Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow papers, 1825-1961.

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Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow papers, 1825-1961.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70973654

Includes sketchbooks she made as a teenager on trips across the U.S. and Europe; diaries detailing her educational philosophy when raising her children; and letters documenting her interaction with intellectuals of the day, including Julia Ward Howe and Charles Sumner.

4 linear ft.

Longfellow House, Longfellow National Historic Site

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SNAC Resource ID: 8062409

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Charles Sumner was born on January 6, 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Relief Jacob and Charles Pinckney Sumner. He graduated from Boston Latin School (1826), Harvard University (1830), and Harvard Law School (1833), and joined the abolitionist movement in Boston, centered in his home neighborhood of Beacon Hill. He acted as co-counsel in a case, Roberts v. City of Boston, that challenged the segregation of Boston’s public school system. In 1852, Sumner was elected to the United States Senate. ...

Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

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Julia Ward Howe, née Julia Ward, (born May 27, 1819, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 17, 1910, Newport, Rhode Island), American author and lecturer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward came of a well-to-do family and was educated privately. In 1843 she married educator Samuel Gridley Howe and took up residence in Boston. Always of a literary bent, she published her first volume of poetry, Passion Flowers, in 1854; this and subsequent works—including a poetry collec...

Longfellow, Fanny Appleton, 1817-1861

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Art collector; commentator on 19th century Boston literary culture; wife of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; b. in Boston. From the description of Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow papers, 1825-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70973654 Wife of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the description of Frances Elizabeth Appleton Longfellow papers, 1825-1961 (bulk 1832-1861). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70976323 ...