Documents relating to Charles Sumner, 1828-1912.

Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth

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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...

Baring Brothers & Co. (London, England)

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Barings Bank was founded in 1762 as the John and Francis Baring Company by Francis Baring, with his older brother John Baring as a mostly silent partner. They were sons of John (né Johann) Baring, wool trader of Exeter, born in Bremen, Germany. The company began in offices off Cheapside in London, and within a few years moved to larger quarters in Mincing Lane. Barings gradually diversified from wool into many other commodities, providing financial services for the rapid growth of international ...

Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

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Army officer, statesman, journalist, legislator, and U.S. Secy. of the Interior, of Missouri. From the description of Papers, 1870-1901 (bulk 1870-1890). (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 70953302 German-American army officer, author and politician. From the description of Papers of Carl Schurz, 1862-1893. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136358 U.S. cabinet officer, diplomat, and senator from Missouri, Union Ar...

Everett, Alexander Hill, 1790-1847

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Alexander Hill Everett was a distinguished early American diplomat, writer, and man of letters. He entered Harvard at the age of twelve, and apprenticed at the law office of John Quincy Adams. He served in a variety of notable diplomatic posts, and contributed to the evolution of American culture and literary tradition. His emphasis was to encourage writers to look beyond the Anglo-Saxon tradition for their themes and inspiration. From the description of Alexander Hill Ev...

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, Charles Francis, 1807-1886

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American diplomat, lawyer, and biographer; son of John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts 1859-61, U.S. Minister to England, 1861-68; U.S. Arbitrator at the Geneva Tribunal ("Alabama" claims), 1871-72. From the guide to the Charles Francis Adams letters, 1844-1878, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

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) ...

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...

Ticknor, George, 1791-1871

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George Ticknor (1791-1871), educator and author, served as the first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1817 to 1835. After his arrival at Harvard, Ticknor became disenchanted with the school curriculum, characterizing the College as a well-disciplined high school, and began an effort to reorganize the College around four main goals: the division of students in courses according to academic proficiency and merit; the division of the ...

Athenaeum Club (London, England)

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Jay, John, 1817-1894

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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890

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John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a US Senator from California, and in 1856 was the first Republican nominee for President of the United States. A native of Georgia, Frémont acquired male protectors after his father's death, and became proficient in mathematics, science, and surveying. During the 1840s, he led five expeditions into the Western United States and became known as "The Pathfinder". During the...

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...

Schouler, James, 1839-1920

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J. C. Perkins

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Higgins, Bradley and Dayton.

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Miles, Pliny, 1818-1865

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Kerby, ...

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Barbado, F. G.

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Blake, George Baty.

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Allston, Washington, 1779-1843

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Allston was an American artist and author. From the description of Papers, 1815-1842. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122297604 From the guide to the Papers, 1815-1842., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American artist and poet. From the description of An indenture tripartite..., 1827 May 9. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 550545503 American writer and artist. From the description of L...

Agriculture and Mechanic Association, Bolton, Mass.

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Emily Faithfull

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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...

Howe, S. G. (Samuel Gridley), 1801-1876

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Physician, reformer, and husband of Julia Ward Howe. From the description of Papers, 1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46344998 Humanitarian crusader for many causes including Greek freedom, education for the disabled, prison reform, abolition, and black suffrage, Howe founded the Perkins School for the Blind and was the chairman of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities. When just out of the Harvard Medical School, he went to Greece as an army surgeon...

Tuckermann, Henry T.

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Franco, S. J.

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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...

Jackson, T. (Tom)

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Thurman, Allen Granbery, 1813-1895

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U.S. Senator from Ohio who served on the Senate Judiciary Committee. From the description of Letters, 1880. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55941341 U.S. representative and senator from Ohio and jurist. From the description of Allen Granbery Thurman correspondence, 1881 January 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980616 ...

J. P. Lesley

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Bootwright

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White star line

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A. Ordway

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Mrs. Duncannon

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Bliss

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Adams, A. B.

