Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1827 - 1894
William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Letter : New Haven, to James Hammond Trumbull, 1873 Sep 24
Part of Collection — Box: 57, Folder: GROUP 2160, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS.
Dates:
1873 Sep 24
Letters, 1854
Part of Collection — Box: 57, Folder: GROUP 2160, F-4
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS to Theodore Dwight Woolsey, regarding an inaugural discourse, Jun 16, 1854; and ALS to Edward Norris Kirk, from Whitney as secretary of the American Oriental Society, Jun 26, 1858.
Dates:
1854, 1858
Papers relating to F. Max Mueller, and related materials, 1890-92
Part of Collection — Box: 57, Folder: GROUP 2160, F-3
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Letter to William Ireland Knapp, Mar 16, 1890; ANS to Addison Van Name, Mar 7, 1891, appended to a printed circular letter requesting contributions to a Testimonial Fund for Reinhold Rost, Feb, 1891; copy of a letter from Whitney to the editor of The Daily News, Mar 4, 1892, written in autograph manuscript in an unidentified hand, in reply to a letter attributed to Andrew Lang, Feb 19, [1892], with a clipping; and a copy of a letter to the editor of The Academy, written in autograph manuscript...
Dates:
1890-92
Signature, 1885 Feb
Part of Collection — Box: 57, Folder: GROUP 2160, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Signature with holograph quotation, dated at New Haven, Connecticut.
Dates:
1885 Feb