Horace Mann papers, 1699-1926.

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Horace Mann papers, 1699-1926.

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Papers of Horace Mann, 1699-1926, pertain to his life as a Massachusetts lawyer, state and U.S. legislator, abolitionist, educator, and president of Antioch College in Ohio. Papers include letters written and received by Horace, his wife, reformer Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, and other family, friends, and colleagues. Correspondents include Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George B. Emerson, Cyrus Peirce, Charles Sumner, and William Bently Fowle, among many others. Also includes lectures and legal notes; sermons; speeches; diaries, 1837-43; a letterbook, 1838; a commonplace-book, 1830's; newspaper clippings; and various writings of Horace, Mary and Benjamin Pickman Mann.

25 boxes, 7 narrow boxes, 1 v., and 1 oversize box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Antioch College

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Emerson, George B. (George Barrell), 1797-1881

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American educator. From the description of Letter, 1839 June 20, Boston, to N.I. Bowditch, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166330238 Educator and pioneer of women's education. Cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. From the description of George Barrell Emerson letters [manuscript], 1851-1866. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191118233 ...

Fowle, William Bentley, 1795-1865

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Mann family.

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Peirce, Cyrus, 1790-1860

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Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887

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Educator. From the description of Papers of Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, 1863-1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451614 Mary Tyler Peabody Mann was an active social reformer, educator, and author. Along with her sisters, Elizabeth Peabody and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, she created and maintained vital connections within the Transcendentalist movement. Mary and her husband, educator Horace Mann, were active abolitionists. The sisters's practical application of optimism and hum...

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was at the center of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. Although she wrote and published many works, she is best remembered for her support and friendship of Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and many others. She published the journal Dial, founded the famous West Street Book Shop and Publishing House, and introduced kindergarten to America. From the description of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters, 1846-1854. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

Mann, B. Pickman (Benjamin Pickman), 1848-1926

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