Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
Dates
- Existence: 1794-04-11 - 1865-01-15
Biography
Edward Everett (1794-1865), American educator, politician, diplomat, and orator
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
George Jacob Abbot papers
Minister and diplomat. Correspondence largely relating to Abbot's service as secretary to Daniel Webster and as an agent of the State Department in England and Canada. Included are 104 letters by Daniel Webster as well as copies of several of his speeches. State Department papers concerning controversies with England (1837-1852), newspaper clippings about Daniel Webster and miscellaneous receipts, inventories and photographs make up the remainder of the papers.
Evarts family papers
Abraham Hayward collection
Kingsley memorial collection
![Letter : Boston, to [Gustavus] R. Fox](https://collections.library.yale.edu/iiif/2/17234178/full/!150,150/0/default.jpg)
Letter : Boston, to [Gustavus] R. Fox, 1862 Nov 19
ALS, on behalf of the friends of H. P. Tuttle, asking for Tuttle to be discharged from the army so that he can become an assistant paymaster in the navy.
Letter : Boston, to Miss Macalester, 1859 Jan 23
ALS expressing thanks on behalf of his son.
Letter : Boston, to N. Stratton, [18]53 August 29
ALS declining an invitation.
Letter : Boston, to Rev. Dr. Sprague, 1856 August 12
ALS informing Sprague that he has not been able to complete an address and will not make an unspecified engagement.
Letter : Cambridge, to James M. Shute, 1849 Oct 24
ALS regarding stereotyping unidentified volumes. Addressed to "Mr. John K. Rogers for Mr. James M. Shute."
Letter : Cambridge, to Theodore Parker, West Roxbury, Mass., 1848 Aug 8
ALS regarding the education of a "young friend" of Parker's, specifically the age of admission to the Lawrence Scientific School.
Letter : Charlestown, Massachusetts, to J. G. Rogers, 1836 May 7
ALS regarding corrections to proofs of several addresses as well as the sale of the Power [Passes?] on the Mill Dam in Boston.
Letter : Summer Street, to Mr. Livermore, 1859 Jan 21
ALS submitting a manuscript (no longer present) for his review.
Palmer family papers
The papers of Ray Palmer (1808-1887) and his son Charles Ray Palmer (1834-1914), both clergymen. The Ray Palmer papers consist of correspondence, two letterbooks, sermons, hymns and poems, diaries, a memoir, and other materials. The letterbooks contain correspondence from ministers and a few public officials. In the Charles Ray Palmer papers are essays, poems, notes on lectures given at Andover Theological Seminary by Edwards A. Park, sermons, writings and miscellaneous papers.
"Speech of Honorary Edward Everett before the Massachusetts Bible Society at the annual meeting", 1850 May 27
Holograph, bound. Included is a manuscript note from Daniel Butler concerning the speech, dated 1870 July 1.
Benajah Ticknor papers
Journals, letterbook, medical notes, and essays of Benajah Ticknor, doctor and surgeon with the U.S. Navy. Of primary importance are the journals which describe journeys made by Ticknor with the Navy to South America, the Far East, and Europe.
John Collins Warren correspondence
Most of the collection consists of autograph letters by prominent physicians and scientists in America and abroad to John Collins Warren, surgeon and naturalist. Two letters are by Warren.