William Ellery Channing papers, 1843-1901.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

William Ellery Channing papers, 1843-1901.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34436455

Papers include: ms. book of poems, with revisions and annotations, 1843-1875; mss. of Channing's autobiographical works Leviticus ([early 1850's]) and Major Leviticus ([not before 1854/1855]); two sewn booklets of lectures on "Society" ([delivered before Concord Lyceum in 1858?]); ms. draft of Chapter 14 of Thoreau, the Poet-Naturalist (possibly also unpublished installment no. 9 of series for Commonwealth begun in 1863); undated ms. copy of "Sleepy Hollow," not in Channing's hand (poem written 1855, published 1902 in Poems of Sixty-Five Years). (Cont.) correspondence, including two letters to Elizabeth Hoar (undated and 1856), one to Sophia Thoreau (1868), and over one hundred to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Marston Watson (1859-1901, the single 1901 letter by Mrs. F.B. Sanborn, plus many undated).

.44 linear ft.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7364172

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman, 1814-1878

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62k73bp (person)

Elizabeth Sherman Hoar (July 14, 1814-April 7, 1878) was a schoolmate of Henry Thoreau and his siblings. After his death she assisted Sophia Thoreau and Ellery Channing in collecting the posthumous works of Henry, close friend and traveling companion of her brother Edward. In her youth Elizabeth was engaged to marry Charles Chauncy Emerson, her father's young law partner. Charles died of consumption in May, 1836, before they were wed. Much beloved by his family, Elizabeth was for the rest of her...

Watson, Benjamin Marston, 1820-1896

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62g8cxz (person)

Benjamin Marston Watson was born in Plymouth in 1820. He attended Harvard College and there befriended Henry David Thoreau. Although the two did not initially become fast friends, they would eventually reconnect after their college days and would be quite close for many years. Immediately after college, in 1840, Watson became part of the Brook Farm Experiment, a short-lived effort on the part of several Transcendentalists to establish a Utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. There ...

Thoreau, Sophia E.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6js9s4f (person)

Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63b6bk7 (person)

American poet. From the description of Morrice Lake : autograph manuscript of the poem signed, [1872]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270630812 Channing was a transcendentalist poet and the first biographer of Thoreau. From the description of Notebooks and journals, 1852-ca. 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612371953 Concord poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Concord, to James Munroe & Co., 1850 May 6. ...

Watson, Mary Russell, 1820-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6449gq2 (person)

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6165668 (person)

Henry David Thoreau (b. July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts-d. May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts), American author, lecturer, naturalist, student of Native American artifacts and life, transcendentalist, land surveyor, and life-long resident of Concord, Massachusetts. He was an active opponent of slavery and a social critic. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837....