Papers, 1808-1851.

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Papers, 1808-1851.

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Personal and family papers of merchant John Lowell (1799-1836) and his wife Georgina M.A. Lowell contain correspondence between the couple during their courtship and 1825 marriage until Georgina's death in 1830. Topics discussed include family matters, Lowell's descriptions of his trips to Maine and elsewhere in the Northeast (1825), his opinions of the proposed Tariff of Abominations in 1828, his conversations with William E. Channing during his journey to Richmond, Va., to attend the Constitutional Convention in that state (1829), and the subsequent speeches on the topic of freeholder suffrage. Also, correspondence between Georgina Lowell and Anna C. Lowell, many in French; letters between the couple and John's brother Edward J. Lowell regarding business, book collecting, and the latter's travels in Europe; and letters of Hannah J. Lowell and Ann Tracy of Newburyport, Mass. (Cont.) The papers also contain some verses and a romantic story written by Georgina Lowell, and an unidentified woman's diary.

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Lowell, Georgina Margaret Amory, 1804-1830.

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Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1829-1830)

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Lowell, John, 1799-1836

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Merchant and traveler; philanthropist founder of the Lowell Institute. From the description of Letters, 1833 Nov. 6-1836 Jan. 14. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 218487416 From the description of Journals and letterbooks, 1832 Nov.-1836 Feb. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 79841092 ...

Lowell, Edward Jackson, 1807-1830.

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Lowell, Anna Cabot, 1808-1894.

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Tracy, Ann.

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Lowell, Hannah Jackson, d. 1815.

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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...