Hartford residents' collection, 1807-1947.

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Hartford residents' collection, 1807-1947.

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Correspondence (1873-1914) between C.H. Clark, W.D. Howells, and Samuel Clemens; letters (1927-1947) to Henrietta Gardiner, 3 of which are from Laura E. Richards; letters (1890-1904) to Frederick Penfield, written while serving as consul in Egypt; letters (1807-1840) from Daniel Wadsworth to Benjamin Silliman; letters (1857) from Thomas H. Gallaudet concerning work with the deaf; letters (1886-1887) from H. Carrington Bolton to Charles K. Wead, concerning a chemistry periodical list; 3 letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1843?, 1875, 1883); typed copy of Homer Worthington Brainard's unpublished work, Thomas Hooker, His Life and Writings (Hartford, circa 1914) with miscellaneous papers related to Hooker; Italian art and history scrapbooks of Genevieve Hancock Harlow Goodwin.

ca. 150 items

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (b. June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut – d. July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American abolitionist and author. She is the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher who preached against slavery. She is best known for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. It became an instant and controversial best-seller, both in the United States and abroad. The novel had a major impact on Northerners' attitudes toward slavery and by the beginning of the Civil War had sold more than a million copi...

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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Mark Twain (b. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, November 30, 1835, Florida, MO – d. April 21, 1910, Redding, CT) was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Twain served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pil...

Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864

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Benjamin Silliman was a chemist and naturalist, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1805. From the description of Correspondence, 1808-1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466220 Physician and chemist of New Haven, Connecticut. From the description of Note, 1853, Sept. 28 : New Haven, Connecticut, to Isaac Waldron. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359361 Educator and scientist. From the description of Papers of...

Gardiner, Henrietta

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Brainard, Homer Worthington, 1864-1947

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Genealogist. From the description of Scoville family genealogical research papers, [ca. 1910-1913] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155493990 ...

Bolton, Henry Carrington, 1843-1903

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Epithet: American naturalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000217.0x00033c ...

Clark, Charles Heber, 1841-1915

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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

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Carolyn Wells published under the pseudonym Rowland Wright. From the description of Autograph postcard signed from W.D. Howells to Carolyn Wells, Rahway [manuscript], 19th or 20th century. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 694525270 Author, editor, critic. From the description of Letters chiefly to Alexander? Black [manuscript] 1888-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647943111 William Dean Howells was an American novelist...

Gallaudet, Thomas, 1822-1902

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Wead, Charles Kasson, 1848-1925.

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Professor of physics at University of Michigan and assistant examiner at the U.S. Patent Office. From the description of Charles Kasson Wead papers, 1840-1924. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421023 ...

Goodwin, Genevieve Harlow.

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Penfield, Frederic Courtland, 1855-1922

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Diplomat and author. Consul-General to Egypt, Ambassador to Austria Hungary. From the description of Letter to the editor of McClure's Magazine, 1896 January 31. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 63109848 ...

Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647

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Wadsworth, Daniel, 1771-1848

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Traveler, amateur artist and architect; founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum. From the description of Falls of Niagara, 1806 / by D. Wadsworth. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 179672810 ...

Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe, 1850-1943

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The daughter of Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe, Richards was the author of more than eighty books, most of them for young people. She and her sister, Maude Howe Elliott, wrote Life and Letters of Julia Ward Howe (1910), which received the first Pulitzer Prize for biography. For additional biographical information, see American Women Writers (1981). From the description of Letter, 1904. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008342 ...