Papers, 1734-1952.

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Papers, 1734-1952.

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Papers of the Ropes family of Salem, Mass., and the related Peirson, Lawrence, and Lowell families, with some items for the Ladd family as well. Ropes family members represented include merchants Samuel, William, and Hardy Ropes; Congregational minister and Andover Theological Seminary Librarian William L. Ropes and his wife Harriet L. (Peirson); their son Congregational minister and Harvard professor James H. Ropes, and his wife Alice (Lowell); and Mary Tyler (Ropes) Gellibrand, among many others. (Cont'd) Collection contains correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, inventories, genealogical notes, school papers, poetry, women's commonplace books, a farm journal, and an account book (1869-72). Some topics covered include the Phoenix Glass Works, European travel, merchants in St. Petersburg (Russia) and Boston, and missionaries in India. Correspondents include (but are not limited to) Ropes, Pickman and Co., Francis J. Child, Ralph W. Emerson, Samuel W. Rowse, James Savage, Vida Scudder, and Charles U. Shepard.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts– April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.Epithet: American essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x000365 ...

Ladd family.

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Gellibrand, Mary Tyler Ropes.

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Phoenix Glass Works.

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Shepard, Charles Upham, 1804-1886

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Charles Upham Shepard was born on June 29, 1804, and died on May 1, 1886. He spent one year at Brown University before entering Amherst in 1821. After graduation in 1824 he spent almost a year studying under Professor L. Nuttall and, after giving private lessons in Botany and Mineralogy for a few months in Boston, entered the laboratory of Professor Benjamin Silliman at Yale College where he remained for another two years. From 1830 to 1847 he was Lecturer on Natural History at Yale. While at Ya...

Scudder, Vida-Dutton, 1861-1954

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Vida Dutton Scudder, 1884 Vida Scudder was born in India on December 15, 1861, the only child of Harriet Louisa (Dutton) and David Coit Scudder. She and her mother returned to Boston following the death of her father, although she spent much of her childhood traveling in Europe. She attended Boston private secondary schools, and graduated from Smith College in 1884. While doing postgraduate work at Oxford University, where she attended lectures by John Ruskin, Scudder d...

Ropes, Harriet Lawrence Peirson, 1831-

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Savage, James, 1784-1873

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James Savage received his A.B. from Harvard in 1803. From the description of [Student theme] , March 14, [1803]. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072623 ...

Rowse, Samuel Worcester, 1822-1901

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Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

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The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...

Ropes, William Ladd, 1825-1912.

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Lowell family.

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Ropes, Hardy, 1788-1875.

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Ropes, Pickman and Company (Boston, Mass.)

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Ropes, Alice Lowell, 1869?-1949

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Lawrence family.

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Ropes, James Hardy, 1866-1933

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James Hardy Ropes ( 1866-1933 ) was born in Salem, Massachusetts . He graduated from Harvard College in 1889 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1893 . In 1901, he was ordained a minister in the Congregational Church . He served as an instructor, and then assistant professor, at Harvard Divinity School from 1895 to 1903 ; he was then named Bussey Professor in 1903, a position he held until his appointment as the Hollis Professor of Divinity in 1910 . He was named editor of the Harvard Theologica...

Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass.

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Peirson family.

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Ropes family.

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Ropes, Samuel, 1757-1841.

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