Edward Jarvis papers, 1796-1886 (bulk 1822-1884).

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Edward Jarvis papers, 1796-1886 (bulk 1822-1884).

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Correspondence, 1826-1886: letters from Louis Agassiz, Josiah Bartlett (letter of reference), Jacob Bigelow, James Freeman Clarke, Caleb Cushing, Edward Everett, James A. Froude, James A. Garfield, H.B. Goodwin, Richard Hildreth, Samuel Hoar, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Starr King, Levi Lincoln, Horace Mann, John Stuart Mill, John G. Palfrey, Andrew Preston Peabody, Wendell Phillips, George C. Shattuck, Lemuel Shattuck, Carroll D. Wright, & others; institutional form acknowledgements for statistical & other publications received of & Cover letters for publications sent to Jarvis; European letters, 1860 (3 v. of transcribed correspondence). Misc. papers, 1841-1884: receipted Harvard College bills; commissions & appointments; printed ephemera (passes, invitations, menus, calling cards, etc., mainly from 1860 European trip); embossed charts for blind; passport; etc. Journals, 1827-1842: 2 v. diary; Journal of a Journey from Louisville to New Orleans (1841). Mss., 1798-1882: Jarvis family account book, 1798-1840. (Cont.) incl. record of Concord deaths 1778-1850, originally recorded by E. Ripley, H. Goodwin, & B. Frost, transcribed by Capt. Francis Jarvis & daughters Louisa & Lucy; 1 v. of transcribed death records 1778-1878 (earlier entries transcribed from v. noted above) with Jarvis's annotations & analyses ([1879]); Traditions and reminiscences of Concord (1880); Houses and People in Concord (1882). Books from library/estate of Jarvis: 11 v., published 1796-1858, most significant among them Jarvis's. (Cont.) annotated copy of J. Bigelow's Florula Bostoniensis (1824), marked 1834-1836 with flowering times of Concord plants, & his annotated, interleaved, extra-illustrated copy of L. Shattuck's 1835 A History of the Town of Concord.

5.5 linear ft.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Jarvis, Edward, 1803-1884

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Physician; social statistician; author of books and articles on physiology, insanity, and social statistics; late in life, social historian of his native town, Concord, Mass. From the description of Houses and people in Concord, 1810 to 1820 : ms. / by Edward Jarvis, 1882. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 34166787 From the description of Traditions and reminiscences of Concord, Massachusetts, or, A contribution to the social and domestic history of the town, 177...

Jarvis family.

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Shattuck, Lemuel, 1793-1859

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Statistician; genealogist; public servant in Concord and Boston, Mass.; bookseller/publisher; historian of Concord. From the description of Draft portions of and notes compiled in preparing Lemuel Shattuck's 1835 printed A History of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, [ca. 1830-1835]. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 34379162 Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859), American author, statistician and public health reformer. Shattuck settled in Concord, Mas...

Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879

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Physician and botanist of Boston, Mass. From the description of Jacob Bigelow letter, 1822-1833, [Boston]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847536 Jacob Bigelow (Harvard University, A.B. 1806 and University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1810) taught at Harvard Medical School from 1815-1855. With Dr. Francis Boott he began work on a flora of New England but this project was given up. From 1817-1820 he published American medical botany for which he drew many of the plates and ...