Papers of Horace Mann [manuscript], 1800-1926.

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Papers of Horace Mann [manuscript], 1800-1926.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647981307

The collection includes 95 letters to and from various members and associates of the Mann family, and many other miscellaneous items, including 48-page and 100-page manuscripts by Horace Mann on the subject of philosophy and education.

120ca. items.

University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7934684

University of Virginia. Library

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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...