Personal and family papers, 1810-1910.

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Personal and family papers, 1810-1910.

1810-1910

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The papers of Samuel Eliot (1821-1898) comprise an unique, multi-faceted family archive spanning the years 1810-1910. Accumulated by various members of the Otis and Eliot families of Boston, the collection consists of diaries, scrapbooks, letters, miscellaneous documents and associated printed matter. The collection clearly illustrates the background, education and activities of Samuel Eliot, Harvard class of 1839, historian and social reformer, who served as president of Trinity College, Hartford, and superintendent of Boston Public Schools. The Eliot papers are anchored by his lucid and fascinating 12 v. diary, 1839-1898, in which he records daily activities (with excursions to the South, Cuba and Europe) as well as religious and philosophical reflections. Of note are Eliot's perceptions of the slavery issue, Whig politics and the reform of education. Covered in greatest detail are the years prior to 1870. Allied to the diary are letters received, 1829-1898, which demonstrate the full range of his familial and professional ties. Many of the correspondents, including Phillips Brooks, Charles W. Eliot, Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jared Sparks and George Ticknor were important figures of the day. The sum of the papers paints a vivid portrait of an enlightened and articulate civil servant of the Gilded Age.

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Otis, Alleyne, 1807-1873

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Eliot, Emily Marshall Otis, 1832-1906

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Emily M. O. Eliot and Emily M. E. Morison were grandmother and mother of Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard University naval historian. Member of an old and prominent Boston family, Eliot was the wife of Samuel Eliot, president of Trinity College and later a lecturer at Harvard and superintendent of the Boston public schools. Morison was the wife of John Holmes Morison, a lawyer and a graduate of Harvard. From the description of Diaries, 1859-1922 (inclusive). (Harvard Univers...

Ladenburg, Emily

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Otis, Harrison Gray, 1765-1848

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American statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Joseph Gales, Esq., 1830 Sept. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609817 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, 1797 May 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270610680 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, possibly to Judge John Lowell, 1791 Mar. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609819 Otis's career included terms as a judge of ...

Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898

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President of Trinity College, philanthropist, author. From the description of Samuel Eliot letter to Count Adam de Gurowski [manuscript], [18__] Dec 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 182579807 American historian and educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to J. Pierpont Morgan, 1895 Jan. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270743938 Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Cata...

Eliot, William Havard, 1796-1831

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