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Gibbs, George, 1815-1873

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George Gibbs, a New York lawyer, joined the Regiment of Mounted Rifles in 1849, went to Fort Vancouver, Washington, and remained in the Pacific Northwest for the next eleven years. During that time he held a number of positions, including that of an ethnologist and geologist with the Northern Pacific segment of the U.S. Army railroad survey from 1853 to 1855, and the Northwest boundary survey of the Northwest Boundary Commission from 1857 to 1860. He wrote numerous works on Indian languages and ...

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, ...

Howarth, George

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Cluseret, Gustave-Paul, 1823-1900

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Cluseret was born on 13 June 1823 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine. In 1841 he entered the Saint-Cyr military academy, and was commissioned in the French Army in 1843. He was made captain of the 23rd Mobile Guard battalion following the February revolution of 1848, and participated in the suppression of the June Days Uprising which was to later earn him hostility in certain socialist quarters. His support for an anti-Bonapartist demonstration on 29 January 1849 saw him demoted from command of his bat...

George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle

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Peace Society (London, England)

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The Society for the Promotion of Universal and Permanent Peace, also known as the London Peace Society, was founded June 14, 1816; first meeting was held at the home of William Allen, June 6, 1814; members were primarily Protestant, especially Quaker. Although its official platform was based on an absolutist pacifist stance, its members included peace workers who did not accept the full pacifist position. The Society declined in influence after the Boer War; in World War I it played no perceptib...

Masson, D. H.

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Guillemard, J.

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Union and Emancipation Society

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E. L. Pierce

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Buffington, James

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Dana, James, 1735-1812

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American clergyman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Haven, Ct., to his son [Samuel Whittelsey Dana], 1808 Mar. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870619 ...

Camp, O. O.

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Bemis, George

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C. W. Clippington

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Macdonald, J. S

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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,...

Sand, George, 1804-1876

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George Sand (pseudonym of Amantine Lucille Aurore Dupin Dudevant) was a French author. From the description of Miscellaneous papers, 1829-1872. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122590144 George Sand was the pseudonym of Mme. Dudevant. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1857, 1875, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155886629 George Sand (pseudonym of Amantine Lucille Aurore Dupin Dudevant ) was a Frenc...

Grund, Franz.

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Tchiherekeff, P.

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Lincoln, F. M., Jr.

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Marshall, Charles

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Epithet: alias 'Heraclitus Grey'; author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001192.0x0003bf Epithet: perukemaker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000862.0x0003e6 ...

Townsend, E. D.

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Société d'économie politique of Paris.

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J. M. Thorburn & Co.

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Wormley

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Workmen's Peace Association.

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Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894

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French physiologist, neurologist and endocrinologist. From the description of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard papers, 1871-1889, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31383182 Brown-Sequard was elected to the Academie des Sciences in 1886. From the description of Letter : [Paris], 1886 Jun 18. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 703640281 From the description of Letter : [Paris], 1886 Jun 18. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 7021624...

E. E. Williamson.

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Bancroft, Frederic

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Gould, John A.

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Epithet: MA; of Bridgewater British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000839.0x00000a ...

Scott, Thomas H. (Thomas Howard), 1932-

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J. B. Alley

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Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877

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John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877) was an American author. From the description of John Lothrop Motley notes on New England history, ca. 1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122640035 From the guide to the John Lothrop Motley notes on New England history, ca. 1840, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) John Lothrop Motley was born on 15 April 1814 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA. He was educated at Harvard College, 1827-1831. After graduat...

H. N. Barlow

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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...

Chevalier, Michel

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Epithet: French economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001393.0x000186 ...

Ward, Samuel

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x00032e Epithet: American patron of the arts British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x000329 Epithet: of Newport, Rhode Island British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000330 ...

Pereira, J.

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Gordon, Arthur, 1912-2002

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Epithet: of the Dublin Post Office British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000766.0x0000e5 ...

Boilleau, Charles.

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Appleton, J. J.

