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Norton family. Letters received by the Norton family, 1830-1920
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Letters from various persons to the family members of Charles Eliot Norton, including his mother, wife, sisters, and his children and their spouses.
6 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
eng, Latn
Houghton Library
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Silsbee, E. A. (Edward Augustus), 1826-1900
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Livermore, Mildred.
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1865-1867 office of works; 1867-1874 works department of the South Kensington Museum; 1874-1876 superintendent of works for the British consular buildings in Tehran; 1876 purchasing tour for the South Kensington Museum to Turkey, Syria and Greece; 1878 architect of the Indian section and commercial agent to the Indian government at the Paris Exhibition; 1879 purchasing tour for the South Kensington Museum to Spain, Italy and Germany; 1881-1882 special commissioner in India; 1883 CIE...
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Reed, Walter, 1851-1902
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Purcell, A M
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Greene, Frederick L., 19..-....
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Liddell, Mark Harvey
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Nichols, Edith Sterling.
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Parkman, Frances.
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Gunn, Sidney
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Lees, Dora.
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Coit, J H
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Neilson, William Allan, 1869-1946
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Educator, editor and author. President of Smith College, 1917-1939; editor of Webster's New International Dictionary 2nd edition; author of "Essentials of poetry" and "Facts about Shakespeare." From the description of Letters of W.A. Neilson, 1907-1917. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 76968306 Smith College President (3rd), 1917-1939. Ph. D., Harvard, 1898. Prof. of English at Bryn Mawr, Harvard, the Sorbonne and Columbia. From the description of Wi...
Quay, Matthew Stanley, 1833-1904
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Eliot, Elizabeth
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Twisleton, Edward, 1809-1874
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Charles Dickens, English novelist. From the guide to the Charles Dickens manuscript material : 7 items, 1842-1851, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the Victorian novelist. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography . From the guide to the Correspondence of Charles Dickens, with related material, ca. 1834-1955, (Leeds University Librar...
Collins, Patrick A. (Patrick Andrew), 1844-1905
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Irish American attorney; Congressman from Massachusetts. From the description of Letter to James Jeffrey Roche, 1891 June 13. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 68116920 Lawyer and politician. Born near Fermoy, Ireland, Collins immigrated to America in 1848. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1871 and practiced law in Boston. He served in the Massachusetts State Legislature and was a member of Congress from 1883-1889. He was mayor of ...
Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897
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Writer, newspaper correspondent and editor, and Civil War reporter. From the description of Cabinet photograph, 1863 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70971318 Editor of the NEW YORK SUN. From the description of Papers, 1865-1885. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 42584183 American newspaper editor, member of Brook Farm and Assistant Secretary of War. From the description of Papers of Charles A. Dana manuscript], 1844-1895. (U...
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Wild animal collector, conservationist, and taxidermist; curator of living animals for the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park (1882-1890), and director of the New York Zoological Park (1896-1926). From the description of Notes and correspondence of William Temple Hornaday, 1878-1934. (Smithsonian Institution Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51557581 First Director of the New York Zoological Park. From the description of Photographic collection, [ca...
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Carter was an attorney who also served as the U.S. counsel before the Behring Sea Fur-Seal Tribunal of Arbitration at Paris in 1893. From the description of Papers, 1880-1950. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234337549 ...
Cady, Frances
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Pattison, Robert E. (Robert Emory), 1850-1904
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Morley, John, 1838-1923
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English statesman and author. From the description of Autograph letters signed (7) : to Prof. Knight, 1876-1904. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270613155 1886 and 1892-1895 Chief Secretary for Ireland; 1905-1910 and 1911 Secretary of State for India. Epithet: statesman Title: Viscount Morley of Blackburn British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x0001f0 ...
Howes, Frederick G., 1832-
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Greene, Jerome Davis, 1874-
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Loring, Katharine P., 1849-1943
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Founder and teacher in the Society to Encourage Studies at Home, Boston, Mass. From the description of Letters, 1892. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007391 ...
Miss Norton
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Wyman, Morrill, 1812-1903
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Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916
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Josiah Royce was born in Grass Valley, California, on November 20, 1855. He received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1885 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1878. Royce taught English and philosophy at both Berkeley and Harvard, and was also active in the study of the American West. He spent a significant amount of time from 1883 to 1891 writing both histories and novels relating to California history. Royce Hall at UCLA and the Grass Valley Library...
Sears, Sarah Carlisle Choate, 1858-1935
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Kozaki, Nariaki.
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Curtis, George William, 1824-1892
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N.Y. editor and university chancellor. From the description of Papers, 1884-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38520658 American author, orator, and advisor to presidents. From the description of Letter : Ashfield, Mass., to George P. Sawyer, 1884 Oct. 10. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56877394 George William Curtis was an author and orator who championed, among other causes, civil-service reform and the vote for women. ...
M. E. Lewes
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Lanman, Charles Rockwell, 1850-1941
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Epithet: orientalist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001298.0x00009b Lanman taught Sanskrit at Harvard. From the description of Lecture before Greek D, January 23, 1893. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073834 From the description of Papers of Charles Rockwell Lanman, 1863-1938 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 236232213 From the description of Paper...
Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933
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American essayist. From the description of Essay, 1915 May 25, London, on Stilton cheese. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 166330051 Writer on subjects of moral philosophy, ancient Greek literature, and events of historical and social significance. From the description of Letters, 1922-1934, bulk 1927-1928, to Henry Chester Tracy. (University of Florida). WorldCat record id: 12486594 John Jay Chapman was an American essayist, poet, playwright, and...
Lilla Elizabeth Kelley
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Scudder, Abigail T (Seelye)
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Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904
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English critic and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (24) : London, etc., to W.E. Henley, 1876-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580328 From the description of English thought in the eighteenth century : autograph manuscript, [187-]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580765 Stephen was a British critic, man of letters and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. From the description of Photograph album of Le...
Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902
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American author and historian. From the description of Letters, 1898, Brooklyn, to Worthington Chauncey Ford. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122580858 American historian and novelist. From the description of Papers : of Paul Leicester Ford, 1888-1905. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 29734016 From the description of Typed letter signed : Brooklyn, New York, to [George Haven] Putnam, 189? May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...
Thayer, William Roscoe, 1859-1923
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Thayer was a biographer and historian. From 1892 to 1915 he was editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. From the description of Additional papers, 1796-1927 (inclusive), 1877-1927 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505841 From the description of Papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive) 1872-1921 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505824 From the guide to the William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)., (Houghton...
La Farge, John, 1835-1910
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John LaFarge (1835-1910) was president of the Society of American Artists. From the description of John La Farge letter to Frank B. Bigelow, 1904 Oct. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 613316806 John La Farge (1835-1910) was a painter, muralist, sculptor, and stained glass artisan. In 1904 he was serving as president of the Society of American Artists. From the description of John La Farge letter to Frank B. Bigelow, 1904 Oct. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7...
Grant, James A.
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Elizabeth Gaskell Norton.
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De Vere, Aubrey, 1814-1902
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Irish poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Adare, Ireland, to Mr. John W. Field, 1886 Feb. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462144372 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Ambleside, to Mr. John W. Field, 1878 Dec. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462090133 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Adare, Ireland, to Mr. John W. Field, 1872 Mar. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 461318026 From the description of Aut...
Auerbach, Joseph S. (Joseph Smith), 1875-1944
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Caron, Sir Adolphe, 1842-1908
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Donahue, Anna M
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Pritchett, Eva (McAllister)
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Morgan, M. H. (Morris Hicky), 1859-1910
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Morgan (Harvard, A.B., 1881) taught classical philology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Morris Hicky Morgan, 1887-1909 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972814 ...
Lane, William Coolidge, 1859-1931
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Lane graduated from Harvard in 1881 and served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Coolidge Lane, 1887-1931. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972806 ...
Wells, Edgar Huidekoper, 1875-1938,
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Edgar Huidekoper Wells, '97, was a long-time friend of the Harvard College Library and an active and loyal alumnus. He held various positions at Harvard, including instructor in English (1902-1906); curator of modern English literature in the library (1903-1913); and assistant dean (1905-1907). In the first World War he served first in the American Red Cross and then as an army officer attached to the U.S. Embassy in London. After the war he was instrumental in establishing the Lionel DeJersey H...
