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Adams, Katharine, 1862-1952 1
Airy, George Biddell, 1801-1892. 1
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 1
Alexander, Francesca, 1837-1917 1
Allen, William G., active 1849-1853 1
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806 1
Bannister, Edward Mitchell, 1828-1901 1
Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959. 1
Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945. 1
Boston (Mass.) Overseers of the Poor 1
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Boston Authors Club 1
Boston Public Library. West End Branch 1
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Bridgetower, George Augustus Polgreen 1
Brown, Alice, 1857-1948. 1
Brown, John 1
Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. 1
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. 1
Byrne, Donn, 1889-1928 1
Byrne, Donn, 1889-1928. 1
Carey, Alice, 1820-1871 1
Carret, Adeline -- Correspondence. 1
Carret, Eliza H. -- Correspondence. 1
Carret, Maria -- Correspondence. 1
Carret, Theresa -- Correspondence. 1
Chamberlain, Mellen 3
Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884 -- Correspondence. 1
Cleveland, Frank E. 1
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. 1
Coker, Daniel, 1780-1846 1
Cole, Phyllis 1
Coletti, Joseph, 1898-1973--Archives 1
Coletti, Joseph, 1898-1973--Biography--Sources. 1
Coletti, Joseph, 1898-1973--Correspondence. 1
Coletti, Joseph, 1898-1973--Sources. 1
Coletti, Joseph, 1898-1973. 1
Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
Cooling, Lois 1
Cooling, Lois. 1
Cram and Ferguson--Records (Documents) 1
Cram and Wentworth--Records (Documents) 1
Cram, Elizabeth Carrington Read, 1873-1943. 1
Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson--Records (Documents) 1
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942--Correspondence. 1
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942--Literary art. 1
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942--Religion. 1
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942. 1
Cram, Ralph Wentworth, 1904-1973. 1
Cram, Wentworth, and Goodhue--Records (Documents) 1
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. 1
Crummell, Alexander, 1819-1898 1
Cuffe, Paul, 1759-1817 1
Cundall, Frank, 1858-1937 1
Curtis, George William, 1824-1892. 1
Curtis, Roger, Sir, 1746-1816. 1
Dalgliesh, Alice, 1893-1979 1
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 1
Dean, Joseph F. 1
Dickens, Charles 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Correspondence. 1
Dickinson, Emily 1
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Correspondence. 1
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Friends and associates. 1
Donn-Byrne, Dorothea. 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849. 1
Edward Everett Hale 1
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939. 1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Correspondence. 1
Fields, Annie, 1834-1915. 1
Forbes, Elizabeth H. (Mary Elizabeth Harley), 1865-1942 1
Forbes, George W. (George Washington), 1864-1927 1
Francis, Joseph Greene 1
Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845. 1
Fuller, Margaret 1
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 -- Correspondence. 1
Gatty family. 1
Gatty, Alfred, 1813-1903. 1
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873 -- Correspondence. 1
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924. 1
Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885. 1
Grant, George F. (George Franklin), 1846-1910 1
Grant, Moses, 1785-1861 1
Griswold, Rufus, 1815-1897 1
Griswold, Rufus, W. 1
Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920. 1
Harding, Chester, 1792-1866. 1
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 1
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody 1
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 4
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 1
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 -- Correspondence. 2
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 2
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson collection of correspondence regarding John Brown and the raid on Harpers Ferry

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Call Number: MS E.5.1
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence collected by Thomas Wentworth Higginson relating to the abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859) and the armed rebellion led by Brown at the U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia (later, West Virginia). Correspondence spans the years 1847 to 1904, with the bulk of materials dating between the years 1858 to 1860. Topics discussed include raising money in support of the raid and Brown’s subsequent trial; issues with Hugh Forbes and preparations for the...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1847-1860

Thomas Wentworth Higginson Correspondence

 Collection — Container: MS P.91.37
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents Of the 159 letters in this collection, many deal with abolition, women’s suffrage, and literature. Correspondents include abolitionists, writers, and suffragettes such as Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Orne Jewett, Louise Chandler Moulton, Harriet Spofford, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Anne Whitney, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Also included is correspondence from Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Abby Kelley Foster.  In addition, there are letters from Una Hawthorne and...
Dates: 1848-1909; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1910

Oliver Wendell Holmes Correspondence

 Collection — Container: MS Am.1303
Call Number: MS Am.1303
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 29 letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) to various correspondents, dating from 1852-1892.  Primary recipients are Phineas Barnes and Clara Barnes Martin, friends of Holmes who write about personal and family matters. Other letters pertain to Holmes’ literary endeavors and reminiscence of Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.  Also included are letters to James T. Fields and Bram Stoker.

