Papers, 1820-1914.

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Papers, 1820-1914.

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Papers of Elliott Coues, an ornithologist, author, and founder of the American branch of the Gnostic Theosophical Society, including correspondence, 1863-1898, relating to the society and Helena Blavatsky and Henry Olcott, founders of the Theosophical movement. The collection also includes correspondence, 1820-1829, of Coues' mother, Charlotte Ladd Coues, and of his father, Samuel Elliott Coues, 1832-1860, relating to the establishment of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane and to his work as president of the American Peace Society.

0.4 c.f. (1 flat box) and1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Ladd, Charlotte Haven.

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Coues, Samuel Elliott, 1797-1867

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New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane

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Established by a private committee in 1839; incorporated by the state of New Hampshire and opened in 1842; became New Hampshire State Hospital in 1902 and later called New Hampshire Hospital. From the description of Records, 1839-1871. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963830 ...

Blavatsky, H.P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) was born in Russia and was one of the most influential writers in the occult world. In 1875, along with Henry Olcott and William Quan Judge, she founded the Theosophical Society to promote universal brotherhood, investigate laws of nature and latent human powers, and study comparative religion, philosophy, and science. Madame Blavatsky, as she is known, studied the occult for nearly 25 years and claimed to be able to perform mental and physical feats such as...

Gnostic Theosophical Society.

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Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899

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American naturalist. From the description of ALS, 1874 Aug. 25, Rocky Mountains, lat. 40° N [Montana], to Thomas George Gentry. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122617038 William Clark requested that Nicholas Biddle, scholar, statesman, and financier, write a narrative of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1814 as "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark." From the guide to the Nicholas Biddle correspondence,...

Olcott, Henry Steel, 1832-1907

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Epithet: Colonel; county -founder of the Theosophical Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000357.0x000223 Theosophist and author. From the description of Letter of Henry Steel Olcott, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454785 ...

American Peace Society.

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Formed in 1828 in New York City; headquarters later moved to Hartford, Boston, and Washington, D.C. From the description of Certification, 1871 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70963148 The American Peace Society was the first nationally based secular peace organization in the United States. It was formed in 1828 from the merging of several state and local peace societies of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts; the oldest, the New York Peace Society, dat...