Hayward family letters, 1815-1841.

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Hayward family letters, 1815-1841.

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Letters of the Hayward family of Easton, Mass., 1815-41, consist of letters received by Joseph Hayward and Lydia Hayward from their son Edward, describing his life at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, and letters received by Sylvia Pratt Hayward from her sister Abigail Pratt and her mother. Also includes a letter received by Edward Hayward of Ohio, pertaining to a subcommittee to invite president Jackson and Vice President Martin Van Buren to a dinner in 1834, and a manuscript copy sent to Hayward of a letter from an unidentified author to President William H. Harrison.

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Pratt, Abigail.

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Hayward, Joseph, b. 1753.

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Yale College (1718-1887)

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The Linonian Literary Society was founded in 1753. All undergraduates were allowed to be members of the Linonian Society. The club provided students with a forum to debate, stage plays, and deliver poems, essays, and orations. The society disbanded in 1868. From the guide to the Linonian Society, Yale College, records, 1753-1870, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

Hayward, Lydia Barrows, b. 1761.

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Hayward, Sylvia Pratt, ca. 1815.

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Hayward, Edward Tupper, 1799-1858.

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Hayward family.

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...