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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

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