Letters from various correspondents, 1819-1889.

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Letters from various correspondents, 1819-1889.

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Letters to Clapp from Henry A. Delille, Edward Everett, Jonas Hanot French, Alexander Hamilton Rice, Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber and others. Letters mostly address topics on the Army during the Civil war, including Army Desertion, the Army and President Lincoln's plans and maneuvers, and various personal accounts of soldiers fighting in the Civil War. Letters also concern letters to the editor of the Evening Gazette and Boston Gazette about war stories that readers wanted published, and angry letters about publications. Collection also contains a letter of thanks to Clapp from the Armory of the Boston Light Infantry, a signature of Seminole Chief Bobby Bow Legs, and various invitations.

2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

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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...

DeLille, Henry A., -1901

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Rice, Alexander Hamilton, 1818-1895

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Clapp, William Warland, 1826-1891

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Clapp was a journalist and author. He was editor of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette (1847-1865) and editor of the Boston Journal (1865-1891). From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1819-1889. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122297595 From the description of Wiliam Warland Clapp diaries and correspondence, 1822-1891. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612366405 From the guide to the Letters from various correspondents, 1819-...

Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890

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Author, of Portsmouth, N.H.; also wrote under names Mrs. Partington and Ruth Partington. From the description of Letter, 1853 Nov. 22. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70961170 American humorist. From the description of Papers of B. P. Shillaber [manuscript], 1856-1890. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647846046 From the description of To J.T. Fields : autograph poem signed and accompanying autograph letter si...

Armory of the Boston Light Infantry.

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French, Jonas H. (Jonas Hanod)

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