Overview
Letters and documents collected by former Dean of the Harvard College Faculty and of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Charles Franklin Dunbar.
Dates
- Creation: 1757-1865
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Extent
.5 linear feet (1 box)Autograph collection includes letters from Lydia Maria (Francis) Child, Henry Clay, Edward Everett, Horace Greeley, Andrew Jackson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Pierpont, and Daniel Webster among other literary and historical figures. There are manuscript deeds, promissory notes, indenture contracts, and other documents created in Massachusetts. Additionally, the collection includes autograph fragments and miscellaneous printed material, including pre-revolutionary specimens of paper money.
Biographical / Historical
Dunbar (Harvard, A.B., 1851) taught political economy at Harvard University and served as Dean of the Harvard College Faculty and of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- I. Letters
- II. Documents
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
*75M-106. Gift of the heirs of Charles F. Dunbar; received: 1937 February 20.
- Title
- Dunbar, Charles Franklin, 1830-1900, collector. Charles Franklin Dunbar autograph collection: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou00593
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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