Letters to Levi Bartlett, 1821-1823.

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Letters to Levi Bartlett, 1821-1823.

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Includes twenty-six letters from Sibley to Levi Bartlett written during the first two years of Sibley's attendance at Harvard University as a student. Sibley writes concerning his health, finances, studies and examinations, professors, his work delivering messages for Harvard's President, his entrance into the United Fraternity, religion, and his work at the library creating a catalog. Also included is one letter from Bartlett to Sibley.

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Harvard university library

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The University Library consists of all the collections of books in the possession of the University. It originated in 1638 with books left to the college by John Harvard. The library system currently consists of over 100 separate facilities, ranging from very small specialized collections to Widener Library, with its 5 million volumes. Each of the faculties within the University maintains one or more libraries serving its special constituency. The largest unit is the Harvard College Library (inc...

Sibley, John Langdon, 1804-1885

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John Langdon Sibley (1804-1885) served as Harvard's Assistant Librarian from 1825 to 1826 and 1841 to 1856, Librarian from 1856 to 1877, and Librarian, Emeritus from 1877 to 1885. He was the editor of the Harvard Triennial Catalogue from 1839 to 1875 and of the Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue from 1875-1885. A noted biographer, Sibley is best known for his "Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University", an extensive collection of biographical material on Harvard graduates. Sibley was ...

Bartlett, Levi, 1763-1828

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Levi Bartlett's father, Josiah Bartlett, was founder of the New Hampshire Medical Society (org. 1791), delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and governor of New Hampshire from 1792 to 1794. Levi Bartlett studied medicine with his father and with Thomas Kittredge of Andover, Mass.; and he practiced medicine and surgery in Kingston, N.H. He was active in the state legislature and was a justice in the court of common pleas (1807) and in the circuit cour...

Harvard University. United Fraternity.

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