-1802
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zs31s9 (person)
Morgan was a frontiersman who prospered as a Virginia farmer. His military career began when he served as Captain of one of the two Virginia rifle companies, and led Arnold's march to Quebec (1775). He rose to the rank of brigadier general in 1780, serving until July, 1781 when he retired to "Saratoga," his estate near Winchester, Va. He commanded militia troops during the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794, and was elected to the Fifth Congress as a Federalist representing Virginia. From ...
Exmouth, Edward Pellew, Viscount, 1757-1833
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British admiral. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Caledonia" [Port] Mahon, to Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 1814 Jul. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517247 From the description of Letter signed : "H. M.S. Caledonia," Port Mahon, to Sir John Murray, 1814 Jul. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270537740 English admiral. From the description of Letter signed : H.M.S. Caledonia, Port Mahon, to Major General Campbell, 1813 Feb. 13. (Unk...
Bobbett-Hooper.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gk3m86 (person)
Ohio State Capitol (Columbus, Ohio)
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Lane, Richard James, 1800-1872
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Richard James Lane, lithographer and sculptor. From the description of Richard James Lane manuscript material : 7 items, 1854 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 698384042 English engraver and lithographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Queen's Road [London], to J.P. Harley, 1850 July 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270597186 Epithet: ARA; lithographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Pers...
Samuel Cooper.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6294nj3 (person)
W. Walker
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E. R. Lewis.
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C. F. Conly
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nx30f0 (person)
J. Singleton.
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Paradise, John Wesley, 1809-1862
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Lowell, Georgina
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gs1d5p (person)
Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845
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Elizabeth Fry was a philanthropist and prison reformer. From the description of Letter [manuscript]. 1838. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225718240 Elizabeth Gurney Fry, English penal reformer and philanthropist. From the description of Elizabeth Gurney Fry manuscript material : 4 items, 1817-1830 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 226237390 Fry was a prison reformer in England. From the description of Letter, n.d. (Ha...
Robert Cooper.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62373vk (person)
La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de, 1777-1843
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mp6dsv (person)
Friedrich Heinrich De la Motte-Fouqué was a German novelist and poet. From the description of Undine, a translation from the German of De la Motte Fouqué, 1883-1898. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 48198173 ...
Mabel Pugh.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g58nxw (person)
Impensis I & P. Knapton
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Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860
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Miniature painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to an unidentified recipient, 1813 Mar. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270876661 Alfred Edward Chalon was an English artist, known as one of the best watercolor portrait artists of his day. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, his family settled in London where Chalon and his brother, John James, enrolled in the Royal Academy. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1801-1860, and his reputation was enhan...
Rosalinde Fuller
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
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The recipient was Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria, with whom Tennyson had an extensive correspondence. From the description of Alfred Tennyson letter to Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 1867 Oct. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865322 British poet. From the description of Papers, 1831-1909. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188602 Tennyson was Poet Laureate of England during much of the latter part of...
Kerr, H.
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Estrées, Louis-Charles-César Le Tellier, duc d', 1695-1771
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Sanborn Photo Service
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65r8559 (corporateBody)
Charles Kingsley
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6527r4m (person)
Childs & Inman
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66m9h5r (corporateBody)
Richard Bentley
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Teesdale, Christopher Charles, 1833-1893
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Epithet: Lieutenant; RA; VC 1857; KCMG 1887; Major -General 1887 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x000260 ...
Fenner & Co.
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Henry Dawe.
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Francis D'Avignon.
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Bridgewater, John Egerton, Earl of, 1623-1686
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J. J. Cade
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w684843q (person)
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qk86d3 (person)
William Shakespeare was likely born April, 23, 1564; he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564. He grew up, had a family, and bought property in Stratford while working in London, the center of English theater. As an actor, a playwright, and a partner in a leading acting company, he became both prosperous and well-known. His parents were John and Mary Shakespeare. John was a leatherworker and involved in local politics, first becoming an alderman and eventually a town bailiff. ...
Weston, Stephen, 1747-1830
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cr71mz (person)
Susan Bush
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f04hz4 (person)
P. Sauvage.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mb44rw (person)
J. B. Forrest.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6527vp1 (person)
Angus McBean.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k782h3 (person)
J. Hayter.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p12701 (person)
Stollyer, Frederick
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67r3c8v (person)
Thomas, Dick
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Tillinghast, James, 1822-1908
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Chester Harding.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t00jwj (person)
Barry Faulkner.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nb10fc (person)
Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806
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American revolutionary general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Traveller's Rest, to F. Meriwether, Esq., 1787 Jan. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864014 Revolutionary general. Born in England, Gates settled in Virginia in 1772 after a career in the British army that included service in the French and Indian War. He was commissioned adjutant-general of the Continental Army in 1775, and was in command at the pivotal victory of Saratoga. After Saratoga...
