Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1896.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1896.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190768532

Consists of two folders. One letter is dated March 1896; the other is dated 28 July 1896. In the second letter Adler thanks Furness for sending him some biographical sketches of Furness' father, the late Rev. Dr. William H. Furness.

2 items (2 leaves).

University of Pennsylvania Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6954972

University of Pennsylvania Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jj4c0c (person)

Cyrus Adler graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883. He later received the first American Ph.D. in Semitics from Johns Hopkins University. He taught Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins from 1884 to 1893. In 1877 he was appointed assistant curator of the section of Oriental antiquities in the United States National Museum, and had charge of an exhibit of biblical archaeology at the centennial exposition of the Ohio valley in 1888. He was a commissioner for the world's Columbian ex...

Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cz387g (person)

William Henry Furness, Unitarian minister, was born 20 Apr. 1802 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1825 Furness was ordained minister of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia. He became pastor emeritus of the congregation in 1875 and continued to preach occasionally until his death 30 Jan. 1896 in Philadelphia. Furness published numerous books on the New Testament, translated German poetry, and wrote original hymns. In the years before the Civil War, Furness tried to comprehend a Christian's dut...