Dates: 1852-1892; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1939

William Dean Howells Correspondence

 Collection — Container: MS Acc 586
Call Number: MS Acc 586
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 20 letters written by the American novelist and literary critic William Dean Howells, 1837-1920.  The majority of the letters, dated between 1869 and 1888, are to James Ripley Osgood (1836-1892) the editor of the Atlantic Monthly in which Howells critiques manuscripts submitted to the magazine while he was assistant editor. In other letters to Osgood, Howells discusses his plans for and progress of his own work. In addition,...
Dates: 1863-1898

Mary Botham Howitt and William Howitt papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS Eng.328
Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal and professional correspondence from English poet Mary Botham Howitt (1799-1888) and her husband, English writer William Howitt (1792-1879), between 1823-1888. Of interest is a letter by Mary Botham Howitt discussing her translations of Fredrika Bremer’s articles pubished in a Stockholm newspaper and a letter by William Howitt discussing his interest in the Aurora Borealis. The collection also contains several manuscript fragments of poems, in both Mary...
Dates: 1823 - 1888

Catharine Sargent Huntington papers relating to the theater

 Collection
Call Number: MS Am.2200
Scope and Contents This collection documents Catharine Sargent Huntington’s (1887-1987) work with the Boston Stage Society, The New England Repertory Theater, Dr. Punch’s Workshop, as well as her other theater related activities and interests from 1919-1974. In addition, it contains plays that Huntington collected over the years. Types of records include announcements, clippings, correspondence, costume sketches, handwritten notes, and musical scores. Playbills, photographs, prompt books, reports, theater...
Dates: 1919 - 1974

Joseph F. Dean Civil War Correspondence

 Collection — Container: MS Am. 515
Call Number: MS Am. 551
Dates: 1862-1863; Other: Date acquired: 05/23/1967

Lucy Larcom Correspondence

 Collection — Container: MS Acc 591
Call Number: MS Acc 591
Scope and Contents Several reoccurring themes run throughout Lacy Larcom’s letters to Ada Elise Locke, among them are the challenges that come with writing for a living, her reasons for moving from place to place, and the grace she experiences from living according to her Christian beliefs. The letters also contain descriptions of the sermons Larcom heard preached by Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) at Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts, mentions her friendship with John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) and that...
Dates: 1879-1893

Lothrop Family Correspondence

 Collection — Container: NS Am. 1491
Call Number: MS Am. 1491
Scope and Contents This collection contains 190 letters addressed to Daniel Lothrop (1831–1892) and Harriet Mulford Stone Lothrop (1844–1924). Additionally, there are twenty-two letters to their daughter and Margaret Lothrop (1884-1970); however, the bulk are to Harriet. The letters date from 1885-1956. Subjects include extending, accepting, and declining invitations, scheduling speaking engagements, soliciting and accepting submissions to Wide Awake, trading books and poetry,...
Dates: 1855-1956; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1971

Amy Lowell Correspondence

 Collection — Container: MS Acc. 603
Call Number: MS ACC. 603
Scope and Contents

The letters in this collection document the business communication from Amy Lowell to Curtis Brown. Lowell writes to Brown to express her concerns about publication dates of her work. Other subjects include publication of works by poets Richard Aldington and William Stanley Braithwaite.

Dates: 1915 - 1919

Edward Bulwer Lytton letters to Charles William Mark Kent

 Collection — Container: MS C.1.41
Call Number: MS C.1.41
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 138 letters written between 1851-1872 by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton to writer and journalist Charles William Mark Kent. In the letters, Lytton discusses politics, his writing, and his health. Some letters provide news of possible government appointments, and in others, Lytton consoles Kent on the state of his health.