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J. A. Laude & Sons

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H. Howe

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Doolittle, James R. (James Rood), 1845-1889

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Starkweather, H. K.

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George H. Monroe

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John A. Andrew

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Free Democratic League.

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Eaton, Lucien, 1879-

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Ridgeley, Harriette.

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Reform Club.

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Edwin Stanton

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Cogswell, Joseph Green, 1786-1871

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Joseph Green Cogswell was a native of New England and graduate of Harvard. Throughout his long and active life, he was a scholar, educator, editor, bibliographer, and author, as well as superintendent of the Astor Library. Through his reputation, connections, and extensive travelling, he was known by many of the most notable figures of the nineteenth century, including Goethe, Irving, Byron, Scott, and Humboldt. From the description of Joseph Green Cogswell letter, 1852 April 5. (Pen...

Slack, Charles W.

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R. M. Jackson

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Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880

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Peirce (Harvard, A.B., 1829) taught astronomy and mathematics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Peirce, 1846-1851 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972841 Peirce (A.B. 1829), mathematician and astronomer, was a tutor (1831-1833) and professor (1833-1880) at Harvard University, where he established the Harvard Observatory. From the description of Correspondence, ca. 1835-1880. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79...

Richard, Henry, 1812-1888

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British political figure. From the description of Letter, 1858. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36635460 Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000613.0x0003ce Epithet: MP; of Add MS 44425 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x000228 Epithet: Reverend; Secretary of the Peace Society ...

Baker, E. H.

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Perry, Marshall S. (Marshall Sears), -1859

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Durkee, Charles, 1805-1870

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Charles Durkee was born December 10, 1805, in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont. In 1836, he became one of the founders Kenosha, Wisconsin (originally called Southport). He served in the United States Senate as a Republican from 1855 to 1861. He was a memeber of the 1861 Peace Commission. He was the governor of Utah in 1865-1869. He passed away on January 14, 1870, in Omaha, Nebraska. From the description of Charles Durkee correspondence, 1859-1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 368...

W. H. Furness

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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...

Whipple, William D. (William Denison), 1826-1902

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L. S. Cushing

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Walker, James, 1794-1874

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James Walker (1794-1874) was President of Harvard University from February 10, 1853 to January 26, 1860. Walker was also a Unitarian minister and religious philosopher. James Walker was born to John Walker and Lucy (Johnson) Walker on August 16, 1794 in what was then Woburn, Massachusetts (later to become a part of Burlington ). Walker attended the Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts (1807-1810) and graduated from Harvard University in 1814. After graduation, Wal...

Twisleton, Edward

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Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

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U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. From the description of George Frisbie Hoar letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1894 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 694733616 George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904) was a Republican Senator from Massachusetts (1877-1904). From the description of Autograph collection, 1598-1945. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122405022 From the guide to the George Frisbie Hoar autograph collection, 1598-194...

Holmes

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Epithet: Reverend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x000230 Epithet: Domina British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x00022d Epithet: Miss British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000703.0x00022f ...

McKean, Charlotte A.

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Otis Clapp

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Senior, Jeanie E...

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Wilson, Henry, 1673-1741

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Epithet: of Add MS 40349 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x00031a Title: 10th Baron Berners British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x00031b Epithet: of Add MS 37950 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000319 Epithet: Commissariat ...

Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818

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Caspar Wistar taught chemistry at the College of Philadelphia from 1789 to 1792. This College, with the University of the State of Pennsylvania, would become the University of Pennsylvania in 1791. From the description of Lectures : on chemistry, 1790. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122621060 Philadelphia physician. From the description of ALS : to an unidentified correspondent, 1817 July 14. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat r...

Kennedy, J. C. G. (Joseph Camp Griffith), 1813-1887

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Statistician, superintendent of the 7th (1850) and 8th (1860) censuses. From the description of Letter to Edward Jarvis [manuscript], 1861 January 18. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647880484 From the description of Letter to Edward Jarvis, 1861 January 18. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 35035737 ...

Leake, William Martin, 1746 or 1747-1801

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Pugh, I. B.

