Thomas Wentworth Higginson additional scrapbooks and other papers, 1838-1923.

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson additional scrapbooks and other papers, 1838-1923.

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Scrapbooks assembled by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (TWH) or his second wife, Mary Potter Thacher Higginson (MPTH). Scrapbooks include pasted-in materials about Higginson's writings, lectures, speeches, participation as a soldier in the American Civil War, involvement in Massachusetts elections and politics, abolitionist and ministerial activities, women's rights issues, birthday celebrations, John Brown, Harvard College involvement, and many other topics. One scrapbook volume is devoted completely to his friend and colleague, Helen Hunt Jackson. Some volumes document multiple titles, but others are devoted to a single work such as The afternoon landscape, articles written for the Boston daily advertiser, Larger history of the United States, Monarch of dreams, A ride through Kanzas, Such as they are, and article series Women and men published in Harper's Bazar. Types of materials included within the scrapbook series are: correspondence, clippings, reviews, invitations, menus, galley proofs, fliers, telegrams, playbills, photomechanical portrait images of TWH, visiting cards, advertisements (especially broadsides) for TWH's books and lectures, extensive biographical articles, printed copies of his newspaper and journal articles, autograph manuscripts of some writings, extensive autograph notes, obituaries on TWH, and letters of condolence. Many of the scrapbook volumes include an incomplete autograph manuscript index inside the front or back cover. The "Other papers series" includes: printed version of William Warland Clapp's Joseph Dennie; TWH diplomas, certificates, and military commissions; TWH commonplace books from 1838-1856, and other items.

29 volumes, 1 box, 1 portfolio folder (7.5 linear ft.)

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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

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Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted co...

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Special students were those who took courses in Harvard College but were not degree candidates; they had not gone through the standard admissions process completed by AB degree candidates. From the description of Records of special students, 1876-1907. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064523 It is unclear whether F.C. Fabel ever attended Harvard College. F.C. Fabel may be Frederick Charles Fabel, who received an AB from the University of Rochester in 1893. ...

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