Papers, 1859-1906.

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Papers, 1859-1906.

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Correspondence and other papers of Hartt and of his son, Rollin Lynde Hartt, a Congregational minister. The material relates to a trip to Brazil by C.F. Hartt and Louis Agassiz and others, R.L. Hartt's student days at Williams College (ca. 1890), Montana in the 1890s, geology and zoology, and other matters. Includes an essay by C.F. Hartt on music, and letters of the wife of a Southern carpetbagger describing Reconstruction in Georgia. Correspondents include Fred T. Aldridge, George Washington Cable, Mary C. Cook, Fred P. Forster, and Richard K. Noye.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925

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George Washington Cable, an American author and critic, was born in New Orleans and fought for the South in the Civil War. His first collection of tales of life in the south was Old creole days (1879). In 1884 he went on a reading tour with Mark Twain. He moved to Northampton, Mass., in 1885. He is chiefly known for his early works describing picturesque Louisiana Creole life and courageous essays on civil rights. From the description of George Washington Cable papers, 1865-1918. (Pe...

Forster, Fred P.

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Hartt, Charles Frederic, 1840-1878.

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Zoologist and geologist. From the description of Papers, 1859-1906. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19642738 ...

Cook, Mary C.

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Hartt, Rollin Lynde, 1869-1946

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Aldridge, Fred T.

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Noye, Richard K.

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Williams College

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