Dates: 1851 - 1872

Harriet Martineau correspondence to William Ware

 Collection
Call Number: MS Eng.244
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence from Harriet Martineau to William Ware from 1835 to 1849. During this time, Martineau wrote from both the United States, including her time in Salem and Boston, Massachusetts, and England. The correspondence covers topics such as their writings and reactions to it; writings of their peers; mutual friends, including Catherine Sedgwick and her family; the abolitionist movement in America; the passing of Ware’s son; and Martineau’s health. Some of the...
Dates: 1835 - 1849

Henry Miller Correspondence with Lois Cooling

 Collection — Container: MS 2826
Call Number: MS 2826
Scope and Contents This collection consists of eighty-six items, primarily letters, from American author Henry Miller (1891–1980) to Lois Cooling. Cooling was a friend of Miller’s and his typist. In the letters, Miller describes his move to Big Sur, gives Cooling instructions for typing his manuscripts and methods of remuneration, reports on the progress of his writing, and provides glimpses into his daily activities. Some of the other subjects discussed are Miller’s watercolors and books, his marriage to...
Dates: 1943-1947

Hugo Münsterberg Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS Acc 1501-2500
Scope and Contents The Hugo Münsterberg Collection contains roughly 3,000 letters, invitations, and newspaper clippings which collectively represent Münsterberg's professional network comprised of leading American and German scholars, scientists, businessmen, politicians, writers and philanthropists. The majoirty of the collection, which covers the period 1892-1916, is made up of letters between Münsterberg and his colleagues in philosophy and experimental psychology and bear on various facets of academic life...
Dates: 1890-1916; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1944

Ziba B. Oakes Papers

 Collection — Container: MS Am. 322
Call Number: MS Am. 322
Scope and Contents The 652 letters in this collection document the business dealings of Ziba B. Oakes, an enslaver and broker of enslaved persons, who lived in Charleston, South Carolina. The letters were written by several business associates and cover all aspects of the trade of enslaved persons such as financial transactions, sales instructions, and fugitives from slavery. Oakes’s real estate business and other financial matters are also documented. There is no correspondence from Oakes.The...
Dates: 1852-1857

Mary Boyle O’Reilly Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 5087
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence sent to Mary Boyle O’Reilly from national and international political figures, publishers, fellow journalists and authors, including Laura Elizabeth Howe, Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, George Bernard Shaw, Frances Parker and Margaret MacGill. O’Reilly also frequently wrote to foreign relation officials, such as Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who explained why American should avoid participating in the...
Dates: 1879-1937; 1910-1930

Thomas William Parsons Correspondence

 Collection — Container: MS C.1.8
Call Number: MS C.1.8
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 50 letters that were written between 1848-1882, mostly to Mrs. And Mr. George Lundt, Thomas William Parsons’s sister and brother-in-law, and cover various subjects including personal matters, the Greek Anthology, his own poetry, and his translation of Dante.

Dates: 1848-1882; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1938

Letters to Isabella Carret Peirce

 Collection — Container: MS 3869
Call Number: MS 3869
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 14 letters written to Isabel Carret Peirce (1831-1888) of Lincoln, Massachusetts, from 1850-1888. Eight of the letters were written by her sister Adeline Carret between 1874 and 1880 and document life on the Carret family sugar plantation near Trinidad, Cuba during and immediately after the Ten Years War. The letters describe the dangers faced by the family, including looting and burning of local towns and plantations by bands of insurgents as well as...
Dates: 1849-1888

Joseph W. Robertson Correspondence, 1862-1865

 Collection — Container: MS 7095
Call Number: MS 7095
Scope and Contents This collection of eighteen letters written between July 1862 and November 1865 document  Joseph W. Robertson’s experiences in Union-occupied Beaufort, South Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. The letters detail Robertson’s difficulties with being separated from his family by war. The collection contains eleven letters from Robertson to his wife Phebe, three letters from Robertson to his unnamed sister, and four letters from Phebe to Robertson. The correspondence describes daily life in the...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1862-1865; Other: Date acquired: 04/00/2012

Luther A. Roby Papers

 Collection — Container: MS 7172
Call Number: MS 7172
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 36 items dating from 1835-1901 relating to Luther A. Roby’s career in the shipping industry. It contains financial records documenting his business, including account books. There are also bills of sale and certificates of interest and ownership for several of his ships and schooners.

Dates: 1835-1901; Other: Date acquired: 05/00/2013