Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1838-02-16 - 1918
Henry Adams (1838-1918), American journalist, historian, educator, and novelist
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Samuel Bowles papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 94
Overview:
The papers include correspondence, legal documents, petitions, pamphlets, and printed material of Samuel Bowles, journalist and political activist. As editor of the influential Springfield Republican, Bowles was a prominent national voice on many public issues during the mid-nineteenth century and included in the papers is correspondence from a number of national political and business figures.
Dates:
1852-1893
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Samuel Bowles papers
Thomas Davidson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 169
Overview:
Correspondence, lectures, articles, printed matter, clippings, and film relating to the career of Davidson who came to the U.S. in 1867 and was associated with the St. Louis and Concord schools of philosophy, the founding of the Fellowship of the New Life, and the establishment of the Breadwinners' College. From 1878 to 1884, he was in Italy studying the writings of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, about whom he published a study in 1882. The major portion of the papers is made up of correspondence,...
Dates:
1857-1948, bulk 1857-1902
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Thomas Davidson papers
Evarts family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 200
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, legal and financial material, congressional papers, family memorabilia, and other papers of various members of the Evarts family of Vermont, Boston, and New York. The principal figures, however, are Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831), author, editor, lawyer, and philanthropist, and his son, William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901), lawyer and statesman. The papers of Jeremiah Evarts relate to his work and writings on Congregational orthodoxy, his travels for...
Dates:
1753-1960, bulk 1798-1901
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Evarts family papers
Ellsworth Huntington papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes and notebooks, clippings, printed matter, which relate to Ellsworth Huntington's professional career and his activities for a number of professional organizations with which he was associated. The papers also include notebooks covering his numerous field trips and ancient artifacts collected by Huntington in Chinese Turkestan. Correspondents of note include Arnold Toynbee, Ernst Antevs, Henry Adams, James Breasted, Frederick Jackson Turner,...
Dates:
1779-1952, bulk 1890-1947
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ellsworth Huntington papers
La Farge family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 24
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, financial records, and other papers, principally of John La Farge (1835-1910), American painter, worker in stained glass, and writer; and of his son, Bancel La Farge (1865-1938); and his grandsons, Henry Adams La Farge (1902-1985) and Louis Bancel La Farge (1900-1989). Of special interest is a large file of correspondence between John La Farge and Henry Adams and an unpublished catalogue of La Farge's work by Henry La Farge. The papers of Louis...
Dates:
1850-1990
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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La Farge family papers
Letter : 1603 H. Street, to Mrs. Beale, 1894 May
Part of Collection — Box: 25, Folder: GROUP 460, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS sending a wedding gift (no longer present).
Dates:
1894 May
Letter : 91 Marlboro St., Boston, to E. L. Godkin, 1874 Mar 16
Part of Collection — Box: 25, Folder: GROUP 460, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS submitting an article by a "distinguished European scholar" for publication in The Nation.
Dates:
1874 Mar 16
Letter : Beverly Farms, Mass. to J. R. Osgood, n.y. Sep 30
Part of Collection — Box: 25, Folder: GROUP 460, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS concerning an MS titled The Last Phase of Civil Progress, returned by Adams to the author, and requesting a copy of [North American Review] from Osgood.
Dates:
n.y. Sep 30
Letters : 23 Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, to Albert S. Cook, 1910 July 19-1911 February 9
Part of Collection — Box: 108, Folder: 11
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Nine autograph manuscript letters, signed, from Adams to Cook. Letters discuss poetry and Adams’s book Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. Also includes two copies of letters from Cook to Adams.
Dates:
1910 July 19-1911 February 9
Natural Science manuscripts collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 583
Overview:
An artificial collection of papers of Yale faculty members and other individuals active in the academic fields of astronomy, biology, botany, geology, mathematics, physics, agriculture, chemistry and zoology. The papers of inventors are also included. Individuals and organizations represented in the collection include: Oscar Dana Allen, Jesse Buel, William Whitman Bailey, John Torrey, Attale Riche, Denison Olmsted, Simon Newcomb, James Duncan Hague, Amos Beebe Eaton, Asa Gray, Arthur Williams...
Dates:
1817-1918
William Dwight Whitney family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 555
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, journals and diaries, writings, legal and financial papers, and miscellanea of the William Dwight Whitney family, including William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), his wife Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin Whitney (1824-1912), his brother Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896), and his father Josiah Dwight Whitney (1786-1869). William Dwight Whitney material includes several hundred letters with his wife, journals and diaries (1843-1893), and a small quanity of...
Dates:
1778-1951, bulk 1814-1912
Woolsey family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 562
Overview:
The papers document three generations of the Woolsey family. The most prominent figures in the collection are William Walton Woolsey (1766-1839), land owner and merchant in New York City; his son, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), Greek scholar, political theorist and president of Yale College; and Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (1852-1929), professor of international law at Yale Law School, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. The papers of William Walton Woolsey contain extensive business...
Dates:
1750-1969, bulk 1811-1921
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Woolsey family papers