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Twichell, Joseph Hopkins, 1838-1918

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1838 - 1918

Biography

Joseph Hopkins Twichell (1838-1918), writer and Congregational minister from Hartford, Connecticut.

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

"After Battle", n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box 54: [Barcode: 39002137225299], Folder: GROUP 1971, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Poem, holograph, signed.

Dates: n.d.

Horace Bushnell papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1291
Abstract: Letters by and about Horace Bushnell collected by his daughter, Mary Bushnell Cheney in connection with her book: Life and Letters of Horace Bushnell (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1880). The earliest items are a letter from Bushnell's great-grandmother to his mother (n.d.) and a letter to him from his grandmother, Mary Bushnell (1823 June 7). The letters from Bushnell to his daughter, to friends, and to parishioners seeking advice were written between 1855 and 1874. Also in the...
Dates: 1823-1901

Amos Sheffield Chesebrough papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 888
Abstract:

Sermons, speeches, diaries, and commonplace books of Amos Sheffield Chesebrough and four letters from Joseph Hopkins Twichell. The diaries were kept during a trip to Europe in 1857 in which Cheesebrough visited London, Heidelberg and other German cities. The sermons, which make up the major portion of the papers, span the period when he was pastor in churches in Chester, Glastonbury, Vernon and Durham, Connecticut.

Dates: 1839-1904

Samuel Langhorne Clemens Collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 852
Scope and Contents: The Samuel Langhorne Clemens Collection provides insight into the life and career of Clemens, American author and lecturer best known by his pseudonym Mark Twain. The collection is comprised of correspondence, writings, contracts, scrapbooks, clippings, and printed material. The collection contains drafts, research notes, printed versions, and contracts, which document Clemens' creative process and writing career. Autograph manuscripts can be found in the collection for ...
Dates: 1860-1980

James Wesley Cooper papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 791
Abstract: Chiefly correspondence and diaries of James Wesley Cooper documenting his career as a Congregational minister, and his service as a Fellow of Yale University (1886-1916). The only personal correspondence are forty-four letters from Cooper to his fiancée in 1865 and fourteen additional letters (1877-1905). The diaries (1869-1914) provide a daily record of his work as a minister and of his visits to churches and schools in the South supported by the American Missionary Association. He was an...
Dates: 1787-1925, bulk 1787-1916

Letter : Hartford, Connecticut, to Dr. Ward, 1897 November 23

 Part of Collection — Box 104: [Barcode: 39002140920308], Folder: 29
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Autograph letter, signed, discussing missionaries in Turkey and the Yale-Princeton football game.

Dates: 1897 November 23

Letter : Hartford, to Frederick J. Shepard, 1905 Dec 7

 Part of Collection — Box 54: [Barcode: 39002137225299], Folder: GROUP 1971, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

ALS regarding Robert Augustus Stiles.

Dates: 1905 Dec 7

Letters : Hartford, Connecticut, to Thomas Lounsbury, 1871 February 28-1872 April 2, undated

 Part of Collection — Box 108: [Barcode: 39002140920795], Folder: 2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Three autograph manuscript letters, signed, discussing visits, lecture schedules, and personal matters. Includes typescript transcriptions.

Dates: 1871 February 28-1872 April 2, undated

Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1231
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, research, notes, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting Lounsbury's personal life and professional career as an author and educator of English literature at Yale University. Correspondence with Yale colleagues, students, authors, and officials details his academic and literary interests, and activity in the areas of international language and simplified spelling. Personal materials include letters relating to Lounsbury's Civil War...
Dates: 1829-1915

David Cushman Twichell papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1893
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, photographs (mostly unidentified), a scrapbook, and a family record book compiled by David Cushman Twichell. The papers document Twichell's career; interests; marriage; and family, particularly his father Joseph Hopkins Twichell. The papers include a small photograph album documenting the architecture and Cordero family of Isleta, New Mexico, where Twichell may have had a home.

Dates: circa 1890-1911

Joseph Hopkins Twichell papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 755
Abstract: Collection contains correspondence, writings, and personal and professional papers documenting the personal life and activities of Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American pastor Joseph Hopkins Twichell. Correspondence consists of letters from Twichell, chiefly to his family, dating from 1855 to 1864, and incoming letters from Frederick Edwin Church, William Reed Eastman, and others. There are notebooks and scrapbooks dating from Twichell's service in the 71st New York Volunteers...
Dates: 1855-1918

Samuel Wells Williams family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 547
Summary: The papers include correspondence (comprising over half of the collection), manuscripts of Samuel Wells Williams's Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese Language, themes and lecture notes by Frederick Wells Williams, diaries, newspaper clippings, articles on China, maps, and pictures. The bulk of the correspondence relates to S. W. Williams, missionary, diplomat, and sinologue. The period between 1845 and 1855 has extensive correspondence with missionaries and...
Dates: 1809-1983, bulk 1809-1941