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Valentine, Elmer.

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Joseph Lyman.

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Redpath and Hall

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Sumner, Albert

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Endicott, Mrs.

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Greenleaf, Simon

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Balch, F. V. (Francis Vergnies), 1839-1898

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Corcelle, G. de.

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Brinkerhoff, Jacob, 1810-1880

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U.S. Congressman, 1843-1847 and Ohio Supreme Court Justice, 1856-1871. From the description of Letter, 1865 / Jacob Brinkerhoff. (Ohio University). WorldCat record id: 12681472 Representative from Ohio and jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Columbus, Ohio, to President Lincoln, [1861]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133355 ...

Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895

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William Wetmore Story was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1840, left the United States in 1847 and spent the rest of his life in Rome. There he began his career as a sculptor, working mostly in marble. From the description of Letters sent, 1860, 1875. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77798425 American expatriate William Wetmore Story had talent and success in diverse pursuits. After graduating from Harvard, he practised law in Bo...

Maguin, ...

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Salviati, de

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Gueroult

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Montgomery Blair.

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Hall, Moody March.

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Hitchcock, David K. (David Keyes), 1813-

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Cole, Henry

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Epithet: of Harwich British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000246.0x000132 Epithet: barrister, of Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000246.0x00012f ...

Longfellow, Henry W. (Henry Wadsworth), 1895-1986

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Hatch, Davis

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Briggs, James A., -1889

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click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for James A. Briggs James A. Briggs (1811-1889) was an attorney in Cleveland, Ohio, and in New York State, and the editor of the Cleveland DailyTrue Democrat. While serving as state assessor in New York, Briggs was special correspondent to several newspapers, including the Cleveland Leader. An avid temperance advocate and popular speaker, Briggs participated in the movements to convince Abraham Lincoln to ac...

Seaton, William Winston, 1785-1866

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Journalist, editor, mayor of Washington, D.C., 1840-1850. From the description of Letter : to "My good friend", [not after 1866] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22842661 From the description of Letter : to an unidentified recipient, 1849 Feb. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22777915 American journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed (2) : Washington, D.C., to Redwood Fisher, 1845 June 29 and [Nov. 29]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2...

Pierce, Edward Lillie, 1829-1897

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Supporters of President Grant removed Sumner as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate in 1871. Edward L. Pierce defended the reputation of Sumner after this episode became a matter of fresh historical controversy in 1877. Others involved in the controversy were Lothrop Motley, John Jay, and Hamilton Fish. From the description of Clippings concerning Charles Sumner and President U.S. Grant : album, 1877-1878. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612815430 ...

Burton, Warren

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Lee & Shepard.

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Bright, John, 1811-1889

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British statesman, from Rochdale, Lancashire, England. From the description of Papers, 1840-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19276561 John Bright (1811-1889), British reformer, Liberal statesman, free-trade advocate, and one of the most eloquent public speakers of his time, was born near Rochdale, England. A Quaker textile manufacturer, Bright was elected to Parliament in 1843 and formed the Anti-Corn Law League with Richard Cobden to repeal the Corn Laws...

Seward, William, 1747-1799

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English man of letters. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Worcester, to [Mr. Cadell], 1791 Sept. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664109 From the description of Autograph letter in third person : [n.p.], to Miss Burney, [1785]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662094 ...

S. G. Howe.

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Lewis, Rosalie S.

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Albirizzi

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Johnson, Reverdy, 1796-1876

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American jurist and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Annapolis, Maryland, to Jonathan Meredith, 1841 Feb. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270486276 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Annapolis, Maryland, to Jonathan Meredith, 1830 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270486259 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to "My dear Otho", 1845 Dec. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270491319 ...

Herries, William

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Title: 10th Baron Herries British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000350.0x000055 ...

Forbes, Mrs. Robert Bennet.

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Bing, Julius

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Burt, William Lathrop, 1828-1882

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Army officer and postmaster of Boston, Mass. From the description of William Lathrop Burt papers, 1872-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455719 ...

