Papers: 1883-1901.

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Papers: 1883-1901.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence. Included are 2 business letters written by Sanborn from her farm, Breezy Meadows, in Metcalf, Mass. to Mr. [Borlin?] (1892 Sept. 10) and Mr. Coombes (1892 Oct. 19), requesting the return of a manuscript and negotiating the payment for a book. Also included are letters from Sanborn to Charles Follen Adams (1893-1901) extending him invitations and a book, and thanking him for presents. Also includes 1 letter from George H. Calvert, of Newport, RI, to Sanborn (1883 Feb. 21), responding to Sanborn's request for his personal reminiscences of Margaret Fuller. He mentions his first meeting with her in 1837 when Fuller politely disagreed with William Ellery Channing over the merits of Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd's poem, Ion, a visit in 1838 that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a later visit at the Tribune offices with Horace Greeley. The collection also includes an advertising flier (4p, undated) for a series of lectures entitled, Miss Kate A. Sanborn's lectures on literature. The flier lists fifteen lecture subjects, including Spinster Authors of England, Bachelor Authors, Pets of Noted Persons, and Vanity and Insanity: the Shadows of Genius, and quotes from favorable reviews.

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Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850

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Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850) was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent, writing for Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune, and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Born Sarah Margaret Fuller in Cambridge, Massa...

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917

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Sanborn was a teacher, author, and lecturer whose works retained much of the casual, anecdotal manner of conversation. She was the daughter of a Dartmouth College professor and raised in an atmosphere of lively intellectual discussion. From the description of Papers: 1883-1901. (Waverly Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122529763 Katherine Abbott Sanborn was born in 1839 in Hanover, New Hampshire where her father, Edwin David Sanborn, was professor of classics at Dartmout...

Calvert, George Henry, 1803-1889

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Poet and author, grandson of Lord Baltimore. From the description of Letter to N[ahum?] Capen, 1875 June 23. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49050145 George Henry Calvert was an American scholar and author. Born into an aristocratic Baltimore family, he attended Harvard but was denied his degree for protesting the strict rules of student conduct. He immersed himself in Germanic studies, and became a key figure in popularizing Germanic thought and literature in ...

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the aboli...