Biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, 1869-1921.

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Biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, 1869-1921.

Two ms. drafts of a biography, apparently never published, of Transcendentalist, teacher, author and educational reformer Elizabeth P. Peabody. Also, letters of Benjamin P. Mann to Mary Van Wyck Church, 1902-04; and the ancestral chart of William L. Palmer (from 1921).

2 boxes and 2 oversize boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7136002

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Palmer family.

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Palmer, William Lincoln, 1868-

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Church, Mary Van Wyck.

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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was at the center of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. Although she wrote and published many works, she is best remembered for her support and friendship of Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and many others. She published the journal Dial, founded the famous West Street Book Shop and Publishing House, and introduced kindergarten to America. From the description of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters, 1846-1854. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

Mann, B. Pickman (Benjamin Pickman), 1848-1926

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