Sumner, George, Mrs., 1828-1921

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Epithet: of Add MS 35537 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000679.0x000049 Epithet: of Add MS 40229 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000679.0x00004b ...

Leavitt, Joshua

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Augusta, A. J.

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Webb, Thomas H. (Thomas Hopkins), 1801-1866

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Epithet: writer of plays British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000623.0x000037 ...

Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860.

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

Hore, Edward

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Miller, David

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Epithet: of Egerton MS 1074 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0000a7 David Miller (1908-1977), a lawyer from the Bronx, joined the Communist Party in 1932 and sailed for Spain in April 1938. In the course the war he conducted radio broadcasts from Albacete and Madrid for the Voice of Spain. While in Spain he trained at Madrigueras and Tarazona with Edward Lending. After returning from Spain ...

Burton, Warren, 1800-1866

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Hamlin, Edward Stowe, 1808-1894

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Morris, Edward Joy, 1815-1881

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Diplomat and U.S. representative from Pennsylvania. From the description of Letter of Edward Joy Morris, 1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454629 ...

Robinson, James T. (James Temple), 1923-

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Parkes, Joseph, 1796-1865

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Epithet: of Add MS 38985 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001193.0x0002a2 Epithet: radical politician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001193.0x0002a6 Joseph Parkes, British politician and solicitor. Parkes played a critical role in the political reform movements and electoral changes of the mid-ninethee...

J. Hyatt

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Horton, G.

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Epithet: Mrs General and Parliamentary Sec National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x000270 ...

le Comte Antonelli

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Redpath

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Smith, Henry Boynton, 1815-1877

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Sumner, Charles Pinckney, 1776-1839

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C. P. Sumner received his A.B. from Harvard in 1796. From the description of Non omnis possumus omnes : [student theme], December 18, 1795. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072599 Charles Pinckney Sumner (1776-1839), Sheriff of Suffolk County, received an AB from Harvard in 1796. He worked as a lawyer in Boston, and served as Clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1806 to 1807 and again from 1810 to 1811, before becoming sheriff of Suffolk County...

Reeves, John J. W.

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Phillips, S. R.

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Crosby!

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Valentine, E.

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Hillard, George Stillman, 1808-1879

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George Stillman Hillard was a Boston lawyer, politician, and author. As a lawyer he practiced practiced in partnership with Charles Sumner, and served both in the Massachusetts legislature as well as U.S. district attorney for Massachusetts. He also wrote extensively and edited a number of periodicals. From the description of George Stillman Hillard letters, 1840-1866. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 711612596 American lawyer and biographer. ...

Foelix, M. (Jean Jacques Gaspard), 1791-1853

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Ames, Oakes, 1804-1873

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Oakes Ames was an American manufacturer, capitalist, and member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts who was asked by President Abraham Lincoln to build the Union Pacific portion of the transcontinental railroad. From the description of Oakes Ames letter to E. D. Braford, 1868 January 14. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 773429638 ...

Niles, Nathaniel

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Hopner, Henry A.

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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). ...

Barclay, W. C.

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Patterson, M. A.

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Gillan, Moses.

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Edwards, Henry, 1941-

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Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000817.0x000014 ...

Relief Jacobs Sumner

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Yates, James

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Epithet: unitarian and antiquary British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x0001c0 Epithet: Secretary, Council of the British Association British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000574.0x0001bf ...

De Gurowski, Adam G., count, 1805-1866

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Polish scholar and author; advocate of Panslavism. From the description of Count Adam G. de Gurowski papers, 1743-1898 (bulk 1848-1898). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449287 Polish exile in America. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : "Office of the Tribune," to Fletcher Harper, 1857 Feb. 12 and 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270506720 Biographical Note Count Adam G. De Gurow...

Comité auxiliare de l'Association américaine en faveur des esclaves affranchis

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Augustus J. Foster

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Stafford, David

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Dr. David A.T. Stafford was a professor in the UVic History Dept. who, in 1982-1983, conducted interviews for a book on clandestine operations in WWII. He donated the tapes and transcripts to Special Collections before leaving the University. Some were originally restricted but all restrictions have now been cleared. From the description of David Stafford fonds. [1982-1983]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 688600907 ...

