Letters, 1878-1900, Providence and Boston.

Whitman, Sarah Helen Power, 1803-1878

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Sarah Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878) was an American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe. Whitman was born in Providence, Rhode Island on January 19, 1803, exactly six years before Poe's birth. She was the daughter of Nicholas Power. In 1828, she married the poet and writer John Winslow Whitman. John had been co-editor of the Boston Spectator and Ladies' Album, which allowed Sarah to publish some of her poetry usin...

Harrison, James Albert, 1848-1911

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Harris, C. Fiske

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Born in Rhode Island; son of Stephen and Eliza (Greene) Harris; through both the Harris and Greene families descended from the earliest settlers in Rhode Island; Brown class of 1838. After a twenty-year career in the commission business in New York he retired to Providence and collected books, manuscripts, and art. The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays of the Brown University Library is named for him. From the description of Papers, 1867-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record ...

Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886

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U.S Boundary Commissioner, antiquarian and bibliographer; John Bartlett was appointed in 1850 to establish the border between Mexico and the United States. He worked in Texas and southern New Mexico until 1852, when he decided to go to San Diego and work from there to the east. He was removed from his position in February 1853. He published his account of his experiences in two volumes, "Personal and Narrative of Explorations and Incidents Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Co...

Channing, William F. (William Francis), 1820-1901

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