Papers, ca. 1819-1886.

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Papers, ca. 1819-1886.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40497795

Collection consists of correspondence, personal and business records, manuscripts, catalogs, autobiographical material and memorabilia of Henry Stevens, London bookseller, bibliographer, and publisher. Correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Henry Brooks Adams, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Babbage, H.H. Bancroft, Frederick Billings, John Carter Brown, James Buchanan, Robert Burns, George Catlin, Edward Everett, Michael Faraday, John Charles FreĢmont, Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hardy, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Henry Irving, Frederick Law Olmsted, John Gorham Palfrey, Sir Anthony Panizzi, Francis Parkman, Franklin Pierce, Thaddeus Stevens, and Gideon Welles.

71 boxes (35.5 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886

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Henry Stevens was born on August, 24, 1819, in Barnet, Vermont. He attended Middlebury College for a year, but graduated from Yale College in 1843 with the degree of B.A. Upon graduating, he attended Harvard Law School for a year. In 1840, he worked as a clerk in Washington, D.C. for the the treasury department of the United States Senate. He also worked for the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress and was an early advocate for the use of photography as a means of supplementing bi...