Papers, 1819-1868.

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Papers, 1819-1868.

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Papers of Lucian Minor, lawyer and temperance advocate, include a commonplace-book; his diary of a trip from Charlottesville, Virginia north and west to the junction of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers in 1836; letters to him, including part of one from C.C. Felton on the subject of slavery; and letters written by his wife, Lavinia C. Minor, asking for assistance in her attempts to get her late husband's writings on a trip to New England published. Also, an extract from a journal of a gentleman travelling in New England (1819). Additional correspondents include William G. Stearns and J.E. Worcester.

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Minor, Lucian, 1802-1858

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Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862

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Cornelius Conway Felton (Harvard AB 1827) was a tutor from 1829 to 1832, University Professor of Greek from 1832 to 1834, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature from 1834 to 1860, Regent from 1849 to 1857, and President of Harvard University from 1860 to 1862. From the description of Lectures on Greek history and literature, 1855-1861. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072875 In 1857, Felton expelled Keene from the Harvard Divinity School for practicing as a medium. ...

Stearns, William Gordon, 1804-1872

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Minor, Lavinia C.

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Worcester, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1784-1865

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Lexicographer. From the description of Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Wm. A. Whitehead, New York, 1838 Oct. 1. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28996371 American lexicographer, engaged in a "War of Dictionaries" with Noah Webster. From the description of Joseph Emerson Worcester letters [manuscript], 1821, 1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647999587 ...