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
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Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, George Eliot was the daughter of a land agent who managed estates in the rural midlands, a formative experience that gave her an insight into country society that later greatly influenced and enriched her first works of fiction. At different times of her life, she also spelled her name as Mary Anne, Marian, and Marianne, adopting the pen-name of Eliot only after her first work of fiction was published in 1857. Eliot was brought up in a narrow...
MacVeagh, Wayne, 1833-1917
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Sedgwick, Adam, 1785-1873
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Adam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Later, he proposed the Cambrian period, based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata. Though he had guided the young Charles Darwin in his early study of geology, Sedgwick was an outspoken opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection. From the description of Letter to Richard Owen, [1860?], January 8. (Huntington Library, Art Collections &...
Van Brunt, Charles H., 1835-1905
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Potter, Henry Codman, 1834-1908
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Episcopalian bishop. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to the editors of The Critic [Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder], 1884 Aug. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 645260286 Bishop of New York. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to J.B. Gilder, on the occasion of J.R. Lowell's 70th birthday. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270618790 From the description of Autograph letters signed (10) : New York, etc., to Dr. Ba...
Mazel, A
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Huidekoper, Rush Shippen, 1854-1901
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Jackson, Annabel (Grant Duff) 1870-
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Whitridge, Lucy C (Arnold)
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Roth, Otto
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Leighton-Warren, Eleanor Leicester (Warren) Lady, d. 1914
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Severn, Joan Ruskin (Agnew)
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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...
Ehrich, Louis R., 1849-1911
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Louis Rinaldo Ehrich received his B.A. from Yale in 1869. He was a member of the dry goods firm of Ehrich Brothers in New York City from 1870-1886. Between 1889-1905, Ehrich served as vice-president of the Colorado Springs and Manitou Street Railway Company, the Manitou Mineral Water Company, and the Colorado City Land and Improvement Company. He was president of the Ehrich Galleries in New York City. Louis Ehrich died in London in 1911. From the description of Louis Rinaldo Ehrich p...
Blair, Andrew George, 1870-
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Eckels, James H. (James Herron), 1858-1907
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Gilder, Rodman, 1877-
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Of New York City. From the description of The Battery : typescript, 1936 / by Rodman Gilder. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 58664717 Rodman Gilder (1877-1953) was an American editor and author. He was editor of Criterion and Credit Monthly and wrote on various subjects. The best known of his literary works is The Battery New York, a History (1935). He was also the archivist of Century Associates. From the description of Rodman Gilder papers, 1895-1953...
Jenks, Almet Francis, 1853-1924
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Susan Wharton.
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Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939
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Harvey Williams Cushing was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 8, 1869. He graduated from Yale College in 1891 and in 1895 received his M.D. and A.M. degrees from the Harvard Medical School. He served on the staff of the Johns Hopkins University Hospital from 1901 to 1912, where he devoted himself to neurological surgery. In 1912 he was appointed professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and in 1913 surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, posts which he held until 1932. During W...
Doane, George Hobart, 1830-1905
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Rice, Grantland, 1880-
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Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Sir, 1817-1911
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Sir Joseph D. Hooker (1817-1911), botanist, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, England. From the description of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker collection, 1828-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477374 English botanist and traveler. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [London] Mar. 25 1878, to an unidentified recipient at the Daily Telegraph, 1878 Mar. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666429 Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker was...
Smith, Mary (Shore) d. 1889
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Lane, George Martin, 1823-1897
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George Martin Lane (1823-1897) was Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Harvard. He taught at Harvard from 1851 to 1894 and set a precedent as the first faculty member to be pensioned upon retirement. Lane's association with Harvard was life-long: he was a Cambridge native, attended Harvard as an undergraduate, and taught at Harvard for 43 years. From the description of Papers of George Martin Lane, 1797-1897. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972805 ...
Toor, Maria Kennedy.
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Carlyle, Alexander
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Epithet: nephew of Thomas Carlyle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x0000ba Epithet: DD, Minister of Inveresk, near Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000986.0x000113 ...
Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934
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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) U.S. ph...
Marcy, Mary Sanderson.
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Norton, Charles E.
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Churchill, Constance (Hilliard)
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Agrippina
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Gurney, Ephraim Whitman, 1829-1886.
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Maclagan, Eric, 1879-
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Temperley, Harold William Vazeille, 1879-1939
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Epithet: OBE; Master of Peterhouse 1938 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x000352 British historian. From the description of Harold William Vazeille Temperley correspondence, 1936, with Sir Stephen Gaselee. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867876 ...
Castillia, Gaetano de.
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White, John Williams, 1849-1917
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John Williams White (1849-1917) earned his Ph.D. in Philology at Harvard in 1877. He served Harvard as a tutor, 1874-1877, Assistant Professor of Greek, 1877-1884, and Professor of Greek, 1884-1909. From the description of Academic costume and honors, ca. 1900-1914. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77065188 ...
Stillman, William James, 1828-1901
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Epithet: foreign correspondent of 'The Times' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001083.0x00019f American art critic, artist, author, diplomat, journalist and photographer. In 1869 Stillman moved to England and lived briefly with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. From the description of Letter : Rome, to William Michael Rossetti, 1893 June 14. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79028421 Ame...
Sara Norton.
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Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935
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Paleontologist, professor of biology at Columbia University, President of Trustees 1908-1933, American Museum of Natural History vertebrate paleontologist. From the description of Henry Fairfield Osborn letter to W. Orton Tewson [manuscript], 1925 April 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 213468939 Henry Fairfield Osborn was a member of the Princeton class of 1877, one of the earliest graduates of the School of Science. He returned to Princeton in 1883 after gr...
Margaret Norton
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Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950
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James Rudolph Garfield was the son of President James A. Garfield and Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. He graduated from Williams College and Columbia Law School, and praticed law in Cleveland, Ohio, with his brother, Harry Augustus Garfield. James married Helen Newell in 1890. They had four sons; John N., James A., Rudolph, and Newell. He served in the Ohio Senate 1896-1900, and was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the U.S. Civil Service Commission in 1902, and to the Department of Commer...
Goodale, George L. (George Lincoln), 1839-1923
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George Lincoln Goodale (1839-1923) earned an AB at Amherst College in 1860 and MD degrees from both Bowdoin and Harvard in 1863; he taught science in various fields at Bowdoin, 1868-1878. He came to Harvard in 1878 as a professor of Botany and became the first Director of the Botanical Museum in 1879. He was appointed Fisher Professor of Natural History in 1888 and retired in 1909, becoming Honorary Curator of the Botanical Museum until his death in 1923. From the description of Pape...
Littleton, Martin W. (Martin Wilie), 1872-1934
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Tuckerman, Emily.
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Brindisi, R
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Rhodes, James Ford, 1848-1927
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American historian. From the description of Letters, 1911-1919. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36635486 American historian and writer. From the description of Letter, 1905 January 7 : to Mr. Fairbairn thanking him for a book. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853745 Rhodes was an American historian. From the description of [Letter] 1893 Jun. 29, Reservoir Street, Cambridge, [Mass. to] Dr. Thwing / James Ford...
Dickens, Henry F. (Henry Fielding), Sir, 1849-1933
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Epithet: son of Charles Dickens, novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000205.0x000013 ...
Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934
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Briggs (Harvard, A.B., 1875) taught English and served as Dean of Harvard College and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Overseer. From the description of Papers of Le Baron Russell Briggs, 1907-1929 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972766 Educator. Harvard: A.B. 1875, A.M. 1882, LL.D. 1900. Assistant professor of English at Harvard, 1885-1890; professor of English, 1890; Dean of Harvard College, 1891-1902; Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 190...
Dix, Morgan, 1827-1908
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Episcopal clergyman, theologian, and author; associated with Trinity Church, New York, N.Y., for over 50 years. From the description of Morgan Dix letter to H. H. Boyeson [manuscript], 1882 October 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 469622379 American clergyman. From the description of Clipped signature : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565859 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Trinity Rectory [New York], to ...