Moxon, Edward
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc47hw (person)
Epithet: publisher; of Add MS 40120 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000841.0x000308 Epithet: publisher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x000217 ...
Maclure & Macdonald
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Mickiewicz, Adam, 1798-1855
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6805gv6 (person)
Ann Hall.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zj1bqz (person)
Leighton Brothers
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rd08rz (corporateBody)
Bisshop, Cecil.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f048b5 (person)
Price, William, 1800-1893
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p69qtz (person)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t72j6r (person)
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...
Otto J. Schneider.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6071766 (person)
McClellan, Katherine Elizabeth (American photographer, 1859-1934)
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McClellan graduated from Smith College, 1882. She was the official photographer for Smith College, 1892-1918. She also operated a studio in Northampton, Massachusetts. After 1918 she became involved with land promotion in Sarasota, Florida with her sister, Daisietta Gertrude McClellan. She died Sept. 14, 1934. From the description of Katherine Elizabeth McClellan papers, ca. 1879-ca. 1985 (bulk 1904-1918) (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 52752491 ...
Langtree and O'Sullivan
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Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, comte d', 1801-1852
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6668gvs (person)
Abraham Hayward, English essayist and translator. His many friendships with significant figures in the literary and political circles of Victorian London resulted in this collection of correspondence. From the guide to the Abraham Hayward correspondence files : 1063 items, 1790-1889, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) French artist who lived in England. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London,...
A. H. Fry
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Mrs. Peabody
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68476s4 (person)
D. Needham
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Clarke, John, 1755-1798
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66m6w8h (person)
Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x000196 Epithet: afterwards Dean of Salisbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x00018e Epithet: of Add MS 36055 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x00019e Epithet: of Dav...
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
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English statesman. From the description of Letter signed : [London], to an unidentified correspondent, 1760 Apr. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270891755 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Charles Townshend, 1761 Sept. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623045 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to [Lord Sackville], 1758 Nov. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623042 From the description of Autog...
Nathaniel Jocelyn.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q38c56 (person)
Godfrey Kneller.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xf4g74 (person)
McRae, John C.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66d681v (person)
Engineer. Chief engineer for the Brunswick and Florida Railroad Company. From the description of Papers, 1852-1866. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 50650394 ...
Gordon, John Watson-, Sir, 1788-1864
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z036hv (person)
Painter. From the description of Autograph receipt signed : Edinburgh, 1848 July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269592460 Epithet: artist; Knight 1850 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000766.0x00015f ...
Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of Kent, 1767-1820
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z60v55 (person)
Father of Queen Victoria. From the description of Letter signed : Kensington Palace, to Mrs. Fitzherbert, 1811 May 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270891090 From the description of Letter signed : Castle Hill Lodge, to Sir William Buckey, 1807 July 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270891083 From the description of Letter : Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Lieutenant Colonel Fisher, 1796 Apr. 27. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25206939 From the descri...
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xd14mf (person)
English natural philosopher and mathematician. From the description of Receipt signed : London?, 1718 May 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612606 From the description of Autograph notes : [n.p.], ca. 1706?. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611631 From the description of Document signed : London?, 1704 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612422 Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician. From the description of Notes on ancient history and ...
Eliot, Valerie
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Windsor Castle
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bw1j37 (corporateBody)
Cole, Thomas Casilear (American painter, 1888-1976)
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kd3s9x (person)
Putnam, George, 1807-1878
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George Putnam was the pastor of the Unitarian church in Roxbury, Mass., from 1830 until his death. From the description of Our lamps are gone out : manuscript, 1848 Sept. 29. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612816398 ...
Grew, Susan.
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Edward Scriven.
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Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6319w99 (person)
James R. Osgood was a native of Maine who went to work for the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields. He eventually founded the subsidiary group James R. Osgood & Co. which was associated with many fine writers. The firm struggled financially, and when Osgood stepped down, was dissolved into Houghton, Mifflin. From the description of James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54667691 Publisher....
