Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941
Person
Biography
Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858-1941) was an American historian. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, one of eight children of lawyer, businessman, and bibliophile Gordon Lester Ford and Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford, a poet and granddaughter of lexicographer Noah Webster.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Bingham family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 81
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts, notebooks, sermons, writings, two books with manuscript notes, legal and financial records, photographs, printed material and miscellanea documenting the personal lives and professional careers of four generations of the Bingham family. The papers include material documenting Hiram Bingham (1789-1869) and his missionary work in Hawaii; Hiram Bingham (1831-1908) and his missionary work in the Gilbert Islands, his literary...
Dates:
1811-1974
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Bingham family papers
Paul Leicester Ford papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 488
Abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence, writings, and personal papers of the American historian and author Paul Leicester Ford. The correspondence is largely professional and documents Ford's work as an editor, historian, bibliographer, novelist and playwright. Ford's correspondents include John Kendrick Bangs, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Rudyard Kipling, and S. Weir Mitchell; earlier letters written to others by James Fennimore Cooper and Jared...
Dates:
1736-1902, bulk 1885-1902
Letter : Boston, to Frederick J. Shepard, 1921 Jun 14
Part of Collection — Box 51: [Barcode: 39002137225265], Folder: GROUP 1809, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
TLS.
Dates:
1921 Jun 14
Wallace Notestein papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 544
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, notes, speeches, and other papers of Wallace Notestein, historian, teacher, author, and Sterling Professor of English History at Yale from 1928-1947. The bulk of the papers consist of letters received by Notestein from other historians, scholars, writers, students, and publishers and relate largely to academic and professional matters, to politics, and to his personal life.
Dates:
1899-1969
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Wallace Notestein papers
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