Lemuel Shattuck papers, 1637-1850, (1825-1850)

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Lemuel Shattuck papers, 1637-1850, (1825-1850)

1637-1850 (bulk 1825-1850)

Correspondence of Lemuel Shattuck, chiefly letters addressed to him. The letters discuss Shattuck's work on his history of Concord, Mass.; his tenure as the editor of the Yeoman's Gazette; various publishing projects; the affairs of the Middlesex County and Cambridge, Mass. Lyceums, the 6th U.S. Census (1840); and his work on statistics, public health, history, and genealogy. The largest group (21 letters, 1826-1849) is Shattuck's correspondence with Edward Everett. Everett's letters cover the politcal affairs, including Everett's 1826 speech on slavery and his position on the Antimasonic and National Republican parties in the 1832 elections. Other correspondents include James Buchanan (1791-1868); Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Farmer (1789-1838), George Farrar (1778-1858), Richard Fletcher (1788-1869), John Hoskins Griscom (1809-1874); Eben Norton Horsford (1818-1893), Horace Mann (1706-1859), James Gates Percival (1795-1856); Ezra Ripley (1751-1841), Jared Sparks I1789-1866), James Stewart (1799-1864), James Walker (1794-1874), Francis Wayland (1796-1865), Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Noah Webster (1758-1843), and Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1854). Also included a group of 16 manuscripts (1654-1799), collected by Shattuck in preparation for his history of Concord, Mass. Including the documents dealing with Simon Willard's 1654 expedition against the Narrangansett Indians; King Phillip's War (1675-1676), and the dispute between the town of Concord and Robert Blood (1685/6).

83 pieces.

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