Robinson, Phillips B
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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...
Hummel, A H
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Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908
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Charles Eliot Norton was an American author, editor, and teacher. He was a professor of the history of fine arts at Harvard. Eliot Norton was his son. From the guide to the Charles Eliot Norton letters to Eliot Norton, 1867-1908., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American author, editor, and educator. From the description of Letter to Edwin D. Mead [manuscript], 1881 May 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814472 ...
Lawrence, William, 1850-1941
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7th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. From the description of William Lawrence letter to Mrs. Forbes [manuscript], 1930 Apr 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 256490554 Bishop of Massachusetts. From the description of Draft petition to Governor Fuller, 1927 April 11-12. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 67836461 ...
Low, Seth, 1850-1916
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Mayor of Brooklyn, Mayor of New York, and President of Columbia College (later Columbia University), 1890-1901. From the description of Papers, 1870-1930. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482691 President of Columbia University. From the description of Typed letter : New York, to Ida B. Forbes, 1898 Jan. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270593321 Mayor of N.Y.C. and President of Columbia University. From...
Florence Smith
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Harris, William Fenwick, 1867-1923
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Rice, Harriet Langdon Pruyn, 1868-
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Wife of William Gorham Rice and daughter of John V.L. and Anna F.B. Pruyn. From the description of Collection, 1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122459120 Harriet Pruyn was married to William Rice; they were prominent in political and social circles of Albany. From the description of Papers, 1858-1939. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155448925 ...
Vernon, William Warren, 1834-1919
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Schoffer, Jean, 1868-
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Clough, Benjamin Crocker, 1888-
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Harvard College (1780- )
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Special students were those who took courses in Harvard College but were not degree candidates; they had not gone through the standard admissions process completed by AB degree candidates. From the description of Records of special students, 1876-1907. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064523 It is unclear whether F.C. Fabel ever attended Harvard College. F.C. Fabel may be Frederick Charles Fabel, who received an AB from the University of Rochester in 1893. ...
ALDRICH, LILIAN WOODMAN
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Alexander, Sir George, 1858-1918.
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Tappan, Mary A
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Prothero, sir George Walter, 1848-1922
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Kemble, Frances Anne, 1809-1893
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Howard, Anna (Hellrigl)
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Sargent, Dudley Allen, 1849-1924
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Sargent taught physical training at Harvard and was director of Hemenway Gymnasium from 1879 to 1919. From the description of Papers of Dudley Allen Sargent, 1879-1925 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972875 Dudley Allen Sargent (1849-1924) was an early innovator in physical education. His long association with Harvard included his years as Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard from 1879 to 1919. During this time, he also establis...
U. S. Library of Congress.
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Rotton, Sir John Francis, 1837-
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Gregor, Margaret G
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Howe, Mark Antony DeWolfe, 1864-
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Damrosch, Frank
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German-American conductor and teacher. From the description of Typewritten document signed, dated : [New York], 22 March 1913, 1913 Mar. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565329 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : New York, 22 January and 7 December 1906, to [Harry Harkness] Flagler, 1906 Jan. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270565325 Esther Ostroff, an American pianist, studied with Isidore Philipp. From the guide to the...
Pease, C B F
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Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928
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United States secretary of state, 1915-1920. From the description of Robert Lansing miscellaneous papers, 1916-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866993 Robert Lansing (b. Oct. 17, 1864, Watertown, New York-d. Oct. 30, 1928, New York, New York) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Legal Advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I, and then as Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1915 to 1920. He was married to Eleanor ...
Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-
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Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe, 1864-
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Sinclair, May
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Epithet: FRSL; author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x000084 May Sinclair (1863-1946) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer. From the guide to the May Sinclair collection of papers, 1901-1928, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) British writer. From the description of May Sin...
Reay, Donald James Mackay, 11th Baron, 1839-1921.
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Scottish educator. From the description of Autograph letters signed (6 including 1 post card) : to Prof. William A. Knight, 1893 Nov. 11-1906 Mar. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616461 ...
F. Paccio
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Jaedley, Eve M
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Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919
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Mural painter, illustrator, teacher, and writer; New York, N.Y. From the description of Kenyon Cox letters, 1893-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122456081 American artist, author. From the description of Kenyon Cox papers, circa 1860-1922. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505719883 Kenyon Cox was an American artist, born in Ohio, who studied in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Paris, 1877-1882. He moved to New York in 1...
Moore, George Foot, 1851-1931
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Grant, Robert, 1852-1940
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Robert Grant (1852-1940) was a Boston novelist, whose books were primarily social satire. In addition he was for many years judge of the Probate Court and Court of Insolvency in Boston, and an overseer of Harvard. In 1927 he acted as one of three members of the Sacco-Vanzetti Commission. From the guide to the Robert Grant papers, 1809-1940., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American author and judge. From the description of Papers o...
Gurney, Ellen Sturgis (Hooper)
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Appleton, Thomas Gold, 1812-1884
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American poet, essayist and artist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : Boston, to Madame [Blaze] de Bury, 1854 Jan. 14, 1854 Nov. 24 and [no year] Dec. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875321 ...
Gilder, Helena (de Kay)
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Joan Ruskin (Agnew) Severn
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Fields, Annie, 1834-1915
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Annie Adams Fields was an author and charity worker, the wife of the Boston publisher James T. Fields. From the description of Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 86143813 From the guide to the Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Eighteen letters written by Annie Adams Fields between the years 1882 and...
Putnam, Herbert
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Herbert Putnam (b. Sept. 20, 1861, New York City–d. Aug. 14, 1955, Woods Hole, MA) was the eighth Librarian of Congress from 1899 to 1939. Putnam was born in New York City to parents Victorine and George Palmer Putnam; his father owned publishing house, G. P. Putnam's Sons. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Munroe and had two daughters, Shirley and Brenda Putnam. Putnam graduated from Harvard University in 1883. He served as librarian at Minneapolis Athenaeum, later Minneapolis Public Library, a...
Lelyman? Isaac W
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Brenner, Victor D. (Victor David), 1871-1924
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Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Victor David Brenner letters, 1909-1914. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557389 ...
Legouis, Émile, 1861-1937
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Émile Legouis was a professor of English Language and Literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. From the description of Some remarks on the composition of the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, manuscript / by Émile Legouis, [n.d.] (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 84675232 ...
Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930
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Moore taught at Harvard, 1871-1909, and was the director of the Fogg Art Museum, 1896-1909. From the description of Composition : concerning painting : manuscript, undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612867010 From the description of Romanesque architecture : manuscript, undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612867050 Artist, professor, architectural historian and first Director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, Charles Herbert M...
Closson, William Baxter Palmer, 1848-1926
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American painter and engraver. From the description of Manuscript memorandum of agreement between William B. Closson and Harper & Brothers : New York, 1884 Jan. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129904 ...
Davenport, William Edwards, 1862-
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Alma-Tadema, Miss Laurence.
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James, William, 1842-1910
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William James was the preeminent American philosopher of his day. His reinterpretations of psychology and pragmatism were among his major contributions to world thought, and his work continues to reward study and inspire analysis. From the description of William James letter to A.G. Dew-Smith, 1883 Dec. 1. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50757824 From the description of William James letter to Violet Paget, 1908 July 29. (Pennsylvania State Uni...
Furness, Horace Howard, 1833-1912
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American Shakespeare scholar. From the description of Letters : to Dr. John C. Rolfe, 1910. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79028412 Shakespearean scholar. From the description of Papers of Horace Howard Furness, 1872-1899. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56349747 Horace Howard Furness was a lawyer and Shakespeare scholar. From the description of Scrapbook, 1869-1911. (American Philosophical Society Library). Wor...
Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908
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American educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to W. Reid, 1871 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269584399 Biographical Note: Daniel Coit Gilman was an educator and first president of The Johns Hopkins University. From the description of Daniel Coit Gilman papers, 1773-1925. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 48134620 Daniel Coit Gilman: president of the University of California, 1872-1875; president of Johns Hop...
