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Commonplace books

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Additional papers of the Alger family, ca.1850-1980 (inclusive), 1918-1980 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: 1632--80-M189
Overview:

Addenda to the papers (A-103) of the Alger family from New England, including correspondence, photographs, and account books.

Augustus Peabody Loring papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 2136631
Overview:

The Loring Collection primarily consists of material on trusts and related legal issues, but also contains papers related to the publishing of Loring's book, A Trustee's Handbook, and some material from his two terms as a state senator.

Commonplace book of S.A. Browne, 1871?

Collection Identifier: A/B884
Overview:

Commonplace book, possibly created by S.A. Browne.

Collection of Mary Gardner Marshall, 1795-1957

Collection Identifier: MC 1024
Overview:

Correspondence, photographs, genealogical material, etc., of the Hammond, Gorham, and Brannan families collected by Mary Gardner Marshall.

Caleb Gannett collection

Collection Identifier: HUM 314
Overview: Caleb Gannett (1745-1818), Harvard College Steward from 1779 to 1818, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He received an AB from Harvard in 1763 and an AM in 1766. Gannett was a member of the Pembroke Church and studied theology with Ebenezer Gay (1696-1787; Harvard AB 1714). The collection consists of seven manuscript notebooks, dated circa 1758 to 1785. There are two letter books; three mathematical and astronomical notebooks, mostly compiled while Gannett was a student at Harvard...

Autograph book of Lucy Brooks, 1827-1829

Collection Identifier: A/B873lu
Overview:

Autograph book of Lucy Brooks, containing quotations, recipes, etc.

Thaddeus Mason Harris personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUG 1445
Overview:

Thaddeus Mason Harris (1768-1842) was a Harvard librarian, Unitarian minister, and author in Boston. This collection contains correspondence, sermons, and commonplace books of Harris, dated 1746-1846.

Papers of Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, 1777-1981

Collection Identifier: MC 907
Overview:

Hosmer family correspondence, photographs, genealogical information, and research material compiled by Alice Jeannette Ward concerning sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer.

John Freeman Milward Dovaston papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Eng 1881
Overview:

Papers of poet and naturalist, John Freeman Milward Dovaston.

Papers of Elisabeth Dwight Cabot, 1851-1985

Collection Identifier: MC 870
Overview:

Commonplace book and letters of Elisabeth Dwight Cabot, reformer.

Papers of Jessie Hainning Rupert, 1849-1991 (inclusive), 1849-1913 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 809
Overview:

Scrapbook, writings, correspondence, photographs, flyers, clippings, etc., documenting the work of Jessie Hainning Rupert, an educator, lecturer, and opponent of slavery who was known as the "Angel of the Shenandoah" for her efforts to provide food, shelter, and medical care to soldiers and civilians on both sides of the Civil War.

Papers of the Swanton family, 1759-1991 (inclusive), 1826-1926 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 873
Overview:

Diaries, commonplace books, and correspondence of the Byram, Gay, Swanton, and Worcester families of Maine and Massachusetts.

Papers of Adrienne Rich, 1927-1999

Collection Identifier: MC 1120
Overview:

Papers of Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher.

Commonplace books of Grace Hobart and Ethel Hobart Rowse, ca.1840-1896

Collection Identifier: MC 1127
Overview:

Commonplace books of Grace Hobart and Ethel Hobart Rowse.