Webster, Noah, 1758-1843

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ALS accompanied by brief notes written by Harry R. Warfel.

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ALS to Webster's wife, Rebecca, and ALS to his son, William.

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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.

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Two ALS dated Jun 16, 1831, and Mar 28, 1832.

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Four ALS concerning his Spelling Book, dated May 3, Jun 23, Jul 3, and Nov 24, 1788.

Accompanied by typed transcripts.

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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.

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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.

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Two ANS dated Feb 4, 1834, and Dec, 1836.

Dates are written in an unidentified hand.

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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.

Abstract: 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...

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Signature clipped from a document.

Abstract: 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...

Abstract: 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...

Abstract: 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....