Helps, Arthur, sir, 1813-1875
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English historian. From the description of Letter signed : Vernon Hill, Bishop's Waltham, to an unidentified correspondent, 1855 Sept. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270482766 English essayist and antiquary. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chester Sq., to W. Pickering, 1845 Jun. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270472342 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bishop's Waltham, 1847 Aug. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...
Shaler, Sophia Page.
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Child, Francis James, 1825-1896
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The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...
Arnold, Thomas, 1823-1900
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Brother of Matthew Arnold; English professor and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Oxford, to W.A. Knight, 1887 Sept. 05. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131678 ...
Odell, Hamilton.
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Morris, May, 1862-
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Godfrey Gunther
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Morgan, Daniel Nash, 1844-1931.
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Cohen, William Nathan, 1857-1938
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Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924
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American collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : "Fenway Court," to an unidentified recipient, [1908?] Dec. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269568468 Art collector and patron; Mrs. Jack Gardner. From the description of Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum collection, [18--]-[19--]. (University of Mobile Library). WorldCat record id: 70925322 Art historian, critic, collector, and teacher; Flo...
Jones, Robert Ellis, 1858-1929
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Meyer, Lavine G
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Ross, Denman Waldo, 1853-1935
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Ross earned his Harvard Ph.D. 1880. He was a lecturer on theory of design at Harvard from 1899 to 1909 and member of the Dept. of Fine Arts from 1909 to 1935. From the description of Biographical and general information relating to Denman Waldo Ross, ca. 1880-ca. 1935? (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064512 Teacher, artist and collector. Educated at Harvard (Ph.D., 1880). Lecturer on theory of design, Architectural School, Harvard from 1899 to 1909; Appointed mem...
Chambers, R.W. (Raymond Wilson), 1874-1942
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Gould, Edwin, 1866-1933
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Foss, Eugene Noble, 1858-1939.
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McGrath, Mary E
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Keogh, Martin Jerome, 1855-1928
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Sinclair, William
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Epithet: of Roslin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x0000a8 Epithet: of Dunbeath British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x000090 Title: 10th Earl of Caithness British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x00009...
Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937
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Author; United States ambassador to Italy. From the description of Autograph poem signed, entitled "Rheims", 1814 Sep. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270492661 From the description of Autograph poem "The Cost" signed, 1914 Aug. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270492676 Epithet: Editor 'The Century Magazine' New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x000372 Magazine ed...
Adams, Edward Dean, 1846-1931
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MacDonald, Pirie, 1867-1942
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Pringle, Jane.
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Gay, Winckworth Allan (American painter, 1821-1910)
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Mrs. Frances H. Dobbs
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Grant Duff, Mountstuart E. (Mountstuart Elphinstone), Sir, 1829-1906
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Author. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea Embankment, to Prof. Knight, 1900 Apr. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269567223 Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff was an English statesman and writer who served as Governor of Madras, India, 1881-1886. From the description of Mountstuart Grant Duff letter to J.W. Parker, 1860 Oct. 7. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 50616677 ...
Amberley, Katharine Louisa (Stanley) Russell, viscountess
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Butler, Charles Stewart.
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Massiglia
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Miller, Dewitt, 1857-1911
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This might be J. DeWitt Miller, who was also a correspondent of Horace Howard Furness, Jr. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155885389 Dewitt Miller was a book collector, lecturer, and critic. He compiled these scrapbooks about the theatrical production of the novel, Trilby, which became one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century. The novel's villain, Svengali, is a demonic hyp...
Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes), 1862-1932
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British historian and philosopher. From the description of Letter : The Cottage, B[?], Sussex, to "Dear Elliott[?]," [1916] Aug. 23. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122547527 Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson was born in 1862 in a Christian Socialist family. He studied at Charterhouse and King's College, Cambridge, and tried lecturing and medicine before turning to literature full time. In 1887 he became a Fellow ...
Frye, William P. (William Pierce), 1831-1911
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Senator and Representative from Maine. From the description of William P. Frye autograph letter signed, 1884. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 261346577 Lawyer, mayor, state legislator, U.S. Representative and Senator (1881-1911), of Lewiston, Me. From the description of William P. Frye collection, 1882-1975. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 501843365 Lawyer, mayor, and U.S. Representative and Senator, of Lew...
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928
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Charles F. Lummis (1859-1928) was born in Lynn, Massachusettts. He became an editor for the Los Angeles Times on February 1, 1884, working for Harrison Gray Otis. He promoted interest in the American Southwest with his photography and articles. Lummis helped found the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and the School of American Research in Santa Fe. The items from librarian Mary Sarber concern her research of Mr. Lummis' writings. From the guide to the Charles F. Lummis Collection, S27...
Nichols, Rose Standish
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Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1960) was one of America's first professional female landscape and garden designers, a writer of garden history and criticism, a lifelong pacificist, and a women's rights activist. She was the daughter of Dr. Arthur Howard Nichols (1840-1923) and Elizabeth Fisher Homer Nichols (1844-1929) of Boston, Massachusetts. She published three books and many articles on European garden design, helped found the Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom, and...
Greenslet, Ferris, 1875-
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Brooks, Alfred Mansfield, 1870-1963
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Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
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Florence 1856-1925 London. From the description of Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925) [painting]. [ca. 1905] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906593 Anglo-American painter. From the description of Letters, 1881-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81028068 Sargent was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France, England and elsewhere. From the description of [Letter] Sunday, 33, T...
Kerr, Robert P. (Robert Pollok), 1850-1923
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Wallas, Graham, 1858-1932
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Epithet: political scientist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x000167 Graham Wallas, 1858-1932, was born in Sunderland and educated at Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in Literae Humaniores in 1881. After leaving Oxford, he became a schoolmaster, 1881 - 1890, University Extension Lecturer, 1890, Lecturer at the London School of Economics, 1895-1923, L...
Beach, Miles, 1840-1902
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Smith, R. Baird (Richard Baird), 1818-1861
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Felton, C. C. (Cornelius Conway), 1807-1862
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Cornelius Conway Felton (Harvard AB 1827) was a tutor from 1829 to 1832, University Professor of Greek from 1832 to 1834, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature from 1834 to 1860, Regent from 1849 to 1857, and President of Harvard University from 1860 to 1862. From the description of Lectures on Greek history and literature, 1855-1861. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77072875 In 1857, Felton expelled Keene from the Harvard Divinity School for practicing as a medium. ...
Stickney, Albert, 1839-1908
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Villey, Pierre, 1879-1933
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Donaldson, Frank
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Rose, Achilles, 1839-
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Woodberry, George Edward, 1855-1930
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Woodberry (1855-1930) was an American poet, critic, and educator. From the description of George Edward Woodberry lectures delivered at Bowdoin College, 1912. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612844136 Woodberry (1855-1930) was an American poet, critic, and educator. He graduated from Harvard College in 1877, was professor of English at the University of Nebraska (1877-1878, 1880-1882) and professor in the Columbia University Dept. of Comparative Literature (1891-19...
Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909
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Gilder authored the book, THE NEW DAY, A POEM IN SONGS AND SONNETS... (New York : Scribner, Armstrong and Company, 1876) in which this is tipped in. It contains the bookplate of Brainerd. From the description of Autograph letter signed to Ira Hutchinson Brainerd, [1876?] Dec. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398276 Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909), American poet and editor, served as editor-in-chief of Scribner's Monthly and its successor The Century Illustrated Monthly...
James, Henry, 1811-1882
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Henry James Sr. and his wife Mary Walsh James (1810-1882) were the parents of the novelist Henry James Jr., the philosopher William James, the diarist Alice James, Robertson James, and Garth Wilkinson James. From the guide to the Letters from Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James to various correspondents, 1827-1878., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry James Sr. was an American philosophical theologian. He and his wife Mary Robertson Walsh J...