Adolphe de Chambrun

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Lewis, Joseph

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Circourt, Adolphe ˜deœ 1801-1879

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Chevalier Heeren

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Bird, Frank

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Booth, Mary L.

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W., E. E.

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Ebrington

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C. Gounod.

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Lyman, Joseph, 1749-1828

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American clergyman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Northampton, to the Reverend John Pierpont, 1818 Dec. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591052 Congregational clergyman; pastor of First Church in Hatfield, Mass. From the description of Dr. Joseph Lyman sermon No. 1464 continued in 1466, 1795 May 03. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979253 ...

S. G. Walker

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Shelton, Philo S.

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P. Banks

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Elliot C. Cowdin & Co.

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British Museum.

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Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts. The British Library, established in 1973, is now responsible for manuscript collections previously held by the library of the British Museum. From the guide to the Microfilms of British Museum class catalogues of manuscripts, 20th century, (University of Oxford, Bodleian Library) ...

Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1802-1864

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J. W. Jenkins

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Hooper, J. T. (James Thomas), 1897-1971

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Epithet: Merchant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000789.0x0000ab Epithet: at Amsterdam British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000789.0x0000aa Epithet: of Denmark Hill British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000789.0x0000ad ...

Lawrence, C. B

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Johnson, Arnold Burges, 1834-1915

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Underwood, A. J.

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Massachusetts. General Court

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The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It consisted of colony freemen (company stockholders); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants (magistrates) chosen by them. The latter group met separately as a Court of Assistants, but in 1634 its legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole (Ma...

Hooper, Alice Mason.

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Leonard J. Farwell

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J. H. Serment.

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Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893

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American statesman; Secretary of State. From the description of Letter signed : Washington, to Thomas J. Durant, 1870 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270538114 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to F.B. Schell, 1890 Jan. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526181 American statesman and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to William B. Snell, Esq., (18)76 Dec. 19. (Unknown). World...

Anderson, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 33106 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x0002f9 Epithet: Major; Bengal Engineers British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x0003d9 Epithet: Reverend; of the General Register House, Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10000000092...

Dwight, William, 1831-1888

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Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886

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

Dantu

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Allen, Thomas G.

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Honiman

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Zborowski, Martin

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Sumner, George, Mrs., 1828-1921

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Epithet: of Add MS 35537 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000679.0x000049 Epithet: of Add MS 40229 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000679.0x00004b ...

A. Wurmser.

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Furness, William H.

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Geo. S. Boutwell

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Hewson, W. Butt.

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Smith, Joshua B.

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Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879

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Cushing served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1835- 1843, and as special U.S. Envoy to China from 1843-1845. His career also included a term as U.S. Attorney General from 1852-1857. From the description of Letters to Thomas Mayo Brewer and Henry Vose, 1843, 1858. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234342903 U.S cabinet official and representative from Massachusetts, army officer, diplomat, and lawyer. From the description of Caleb Cushin...

Freedmen's Aid Society

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Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1866 for the "relief and education required in behalf of the freedmen"; in 1920 the name was changed to the Board of Education for Negroes of the Methodist Episcopal Church. From the description of Freemen's Aid Society annual reports, 1874-1886. (Claflin College). WorldCat record id: 70966675 ...

Greene, George Washington, 1811-1883

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Educator and historian. From the description of Letter of George Washington Greene, 1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452579 ...

Mariotti, L.

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Hale, John P. (John Parker), 1806-1873

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American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to A. Middleton, 1856 Apr. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270505990 From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Senate Chamber," to Captain Palmer, 1861 Jan. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270503647 U.S. district attorney, U.S. representative and senator from New Hampshire, and U.S. minister to Spain; resident of Dover, N.H. From the description of John P. Ha...

Bird, Francis W.

