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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1811-06-14 - 1896-07-01

Biography

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American abolitionist and author.

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Beecher Family Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 71
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, speeches, diaries, clippings, printed matter, sermons, and other papers of two centuries of Beecher family members. The papers relate principally to Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), popular 19th century clergyman and orator, and members of his family. Among those represented are his father, the Reverend Lyman Beecher (1775-1863), clergyman; his brothers, Edward Beecher (1803-1895), educator and antislavery leader, and Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824-1900) and Charles...
Dates: 1704-1964

Harriet Beecher Stowe signature, 1894 February 19

 Part of Collection — Box 104: [Barcode: 39002140920308], Folder: 26
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Clipped signature. Dated below.

Dates: 1894 February 19
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Letter : Andover, to [James T.] Fields
Letter : Andover, to [James T.] Fields

Letter : Andover, to [James T.] Fields, n.y. Jun 12

 Part of Collection — Box 34: [Barcode: 39002137170438], Folder: GROUP 567, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
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Letter : Hartford, to Mr. Moffat
Letter : Hartford, to Mr. Moffat

Letter : Hartford, to Mr. Moffat, 1891 June 18

 Part of Collection — Box 34: [Barcode: 39002137170438], Folder: GROUP 567, F-4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS declining an invitation.

Dates: 1891 June 18
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Letter : to an unidentified recipient
Letter : to an unidentified recipient

Letter : to an unidentified recipient, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box 34: [Barcode: 39002137170438], Folder: GROUP 567, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS to "Dear Friend" thanking her for her hospitality and recommending a book.

Dates: n.d.

Donald Grant Mitchell papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 492
Abstract: The Donald Grant Mitchell papers contain original correspondence and manuscripts by the prominent nineteenth-century New Haven-area author. Correspondents include Henry Ward Beecher, Henry Augustin Beers, George Washington Cable, William Maxwell Evarts, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Noah Porter, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Scribner, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others. Writings include drafts for...
Dates: 1787-1936

"Of the mild oranges", undated

 Part of Collection — Box 104: [Barcode: 39002140920308], Folder: 25
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Autograph manuscript page of an unidentified work by Stowe relating to Florida. The page is numbered “30”. Title from first line of page.

Dates: undated

Photograph of Harriet Beecher Stowe, [ca. 1850]

 Part of Collection — Box 34: [Barcode: 39002137170438], Folder: GROUP 567, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Bust-length portrait of the author wearing a dark dress or cloak with large collar and a corsage. Heavily retouched.

Photographer unidentified.

Printed caption on mount "Mrs H. B. Stowe."

Dates: [ca. 1850]

Photograph of Harriet Beecher Stowe, undated

 Part of Collection — Box 99: [Barcode: 39002140920084], Folder: 4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Postcard, [1937?]

 Part of Collection — Box 34: [Barcode: 39002137170438], Folder: GROUP 567, F-6
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Color postcard of "Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Hartford, Conn. Author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'." Autograph note, signed, on verso from unidentified to Miss M. E. Whippple, 22 Fairfield Hall, Danbury, Conn.

Dates: [1937?]

Theater manuscripts collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 667
Abstract:

Correspondence, autographs, playbills, notebooks, and writings relating to the American theater and the history of theater in New Haven, Connecticut, as collected by Jack Crawford, Mary Hamlin and others.

Dates: 1784-1941

Alexander Stevenson Twombly papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1163
Abstract:

Letters from personal friends and famous people concerning Twombly's work as minister, author, president of the Yale Alumni Association of Boston.

Dates: 1843-1907

"Who shall not fear thee o Lord", undated

 Part of Collection — Box 34: [Barcode: 39002137170438], Folder: GROUP 567, F-5
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Draft, autograph, signed, of poem. Accompanied by portrait engraving of Stowe by A. H. Ritchie.

Dates: undated

Yale Collection of American Literature portrait file

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1345
Abstract: Portraits primarily depicting prominent nineteenth and twentieth century American writers, artists, and photographers, as well as scientists, educators, social reformers, and statesmen. Included are images of Joel Barlow, William Cullen Bryant, Hart Crane, James Dwight Dana, T. S. Eliot, Max Ewing, Robert Frost, H. D., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Wendell Phillips, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Robert Penn Warren, Noah Webster, and John Greenleaf Whittier....
Dates: 1842-1980