Child, Francis James, 1825-1896
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63r0r3s (person)
The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of, 1738-1809
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tt54rz (person)
English statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Sir J.C. Hippisley, 1800 June 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618754 From the description of Copy of an autograph letter signed : [London], to "The Viceroy", 1796 Apr. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270861210 From the description of Letter signed : Whitehall, to John Kirby, Keeper of Newgate Gaol, 1800 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618764 From the descript...
Gaskell, Meta.
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Castan, Auguste, 1833-1892
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Thomas Gainsborough.
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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...
Francis Grant.
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Kurtz, William, 1833-1904
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W. H. Watts.
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Huskisson, W. (William), 1770-1830
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William Huskisson (1770-1830), British statesman, served as plenipotentiary during the 1825-26 border negotiations with the United States. From the description of Willam Huskisson papers, 1824-1826. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702126655 Epithet: statesman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x00031d English statesman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : ...
Pirie MacDonald.
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Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 1777-1855.
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Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. From the guide to the Family papers, 1845-1925., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) German mathematician (mathematics, mathematical physics, astronomy, geophysics). Studied: Collegium Carolinum (Brunswick) 1792-1795; University of Göttingen 1795-1798; private researcher 1898-1806; University of Göttingen 1807 Director of Observatory and o. professor of mathematics. From th...
Copley, John Singleton, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
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Title: 1st Baron Lyndhurst British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x000394 ...
Keeler, Ralph, 1840-1873
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R. Andrews.
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Grillet & Co.
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Rigaud, Hyacinthe, 1659-1743
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French portrait painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Mlle. Rosalba in Venice, 1724 May 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270655054 ...
Brookes, Warwick
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Epithet: son of Warwick Brookes British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000704.0x0000b0 ...
Firth, Hall & Pond
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Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914
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Townsend was a famous Civil War correspondent who wrote under the pen name "Gath," and who later constructed an elaboraate country estate at Gathland or Gapland at Crampton's Gap in South Mountain northwest of Washington. This was the site of a battle that marked the beginning of the Antietam campaign. In 1896, Townsend built the Army Correspondents' Memorial arch on his property to commemorate the service of Civil War correspondents. The site is now a park. From the description of A...
George Clint.
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Humphreys, David, 1752-1818
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Army officer, diplomat, and author. From the description of Papers of David Humphreys, 1776-1810. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71065032 Army officer, diplomat, and poet, of Connecticut; b. in Derby; d. in New Haven. From the description of David Humphreys papers, 1687-1819. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 430490748 Connecticut Revolutionary War Officer, statesman, and poet. From the description of Poems, [...
Leopod Grozelier.
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Spiridone Gambardella.
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Barbey d'Aurevilly, J. (Jules), 1808-1889
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Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French novelist and short story writer. He is probably best known for his Les Diaboliques, a collection of stories, each of which relates a tale of a woman who commits acts of violence, crime, or revenge. From the description of J. Barbey d'Aurevilly manuscript material : 1 item, ca. mid-to-late 19th century (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 75396793 Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French novelist and short story writer. He is...
H. Linton.
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Rauzzini, Venanzio, 1746-1810
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Volkonskīĭ, Sergi︠e︡ĭ, kni︠a︡zʹ, 1860-1937
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62v4qgj (person)
James Posselwhite.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pm3xw6 (person)
Frank Bellew.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vz4g67 (person)
Frault
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R. Graves.
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Currier, Nathaniel
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Petrel (Confederate Privateer).
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Samuel Lawrence.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hc32f2 (person)
Nadarz
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g58t36 (person)
Lucas Cranach.
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Cynthia Fuller.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64p2rnb (person)
Louis Bachrach.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w636372r (person)
James Gillray.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jn6fkm (person)
J. Munsell
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Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904
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Mitford, Mary Russell, 1787-1855
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Mitford was an English author and dramatist. From the description of Letters to various correspondents, 1826-1854. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612374161 From the guide to the Mary Russell Mitford letters to various correspondents, 1826-1854., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Mary Russell Mitford was an English poet, playwright, and short-story writer. From the description of Mary Russell Mitford collection of ...
Marshall, John, 1755-1835
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John Marshall (1755-1835) was born near Germantown, Prince William (currently Fauquier) County, Virginia on 24 September 1755 to parents Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. From 1775-1781, Marshall served in the Continental Army and fought in the Revolutionary War. During the spring and summer of 1780, Marshall attended classes at the College of William and Mary and received his license to practice law. After the war, he moved to Richmond, Virginia and began his practice. Marshall married M...
