Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Dates
- Existence: 1834 - 1926
Biography
Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), American academic who was selected as Harvard University's president in 1869.
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
James Rowland Angell personal papers
Alfred Mitchell Bingham and the Common Sense collection
George Jarvis Brush family papers
Farnam family papers
Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, records
John Hays Hammond Sr. papers
Edward Mandell House papers
William Harrison Riley papers
The papers consist of correspondence and other papers relating to nineteenth century socialism in England and the United States. Included are two literary manuscripts by William Riley entitled Literary Cranks by One of Them and Radical Jack; copies of periodicals edited by Riley; and letters from Walter Besant, Edward Everett Hale, Rudyard Kipling, Justin McCarthy, Karl Marx, William Rossetti and John Ruskin.
Salisbury family papers
Anson Phelps Stokes family papers
John Ferguson Weir papers
Correspondence, addresses and writings, papers relating to the Yale School of the Fine Arts, and other papers of John F. Weir, artist, painter and first director of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, serving from 1869-1913. Correspondents include many persons prominent in the art world between 1870 and 1920. There is also much material on the origins and development of art education in this country and at Yale.