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Hooper, Samuel, 1808-1875

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Epithet: American economist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000789.0x0000ba Massachusetts merchant and legislator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to William Pitt Fessenden, 1864 Nov. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269523248 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to William Pitt Fessenden, [18]64 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2695232...

United States. Board of Treasury

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Standing committee of five members appointed by the Continental Congress in February 1776; succeeded by the Treasury Department in 1787. From the description of Letter : New York, N.Y., to Thomas Smith, 1787 May 15. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122525195 ...

Carpenter

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Union Club of Boston

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The Union Club of Boston was founded on April 9, 1863 at no. 8 Park Street in Cambridge, Mass. It was born as an offshoot of the Somerset Club which was having political divisions about the Lincoln Administration's handling of the Civil War. Membership to the Union Club (a social organization) required one acknowledged the sole legitimacy of the Federal Government. From the description of Union Club of Boston records, 1863-1976. (New England Historic Genealogical Society). WorldCat r...

A. B. Johnson

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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...

Wilkes, John

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Epithet: MP, Editor of the ' North Briton.' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x0000dd Epithet: of Add MS 12114 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x0000e2 Epithet: MP; of Add MS 33498 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81...

H. W. Longfellow.

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Lindsy, Harvey

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Wayland, Francis, 1796-1865

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Clergyman and educator. From the description of Letter of Francis Wayland, 1835 December 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015490 Fourth president of Brown University (1827-1855), educator, Baptist clergyman. Wayland was a tutor at Union college from 1817 to 1821. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston, Mass., from 1821 to 1826. As president of Brown University, he made broad changes in the curriculm and introduced the analytic method...

E. W. Pierce

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Everett, Edward

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Epithet: diplomatist, American envoy in London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001149.0x000031 ...

Perry, Marshall S. (Marshall Sears), -1859

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Chapman, J. W.

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Gaff, James.

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Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway).

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Fields

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Dalzell, James McCormick, 1838-1924

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Private in the 116 Ohio Volunteer Infantry throughout Civil War; practicing lawyer for over 30 years at Caldwell; served several terms in Ohio General Assembly; author of many newspaper articles. From the description of Papers of James McCormick Dalzell [manuscript], 1867-1916. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647875351 James M. Dalzell was a soldier in the 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. He practiced law in Ohio and served several terms in the O...

Phelps, Charles A. (Charles Abner), 1820-1902

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882

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Lawyer and author. From the description of Richard Henry Dana correspondence, 1843-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449368 Author and lawyer Richard Henry Dana was the privileged son of an aristocratic Massachusetts family. Taking time from Harvard because of medical problems, he went to sea, where his experiences as a sailor inspired him to write Two Years Before the Mast. A sea story that was part memoir and part social commentary, the novel proved to be popular with...

Woodman, Horatio.

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George? Sumner

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Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872

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Political scientist and author; born in Berlin, settled in U.S. 1827. From the description of ALsS : to George Mifflin Dallas, 1846. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122365122 Political scientist and educator. From the description of Letter, 1865 July 28, New York, to Dr. C[harles?] D[aniel?] Drake, St. Louis, Missouri [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806353 Francis Lieber: German American political phil...

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838

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American writer on navigation. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Salem, to an unidentified recipient, 1810 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910812 From the description of Letter signed : Boston, to William Vaughan in London, 1837 May 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910815 Astronomer, mathematician, and insurance executive. From the description of Nathaniel Bowditch correspondence, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 794511...

Cross, Joseph Warren, 1808-1906

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Murray, Amelia Meredith.

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Spofford, A. R.

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Foster, H.

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Jackson, R. M.

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Stevens, Paran

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Kent, Horace L.

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Trumball, Lyman.

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Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864

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Benjamin Silliman was a chemist and naturalist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1805. From the description of Correspondence, 1808-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466220 Physician and chemist of New Haven, Connecticut. From the description of Note, 1853, Sept. 28 : New Haven, Connecticut, to Isaac Waldron. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359361 Educator and scientist. From the description of Papers of...

Boutwell, George S

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