Correspondence, 1811-1834.

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Correspondence, 1811-1834.

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Family correspondence of Mary T. Peabody and others, 1833-34, while she was governess for the children of Rev. William Ellery Channing, including letters to her mother regarding Channing and his family. Letters contain references to cholera in New England, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Orville Dewey. Collection also includes miscellaneous receipts of Dr. and Mrs. Walter Channing, 1811-24.

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Channing (Family : Channing, William Ellery, 1727-1820)

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The Channings were a prominent Massachusetts family with strong ties to the Unitarian church and the anti-slavery movement. From the guide to the Correspondence and other papers, 1825-1936., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts– April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.Epithet: American essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x000365 ...

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the aboli...

Dewey, Orville, 1794-1882

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Orville Dewey (1794-1882) was born and died in Sheffield, Mass. He graduated from Williams College in 1814, and Andover Seminary in 1819. Shortly after, he became an Unitarian, and served as minister at the following churches: Federal Street Church (Boston, Mass.), 1821-1823; First Church (New Bedford, Mass.), 1822-1833; Second Congregational Church (New York, N.Y.), 1835-1848; New South Church (Boston, Mass.), 1857-1861. Dewey received an honorary D.D. from Harvard in 1839. He was president of ...

Peabody family.

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Channing, Walter, 1786-1876

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Boston physician. From the description of Letter, 1859 Oct. 14, Boston, to Edward W. Hooper. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 261127830 ...

Peabody, Mary T., 1806-1887.

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