Letters received, 1909-1912.

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Letters received, 1909-1912.

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Chiefly letters concerning the Round Table Club membership and speaking engagements from Bliss Perry, A. Lawrence Lowell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Robert L. O'Brien, A. Lawrence Rotch and others and addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Davol, and Henry W. Putnam.

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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...

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Davol, Stephen B.

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Rotch, a meteorologist, founded and was director of Blue Hill Observatory, near Boston, Mass. He took the earliest American measurements of cloud height and velocities. In 1906, Rotch became the first professor of meteorology at Harvard. In cooperation with Teisserenc de Bort, he sent an expedition to explore the atmosphere above the tropical ocean, 1905-1906; ascended Mont Blanc six times, reaching the summit thrice; and ballooned above Paris in 1889. From the description of Papers,...

Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954

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Putnam, Henry Ware

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Round Table Club (Boston, Mass.)

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O'Brien, Robert Lincoln, 1865-1955

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A correspondent for the Boston Transcript who was a colleague of Wiley's. O'Brien later became editor of the Boston Herald. From the description of Correspondence to Franklin Baldwin Wiley, 1899-1919. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 756036376 Publisher and presidential secretary. From the description of Robert Lincoln O'Brien address, 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980316 Publisher. From the description of Re...