Hollander, Jacob H. (Jacob Harry), 1871-1940
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Economist. From the description of Letter of Jacob Harry Hollander, 1905. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450975 Jacob Harry Hollander (1871-1940) was an economist active in social welfare and economic reform issues and a professor of economics at The Johns Hopkins University. He was a specialist in labor relations and the financial systems of Latin America. In 1900 he was named special commissioner to revise the laws on taxation in Puerto Rico, and President McKinley appoi...
Sturgis, F. R. (Frederic Russell), 1844-1919
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E. F. S. Pattison)
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Norman, Henry
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English journalist and liberal politician. Travelled extensively in the East and took photos. From the description of Henry Norman letters to Samuel Sidney McClure [manuscript] (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 176633150 Epithet: of Beeley, co. Derby, yeoman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000615.0x0001a6 ...
Prince, Morton, 1854-1929
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Prince (Harvard, M.D. 1879) was clinical instructor in diseases of the nervous system at Harvard Medical School from 1895 to 1898 and associate professor of abnormal and dynamic psychology at Harvard College from 1926 to 1928. He studied in Vienna and Strasbourg following graduation from medical school and on beginning practice in Boston was first associated with the Boston Dispensary (1882-1886), then with Boston City Hospital's Neurological Department (1885-1913). He was professor of nervous d...
Wickersham, George W. (George Woodward), 1858-1936
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U.S. attorney general, public official, and lawyer. From the description of George W. Wickersham correspondence, 1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981363 ...
Holden, Alice (Cort)
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Gage, Lyman J. (Lyman Judson), 1836-1927
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Banker and public official. From the description of Lyman J. Gage papers, 1897-1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80376349 Secretary of the Treasury during the administrations of Presidents McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. From the description of Lyman J. Gage letters, 1897-1902. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 495526615 Biographical Note ...
Gildersleeve, Henry Alger, 1840-1923
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Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930
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Abzac, Paul d', vicomte.
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Thurlow, Thomas John Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th baron
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Hall, Mrs. Alvan
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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...
Hand, Learned, 1872-1961
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Attorney and Federal judge. Practiced law, Albany, N.Y., and N.Y.C., 1897-1909; U.S. District judge, Southern District N.Y., 1909-1924; Judge, U.S. Ct. of Appeals, 2d Circuit, 1924-1961; Senior Circuit Judge, 1939-1951. Member and co-founder, American Law Institute. 15 LL.D.'s including Harvard U. 1939, Cambridge (England) 1952. Author of numerous legal and non-legal articles, memorials, etc.; Holmes lecturer, Harvard Law School, 1958. From the description of Papers of Learned Hand, ...
Fairchild, Blair, 1877-1933
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American composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4), dated : New York, London, Avon (France), [and other places], 1924, 1929 [and n.d.], to Harry [Harkness Flagler] and to Mr. & Mrs. Flagler, 1924, 1929, and n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270576684 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Golfe-Juan, [n.d.], to Mrs. [Mary Flagler] Cary, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270576677 From the description of Autograph let...
Stanley, Augusta, Lady, 1822-1876
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Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910
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History professor and journalist. From the description of Wellington [manuscript], post 1871. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647922784 Goldwin Smith was a British-Canadian educator, historian and journalist. From the description of Goldwin Smith Papers [manuscript]. 1875-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 225564891 British-Canadian historian and journalist. From the description of Berlin and Afghanistan : autograph manuscript...
Goodwin, William Watson, 1831-1912
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Goodwin graduated from Harvard in 1851 and taught Greek literature at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Watson Goodwin, 1853-1929 (inclusive), 1879-1911 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77069361 Epithet: Professor of Greek at Harvard University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000696.0x0001d2 ...
Rives, George Lockhart, 1849-1917
Holland, Marianne, 1834-1920
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Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de), 1845-1933
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Sumichrast taught French at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Frederick Caesar Sumichrast, 1865-1933 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972894 ...
Sedgwick, Arthur G. (Arthur George), 1844-1915
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Grant, Sir James Alexander, 1831-
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Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929
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The Library has usually had an architect on staff to coordinate construction projects and building renovations. This individual has also had custody of the architectural drawings created by the Library or by outside architectural firms. From the guide to the Architect records, ca. 1900-1980, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) ...
Babbott, Frank Lusk, 1854-1933
Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914
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Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) was a physician, neurologist, poet, and novelist. From the description of S. Weir Mitchell correspondence, 1887-1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122570940 From the guide to the S. Weir Mitchell correspondence, 1887-1913, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) From the guide to the Letters from Silas Weir Mitchell to John Hay, 1897-1905, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907
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Wendell Phillips Garrison was editor of The Nation. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1865-1906. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365054 Wendell Phillips Garrison was editor of The Nation. His father, William Lloyd Garrison, was a prominent New England abolitionist and editor of the Liberator magazine. His brother Francis Jackson Garrison (1848-1916) was associated with Riverside Press and Houghton Mifflin Company. From the ...
Gordon, George A. (George Angier), 1853-1929
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George A. Gordon was a Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. In 1861 he became Captain of the First Regiment Georgia Infantry, which later became the 13th Battalion Georgia Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Phoenix Battalion and Gordon's Battalion. He was elected Major of the battalion in April 1862. Later that same year Gordon was promoted to Colonel of the Field, Staff and Band of the 63rd Regiment Georgia Infantry, also known as the Phoenix Regimen...
Cady, Hattie M
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Gaskell, Margaret Emily, 1837-1913.
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Daughter of Elizabeth Gaskell. From the description of Autograph letters signed "Meta" (6) : Manchester, Zermatt, Homburg, and London, to John W. Field (4) and his wife (2), 1886 Jul 7-1887 Mar. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269573865 ...
Nagel, Charles, 1849-1940
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Charles Nagel was born in Colorado County, Texas, on August 9, 1849, and moved to St. Louis, Missouri during the Civil War. He received an LL.B. from Washington University in 1872 and did postgraduate work at the University of Berlin. On his return to St. Louis he was admitted to the bar and practiced law there for the rest of his life. He served in the Missouri House of Representatives (1881-1883) and on the St. Louis City Council (1893-1897). Nagel was secretary of commerce and labor in Willia...
Langtry, Lillie, 1852-1929
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Fowler, Harold North, 1859-1955
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Misses Norton
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Acland, Mary (Erskine), Lady, d. 1892
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Parker, Alton B. (Alton Brooks), 1852-1926
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Alton Brooks Parker (May 14, 1852 – May 10, 1926) was an American judge, best known as the Democrat who lost the presidential election of 1904 to incumbent Theodore Roosevelt in a landslide. A native of upstate New York, Parker practiced law in Kingston, New York, before being appointed to the New York Supreme Court and elected to the New York Court of Appeals; he served as Chief Judge of the latter from 1898 to 1904, when he resigned to run for president. In 1904, he defeated liberal publish...
Sargent school of physical education, Cambridge, Mass.
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Glazebrook, Hugh de T
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Walston, Sir Charles, 1856-1927
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Wright, Charles Henry Conrad, 1869-
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Volkonskii, Sergei Mikhailovich Kniaź
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Martin, Edward Sandford, 1856-1939
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Martin, an essayist and poet, was a founder and editor of Life (1887-1933). He also wrote an editorial column for Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Weekly (1893-1913), and for Harper's Monthly (1920-1935). From the description of Edward Sandford Martin correspondence and compositions, 1865-1939 (inclusive), 1914-1939 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612366815 From the guide to the Edward Sanford Martin correspondence and compositions, 1882-1939 (inclusive), 1900...
Child, Elizabeth Ellery Sedgwick, 1824-1909
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Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants.
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Gerhard, B
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Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945.
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The collection contains letters received by Hayes 1887-1936, diaries covering the period 1880-1935, and miscellaneous papers including an album of collected manuscript samples of contemporary poets. The diaries include poetry, local notes, and photographs and cover personal and Swarthmore College activities and concerns. There is extensive correspondence with William H. Appleton, third president of Swarthmore College, and Dean Elizabeth Powell Bond. Of particular interest is the correspondence w...
Dodge, W. E. (William Earl), 1832-1903
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[the Misses] Norton;
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Hamilton, George L. (George Livingstone), 1874-1940
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McCarthy, Patrick Joseph, 1848-1921
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Bryce, Elizabeth Marion (Ashton) Bryce, viscountess, 1854-
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Field, John White, 1815? -1887
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Norton family, recipient.
