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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

 Person

Biography

Charles Sumner (1811-1874), American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts.

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Bowles papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 94
Abstract:

The papers include correspondence, legal documents, petitions, pamphlets, and printed material of Samuel Bowles, journalist and political activist. As editor of the influential Springfield Republican, Bowles was a prominent national voice on many public issues during the mid-nineteenth century and included in the papers is correspondence from a number of national political and business figures.

Dates: 1852-1893

S. Griswold Flagg collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 216
Abstract: Materials relating to the Civil War including correspondence of military leaders on both sides, military documents, commissions, orders, inventories and administrative records, and private correspondence of important figures in the war. There are also letters from soldiers in the field and citizens viewing the progress of the war. In addition there are many autographs and memorabilia including Confederate war bonds, patriotic stationery and about a dozen photographs. In all some 120 names...
Dates: 1825-1938

Fowler & Wells Portrait Posters for Physiognomy Lectures

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1000
Abstract:

A set of nineteen posters with 112 bust portraits depicting identified men and women, primarily authors, artists, scientists, monarchs, and religious and political leaders from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a group of idealized heads illustrating characteristics identified by phrenologists.

Dates: circa 1860

Anson Conger Goodyear Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 244
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, proclamations, and drafts of letters chiefly relating to the Civil War, but also including letters from the Jacksonian period. The major portion of the collection concerns the siege of Fort Sumter with letters from both Major Robert Anderson and General P.G.T. Beauregard. Included also are a diary kept by General S. Wylie Crawford during the siege and two letters from Abraham Lincoln. Other portions of the collection concern Lincoln as a political figure; the...
Dates: 1813-1890

Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 204
Abstract: The Hawthorne collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Nathaniel Hawthorne.Series I, Owen Franklin Aldis Gift, is organized into three subseries: Correspondence, Writings, and Other Papers. Correspondence consists of letters from Hawthorne to others, including the reverend George Ripley and the publisher Ticknor and Fields, as well as a third party letter from Hawthorne's son Julian. There is one corrected and bound holograph...
Dates: 1800-1919

Letter : Washington, to Mrs. Field, 1852 Feb 5

 Part of Collection — Box 50: [Barcode: 39002137225257], Folder: GROUP 1726, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC

W. J. Linton Collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1387
Abstract:

The collection consists of the papers of author and wood engraver W. J. Linton, including personal and professional correspondence, writings by and about Linton, drawings and prints, personal papers, and other papers covering Linton's life and work in England and the United States. The papers are primarily those inherited by his daughters Ellen Wade Linton and Margaret Linton Mather, with additions from family friends.

Dates: 1797-1937, bulk 1838-1897

Loomis-Wilder Family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 496A
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, drawings, legal and financial papers, published writings, unpublished manuscripts, and memorabilia of the Loomis and Wilder families of Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia. The papers relate principally to Eben Jenks Loomis, astronomer, poet, and nature writer, and to his immediate family, and to his wife, Mary Alden Wilder Loomis and her immediate family, including papers of John Augustus Wilder, Civil War officer and lawyer for the U.S. Army. The Eben...
Dates: 1790-1912

William Smith Mason autograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 344
Abstract:

The collection consists of autograph manuscripts, documents and correspondence of people in public life. The collection contains correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt with Francis J. Heney and others and copies of letters of the Jonathan Knight family.

Dates: 1800-1929

Note and signatures, 1854, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box 50: [Barcode: 39002137225257], Folder: GROUP 1726, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ANS to an unidentified recipient, Jul 20, 1854; signature on a franked envelope addressed to O. C. Marsh, Jul 20, no year; and four signatures clipped from documents.

Dates: 1854, n.d.