Perine, George Edward, 1837-1885
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George Edward Perine, John Lawrence Giles, and John Sartain were 19th century engravers who depicted historical events, political figures, artists, and other notable individuals. From the description of Perine-Giles-Sartain engravings, circa 19th century. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 265034459 ...
James Heath.
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Sermoneta, Michelangelo Caetani, duca di, 1804-1882
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Jean Condé.
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Salisbury, Robert Cecil, marquess of, 1830-1903
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3rd Marquess, 22nd Earl. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Arlington St., to the Warden of New College, [18]83 Aug. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270633529 English prime minister. From the description of Autograph letter in the third person : London, to W. Macquaid, 1872 July 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270853269 English statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Foreign Office, [London], to Arthu...
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1757-1834
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Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wimpole Hall, near Royston, to Captain Ridge, 1800 Aug. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270506225 From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1794 April 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270498072 The pamphlets were accumulated over the course of a century, evidently by Philip Yorke, the first Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764); his eldest son, Philip Yorke, the second Earl of Hardwick...
Mead, Larkin G. (Larkin Goldsmith), 1835-1910
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Mead, a Vermont sculptor, won the 1868 design competition for the Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. From the description of Letter, January 25, 1866. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 695996415 Larkin G. Mead, a Vermont sculptor, won an 1868 design competition sponsored by the National Lincoln Monument Association and his design for the tomb became the first major Lincoln commemorative project to be completed. Justin Smith M...
André-Adolphe-Eugéne Disdéri
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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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New Hampshire-born author and poet. From the description of Letter : Redman Farm, Ponkapog, Mass. to John M. Milson, 1904 May 25. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103796 From the description of Letters and ephemera, 1879-1891. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103833 From the description of Letters to Israel Tisdale Talbot, 1868-1875. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 32103776 During the Civil War Aldrich worked a...
London Stereoscopic Company
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The London Stereoscopic Company was a photographic company in London, England. It was established in 1854 by George Swann Nottage, and was also known as the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company. The company published photographs, with William England and Thomas Richard Williams as the main photographers. It was also involved in the manufacture of photographic equipment. The company was dissolved in 1922. William Edward Kilburn (1818-1891) was a photographer in En...
Thomas Bulfinch.
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Gardner, Alex
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Labiche, Eugène, 1815-1888
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Resident of Augusta, Ga. From the description of Commonplace Book, 1869-1904. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31824206 ...
Joseph Harris.
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Tilley, Leonard Percy de Wolfe, 1870-1947
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Goupil & Co.
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C. Shepherd
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Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817
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Staël wrote plays, fiction, essays, novels, and criticism. Her life and works are grounded in the transformations of a Europe in revolution. She was heavily involved in European politics from 1786 to her death in 1817, and her art reflects her concerns. She published her novel, Delphine, in 1802, and an English translation appeared in 1803. During a period of exile from France, she visited London, 1813-1814. From the description of Madame de Staël letters, ca. 1813. (Pennsylvania S...
Montmigny.
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Cushing, Grafton
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A. B. Thirand.
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G. Parker.
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Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864
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Geologist and college president, of Amherst, Mass. From the description of Edward Hitchcock letter, 1854 Jan. 5. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 71129604 American geologist; president of Amherst College. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Amherst, to an unidentified recipient, 1850 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269606027 Edward Hitchcock was an eminent 19th-century scientist, minister and educator; pri...
Clevenger.
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Huger, Daniel Elliott, 1779-1854
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Capewell & Kimmel.
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Le Comte, ...
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Donald Art Co., Inc.
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Gottschalk, Louis Moreau
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American composer and pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York, 2 November 1863, to an unidentified friend, 1863 Nov. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270925412 Composed originally for piano solo 1845-46.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Le bananier / by Louis Moreau Gottschalk ; orchestrated by Sam Dennison. 1977. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52147492 This is also known as Sym...
Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway, 1577-1648
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Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924
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Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) was born into a prominent Boston family in 1850. Through his mother’s family, the Cabots, Lodge traced his lineage back to the 17th century, with one great-grandfather a leading Federalist during the Revolutionary period. Growing up in both an intellectual and privileged household, "Cabot" took naturally to academic subjects, particularly history and literature. Beyond his early devotion to scholarly pursuits, Lodge also enjoyed numerous sports and the great outdoor...
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...