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Charles Eliot Norton was an American author, editor, and teacher. He was a professor of the history of fine arts at Harvard. Catherine Eliot Norton (1793-1879) was his mother, Sara Norton (1864-1922) and Elizabeth Gaskell Norton (b.1866) were his daughters, and Margaret Palmer (Meyer) Norton was the wife of his son, Eliot Norton (1863-1932). From the guide to the Letters received by the Norton family, 1830-1920., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Univer...
Howells, Winifred, 1864-1889
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Duffy, Mary.
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Olmsted, Mary Cleveland (Perkins)
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Rowse, Samuel Worcester, 1822-1901
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Jane Norton
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Taylor, Charles Henry, 1867-1941
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Journalist. From the description of Charles Henry Taylor correspondence, 1895 July 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982118 ...
Fairchild, Sally
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Canfield, Richard? A
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Theodora Sedgwick
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Gray, John Chipman, 1839-1915
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Gray (Harvard A.B. 1859; LL.B. 1861) was a legal scholar, founder (with classmate John C. Ropes) of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, and a professor of law at the Harvard Law School. His wife was Anna Lyman Mason. From the description of Correspondence, 1800-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81162043 Gray (Harvard A.B. 1859; LL.B. 1861) ) was a legal scholar, founder (with classmate John C. Ropes) of the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray, and a professor of...
Lowell, John, 1769-1840
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Lowell graduated from Harvard College (1786) and studied law with his father until 1789 when he was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He left for Europe in 1803 and upon his return devoted himself exclusively to humanitarian endeavors and federalist politics. From the description of Statement to the jury, ca. 1803. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236087815 Lawyer and political writer. From the description of Letters, 1833-1834. (Boston Athenaeum). Wo...
Harcourt, Augustus George Vernon, 1834-1919
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Loeb, James, 1867-1933
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
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Carolyn Wells published under the pseudonym Rowland Wright. From the description of Autograph postcard signed from W.D. Howells to Carolyn Wells, Rahway [manuscript], 19th or 20th century. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 694525270 Author, editor, critic. From the description of Letters chiefly to Alexander? Black [manuscript] 1888-1919. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647943111 William Dean Howells was an American novelist...
Maynadier, Gustavus Howard, 1866-
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Whitman, Sarah (Wyman) d. 1904
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Hallett, H. F
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Heald, David
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Cateni, Chiari.
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Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
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Poet and author, Cornell University non-resident professor. From the description of James Russell Lowell letter and portrait, 1871 July 12. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 123412650 Lowell was an author, poet, editor, teacher, and diplomat. He edited The Atlantic Monthly, and with Charles Eliot Norton, The North American Review ; was professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard; and U.S. minister to Spain and to England. Aldrich was ...
Brownell, W. C. (William Crary), 1851-1928
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Graduate of Amherst College, Class of 1871. Born 1851. Reporter, editor and journalist with the New York World (1871-1879), The Nation (1879-1881), Philadelphia Press (1881-1888), and Charles Scribner's Sons (1888-1926). Died 1928. From the description of Brownell papers, 1867-1936, bulk 1870-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 48612281 Journalist. From the description of Thomas Carlyle [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874741 ...
Emilia Francis S. Pattison
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Fielding, William Stevens, 1848-
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Cleveland, Sarah Perkins, 1818-1893
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Sarah Perkins Cleveland, wife of Henry Russell Cleveland, was prominent in social, literary, and political circles in 19th-century Boston. Catherine Eliot Norton was the mother and Grace Norton, the sister of the American author and Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton. From the guide to the Letters to Catherine Eliot Norton and Grace Norton, 1847-1898 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Sarah Perkins Cleveland, wife of Henry Russe...
Berenson, Bernhard, 1865-
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Litchfield, Henrietta (Darwin) 1843-
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Bell, Nellie Stover.
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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...
Achilles Rose
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Rupert Norton
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Darwin, William Erasmus, 1839-1914
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William Erasmus Darwin (1839-1914) was born on 27 December 1839, the son of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He was educated at Rugby before entering Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1858 (B.A., 1862; M.A., 1889), and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1861. Darwin was Director of Grant and Maddison's Union Banking Co., Southampton, 1888-1903, and Chairman of the Southampton Water Company. He was an amateur geologist, and member of the Geological and Anthropological Societies. He died at Sedbergh, Yo...
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James was an American novelist, short story writer, critic and dramatist. From the description of Henry James transcripts of letters to others, 1873-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612731792 From the guide to the Henry James transcripts of letters to others, 1873-1915., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry James was born in New York, NY, in 1843. During his lifetime, he was a literary and art critic (writing for Natio...
Deland, Margaret (Campbell) 1857-1944
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The Reform club
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Nichol, R.T.
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Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922
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Clough, Blanche M (Smith) d. 1904
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Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917
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Lawyer, author, and diplomat. From the description of Joseph Hodges Choate papers, 1745-1929 (bulk 1852-1917). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79700965 Prominent New York lawyer, diplomat, and leader in humanitarian and cultural affairs. From the description of Letter : New York, N.Y., to John H. Stephens, Chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1916 Apr. 3. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 34241616 Choate...
Bullard, Francis, 1862-1913
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Royce, Katharine (Head)
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Ames, James Barr, 1846-1910
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Law professor. Harvard Law School: Assistant professor, 1873-1877; Professor, 1877-1910; Bussey Prof. of Law, 1879-1903; Dean of the Faculty of Law, 1895-1910; Dane Prof. of Law, 1903-1910. From the description of Correspondence, 1872-1910. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236047262 James Barr Ames was Dean of the Harvard Law School (1895-1910); Albert Francis Judd was Chief Justice of the Hawaii (Republic) Supreme Court (1881-1900). From the des...
Bloodgood, Robert Fanshawe (American sculptor, illustrator, 1848-1930)
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Smith, Florence Elizabeth (De Quincey)
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Dicey, A.V. (Albert Venn), 1835-1922
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Dicey, a legal scholar and jurist, taught law at Trinity College, was considered a master at tax law, and wrote books on conflict of law and the British constitution. From the description of Law of contract part II, 1892. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236001955 Legal scholar and jurist. Dicey taught law at Trinity College for twenty-seven years and was considered a master at tax and revenue cases. His books on conflict of laws and the British constitution...
Mayor des Planches, Edmondo, 1851-1920
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Long, John Davis, 1838-1915
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U.S. secretary of the navy and U.S. representative and governor of Massachusetts. From the description of Letters and signature of John Davis Long, 1885-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71014961 ...
Gates, Lewis E. (Lewis Edwards), 1860-1924
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Darwin, Sara (Sedgwick)
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Farragut, Loyall, 1844-
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Sedgwick, Alexander, 1930-....
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Shea, Mary (Mary E.)
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Browne, Elizabeth (Carlyon)
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Welsh, Charles, 1850-1914
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Charles Welsh was born in Ramsgate, Kent, England on December 22, 1850, to Charles and Susannah Welsh. After attending national schools in Ashford, Kent, Welsh trained as a blacksmith in addition to receiving certificates in arithmetic, English literature and French. In 1868, Welsh went to work for The British Trade Journal as a reporter, using his knowledge of mechanics to write about new agricultural machinery. A publishing career soon followed with positions at Henry...
Crothers, Samuel McChord, 1857-1927
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Unitarian minister. A.B. Princeton, 1874. Graduated from Union Theological Seminary, 1877. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1877 and served churches in Nevada and California (1877-1881). He became a Unitarian and served churches in Brattleboro, Vt. (1882-1886) and St. Paul, Minn. (1886-1894). In 1894 he became minister at the First Parish in Cambridge, Mass., serving until his death in 1927. He was the author of several popular volumes of essays. From the description of Sermons, 1...
