Papers of Edwin Percy Whipple, 1847-1881.

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Papers of Edwin Percy Whipple, 1847-1881.

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The collection contains correspondence regarding invitations to lecture; Whipple's opinion of a work by Thomas Carlyle; political events in 1850; a requested stock transfer; a debate among Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, S.E. Sewell and Fredrika Bremer concerning the creation of a perfect creature with a lament by Emerson on New Englanders' devotion to money; and a retrospect of American literature for Harper & Brothers and the attendant research on Southern poetry. There are also two quotations by Whipple and an engraving of him by J.A.J. Wilcox.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Alcott, A. Bronson (Amos Bronson), 1799-1888

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Correspondence (129 letters) and typescript (unsigned) revisions and notes, 1954, (23 p.) concerning the publication of The Scope of Total Architecture by Walter Gropius. Includes 22 letters from Gropius. From the description of Correspondence with Walter Gropius, 1952-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612369957 Publishing firm in New York City. From the description of Harper & Brothers Records 1817-1929. (Columbia University In the City of New ...

Steele, F. M., fl. 1875, recipient.

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Sewell, S. E., 1799-1888.

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Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886

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Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865

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Wilcox, John Angel James, d. 1835.

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Tafford, A. G., fl. 1881,

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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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