Brown, Mary Ann Day, 1816-1884
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Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904
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English sanitary reformer and pathologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Folkestone, to John Ruskin, 1884 July 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664101 ...
J.E. Purdy & Co.
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Jones, Pryce.
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Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908
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American poet, critic, and journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to F.B. Sanborn, 1881 Jul. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575155 Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908) was poet, critic, editor, and stockbroker in New York City. He published his first volume in 1860, entitled Poems Lyrical and Idyllic, followed by a succession of works and anthologies. Stedman was also a member and officer of many national and local literary associations....
Brady, Mathew
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Helene Formstecher.
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Winthrop, Theodore, 1828-1861
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American novelist. From the description of Northern lights : autograph manuscript copy of the poem, [ca. 1851]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270589803 Theodore W. Winthrop (1828-1861) was an American author who wrote travel books and books about art and poetry. He served in the N.Y. militia and was killed in Virginia in the U.S. Civil War. From the guide to the Theodore Winthrop papers, 1844-1860, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division....
Craven, Thomas, 1889-....
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Born in Kansas; graduate of Kansas Weslyan University; varied career as a reporter, teacher, free lance writer, and lecturer; considered a leader in the awakening of American art. From the description of Letter, [ca. 1940] March 28. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 17359223 Writer, author, lecturer, art critic. From the description of Thomas Craven letter to Alfred S. Dashiell [manuscript], 1931 December 13 and 14. (Unive...
Evans, William Penn.
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Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1893-1970
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Author, educator, and naturalist. Author of social criticism, critical biographies, and later naturalist essays; retired to Tucson in 1952 and completed several works. From the description of Manuscripts, 1952-1970. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 30636793 Epithet: American writer on drama British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000499.0x000275 Author, drama critic, and naturalist. ...
Scales, Alfred M. (Alfred Moore), 1827-1892
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Alfred M. Scales, a lawyer from Madison, N.C., was a Democratic Representative in Congress and was a presidential elector for Breckinridge and Lane. In 1861, he became a captain of the 13th Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers. In 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier General and given command of a brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, where he remained until the surrender at Appomatox in 1865. After the war, he served in the House of Commons, was again elected to Congress, and was elected gov...
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
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Grover Cleveland, born in Caldwell, NJ, 18 March 1837; moved to Buffalo, NY in 1855; Erie County Sheriff, 1871-1874; Mayor of Buffalo, 1882; Governor of New York, 1883-1884; President of the United States, 1885-1889, 1893-1897; married Frances Folsom, 1886; died at Princeton, NJ, 24 June 1908....
Wasow.
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Wayside Inn (Sudbury, Mass.)
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Mathew, Theobald, 1790-1856
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Theobald Mathew, Irish Capuchin friar and temperance campaigner. From the description of Theobald Mathew manuscript material : 1 item, 1846 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 743075051 ...
Canning, George, 1770-1827
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English statesman. From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) and letters signed (2) : [London] to Robert Southey and various correspondents, 1811 June 17-1827 May 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858738 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Christ Church [Oxford], to Mr. Legge, 1793 Mar. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133346 British statesman and politician; Prime Minister, 10 April 1827 - 8 August 1827. From the descri...
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...
T. S. Duché.
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Currier & Ives
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Belle, Mrs Helen.
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Northcote
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John Opie.
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MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956
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Percy MacKaye was a poet and dramatist. From the description of Note, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007259 American poet and dramatist. From the description of Papers, 1909-1912. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36097093 Author Percy MacKaye was born into a theatrical family in New York City. He graduated from Harvard in 1897, and travelled through Europe for a time before taking a teaching job at the Craigie School in N...
Smith, Robert
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Epithet: of Add MS 46927 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x00017e Epithet: of Add MS 37914 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x00017d Epithet: of Add MS 36059 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001199.0x00017c Epithet: of Glanbrydan ...
W. Raddon.
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Galaxy Publishing Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Ames, Fisher, 1758-1808
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Massachusetts attorney elected to first four Congresses; Federalist and supporter of Hamilton's fiscal program. From the description of ALS : Philadelphia, to Colonel Joseph Ward, Boston, 1791 Feb. 16. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37601637 Member of the 1st-4th Congresses from Massachusetts. From the description of ALS : New York, N.Y., to John Lowell, 1789 Apr. 8. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122645434 Lawyer and...
Fraser, James
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Epithet: Master RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000215.0x000271 Epithet: Bishop of Manchester British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x0001be Epithet: of Add MS 36988 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000215.0x000278 Epithet: of Add MS 35732...
