Letters to her family, 1879.

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Letters to her family, 1879.

Contains 61 personal letters to family members concerning daily matters, people at Dartmouth, parties and dinners, visits to Cambridge and Poughkeepsie, various notes including a hand-drawn map of Hanover and a map of the Common at Dartmouth in 1879. Also includes two letters from her husband John Henry Wright to Lydia McDowell Tappan.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8330293

Houghton Library

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Wright, Mary Tappan, 1851-1916

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Mary Tappan Wright was an American novelist and short story writer. From the description of Letters, 1822-1916. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78435053 From the guide to the Mary Tappan Wright letters, 1822-1916., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Mary Tappan Wright was an American novelist and short story writer. Her husband, John Henry Wright, was a professor of Greek and a Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences a...

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Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

Tappan, Lydia McDowell,

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Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908

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Wright taught Greek and served as Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Henry Wright, 1887-1888 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972943 ...