Papers. 1843-l870.

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Papers. 1843-l870.

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Papers consist of Haverford alumnus, 1840, Sharpless's letterbooks and diaries, and two letterbooks of Lyman Sharpless's? The diaries are for the years: 1843 (a trip to Mauch Chunck and environs); 1851 (accounts and travel expenses, list of European cities visited, drawings); 1868 and 1870 (farm diaries-- plantings, weather, accounts; continued by wife and child; Laid in-- a letter from author D.L. Dix, 1848).

8 items ; 27 x 22 cm. or smaller.

Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Sharpless, Henry Hale Graham, 1823-1870.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...