Webster, Noah, 1758-1843
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1758-10-16 - 1843-05-28
Noah Webster (1758-1843), American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author.
Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:
Letter : to James Gates Percival, [1827 or 1828?]
Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 553, F-16
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS accompanied by brief notes written by Harry R. Warfel.
Dates:
[1827 or 1828?]
Letters, 1830
Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 553, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS to Webster's wife, Rebecca, and ALS to his son, William.
Dates:
1830, 1839
Letters : New Haven, to John West, 1804-07
Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 553, F-19
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Five ALS to West, a bookseller, including an ALS dated Jul 10, 1805, containing a copy of a testimonial regarding his American Spelling Book, by Daniel Crocker, Bela Kellogg, and Ezekiel W. Morse, teachers in New Haven.
Dates:
1804-07
Letters : New Haven, to Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1831
Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 553, F-17
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Two ALS dated Jun 16, 1831, and Mar 28, 1832.
Dates:
1831, 1832
Letters : New York, to William Young, 1788
Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 553, F-5
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Four ALS concerning his Spelling Book, dated May 3, Jun 23, Jul 3, and Nov 24, 1788.
Accompanied by typed transcripts.
Accompanied by typed transcripts.
Dates:
1788
Memorandum book, 1804-20
Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 553, F-11
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Volume, signed, containing holograph accounts and other notes, including notes relating to books lent and a list of people to whom a dictionary prospectus had been sent.
Dates:
1804-20
Morse Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 358
Overview:
The principal figures in this collection are Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) and his sons Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) and Richard Cary Morse (1795-1868). More than half of the collection is made up of correspondence (1779-1868) among members of the family. Also included are legal and financial papers, sermons by Jedidiah and Richard Cary Morse, travel journals, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed matter, and photographs.
Dates:
1779-1868
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Morse Family Papers
Notes : to Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1834
Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 553, F-12
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Two ANS dated Feb 4, 1834, and Dec, 1836.
Dates are written in an unidentified hand.
Dates are written in an unidentified hand.
Dates:
1834, 1836
Notes : to West & Richardson, Boston, 1813-15
Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 553, F-20
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Four ANS to West & Richardson, Boston booksellers, including orders for payment of money to Elijah Dwight and Munson & Bernard.
Also present is a receipt for money paid by West & Richardson to Webster.
Also present is a receipt for money paid by West & Richardson to Webster.
Dates:
1813-15
Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection of American children's literature
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 764
Overview:
Collection consists of manuscripts (correspondence and drafts of writings), illustration material (drawings in all media, photographs, book dummies, and printing blocks and plates), and publication proofs by various authors and artists including Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Anderson, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Gelett Burgess, Harrison Cady, Palmer Cox, F. O. C. Darley, W. W. Denslow, Jo Mora, Peter Newell, and Symeon Shimin, as well as work produced for the McLoughlin Brothers publishing...
Dates:
1640-2001
Signature, n.d.
Part of Collection — Box: 29, Folder: GROUP 553, F-4
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Signature clipped from a document.
Dates:
n.d.
Webster family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 527
Overview:
Principal figures in these papers are Noah Webster, the lexicographer, and his son William Greenleaf Webster. Also included are papers pertaining to the G. C. Merriam Company and the publication of Noah Webster's dictionaries and grammars. Family correspondence includes twenty-two letters written by Noah Webster to his son between 1835 and 1843 while the latter was in Cincinnati, Ohio, and La Fayette, Indiana, selling his father's books. The papers of William Greenleaf Webster make up...
Dates:
Circa 1764-1909, bulk 1831-1873
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Webster family papers
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
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Woolsey family papers
Yale Collection of American Literature portrait file
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1345
Overview:
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. A...
Dates:
1842-1980