Robert Scott.
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Level, Monseigneur.
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Codrington, Edward, Sir, 1770-1851
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Epithet: Captain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000246.0x00031d Sir Edward Codrington, British naval officer. His duties included an imperative to secure peace during the Greek War for Independence. From the description of Sir Edward Codrington manuscript material : 1 item, 1839 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122379425 From the guide to the Sir Edward Codrington manuscript ...
Bradley, Joseph P., 1813-1892
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U.S. Supreme Court justice. From the description of Papers, 1836-1937. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 84019822 Bradley served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1870-1892. From the description of Letters and autograph of Joseph P. Bradley, 1870-1891. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339480 Joseph P. Bradley, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born of English descent in Berne...
Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826
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English surgeon. From the description of Papers, 1810-1826, [London]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35070536 ...
R. Bull
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G. Houbraken.
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Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
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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...
C. J. Eschelbach
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Flint, F. S. (Frank Stewart), 1885-1960
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Leighton, William, 1833-1911
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Fleming, Sandford, 1827-1915
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Oxford, Edward Harley, earl of, 1689-1741
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English collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Wimpole, to an unidentified correspondent, 1733 Nov. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270611475 British public official, statesman and collector of manuscripts. From the description of Collection of Harleian MSS., 1592-1728. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78407665 ...
Flaxman, John, 1755-1826
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English sculptor. From the description of [Flaxman sketchbook], [177-] [microform]. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84394231 English sculptor and draftsman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Buckingham Street [London], to William Hayley, 1808 Oct. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517125 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Buckingham Street [London], to Prince Hoare, [1803] Dec. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat re...
Washington, George, 1732-1799
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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...
Johnson, Fry & Co.
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Durand, A. B. (Asher Brown), 1796-1886
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Painter; Albany, N.Y. From the description of Asher Brown Durand papers, 1812-1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122291554 Springfield Township, NJ 1796-1886 Maplewood, NJ. From the description of Portrait of Edward Sturges (1837-1901) and Amelia Sturges (1835-1862) as Children [painting]. [18--] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906567 Painter; Albany, N.Y. Trustee of the National Academy of Design. From the description of Letters to Asher...
S. M. Fassett
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S. J. Hayward
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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...
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, (...
Carlisle, Earl of.
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London Stereoscopic Company
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The London Stereoscopic Company was a photographic company in London, England. It was established in 1854 by George Swann Nottage, and was also known as the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company. The company published photographs, with William England and Thomas Richard Williams as the main photographers. It was also involved in the manufacture of photographic equipment. The company was dissolved in 1922. William Edward Kilburn (1818-1891) was a photographer in En...
Sartain, John, 1808-1897
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Engraver, portrait and miniature painter John Sartain was born in London in 1808 and moved to the United States in 1830 after a seven year apprenticeship to London engraver John Swaine. Besides his banknote and portrait engraving, Sartain was noted for his magazine engravings. In 1849 he began his own magazine, entitled Sartain's Union Magazine of Letters and Art, but ceased its publication three years later due to financial troubles. Sartain was also the director of the Pennsylvania Academy of ...
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893
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French author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Monsieur Bourgeois, [1891] Oct. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270845062 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to [Victorien Sardou], 1887 July 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270845048 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to an unidentified woman, [1884]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270845059 From the description of Autograph letter si...
Cardona, Philippe de la Mothe Houdancourt, duc de, 1605-1657
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Stebbins, Henry G. (Henry George), 1811-1881
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Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
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Millard Fillmore was born in Cayuga County, N.Y. and later became a resident of East Aurora and Buffalo. He was a lawyer, local office holder, State Assemblyman, U.S. Congressman, N.Y. State Comptroller, Vice-President under Zachary Taylor and 13th U.S. President, 1850-1853. He was also involved in establishing numerous Buffalo institutions. He was a founder and first Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, Commander of the Union Continentals (Home Guard) during Civil War, and first president o...
[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. ...
Ames, Oliver, 1831-1895
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Oliver Ames, 1831- 1895, Governor of Massachusetts in 1887-1890. He was son of Oakes Ames, (1804-1873) and nephew of Oliver Ames (1807-1877), the President of Union Pacific Railroad Co. In 1873 he was named as one of the executors of his father' estate. He was on the Board of the Union Pacific in 1874-1877, and served as a board member a