James family additional papers, 1859-1986 (inclusive), 1859-1922 (bulk).

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James family additional papers, 1859-1986 (inclusive), 1859-1922 (bulk).

Family letters, mostly from Alice Howe Gibbens James to her sons Henryand William; also letters by and about philosopher William James and novelist HenryJames, an 1859 diary by Daniel Lewis Gibbens, and other related papers.

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Houghton Library

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James, William, 1842-1910

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William James (born January 11, 1842, New York City – died August 26, 1910, Tamworth, New Hampshire) was the preeminent American philosopher of his day. His reinterpretations of psychology and pragmatism were among his major contributions to world thought, and his work continues to reward study and inspire analysis. ...

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Wharton was from birth a part of the wealthy New York society she depicted so vividly in her fiction. Through her father, George Frederic Jones, and her mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, she could claim descent from three families whose names were synonymous with wealth and position: the Stevenses, Rhinelanders, and Schermerhorns. Educated at home with tutors and exposed at an early age to the classics in her fath...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

James family

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The central figure in this collection is Alice Howe Gibbens James (1849-1922), wife of the philosopher William James (1842-1910). From the guide to the James family additional papers, 1859-1986 (inclusive), 1859-1922 (bulk)., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) The central figure in this collection is Alice Howe Gibbens James (1849-1922), wife of the philosopher William James (1842-1910). From the description of James fami...

Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928

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Edmund Gosse, a well known man of letters, librarian to the House of Lords (1904-1914), and author of the autobiography, Father and Son (1907), was a pioneering translator of Ibsen and author of numerous volumes of poetry, criticism and biography. Charles Edmund Merrill was an active member of the Grolier Club from 1910 until his death in 1942. From the description of Letters : to Charles E. Merrill, 1910-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122577035 English poet and man of...

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Sheehan, Roberta A.

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Thomas, Dwight

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William James, 1842-1910

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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...

James, Alexander R. (Alexander Robertson), 1890-1946

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Portrait painter. The younger son of psychologist William James (1842-1910), brother of painter William James (1882-1961), and nephew of novelist Henry James, Alexander James was actually christened Francis Temple Tweedy James in 1890. In 1925 he had his name officially changed to Alexander Robertson James. Later in life he dropped the Robertson and became Alexander James. He studied with Abbott Handerson Thayer and was a close friend of John Singer Sargent and Rockwell Kent. From th...

Margaret Merrill Gibbens Gregor

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Flournoy, Alice.

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Ward, Nelson.

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Henry, James.

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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...

Pinker, James B.

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Henry James (1843-1916) was an American novelist, short story writer, critic, and dramatist. William James (1842-1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, a professor of psychology and philosophy at Harvard University, and the brother of novelist Henry James. James Brand Pinker (1863-1922) was the founder of James B. Pinker and Son, a firm of literary agents in London. Pinker was literary and dramatic agent to both Henry and William James. From the description of James B. P...

William James, 1882-1961

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Warsaw Medical Society.

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Lubbock, Percy, 1879-1965

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Percy Lubbock (1879-1965) was a British critic and biographer, whose works include Earlham (1922), an account of his own Norfolk childhood holidays; Roman Pictures (1923), which describes an English tourist's responses to Rome; Shades of Eton (1923), recollections of his schooldays; and Portrait of Edith Wharton (1947). He edited a selection of H. James's letters (1920); also a selection from A. C. Benson's diary (1926). His The Craft of Fiction (1921) analyses the techniques of Tolstoy, Flauber...

Margaret Torrey Webb Merrill.

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Francis Temple Tweedy James

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James, Michael

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Holt, Edwin B. (Edwin Bissell), 1873-1946

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Percy Lubbock

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Putnam, James Jackson, 1846-1918

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Neurologist Putnam (A.B., 1866, and M.D., 1870, Harvard) lived and practiced in Boston, Mass. From the description of Letter, 1907. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007497 Putnam (Harvard, M.D. 1870) studied in Europe under Rokitansky and Meynert and became friends with Huylings Jackson. Returning to Boston, he was the first lecturer on nervous diseases ever appointed at the Harvard Medical School; the Department of Neurology was begun with his classes in 1872. T...

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...

Henry James, 1811-1882

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Mr. Smith

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Rand, Ellen Emmet, 1875-1941

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Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching

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The engineering study sought to develop multiple views of engineering programs in the U.S. with the goal of describing common teaching and learning practices in engineering education. The centerpiece of the study was in-depth case studies or portraits of six schools carefully chosen to represent different kinds of excellence in undergraduate engineering education. EDUCATING ENGINEERS is planned to be published by Jossey-Bass in 2008. Sheri Shepherd was the consulting scholar and lead investigato...

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Gregor, Rosamond, 1900-

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Henry James, 1879-1947

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Aurora Stull

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James, Henry, 1879-1947

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Nephew of the novelist Henry James. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Peru, Vt., to Professor [Kenneth B.] Murdock, 1943 Sept. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270693513 United States representative, Inter-Allied Danube River Commission, 1919. From the description of Henry James papers, 1918-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868854 Henry James was the son of William James and nephew of the novelist Henry James. ...

Gibbens, Daniel Lewis, 1824-1865.

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Salter, Mary Gibbens.

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Alice Runnells James

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James, Alice Howe Gibbens, 1849-1922

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Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith), 1857-1939

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Astronomer, superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From the description of Henry S. Pritchett papers, 1876-1967 (bulk 1900-1939). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061298 Biographical Note 1857, Apr. 16 Born, Fayette, Mo. 1875 A.B.,...

Norton, Lily.

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Margaret Mary James Porter)

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Edward Flatau

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Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

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Florence 1856-1925 London. From the description of Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925) [painting]. [ca. 1905] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906593 Anglo-American painter. From the description of Letters, 1881-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81028068 Sargent was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France, England and elsewhere. From the description of [Letter] Sunday, 33, T...

Mrs. C. G. Ames

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Eliza Putnam Webb Gibbens

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James, Alice Howe Gibbens

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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...

Pearson C. Cummin

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Harvard Medical School.

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James, Alexander R. (Alexander Robertson), 1890-1946

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Portrait painter. The younger son of psychologist William James (1842-1910), brother of painter William James (1882-1961), and nephew of novelist Henry James, Alexander James was actually christened Francis Temple Tweedy James in 1890. In 1925 he had his name officially changed to Alexander Robertson James. Later in life he dropped the Robertson and became Alexander James. He studied with Abbott Handerson Thayer and was a close friend of John Singer Sargent and Rockwell Kent. From th...

James, William, 1882-1961

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William James, Jr. (1882-1961), son of famous psychologist William James, was an American painter who worked as a painting critic for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and as its director from 1930-1937. While at the Museum School, James met Mrs. Kathryn A. Hodgman of Kalamazoo, Michigan through Edward W. Forbes. James and Hodgman studied together at his summer home in Chocorua, New Hampshire during the summer of 1934. From the guide to the Papers, 1930-1937, (Harvard Art...

Flournoy, Blanche.

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Henry James, 1843-1916

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Joy, Nancy

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Porter, Margaret Mary James, 1887-1950,

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James, William, 1913-1995

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