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Found in 9 Collections and/or records:

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Caleb Cushing Papers

Identifier: MSS17509
Abstract

United States cabinet official and representative from Massachusetts, army officer, diplomat, and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, journals, writings, speeches, notes, notebooks, legal file, business papers, biographical material, newspaper clippings, printed material, maps, photographs, and other papers reflecting Cushing's role in national and international affairs of the mid-nineteenth century.

Dates circa 1785-1906; Majority of material found within 1820-1878
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Charlotte Cushman Papers

Identifier: MSS17525
Abstract

Actress. Correspondence; biographical and genealogical material; annotated scripts and texts of plays, poetry, and readings; newspaper clippings; reviews; and souvenir programs relating chiefly to Cushman's career in the theater.

Dates 1823-1941; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1875)
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Anna E. Dickinson Papers

Identifier: MSS18424
Abstract

Lecturer, reformer, actor, and author. Correspondence, speeches, writings, plays, legal files, financial papers, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and printed material relating to Dickinson's activities on behalf of abolition and women's rights and suffrage and to her career in the theater.

Dates 1859-1951; Majority of material found within 1859-1911
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Papers

Identifier: MSS26377
Abstract

Poet, essayist, physician, and educator. Correspondence and literary manuscripts in bound volumes.

Dates 1837-1931
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Louise Chandler Moulton Papers

Identifier: MSS33787
Abstract

Author. Chiefly letters received by Moulton from prominent literary figures in the United States, England, and Europe with some holograph poems. Also includes correspondence of the English poet John Marston and his son Philip Bourke Marston.

Dates 1852-1908
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers

Identifier: MSS41210
Abstract

Reformer, feminist, and suffragist. Correspondence, speeches, articles, drafts of books, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Elizabeth Cady Stanton's career as an advocate for women's rights. Includes material on her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and women's suffrage, the abolition of slavery, rights for African Americans following the Civil War, temperance, and other nineteenth-century social reform movements.

Dates 1814-1946; Majority of material found within 1840-1902
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Lewis Tappan Papers

Identifier: MSS42317
Abstract

Abolitionist, merchant, and publisher. Correspondence, journals, and other papers reflecting Tappan's interests in abolition, African American education, religion, and his business ventures.

Dates 1809-1903; Majority of material found within ( 1809-1872)
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Benjamin Holt Ticknor Papers

Identifier: MSS42929
Abstract

Editor and publisher. Chiefly correspondence of American and British authors whose works were published by the Boston firms of Ticknor and Company and James R. Osgood and Company, with most of the letters addressed to Ticknor or to his daughter, Caroline Ticknor.

Dates 1595-1935; Majority of material found within ( 1850-1920)
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Elizur Wright Papers

Identifier: MSS46607
Abstract

Abolitionist, publisher, and actuary. Correspondence, manuscript and typewritten transcripts of writings, legal and financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Wright's involvement in the antislavery movement and to his work as an actuary and as an author and translator.

Dates 1793-1935; Majority of material found within 1830-1885