Scott, Mary Augusta, 1851-1918
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Scott graduated from Vassar in 1876, went on to study at Newnham College, Cambridge, and received her Ph. D. from Yale in 1894. She taught English at Smith College. From the description of Mary Augusta Scott papers, 1870-1917. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576640 Scott graduated from Vassar in 1876, went on to study at Newnham College, Cambridge, and received her Ph.D. from Yale in 1894. She taught English at Smith College. From the description of Papers, 1870...
Clarkson, Grace C
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Dall, Caroline (Healey) 1822-1912
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Schofield, Henry, 1866-1918
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Eliot, Mary.
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Holland, Bryan T
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Rublee, George, 1868-
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Greene, F. V. (Francis Vinton), 1850-1921
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t16r74 (person)
General, historian, and engineer. From the description of Letters, 1876-1914. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 36929250 Francis Vinton Greene was born on 27 June 1850. He graduated from West Point in 1870 and served as second lieutenant of artillery until 1872, when he transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1874 and served as military attache to the U.S. Legation in Russia from 1877-1878. He was put in charge of public wor...
White, Maude Valérie, 1855-1937
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Composer and author. From the description of Autograph letters (3) signed : to J.E. Millais or his daughter Mary, postmark 1887 Jan. 13, [no year] Jun. 27, and "Wednesday" [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588656 ...
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b56k73 (person)
Godkin was an editor and political writer. He was founder and first editor of The Nation (founded in 1865) and later also editor of the New York Evening Post. From the description of Edwin Lawrence Godkin papers, 1845-1927. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612368182 American journalist and essayist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, Wednesday 12th. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269587330 Edwin Lawrence Godkin was an author, journ...
Walford, Lucy Bethia, 1845-1915
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Lucy Bethia Walford was a novelist who also wrote biographies of women writers. From the description of Letters : Cranbrooke Hall, Ilford [Essex] to unknown correspondents, 14 April 1892 and 22 October [1892?] (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 35922985 ...
Kühnemann, Eugen, 1868-
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Lanson, Gustave, 1857-1934
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60v9ktn (person)
Paris, France resident. From the description of Papers, 1900-1927. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36635526 ...
Longfellow, Frances Elizabeth (Appleton) d. 1861
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Prellwitz, Henry, 1865-1940
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Williams, William, Rev.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx8417 (person)
Epithet: Lieutenant British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x000072 Epithet: of Sloane MS 4062 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000300.0x00007d Epithet: MP British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000012 Epithet: of Gray's Inn Brit...
Bahlmann, Anna.
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Urquhart, Helen S
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Allard, Louis
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Irwin, Agnes, 1841-1914
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Agnes Irwin was dean of Radcliffe College from 1894-1909. From the description of Letters, 1875, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007310 Agnes Irwin, school and college administrator, descendent of Benjamin Franklin, was born and educated in Washington, D.C. After teaching in New York, she became principal of the Penn Square Seminary, later the Agnes Irwin School in Philadelphia (1869-1894). Appointed Dean of Radcliffe College in 1894, she maintained excelle...
Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64j0fm1 (person)
Jusserand was a French author and diplomat who was the French minister to Washington, 1902-1925. From the description of [Letters to] Prof. Yeomans / Jusserand. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 501844336 Jean Jules Jusserand was a French diplomat and author. He was ambassador to the United States from 1902 to 1925. A close friend of every U.S. President during that period, he did much to promote friendly Franco-American relations and to win the United States to the Allie...
Smith, Walter George, 1854-1924
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Moore, Eliza Coe (Brown)
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More, Paul Elmer, 1864-1937
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6668w9k (person)
Paul Elmer More, American essayist and critic, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 12, 1864. More taught Sanskrit at Harvard (1894-1895) and Bryn Mawr (1895-1897). He was literary editor for The Independent for three years and associated with the New York Evening Post for six years. During 1919 he lectured on Plato at Princeton University. More was associated with Irving Babbitt (founder and champion of humanism) of the modern humanistic movement. He authored many critical ...
Kipling, Caroline Starr (Ballestier)
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Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bz6dwg (person)
Wendell, Barrett, 1855-1921
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61j9g6j (person)
Wendell graduated from Harvard in 1877 and taught English at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Barrett Wendell, 1873-1921 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972920 From the description of Lecture notes in Comparative Literature 1, 1905-1917. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074707 Harvard English professor. From the description of Ralegh in Guiana, 1897. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 172663314 ...
Fox, Susan E.
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Beaux, Cecilia, 1863-1942
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kv052p (person)
Sara (Sedgwick) Darwin
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6585zcj (person)
Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b30cvq (person)
Poynter, Ambrose, 1796-1886
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cc1jx4 (person)
Bradford, Edward H. (Edward Hickling), 1848-1926
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Russell, Frances Anna Maria Elliot, 1815-1898
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Mason, Charlotte Osgood.
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Chapman, Henry Grafton.
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Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
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Emilia Francis Strong Pattison Dilke (1840-1904), a daughter of Henry Strong and his wife Emily Weedon, was the granddaughter of Samuel Spry Strong, a Loyalist from Augusta and Savannah. She married (1) the Rev. Mark Pattison and (2) Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, Bart. Her accomplishments in the fields of art and literature were extensive, and she was the author of a number of works on French 18th century decorative arts, etc. As well, she was an ardent suffragette, and an eloquent speaker. ...
Burlin, Natalie (Curtis) d. 1921
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Guild, Mary L
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Ciccone, Francis N
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Simon, Jane (O'Meara), Lady, 1816-1901.
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Jerome, William Travers, 1850-1934
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American lawyer, prosecutor in the trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford White. From the description of Letter to Glen Walton Blodgett, 1925 June 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 67764609 ...
Rice, William Gorham
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Rice was born in Albany, N.Y. and attended the Albany Academy. He married Harriet Langdon Pruyn, daughter of John VanSchaick Lansing Pruyn in 1892. Rice was Assistant Paymaster General of the New York State National Guard and secretary to Governor Cleveland. In 1895 he became U.S. Civil Service Commissioner. He later served as a member of the New York State Civil Service Commission. Rice was the author of several works on carillons and was an expert on the subject. From the descripti...
Darwin, Leonard, 1850-1943
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Leonard Darwin was born on 15 January 1850, fourth son of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He joined the Royal Engineers as a soldier in 1871 and became a Major in 1890, teaching at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham from 1877 to 1882. Being interested in various branches of science, he had been commissioned to carry out astronomical observations on the Transit of Venus expeditions of 1874 and 1882, and also to observe solar eclipses in distant countries. Darwin went on to ...
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922
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James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, was a British writer, historian and statesman. Born in Belfast, he was educated at Glasgow University and later Oxford, he practiced law briefly, but returned to Oxford as a professor of civil law. He served in Parliament for many years, and held several government positions, including Ambassador to the United States. A renowned historian, he was also a productive writer of travel books, law tracts, and political theory. Universally admired and liked, an obituary...
Darwin, George Howard, sir, 1845-1912
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George Howard Darwin was an astronomer and mathematician. From the description of On meteorites and the history of stellar systems, [1889]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 86138587 From the description of Letters, 1834-1881. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523566 Sir George Howard Darwin (1845-1912), mathematician and astronomer, was the son of Charles Darwin. He was educated at Clapham Grammar School an...
Darwin, Emma Wedgwood, 1808-1896
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Furness, William Henry, 1866-1920
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Between 1895 and 1901, William Furness, III., Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., and Hiram M. Hiller made a series of extended trips to Oceania, South and Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Furness, Harrison, and Hiller all received degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and donated or sold to the University Museum substantial collections of ethnographic, archaeological, and skeletal material acquired on the voyages. The Furness, Harrison, and Hiller collections, particularly those from Ocea...
Dicey, Elinor Mary (Carter)
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Ware, William R. (William Robert), 1832-1915
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Architect. Ware was the founder of the School of Architecture at Columbia University, which began as the Department of Architecture in the School of Mines at Columbia College, New York, N.Y. From the description of William Robert Ware papers and photographs, circa 1834-1920. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720026 ...
Gibson, George Rutledge
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Morris, Jane, 1839-1914
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Epithet: embroiderer and artist's model, wife of William Morris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x00013f Wife of William Morris. From the description of Autograph correspondence card signed : Lechlade, to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1913 Oct. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612697 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lechlade, to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1898 June 7...
