Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1789 - 1866
Jared Sparks (1789-1866), American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister.
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
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:
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Evarts family papers
Paul Leicester Ford papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 488
Overview:
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 Sparks...
Dates:
1736-1902, bulk 1885-1902
Kingsley memorial collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 604
Overview:
The collection is composed of family correspondence, diaries, and legal, financial, and professional papers which document the lives of several members of the Kingsley family or of the related Coit, Gilman, Upham, and Farnam families. One third of the collection concerns James Luce Kingsley, his tenure on the Yale faculty, and his classical and historical scholarship. Another third of the collection relates to the life and work of William Lathrop Kingsley, especially his editorship of the New...
Dates:
1696-1934
Found in:
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Kingsley memorial collection
Letter : Cambridge, Mass., to Edmund Rouvert, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1839 Oct 28
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-11
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS, with integral address leaf, thanking him for impressions of the "Franklin Medal" and for use of the plate in one of the Franklin volumes at the press.
Dates:
1839 Oct 28
Letter : Cambridge, to Charles Thomas & Co., 1842 Jul 21
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS asking for proofs of Crossing the Allegheny and giving instructions for printing.
Dates:
1842 Jul 21
Letter : Cambridge, to D[aniel] P[ierce] Thompson, 1847 Dec 8
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-10
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS, with signature clipped away, commenting on Thompson's "The Schoolmaster".
Dates:
1847 Dec 8
Letter : Cambridge, to Messrs. Little & Brown, Publishers, Boston, 1848 Jan 3
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-8
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS admonishing Little & Brown to send him proofs of an unidentified biography (possibly a volume from The Library of American Biography) and to print it before the end of winter.
Dates:
1848 Jan 3
Letter : Cambridge, to Mr. Phelps, 1846 Mar 16
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS sending the manuscript for Sparks's Life of Greene (not present) and requesting an estimate of the number of printed pages it will make.
Dates:
1846 Mar 16
Letter : Cambridge, to S. Phelps, 1843 Nov 29
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-7
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS regarding proofs for an unidentified work.
Dates:
1843 Nov 29
Letter : Cambridge, to Solomon P. Miles, 1835 Mar 14
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-9
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS declining a lecture invitation.
Dates:
1835 Mar 14
Letter : Salem, to Nahum Capen, Boston, 1847 Mar 18
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-6
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS thanking Capen for a copy of Massachusetts State Records. Accompanied by an undated clipping of a Sparks biography; a manuscript note listing works by Sparks, and a photograph of a portrait of Sparks, 13 x 10.5 cm, mounted on a sheet, 15.2 x 11.9 cm.
Dates:
1847 Mar 18
Letter : to Mr. Phelps, 1843 Dec 15
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS sending a copy of the appendix to his Lives of Robert Cavelier de la Salle and Patrick Henry as well as two French books to be used as composition examples. Neither the appendix nor the books are present.
Dates:
1843 Dec 15
Letter : to Mr. Phelps, 1846 Mar 28
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-5
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS expressing dissapointment that corrections were not made to an unidentified work prior to printing and asking that they be made prior to future editions.
Dates:
1846 Mar 28
Letter : to Mr. Phelps, Stereotype Founders, Boston, 1843 Dec
Part of Collection — Box: 38, Folder: GROUP 635, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS notifying Phelps that he will include a preface in his Lives of Robert Cavelier de la Salle and Patrick Henry.
Dates:
1843 Dec
Signature, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 49, Folder: GROUP 1651, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Signature and closing lines clipped from a letter.
Dates:
n.d.
Silliman family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 450
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, lectures, notebooks, diaries, journals, and other material documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Silliman family, including Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) and Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1816-1885). Personal material details family life, relationships, social activities, and cultural pursuits. Professional material details the academic and literary interests of the Sillimans, particularly in chemistry, physics, and geology. The evolution...
Dates:
1717-1977, bulk 1717-1911
Found in:
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Silliman family papers
John Collins Warren correspondence
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 15
Overview:
Most of the collection consists of autograph letters by prominent physicians and scientists in America and abroad to John Collins Warren, surgeon and naturalist. Two letters are by Warren.
Dates:
1812-1856
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
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Woolsey family papers