William Harrison Riley papers, 1844-1899 (inclusive).

Massey, Gerald, 1828-1907

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Gerald Massey (born 29 May 1828, near Tring, Hertfordshire – died 29 October 1907, South Norwood, London Borough of Croydon, England) was an English poet and writer on Spiritualism and Ancient Egypt....

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English author and poet. His best-known works include the novels and short story collections The Jungle Book (1894), Just So Stories (1902), Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), and Kim (1901), as well as a number of poems such as "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If-" (1910). Kipling was born in Bombay, India, into an artistic family: his father was a sculptor, pottery designer, and professor of architectural sculpture and tw...

Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909

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Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an American author and Unitarian minister. Hale was involved in many social reform movements, including abolition and popular education. He is best known for his 1863 short story, "The Man Without a Country," which promoted patriotic support of the Union. From the guide to the Edward Everett Hale Letters, 1884-1897, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Buchanan, Joseph Ray, 1851-

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Jones, Samuel Milton, 1846-1904

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Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, reformer and businessman. From the description of Papers of Samuel Milton Jones, 1892-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068120 ...

Lucas, Auberon Thomas Herbert, 8th baron, 1876-1916.

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Hales, John, -1571

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Epithet: founder of the Free School, Coventry British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001190.0x000133 ...

Evans, F. W. (Frederick William), 1808-1893

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Frederick W. Evans was born in Leominster, England, in 1808. Along with his brother, George Henry, and his father he emigrated to the United States in 1820, settling in Binghamton, New York. Evans pursued studies in philosophy and literature and with his brother issued a number of working class publications which advocated land rights, the end of imprisonment for debt, equality for women, the abolition of slavery, Sunday mail delivery, and other social causes. Evans joined the Shakers at New Leb...

Besant, Walter, 1836-1901

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English novelist. From the description of Note : to Wilson, 1891 March 6. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936605 From the description of Autograph clipped from a letter : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270621664 British author. From the description of The luck of the "Susan Bell" / by Walter Besant. [ca. 1868-1901] (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29305316 Walter Besant (1836-1901) was an English aut...

Litchman, Charles Henry, 1849-1902.

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Fawcett, Henry

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British statesman and economist. From the description of Henry Fawcett papers, 1883-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450213 ...

Oneida community

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The Oneida Community was a utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in the town of Oneida in Madison County, New York. Noyes, born in Vermont in 1811, attended Dartmouth College, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale Theological College and received his license to preach in 1834. He formed his first utopian community in 1836 in Putney, Vermont, practicing "complex marriage" in which every male was considered married to every female. In 1847 pending arrests for adulter...

Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919

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English author - Brother of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Prof. Knight, [18]85 Apr. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657827 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Prof. Knight, [190]7 Feb. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657844 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Prof. Knight, [18]96 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270657832 From the description of Autograph posta...

Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826-1884

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English journalist and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to George Cruikshank, 1868 Jun. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270487907 British journalist and playwright. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to [Charles] Kent, [18--] May 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 757338330 Blanchard Jerrold, British journalist, editor and playwright. Adolphe Smith (1846-1925), British journalist and socialist; Ali...

Bliss, William Dwight Porter, 1856-1926

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Train, George Francis, 1829-1904

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American entrepreneurial businessman, independent presidential candidate, and noted eccentric. From the description of George Francis Train letter to C.L. Greave[?] [manuscript], 1901[?] October 23. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 781412191 Born in Boston was a merchant, promoter, author, and eccentric. Ran for president in 1869, traveled around the world in eighty days in 1870 and was jailed on obscenity while defending Victoria Woodhull. From the ...

Maxse, Frederick Augustus, 1833-1900

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Epithet: Admiral political writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000757.0x000356 ...

McCarthy, Justin, 1830-1912

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Irish journalist, historian and writer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Fifth Avenue Hotel, to Theodore Tilton, [no year] Sept. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606179 ...

Working Men's Association

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The International Workingmen's Association (IWA) was organized in London at a mass meeting of European trade unionists in 1864. Karl Marx was elected to the General Council and he organized the International as a propaganda vehicle for international socialism. Until about 1869 the International concentrated on organizing trade unions. After that the International became interested in gaining support for itself in the United States. It found support in two rival factions of American socialists, t...

Aveling, Eleanor Marx, 1855-1898

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Edward Aveling was a leading member of the Independent Labour Party; married Karl Marx's daughter Eleanor. From the description of Archives 1865-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78850970 ...

Riley, William Harrison, 1835-1907.

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The Library has recently received from Mr. Walter Beinecke, Jr., a collection of manuscripts and printed material relating to a minor figure of considerable tangential importance for the study of socialism in England and the United States in the latter half of the last century. William Harrison Riley seems to have received little attention but with this collection there is enough material to compile a considerable footnote to intellectual history. A man who received and ...

Guild of St. George

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Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

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Wife of Ruskin's physician, Dr. John Simon. From the description of Letter : to Mrs. John Simon, [18--] (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 31272017 British writer, artist, and critic. From the description of John Ruskin papers, ca. 1837-1904. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80934993 John Ruskin was born on 8 February 1819 in London. Ruskin was educated by his mother and by various tutors before attending Oxford University. H...

Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir, 1843-1911

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British politician, from London. From the description of Papers, 1875-1904 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122509864 From the description of Papers, 1875-1904. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19405887 Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, second baronet, English writer and politician. From the description of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke manuscript material : 1 item, 1872 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 17369120...

Edwards, Alfred Shenstone, 1849-

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Orme, John G.

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Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891

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Charles Bradlaugh was an active and controversial worker for social reform in England. Largely self-educated, he questioned theological, political, and social issues in countless pamphlets and speeches throughout England and the United States. Publicity and scandal followed him, perhaps most notably in the 1877 trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant for publishing Charles Knowlton's Fruits of Philosophy. He was elected to Parliament, but was disallowed from sitting in the house because of his stanc...

Allsop, Thomas, 1795-1880

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Thomas Allsop 1795-1880, entered the silk mercery trade in London in 1812. He then joined the Stock Exchange. He made the acquaintance of Samuel Coleridge in 1818, and on the poet's death published his 'Letters, Conversations, and Recollections'. Allsop was also a friend of the essayists Charles Lamb (1775-1834), William Hazlitt (1778-1830), and the poet Barry Cornwall (1787-1874). Allsop provided the Irish Radical Feargus O'Connor (1796-1855) with his property qualification as representative of...

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883

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Author and philosopher. From the description of Letter of Karl Marx, 1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454371 Born 1818 in Trier, Prussia; studied at the University of Bonn, 1835-1836, and the University of Berlin, 1836-1841; contributor to and editor of the Cologne liberal democratic newspaper, the Rheinische Zeitung , 1842; following marriage to Jenny von Westphalen, moved to Paris, where he became a revolutionary and communist; co-editor, with Arnold Ruge, of a new r...

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Eliot served as president of Harvard University (1869-1909). From the description of Correspondence of Charles W. Eliot, 1870-1920. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234339031 Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educa...