Papers, 1916-1981.

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Papers, 1916-1981.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10786990

Collection consists of: (Box I & II) letters to his mother recounting student life at St. Paul's school, 1923-27; letters to his mother and father describing life at Harvard & experiences of travel in Europe, 1929-37; letters recounting camp life during WWII, 1942-44; letters from 1946-49 describing a trip to France, and social and professional matters in Boston. Other papers include (Box III) copies of a juvenile newspaper "The Agawam Weekly" (1918), misc. poetry and prose, reports of the Anti-Skiing Assn. (ca. 1950) Club of Odd Volumes minutes (1970-79), letters rec'd, 1930-83 from Peter DeVries, Robert Hillyer, Albert Roussel and John J. Wright, among others. Also included are financial documents, awards and certificates, menus, programs and passports. Also: (Box IV) diary from a 1923 trip to England, a 1931 "literary and musical" diary, a memo book dated 1941, and a volume of notes, presumably used in the writing of Social History of the Club of Odd Volumes, 1887-1967 (Boston, 1969). Collection also includes: genealogies of Whiteside, Cheever, Corbin, Cabot, Dwight and Moore families (Box III); misc. letters rec'd, 1932-41, by Mrs. Moses Williams (Box III); and a volume of Williams family photographs, ca. 1915-18 (Box IV).

5 boxes (2 ft.)

Boston Athenaeum

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SNAC Resource ID: 6673421

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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...

Anti-Skiing Association.

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St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.)

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Whiteside family.

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Club of Odd Volumes.

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Williams, Anne Whiteside.

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Cheever family.

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Wright, John J. (John Joseph), 1909-1979

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Hillyer, Robert, 1895-1961

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Robert Hillyer was born in East Orange and he taught English and rhetoric at Harvard for several decades. In 1934 he won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for "The Collected Verse of Robert Hillyer." From the description of Correspondence-Manuscripts, 1937-1943. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 727944299 Hillyer graduated from Harvard in 1917 and taught English at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Robert Silliman Hillyer, 1940-1945 (inclusi...

Roussel, Albert

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Albert Roussel (1869-1937), French composer. From the description of Albert Roussel letters to Blanche Roussel, 1914-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162549 From the description of Albert Roussel letters to Blanche Roussel, 1914-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82841856 Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x00002a The work was composed in 1927--Cf. G...

De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993

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Peter De Vries was an American writer and editor, affiliated with Poetry and later New Yorker, noted for his wit and technical proficiency. In a series of popular, generally humorous novels, he examines society, morals, and both the charm and limitations of language as a form of communication. From the description of Peter De Vries letters to H.R. Hays, 1942-1943. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52734424 ...

Williams, Alexander Whiteside

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Graduate of St. Paul's School and Harvard, Class of 1931. Editor, Little, Brown & Co. Music editor, Boston Herald, 1934-48. Secretary, Boston Athenaeum. Club-man. From the description of Papers, 1916-1981. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 10786990 ...

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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...