Papers, 1685-1915.

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Papers, 1685-1915.

Papers of the Channing family, including correspondence of Lucy B. Channing, Barbara H. Channing, Mary E. Channing Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Walter Channing II, William Ellery Channing II, Ellen K. Fuller Channing, Margaret (Crane) Fuller, and Henry D. Morse. The correspondence concerns family matters, most significantly the marriage and subsequent separation of Ellen Fuller and William E. Channing II. (Con't) Other materials include: inventories of the properties of William Minot of Boston and Noah Rice of Marlborough, Mass.; diary of William E. Channing, 1831; legal documents pertaining to the estate of William Channing; will of William Ellery; anonymous journal of a trip to Europe, 1872; an autobiographical memoir by Edward Channing; a typescript history of Nantucket by Lydia S. Hinchman; numerous clippings; several small anonymous diaries; and genealogical materials.

7 boxes and 1 oversize container.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6913057

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Ellery, William, 1727-1820

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William Ellery (December 22, 1727 – February 15, 1820) was a Founding Father of the United States, one of the 56 signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, and a signer of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of Rhode Island. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, he received his early education from his father before graduating from Harvard College in 1747. After working as a merchant, customs collector, and as clerk of the Rhode Island General Assembly, Ellery started pr...

Channing (Family : Channing, William Ellery, 1727-1820)

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The Channings were a prominent Massachusetts family with strong ties to the Unitarian church and the anti-slavery movement. From the guide to the Correspondence and other papers, 1825-1936., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

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...

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...

Channing, Barbara H.

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Hinchman, Lydia Swain Mitchell

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Minot, William

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Channing, Lucy Ellery, 1752-1834.

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Higginson, Mary E. Channing.

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Channing, Edward, 1856-1931

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Channing (Harvard, A.B. 1878) taught history at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Edward Channing, 1893-1931 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069347 ...

Channing, Walter, 1786-1876

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Boston physician. From the description of Letter, 1859 Oct. 14, Boston, to Edward W. Hooper. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 261127830 ...

Channing, Lucy B.

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Rice, Noah, 1751-1820.

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Channing, William, 1751-1793.

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Channing, Ellen Kilshaw Fuller, d. 1856.

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Morse, Henry K., b. 1822.

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Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901

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American poet. From the description of Morrice Lake : autograph manuscript of the poem signed, [1872]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270630812 Channing was a transcendentalist poet and the first biographer of Thoreau. From the description of Notebooks and journals, 1852-ca. 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612371953 Concord poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Concord, to James Munroe & Co., 1850 May 6. ...