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Bruce Willard Forbes letters to his parents
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 266
Overview:
Bruce Willard Forbes (1921-2016) attended the University of Michigan, receiving his AB in French in 1942; in 1943, Forbes earned his MA from Harvard University. Forbes later entered the ministry and spent the next five decades as a priest at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City. The collection contains seventy-six letters written by Forbes while he was a Harvard graduate student between January 29 and August 21, 1943. The letters document Forbes’ experiences as a student on the Harvard...
Letters to Lemuel Shaw
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 200.505
Overview:
This collection contains letters to Lemuel Shaw, dated 1798-1857, from five other members of the Harvard College class of 1800: Timothy Boutelle, Timothy Flint, Abiel Holbrook, William Sawyer, and Daniel Kimball. A folder enclosed with the correspondence indicates Shaw was on a committee to collect biographical information on the class of 1800, and these letters, which date from their college days until late adulthood, may have been used to compile a class book.
Benjamin Peirce personal archive
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 1680
Overview:
Benjamin Peirce (1778-1831), a Harvard historian and librarian, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He earned his AB from Harvard in 1801, and was a merchant and state legislator prior to his appointment as college librarian in 1826. This collection contains personal correspondence, student papers, political writings, and manuscripts, notes, and letters relating to Peirce's work on the history of Harvard University, dated 1787-1832.
Lawrence G. Smith personal archive
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 260
Overview:
The Lawrence G. Smith personal archive documents his academic and social experiences as a Harvard undergraduate, a graduate student, his career as a bank officer, and as a Harvard alumnus from 1955 to 2021. Records include Smith's personal correspondence, diaries, and Harvard College Class of 1959 reunion memorabilia. Lawrence George Smith was a senior bank Vice-President. He received his Harvard AB in 1959, his AM in 1964, and his PhD in the history of American civilization from Harvard in...
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- Coeducation -- Massachusetts -- 19th century 1
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- College students -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. 1
- College students -- United States -- Attitudes. 1
- Courtship--History--19th century 1
- Diaries 1
- Food habits -- Massachusetts. 1
- Graduate students. 1
- Harvard University -- Alumni and alumnae 1
- Harvard University -- Curricula. 1
- Harvard University -- Expenses. 1
- Harvard University -- Student Life. 1
- Harvard University -- Students -- Clothing. 1
- Harvard University -- Students -- Correspondence. 1
- Harvard objects 1
- Harvard students' essays. 1
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- Home economics. 1
- Law -- Study and teaching -- Massachusetts. 1
- Legislators -- Massachusetts -- 19th century 1
- Male friendship -- United States -- 19th century 1
- Manuscripts for publication 1
- Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 19th century 1
- Massachusetts--Social life and customs--19th century 1
- Personal correspondence. 1
- Photographs 1
- Plantations -- Virginia -- 19th century 1
- Practice of law --Massachusetts. 1
- Research Notes 1
- Slavery -- Virginia -- 19th century 1
- United States--History--War of 1812 1
- Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century 1
- Voyages and travels. 1
- Women – Education – 19th century 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. 1 ∧ less
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- Boutelle, Timothy, 1777-1855 1
- Flint, Timothy, 1780-1840 1
- Forbes, Bruce Willard, 1921-2016 1
- Harvard College (1780- ) 1
- Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1800 1
- Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1801 1
- Harvard University 1
- Harvard University -- Alumni and alumnae -- Correspondence 1
- Harvard University -- History -- Research 1
- Harvard University -- Libraries -- Employees 1
- Harvard University -- Regulations 1
- Holbrook, Abiel, 1775-1838 1
- Kimball, Daniel, 1778-1862 1
- Leicester Academy -- History -- 19th century 1
- Sawyer, William, 1774-1860 1
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