Benjamin Eddy Cotting correspondence, 1890-1897

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Benjamin Eddy Cotting correspondence, 1890-1897

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Correspondence of Dr. Benjamin Eddy Cotting, curator of the Lowell Institute, 1890-1897 (with gaps) relates to the arrangement of lectures for the Institute including lecture dates, lecture tickets for friends and family, publicity, and printing. Also included are drafts of letters and notes written by Cotting to potential lecturers. Lecture topics include science, history, art, religion, social issues, and economics. Correspondents include Felix Adler, Daniel Garrison Brinton, Louis Alexander Fagan, Alfred Thayer Mahan, George Makepeace Towle, Crawford Howell Toy, and Arthur Gordon Webster, among other noted educators, professors, and scholars.

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Fagan, Louis, 1845-1903

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Cotting, Benjamin Eddy, 1812-1897

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Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914

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