Letters to John Henry Eliot from family, friends, and classmates, 1816-1855 (inclusive), 1833-1847 (bulk)

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Letters to John Henry Eliot from family, friends, and classmates, 1816-1855 (inclusive), 1833-1847 (bulk)

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Includes letters written to John Henry Eliot while a student at Harvard, as well as from years after Harvard. Letters from classmates 1833-1835 describe events at Harvard. The early letters in the collection are addressed to his father.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 2006

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Eliot, John Henry, 1813-1895.

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John Henry Eliot (also spelled Elliot), was born in 1813, earned an A.B. from Harvard in 1835 and an A.M. in 1838; he died in 1895. From the description of Letters to John Henry Eliot from family, friends, and classmates, 1816-1855 (inclusive), 1833-1847 (bulk) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77063791 ...