Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1811-11-29 - 1884-02-02
Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney.
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
George Miller Beard papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 584
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, biographical material and other papers of George M. Beard, physician and specialist in the treatment of mental and nervous disorders. Included are materials relating to his work on the medical uses of electricity and his pioneering work in the definition of criminal insanity, as well as papers relating to his interest in spiritualism. Also included are a number of letters received by his daughter, Grace Alden Beard, related to a biographical study of her father.
Dates:
1853-1923
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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George Miller Beard papers
Frost Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 226
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, account books, and other material documenting the personal lives and professional careers of members of the Frost family. Correspondence of William Frost details his political activity in the Maine Territory, Jeffersonian politics in Massachusetts, and the Embargo Act. Material relating to Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's Civil War duties is scarce. His years as Bowdoin College president and his role in the election riot of 1880 are documented more fully. Other...
Dates:
1710-1923
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Frost Family Papers
Letter : to Mr. [Ide?], n.y. Nov 18
Part of Collection — Box: 24, Folder: GROUP 453, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS cancelling a lecture due to illness.
Dates:
n.y. Nov 18
Letter : to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1849 Oct 17
Part of Collection — Box: 24, Folder: GROUP 453, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS concerning books on Haitian history given to Emerson by W. B. P. Hunt.
Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Phillips.
Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Phillips.
Dates:
1849 Oct 17
Letter : to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1849 Oct 17
Part of Collection — Box: 24, Folder: GROUP 453, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS concerning books on Haitian history given to Emerson by W. B. P. Hunt. Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Phillips.
Dates:
1849 Oct 17
Letter : to Theodore Dwight Weld, n.y. Feb 26
Part of Collection — Box: 24, Folder: GROUP 453, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS regarding a letter from Mrs. [Harriet Beecher] Stowe asking Phillips to retract something he wrote concerning Lyman Beecher's role in Lane Seminary forbidding discussion of emancipation in 1834. Phillips asks Weld to confirm Stowe's account of events.
Dates:
n.y. Feb 26
John Augustus Hendrix McLane papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 3
Overview:
Politician. Correspondence, essays, diaries, clippings, and other papers of J. Hendrix McLane, southern political independent, South Carolina gubernatorial candidate in 1882, and reformer in the Republican party. The papers are mainly concerned with McLane's political career, though there is some material relating to his studies at Tufts Theological School. Notable among the correspondents are George Washington Cable, Selden Connor, and Wendell Phillips.
Dates:
1841-1893, bulk 1864-1893
Notes, [1857], 1872
Part of Collection — Box: 41, Folder: GROUP 1135, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ANS to "Dear Sir," [1857], concerning a lecture; and two ANS to Mrs. Matthew R. Dutton, 1872.
Dates:
[1857], 1872
Salisbury family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 429
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, genealogical notes, and other papers, principally of Edward Elbridge Salisbury, philologist, orientalist, and genealogist. Included are materials on various branches of Salisbury's family gathered in his genealogical research. Also included are papers and correspondence of Josiah Salisbury (1781-1826), Abigail Breese Salisbury (1780-1866), and business papers of Samuel Salisbury (1739-1818) and Stephen Salisbury (1746-1829). In addition there are...
Dates:
1753-1904
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Salisbury 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