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Holden, Edward S. (Edward Singleton), 1846-1914
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Astronomer and librarian. From the description of Edward S. Holden letters to S.S. McClure [manuscript], 1886-1891. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 703435521 American astronomer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Mount Hamilton, California, to the Art Editor of "Harper's Magazine", 1891 Dec. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270469962 ...
Morison, Samuel Eliot
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Morison graduated from Harvard in 1908 and taught American history at Harvard. From the description of Course material for History 161b, the discovery of America, 1940. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512193 Morison earned his Harvard AB in 1908, his Harvard AM in 1909, and his Harvard PhD in 1912. He taught history at Harvard. From the description of Notes in English 28, second half year, 1904-1905. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074686...
Hogarth, Georgina, 1827-1917
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Sister-in-law of Charles Dickens. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Higham, to an unidentified recipient, 1863 Jan 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270476275 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Charles B. Shepheard, 1899 Jun. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269605841 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mr. [Charles?] Reade, 1878 June 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 471792184 From the ...
Jones, John Hall.
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Grace Norton
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R.M.S. Oceanic
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Beckham, John Crepps Wickliffe, 1869-1940
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Governor of Kentucky, U.S. senator, educator. From the description of Letter, 1904. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34122343 J.C.W. Beckham served the Commonwealth of Kentucky as governor from 1900-1906, being elected by special session and then serving a full term. In 1915, he was elected as United States Senator and served in this capacity until 1921, when he lost his reelection bid. From the description of J.C.W. Beckham letter : 1918. (Kentucky...
Black, Frank Swett, 1853-1913.
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O'Connell, William, 1859-1944
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...
Catherine E. Norton
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Thaxter, Elizabeth and Katharine.
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Glenn, John Mark, 1858-
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Wilson, Edmund B. (Edmund Beecher), 1856-1939
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Edmund B. Wilson was a biologist and zoologist. From the description of Notebooks, 1875-1928. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122488789 Edmund B. Wilson was a biologist and zoologist. Wilson was "among the most important and prolific biologists in the last part of the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth centuries" (Garland Allen). His scientific career may be divided into three major portions. In the first part, 1...
Jewett, James Richard, 1862-1943.
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Jewett graduated from Harvard in 1884 and taught Arabic at Harvard. From the description of Papers of James R. Jewett, 1886-1907 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973081 From the description of Notes on Majānī al-adab fī ḥadā'iq al-ʻArab (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 237675340 ...
Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943
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Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927) were Italian immigrants who were tried and executed for robbery and murder of payroll guards Frederick Albert Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. The case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Sacco and Vanzetti quickly became one of America's most complicated and notorious political trials. They were found guilty on July 14, 1921, but the legal struggle to save them extended until 1927. By April 9, 1927, all appeals in the Massachu...
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
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Harriet Martineau, English novelist, economist, and social reformer. From the guide to the Harriet Martineau manuscript material : 11 items, ca. 1834-1861, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) English author and traveler. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to Judge Joseph Story, [1836] May 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871427 Harriet Martineau, journalis...
C. (i. e. Richard) Norton
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Lowell, Carlotta Russell, 1864-
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Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941
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Kittredge was born in Boston in 1860 and received his Harvard A.B. in 1882. He became Francis James Child's successor to the Harvard Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory and later was appointed Harvard's first Gurney Professor of English (1917). Kittredge was a noted authority on the English language, Shakespeare, and Chaucer, and he also continued scholarhip in the field pioneered by Child - the study of folklore and folk history. From the description of George Lyman Kittr...
Richard Norton
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Vernon, Agnes Lucy (Boileau) d. 1881
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Stimson, Frederic Jesup, 1855-1943
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Stimson was assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts (1884-1885) and wrote many novels about and reference works on the law. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1915-1924. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79617709 From the guide to the Letters from various correspondents, 1915-1924., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Stimson graduated from Harvard in 1876, and taught law at Harvard. From ...
Smith, Helen Y.
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Gray, David, 1870-
Sherman, Charlotte R
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Sichel, Edith Helen, 1862-1914.
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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001034.0x000196 ...
Collier, William Miller, 1867-1956
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Hurlbut, Byron Satterlee, 1865-1929.
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Hurlbut graduated from Harvard in 1887, taught English and served as Dean of Harvard College. From the description of Papers of Byron Satterlee Hurlbut, ca. 1916. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973075 ...
Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, 1815-1906
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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bonchurch, I.O.W., to Miss Tudor, 1850 Nov. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270853650 Author. From the description of Letter to Mrs. Alexander [manuscript], 1863 May 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806311 English author of novels and educational and devotional works. From the description of ALS : Bonchurch, England, to Eliza Allen Starr, 1890 July 9. (Rose...
McKenzie, Ellen Holman (Eveleth)
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Dos, Passos, John Randolph, 1844-1917
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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 ...
Burne-Jones, Philip, 1861-1926
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English painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Joan Severn, 1911 May 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 764754471 ...
Merriam, Mary Bates
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Clark, James, Sir, 1788-1870
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English physician. From the description of James Clark papers, undated, [London]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35005279 John Keats's physician. From the description of Letter : London, to "My dear Sir", 1842 Apr. 5. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25206684 ...
Isham, Samuel, 1855-1914
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Mosaba
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Holmes, John, 1812-1899
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Grandgent, C.H. (Charles Hall), 1862 -1939
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Harrison, Frederic, 1831-1923
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A contemporary of John Ruskin and John Stuart Mill, Frederic Harrison strongly influenced English politics and philosophy in the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth-century. The positivist movement gained prominence through Harrison's political activity, writings and teachings. He was also very active in the labor movement and fought for greater worker's rights in England. Harrison was introduced to positivism as a student at Oxford. Venerating humanity over deity, positivism created controversy i...
Harrison, Phebe C
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Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904
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English sanitary reformer and pathologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Folkestone, to John Ruskin, 1884 July 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664101 ...
Stanchfield, John Barry, 1855-1921
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Hart-Davis, Mary Lydia (Acland) d. 1918
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Fowler, Frances
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Remsen, Ira, 1846-1927
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Chemist, co-discoverer of saccharin. From the description of Letters to Sylvester Baxter and S.S. McClure, 1887-1892. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50903196 Ira Remsen was a chemist and professor of chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University. He was born in New York City, Feb. 10, 1846. In accordance with his father's wishes, Remsen studied medicine, receiving the M.D. in 1867. In 1868 he abandoned medical practice to devote himself to...
Wright, Chauncey, 1830-1875
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Wright graduated from Harvard in 1852 and taught physics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Chauncey Wright, ca. 1852. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972942 Epithet: American mathematician British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000507.0x000142 Chauncey Wright was a naturalist and philosopher. He taught at Harvard as professor of psychology in 1870 and as instructor in mathe...
Lwoff-Parlaghy, princess.
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M. St. A. Hilliard
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Warren, Herbert Langford, 1857-1917
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Warren received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1902, taught architecture and served as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Herbert Langford Warren, 1893-1916 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972917 ...
Sulzer, William, 1863-1941
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New York politician William Sulzer (1863-1941) served as a United States Representative from New York (1895-1912). During 1912 Sulzer chaired the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. In January, 1913 Sulzer was elected governor of New York State. Shortly after his inauguration, he was impeached by the New York State Assembly on charges of having diverted campaign funds to his own use. Sulzer asserted that false charges had been brought against him because he refused to follow the wi...
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950
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King was a Canadian politician and served as prime minister of Canada for 21 years (1921-1930 and 1935-1948). Elizabeth Gaskell Norton (b. 1866) was the daughter of Charles Eliot Norton, editor, literary scholar, and professor of fine arts at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, 1906-1911. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79390084 Epithet: Subject of Mss Eur F237 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person...
Ford, James L. (James Lauren), 1854-1928
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Author, humorist. From the description of James Lauren Ford letter to Mrs. Brown, [manuscript], [1920?] Mar 30. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 271639334 ...